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Sinking
02:57
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Instincts.
I don't fuck, I ravish
Used to not eating till I was ravenous
I know what it's like to be an animal attacking it
Eyes in the back
Blade in the same trap
Half of it is grasping a conundrum with stun gun paralysis
Only whimpering until her blisters turned calluses
Sniveling and sobbing her scientific elixirs
Eyes sparkling like starry rings surround the Big Dipper
And I'm trying to fix her
Scalpel in the ribs, stethoscope counts the critters
Her heart isn't beating so the crickets pick a tempo
God... another fucking song that makes me think of her
Ink spurts and seizures
I watch calmly over violence
It vibrates my strings like a violin
I've been quite a nervous observer to worse but I lose a little soul watching witches cast curses
This is it, the wood splintered and we've had it
Rocks jagged cutting through the vessel like a kragen
I'm falling down like humanity
Stand off and put a water pistol to your fantasies
It's like a full moon communicates
Howling in the night and get the hounds to reciprocate
The wolves are inside of us
Coded in the fiber dust
Abandon hope like fighting hand to hand verse a rhinoceros
Please me
I feast upon diseased beats and need this empty stomach full of drum sticks and lead keys
I'm barely standing on my weak knees
And hunger pains keep them steady trembling weekly
I used to want the monsters to eat me
So I never checked the closet before getting sleepy as a kid
I let them have their spots under the bed
And if I have to wake maybe the world awakens with me
The answers were always inside of myself
Perpendicular from the question
Searching for a reason to live and here it is
I'm interested in seeing how things play out
The answers were always inside of myself
I've been wandering in circles round right direction
Searching for one reason to live and here it is
I'm trying to be the last good person that you stay around
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How Violent the Sea
03:37
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I try not to dwell on my past too often
But here I am sifting through these memories like Pokemon card collections
Impressed with the selection
From making love to examining the decrepit
I've seen death happen right away and elongated
Sometimes a mess but others it's a blessing
Etching your letters in above the time you've been here
Telamericorp couldn't predict it getting this weird
I thought that thinking went no further
The fact that I'm alive hurts her enough to murder
And I'm slightly unsure why she possesses this passion
I think passion possesses her in the same fashion
As Emily Rose just below temptations
She wanted to kill know what it's like to feel vacant
Maybe we don't have souls, or maybe lost touch
I don't remember our heads always being so fucked up
I heard our blood is an ocean
Our veins are the rivers
Our brains don't detect poison efficient as livers
Born as a taker, die as a giver
Black holes and suns living in space and in critters
This entire galaxy is the size of an atom
In one cell of one part of one body
I could tie this universe together with frightening correlations or die without trying notice anything but myself
If my blood and the ocean share a similar scene
How violent the sea both inside and out of me
The world is pixelated when observed in full zoom
Stockades surrounding will continue to consume that point of view that nobody understands you
It's only still remaining because you lend no one a hand to actually help out
You're trying to get yourself out
This sea is only calm for so long until the storm clouds
Life is a lot of urges leading where the knife is
We swarm like flies to the brightness
Blind to the blade that kills like the light did
We're looking at the terrible and taking it for guidance
These cats believing antifreeze is milk
Put it in your mouth, it doesn't matter if it kills
We only live once so might as well fuck it up
It's my generation's motto also one I why to give up
The ship riven
Wood slivers living in the innards
Blood stains every sailor hither
Loyalty laid off like I fired Mr. Smithers
The whole crew split but it don't matter that my friends are fucking quitters
I found another option
They're swallowing the remedy
Crows eat GMOs and store directions in the memory
Cells divide twice and breathe a corpse back to life
I don't need my fucking friends
I'll reanimate the dead
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The Cryonic Woman
02:49
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What is life if you aren't helping somebody? It's why Sleepyhead raises dead for company
Doesn't have a single breathing in the forces
Of course he's the most forlorn in the orbit!
Plenty of scars means plenty of anecdotes
Gotta hand it though, the man brandishes a hammer flow
Even when he stammers every damsel wants to give a go
Rum by the handle in a candle-lit bungalow
For one night he only likes the rough type
Still only one tough enough to be his stuck wife
Wouldn't let her leave him, even when she's playing her complaints on repeat
Now it's deep meat
Or maybe deep shit, dead meat
He's like "Why does every woman wanna end me and why they still tempting?
I'm probably so empty a kiss from a dementor would render my soul friendly"
I'm frozen in time like Fry lock the capsule
Send me to the future where the worm is not the apple
Spent so much on packaging that after ravaging ads
Comparably, the content is saddening
What keeps happening?
All sides rust only one claps happily
Keep those hunters gathering, the pigs need fattening
This racketry shouldn't be so damn staggering but
Some don't wanna wake up
Some have abandoned and some have lost my trust
Look at what we do to each other!
I was humbled into silence like I was losing my lover
When I die, give me a decomposable cover and plant a tree on top so my energy moves another
Then maybe, people will see the problems at the root of em
And every microscope would be zooming in to human skin
Awareness increases
The lighthouse is speaking
This signal of warning was somewhat weakened
Stay away from the shore
Some are too numb to know their lips are in a lure
Nobody's pure
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Everyone that took a look was shook
He's the kind of crook whose legacy lives in a book
He's got a lot of personalities
I'm one of them
Sleepyhead
I raise the dead and start the march right in front of them
Summer comes and take the cold when it goes
Scare crows to death after they gobble GMOs
The cells react when injected
Correct location
Reanimate the dead and make them walk like they're faking it
Strike like a battle axe the crew is full of peg-legged, eye patched, rum thirsty scalawags
Every woman's interested with us but whoever's got the money is the one who's going to get fucked
Only fools fight against us
Tell me where she's at or I'll be spilling that magenta
Look at that cadaver
Stiff as a dagger then brought back to life manipulating antimatter
Now he scintillates and imitates my every command
He's described by his title, man, he's only got a right hand
He kills with katanas and bites like piranhas
You are not going to want to wander when I give the "Okay, go ahead and slaughter."
Don't try to run, you do not want to bother
Everybody dies, so I don't even give half a shit
Slithering into the city like a basilisk
They surrender like stone in a quarry
Murdering the helpless like a Zinn-written story
The people's history is up to me
And I am dark as that repellent shade of yellow in my teeth
Every time I have to ask where she's at I'll kill another
Says right on the wallet I'm a bad motherfucker
Now the whole village reeks of a halfwit
Swim in a lake with Gyrados and get your...
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Corsair Eloquence
02:42
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Coarse hair fell over my fingers
Snake tongue struck with a charismatic demeanor
I was making more friends than enemies
Firing at the villages with sound cannon symphonies
Infamy rolling from the lips like a cigarette
Addled him in a corner, the mission was to misdirect
My riddles make the brains blow; introspect intensified
Everybody's got a fight
Time to make sure none survive
But the cranium is frontline for many more wars
It's often you under estimate what you're asking for
Really, she's got me polishing the case where the remnants of my old self remain a display
Recalling a juncture when I didn't feel foreign
Been more ages than I can count with four limbs
Time changes all
From the cause,
To the laws, to the size of our walls
Everybody's got flaws
You kinda find your nook and play accordingly
That's why I'm in a sector of the world that's always snoring, see
Never had firm friends
Stuck to my own den
Hated my acquaintances
I'm going to bring an end
The old crew has drawn their own maps
Love was my direction
They ditched to make valuables stack
Now the only friend that hangs around is a wall I can't walk through
And the corpse at my feet's the only soul that I can talk to
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Tsunami
03:08
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Standing in the sand only to realize that my imprints would vanish like Pluto to planets
Outlandish like spaceships
Give it to the bandit
He saps skulls and hand delivers them to black holes
Spending my attention on three dimensions
Emphasizing empathetic étiquette
And death was my sentence, tampering with modified genetics
Smudges don't blend with a cleansed lens
Now, sprint quick as probability allows or break boundaries and leave every astrophysicist with work to do
Study the universe I'm working through
Life resonates and moves to my super nova circus tunes
I observed with skepticism
Their retrospect driven by cause and effect while I'm vexed by perplexity in every speck dissected
A butterfly effect and this world is a reflection of it
Hover above it like I'm separating my angle
Analyze the puppets like my strings are untangled
Of course I want to change how we've made life out to be
I'm tied trying to find solutions out like alchemy
I see the bodies waking up
I smell the chemicals discussed
It blocks the most of my musts
I hung my trust in disgust and saw myself become the monstrous
Now I can't even trust myself...
Erosion
Life falls in and out of focus
Corrosion
Life falls in and out of focus
The soulless keep turning to god for their solace, but, life falls in and out of focus
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Limerence
02:08
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Justjoey San Jose, California
psychedelic bops from a composer/rapper making monuments out of a tiny little life.
also in Lucid Logic w/ ILLOGIC & Modern Language with Museum and formerly known as Lucid Optics.
Justjoey recommends:
Romeda Records took music from slept on artists and did small batches of physical releases because they believed in the music. The first Justjoey was printed on & vinyl sold out thanks to them
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Lucid Logic (Deluxe Version)
by Illogic + Lucid Optics = Lucid Logic
I was a freshman in high school when started listening to Illogic. Years after I started making music I opened up for him in San Francisco, and that led to producing an album for him. Here it is.
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An Offer You Can Totally Refuse
by Modern Language
There once lived a mysterious man who crafted beats with great bass lines, possibly a werewolf, definitely somewhere in England. We made a weird album together. I still like it.
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