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Bottomless Pit
02:49
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Step inside my bottomless pit
I want to forget
Do-si-dos with stoner clone-bros
It's all for the show
When dogs would howl at nothing
Well, I used to get annoyed
But now I find there's value
Howling straight into the void
The universe is infinite
But we just can't imagine it
Because we are so trivially small
"Schadenfreude, paranoia"
Our reveille song
Criticize the giant boot while
We're being stepped on
The constant threat of failure
Leaves me feeling overwhelmed
Feeling like a captive
On a ship without a helm
And if I give myself away
I'll live to fight another day
Or live to give myself away again
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It's a portable New Year's Eve
The feeling that things might change
It's a hat you paid too much for
That makes you look a little strange
It's an unbecoming chapeau
I'm the boy that I wish that I didn't know
Picking horsemeat from between my teeth
But I still wish I had more to eat
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Pferdgeist
02:10
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Lately I have found it hard
To phrase my words
In any kind of order
With a meaning at all
I just want to vanish
I wish I were gaseous
Gone, but not forgotten
Just like Lauren Bacall
I'd like to get out of this house I've been haunting
But being around the living can be daunting
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Scabs
03:53
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Surround yourself with cynics and pessimists
Sinister specimens of inhuman pestilence
Savor unpleasantness
Attesting your testament
To life's inherent meaninglessness
There's blood on our hands
Which we all just ignore
Till it dries like a second skin of scabs
That we don't dare to pick at again
He never confronts anything that he's scared of
He only picks fights that he knows he can win
He only hits things that don't move
But maybe someday he'll hit something
Till it can't
"Don't beat yourself up over this"
We're all complicit with guilt and with apathy
"Why can't you just let this go?"
There's blood on my hands
That I just can't ignore anymore
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Swartzwelder Greensboro, North Carolina
Former roomies/former doomies
Max - Gortar
Jesse - "bass"
Alex - Intensely Dormant
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