We go together like OJ and toothpaste
yeah it leaves a weird aftertaste
but at least you feel alive
nothing about us really makes any sense to me
but there’s a certain intensity
that I can’t describe
I know that this isn’t flattery
but its like licking the top of a battery
I’m not sure i enjoy the pain
but i kinda want to do it again
yeah I kinda want to do it again
This isn’t the answer no, that much is obvious
I’m not oblivious
yet there’s something to gain
we are totally opposite to our perfect matches
but there’s an itch it scratches
like a moth to the flame
I know that this isn’t flattery
but its like licking the top of a battery
I’m not sure i enjoy the pain
but i kinda want to do it again
yeah I kinda want to do it again
yeah I kinda want to do it again and again and again
You’re only hurting yourself
To think you’ll win is predictably insane
You can’t stare her down
Like a snake shes got a nictitating membrane
It’s a losing battle
put your hands up and leave
it’s a losing battle
try to keep a little dignity
you’d better save your strength
don’t try to engage you’ll be safer in my mind
she won’t let up
She doesn’t blink when her prey is in her eyeline
It’s a losing battle
put your hands up and leave
it’s a losing battle
try to keep a little dignity
you’ve gotta look away to preserve your health
just run for the hills, save yourself
It’s a losing battle
put your hands up and leave
it’s a losing battle
try to keep a little dignity
I knew this would happen
I’ve lived it before
a cyclical pattern
that i can’t control
Fold touches fold
shatters the mold
inevitable that i’ll follow my role
I’ve tried to resist it
and switch up my course
but time is consistant
unstoppable force
fixed to our rails
the story prevails
a stream of events flowing from the first source
It’s only a field
just a field
don’t be afraid
it’s only a field
in the dark
just a field
a field in the dark
its only a field
all alone
alone in a field
in the dark all alone
its only a field
theres a figure
in the dark
a rustle of straw
its only a field
just walk don’t run
its all in your head
almost home
safe in your bed
Its only a field
just a field
and its protector
its only a field
a creeping feeling
up my spine
prickling hairs
its only a field
birds taking flight
shadow the moon
a rustle of straw
its only a field
two glowing dots
float in the air
coming towards me
its only a field
Is it a badger is it a deer
is it a bat that i can hear
no its just a scarecrow
aaaaaaaargh
I’ve been stuck inside for all these years
like the puppeteer i turn the gears
Do you know who I am, Do you know who I could be?
If I wasn’t trapped in this mortal body
I do what i can within these confines
but you can see the strain if you look for the signs
How i long to break free, and soar into the sky
into infinity expanding far from this life
All potential
Realised
I’m gonna be the first dog in space
Chasing what’s thrown into the great unknown
I’m gonna be the first dog in space
To boldly bark into the great big dark
I’m gonna miss the scratches behind the ear
I’ll have to be my own best friend
The earth looks like a giant squeaky ball from up here
but i’m one that’s getting chewed up in the end
So lonely
So hungry
In space no-one can hear you howl
I’m gonna be the first dog in space
Chasing what’s thrown into the great unknown
I’m gonna be the first dog in space
To boldly bark into the great big dark
I think i’m falling apart now
my bones are aching and my beard is turning grey
I think I’m falling apart now
I’m always tired and my memorys fading away
Maybe I’m dying
Maybe I’m dying
I’m sure the end is closer now
My skin don’t fit and my knees are always in pain
I’m sure the end is closer now
My eyes feel sore and my feet will never be the same
Maybe I’m dying
Maybe I’m dying
I’m pretty sure no-one has felt like this before
Must be some awful rare degenerative disease
will you remember me when i’m gone?
maybe even start a foundation?
Maybe I’m dying
Maybe I’m dying
I’m too small
to really see
what goes in to
this harmony
I’m too close
to really know
but it feels like
a golden ratio
We’re just pawns or at best fools
playing games to unknown rules
I’m not sure
how it found
quite just who
should be bound
Well i don’t care
how it knew
cos it delivered
me to you
We’re just pawns or at best fools
playing games to unknown rules
plot turns from string to rope and
too many paths lay open
nobody there to warn her
shes backed into a corner
solutions are asymptotes I
hope someones making notes
the vines are now too deep rooted
why’s it so convoluted
turn your head to the sky
thoughts beyond the how and why
thers only one way this now ends
and its not going to make sense
the great author’s lost the plot all
all cohesion gone to pot to
to fix an ending thats lacking - a
a deus ex machina
turn your head to the sky
thoughts beyond the how and why
thers only one way this now ends
and its not going to make sense
I’ve got this great idea for a brand new construction
a world wide wonder of my own deduction
the fact that this idea is novel, yes it seems surprising
but we’re throwing fresh shapes onto the dusty horizon
It’s not going to be easy, I’m going to need your assistance
and that of many others who may show some resistance
but if we try force, persevere, prepare, oh
the rewards we’ll reap, they might make me a pharoah
Let’s build a pyramid
it’ll be the
Best thing you ever did
no exceptions
ignore the cynical
this will be our
monumental pinnacle
so lets go
so if i bring a block and the two of you bring blocks too
and you both get two friends to bring us two more blocks too
you can see where this is going i think it has potential
before too long we’ll be going exponential
Let’s build a pyramid
it’ll be the
Best thing you ever did
no exceptions
ignore the cynical
this will be our
monumental pinnacle
so lets go
Colours drain - skies had a fright
contrast rises like a tide
all reframed - in black and white
darkness settles like the snow
fade to grey - as i withdraw
might as well be still asleep
slip away - if i ignore
perhaps it will all go away
I paint my days in monochrome
just to help the time go past
a self portrait in monochrome
pencil lines that will not last
You can’t just say what you really feel
who does that? who even does that?
You can’t just say what you really feel
who does that? who even does that?
George he seemed like all of the others
another guy just trying to get on by
guess you could say he was quiet
but he’d try you know he’d really try
Well Michael he was something else
he believed that he was born to lead
talked his way up the corporate ladder
far beyond where he deserved to be
on a friday afternoon
winding up for the weekend
Michael says to george
listen buddy i’m gonna need to stay in late tonight
take one for the team, go on do this one for me?
And George said
Fuck you Michael
No-one respects you
I don’t want to stay
I’m going home
You can’t just say what you really feel
who does that? who even does that?
You can’t just say what you really feel
who does that? who even does that?
Michaels face turned scarlet red
lost for words he was lost for words
george acted like it was nothing
but he’d been heard, oh he’d been heard
he’d shattered the social construct
that we don’t say what we want to say
he closed down his laptop computer
and off he went on his way
You can’t just say what you really feel
who does that? who even does that?
You can’t just say what you really feel
who does that? who even does that?
I’m struggling to trace a straight line to that place
from here where i stand with my ankles in the sand
all i’m getting is resistance and an ever stretching distance
to where i thought i’d be in that fading fantasy
I’m pinning all my hopes on some magical beans
cos i’ve let go of the ropes and i’m running out of steam
so give me one last throw of that unlucky die
and make something grow to take me into the sky
I’m Fe-Fi-Fo Fumbling in the dark reaching for my own beanstalk
am i really so naive that i can still believe
that there’s something in those stories, those old allegories
that in your time of need, all it takes is a seed
Your phrase is: An adorable girl drove merrily.
Itll happen to you some day
youll wake up all white and grey
how did it come so fast?
find yourself longing for the past
Old man yelling at the clouds
they were much whiter back in his day
Old man yelling at the clouds
getting a taste of things not going his way
theyre using confusing words
phrases ive never heard
the things that we used to say
theyre suddenly not ok?
Old man yelling at the clouds
they were much whiter back in his day
Old man yelling at the clouds
getting a taste of things not going his way
Just an old guy left behind
trying to hold on with his briittle bones
just an old guy out of his time
scared that hes gonna be left alone
Old man yelling at the clouds
they were much whiter back in his day
Old man yelling at the clouds
getting a taste of things not going his way
I just want to sit in a small cafe
where the strangers smile and then turn away
I just want a seat looking over the street
and to watch everyone go about their day
where the roast is light and the coffees black
when your in no rush no need to get back
let the music in your headphones play
accompanied by the sounds of a small cafe
I just want to sit in a small cafe
where they dont know your name but thats quite ok
i wanna sketch people there when theyre unaware
not exchange a word and be on my way
where the roast is light and the coffees black
when your in no rush no need to get back
let the music in your headphones play
accompanied by the sounds of a small cafe
This is an adaptation of a poem by Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
Book X:32 Marcus Antonius Primus
This portrait I deck with violets and roses,
do you ask whose face it is, Caedicianus?
Its Marcus Antonius Primus in his prime:
in this the old man sees his younger self.
If art could show his mind and character!
No picture in the world would show lovelier.
In my mind
I saw a bulb
burst alight
exploding into
colours so bright
lighting up the
darkest night
total power
lifitng us
atop the tower
this is now our
finest hour
if we buy the
tulip flower
Buy and hold!
Take my diamond hands
Buy and hold!
Ride this rocket to the moon!
here we go
now that we are
in the know
this can only
grow and grow
finally we
reap what we sow
Buy and hold!
Take my diamond hands
Buy and hold!
Ride this rocket to the moon!
bit by bit
well lose our shit
your essense
it lessens
we disintegrate
piece by piece
the slow release
your backup
will crack up
we disintegrate
Everythings changed
cant go back to the old
A new state of mind has taken hold
tasted the freedom
thrill of the unknown
wherever we stop tonight is our new home
Weve got all we need here
a roof over our heads
whenever we need it a cosy bed
a rolling view
from a rolling home
a glint in your eye and a right to roam
Waking up by the sparkling waters
pull open the door and breathe in deep
all this is ours for just one moment
but take my hand thats yours to keep
watching the moon rise
and the lines marching in
shoulder to shoulder in our own cabin
everything feels right
it all now makes sense
my internal voice switches to future tense
Waking up by the sparkling waters
pull open the door and breathe in deep
all this is ours for just one moment
but take my hand thats yours to keep
The first time I saw you
you turned my head
a full one hundred and eighty degrees
triggered my reflexes
left me wide eyed
right then and there i knew
Id die by your side
Id give my life
for one night with you
So Ill put my hands together
and pray it comes true
when i last moved house
my friends they came round
brought me a present
an ornamental gnome
to make me feel at home
at first i wasnt sure
about this fella by the door
but i grew to love him
left me feeling less alone
it was me and now the gnome
but one day when i opened up the door
my bearded friend wasnt sitting there no more
my gnome away from home
i wish you well wherever you roam
my gnome away from home
youll never be alone
Then i got a postcard
stamp from alaska
and on the front of it
there was my friend the gnome
eating a snow cone
then came another
stamp from down under
then one from vegas
paris and the azures
my gnome had gone on tour
my gnome away from home
i wish you well wherever you roam
my gnome away from home
youll never be alone
whats a queen like you doing with a drone like me
what made you choose me over the other bees
im not complaining though it brings me out in hives
trying to work out how to make our love survive
Ill trace a vector
straight to your sweet nectar
Ill make a bee line
to make sure youll be mine
my honey bee
I may be busy, but it still gives me a buzz
when i think of your thorax all covered in fuzz
i find it distracting these thoughts of romance
just want to get home to your sweet waggle dance
so Ill trace a vector
straight to your sweet nectar
Ill make a bee line
to make sure youll be mine
my honey bee
Spent most of the time making new patches on the Microfreak, can you tell?
As I get on my favourite whites
pull on my pads, not too tight
adjust my cup, you gotta play it safe
I oil my bat, bring out the shine
the finest oak, no cheap old pine
and i step out on to the crease
I notice something wrong
theres a plate and not a wicket
i see my teammates baseball caps
its just not cricket
I couldve sworn this was the place
i feel the blood rush to my face
I guess I should still step up to the plate
I take a swing as he pitches
hit a home run, take that bitches
maybe this isn;t such a bad idea
But still it feels wrong
I miss the sound of ball on wicket
i can see the similarities
but its just not cricket
At armitage shanks
To the morons they see
All stockpiling TP
They watch their stocks rocket
Lining their pockets
As we all rush to own
Our own porcelain throne
They can finally forget
Their quarterly targets
For today is the day of the Bidet
Been a slave to the keys
No time to take a break for me
Drank plenty of water
Its great to hydrate
But all of that liquid has now left me in quite a state
So please Mr. Vaia
For my bladders sake
Wont you afford us
A quick toilet break?
NO.
The last 2 hours
That youve been through
Were for writing and recording, that much is true
But since then youve had
15 minutes more
To mix and upload and to Unload so you dont pee on the floor
So please Mr. Vaia
For my bladders sake
Wont you afford us
A quick toilet break?
NO.
of the finest set of sailors that ever set sail
unimaginable wealth was the name of their game
striking fear in the hearts of all who heard their name
they call them the iron pyrates!
you'll have heard them in tales of old
they call them the iron pyrates
cos they are the fools that are here to take all your gold
some say they are a group of rogue geologists
that put down their microscopes and picked up their fists
all i know is prepare to be socked
if you mistake a mineral for a rock
and sharpen my teeth
gotta prepare
for what’s underneath
been living this life
this life as a vole
it’s time to see
what’s beyond my hole
my skinny legs
weren’t built for pace
but over longer distance
i can take on this race
can’t keep on living this life
this life as a vole
gotta go out and see
what is beyond my hole
Freedom is but a hop away
I shuffle to the rear wait for a drop thats less severe
Over the edge i close my eyes and pray
I tumble down the stairs
my former captor unawares
that i'm no longer one of a pair
I'm a free sock without a care
I bid farewell to my former friends
to my counterpart this is how it ends
i shuffle towards the door, the moment ive been waiting for
oh no! the household hound attends
The beast he takes me in his jaws
what fate is this oh what just cause
dragged back to the canine's bed
oh god i hope that hes been fed
This is my life now with the furry old boy
chosen as his new favourite toy
takes me on all his tours, around the house and great outdoors
I never thought i'd bring such joy
Its play time all day everyday
I'm loved in almost every way
my life is so much more complete
now theres no more smelly feet
You think your class is rough, well I think you're a fool.
Are you ready for your lesson, Its time for you to learn
cos ain't nobody messin' with Jimmy the Burn.
Grip like Jaws
Jimmy the Burn
Twist with force
A lesson learned
You'd better say a prayer, if he has got you held
Cos Jimmy don't care if Jimmy gets expelled
Cos noone burns like Jimmy. everyone else is soft
I heard he Chinese burned a kid so hard he ripped his skin right off.
Grip like Jaws
Jimmy the Burn
A twist with force
A lesson learned.
Lyrics:
When you're feeling unwell
Whole body under attack
when your throat feels like hell
head stuck by thundercrack
I got some good news for you,
A way to get up off your back
It's called the three hat method
never been known to fail
used for generations
by the weak and the frail
The instructions are simple like
using this hammer on this old nail
You'll need your favourite hat
could be a flatcap or trilby
you'll need a bottle of rum
the darker the better for me
now put your hat on the end of your bed
and drink that rum until your those hats count three
Oh yeah...
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2HTS100 | Feb 29, 2016 |