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Port of Atrocities
04:04
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Port of atrocities
Port of atrocities (3x)
Listen to me! I know!
You don't live with the importers
You don't know how cold they are
Greedy dreams of endless empire
The legacy blood sucking vampires
They own all the ships and they rule all the seas
They'll hound me forever for my piracy
They can't be human beings!
Galveston (repeat)
Let me tell you about Galveston
All aboard! Get below! (3x)
Listen to me! Don't go!
In the hold with the importers
You'll find their falseness quickening
They will crush you in their power
Their lack of light is sickening
They own all the ships and they rule all the seas
They'll hound me forever for my piracy
They can't be human beings!
Galveston (repeat)
Let me tell you about Galveston
Port of atrocities (3x)
Watch my channel! I know!
We once had serious news reporters
til they sold out their integrity
Their souls belong to the importers
They broadcast lies on the TV
They own all governments they run the globe
They'll eat your brain from lobe to lobe
I don't think they're from this earth!
Why is the mother ship flying over Galveston
Blazing like the sun as they snatch us to the void
Above Galveston
Galveston!
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And in these stately halls
Governing our squabling planet
They meet with the importers
To open our planet's gates
With wisdom and in sanctimony
Authority vouchsafed
By the grandest of all patriarchs
the primal force Yahweh
So come you men of power
Into this princely manor
No mere vulgar tanner
Or slattern midwife
They broker things you
can not dream of
They steer the coarse in your life
But you are only chattle
Away, hag do not prattle
In aquisitions they've been granted stars
in the chamber of patriarchs
they look like Noble Lords but none of them are
When the seal is stamped the deal's complete
The blindest fools in the deepest dark
they look like Noble Lords but none of them are
So come you men of greed
Espouse your conquest creed
Invite among the people
Evil on a cosmic scale
Your lust and your vainglory
cloud your eyes it pales
It faints and dies
these dreams these people
You're proud you closed the sale
So in conclusion, these are miniature artificial stars. They put the power of a star on your desktop. They also unlock the secret to unlimited universal travel, and that means, gentlemen, unlimited universal commerce. At this point the floor is open to discussion. The chair recognises Lord Todd Fuck.
Todd Fuck: How are we going to keep this power out of the hands of the common man? The radical? The bleeding hearts, the feminists? the hamals and berks of the world? I mean how are we going to keep it secret and still be able to take full advantage of it? How do we explain the changes it's going to make in the world? Power that great gets in anybody's hands and there's no telling what's going to happen. How could someone find out. What backlash will result if they do? .
Some rando lord: I motion to ajourn to the golf course!
another: Dispense with the formalities!
others: I second! Ajourn to the golf course!
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3. |
Catch a Silver Star
04:55
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Take a walk to the bottom of a sea
700, thousand miles deep
Take a train to the wings of time
To the portal of Kgr'Beeliyus
Take a relay to the void, the place where
quanta resonate
Catch a cab hitch a ride
Any world any time----
Catch a Silver Star
What you looking for?
Have you met new people?
Found out what they are?
Why's it all so bleak?
Where are all the cities?
In the universe?
Is it all a curse?
Some of them seem to run on automatic
Some of them fade away into their scars
In all these lands they're always Ghosts and Robots
They look like people of some kind but none of them are
we look like people of some kind but none of us are
Some of them slave away as they're commanded
The rest of them break to pieces in the dark
On all these worlds they're always ghosts and robots
They look like people of some kind but none of them are
we look like people of some kind but none of us are
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You gave me roots grampa
I'm made in your mold
But I don't want your religion
and it's leaving me cold
You gave me reason
Passed down to my sire
Back off, superstition
That I do not require
a-oo a-oo a-oo
Your coin is no gift
It's to weigh down my eyes
And I feel my death bed
wherever I lie
And just like the undead
I cringe at your cross
Don't give me your tombstones
Grampaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Now in our traditions
And patriarch rot
I have been well storied
But it's nothing I've bought
You gave me bad habits
And a firey tonuge
To breed in me penance
Forget it I'm done
Your coin is no gift
It's to weigh down my eyes
And I feel my death bed
wherever I lie
And just like the undead
I cringe at your cross
Don't give me your tombstones
Grampaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Candy's gonna kill my Candyman
Candy's gonna kill my buzz
I spent my life in dereliction
I asked her why and she said because
She knows the things I did when absent
She knows the evil places I went
Candy's gonna kill my candyman
How else can Candy vent?
what did i catch when i tried to catch the candy man?
catching silver stars, catching ghosts and robots
Candy's gonna kill my Candyman
Candy's gonna kill herself
Before her eyes all hell's predictions
And I'm the devil she's been dealt
She knows the things I did when absent
She knows the evil places I went
Candy's gonna kill my candyman
How Else can candy vent?
I'm the Devil She's been dealt
I'm every shitty thing she felt
I made her want to kill herself
I made her want to kill herself
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Who are the Exporters?
02:29
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My people, are you happy?
Our planet once was balanced
your people come to my people
and visit us with violence
Convert them into energy
Make them wandering phantoms
Hulking lost automatons
Housed in smokey lanterns
Silver core desktop magnetar engaged
Your module is being scanned for transport
please remain inside and do not expose yourself
to unnessacary danger
Like falling through this cosmic trap door in the first place
Your devils have the power
Your pirates in rebellion
less hero and more hellion
defiant acts that you do
no different than what they do
you tell me don't sweat it
you all want something you shouldn't want
and would hurt people to get it
Do you understand
what silver holes do to transport you across the universe?
the imbalance in the fabric of existence itself!
Why can't you understand
that the only reason every world you reach is in chaos and ruin
despair, desolation, misery, and bankrupt of all hope
IS BECAUSE YOU GOT THERE FIRST, THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO IN THEIR LOCAL TIME.
you did this to me
you made me this way
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7. |
You Are Commanded
03:59
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you are only doing as
you are commanded
I know that you have flown before
But have you ever landed?
I've been so scared of losing you
and being lost
forever
Nothing to fear anymore
You were only following
Someone else's orders
Just like you gave me little choice
Turned boundries into borders
And you can't stop your march on to destruction
Nothing left means
Nothing to fear any more
Bombs burst earth shakes
Hold me feel me
Funny how my heart race
You always loved your
war paint
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Die, Robot, Die!
05:34
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There's a robot in there
going through old lottery tickets.
you can't win
you don't care
I hate you in my life
robots have no minds
die robot die
There's one burning down his house
plank by plank
to feed a fire that won't keep him warm
you can't win
you don't care
I hate you in my life
robots have no minds
die robot die
you were always chasing a rainbow
now you're always chasing a dragon
you were the one who once picked me u-up
now you're the chain i'm draggin and draggin
you won't be chasing your dreams for too long
only have time for chasing a dragon
once my love could and did fill your heart
it's pitiful and sinking and sagging
There was some times I thought I could kill you
That wasn't you it was only a robot
You were the one who once made me feel free
What is now left of you can not claim me.
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A Robot's Sacrament
03:17
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This is rat-bone jack
Here in group therapy
I had some bad habits
That commanded me
Grampa gave me Tombstones
Call it the Lord of Hosts
I told grampa to go to hell
Cause I didn't want to be a ghost
Don't know where they get the stuff
From another time or star
I bumped elbows with the cult of the importers
Now I know what zoomstones are.
I knew that they would kill me
They would destroy my life
But I just kept telling myself
That it was somehow gonna be alright.
No I didn't want to fade away
To become a lost soul
So it killed me when I saw
Candy become a ghost
And I'm the one who killed her
Under my heel I heard her scream
She begged me to stop what I was doing
I robot locked into bad dreams
Now I'm going crazy
Everyone I loved is dead
The cultists chant sweetly
But none of them has been my friend
I got to get me more Zoomstones
And I will do anything
I've stepped into a world that I could not leave
I'm under remote control
The Chant: remote remote remote control, you must partake or your body will shake, you are commanded
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10. |
Death on Other Planets
02:17
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If there's a god
His name is Todd
He's a fucker with a hairy ass
Says "there are black holes and then there's star pits"
Now sit at the back of the class
Cause in that Star Pit Todd's a god
Todd Fuck will never leave
He fucks up all his minions
And delights in all their screams
There's an executioner grasping me
Going to snuff out all my light
Going to send me to kill my consciousness
at the begining of all time
And he's delighting in my screams
Tall in their powers they laugh in their cloaks
Death on other planets
They kept you confined to such miserable worlds
Not Death as we understand it
So why do I hear so many say
a savior will come
A goddess bathed in golden light
where is she?
Towering stations of torture and greed
Death on other planets
Time to be punished for no fault or deed
You are commanded
So why do I hear so many say
a savior will come
A goddess bathed in golden light
where is she?
Close your eyes
I think we have to sleep
They call her the sleep teacher
We're going to learn to live
in our dreams
Let's join hands
Let's have a secret
Here comes the sleep teacher
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11. |
The Sleep Teacher
02:32
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The sleep teacher she will apear
In founts of golden light
On a clear and starlit fireburst
on a fleeting summer night
She's the goddess, she's the network
She is the great midwife
To fly with her you must entrust
the bright chord of your life
She will show you that chord
and then many chords entwined
then chords that may be broken soon
without your inner lightthe sleep teacher
So dream her every lesson
every night that she may come
for very soon the world we loved
is gonna come undone
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12. |
Love's Been A Devil
04:11
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I made a run to the hospital bed I had to see her before she dead
I made a course correction hold on for my affection clear your head
You just got to greet me there be alive get up and breathe the air
I'll never use you again I should have been your friend
I'm not the devil she been dealt
Won't cause no pain she felt
Won't make her want to kill herself
Won't make her want to kill herself
I'll be the good hand she needs dealt
I'll find the happy love we felt
I'll help her find herself
I'll help her find herself
I still can't believe I'll never ever see her alive again
But she alone decided to check out of life's game in the end
I know I done her dirty But I've healed long enough to feel ashamed
She's dead and she'd wished for me the same
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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.
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