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26 Minutes
02:35
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In the 26 minutes that you will get
When you know you will not see your sister again
Fill up the bath, crawl inside
hum to yourself, say goodnight
In those 26 minutes you can bet
the phones will be down with the internet
people will run and scream in the streets
the sirens will sound and then suddenly cease
In the 26 minutes they're in the air
You'll put on a dress and fix your hair
You'll put on a record and hold yourself
And turn into ash just like everything else
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2. |
Song For Lon Chaney Jr.
02:01
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Peter once said the ultimate truth
"You're just a facemaker, a ghoul, a buffoon."
I'm not the person I ought to be
No, I'm not Vincent Price
When Lon Chaney Jr. died
His liver was huge
his lungs were fried
And to me that sounds just fine
To me that sounds just fine
I lived as a monster, I'll die as a monster
I lived as a monster, I'll die as a monster
Crash my golf cart into a tree
Get soused on TV and bare my teeth
I'm not Vincent Price, I'm not my dad
I'm no good but what I'm good at is being bad
What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
I lived as a monster, I'll die as a monster
I lived as a monster, I'll die as a monster
I was born undead, this is all gravy
Don't bother preaching, don't try to save me
I lived as a monster, I'll die as a monster
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These old wrestling tapes
that still have commercials
they make pleasing stacks and sights and sounds
These old wrestling tapes
of Monday Night Nitro
will keep me company when you're not around
These old wrestling tapes
feature Eric Bischoff
and Sting when he looked just like The Crow
These old wrestling tapes
have weathered the decades
better than most people that I have known
These old wrestling tapes
here to reassure me
evil always wins, the assholes take the prize
The pious are weak
and easily out-numbered
the vicious mighty and twice our size
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4. |
Formal Resignation
02:48
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I had something to say
I had a speech prepared
It all fell apart
when my eyes met your stare
It was really important
It had dashes of profundity
It had an air of sadness
It gave an ultimatum, what was to
be if this
ship would not
sail could we
swim back to
isles lush and
green live as
apes, king and
queen I think
this is a duel that's never gonna end, and
this is the time that we'll never spend, then
this is a scandal, what do your folks know
what's the scenario, how high does this go
I had something to say
I had the words just right
It had allusions to Chaucer
It took all night
One of us has to say it
This jalopy's running on fumes
Our time alive is finite
I don't want you to resent me, you have to
choose where we
land, land or
sea, see this
through, through the
mist, missed the
chance now my
tongue's in my
teeth when you
look back on this will you say I was boring
Was this avenue really worth exploring?
What's a few years worth? I feel unsteady
We used to laugh so much, I miss it already
I had something to say
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5. |
Love Songs
00:39
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The three coins in the fountain do not care about our love
The light in the piazza does not come from God above
Moon River's just a tributary, filled with hazardous waste
and too many people believe in love songs, well that was their first mistake
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6. |
More Than I Should
01:30
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Spending way more
of my time than I should
Thinking about you
much more than I should
What are you eating?
Do you skip lunch?
I bet you have a smoker
and a freezer full of deer
Soon I'm gonna meet you
and think about
the 700 days
we spent in my mind
as colleagues and peers
as neighbors too
I'll have a lot to say
I won't say a word
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7. |
Plow Ahead
02:36
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Hop in a van and move to Seattle
start a new life but I will still prattle on
alienate my friends and grow sour
a dozen fresh starts and I'm still a coward now
quick escape
lock the door
we don't use that room anymore
Oh oh oh
I hear a noise from inside the wall
a rat that we poisoned but it still crawls away
Hold me I'm shaking this isn't real
a canyon between the things that we feel and say
plow ahead
just get sane
build a box and keep your thoughts off of the pain
oh oh oh
scream and bleed
stain the floor
I don't have a country anymore
oh oh oh
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I'm having nightmares 'bout this job
I can't seem to give them what they want
And if I get fired, how will I pay my rent
I'm having nightmares about this job
I'm having nightmares about this job
I don't know what I do all day
Every minute's a waste, But I still get paid
I'm having nightmares about this job
I'm having nightmares about this job
The store is filling up with hungry ghouls
and there's only one bullet left, and I'm saving it for me
Why can't they me be?
I'm having nightmares about this job
I'm having nightmares about this job
probably have them about the next one too
I don't want to work
and what else is there to do
I'm having nightmares about this job
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9. |
Black Pear Tree (cover)
04:16
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I dug a hole and filled it up with compost
Rested on the cool grass for a minute
I saw the future in a dream last night
There’s nothing in it
I set the sapling in the hole
Started gently tamping down the dirt
I saw the future in a dream last night
Somebody’s gonna get hurt, somebody’s gonna get hurt
I hope it’s not me
But I suspect it’s going to have to be
I dug my heels in for the winter
And I waited for the snow
But something was stuck up in the clouds
Something was stuck up there
It couldn’t let go
And when its time came I could see it happen
Blossoms black and sweet as Texas crude
I saw the future flowering like a ruptured vessel
Somebody’s gonna get screwed
It won’t be me
Someday I am going to walk out of here free
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10. |
The Mutilator
01:04
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There's a mask on the wall
What's the mask for?
There was an axe on the wall
Where'd the axe go?
There's a man in the garage
and he's staring at me as I take some pliers to my girlfriend's coat
there's a board game on the floor
I thought this was fall break, I wanted something more
I wanted something to remember
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11. |
Why Wait
02:00
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I'm ready to die
I'm ready to die
Why wait?
Why wait?
What is this life?
Why am I alive?
Why wait?
Why wait?
Why wait?
I'm sorry I'm weak
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12. |
Horror of Dracula
02:24
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It's gonna happen quick
you're gonna like it too
when the clouds fly by and cover the moon
when you open the door to your room
you let him, you know what he'll do
every night
by your side
Dracula's bride
Dracula's bride
He can fuck you better
than Johnny could
numb the bad and kill the good
eyes of fire, heart of soot
avoid wolfsbane, garlic and wood
we will thrive
the dead alive
Dracula's Bride
Dracula's Bride
You want a miracle?
You want a mirace, you want a miracle
it's a mirace, it's a miracle
it's a miracle
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13. |
Fourteen Hundred Days
03:53
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I'm no good for no one
strictly bottom drawer
doesn't mean I have the will
to not knock on their doors
so many awful things will happen in the next fourteen hundred days
A lousy lay undoubtedly
in general a bore
even Big Data told me
they don't care no more
so many awful things will happen in the next fourteen hundred days
Your parents are white supremacists
probably mine are too
paralyzed with fear and rage
no idea what to do
so many awful things will happen in the next fourteen hundred days
so many fearful things will happen and all I can do is wait
so many awful things will happen
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