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Embarrassed Cow
03:53
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Poured your chemicals down the drain.
All the genitals look the same.
All the deep dark mysteries turned out so simple and plain.
So what can (/will) you put in your picture frame?
We are gonna go on a trip
Coz we want some change.
We’re gonna give you lots of lip
and act very, very strange.
But the sands on the shore look like snow even more
when you snap them in black and white.
There’s no more wilderness left
with everything in our big satellite sight.
We can’t prowl down supermarket aisles
Giving everyone deranged smiles no more.
There’s only death and danger left
Nothing else slows our breath.
But where to get death and danger when we won’t talk to strangers?
Everything’s a bore even in the night when you’re middle-class and white.
We are so upset, coz we’ve seen everything on the internet.
I want something sacred now.
I’ll take any cow.
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Likealookalike
05:14
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Now every girl I go for has to remind me of you.
Or at least wear one of your fine costumes.
Who can say what is really new?
I know I’ll be fine as long as I smell your sweet perfume.
So I see you are not so unique.
But that ain’t very comforting.
There’re millions of girls being made chic as we speak.
Still I feel every single sting.
Why?
Why did you have to bristle at my touch?
Why did it have to mean so much?
Why did you have to bristle at my touch like a toothbrush?
You’re not gonna clean my teeth very much.
All girls are so soft in my brain.
Maybe that makes me a jerk.
All girls are so soft, simple and plain
I know that it makes me hurt.
But it’s not the same to know you’re soft
and you hold my mind aloft
like a great big weeping willow.
You’re soft like a down pillow.
You hold mind into the light.
And in the light I know we would weep
And in the light what we sow we would reap
In bed we make we would sleep.
Now we live in a world fractured beyond repair.
But how can you ever know for sure? Maybe we make good glue.
How to only make the world fair? I don’t know.
But maybe we can make something pure and true just me and you.
I still want that weeping willow to surround me
Come with me into our imaginary light
O we won’t design a new society in our truthful canopy
And it doesn’t matter if it’s night.
But still, why so many look-a-likes?
Why so many relatives?
Why so much everything?
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3. |
Underneath the Lawn
04:49
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Mr. Malkmus is so matter-of-fact.
In fact, I’m taken aback
When I think about what is lurking underneath
All his lyrical whims and laconic grins.
Underneath the lawn – mud, love.
Underneath the lawn – it gets uncomfortable.
Underneath the lawn – so many centipedes.
Underneath the lawn – hurt feelings.
Bugs in your yard,
Bugs in your cereal,
Bugs in your chocolate bar,
Bugs making miracles.
Strong feelings all are for the weak.
Strong feelings O they last all week
Is that what we’re supposed to think?
How come we can’t succumb?
Coz everybody’s got them
Everybody’s got it so rough, as rough.
Well bluff, bluff, you’ll get so tough.
Learn to bluff, you’ll be so tough.
Show me how you really feel.
Go ahead kick me with your high heels.
Truth and honesty can be very dirty and messy
That’s why we have “decency.”
Shovel dirt on me I beg you please.
Don’t just say “Ouch!” on your therapist’s couch
Buy some astro-turf, think you’re done.
It’s fake grass! It ain’t gonna last.
It’s not alive, show me your dirt, I’ll make you thrive
But we’ll keep some decorations for our vacations.
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Cynical, Cyclical
05:27
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Cut your hair, become a nihilist.
See if I care if I smile less.
You say there’s no such thing as honesty
Only things said more convincingly.
Well then how can you convince me?
I can take you so skeptically.
So everything’s an artifice.
Nothing can be authentic.
Still we have to shake our little fists.
Coz bad actors make us so sick.
We want to be convinced, that’s what we value.
You’re gonna make us wince with your put-on virtue.
One man’s treasure (/pleasure) is another man’s trash.
Don’t tell me about pleasure (/treasure) when it’s (/we’re) gonna be ash.
We hate obvious affectations.
Still we want those obvious affections.
But how can you make a connection
Out of a stream of constant theoretical rejections? Huh?
Phonies are only poor players.
The best liars are called “professionals.”
So if you’ve got a love, you better pay her.
Money’s the only point of confessionals.
Truth hurts most when it’s not there.
It knocks the wind straight out.
We’re getting real close to denying the air.
Nothing will exist but our doubt.
Don’t you want to sink into the uncanny valley with me, right now?
What is really outside belief?
Do you really want to be hoodwinked?
Some things are more than convincing
Some things are beyond calculating.
I hope, I hope.
Wink your eyes and gnash your teeth.
I’m gonna stick with some kind of belief.
Break it, concede to a weakness.
If you keep running for the horizon of certainty, you’re going to fall back on a belief.
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The Conquerors
05:53
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Remedios, Remedios, Remedios the beauty
Men died just to see her side.
Remedios, Remedios, Remedios the beauty
Why does it mean what we think it means?
Remedios, Remedios, Remedios the beauty
Is so deadly on the earth, what mirth.
Remedios, Remedios, Remedios, the beauty
Ascended into heaven.
She’s a silly girl who speaks so brashly.
And she forgot how to be bashful.
She says she must live internationally.
She always manages to be so fashionable.
It can be hard to tell about sincerity.
It may not always come naturally.
Those who speak with great alacrity,
Don’t tell the truth necessarily.
But one can deceive honestly,
One can deceive mistakenly.
She’s a pretty girl. Does she know everyone’s her sucker?
Sure thing, people always love good luck.
She’s only got to make her lips pucker,
And the men’ll offer her 20 bucks.
Do we need to know how we may be perceived?
Is that a real responsibility?
Now the truth can only leave me relieved,
But it ain’t the same as beauty.
O they have deceived, I hope it was honestly.
She’s a harmful girl, yet still so innocuous
When she talks, she talks a lot, she’s mostly honest.
Then sometimes she don’t have a mouth, it’s a lock you kiss
She’s only ever sure to leave you astonished.
O can beauty ever be abused?
Or is it only ever used appropriately?
I know it doesn’t mean what we think, still I’m amused.
Still it makes me lose constantly.
Beauty should not equal sexuality,
So why does this thought possess everyone and me?
Don’t tell me it’s only evolutionary
It’s not about fitness, so why?
I can only pretend I don’t think I love them
I’m their sap and that is that, even if they treat me so cruelly.
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Conductors Chicago, Illinois
"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad
men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' "
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