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"THAN THOU"

by scissorbills

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FUN’S ALL OVER women are dancing with lice in their hair smoking marywanna and feeling despair early in the morning, police coming round telling flower children to get on the ground up jump trouble up jump trouble fun’s all over now up jump trouble up jump trouble fun’s all over now in andoria in andoria they are running in ground in andoria in andoria fun’s all over now the shower is yellow, the bed full of sand the neighbor is telling you to move the van the children are swaying and chanting a psalm one man is crying, with a vial in his palm if I would have listened to what my mother said i’d be at home laying in a sleep train bed if I had two chances I’d do everything right I’d button my shirt up and lace my shoes tight
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Sharp Axe 03:10
SHARP AXE how the fuck did I get so young? seems like the only thing I remember is the past back in those days men would punch each other in the nose but you won’t read that in any history book some women are good some women are bad margaret thatcher for example some women even smoke cigarettes you won’t feel it’s a work of fiction it’s all part of the process for which you’ve got no defense not a new way of thinking it’s just admission of ignorance I’m no thunderer Icarus debris polluter no fire bringer, baby stealer or wagon wheeler sharp axe broken handle sharp axe broken handle some people think that jesus invented forgiveness some day you might need to give this and when that moment does comes then please recall these warning chimes the jury goes uncounted some people people are good and some people are bad some people are good at fighting it’s not the best thing for you but it’s called called due diligence just a couple of bad dreams of which I’ve got total innocence
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Before Swine 01:47
BEFORE SWINE who are these strangers dragging us towards a new doom now and making us a world tomb nobody knows before swine until the generation comes take care of your own house or don't build anything at all cursing and smoking banging nails through a club angry people buckets of blood they’re all so scared they’re safe as houses anyways rattling sabres and biting fingernails away hot water on an underwater road halfway around the world some people you don’t know animal heatwave, and the icarus debris the sun’s not any closer thats just how it feels
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Hot Southern 03:04
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The World 04:10
THE WORLD I’m not a member of the world I am a member of the rising sun until the world is overcome i’m not a member of the world I’m not ready to live by the notions of a passing phase something erased by simple days and simpler views I’m not a member of the crowd whose sudden anger is unearthly loud and yet it goes like a winded cloud to what’s on the news companion send me a paris drum send me a paris drum we’ll go away singing and drumming now covered with a wanted gold throw away the heavy load and be new over the waves the sun is setting on the minarets a little boy is selling cigarettes to a guided tour of a lonely tomb misremembered and deeply dark though still with wonder at nature’s part in a place of doom and now lost in a cavern of unholy forms half a hundred in uniforms and crying please they’re counting heads but the census can leave me out this island is the rock of doubt i’d rather be not a member of the world but a member of the rising sun until the world is overcome i’m not a member of the world i’m not a member of the scene i am a member of the gasoline give my middle finger to the queen and my eyes to a crow
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JACK DIAMONDS police officer how can it be you arrest everybody but you never rest me two police officers lying in a can, each one of them wishing that the other was a ham I rosin my fiddle and string up my bow but I still don’t get welcome wherever I go If the ocean was liquor and i was a duck, i’d go to the bottom and then I’d come up walking down fourth street and turning on beale looking for the old man that they’re calling lucille we’re going to to put him in the old folks home take all his money and if he won’t give us some in the middle of the ocean there grows a green tree and never will the old man give my money all to me I’ve played cards in england I’ve played em in spain, I’ll bet you twenty dollars that I’ll play cards again
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Whitelouse 03:19
WHITELOUSE they’re putting you to sleep, like a scary old bird like the family dog, they cant afford you anymore you’re hard to keep, so you go to sleep without a bed and then, you’ll go up in smoke and go over like a lead balloon, like a dirty joke we used to tell about a southern belle, and a funny smell, of cigarette smoke we can burn that bridge when it’s come upon and water is growing old wet rain wet rain wet rain I crawled out of the earth, crawled out of my shirt or havent you heard that I’m large, but not in charge when youre full of muscles and you are big then you go to work at the glue factory, is the place to be with golden pearls, and singing girls and golden pearls you wont feel blue, when you are glue i’ll stick up for you we can burn that bridge when it’s come upon and water is growing old wet rain wet rain wet rain I won’t watch tv, till everyone’s free then i’ll watch tv i’ll take my rest when everything is done it’ll be no fun, it’ll be no fun when you are dead the lice in jesus' beard are white, as white as blood as white as blood is supposed to be your missing parts your after darks, don’t bother me.
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CLINICAL TRIALS she said three words and quaffed a potion threw the bottle into the ocean got her charms from a drugstore lotion from the chemical baths and the clinical trials her painted up cheeks looked like a painting and ruby red lips like a dollhouse ceiling and all of that just to get a feeling from the chemical baths and the clinical trials he sells them oils to match the fashion so they’ll feel ugly without a mask on and make good money selling all the potions from the chemical baths bad people live while good ones die sticking drugged up needles in a rabbit’s eye from the chemical baths and the clinical trials from the chemical baths and the clinical trials
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The Surf 03:24
OUT IN THE SURF out in the surf out in the surf they have no money their course is confused compelled to obey by pain compliance, out in the surf sharpened at the end by the roughest of sea tides the foremast broke off the men were ashamed the dreadnought did atrophy press ganged again we are flightless birds the great auk the dodo, clubbed with a broken bar extinct and banished out in the surf our loincloths ripped open the old sunburnt animal picking the shore siphoning and spouting up-G chord scabrously sporting scars many eyed and hungering picked at by seagulls restlessly eating out in the surf the old men are surfing the sun cooks them up like chemotherapeutic atrocity TV out in the surf the legs of the ocean the wild legs of the forties breaks down the hull the ice cuts it open heaviest storm
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Age 03:23
AGE in the age and generation eyes adjust to total darkness and the operator said that it’s time that things went red with the hammer and the tongs in the age and generation in the hour of the nation the remote will change the station and the minute may draw near when the drudge removes his gear and begins to squeeze a tear from his unfamiliar faces in a tower at the capital there’s a meeting of the powerful on the very highest floor just behind a silver door the room is filling up with gore in the tower at the capital in a bloody revelation TV people don’t understand it with the crashing of a gate all the people fill with rage and hot smoke comes out their eyes in a bloody revelation now they’re meeting at the station biting glass in a whipped up frenzy they’re grinding down their teeth and ringing like cracked bells with hands balled into fists in the street before the station in a mess of crowded feeling alarms emits a piercing signal like the shouting of a dove in an automatic cage so it cannot be ignored in the age and generation
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released July 28, 2016

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