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No More Secondhand Gods
03:59
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Tell me this will all wash out in time
A sieve for your ideas of what life could look like
You dull yourselves repeating what is right
O thou of evil luck, defined in compromise
We’ll dry you off one eye at a time
It’s kicking in my stomach
Some unacknowledged promise
A question five years asking
No harm, no foul, no feeling
One thought betrays another
A cage of straight desire
Is only mine for breaking
One turn deserves another but-
Who did this to you, and what did they take?
Who was it made you feel this way?
What is the thing now that you fear most?
Not sick, not death, not hunger, but the one you were
Come on boys, scream my name
If you love me, I want to feel it
There’s nothing to lose but all your
Piled-up pausing inhibition
I'm starting to feel like dawn comes
Only when you’re ready to rise
I don’t know what I deserve
But at least I know what I like
But tell me-
Who did this to you, and what did they take?
Who was it made you feel this way?
What is the thing now that you fear most?
Not sick, not death, not hunger, but the one you were
Tell me this will all wash out in time
The slush of fresher wounds, from your left hand to my right
My heroes all died young but I’m alive
Now I’m here with you, and Jesus wouldn’t mind
So dry me off one eye at a -
Who did this to you, and what did they take?
Who was it made you feel this way?
What is the thing now that you fear most?
Not sick, not death, not hunger, but the one you were
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Allometry
03:32
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You - Come into me
You - Motion and heat
You - Rise and repeat
You - Allometry
What do you take me for?
Hope it’s not much
Now I am fully grown
Begging your touch
You - Naming your price
You - Nothing required
You - Sharing your vice
You - Hopelessly tired
Now we are paid in full
What should I do?
Take off the make believe
Charms of my youth
You - Bring in the tide
You - Hallowed in light
You - Bloodied cliffside
You - Dead on arrival
Now that you’re lying there
Sterile and blue
I’m just an animal
And I’m dying, too
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The Pull
03:37
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Not a prince but a queen, such a laughable scene,
You caught me blushing I can’t take it back now
Stranger-king, humbling, dressed to please, said
“You can always pluck out any eye that offends thee”
Cause why should I have to be the visible one?
Take what you love and cover it up
Come on, baby, don’t give them your life
First the cream and the red, where you shave and you bled
And your cover only catches their attention
Then the red and the pink, on the lip and the cheek
And the beauty of a bluff that can't get called
But why should I have to be the visible one?
Take what you love and cover it up
Come on, baby, don't give them your life
Cause the chain is the pull and the weight is the word
I’m all dolled up, I can never get hurt
What’s a place, what’s a scene, what’s a girl, what’s the harm?
It’s a joke, and better keep your nose out
Truth is pattern, truth is habit, truth is cutting when I have it
If I had it, would it kill me to act nice once?
Come on, baby, don’t give them your life
Just a hint, just a bite, just a collar at night
And a feeling that you‘ll come out of the water dry
Tell the mirror in your head recognition is dead
Counterfeits double truth in a dim light
And why should I have to be the visible one?
It works better when it's not the work they want
Come on, baby, don’t give them your life
4, 3, 2, 1
Cause the chain is the pull and the weight is the word
I’m all dolled up, I can never get hurt
What’s a place, what’s a scene, what’s a girl, what’s the harm?
It’s a joke, and better keep your nose out
Truth is pattern, truth is habit, truth is cutting when I have it
If I had it, would it kill me to act nice once?
Come on, baby, don’t give them your life
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When you are lonely
You think of me only, I know
That no one compares
You're sick of the sunlight
But darling, I'm so bright
I'm burning your cheeks and your thighs
When I am lonely
It's bountiful, baby
I smell just like callery pear
Your wavy blue eyes
and those wide river sighs
Might sound nice but they're leaving me dry
So why do I find
Some stupid constellation
In every little thing that I've seen?
The green grassy green
That follows me swallowing
Licks your lips,
Gets those gums clean
When we are lonely
So noisy and needy
All it takes is one little shove
To give up completely
There's nothing so easy
But darling it wouldn't be right
I'd love to just love you
But nothing’s so easy
And you know how I love to disappoint
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Jubilee
01:54
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Every man not for another
Was the wisdom of my fathers
And ever should you falter it’s your fault and no one else
In a race straight to the bottom
Where everyone’s a winner
Take a bow and hail your victories
Oh, jubilee, rotten apples from the tree!
Every one for you is two for me
And the flavor that much sweeter
When you’re not your brother’s keeper
Reaping what you sow in fallow earth
When everyone is starving
Can't no one help another
While some make sure there'll never be enough to go around
To the ones who came before us
With their fallen moral fables
Who do you think set us up for this?
Oh, jubilee, rotten apples from the tree!
Every one for you is two for me
And the flavor that much sweeter
When you’re not your brother’s keeper
Reaping what you sow in fallow earth
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Dry Socket
02:25
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Hollow bone, tooth and comb, clearing tender realty
Neatly stain, tie and chain, pushing pilgrims past my teeth
Well isn’t it an awful shame
The reflex never hit my brain
And now they fill a longing mouth
I’m eating pride
Framing houses, now our homes, right inside my cavities
Eagerly I’m swallowing dreams of you and me
Well isn’t it an awful shame
The reflex never hit my brain
And now they fill a longing mouth
I’m eating pride
Let me see you love me
Let me see you love me
Let me watch you fuck me
Let me see you, love
Licking now and feeling how others bring a heavy doubt
Time is come, diaspora, tears and spit are mingling
Well isn’t it an awful shame
The reflex never hit my brain
And now they fill a longing mouth
I’m eating pride
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7. |
400 Flights
03:33
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Baby don’t you know that it’s not safe here?
Tell me can’t you see that it’s not fine?
There are some who will say to you stasis is safer
But come on now, that can’t be right
Who was that with the never-same rivers?
Well I think that he must have it nice
Always figured I’d be there to save you
Did you really need saving at all?
I could swear I was Orpheus, dancing down four hundred
Flights of hell, charming them all
Now your pious eyes focus right through me
And what’s true for you is lost on me
But the look you just gave me - it felt so like an end
And we count all our blessings just to find out what we’ll miss
What was it that made me so uptight?
History, posterity in mind
So I wrote little roles for us, cataloged dialogue
Falls apart when it hits life
You were more than I ever gave credit
And I never was fit for this
But the look you just gave me - it felt so like an end
And we count all our blessings just to find out what we’ll miss
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8. |
Bells Below
05:56
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We are barren and we starve them
Sounding bells from down below
With beaten feet they scrape along the floor
And they tumble through my windows
Down the drain they fall from grace
And pile up around the doorway
I can’t make it out of this place
They call with voices all together:
The agony is to wait
For what could never be forthcoming
You must get out of this place.
I answer back with hesitation:
Do you remember how it felt?
When they spent the night together,
And you - alone with yourself
Do you recall the keys you pounded?
The hammer falling on felt
That melody could only take you
To endings you know well
And think of when you lit upon them
The sunrise slantwise again
When you were one that you now envy
Just as you were then
And what about touching another?
Have you the strength to summon up
A little bit of the old radiance
That you quickly forgot
And their reply came on so tenored:
We know exactly these things
As we bear witness to shadows
Silver cast on a screen
But knowing couldn’t buy us feeling
It couldn’t let us understand
And what you feel you do so strongly
Just because it can end
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You're not the first, you're not the last
You’re not the best or worst of anything
That's a fact
Your stupid rhymes, your sovereign ease
Oh it feels like something done to me
And no, we can't have that
You're the best and worst of everything
You've got a nose like John Lurie in the 80s,
You know what I mean
You're the most beautiful boy in the scene
You're the best and worst of everything
You sweaty, crowded basement king
And I, I know just what you need
Cause you're the most beautiful boy in the scene
And oh you’ve got a lot of nerve, you’ve got a lot of nerve
Weakness, it graces all of us, but it looks so good on you
You've no idea, you're nothing new
And if there were any justice here
Well then you'd never have a clue
That you're not the first, you're certainly not the last
But presently you’re everything, oh god, I think you’re everything
There’s nothing you can do for me, no nothing, no nothing
You're the best and worst of everything
You've got a nose like John Lurie in the 80s,
You know what I mean
Cause you're the most beautiful boy in the scene
You're the best and worst of everything
You sweaty, crowded basement king
And I, I know just what you need
Cause you're the most beautiful boy in the scene
Oh you’ve got a lot of nerve, you’ve got a lot of nerve
You boys keep swinging, and we'll keep slugging,
You're nothing to me, you're a wet dream, the most beautiful boy in the scene
You're the best and worst of everything
You've got a nose like John Lurie in the 80s,
You know what I mean
You're the most beautiful boy in the scene
You're the best and worst of everything
You sweaty crowded basement king
And I, I know just what you need
Cause you're the most beautiful boy in the scene
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10. |
Nemorensis
02:42
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Home is only seen in mirrors
And if I can’t feel the years, I’ll see them there
Could you know how many doors are closing now, just as we speak?
Listen to me-
I’ve loved people I barely remember
Powder forests, tinder to light
Strike a match, it’s drier now than was before, and days are shorter
You’ll need the warmth
Cross a mountain vivisected
Borne on amber winds of heat
I’ll go where I live without a history, you’ll come around soon
Don’t be long
Don’t be long
Don’t be long
Don’t be long
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LIL SLUGGERS is theatrical art rock
from MD, CT, and MA. The band is ANNETTE BEFORE TUCKER (Vocals, Guitar), DAN RICE (Accordion), CHRIS CONNELLY (Bass), and DAN DEUTSCH (Percussion). We love you VERY MUCH.
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