Breaking News

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Here they come with news to scare me
Woven stylish yarn to snare me
Tease the spot with deadly peril
Queue the gore and load the barrel

Keep the stories pure and plain
Assume the lemmings faint of brain
Paint the targets vile and shocking
Cock the hammer start the clocking
 
You can't break the news, it's already broken
Disregard the clues till the sponsor has spoken
Loathing rape and death top of every hour
Frame and shape each breath to consolidate power

You can't break the news, it's already broken
Chain dissenting views to a pithy slogan
Every story spun to sway
To your talking points today
Other notions slate to slay
And delay headway

Strings are pulled to mute the rabble
Discerning crowds refute the babble
Blogistas and twitsters take the slack
And the break the news in no time flat

You can't break the news, it's already broken
Every aim diffused, Ed R Murrow is chokin'
Masses feed machine with their yammering prattle
Scatter every dream into purposeless battle
Splintered legions churn into froth in the gale
Never to adjourn til they utterly fail

Viral Disease
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Turn me on see me light up
When we're connected it's not enough
I am filled with wires
Pixels in my eyes
And I melt and flow right in
I am digitized

Hear me now as I scream
A video clown posted with ease
I'm begging pleading on my knees
How many hits? Viral disease . . .

Shut me down there is no switch
Is it fake or real I don't know which
Population wrapped in wires
Either liked or despised
Collective psyche drain
We're all digitized . . .

See me now as I dream
Pitiful clone electric chimpanzee
I'm bit-ed extracted fed into your screen
Typical shit viral disease . . .

Succubus

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Well now baby
When I saw you I said maybe
You might be the one
You look like fun

The way you shake that ass
It makes me wanna smoke your grass
Your curves are so fine
Wanna make you mine

But you're a succubus
And you're gonna suck all of us
Bone dry
But you're a succubus
And you're gonna suck all of us
Until we die

Oh girl you make me sweat,
The way you move when you're all wet
You glisten so
Don't want you to go

I wanna feel your skin
I want you to let me in
You're a demon spawn
Wanna play till the dawn

But you're a succubus
And you're gonna suck all of us
Bone dry
But you're a succubus
And you're gonna suck all of us
Until we die

You've got a deadly tail
So sharp it makes me wail
You toss me aside
Hurts more than my pride

You had to use me so
And now I really know
The dark heart inside
My soul you denied

But you're a succubus
And you're gonna suck all of us
Bone dry
But you're a succubus
And you're gonna suck all of us
Until we die

Secrets To Encourage

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All the time I am wondering how it's done
Placing my attention on those far from me
Envision their lives - more in tune than mine
Perceptions led astray
Seemingly endless love and endless happiness
Form the facade they portray

Often times we are driven by the guilt
And driven by resentment and perfection
But when it's all said and done
When it's time to end the show
We all sit together
We all experience pain
Share grief

Deceive the nation no more

More importantly, they are looking out too
Searching for perfection
To escape their guilt and justify the competition
They look to us as an anchor
Someone to hold onto
To keep them from sinking down

But most importantly
Our words encourage
We are perceived as being in tune and on track
Inspired from the accounts we share
And the fears we have faced
And the struggles we overcome
Never taking for granted
The mere fact that they listen for a reason
Listen to reason

Our secrets to encourage one another
Only guide us through our trials
Feed off vibrant attractions
For some, we are the answers
But for me I heed the same desire
Guide one, guide another, one true purpose
Love

Solve For X

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Will we find the key to settle this
Should we part the mist or just dismiss the mentor
Is the rust upon the gate too thick
Ivy in the brick the clock quick ticks to failure
First is always bright - outer vectors dim the light

Factor sweet salvation into this
How it goes amiss without a kiss to linger
Does the raven on the rail weep
Fail in trust to keep when hunger creeps in winter
Inner thoughts contend - let's petition to pretend oh oh

And let's solve for X in the middle of the playground
Dispel the hex that's been following us around
Happens all the time - your place or mine
Cross a calculated, atavistic line

Pitted hinges crying when they yield
Can the haze conceal the thorny field of roses
Is accord a course completely sealed
Choking fen congealed the scythe we wield exposes
Twisted wreck reject last regrets then solve for X oh oh

And let's solve for X in the middle of the playground
Dispel the hex that's been following us around
Happens all the time - your place or mine
Cross a calculated, atavistic line

And let's solve for X in the middle of the playground
Dispel the hex that's been following us around
Happens all the time - your place or mine
Cross a calculated, atavistic line

Situation

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So I try to take control of my situation
Gonna take the day off and sleep till 2:00
89 degrees says the weather station
The clouds all dot the sky like a psychic zoo

Roll around the bed with my wild-eyed girlfriend
Yeah I don't have to work hard to play her tune
Tromp down to the market to buy ice water
The water from my sink is like plastic glue

Just like every single bottle of cheap-ass whiskey
My days are never the same
I give up all my change to a sickly stranger
Don't want no pockets to drain

It's my situation today
Situation's here to stay
It's my situation in the world
Situation

Got a cheap guitar and a microwave oven
A TV and a keyboard and a bed for two
I've gotta lock my door when I leave my apartment
Don't wanna find my shit in some pawn shop stew

Playin' A&A with a loud mouthed Injun
Every one around here's got something to prove
Neighbor's got the rocks and the boys are bingin'
They ain't got nothin' to lose

My sister's gonna see the band on Friday
She's got a fake I.D. to get plenty of booze
Everyone that's there will seek out a good lay
Band ain't gettin' paid we've got to pay our dues

It's my situation today
Situation's here to stay
It's my situation in the world
Situation

Subtle Chaos

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It’s the rain that carves through the hills,
It’s your brain without any pills,
It’s just life that continually kills,
A faded painting in a frame.
It’s the plants that brown with disease,
It’s the beasts that do as they please,
It’s the day you can’t quite seize,
Nothing can remain the same.

Can’t you see it’s subtle, it’s subtle.
Can’t you feel it’s subtle, it’s subtle.
Can’t you see it’s subtle, it’s subtle.
Can’t you feel it’s subtle, it’s subtle.
It’s sudden, it’s sullen, it’s stunning, it’s started…
Meow. Meow.

It’s a building that’s been torn down,
It’s the cities drowning in sound,
It’s the loss of what cannot be found,
A castle washed away at sea.
It’s the law that’s continually broken,
It’s the fool that is outspoken,
It’s the lies that keep us choking,
Nothing escapes entropy.
Meow. Meow.

We're recording music honeybunny
I know
Didja have fun
Uh huh
Good job

Temptation

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I feel so grand with an apple in my hand
With an apple in my hand I feel so grand
I feel so grand with that apple in my hand
With an apple in my hand I feel so grand

Oh you can use it every day
And it'll make ya feel so gay
Suckin' on that apple by and by
Oh apples are a juicy fruit
Even for a new recruit
Apples are the apple of my eye

Apples are so very good
They grow in your neighborhood
You can hit an apple every day
Pass the apple all around
But please don't let it hit the ground
Cause when you have one you will surely say

I feel so grand with an apple in my hand
With an apple in my hand I feel so grand
I feel so grand with that apple in my hand
With an apple in my hand I feel so grand

Oh apples are a juicy fruit
Green ones hold all the loot
And red ones are the apple of my eye
I bet you can't have just one
If so you'll miss all the fun
You'll laugh so hard that surely you will cry

I feel so grand with an apple in my hand
With an apple in my hand I feel so grand
I feel so grand with that apple in my hand
With an apple in my hand I feel so grand

Don't Be Down

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by Eric Falstrom & JC Apking / Mystery Wagon

Don't be down, be down, down, down
You've got it, seconds lined up to a double
In the town with your eyes on the ground
It ain't far for you to get into trouble

I want time to be in a straight line
You gonna stay or you gonna go now?
'Cause it's my life and you're sharing my time
You want to leave? Just let me know

'Cause all the seasons pass, and baby, baby, I'm so blue
Without your loving and your kissing and caressing
I just might be hip to the morning as I watch you
when you're showering and dressing
So don't you leave and ignore me Piss me off and try to bore me
If I seem to be torchered It's 'cause every day's a scorcher with you
Baby, with you Don't be down

Don't be mean, its good to be clean
But there's a time for winter sleeping
Snow comes down in the nowhere town
And there's business that is worth keeping

And it's my time, we could be drinking wine
Instead of picking at all the small things
Life is fine, if you look for a sign
You'll see the peace we can have in all things

'Cause all the seasons pass, and baby, baby, I'm so blue
Without your loving and your kissing and caressing
I just might be hip to the morning as I watch you
when you're showering and dressing

So don't you leave and ignore me Piss me off and try to bore me
If I seem to be torchered It's 'cause every day's a scorcher with you
Baby, with you Don't be down
Don't Be Down Don't Be Down
Oh . . .

Plastered

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Plastered
Molded to the floor
Solid
Stone forever more
Marbled
Veins along my skin
Inside
Shattered Obsidian

Magma
Boiling from below
Rubied
Eyes that hardly show
Stretching
Arms frozen in place
Carvings
Etched into my face

Nunyunuwi Galiha
Nunyunuwi Galuga

Forbidden from northward travels
Renowned courage refutes the command
The Stone Coat, of frost ice and great cold
The man boasts of strength and killing

Entice the man eaters
I won't fool you again
Frightened and without knowing
The Stone Coat implanted in the man splendid power

"This man," said he in his mind, "is as strong as we are"
The Stone Coats fled to the West
Yet the Stone Coat woman returned good fortune
A pact
Kill the Stone Coat upon his return
The firebrand ran into the Stone Coat and killed him

Ashes
Fallen to the ground
Glasses
Shards all around
Heartbeat
Somewhere within
Breathing
Weak and stretched thin

Blinded
Hazy all around
Strong weeds
Hold me to the ground
Synapse
Firing within stone
Statue
Sitting here all alone

Nun'yunu'wi Gvnodv
Nun'yunu'wi Nelisgv

Every block of stone has a statue inside it
Free the figures slumbering in the stone
I saw the angel in the marble
And carved until I set it free