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Tinder Box
04:51
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I don't think I have to be there but I will please them anyhow.
Dash across a field. The long nights ahead.
The cold laying in the hills. Will lead me to the warmth of your arms.
You always push away. What are you afraid of?
Want to run and hide. What are you afraid of?
Lock them all away. What are you afraid of?
Hop on the dusty road. Brings you to this place. Has no walls to build. Has no path to chase.
Closing reception at six. We really hope that you come. Bring your mob and your eggs.
And paint your house white. It's the colors that you hate. That turn the people off.
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Lucky Spin
03:25
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As I wander this field all alone. Yet what I have lived to hear. With tidings better left concealed.
Hear them whisper in the gloom. Swift current now receding, leaves the bones and the rocks
And I had to fall off the wall. To prove myself to you. Until the leaves begin to fall. And the cold starts to call. Imminent collapse now begins.
And with that lucky spin. You win the game again.
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Bopolis
02:31
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The sound that you want. Won't stay around.
It ran down the hall, played pool for a week.
A red haired girl, playing punk rock on the radio.
A man with a cat, will lead the band today.
Go for your attention, if only for a second. Dare it come true. The stuff you want to do!
Crawling in the road, sand in the box. They lost more than they sold. Where no one can win!
My eyes they have seen, not much of that glory. Blink not in style. But not on my back!
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Last of the Jazz Greats
03:16
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She's coming up slow
He's going down fast
They kill one more
And this is the last
I say
Why not?
Do it?
Right now?
You make what you want of it.
The burden is all yours
You are your own worst enemy
Don't hide from them now.
A 100 proof coat is wearing real thin.
The cold damp air, is under my skin.
I say.
It's not
The thing
To do
The garden of love, where it was green.
Is filled with graves. And muted screams.
I guess
I speak
I hide
I play
A graft will do
The wound is wide
The searching eyes
Perception is mine
I make
It go
Away
Tonight
The interim year will be the hardest
You must be strong to get through it
Last of the jazz great
Last of the great poets.
He gave his all. And lost his way. They cut him down. Left out to graze. I walk. Away . From you. Today. It;s now or never. Can he come through in the clutch. Last of the jazz greats. Last of the great
poets
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Luunie Tune
02:11
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Griepentroggs' Revenge
03:38
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Painting, did you see that painting?
No more have to waiting
Please no hesitating
She goes on with feinting
Will it stop raining?
Can't stand constraining
Popularity fading.
I'm tired of wading.
You say
I'll have to bug you.
What I really want to
What I really go through
Did you see what he threw?
Did he really swing through?
What I gotta run to.
Did you know what she knew?
What they have to climb through.
Will it one day be broken? Will it one day be good?
Will it one day be spoken? Maybe one day it could?
Will it one day be better? I really hope that it would!
Green duke.
Visits in a zoot suit. And they give him the boot, cause she lost a big tooth.
That's not really cute cute. We don't like the bad brute, cause he likes to shoot shoot
Do they like to eat fruit? Sometimes...sometimes not!
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March 1st
04:13
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The seeds of hate are growing fast someone must have gave them water.
The gray that we have , it gives away to lots of color.
March 1st begins. The end of ice and cold and darkness.
We wait for the harvest and all of the bounty we enjoy.
We take back the land, and give it love and water and health.
The warmth of the sun accelerates the glow of growth. Ice crystals formed, degenerate into the ground they go. Wind dries the soil, the clods will break down.
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Distant Cousins
02:04
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Raise the ax and chop off the line
The line that leads to constant trouble.
The trouble that rhymes with that rapture
Jump instead ( false) hand over heels
Don't waste my time. With time you don't want.
Put the toy away. I 'm broke and I can't pay. (play)
Grab a ball ,go out in the street. Kids will rise and get on their feet.
Dogs that chase that kid all around. But they're won't go on line anymore.
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Clay Angels
01:56
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Kafka's House
02:49
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Forever and ever. His shouts and his screams. Were they his thoughts? Or just his bad dreams?
How will I know. Just what to say? How will I know? Just where to turn? How will I hear?
Just what was said?
The court will be held!
The jester is here!
Tunnels of fire. Crackers and soap. To dance with a stick. In ribbons and bows.
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Closing in on the settled one. The time and place it has begun.
Isolation push through the stars. Looking glass and the empty hearts.
Take the lid off Pandora's box. Flail the spirits , turn off the clocks.
No one has to notice now. They distract you anyhow.
Pass the spirits that lived here once. Katurah will bear alone.
Six sons inside her home. Sad the things that we deface
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Wovoka Jr. Madison, Wisconsin
Side stuff done by Mike Turnis during and after the existence of Horny Genius, circa 1992 until this very day...a musical journey that is still evolving and well worth investigating.
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