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Category 5 Sexplosion
07:03
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Take a stance on the upside down side
Everything is moving through a measurable unit of time
You can only live one immeasurable now at a time
You are human, I’m an animal
And this kingdom is right where I belong
Runner of the human race
Lightyears away, the finish line fades
Tenant of time and space
Nothing to sign, nothing to pay
Person’s place
Hide-and-seeker of anonymous fame
Lightyears away, it’s a microscopic frame
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Fun Lovin Soul
02:29
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If there’s a god I think he’d probably be a neutral kind of guy
If there’s a devil I think he’d probably be a neutral kind of guy
I’m just swimming circles round this backbeat
I’m just drawing circles round a sun beam
I love that fun lovin soul
If there’s a world I think it’s probably safe to say that it turns
If there’s an afterworld I think it’s probably safe to say that it burns
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Toad Warrior
02:16
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His body is a person
Whose brain doesn’t mind him
Into another dimension
There’s a him who’s hip to the bullshit
Everywhere you go
Peripheral freedom
You’re walking a fine lined white line
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Automatic Action
03:04
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Ask yourself why you do what you do
and run down the list until many becomes a few
Four, three, two, one, a few becomes one
I already know that my answer is ‘I don’t know’
Automatic action is all that I do
And so do you, it’s all that we do
And if you needed a reason to do what you do
I’m not even sure that you ever would make a move
If you were meant to find truth, you’d be able to
ask a relevant question that there is an answer to
You are the one for me, as plain as I can see
It couldn’t be clearer you are like a mirror to me
Infinitely, you are the one for me, as plain as I can see
It couldn’t be clearer you are like a mirror to me
An answer to no question
I already know that my answer is ‘I don’t know’
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Face Off
02:37
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There’s nothing that you have to do
There’s nothing that you have to prove
I tell you no one can tell you how to tell
In limbo forevermore, keeping score
There’s no one that I need to be
There’s no one else that i could be
I tell you no one can tell me how to tell
How to tell you’re free
How to tell you’re true
How to tell you’re going insane
There’s nothing that you have to say
If verbs and nouns were foreign sounds
You wouldn’t understand me right now
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Guinea Pig
03:11
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If under an almighty god
If under a god fearing man
If gravity bound to the ground
If under the dirt six feet down
If under the swift shifting hourglass sands
If under the hourglass sands!
I’m in the midst of my cup of tea
We parted the trees with a shepherd’s staff
Flooded the herd down the valley concrete
Seems everything in this free western world
Was built just for me
My furniture, my clothes, my tv, my home,
My cigarettes are rolled just for me
I feel like a guinea pig stuck in a god forsaken cage
Let me out! Let me out! Let me out!
Signing my name with a blood stain
Once I was an on-again-off-again image of myself
I was the image of myself
Signing my name with a blood stain
They’re calling my name for the cold wind
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Dr. Placebo
04:15
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Built from bone, placebos and a soul
Love is blind, dirt cheap thrills, sugar pills
Made by the monkey maker
Taken by the undertaker
A grain of dirt removed and caved in the earth
Eat to live, live to eat, eat to taste
Gravitate heavy weight, weightless hole
Made by the monkey maker
Taken by the undertaker
Swatted a fly, killed every bird in the sky
Imageless images mark my home
Made by the monkey maker
Taken by the undertaker
One drop from the faucet will burn out the sun
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The Cheese Stands Alone
02:38
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On a big thing that spins
You put a spin on things
A spin that’s spinning out of control
We’re on the brink of it
It’s on a sinking ship
No need to fear for the walking fish
I may have misjudged you
For ever judging me
Yea I may have mistook your take
The rat gets the cheese
The cheese stands alone
No need to fear for the walking fish
On a big thing that spins
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Make It Rain
02:30
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Paralysis of analysis is coming back
There was a man who set himself on fire
Then he sat entirely still
He’s still coughing up smoke
Oh must it be!
That it’s either you or me
Well it’s you, cause it sure ain’t me
And life was just a vision or a dream
Memory
A story in the pages of a book
You’re surely not as stupid as you look
Don’t let yourself get the best of yourself
Sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Do a dance and make it rain
Say a prayer and levitate
Turn that fuckin monkey into a man who hates change
His heart beats white water rapidly
His mind swings from a tree
His life is just an insect on the wall
Empty box
A precious stone amongst an endless sea
A fate by chance, his will was meant to be
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Underlings and Kings
05:48
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It might as well be nothing, everything, anything at all
And I’d rather struggle with funny things than miss it again
And I want to make it my friend
Till the end of time
Do with me what you will until my foot prints on its own
To follow the bleeder that teeters the weepers and cold souls
And I want to make it my home
Till the end of time
The one to consider considered it done
Gave me a kiss and I was real
Finally I’m real!
I can tell you’re bad
If it’s the same old thing
For underlings and kings, playing a role
It wouldn’t even matter where you are
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Skatterbrains
07:36
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Out of the womb, into the tomb
Out of this world, into the moon
A magical, miracle, minuscule molecule
Wades in the pale moon, immune to it
Bathes in the blue sky, used to it
Counts an electronic day’s minutes
Crumbles a humble return to thin air
What a material sin!
Oh the plight that wears upon people!
It’s a ridiculous thing to be free without ever knowing
To be in the world but not with the world
Live a life and there’s nothing to do but live it
Breathe a breath, bleed red, yea there’s not much to it
People sigh and they cry and they agonize for it
And ‘I wish it was that easy’ is easy for you to say
Die a death easily the epitome of ease
At the end do you transcend ends and beginnings?
Once upon a timeline, twice upon a white light?
And ‘I wish it was that easy’ is easy for you to say
I met a being with a self-fulfilling reason to be
She lit a fire in the pupil of a ghost faculty
It’s plume caught in the wind, spread thin into the air
Someone I’ve never met and I are breathing it in
A little birdie told me the world has come to an end
She said ‘I feel so alive in such an exciting time!
When all is revealed it’s strange to be a stranger
The woe of the world reduced to breathing it in’
You were the world’s worst pretender
You looked into the eye, you just couldn’t lie
True to the world’s reservations
The shadow of light, rainbow black and white
You wouldn’t forgo your nature to accommodate a thing
This space is so spacious a weightlessness substance for you
Indibidigidible
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Family Animals Scranton, Pennsylvania
Family Animals are an alternative rock band from Northeast Pennsylvania, spanning an eclectic array of sounds such as
psychedelia, punk, funk, and progressive rock.
Comprised of long-time friends and brothers, Family Animals continue to transform their sound, constantly experimenting and writing new material. Their latest album, 'The End is Mere' is set to be released February 16th 2019.
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