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Great Grandfather killed a man just out of spite
But his son only killed in the war
And HIS son never killed but he'd dream it at night
And HIS son never settled one score
The bloodthirst of the bloodline declines
Knock on wood, I've never done time
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All Your Drugs
02:00
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Gimme all your drugs
Need something I ain't done
I need a new idea, new kinds of fun
I'm not looking for
A sentimental thrill
So could you hook it up with just a pinch of fentanyl?
My prescription or yours?
Your prescription or mine?
Gimme all of your drugs
Gimme all of your drugs
I'm tipping over trying
Testing window sills
Willows and widows weep at the sight off another bitter pill
So gimme all your drugs
Need something I ain't done
I need some new ideas, new kinds of fun
My prescription or yours?
Your prescription or mine?
Gimme all of your drugs
Gimme all of your drugs
Like a good martyr should
Softer nails, harder wood
Through the wrists, not the palms
Hard to miss with these bombs
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Learn To Haunt
02:53
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I got vampire fangs
You got that bleeding heart
On your sleeve, don't need a vein
It's a start
I could learn to haunt you
I could learn to haunt you
Put a curse upon you
I could learn to haunt you
Fake blood ain't gonna do a thang
Up against the thirst of ages
Hung by roots and DNA
Make that change
I could learn to haunt you
I could learn to haunt you
Put a curse upon you
I could learn to haunt you
I could learn to haunt you
I could learn to haunt you
Put some hoodoo on you
I could learn to haunt you
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Anyone To Eulogize
01:41
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Keep your head up too long, something's bound to chop it off
But that's weight off your shoulders til the blood dries
Fingers poking through, I think your skull is getting soft
Data leaking stealthy as the drone flies
Pull your head out of your ass so it can get blown off
You'll be worth about a billion semper fi
Pull your pecker out in public and it's bound to stay soft
You'll live a lot of lonely fourth of Julys
Reach around money oughta cure that cough and your coal miner alibis
See a doctor they'll poke they'll prod they'll scoff
And none of us is anyone to eulogize
But maybe we could get it up to say
Holy everlasting God he's gone
But oh oh oh
He'll live on
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Willing
00:19
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Now Now Now
03:38
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We don't think about the future, there's too much that could go wrong
When the planet is on fire and it's running out of songs
Plus what if we lose all our money?
What if all our loved ones die?
What if everything we ever knew was just an everloving lie?
So we just think about now
Now now now
We don't think about the past, there's all that stupid shit we did
Even all of human history we're only just a kid
Making horrible mistakes, making decent people cry
Making everything that we were ever taught just an everloving lie
So we just think about now
Now now now
Well we think about the present, we just focus on our breathing
We don't worry where we're going, it don't matter when we're leaving
There's a universe within us and a multiverse outside
There's a lie in every truth and a truth in every everloving lie
So we just think about now
Now now now
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Got Everything
01:37
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We can tell this ain't your favorite place
It's well-written on your famous face
It's a lie but it's a little true
We got everything you wanted to
So go get that medicine, simmer down
I guess we'll never get off the ground
Caught a spell it seems your mind erased
In your hell or some less holy place
Up all night but is it morning too?
You got everything you wanted to
So god bless that medicine, get it down
I find my medicine on the ground
Go get that medicine, simmer down
I guess we'll never get off the ground
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Music Is Expensive
01:23
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One day I'ma get me a Steinway Grand
Nine feet long, filled with songs
Waiting for a shaky hand
To come along and play it
One day I'ma get me a Telecaster
Painted black, pickguard to match
Whole crowd of people yelling "Pick it faster!"
But I can't hear them say it
'Cause one day I'ma have me a full blown stack
Spend a couple grand, don't even care what brand
Long as it's loud enough to blow you backward
I'll pony up and pay it
Either I'll make a million and buy all these things
Or I'll keep robbing banks just to keep me in strings
Music's expensive but it don't have to be
I've been getting by for a thousand years free
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An Impossible Crime
02:52
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No face in the background
No trace of a human sound
No sign of a break-in
No telling what happened
And none of us can solve
An impossible crime
That none of us can solve
No fingerprints nowhere
No lingering human hair
No telltale heart to be found
No telling what went down
No haunting to speak of
No accounting for human love
No DNA splattered
No telling what matters
And none of us can solve
An impossible crime
That none of us can solve
No answers for no one
No dancers or human fun
No definite ending
No rest for the dead men
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Benjamin Lee Farley Asheville, North Carolina
Never took a lesson in my life. All songs written, played, sung/sang/sing-ed, produced, computerized / all album covers made
by Ben unless otherwise noted.
NONE of my sounds are made with Artificial Intelligence, just a few album covers. Is anybody reading this? If so thank you. If not, then I guess I can say whatever I want because you'll never read it. So fuck you I guess? Just kidding madluv.
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