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1. |
Decision Trees
03:31
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Decision Trees
I’m sittin’ on dumb down days I’m
Relivin’ that extra neighbor’s
Expendable bad behavior
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida your backdoor savior
[In a Godhead rim-job]
But I never gotta bitter
Hurt outside of a home run hitter Nobody ever in the stands again In the stadium of stadiums,
the stain you’re in
In the blink parade
In the party line
In the beggars for forevers
‘Til the end of time
It’s your own Real World
Of a Broadway show
That was laid upon the alter
For the last to know
It’s over, your simple mind is over
It’s over, it’s over
Dick down, more dick
The sound symbol
The sound symbol
The sound symbol
The sound
Brim tower rim, brim tower rim
Nope, he hadn’t
Chip beef beat
No, he hadn’t, chip beef beat
Knocked up, the world
Knocked up, the world
I think, I think ‘counter...’
I tiptoe I tiptoe
No, he had it
Chip beef beat
Bob Dylan? Bop? Bob Dylan?
I’m sittin’ on dumb down days
I’m sittin’ on dick down days
I’m sittin’ on dumb down days
I’m sittin’ on dick down days
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I Broke
Great - I’m alive
Great- I survive
Great - I proscribe
40 days and 40 nights
Of Rikers Island overbite
And thank you for the heads up
And not in my hood but why not?
I give you peace I give you light
My fellow man a constant delight
Freeloader, thank you Chipotle
Never thought you’d be my go-to remotely
I broke I pass the test
I broke I broke the best
I broke decision trees
I broke but on my knees
Breast feed this emotion
Spread eagle commotion
Circle the wagons, death and death tag team
Dungeons & Dragons
Fantasy phantoms
I edited pussy out, but now I’m all about
Bend ‘em & break ‘em
And always earthquake ‘em
I broke the Jersey Shore
I broke the Baptist bore
I broke the Minute Maid
I broke the Betty Page
I broke the Betty Page
And your retro pork pie hat
Doesn’t make you less fat
And you’re leaving in droves
Not fast enough, good riddance you left over drones
Like if Christ was fer reals
Second comings ‘you feel?’
You might be Kanye stupid
Is that a thing?
It should’ve been in 2016
But that brain trust won’t go away
Break your jaw, call it a day
Take Hillsong for holy foreplay
MAGA your ass to Judgement Day
I broke I broke alone
I broke I broke phone home
I broke the party line
I broke the end of time
Offspring of Madonna in a tub
Imagine we’re all equal - that’s the rub
I’ve been sitting with that think piece from the NY Time
Just like CNN and the scene of the crime
Roy Cohn and Roger Stone with their butterball slime
Bury the bodies, Roger, you bring the lime
I broke I broke alone
I broke I broke phone home
I broke the party line
I broke the end of time
I was guessing on the blessing of a prisoner exchange
I’ll give you 2 to 1 Ronald Reagan’s to blame
It seems the GOP likes toddlers with atrophied brains
Nancy Reagan shared a horseshoe with Catherine the Great
Ronnie wet the bed so much she had to make a horse date
That’s cruelty to animals from a FLOTUS of late
UPS Dave, not a slave to fashion
Built a small life around baseball
Buying bleachers to lounge in
If you could wave a magic wand
He’d be king for a day
Instead he’s gone hopeless
Meathead lardon frisée
I broke the Jersey Shore
I broke the Baptist bore
I broke the Minute Maid
I broke the Betty page
I broke the Betty page
Remember good Twitter instead of bad Twitter?
Remember on the shitter that neither matter?
Sinkhole, brain drain, conspiracy mainframe
Speaking of atrophied: you missing your brain?
One issue voter, one issue explain
Impersonal ballot unemployment claim
About face about honor identity games
You waver you wander you start naming names
Remember when life was simpler if you dare
Maybe simpler for you but for many nowhere
Bump & grind in the cave art
Sell at Sotheby's Walmart
I broke I pass the test
I broke I broke the best
I broke decision trees
I broke but on my knees
And Walmart takes sides
The Walton of rides, the big box whore
Of America’s pride
I scream you scream
We all scream for gunsling
As 2nd Amendment and Covid agree
You’re children are collateral damage
George Carlin Glee:
Fuck the children, you beat him to it
Your hypocrisy knew it
So choke on it, chew it
As the kids lock ‘n’ lose it
Netflix a joke choke on your ROMA
Mick Jagger don’t forget underage swagger
Blood transfusion open time illusion
Destroy all monsters & rock star posers
Belittle belonging
Clarence Thomas long-donging
Home security banking congressional spanking
The social contract thank God for no contact
Keep your friends closer, your enemy’s near
As this system breaks down I won’t shed a tear
I broke I pass the test
I broke I broke the best
I broke decision trees
I broke but on my knees
I broke I broke alone
I broke I broke phone home
I broke the party line
I broke the end of time
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Spokecard
Burn that Lexus
I burned Manhattan
Kamikaze bike rider
With the ball sack statin
Relief and regard
And cancel the card
And bury the Bard
The Hamilton Hard
The dog in the yard
A Pinkerton guard
Will dupe El DeBarge
And the comedy card
Burn all cars
Burn the dealers to the ground
Gas guzzle the baby
And muzzle the crown
Breakstone and plastic shield
And keep your face under-revealed
Just keep it crisp
Just keep it light
Just leave me the fuck alone, alright?
And
If the fearful heart explode
If the fearful heart explode
If the fearful heart Ex
Just walk your dog
And walk your phone
Just walk your dog
And walk your phone
And leave me the the fuck alone
Part time and part God
The colony herd
And bust the facade
The Heckle and Jeckle
Of deplorable spectacle
Party people please be careful
Party people please be fearful
Party people please go home
And don’t forget to leave me alone
Party people please be careful
Party people please be fearful
Party people please go home
And don’t forget to leave me alone
He’ll say dump the heart
He’ll say jump the heart
Jump jump jump
Jump jump jump
He’ll say dump the heart
Car ash car ash
Burn all cars and car crash
Gas guzzle the baby
And please don’t say maybe
And muzzle the crown
Of death up and down
Burn that Lexis
I burned Manhattan
Kamikaze bike rider
With the ball sack statin
Poor thing
In the lottery swings
Poor thing
In the nature of things
Poor thing
And the suicide sings
Poor thing
That democracy brings
Poor thing
Gas guzzle the baby
Poor thing
Please don’t say maybe
Poor thing
And muzzle the crown
Poor thing
Of death up and down
Jump jump jump
Jump jump jump
When I sit upon the back door heist
Stop beating on the back door twice
Like a Molotov cocktail
Penny for your thoughts dear
Feed the children
And fuck the respectable
Make my time matter
Make room for daddy’s
Priority platter
And what’s the matter
Cat got your tongue?
The end has begun
Sick sick one
Sick sick out
Sick sick one
Sick sick beep
Sick sick one
Sick sick out
Sick sick one
Sick sick out
Sick sick one
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4. |
Random Forests
03:19
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Random Forests
You’re having record breaking numbers of people
Record breaking number
Intensive care as well
Far too many deaths
Texas in a tear
Latitude to enforce
Strategies to spare
Governor & JJ
Rio Grande beware
If I found a lamp on the beach
And rubbed it and the genie came out
My first wish would be:
Please send some mercy
A gift from god maybe
Combined with poverty and proximity
And which community?
Getting hammered on the jet ski
We cannot keep up we cannot keep down
On the inside outside island of now
Media munitions in non lethal kitchens
Of chaos and violence and fabricate context
According to Facebook
The thesaurus of crime
The cowards of conscience waiting for a sign
Small business update log on and off rebate
The smokescreen of caring, electioneering
Glass bottom fearing
A surge for the nation station to station
Rapid development enduring freedom
Son of a Mitch, you could even believe ‘em
Butt plug the school year, census gone south
Undocumented politics from the horse’s mouth
Dangerous maskless lap dancers
Wake up the neighborhood shake down the common good
Painkillers take my breath away
Battle for the soul of a nation foreplay
Better child, elderly care, mail in voting
Bipolar ready-wear
Misconceptions about mental health
Mask a moron in training
Compassionate empathy with Instagram raining
Where people go low I’m the one that goes high
You’re the one that goes AWOL: you believe you can fly
3 in 4 Americans crawling to the finish line
Tear-gassed and gas lighting dying to dine
Opening day, empty seats, priorities in place with sterilized cleats
With 21 million for Pepcid, anything to stroke your ID
The science is clear: there’s no science here
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5. |
Pick It Up Audrey
03:27
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Pick It Up Audrey
Who’s Anna?
Anna dream on Anna
Short dream on
If you think the moth dance
I will back that up
This park:
Hollywood Park
Hollywood
Ever have a moment like this
Like a moment when you’re alone?
Ever have a moment like this
When you kiss and you kiss on the phone?
Work work
Just work like this
Hit me quick
Hit me run
It gotta holler
Beat that beats
In your spectrum
Beat beep beep
But I still run
But I live
In outdoor in out
Outer world
The outer world
Outer world
The outer world
All my life is south
All my life
All my life is south
All my life
Pick it up Audrey
Pick it up
Pick it up Audrey
Pick it up
Who’s Eric?
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6. |
Murder Hairnet
03:22
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Murder Hairnet
Remember the film show
The casino?
The smell of wonder
The clothes down under
The po’ boy distance
The Go-Gone resistance
The movie night date
20 short films too late
Murder hairnet, a safe bet
Like two worlds that never met
Like helmet to haircut
Or a make believe donut
Like Elvis’ spot
Should have known you would not
Mrs. Johnson’s in a white Maverick
Make believe history’s plot
And Sandy’s hold sway
With moxie and Austin in May
To get Juniper, to get grief
To have beggars relief
Cover Antone’s and C-Boy’s
Where legends hold court
Roaming free in the dance floor
Making love of a sort
How you raise a child, be a child
In these homeless hotels that are now open wild
Miss the Becco blindness
The conference days
Thank god long distance teaches how to behave
Hollywood holiday
Best record I never made
Tennis court flotilla
Bohemian Rap parade
I love the cuddle, ok, cuddle I’m done
And a bathroom, new house, cat piss 101
Make room for raw garlic and silver and sun
Bend the mental for Covid just as life has begun
Bless the besties and EO, The Townsend, the Bowl
The cocktails on Sunset
Now that we’re all on the dole
Better than breakdown
The better we be
The reason remotely to be me of the we
OMG sing into the missing link
Impressions form in Texas light
In random forests overnight
Take my hand let’s leave the band
The memories we leave behind
The memory that robs us blind
The moment here and here and now
The one and only sacred cow
You dream alone
You dream alone
You’re alone
Place the doormat on the lawn
Unrepentant from dusk to dawn
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Why!
I don’t know why I can’t be with you
I don’t know why I can’t be with you
I’m alone lonely and I’m alone
I’m alone lonely and I’m alone
I don’t know why I can’t be with you
I don’t know why
I don’t know why I can’t be with you
I don’t know why I can’t be with you
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8. |
Reverend
01:53
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Reverend
Suck my vigilante
Suck suck my vigilante
Not having not belonging
Worst place I’ve ever been
St Virus’ dance
It’s about time and death
Marauders among men
Don’t cry Alfonse
End over D’Amato
Suck suck my Giuliani
Buffers and screens
There’s nothing behind it
Windowless dreams of your earth time don’t mean shit
Walking over corpses
To get what you want
Bedrooms and break rooms
And baby’s a cunt
Always leave wanting less
Always someone richer
More famous or prettier
Ending in regret
Colonial bet
Only employ the rich and famous
Blues channel Andy and Amos
Life just sort of happened
The advertiser assumes complete responsibility
Art by committee
Increase affection
Don’t cry Alfonse
I can’t think for myself tattoo
I can’t think for myself tattoo (Hey Rebel!)
I can’t think for myself tattoo
I can’t think for myself tattoo (Rebel Rebel!)
Curtis Blow Me Sliwa
I can’t think for myself tattoo
I can’t think for myself tattoo (Hey Rebel!)
I can’t think for myself tattoo
I can’t think for myself tattoo (Rebel Rebel!)
Art by committee
Increase affection
Surround the erection
The former splendor now on a bender
Fuck Tuck Fuck Tuck
Cuck Tucker
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Snowball Earth
Gift Gift Gift
Here’s the gift
Here’s the gift
It’s the gift that keeps on giving
You can block Merlin
But you can’t stop winning
You can stop winning
But you can’t stop sinning
And you can’t stop beating
‘Til the ends repeating
‘Til the ends justify all
The means of the feeling
Right, I’m talking about work
Right, I’m talking about work
Back he work he
And back, he work
Yea I wanna sing
And yea, I wanna bring
Heat and home and power
Sweet arm up my sweetheart flower
Man in a cave
Man of the hour
Bring on the reckoning
Sound and soul heckling
Sound and sound money
And a ball and chain rummy
Beat the band backwards
Carry those placards
Socially distant out of existence
Package your pride and beef up
The buggy ride
Read my lips soon on the porch
On this scorched earth
Sound and sound money
For what it’s worth
On snowball earth
You can hit and run
Take a knee nearer my god to thee
under the sun
Of the manner born of
Property properly scorned
We hold these truths to be self evident
But in our history there’s no evidence
Of equal under the law:
Not equal for some so not equal for all
You can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
No you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
You can bend and not break since the time of your birth of a nation
Of a nation earthquake
But you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
Cause we stacked the deck on the backs
Of the best
Building a land with no backup plan
And now the multiple moments
Predictable to some
Converge on a country that’s over and done
The perfect mix of nonsense and content
Double wide discontent
I break your back you break mine
You can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
No you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
You can bend and not break since the time of your birth of a nation
Of a nation earthquake
But you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
And Big Bill Haywood is rolling in his grave
To see how the unions forgot his name
Not so benevolent
That biased elephant in the room
Breaking bread with the enemy
Not happening soon
Forgive and forget that gets us nowhere
Educate, legislate, become daily aware
Because somewhere, everywhere
They just don’t care
You can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
No you can’t be colorblind on snowball earth
You can bend and not break since the time of your birth of a nation
Of a nation earthquake
Here’s the gift
Here’s the gift
It’s the gift that keeps on giving
You can block Merlin
But you can’t stop winning
You can stop winning
But you can’t stop sinning
And you can’t stop beating
‘Til the ends repeating
‘Til the ends justify all
The means of the feeling
Right, I’m talking about work
Right, I’m talking about work
Back he work he
And back, he work
Yea I wanna sing
And yea, I wanna bring heat
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10. |
Tight Lines
04:25
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Tight Lines
Gimme some money some jerky rhythm
My god is on top of the wholesale prison
All alone at Landmark, alone again
I’m sitting with my own best friend
I’m over and under again
I complete my exit my end
Brink job homeless cross the clinic with hopeless
On Medicaid reshuffle dreams line of control bursting at the seams
Images broadcast worldwide
The national imagination divide
The progressive reputation
A rally for a nation
The border patrol the border patrol
To serve man no longer in control
The border patrol the border patrol
To serve man no longer in control
No longer in control
Imperial one, take the lotion take the fun
Begone boxer rebellion begins god of son
Images broadcast worldwide
The national imagination divide
The progressive reputation
A rally for a nation
Building on bumbling
John the Revelator
Southern strategy approved by Hannity
Also ran artist, get back to your office
Also ran artist, get back to your office
Counts in my songs
Counts in my songs
The border patrol the border patrol
To serve man no longer in control
The border patrol the border patrol
To serve man no longer in control
No longer in control
The American facelift back for a spin
The American facelift the original sin
The American facelift begin the beguine
Skyline Motor Inn gone again
Last chance among friends
Dozens of drummers name the names
Of Batmen and Women the gentle breeze
Under orders protect property
The federal mocking of you and me
Another long night in the sea of humanity
Fire those pepper balls create some shock and awe
Cover the outer wall with a graffiti conscience call
Call it two world views battle in the pews
Who got more than you the henchmen news?
‘I can’t walk outside without being in fear for my life
I am worried for my life every time I walk outside’
The last vestige of life hitchin’ a ride
What’s gripping America
The role of the police
The roll of the dice
Election seasons pageantry
The front lines of vice
The USA midwife
The violence-sum-game
The spot lights projecting
The tear gas explains
How the metal ball bearings
And the lasers of light
Are no match for the end
Of America’s night
I rise!
I rise to despise!
I rise!
I rise!
Friendly take those hands off me
11th and 46th chicks turn adorable tricks
Welcome back you distant past
Dump problems in the river
Waste can HK deliver
Break it all down that National sound
Very friendly, break down friendly
That National sound very friendly
Blocks of wood and concrete
Stay together stay tight we do this every night
Stay together stay tight we do this every night
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11. |
Line Of Actual Control
03:33
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Line Of Actual Control
Breaking news: the indoor blues
Won’t be leaving soon, remember ‘Swoon?’
Follow your leader bareback breeder
Less is no more, no more than before
Bless your heart when love strikes out
The body positive Anglos shout
Let’s relocate let’s move upstate
Let’s generate our privilege
And multiply our lineage
Attempt to and a rover on Mars
And colonize with federal bars
LAC, China, India, ready to fight
(Let’s get ready to rumble!)
Soundtrack of summer a border delight
A kind of hope a kind of strength
The scheduled orbit, elite club at arms length
Launching season is especially busy
‘Fat5’ is bulky, makes a slow race uneasy
The Castle Hope
Whatever happens USA, don’t sacrifice a thing
Keep your personal rights and all that they bring
One for all and all for one, that’s socialist talk that’s dumber than done
Modi at 40 was a killing machine
And Xi takes ya back to the Gang of Four scene
Where we breed ‘em and bake ‘em the wet market dream
Hey stupid, RSS* isn’t just a website feed
The freedom of movement, so many young lives
With the bored looking soldiers giving high-fives
Kashmir more than a song by an oversexed band
With your apples and oranges the Kashmiri Muslims
The cease-fire line from 1949
Electoral fraud Mahatma disregard
Your Nehru collar had a grandson
With knives, bows and arrows, maces, and swords
Fuck the Mercury Bar, fuck Panda Express
Fuck ‘People’ and ‘US’ and ‘USA Today’ mess
Fuck your memories of longing
And your outdoor asshole you nonesuck rock n roll
Bring it on home to me
You ya think I’m sexy?
Hey, mansplain again with your bald headed grin
Be my baby be my baby now
Speaking of Hindu let’s slaughter a cow
And while we’re at it
Slaughter the here and now
And Starbucks obviously
You bet me, you lost
You get me at cost
I outlive you’re dream
Your need to be seen
I paralyze truth
I transform your youth
Mesmerize with charm
And fuck do no harm
I rent galaxy
My rover is me
A neighbor in space
Humans to erase
I’ll righteously ramble
The government gamble
Your '80s supreme
Was no match for Jobim
*Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(Paramilitary org. formed by Hindu Nationalists)
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12. |
To Serve Man
02:07
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To Serve Man
Day drinking and I’m thinking of you
Day drinking and I’m thinking of you
Plunder and pussy and Burroughs is cru
He just wants to fuck you; you want to believe
He’d fuck his own mother, fuck his mother and grieve
It’s more fun than a monsoon
Like typhoon agreeing to consume and delay formula one
Self care, fibroids, flat tire, backwards baseball cap, stimulus none
Meat my mouth and sauce my hole
Brag about your nominations, drop those names over lightweight libations
Cardboard cutout describing himself
‘I will not be neutered’, I will not have health
Never been easier to run a tab
Man he wanted to fuck her, fuck her so bad
He was only a day drink
He was Wall Street sad
A dog barks a dog bites
Dumber than drummer can’t keep time
As I sit outside of the life I knew
I can’t keep time, can you?
To serve man realize deeply
That the present moment is all you ever have
To serve man send me money, the voice is not who I am
To serve man, where there is anger there is pain underneath
To serve man make those panties your belief
The politics of dementia
A child raising a child a girl gone wild
Busts you rhyme Carolyn or Change your design
Prototypical decline
More than ever, I’m mine
Jesus is just alright
I won’t let up this downward spiral
I’ll glue stick my phone in case I go viral
College helps you know, a college degree
Not the answer but a measure be all you can be
This passes for good, you’re too kind
You never get to marry me marry me blind
You have never no never
Questioned industrial stroller
What you think is sublime
Is a matter on matter broken roller
Introspective farmers
Disco up those yardbirds
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Mikel Rouse New York, New York
Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more
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