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Cannibal Wars

by Coz the Shroom

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1.
I heard the dripping of the world's last dewdrop As it pooled from the last green leaf let me tell you about it all chopped muscles on a raw peeled skull Human cheek meat barbacoa let me tell you about it all Some men once stood And sang high hymns They had their god And all their limbs Let me tell you about the end of the world We smell the sulfer rains all day They melt so many monuments away Let me tell you about it all Sometimes the clouds will part And the sun disintigrates plastic let me tell you about it all Some children once read An oath to a limpid flag And sat at the teacher's knee Tis all a tattered rag Let me tell you about the end of the world We grunt or cry in pleasure and pain Articulation is a dry throat's strain let me tell you about it all It's best to forget our long silenced words To pretend we made no great strides Let me tell you about it all Some women once met here To plan good things for their kin Some hands once interclasped An asp would shed such skin Let me tell you about the end of the world Let me tell you about the end of the world Where everybody will die…
2.
I'm sitting here in my uniform in a crowded stinking pit And the unwashed masses we been rounding up smell like rotting animal shit But I got perks in this mean dark job I got a silver lining of course I got respect and can push you around and I'm authorized for lethal force I get to have me a nihilist weekend A misanthropic holiday I can use my shovel to bust up the shit Treating strangers as my prey I'm the predator, you're the prey I never seen the good side of town only know who pays my bills And they don't like to see the dirt and grit so my authority scores kills My great great grandpa hunted runaway slaves its something of a family tradition And I don't care how bad it looks leave that to the politicians I get to have me a nihilist weekend A misanthropic holiday I can use my shovel to bust up the shit Treating strangers as my prey I'm the predator, you're the prey We got a crafty media that makes protesters look scary And I get paid to haul this trash but sometimes its a little much to carry But on my free time I feel great and I escape being depressed And I'm a weekend nihilist by monday I'm back in black pants pressed I get to have me a nihilist weekend A misanthropic holiday I can use my shovel to bust up the shit Treating strangers as my prey I'm the predator, you're the prey
3.
War Monkeys 03:10
fortress compound weaponstock ATF civil unrest Martial law and police militarization monkeys in rebellion and monkey swat teams Now I see a clash between the war monkeys they cut each other's throats Now I see a war between the trigger happy who don't protest or vote Lock down seige armored gunboats Patriot law militia don't tread on me Violence and the threat of future violence outbreaks and skirmishes homeland security Now I see a clash between the war monkeys they cut each other's throats Now I see a war between the trigger happy who don't protest or vote Ruins black sky volcano shot Nuclear rivers killing miles and miles Good bye cities and farms and orchards Survivalist cannibals roll into our camp Now I see a clash between the war monkeys they cut each other's throats Now I see a war between the trigger happy who don't protest or vote
4.
All my friends are killers in a bad, bad way Gonna crush the life from everything, what can I say? What the meek shall inherit they take every day All my friends are killers, but no one else will play yeah She mocks his poetry, spurns all he brought Injecting all her poison in her every spot She loves his rush and she combs his rot All the killers tell her that's some babe you got yeah All my friends are killers, they got heavy hands They play guitars and listen to my favorite bands I just can't tell no more where anybody stands All my friends are killers, you don't understand You don't understand…
5.
Pigs rush in to the power void that's right Pigs rush in to the power void that's right If you're poor or too young You'll get cannibals pointing a gun Did you think when society dies Everybody's gonna have a free ride When the steroids and rage take hold The police will be killin you cold You're gonna loose everything To constable cannibal Pigs rush in to the power void that's right Pigs rush in to the power void that's right If there's road warriors left They'll still have to take the cop test The police will be stomping your lights Nothing's different but you got no rights When the world comes down to flames The police still be taking your names You're gonna loose everything To constable Cannibal
6.
There is no god there's just imaginary light The kingdom falls without a fight There is no Prince of Evil no one fears his might The dogs are locked up out of sight It's killing me, I'm trying hard to see To kneel before his throne and wash his feet If Jesus can forgive me, then I know I'll never die But it's been so dark up in the sky I don't have friends no more the winds of winter bite The Prince of Heaven's face is bright We live in darkness but we will not fear the night There is no trembling earth to blight A fiery sword, proclaiming light the lord Come take my hand, come rub my eyes If Jesus can forgive me, then I know I'll never die But it's been so dark up in the sky There is no god there's just imaginary light Don't want to know eternal night…
7.
Pop survival 03:01
you got your mail order rations and a cinder block bunker you sweep it clean each spring You got ammo boxes and dehydrated meals you think you're ready for anything The last consumer to roam the earth will find out You can't find satisfaction with bars of gold in your mouth pop survival You got lots of gold to barter but the cannibals just shake their head no they want something to eat And your trigger finger's sweaty as you face the arrows and spears and clubs and things The last consumer to roam the earth will find out You can't find satisfaction with bars of gold in your mouth pop survival I move like a quicksilver shadow up the ridge and down the ravine. I'm allowed to pass because my herbs have healed the warlord's daughter. This mountain is like a fortress, but I never carry much more than a machete and a bow and arrow. All around me the gangs from the flats try to siege our encampment But they are not having much luck. I roamed these woods every day and I can spring into action at the drop of a hat Hey pop survivalist, what else you got in that 2012 catalog of yours? What else was advertised to you on late night radio?
8.
Alice fucks 02:04
Alice Cooper. Alice fucking me Alice Donut. Alice on her knees Alice in Chains Alice, sweet Alice, did you miss me? Alice Wonders, Alice loves to fuck Alice strap on, Alice do my butt Alice in Chains Alice, sweet Alice, did you miss me? Alice doesn't live here anymore All the young girls love Alice Sex Slave and Whore Sex Slave Alice doesn't live here anymore All the young girls love Alice Sex Slave and Whore
9.
You Mean Me! 03:18
Plastic Fantastic! It's hard to get any air in here You're making me walk on an awful short peer You made me live in a garbage can With a dozen misprint leaflets on the brother hood of man You throw stones you have anger You're just throwing around all your weight And you got your followers brushing your hair While you fill the TV with your hot air As you run down every marginal soul Every minority telling them what you been told And you say you got plans to send them all over the sea but you mean me You mean me when you offer a closet for queens You mean me when you say you got prisons to keep All your underpaid workers and slatterns and slaves But your backlash will hit you back with its own waves You mean me you mean me When you step on their toes you mean me I want everyone out there to know Nobody has to suffer alone You like all your walls when you can lock up the gate And I'm everyone you tell your minions to hate You mean me when you keep her from choosing her health You mean you when you promise you'll make more wealth You mean me when you promise to crack down on crime You mean me when you call an emergency You mean you when you say there's just one real tradition You mean mean me when you overload labor's position You mean me in the riots that need to be quelched You mean me when you eat them up and bellow and blech I want everyone out there to know Nobody has to suffer alone You like all your walls when you can lock up the gate And I'm everyone you tell your minions to hate You mean me! You mean me!
10.
The city folk tell us it's end times The planet is simmering high Heed ye swiftly, oh hark us! The dogs keep barking on my carcass! The lamp of truth has gone and burned out Nobody knows stranger from kin! It don't take much heat to spark us The dogs keep barking on my carcass! The fire that rises in the badlands We cut off the outside world And then there's just spooks in the dark, us! The dogs keep barking on my carcass!
11.
We had a war and nobody fought it We practiced holographic Simulation And stationed Rockets and missiles shrill piercing whistles Blasts of a billion degrees in radiance Casdcadience Then came the day That hell came unchained Soldiers stare at the sunrise A glow never ending sunrise And nuclear fire, nuclear fire, nuclear fire is... Death roars ablazing Awesome amazing Moments careening into the black abyss So final Annihilation blasts in the station Blasts of a billion degrees in radiance Cascadience Now is the flame Hell's not to blame Soldiers die neath the sunrise An awful artificial sunrise And nuclear fire, nuclear fire, nuclear fire is raining down
12.
There are hungers of so many kinds Gnawing in the bellies of the dead and blind Brutality enough to keep the world on hunger's ledge Loneliness is lost on the desperate knife edge All the meat for sale is not just dripping and red Stirring is the lust to keep the sex of cancer fed The mattress rots and stinks No tears to wink or blink Sex Slave Slut shame There's a wind that blows the litter to earth's ends Rusting rings were wrought for love but why pretend There's no shame in this nakedness that writhes and starves Everywhere are notches that the tally man carves All the pretty faces could be next week's meal There's too many reckless wounds that can't ever heal Just body parts no name All orgasm's the same sex slave slut shame
13.
Now comes the halting of my pen That weapon serving thinking men For now the darkness gathers cold Through coin of sweat and grist and bone Now baser weapon's thunderous blast No matter, then, whose wits are fast A jackal equal to a lion No courage and no new things trying For the man with the muzzle and the musket and the fire power Such is the man that wins in the death of the glory hour my country comes a viper's den through hollow creeds of boastful men who stake their claim on unearned liberty I ask them if there's any left for me For the man with the muzzle and the musket and the fire power Such is the man that wins in the death of the glory hour And death comes roughly hewn and cheap The clamor drones as bodies heap And some fall fighting melee's midst Their skills mean nothing, valor pissed And now the goons go on parade Their gumption shallow, a charade Their rights in stone, their false decree The right to kill with shameless ease For the man with the muzzle and the musket and the fire power Such is the man that wins in the death of the glory hour And in the land of valor's heart Are waste and ashes without art Without the glory fought and won Unburied dead beneath the sun For the man with the voice and the crown of the prophet's power Such is the man that weeps in the death of the glory hour I am the man who weeps in the death of the glory hour
14.
Iron Heads 03:19
Well she's deeply, deeply bothered By your worthless accusations And they brought her here to deal with you in time You are silenced you are broken You have heard the words she's spoken She will teach you many lessons in this life She is poison, she is evil, she got iron heads Iron hearts She don't know the pain you're getting She don't care about your guilt She is something else and you know she's well built She is here to cut your cries off She will give you total loving She will poison you to put down ink and quill She is poison, she is evil, she got iron heads Iron hearts Well she do not come in colors She is heartbreak in the chrome She will give you many dreams about a wife She will do as she was programed She don't put up with no bitching She will teach you many lessons in this life She is poison, she is evil, she got iron heads Iron hearts
15.
The spark you bear begins to sputter Profanity your passions utter Might heaven's milkmaid give us butter Near her great threshold lies your gutter With warfare and a new election God's mirror gapes with imperfection How wrong to claim your bleeding savior Died for your sins not your behavior Vain prayers and vain chants This empire of the ants Betray your only testament Your golden crown is lost and spent Sacrifice your children's place A line in satan's laughing face The sacred herb from valley bright You squander for a drunkard's blight The gift of smoke of peace you scorn Your shackles forged and ever worn Vain prayers and vain chants This empire of the ants Your chieftains gird themselves to fight Betray each day to hungry night Your garish vaunted idols tower Without man's hand where's satan's power? The old and wise you mock and jeer They cry truth to your deafened ears But they have all passed far from dust No more to covet dead bone's lust Vain prayers and vain chants This empire of the ants The spark you bear begins to sputter Profanity your passions utter Might heaven's milkmaid give u s butter Near her great threshold lies your gutter With warfare and a new election God's mirror gapes with imperfection How wrong to think your bleeding savior Died for some curse not your behavior Vain prayers and vain chants This empire of the ants
16.
Let me tell you about the end of the world Where everybody will die… Well I'm fightin for you all the things that are true just forget your old life come on bring in the new Sorry for desperate things I might do I won't be sullen and fallen and blue forget about everything you ever knew don't you know don't you know don't you know that I'm fightin for you. Never had a girl worth fighting for maybe I just can't tell But you are my wife and I'll fight like hell. Well I took all the guff In the final collapse And I sucked on the rocks till my hunger would lapse I only ate tubers I found or I grew Words and ideas are the things that I chew I'll get in his face the next killer eyeing you don't you know don't you know don't you know I'll be fightin for you. And if I die before everything I sing and I promise you You'll be sure of my final act my final words will ring true I told you I'd fight for you I'll tell you I'll die for you.

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Two musicians who influenced me died during the recording of this album-- David Bowie and Paul Kantner... and I actually begin one of the songs by singing the words "Plastic Fantastic" (from a Jefferson Airplane song) in a song I recorded about two weeks before Kantner's death.

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released January 30, 2016

Coz the Shroom all voices and instruments: electric guitar, MIDI guitar, drum machine

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Coz the Shroom New Mexico

NOW RETIRED TO BECOME A MONK AND FOLLOW THE TAO TE CHING.
Cassette artist since 1979, Former Austin punk rocker, (18 years in Austin Texas) independent recording artist, and part of the SUCKDOG circus from 1991 to 1998. long time performance artist, writer, and psychonaut. ... more

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