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Fruit Fly Nightmare
02:33
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My house is full of fruit flies
They buzz around my face
I don’t know what their reason is
For driving me insane
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare (please end my)
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare
Give me all the killer bees
That can be Africanized
Give me Gauromydas heros
Or something of an even bigger size
Mosquitos spread Malaria
And more horrendous disease
But the fruit flies that are swarming me
Are not putting me at ease
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare (you gotta end my)
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare (I wanna leave my)
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare
Once I was followed by a hoverfly
It looked just like a wasp
I thought it was going to sting me
And it just would not get lost
It followed me for quite a while
Like a lost puppy in the air
When it left I could almost say I missed it
Not like these fruit flies here
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare (oh please end my)
Fruit fly nightmare
Fruit fly nightmare
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The Top
01:58
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You want somebody to need it
But you’ve got no one there
You need somebody who’s buying
You know nobody cares
Supply and demand, toil and trouble
You claw your way to the top
You’ve made a deal with the devil
Now there’s no one you can’t stomp
You need to expand your empire
Rising ever strong and fast
If there’s anyone who resists
You can shove it up their ass
You step over mounds of corpses
Killed by your capital punishment
Still you keep your head way up high
Telling yourself you’re innocent
Are you comfortable, oh tell me
In your Xanadu, tonight
Cause Great Birnam Wood is walking
Your time’s coming soon, will you fight?
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The Worms Crawl In
00:58
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The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
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Wonderful
02:30
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It’s so wonderful, what they do
I want to be in there, be part of it too
I won’t be ashamed, when I’m there
I won’t share
I want them to do with me as they please
They can surely find a use with ease
Take me apart and use my parts for scrap
I’m gonna snap
Want them to drink all the blood in my veins
Want them to slice my skull and scoop out my brains
Want them to fill my throat with steel
Till I can’t feel
I know, you know, I love them so
I want them to own my soul
They’re gonna use every part of me
And I won’t be
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Dreadnoughtus
03:27
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I’m 30 feet tall and i lurch around
I came straight out of the cold cold ground
You can see me coming from miles away
I’ve come from the cretaceous straight to today
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus
Stomping around eating plants and trees
I’m big enough to go where i damn well please
You know my name cause you’ve seen my bones
Now you better get moving, better go back home
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus
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Clanking Machine
02:37
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I have a secret that I
Have kept unseen
They don’t know that I am
A clanking machine
All full of gears and pistons
I run on steam
A complex mechanism
A clanking machine
Can’t see my malfunctions
Unless I break
But if you listen close
You’ll hear me clank
Flesh and blood all around me
People I’ve seen
I think they’ve never been
A clanking machine
And if you saw inside me
You’d surely scream
Am I the only one
The clanking machine
Won’t see my malfunctions
Though they’re not sparse
I guess that that’s what happens
With moving parts
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7. |
Gonna Be Now
02:24
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Want to be another time
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
I am so shy
Want to be another guy
I am so shy
Want to be another guy
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
Need to be another time
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
Need to be another time
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
I am so shy
Need to be another guy
I am so shy
Need to be another guy
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
Need to be another time
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
Need to be another time
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
It’s gonna be now
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Autopilot
02:12
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I don’t know what I’m doing when I go about my day
I don’t know when I’m doing it my way
I don’t know what I’m saying when I have to go converse
I don’t know what I’m saying is the worst
I don’t know how I’m doing when somebody asks me so
I don’t know where I’m going to and fro
I don’t know where I’m going when they push me out the door
I don’t know much of anything anymore
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The Worms Crawl Out
01:24
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The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose
They eat the jelly between your toes
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Dyatlou
06:04
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I see them now! They're hiking on the mountain! I see them.. they think they're so prepared...
They're hiking on the mountain.. they're setting up their tents.. they're sleeping in their tents! It's nighttime now!
Too much snow is falling! There's an avalanche on the mountain! They're coming! Oh no they're waking up! They're running out of their tents! They're ripping off their clothes! The avalanche! The avalanche is coming! They're running out of their tents! They're running all over!
They're dying! Their clothes, they're ripping off their clothes! They're running in the snow! They're dying in the snow! Their tongues! Their tongues are being ripped out! Their eyes! Their eyes! Oh no! No! They're dying!
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René Magritte
02:26
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They found her a mile down the stream
She had escaped from her room it seemed
Her dress was torn at the seam
It was wrapped around her face
As I sat down to eat my evening meal
I could not explain just what I’d feel
It all didn’t seem exactly real
Like I’m floating deep in space
My face is covered by a white sheet
And in the dark I see René Magritte
As these clouds fill up my eyes
I think about the big disguise
Is it really the clear blue skies
Or is it a facade
All I see when I fall asleep
Was captured by René Magritte
The reality of what’s underneath
And the questions this has caused
My face is covered by a white sheet
And in the dark I see René Magritte
Like a dagger through ongoing time
While the iron bells at the edge of space chime
The image and the object they simply rhyme
But they aren’t one and the same
My face is covered by a white sheet
And in the dark I see René Magritte
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