Thanks again again to Jay Pellici for letting us use his drumset.

All 55 minutes er, most of it... had to trim a bit of White Russian
so it'd fit on YouTube..It's dark, but bear with it or don't.
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Song 1, solo: "Bulb":


Song 2, solo: "Insult":


Song 3: "Teeth & Tongue":


Song 4, solo-robocop guitar: "Always/Never":


Song 5, dobro w/Manny: "Anti-Solipsist":


Song 6: "Dead In The Swamp":


Song 7: "Plagiarist":


Song 8: "Fisherman's Position":


Song 9: "WHITE RUSSIAN" [trimmed slightly]:




Thanks to Andrew, Neal, Tom, Shane, Joe, and everyone else who came out
and Manny and the guys in 31Knots.

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+ + + Other players have
included, and will include:
___Manny quincy Lopez
___Marcello, brown
___Phillip Jacob Pardell
___Ben Ziff
___Scott "applebees" Churchman
___Misha Borrisovfski
___Andrew Robinson Lucia
___Kris Petersen-Overton
___Michael J. Stevens
___Arshin
___Andrew Rhymer
___Jordan Accordion
___Zuri
___Joe&Ashley
___Todd "mexico grind" Appleton
___Nathan Bell
___Esteban
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ATENs are Rich: git, vocals
____Me: bass, banj, voc
____Alan: drums, percussion

Please tell me things, opinions.
Anything, stupid, good, bad, sassy, gay..etc.



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12. WAX AND FABLE (Regretlessful)
I have no regrets
at least that's what I said
Don't fly, too high, you'll get burnt
I don't know nothin', that's all the school I learnt

Where were you?, in the hall
afterschool
You sure played me for the fool
You forgot about our golden rule
The world's a place, sad and beautiful
You forgot about our own golden rule
Enough about rectangles
I want your spheres
and those were our childhood years

But we learned something:
I ham a good egg
We are a good egg

and now I continue to say I have no regrets
and that's what I said
Don't fly, too high, you'll get burnt
That's not what I said to you, my words, those weren't
Her face all lines, age on hers, I preferred yours
We got our tests back, red ink and solid fours
Right then you tore your test up and
sprang up and, headed for the door
I never took down the notes,
but I got you down in my college rule
God we hated school

It's a sad and beautiful world
and you weren't the girl





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11. PUBLISHING DEALS
I wrote the book but I didn't type these pages
For you I would've waited ages
I'm the poorest of men
They garnish my wages

Its dedicated to you at least
Ink from south american leaf
Finest of paper, whitest of white
god you put up such a fight
They gave me a compensation check it is decent
I take enough of the blue ones to erase the recent
My nights do not light up any more dear
They the They, The publishers they pay me to know fear

They know not what they publish
under a rock lies some text
A life, a meaning
and under others lie the rest
It looks like we have a best seller
Well no one thought to tell her

I wrote the book but I didn't type these pages
For you I would've waited ages
because I am the poorest of men
They garnish my wages
you didn't know, I don't know
The Publishers have it all written down
yeah, they own this this town.
It looks like we have a best seller
I sold her. I sold her.
And now the nights are oh so much colder

My furnace does not stay lit
I cannot leave the gas on
and those last 3 chapters
it's okay to pass on

Your stone
is the most beautiful thing
I ever wrote
Maybe there's hope
It's hard to make a page sing!
Some say a best seller's the same thing
Now there's a quote.



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10. WAR VETERAN
I got me some glory
I got me some scars
I got me some stories
I got me some thoughts
I got me some time
to reminisce on all we fought
I count up the fingers and toes
that I lost in the war

But they don't want to hear the facts
and I still get flashbacks
I count up the fingers and toes
that I lost in the war
And I can't wear no sandals no more

I didn't get no medal
and I didn't get no work of art
but I sure played my part
and that's just the top of my list, that's just the start

Because I am a war veteran



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9. DEAD IN THE SWAMP
The frogs are eating me alive
Cause the flies just started on me
Somebody left me here in the marsh
{p1: "My hands are bound" p2: "My legs are tied"}
And the sun still chose to go down
{p1: "I'm blindfolded" p2: "I cannot see" p3: "the blindfold is very tight"}
THE FROGS ARE EATING ME ALIVE
The frogs are eating me now.
The frogs are eating me alive.
The frogs are eating me dead.


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8. DIRTY RAIN (probably not performable.. would really have to figure out)
Its gone to long
Its gone to high
Its gone too high
STACK IT DOWN
PILE IT DOWN
Burn it
down

Cuz yer a sexy beast
You're a sexy beast
And I want
your body
Down
The Drain
.. . with the rest of us.


Its gone too high
Its gone too high
Build it down
Scratch em down
and Burn it down
Bury it

(2:38) Cuz you're a se------xy beast
Yer a se------xy beast
and I want -----yourrrrrrrr Body
Down the drain!
with the rest of us.
With the Rest of us.


Sometimes the sunlight reaches us down here
Sometimes the sunlight rains down from above
Sometimes I almost feel something like love.
Sometimes the rain carries bits of sunlight
Sometimes the rain is all dirt
Dirt



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7. PURPLE, INSIDE
My boy's got
the blues
--My piss is green
My mirror says I'm the oldest
its seen
-My eyes are shot blood
blood red
-My skin is yeLOw-over-thereon-theBed
-I cough and I cough up black
Is this
the Middle-aged Attack? (X3)

My lawn is dead
and brown----I think
And on the inside
we're all pink
Inside where we're all
---purple, and pink......

MY BOY'S GOT THE BLUES
ON--THE--INSIDE

M'n'ms
ain't got shit on me
Skittles
ain't got shit on me.

The pharmacies open 24 hours
24 hours!
And they have Nyquil.



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6. TANGENT
I never thought that I'd be
in the first place
And despite my quickness
I always seem to come up in
the last place.
You, you were a figure
under my microscope
back in my life
And we met so fast,
you were my wife
under glass
And you got a ring
on your tangent finger
I got four long ones, a note, a tune, a song
I'm the singer

And I hop fences, collect coincidences
Its all referential, Triggered
by your finger, tangential

You got a pair of eyes to stare into
and like your own, you can call 'yours'
You got a heart
with conviction to aim towards

I take down the facts
I observe your tracks
I take down the facts
It's all paid for by state tax
I hop fences, collect coincidences
Its all referential trigered by your finger (tangential)

Your data don't add up
Its just paper, white and text
I can't take no one else
Nurse, which patient is next?
You're my only arc
And I can't trust these facts
I had a veteran who
still has flashbacks

It don't add up
The formula's wrong
I never got no metal
I never felt better



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5. ABORTION EPITAPH MATH
I never thought that you'd make it
Every number that comes up
just can't be a winner
Just can't be a winner
Just can't be a winner

If it was me, I'd be
inna trashcan

I got your birth certificate
up on the wall
That's all the proof I need
Me and the doctor watch your mother bleed
Sometimes the stem and leaf die for the seed
I got your birth certificate
up on the wall
For some people that represents it all
The season to naturally die is in the fall
The leaves all turn yellow black, and red
And someone needs to come and clean this bed

When you die
our epitaph is the same
It moves
It all adds up
to Nothin'


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4. PLOT
I thought
it was worth a shot

I go
one step at a time
Just like anyone else
I conserved my time
I can serve my time
When its a good day for us
we just break an arm that time
We lavish, give nice gifts
A Rolex ain't for telling time

We had
something good going
My watch motions
in a language no one here
cares to speak right now

This hole isn't good enough
for me to bury
And this shovel
isn't good enough
for me to use
to dig my own grave
will you do me the favor
of doing their dirty work?
He says that
things didn't work out
for me
and I can't be no bird

God their headlights
are so bright
And this alley is so dark
They took my ear
and now I have no sight
and what'd they do to
you in the park?

The rats scurry under the moonlight
The sound of diggin', shakes the earth



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3. TEETH & TONGUE
Your skin was Oh so pure
Your skin was Oh so white
Your skin was Oh so perfect
Your skin has leopard spots
and Your eyes
are raccoon eyes
I swear
I will kill that motherfucker
I will kill that motherfucker
I will kill that motherfucker fer touchin' you

You've got....... some bruises
some dark spots, some soft spots
but yer teeth and tongue

What a woman says can make a man do anything
What a woman says can make a man do anything
and what a man does
can make a woman say these things
Now he is dead and do you love me?
Yeah, he is dead and god I love you
and he is dead and do you love me now?
It was done in your favor
and now,
your skin is Oh so much safer.

Will you
come visit me here?
I did it with my knife
and Will you come visit me here?
Like a wife.
I'll be waiting all my life.



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2. FOAMLESS
A suitcase
isn't enough
for my things and stuff
My brown coat it has holes
I don't let the wind in
My days are numbered
and my will is thinnin'
A suitcase
isn't big enough
for the place that I
have in my mind
I hope that it matches up with
the place that I
will lay my feet down in

In Chicago I was homeless
I forgot some, Tago Mago
In Chicago
I was homeless
I forgot some, Tago Mago
I was deathly cold, back in Fargo
I was homeless
In Chicago
In Chicago
In Chicago
I was hooooooooooome-less
and I don't drink no coffee
but if I should become thirsty
I will find in a trash can
a cup of foamless
foamless foamless foamless
In Chicago, I was homeless
I was homeless
In Chicago I was home
home
homeless

When you are homeless you still get to watch TV
When you are homeless you still get to watch TV
When you are homeless you still get to be hungry
When you are homeless are you free?
The american perspective
Whom we deem elective
You vote like a phone call
You throw it away
just like a cup of coffee
just like a cup of coffee
Me, myself, I don't drink it
In fact I don't drink much of anything at all
And soon enough I won't eat
I'm just trying to find a place to rest my feet
I'm just trying to find a place to rest my feet
I'm just trying to find a place to rest my feet
that's not Chicago
that's not Fargo
Anywhere but here
Anywhere but here
Anywhere but here
Anywhere but here here here
I look at myself
in the mirror
and see how I've changed
My face my hair
my teeth my eyes
its all rearranged
I ask myself
the same question
every single day
I ask myself the same question every single day
Where am I? Where am I? Where am I? Where am I?



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1. PALM READER
Sometimes in this life you see things before they happen
and you'll never be surprised
But then you'll find that you'll never be happy
I saw her, she never happened
I saw her, she never happened
I saw her, she never happened
and I, myself, never happened upon something like
hapiness

Sometimes in this life you see things before they happen
and you'll never be surprised
like when I let myself into your place
and wrote this note to you, this letter
The ink's still fresh
and there's a thumb print
and no amount of drugs or medication
could make me feel, any better

and I saw her. She never happened.
and I saw her, she never happened.
I saw her, she never happened.
'cause I, myself, never happened upon something called
hapiness.

How many words are in this book?
and how many years are in this look?

I cannot see through these lenses no more
I cannot see through these lenses no more
I cannot see through these lenses no more
and I have hung myself on my own words
To have loved and lost.... Oh which is worse?
I saw her. She never happened.
I saw her, she never happened.
and I, myself, never happened upon
something called Hapiness.



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