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Chaucer Creeps
05:07
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I'm gettin' creepier by the minute
and it's all downhill from here
Humbug fills up my tiny brains as I hum away the fear
Of ignorance ignoring ignorant me
And a million tons of chocolate ice cream
Can't begin to placate the yawning loss
Of losing my sweet Violet again
I warned you I'd horde you
You belong here with me
Bathe in anorexia and heroin eyeshadow
Spin like a scratchy 45
Open and close your lipstuck puppet mouth
Sing and dance and lie like you're alive
Clinging again - but I think I deserve you
Thinking again - of ways to betray you
Drinking again - I know what I promised you
Singing again - I know what that does to you
Sing and dance and lie like you're alive
Sing and dance and lie
O ye of little cloth and even less faith
Why do you insist on tampering with fate?
Halfway between divinity and a fall from grace
You'd walk on flaming coals just to see her face
Your bitter song rings out like church bells in the morn'
Your eyes are ever shining, your face is never worn
How can you continue your half-mad belief
iI the never-yielding face of misery and grief?
It's bad - smoky and bad
Worse than you remember; So bad I forget
To breathe this rancid time away and fight the rising light
Hell, I'd even miss the fights if there were any
Clinging again - but I think I deserve you
Thinking again - of ways to betray you
Drinking again - I know what I promised you
Singing again - Yeah, I know what that does to you
Beautiful and pathetic, you intrigue and enthrall
Misguided and misplaced, you falter and you fall
Decades, hours, minutes, second place trophies on the wall
Waiting in oblivion - waiting for your call
I warned you I'd horde you
I warned you
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Tashtego's Helmet
03:29
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Distance conquers humor
Lies devour fate
Nothing left of midnights but a lone betrayal
Catch the last ray of moon-glow promises
and reflect it back home
In light of (In lieu of) a birthday celebration
coils of flame surround this nutcase
branded "D" for DISEASED and "L" for LUDICROUS
but always HIGH and LOW and YOU and YOU
(and you and you)
When it's time, it's gone
She never knows me at all
I'm branded
I I I I I I I can't creep any lower
But I try to "get down" verbally with my favored children
who continue to ignore me with practiced elegance
And that ain't the only bruise growing bigger.
Do these midnight musings do anyone any good?
Infest me
Impress me
Obsess Me
I obey
Cleanse our time and holify
Justify my patience
Fish never swam so clean as this absence
"I'm too busy for a nutcase like you"
C'mere
There's a tortoise and a hare waiting near you
but you can't see and you won't hear and you don't even care to
And it's either or both or neither or nor
Don't wash me anymore
I'm too white and chafed already
Here's the rub
I'm 22
Join the club
and you ignore it as though I wrote it
Here comes the part where I pretend to sleep
I dreamlessly pretend
Pretend not to fall in love with your every word
Welcome to 22's world of Mayhem, my Lord
O Cap'n My Cap'n
Go down it's her ship
Ahab, AHAB! Nail that bird NOW!
Anyone sees it
Not you
Is she fazed enough and why is she hiding now?
Tomorrow when you die, I will begin the trail of Remedy
Over and out
Down with her ship
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Snow Angels
05:10
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I don't mind over matter
no consequence at all
When I drop the subject
you catch it if you don't
I let it Fall comes before
winter after summer never Spring
ahead into action like the gears
inside a Watch over my shoulder
to see that I do right on red
but never left behind or black
and blue from all the beating
a dead horse to make it gallop
off and jump the fence to the field
of dreams
Ready willing and able
to complicate complement condiment
condensate condescend to speak
near me that I may hear
perfection and see the myth that
wraps around you like
new fallen snow angels
new fallen snow angels
Is there something you're not telling me?
Is there something you're not giving me?
Is there something you're not telling me?
Is there a secret sauce in your life
that you could put on mine?
that you could put on mine?
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Gemini
02:24
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She's a 2 headed creature! I sure wouldn't like to meet her!
She's a 2 headed creature! Be careful she don't eatcha!
She's a 2 headed creature! She's a double feature!
One head will kiss you The other head will kill you
One mouth will kiss you The other mouth will will eat you
One hand will hold you The other hand will throw you
One day she'll love you The other day she'll hate you
Worthy to be loved! Gemini!!
Worthy to be loved! Lords of Light!!
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Mayhem Lettuce Port Byron, Illinois
Mayhem Lettuce was formed in Port Byron, IL in 1993 when two sad teenage boys decided to channel their angst into music.
That music sits at the crossroads of King Missile and Portishead with a dash of The Cure and a pinch of They Might Be Giants.
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