1. |
Too Much Entertainment
02:41
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I've got to seduce my seduction
Because I'm running in the next election
I've got to sing my song
Spread it round the world but I'm doing it all wrong
I've got so much to do before I die
But I just keep sitting here starry-eyed
Because there's too much entertainment
Entertaining me
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
And it's draining me
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
I've got to watch my programs
I've got to see my shows
I've got to network all my social networks
I've got so many friends that I don't even know
I've got so much to do before I die
But I just keep sitting here starry-eyed
Because there's too much entertainment
Entertaining me
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
And it's draining me
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
I'm good for gambling and video games
I've got to put these chemicals into my brain
Celebrity biography, endless pornography
Virtual geography, good God what have you done to me?
There's too much entertainment
Entertaining me
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
It's deranging me
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
Did I mention podcasts? Comic books? Comedy clubs? Cooking shows? Rock shows? Magic shows? Casinos? Bingo parlors?
Too much entertainment
Too much entertainment
Yeah it's no fun
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We met in a bathroom,
made our way to the basement.
When I told you I loved you,
I wonder what that look on your face meant.
You used to make me feel so young,
now I’m getting a new kind of numb
And we’re talking louder and faster
Over each other trying to explain
It’s not worth it, it keeps hurting
But I’m feeling no pain
I keep getting more paranoid
You keep getting more strange
It’s like me and you are on two different kinds of cocaine
You know how to make me laugh
But you’re killing my timing
What a good time we have
Every time we’re not crying
We used to sing the same song note for note
Now it all gets stuck in our throat,
Now we’re talking louder and faster
Over each other trying to explain
It’s not worth it, it keeps hurting
But I’m feeling no pain
I keep getting more paranoid
You keep getting more strange
It’s like me and you are on two different kinds of cocaine
You get the shakes and I get the chills
What a price we pay for our expensive thrills
You get restless and I’ve gotta run
We’re not gonna stop till it’s all used up
We won’t be done till it’s done
Now we’re talking louder and faster
Over each other trying to explain
It’s not worth it, it keeps hurting
But I’m feeling no pain
You keep getting more paranoid
And I'm going insane
It’s like me and you are on two different kinds of cocaine
I need the release
Did you just call the police?
Me and you are on two different kinds of cocaine
We’re gonna have to quit it
But honey give me just one more hit of it.
Me and you are on two different kinds of cocaine.
Toot toot!
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3. |
Silent Spidermen
02:09
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Shaking down the night
For a shiny dime
And an once of time
No one gives a damn
That you’re who I am
Hell yeah, Shazam!
All is fair when nothing’s possible
We’re the pair that broke out of the hospital
Hear the siren’s but we’re unstoppable
We’re the members of The Silent Spidermen
Senses warning that we can’t go home again
Hide in sight because they’re always after us
We’re dangerous we can’t get loose again.
In between the lights
Closing down the night
We’ll never make it? That just means we might.
We’re not asking no we’re just taking it
Everybody else was only faking it
Love has a limit we’re here to break it
We’re the members of The Silent Spidermen
Senses warning that we can’t go home again
Hide in public because they’re always after us
We’re dangerous we’re on the loose again
And it’s nobody’s business
Undercover kisses
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4. |
Shivers To Share
03:23
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I told her don’t be scared of the lightning baby
She said that isn’t what’s frightening me
It’s more the sound of the thunder, wondering
What’s going to happen to me?
You can measure the miles by the second
Count the seconds by the year
None of your patronizing explanation’s
Doing anything for my fear
I get scared
It’s gonna get weird
And none of your words will make it disappear
I get scared
Yeah I’ve got shivers to share
I get scared
Are you still there?
I told her don’t be scared of politicians
Cause they’re not really coming for us
She said it’s more the collaborations
You never know who you can trust
And all your indifference makes no difference
When the walls come tumbling down
You won’t have time to pack a suitcase
When the men from the sea come to town.
I get scared
It’s gonna get weird
And none of your words will make it disappear
I get scared
Yeah I’ve got shivers to share
I get scared
Are you still there?
Are you still there?
Wake up from your nightmares baby!
Screaming in the night!
Sad fact is they’re coming right back
The moment I close my eyes
You can whisper your sweet nothings
They’re not gonna do nothing
Together we can weather whatever storm’s coming?
Oh baby, you’ve got to be bluffing
I get scared
Yeah it’s getting weird
And none of your words will take us anywhere
I get scared
Yeah I’ve got shivers to share
I get scared.
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5. |
Cancer of The Heart
03:43
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I went to see my doctor for my three-year check-up
He scanned me with his laser, he said “Oh dear, you’re all messed up.”
I said “What is it doc?” He said “I don’t know where to start,
But thing that’s probably gonna do you in is this cancer of the heart
Your muscles are all twitching, and your tendons are about to snap
And your system’s all sickened from taking in all this crap:
Bad food, bad drugs and the sedentary life, and someone’s stabbed you with a knife, it’s tearing you apart
But the thing that’s gonna kill you though is this cancer of the heart
Look at all these people in the world who need your help
You just sit posting pictures feeling sorry for yourself
Look at all these people you walk past every day
Every one of them needs love but you turn them away
When they talk to you, what do you have to say?
Your heart’s been corrupted, the conversation’s interrupted.”
I wrote this song because I didn’t think there was such a thing as cancer of the heart, it was a metaphor. It turns out there is such a condition, it’s rare. The heart is not as susceptible as some of the softer tissue to malignancy, it’s connective tissue, less prone to tumors for some reason, but if you suffer from this condition, then my heart goes out to you, as far as it can, as much as it can.
All that love that surrounds you
Can’t you feel it?
All that love that surrounds you
Why can’t you feel it?
All the love
Why can’t you see it?
All the love
Why can’t you be it?
You put yourself apart
Cancer of the heart
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6. |
Big Brick
03:09
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I could name all the names I’ve forgotten
I get called out, it happens too often
I’m ashamed to say that I don’t remember
You’ve been working here since last December
Sometimes people talk and I don’t really listen
I don’t get lonely I don’t know what I’m missing
And I don’t mind all this isolation
Cause I’m really good at watching television
It’s a mile long, mile wide
mile high and I’m living inside it
There ain’t no doors or no windows
You might want to see me you can’t get in though
It’s a mile high, mile wide, mile deep, mile thick
Big brick of my heart
I go to parties I get loaded
I leave secret messages you can’t decode it
And everything’s a joke to me
And I can’t recall the last time someone spoke to me
Or I opened my mouth without just mouthing the lines
Most people leave me alone and that’s just fine
Cause It’s a mile long, mile wide
mile high and I’m living inside it
There ain’t no doors or no windows
You might want to visit me you can’t get in though
It’s a mile high, mile wide, mile deep, mile thick
Big brick of my heart
I’ve got love
Just not that much
I’m saving it up for a special occasion
Once there was someone
I couldn’t love her enough
She took it and run now I’ve gone on vacation
It’s a mile long, mile wide
mile high and I’m living inside it
There ain’t no doors or no windows
You might want to come visit me you can’t get in though
It’s a mile high, mile wide, mile deep, mile thick
Big brick of my heart
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7. |
Alligator Man
02:46
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I’m the last great radio ventriloquist
Underwater arsonist
The omega and the egg
I’m the only man you’ve ever kissed
Half demon half exorcist
I’m the M. Night Shyamalan twist
I’m an alligator man!
It’s all gotta happen a little bit later
Manana Manana...
I’m an alligator man
Well my horoscope tells me I’m not superstitious
And I don’t believe in visions
Cause God came to me in a dream
And He told me I was being too ambitious
So I stopped doing the dishes
Yeah I’m an alligator man!
It’s all gotta happen a little bit later
Abracadabra alakazam!
I’m an alligator man
Sitting here writing my manifesto
Waiting for the wounds to fester
The best is yet to be forgotten
Your sweet tooth is spoiled rotten
Even the rocks have hit rock bottom
Can you believe how bad it’s gotten?
Well hold on Baby cause Daddy’s coming
He’s an alligator man
It’s all gotta happen
Manana Manana Manana...
I’m an alligator man
See you later!
See you later!
I’m an alligator man.
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8. |
Party Town
02:39
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Hot damn it’s a party town
Up ‘til dawn and we’re just getting started
Let the lions loose in the streets and call the police
They’re occupied!
Break into the banks take the bills
Straight to the casino and lay the bet down
Hot damn it’s a party town!
Pay the hookers to fuck each other
Take the cocaine just to come down
Hot damn it’s a party town!
All alone in my room crying
Naked, shaking, I think I’m dying
And I got no more money and I’m covered in blood
And the only thing I feel is not good enough
Hot damn it’s a party town
Up ‘til dawn and we’re just getting started
Let the Warthogs loose in the streets and call the police
They’re broken hearted!
Break into the banks guns blazing
Take the bills into the hills
Killing everyone in sight, it's amazing!g
Gun them down! Gun them down!
Hot damn it’s a party town
My skull is on fire
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9. |
Guilty Feet
04:07
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I walk with a skip in my step
Even though I’ve got a heavy heart
From the sad scene I just left
When I tore your world apart
Cause I was cruel to the core
Now I’m taking it out on the dance floor
Those bad feelings I was feeling
I’m not feeling them no more
Because I’m dancing
And somewhere George Michael must be laughing
That song that he was singing, he knew it was a lie
Spare me your careless whispers, guilty feet dance fine
And I slide and I hustle
Glide and I spin
Shaking down every muscle
Sweating away my sins,
Cause I was cruel to the core
Now I’m taking it out on the dance floor
Those bad feelings I was feeling
I’m not feeling them no more
Because I’m dancing
And somewhere George Michael must be laughing
And an angel must be crying for this lost soul of mine
Spare me your careless whispers, guilty feet dance fine
I’m dancing
And somewhere George Michael must be laughing
And I don’t want no freedom, but I don’t want to do no time
Spare me your careless whispers, guilty feet dance fine
Should of known better than to cheat a friend, guilty feet dance fine.
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10. |
The Love Jihad
02:49
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All the arms of Shiva ain’t gonna hold you now
You’re no true believer, you killed the holy cow
And here’s how:
You forgot that Love is greater
Than any god in your pantheon
Every kiss is a conversion
Every hate is a perversion
You’re not making a better version
You can’t fight the Love Jihad
You can’t find the love you had
You can’t fight the Love Jihad
You can’t fight it though you try so bad
You can cancel all
The higher denominations
Make the people stand in line
To cash in their chips across the nation
You’re riding high
ut I’ve seen your show and it’s unwatchable
Trying to turn your brother
Into some kind of new untouchable
You think we’re so unlovable?
You can’t fight the Love Jihad
You can’t find the love you had
You can’t fight the Love Jihad
You can’t fight it though you try so bad
We’re coming for your women
We’re coming for your men
We’re coming for you
It never ends.
You can’t fight the Love Jihad
You can’t find the love you had
You can’t fight the Love Jihad
You can’t fight it though you try so bad.
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The heroes aren’t here for you
No there’s nothing you need to do
Thank you for your service
You really do deserve this
At a safe remove
When it all blew up you really showed your stuff
You really came through
That’s what we expect from you
You really came through
Twenty-one-gun salute
The heroes aren’t here for us
They’re the only ones that they can trust
Watch each other’s backs when they’re under attack
That’s what we’ll need when we send them back
When it all blows up you know what we’ll do?
We’re counting on you!
We know you’ll come through
We’re counting on you!
Twenty-one-gun salute
Wrap you in the mantle
It’s all dismantled
Hit the ground!
The heroes aren’t here for you
No there’s nothing you need to do
Thank you for your service
You really do deserve this
At quite a safe remove
When it all blows up...
Twenty-one-gun salute.
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12. |
Always In Fashion
03:52
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Death of a thousand cuts in a single stab
As I bleed out I grab all that I can grab
The diminishing returns
At least I lived to see the whole thing burn
In the final flashes
I saw the rising ashes
Sometimes I wonder what’s the use
Pulled from the electric chair by a hangman’s noose
But I’m not frightened
As the knot tightens
They can’t hurt you
If you’re already in the future
Black is always in fashion
Take your passion and take your fear
Take your angry disappointment
Write it on a postcard and send it right here
Black is always in fashion
It’s the last thing you’ll ever hear
And it’s a hit, and then you forget it
Make a voice memo and send it right here
Learn to look it in the eye
Stare it down and say “Maybe you’re looking for some other guy.” Hoping for a pardon
But the Pharaoh’s heart has hardened
And there’s always room
For more servants in the tomb
Black is always in fashion
Take your passion and take your fear
Take your angry disappointment
Write it on a postcard and send it right here
Black is always in fashion
It’s the last thing you’ll ever see
And it’s a masterpiece, take a snapshot, send it to me
In the darkest depths of nothing something’s always tumbling out
Hold onto your assumptions, but leave room for a little doubt
How could we do it without you?
We’re about to find out
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts forever
Black is always in fashion
Take your passion and take your fear
Take your angry disappointment
Write it on a postcard and send it right here
Black is always in fashion
It’s the last thing you’ll ever know
It’s the endless intermission
Enjoy the show! Enjoy the show!
Black is always in fashion
Black is back it’s always in fashion
Black is always in fashion
Black is back!
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13. |
It's Only A Heart Attack
02:15
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If I seem blasé
Clutching my chest on the carpet where I’m laid out unafraid
It’s just it’s not that much to me
This is easy
It’s only a heart attack
It’s only a heart attack
I’ve had worse
The worst hit I ever took was yours
When you broke my heart it all went black
But this is only a heart attack
Tightening around my chest
I’ll admit that I’m not feeling my best
But don’t get distressed
Whoozing and my vision’s blurred
You think this is hard? This ain’t hard.
It’s only a heart attack
It’s only a heart attack
I’ve had worse
The worst hit I ever took was yours
When you broke my heart you could hear it crack
But this is only a heart attack
It’s only a heart attack
You took away something that I can’t get back
It’s the ugly truth when I’m facing facts
When I look in the mirror there’s no looking back
And the bags are packed, the cards are stacked
I try to line them up exact but there’s something out of whack
And look at me I’m lying right here on my back
But it’s only a heart attack
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14. |
Chronos (None Too Soon)
03:19
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All the Yohos
Are swearing at our women
While old Chronos
He's trying to eat his children
But he can't tell time
Because his watch is broken
And he's gotta get out
Because the people have spoken
He can't run his company
Cause nobody likes his company
He can spit and shout until his face turns red
And clutch his tiny heart and then drop dead
None too soon!
His arteries choking
None too soon!
His system is broken
None too soon!
Maybe he'll be paralyzed
None too soon!
I can see the fear in his eyes
As he dies
None too soon!
All the wannabes
Are marching in a line
They're waiting on a moment
Yeah they're looking for a sign
When the knives come out
Their hands are clean
And we'll do it all again
In 2023
They try to put the cat back in the bag
And try not to light these gas soaked rags
Pretend to love all the things they hated
Now that old Chronos has been castrated
Chop chop!
None too soon!
Cut off his dick
None too soon!
It's a lousy little prick
None too soon!
Hear it hit the water
None too soon!
Fuck him and fuck his daughter
She'll be coming right after
None too soon!
Close your eyes this might hurt a bit
There's a new guy coming and he's boring as shit (Thank God)
He's only molested maybe once or twice
In this day and age that passes for nice
Get ready for the new day coming
Get ready for the new day coming
If you don't like you can crawl away and die
None too soon!
Your arteries choking
None too soon!
Your system is broken
None too soon!
Yeah you're paralyzed
None too soon!
I can see the fear in your eyes
As you die
None too soon!
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15. |
Learn To Sing
04:20
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I can hear those pigeons
Clawing through the wall
Is it my imagination
Or are they gonna kill us all?
Rolling on the floor
Like Denzel Washington
In Mo Betta Blues
Crying over you
I met my younger self
He asked if I could help
I told him just one thing
"Learn to sing, kid
Learn to sing"
The Mississippi blues
Never called to you
But that long tidal river
Keeps on rushing through
And I never found a job
That could suit my mind
Cause I'm well skilled
At robbing people blind
I met my later self
I asked him it felt
And what the future brings
He said "Learn to sing
Learn to sing"
If I ever learn to sing I'm gonna belt it to the back
For all the pain you felt and all the love you lack
And I could wail and whoop and moan
It don't mean nothing cause I'm singing all alone
I met my younger self
He asked me how I helped
I didn't have a thing
Learn to sing
Learn to sing
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16. |
Fever Dream
03:06
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The sun is shining
In the oceans of your eyes
I get this funny feeling
Every time you flutter by
Are you a hallucination?
Are you my imagination?
If I look too closely
Will you disappear?
Are you a vision
From a fever dream I'm having?
I wouldn't want to wake up
For a million years
Just let me sleep
Cause you're the kind of dream I'd like to keep
You smell like toast and flowers
You've got this power over me
I could hold your hand for hours
And never have to pee
Are you a hallucination?
Are you my imagination?
Are you the product
Of some elaborate hoax?
Are you a vision
From a fever dream I'm having?
If I try and touch you
Will it all go up in smoke?
I keep hoping
That what's happening is real
Cause no one makes me feel
The way you make me feel
Are you a hallucination?
Are you my imagination?
The confabulation
Of some dessert oasis
Are you a vision
From some crazy dream that I keep having?
Cause you're far sweeter
Than any ice cream I've ever tasted
You're a dream
So sweet
Oh my baby
You're like a pumpkin
But you're prettier than that
Oh baby
You're a ripe tomato
In an alligator hat
Oh baby
I can't seem to find the words
But you're my little bird
And that is that
Oh my baby
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17. |
1000 Wishes
04:28
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The week you left
I was trying to clear things out
I was digging through the attic
And in this old grey box I found
A Persian lamp, I wiped it clean
It’s a movie you’ve all seen
There was a flash of light, a Genie freed
He offered to grant one wish to me
What would it be?
I wished for a thousand wishes
I’m no fool
I wished for a thousand wishes
Every wish I wished for you
I let things slide
I let them fall apart
I stepped outside myself
It was hard to let you back in my heart
Ugly words crossed my lips
I saw your face harden, you just took it
Until you couldn’t take any more
You walked out that door
I’m gonna wish it didn’t happen anymore
I wished for a thousand wishes
I’m no fool
I wished for a thousand wishes
Every wish I wished for you
The creature smiled
With a flourish of his hand
His lips twisted
He said “Your wish is my command.
You’ve had a hundred thousand wishes
What’s a thousand more?
You can wish your days away
Just like you did before
Here’s a thousand wishes
Wish for whatever you ever wanted
But you just wasted
The only wish I ever granted
I wished for a thousand wishes
I’m a fool
I wished for a thousand wishes
Every wish I wished for you
Not one of them came true
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18. |
Ringmaster
03:10
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I’m the ringmaster for this circus
You’re gonna have to suck us or you’re gonna have to jerk us
If you want to get in to the real show in the back
Cause our freaks are the very best freaks
We’ve got a full-grown dwarf and nun who never speaks
And a two headed man who’s been decapitated twice
He’s still walking around; he’s got broad shoulders
We’ve got an old man who keeps getting older
Every minute of the day he says
He’s got an hourglass and it’s empty
We’ve got a clown who doesn’t wear make-up
Watch the Siamese twins kiss and make up
And make out with each other and their mother
It’s not a clean show but you knew that coming in
And the bearded lady she’s going bald
And we’ve got this kid who’s just sick of it all
And I mean every disease, for a dollar you can watch him slowly die And if you’ve got five he’ll come back alive
And if you’ve got ten you can look in
At this taxidermied creature we did something weird with
It doesn’t look too good but you can tell your friends you saw it and they didn’t
That's right
And any sin that you’d like to look on
And any drug you’d like to get hooked on
Any crime or inequity
Because we’re the dregs of society
We couldn’t make it in show business so we ended up here
And I’m the ringmaster for this circus all you malingerers and lurkers Better come up with some scratch or get out of here
Then there are those sexual favors I mentioned earlier...
I’m the ringmaster to this circus
At least I made it this far
At least I’m not a whore
But we’ve got those too!
Gentlemen behind door flap number two!
We got it all!
We got it all!
Ladies and gentlemen, we got it all!
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Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band New York, New York
Dan Kilian swallows hot coals of worry, regret and sorrow, then spits out rough diamonds of pop music. He's well regarded in the Antifolk scene, and whatever that is happening in Park Slope.
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