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Animals On Television

by 51st Citizen

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Time to bite the dog that bites us back, I said its time for gratuitous torture Every time I wake up in the middle of the night I'm spinning around in the forest Sometimes simulations of a need for shelter, other times a deep gnawing hunger Other dreams they hit me and make me quiver like a thin metal sheet making thunder Sometimes when I wake up from another instinct dream I find myself in a big one Skating through the trees flooded and frozen over sky all black but everything's lit up
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While carefully perfecting my model of the human soul Frankly my focus was shifted to the human mole Who builds underground networks of incredible depth Whose fetid hallways are always kept unswept Never allowed to lose, but never allowed to win Moles wallowing solemnly in their solitude and sin I'm going to clear out these halls so that information travels through them at lightning speed And you're gonna cry when you see the entire world on your screen Condensed into a perfect 3 hour opera that skips all the irrelevant details We'll try to get down to the nitty gritty but inadvertently remove all the parts that aren't pretty Then we'll be forced to do a reboot under supervision of the reality committee I got some human mole blood on my hands while I was cleaning But I remained calm as the doctors read the test results and started screaming Because to me animal to animal viral transmission is just a happy accident And I know there was a purpose for my mission, there just had to've been Now say you were a human mole roboticized corpse, now what would you do After the right to make things wrong had been wrongfully taken from you Giantese in the backwoods backwaters never fill it up Pouring up out over the top of the spires Down through the threads of the church Hurting my uncles and aunts Never arriving at work Hoping their shelves can be filled Trying in vain with the filth Licking and stepping on frogs Emptying buckets of filth Real stagnant water to mop Eight legged song never stops She wants to sarcophogate this young boy energy, check me out in a bag But have you ever brushed, have you ever brushed, have you ever brushed your teeth Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Carrots 03:49
I let down my walls to let some food in Then other stuff comes in and it throws off my process, my intruders That's what I gleaned from what he said last time I saw him, mhmm Then I poke and prod at him, it all comes out so cleanly Perfect time to lose yourself again Perfect time to lose yourself again Guys I know peripherally are putting the pressure on me They don't talk, they only eat carrots just like a little bunny Sometimes I think I can help them out Then I convince myself I can't, that sorts it out It's the perfect time to lose yourself again Oh it's the perfect time to lose yourself again
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On It 01:45
Oo, yes Oqay oqay, oqay oqay oqay oqay oqay oqay Oqay, oqay oqay, oqay oqay Oo you won't believe what I saw out on my walk I got a picture on my camera but then I woke up, help me Up, help me Oo I can't believe it's gone Oo I can't believe it's gone When I wake up I'll draw it Now im on it trying to recreate what I get every night Just so I can write it down and remove both my eyes, help me Eyes, help me Oo I'm on it like my cat Oo I'm on it like my cat Oo I'm on it like my cat Oo Oo Oo oo qu qu qu qu Qu qu qu qu qe Qu qa qa qa, Qu qa qa qa Qu qu, qu qu qu qu
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Oo lights out light, lights out Oo you'll live a million years Can't stand it Don't, stop, stand, still, keep, moving, going, quick while you're ahead Gilbert That is not my first name Homer Try again 'cause that is not my first name, go Andrew That is not my first name, that is not my first name Ok quiet now Ok I'm getting better after crying now that I'm covered in the dark
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Tummy Mouth 01:23
Oh millions of people imagined you helpless And laughed at the thought that your brain would develop Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah You know it's coming when your feathers are none The brightest dino since the dawn of the sun Maybe you'd like To some day wide-open conquest scream through the night Millions of people so tragically helpless As classics take flight breathing fire from their bellies, yeah Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah You try to breathe but your whole body is gone You think to run but you think it's overdone Can't back out now Souls recoalesce behind the curtains of thousands of years No more people left, maybe take stock in the cow, baby
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Yes Ok Wait Ok Say you've got a real fine fur coat to wear Now uh's not real so I don't care I found the hole in your model but I won't share it Giving out about the thing that brings me nothing something some joy Can't find my rod anywhere Got stock squashed in rocking chair Oo, and you miss a seein' them Mouth moves on its own pretends like it was eating them Oo, and you're under the boardwalk Wedge yourself between the inland edge and the heap of sand Oo, and you hide your stomach there Can't get away from chum if you're still breathing the chummy air You have the wrong ingredients Try again some day when you're all done misleading them Yes Loto faamaoni, loto faamaoni, loto faamaoni Loto faamaoni, loto faamaoni, loto faamaoni First bee's nest Disturb it with your ugly breath First step, then poke Create bee smoke to get bee joke Oo, and you miss a seein' them Mouth moves on its own pretends like it was eating them Oo, and you're under the boardwalk Wedge yourself between the inland edge and the heap of sand Oo, and you hide your stomach there Can't get away from chum if you're still breathing the chummy air You have the wrong ingredients Try again some day when you're all done misleading them Yeah, huh who who, oh yeah Yeah, huh who who, yeah yeah Yeah, huh who who, oh yeah Yeah, huh who who, yeah yeah Yeah, huh who who, oh yeah Yeah, huh who who, yeah yeah Yeah, huh who who, oh yeah Yeah, huh who who, yeah yeah Yes Anna She didn't like it
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Ah Ah Ah 02:18
Chained to a wall where she will not eat for days How can you chalk it all up to his ah ah ah Ok Alright It's a never-ending labyrinth, I'm a mouse with no eyes I can't get out at all, but hey, at least he could try To send me a signal, to guide me right And still I know there's mice yet out here blinder than I How are we expected to be spiritual beings If our right to live and die is determined by material things When you see the people with the skin fallin' off all over their face, it's clear we gotta Do our best to fight back against his ah ah ah Who who who Hey hey hey, hey hey hey Hey hey hey, hey hey hey Hey hey hey, hey hey hey Hey hey hey, hey De da da du du do du da
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Old style cooking I'm one of those Ingredients Never heard of those Old style cooking Give the cauldron kisses
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What kind of a bird builds his house out of garbage What kind of a bird builds his house out of garbage I'm not allowed in my treehouse baby You're not allowed in my treehouse baby I'm not allowed in my treehouse baby You're not allowed in my treehouse baby Le dul lele dul le, le dul lele dul le Le dul lele dul le who who So much for house building bird So much for house building bird So much for house building bird Okay So much for house building bird So much for house building bird So much for house building bird So much for house building bird
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What 02:39
Sometimes I get a bloody nose and I don't know why Sometimes my left leg starts to hurt and I don't know why Is it something that's happening out there Often times a bad thing happens and we don't know why But then a good thing happens and we still don't know why Is it something that's happening out there
13.
Marvin Hut 02:04
Oo never been so unstable as I was at Marvin Hut Wall to wall to wall, just slap you in their bedroom Right on top of that the fact they claim it's covered up You can go and see, they just don't care, you can suck it Never been so unstable as I was at Marvin Hut Never been so unstable as I was at Marvin Hut Never been so unstable as I was at Marvin Hut Never been so unstable as I was at Marvin Hut Never been so unstable as I was at Marvin Hut So far I've had a good run, ecstasy shock me, cut it off me Eye stock dog man shouts from leash that's held by magic nun It'll haunt you forever, even if it's gone You know I hate being evil But I love to do the evil You know I hate being evil, yeah But I love to do the evil I hate the thought of being at Marvin's, da du da But I love to be at Marvin's, da du da I hate being at Marvin's, da du da But I love to be at Marvin's, da du da Pick you out a stable that you'll love at Marvin Hut Wall to wall to wall, just awesome, this is awesome We await the fabled death of life at Marvin Hut Ball in ball in ball, just awesome, this is awesome
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Pair Bonding 02:18
Oh no, oh no Oh no, oh no You know that candy coated dancer, right? Ask her out on some moonlit night Pair bonding makes you a little child Keep them safe at night your partner might eat them Gift from God goes hunting, God I'm sunken Pair bonding lets you survive in the wild Oo friends and neighbors get too close Head in my hands in the bathroom, I don't know Climb for higher ground with the baby in my wallaby pouch Hoping that the girl doesn't sniff him out Pair bonding makes you a little child Keep them safe at night your partner might crack the safe Gift from God goes hunting, God I'm sunken Pair bonding lets you survive in the wild
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Lights Above 03:19
Wu ba ta ta, ta dada, dadadadada, yeah yeah yeah Lights above Heading home Who are these ghosts Oh why would you wanna go out and play the tuba Bright hot freezing middle of summer Oh why would you wanna go out and slay your heroes 'Cause you found out they're just like any other Oh ride the bus I'm heading home Road's covered in snow Oh why would you wanna go out and play the tuba Bright hot freezing middle of summer Oh why would you wanna go out and slay your heroes 'Cause you found out they're just like any other
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Little Santa 01:26
Oo yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, hey Woo Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Oo everybody knows that it's a friedness dicknaught Oo everybody's going to the party in the graph, yeah Chicken on the windmill and his fresh feet now Don't you know you're not allowed to laugh at the giraffe, no Sandy and her windmills and they blow me now Ernest goes to school and hits a child with his car, yeah Hits a child with his car Oh, nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nyeah
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It Falls 02:08
She settled down with balls of smoke Piping hot from underground Kettle never settles down Ladder, let it down, there's walls of folks Pull them up and out of town, I'm cardio Like wet rags stuck to one another they peel off the rescue ropes Fall back down to basement ground extinguishing their hopes And you push, and you pull And you save a little mole And you cry for your crimes Canceling your good to come And you cry for your crimes Canceling your future lives And still like sweat they congeal and peel off the sides
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I can't laugh at what I've done to me I shaved it, now it's not so funny Counting sheep intently to drift away now Someone tell the mirror to stay away now Cover it in butter now the strong tides Maybe it'll grow back if I songwrite Usually I'm talking 'bout snipping meat mass Now I want the hair on my hands and feet back
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Animals 01:36
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I had a dream, and I felt myself slipping into this dream so I could feel my body lying in bed and my dream body at the same time In the dream, I got out of bed, ran downstairs, and went outside I ran towards a graveyard full of metal tombstones I started rolling very fast and knocked them all down like bowling pins Then I heard a grunt of distress that woke me up I tried for another half hour to create and send out more dream bodies from my room, but I did not succeed I did, however, manage to keep my eyes closed while opening my dream eyes I saw a face with mechanical parts, moving and turning, but only briefly
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