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RETURN OF THE NOTHING
03:02
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No return to the ancient ways
those days are gone like Mao Zedong
Those times have past
we’re all outclassed
Like h.g’s griffin were fading fast
Last come first served
let’s try not to swerve
or skirt the issues
with those who deserve
Some extra thought
but don’t get caught
with your feelings down
in this shitty town
In times of plenty
I’m coming up empty
So who will prevent me
from being their enemy
There’s no more incentive
to be so inventive
Every ones so sensitive
bordering on demented
Broken and torn
forlorn and well worn
with lashings of scorn
you have been warned
No three minute signal
no more individual
Turn on the video
let’s watch something simple
Higher and higher
hi-yah says the challenger
Implying their danger
is soon to come at ya
Defend and defeat counter and attack
you know they’ll be back
with some other weird crap
It’s never ending
like falco and bastion
a story to last you
cos the nothing gets past you
Like atreyu in mud
for the hurt and the blood
and the misunderstood
sabotaging the good .
Yin and Yang
back to where it all began ,
If you need a helping hand
be sure to have a plan
Cos nothing comes for free
even with your family
just insecurity
and corrupted memories
Like the colours of my
mind except my mind is fucking blind
I’m never gonna find
the shit that you’ve defined
Declined at all stops ,
go on take the fucking Lot
take everything we’ve
got all the coins are in the slot
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2. |
DANTE
03:45
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Spending money like it’s water
when I ought to take more care
But everything’s so overpriced I’m pulling out my hair
Hair today and gone tomorrow
when the sorrow starts to follow
To swallow the shallow
To swallow fucking all
Consume every morsel
and clear up all the mess
now it’s time to get undressed
and confess under duress
The stress taking lead
talking weird drinking mead
drinking brew for two
or anything will do
Just between me and you
I’d main line the few
who have answers to it all
, know it alls
posing fools
Useless tools for
Building walls
Like a hammer made of ice ,
that looks nice and shines and glimmers
But shatters with the slightest touch
Disintegrates as you watch
Without so much of a push
so much energy
on very little sympathy
Like a dead accountant
no accountability
No honesty just farce
just lies no class
no truth just masks
That hide and obscure
the smell of manure
The young and mature
Defeat and make pure
Purification or putrefaction
The distraction stops the action
the way to relax them
A time to attack them
Devour as they scour or
curse your power
The hour is late and the time is right
No need to fight
or -for more fighting
Getting exited or finding it frightening
Time is of the essence
The load needs lightening.
A problem shared and all that crap
The cliches are back
for the weak to crack on
And us that don’t belong
are accused of being wrong
everything you do
gets rejected or sent back to you
Return to sender
say the pissy bellenders
Well I wouldn’t defend em
or love or commend them
Who fucking sent them
the bunch of demented yes-men
I’ll see you at the pearly gates
if that’s your fate
or maybe with Dante well traverse
The malebolge
The nine levels would be something to behold
Then maybe you do as your told
With the morning star breathing down your neck
With the sins of others
of fathers and mothers
and the dead and obscene
And the tricky politicians
with their private morticians
Condition yourself
your health both mental and physical for this is your wealth your strength
Your recompense to this immense occurrence
This psychic disturbance perturbing my deliverance
No stability without their belligerence
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3. |
I USED TO HAVE A DEMON
03:29
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I used to have a demon to comfort me
Until they sent me far for psychiatry
Dead by dawn and well swallow your soul
And we’ll take control of your chosen role
And we’ll dig your bones in a very deep hole
Drain your blood and tarry your toll
Like Linda Blair your hair
will be covered in puke
Green pea soup
messing up your look
Mistook you for a friend when you’re just another cuck
arseholes and crooks
in the holy fucking book
Take those pills
your getting ill
its not a clever hook
Grow up child dont be so wild
Dont be so fucking duped
It’s true that certain people are drawn closely to the dark
Two by two by three
as we line up
For their ark
Safe within their rules
almost everything turns to shit
Or so they’d have us believe
the dirty cheating bunch of pricks
Fear is a motivating factor
strength in numbers calms us all ,
well when your number is less than two
it ain’t calming at fucking all
Ostracised before I realised
things before my eyes
would die
Cauterise and theorise as to who or what or why
Now pull up your socks and wipe your face
Cos little boys ain’t meant to cry
In later days
my companion returned
This time we’ve learned
to keep it zipped
This time we know to stay tight lipped
Or god forbid another trip
Like poor old jack
in the cuckoos nest
Get plenty of rest
Cough it off your chest
Bright green slime
is this a sign
The death of mine or
some other time
Bandits with maps
of the light and the black
of the burning desire to maim and react
Ant the dire on the wire
And the fire and the liars
And the death and the dead
and the pain and the cracks
and the coke and the smack
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4. |
MARLON BRANDO
03:51
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Marlon Brando
There’s no point acting like you’re Marlon Brando now
You are not Al Pacino you are not chairman Mao
Bogart was a gangster
he ruled the silver screen
Angels have dirty faces
when there’s nothing to keep clean
Cagney was the bad guy
always acting very mean
And Tony sang soprano
And caused a fucking scene
You ain’t in the fucking mafia
You are not crip or blood
You are not the king or don
Of your crappy neighbourhood
So maybe close your mouth
as your words are heading south
It’s writing cheques that you can’t cash
You’re signing yourself out
Pretending you’re a tough man
And you claim your alpha male
Said you’d beat some poor guy up
When you actually broke a nail
Always talking football
calling women tarts or birds
Your attitude to life these days
is bordering on absurd
Borderline sociopath
Munchausen by default
Next you’ll be craving attention
And feeding babies salt
Your image is projected
Just like the great old oz
Take care your curtains
Not pulled back
By that nosey little dog
Choose your own adventure
Like a game of d&d
Pretending to be hard and mean
Does little good to me
A life of toxic input
is very hard to beat
But if I can do it then so can you
You’ll find if you just seek
The roles were told
to be and do
Are never in place
for me or you
Just an agenda
the privileged few
better their lives
on the back of you
You ain’t scarface
You’re a fucking cock/a-roach
Behave yourself silly bloke
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5. |
WILLIAM KENT
01:32
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V1)
Ya dog is on a string
it’s fucking shitting on the floor
I’m walking the fandango
so I don’t step in any more
Every step I take
is like I’m walking on a line
Dog turds placed strategicly
a field of fucking mines
Ever heard of cleaning up
your own fucking mess ?
Cos navigating dog eggs all day
induces so much stress
Saw a tree the other day
covered with shit bags
Like some kind of strange new fruit
just waiting to be grabbed
Nothing worse than stepping
In a freshly cooked dog turd
Why they can’t just pick it up
Is bordering on absurd
I’ve half a mind to take a drive
And visit you at home
Drop a crap on your front step
As your chatting on the phone
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6. |
SCANNERS
02:44
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My head is pounding
It might just explode
I’ve taken some pills
Now I need another load
It just like on scanners
But pardon my manners
Their saving the banners
It’s time to reload
Its time to explode
My vision is blurry
I’m starting to worry
The light is intense
And so is the burning
No longer yearning
Or learning or earning
Feeling blacked out
Ideas are turning
My body is aching
My heart for the taking
Like Kevin bacon
We’re quite good at faking
No point forsaking
Or breaking and taking
Cos like mr freeze
We’re too busy shaking
Feeling so naked
I can’t keep away
Not even a day
From the things that betray
My life my own way
I can’t stop and think
You’re garbage
that stinks
And sporting that ink
Don’t half make you think
Dont half make you talk
Like mr Peter Falk
With bodies in chalk
And peoples who sin
And negative things
And blackness within
And terror without
The deafening shout
The maddening clout
Things turned inside out
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7. |
SKUM
02:46
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She wore black
and I got hacked
Information superhighway
turning its back
So turn the other cheek
stop being a freak
Your not Radiohead
stop acting like a creep
Stop playing the fool
This ain’t comedy zoo
Or Noah’s ark
marching two by two
we’re all animals t
hrough and through
Some are lions some worms
but who are you
We rode on horses made of sticks
Cos my brand new grifters
been fucking well nicked
I chained it to the gate
when I was running
kind of late
I only got it last week
what a fucking piss take
This is why people don’t ever keep nice things
Float like a butterfly
the bees the one that stings
The snakes slither all around
the siren starts to sing
She would always win the fight
in hindsight Blight and fright divide
A Mars a day should save your pride
No need to laugh
when you’re feeling snide
No need to kick and scream and fuss
It’s only things
it’s only stuff
Shot in the dark
through the heart leaves a mark
It doesn’t take a genius
to see that ain’t so smart
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8. |
BUGS
03:22
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Something is crawling right
Under my skin
The worms of sin are
Squirming within
The bugs of indifference
Are Calmly dismissing
And hissing and feeling
Is doing my head in
The Cockroach and mites
And other parasites
Who come out at night
To eat and to take flight
So How about the crabs
That live on my face
They’re Breeding and shitting
all over the place
Smaller and smaller
Until the point is made
Small enough
to see a tardigrade
I felt them move all
Inside of my veins
I hope they dont swim
Right inside of my brain
I think they got in Through
my eyes and my nose
Or maybe their eggs are
Inside of my clothes
Ticks and worms
and tiny nematodes
The thought has
made my mind
fucking explode
Tapeworms are growing
inside of my guts
Im feeling them moving
Its driving me nuts
Soon they’ll appear
From back entrance b
They’ve had their fill
of feeding from me
My body keeps itching
It’s gotta be the lice
I had em once before
It ain’t so fucking nice
My dr says
they aren’t really there
Well how do they know
If it’s infesting my hair
They say it’s the meds
And maybe my head
Let’s change
all your pills
Is what the quack said
Well I’d rather be dead
Than lived on and fed
By the crawlies that creep
When I sleep in my bed
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9. |
SILENCE IN EDEN
04:09
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Silence in Eden
Eden is silent It’s barren within
The snake and the apple Original sin
Eve stairs blankly Cold dead eyes
From Adam’s ribs We take our price
Our pound of flesh the apple is fresh
The scene is set for treachery yet
Forbidden fruits the tree calls out
Knowledge is power there is no doubt
Goodbye horses flying over you
I dreamt that you were dying too
I felt that they no longer new
How to live or what they should do
They never got a chance to use their brains
Because
In the garden it never rains
Old mother horse eyes never cries just decides
While others just deride or divide like the tide
From the deadly sea of red to the thousands drowning dead
To the voices in your head dictating all you’ve said
I’m flying over you cos that’s what I learnt to do
It’s easy to confuse when you mark the few that lose
On a list of who’s who’s they haven’t got a clue
They haven’t got a choice or voice to talk it through
They haven’t got a life too much vice just ain’t nice
You’ll end up sick and covered in lice
See it in their eyes , no suprises just misguided
Like cain and able well All be divided
Brother kills brother and spy vs spy
Life’s a little easier if you really fucking try
There no going back to Eden it’s gone
If it ever existed it wasn’t there for long
This is why we can’t have nice things
There’s always someone to clip your wings
Always one to stamp you down
To act a fooland be a clown
To tell you to calm right down
It’s so frustrating when they’re
Gaslighting and manipulating
Goodbye horses I’ll fly over you
Cos In my heart I’m dying too
And in my head I’m nearly dead
And no one said to be prepared
Cos outside the garden
It’s harder than you know
There ain’t no rule book
Or instructions to follow
We’re all first timers
We’re all unique
Goodbye horses
You’re all just freaks
Playing at games
Naming famous names
The aim is to gain
when you live on their plane
Take what you can and get what you see
Inna Gadda da Vida , and cest la vie
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