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The Tragedy Of It All
01:00
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The panic sets in
Anxiety grows
Compare and Despair
I destroy myself
You just can’t turn off
A damaged mind
NO TRUCE
NO MERCY
NO SURRENDER
NO REST
NO MORE
THIS IS WAR
The fear of missing out on
My whole life
Doesn’t stop
Just because
Life has stopped
NO TRUCE
NO MERCY
NO SURRENDER
NO REST
NO MORE
THIS IS WAR
ON MYSELF
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2. |
Crying With A Smile
01:16
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I’m so happy because for the first time in my life my lyrics actually match the state of the whole world I thought I was so alone in despair and existential dread but now everyone verifies my entire musical output and I wasn’t wrong.
Finally.
I can smile.
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3. |
Crystal Blood Mountain
02:40
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Walk along the ridge of the Crystal blood mountain.
Axe in my hand as I stare into deaths black eyes.
I slit of the Cyclops throat who rules the Hyborean age
Or at least in my mind.
Honestly I’m kind of doing nothing.
Just sitting round.
Staring at the sky.
Trying to mentally escape my house.
But honestly not doing a great job of it.
I fall into a rift as I cling to my dimension.
Escaping the claws of the Gorax
or was that a shape shifting grey.
My fantasies are merging with conspiracy theories.
I've lost track of what reality means to me.
And I don't know what to do with my time.
So I think about mountains and axes and monsters and other shit that is not what is going on in the world.
But I swear
this is all a metaphor.
A metaphor for what
I don’t know
(I’m scared)
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4. |
Straight Fucking Edge
00:40
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STRAIGHT FUCKING EDGE
If you’re not now
You never were
Especially now that the world fucking burns
Nailed to the X like I’m nailed to my home
Drugs and booze are still not for me.
Even if I had access I wouldn’t drink
Fist to your face
Boot to your chest
Straight fucking edge
FOREVER
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5. |
(In)Essential Workers
01:27
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Essential workers
Help run society
Now that I look at myself
I don’t think that’s me.
Looking at my resume.
I'm feeling like Ive never had a job.
I mean I've survived.
But it's unclear how.
I'm an artist.
I'm a musician.
I know a lot about comedy.
Not sure that translates into
making money.
Starting to get worried I don't have any actual usable skills.
Essential workers.
Help run society.
Now that I look at myself.
I don't think that's me
Maybe I could learn
how to build something
or use my hands.
Or I could just write about it.
In theory
Im starting to worry all my life choices were wrong.
Starting to think...
I'm fucked
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6. |
Drowning In Negativity
00:52
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Drowning in negativity.
No one is. Above the fray.
No future. No horizon
Tell myself. This too shall pass.
Is it still pessimism
If the whole world feels this way.
I will try.
To take every moment
Every day
Bird by bird by bird by shitty puke filled bird
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Thought we were brothers
Thought we were friends
Thought you had my back till the end
Thought we shared the same hopes and same dreams
Now we’re at the end and its not what it seems
It’s not what it seems
YOU LIED
STABBED IN THE BACK
BY THE WHOLE WORLD
EVERYONE IS OUT TO GET ME
I’M NOT PARANOID
I’M NOT PARANOID
Yeah I saw you online man. I sent you a whole bunch of text messages. Sent you a whole bunch of emails. Even a Google hangout. Bunch of Zoom meetings. I don’t even know how to use Zoom man. Guess you got time to talk to everyone but me.
Guess I’ll talk to you next pandemic.
STABBED IN THE BACK
BY THE WHOLE WORLD
EVERYONE IS OUT TO GET ME
I’M NOT PARANOID
I’M NOT PARANOID
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8. |
Four Walls Crushing
01:59
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When the flies start to crawl so will your flesh
Four flies on grey velvet poster
right next to a Goblin 2013 tour poster hanging on the wall
Just listing off the things I see for lyrics. These four walls are crushing my soul everyday
I Laughed Until i Died
Maryland Deathfest
and Rolling Thunder a High on Fire poster
and a Melvins poster. Halloween III masks, and too many records.
Running out of things to sing about. I need stimulation.
I even think that I covered the same type of topic
in another song on this project.
Life is redundant
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9. |
Governments Suk!
00:40
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Government sucks.
And so do you.
And so do cops
and I do too
Wanna think in black and white
every single day
but it feels a lot harder when the world paints in grey.
Politicians and capitalists
have got us on our knees
but I also want to go to restaurants and movies please
Government sucks.
And so do you.
And so do cops
and I do too
I just can't stand the whole human race.
But I wouldn't mind interacting with the whole human race.
Every day I feel more and more confused about my belief system.
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Yeah he was walking down the middle of the street. No one for miles and miles. And he walked right past Connie O’s. The place he used to wet his whistle every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday night. All alone and then right around the corner. There he was. VIOLENT JOE. The old one armed sailor holding a popsicle that he used to drink with. Arms wide open. Violent Joe came in for the flesh. So he took a deep breath, backed up and looked him straight in the eye and he said
I’M THE KING OF SHIT FUCK MOUNTAIN
And that sent him running man. he just kept running. No more. Six feet. Down. Those days were numbered.
So he walked back alone the way he liked it. Spit on the street. Told himself
“That was the last time the flesh will meet the flesh. It’s over and done. Well maybe we will go get one more drink one last time”
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11. |
This Doesn't Work
01:15
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Sometimes you write a song that you know is just no good.
But in a panic you lie to yourself
All Art Is Good
But you know that this song just doesn’t work.
NOT EVEN IN A PANDEMIC
NO
NO
NO
I don’t want to do this song. These lyrics don’t work. Just like all the of the rest of it. But I recorded this before I tracked this at my house so now you gotta deal with it.
NO
Doesn’t matter anyway
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12. |
Monuments
01:05
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What you leave behind.
Is not what is engraved in stone
But what is woven
Into the lives of others
MONUMENTS
What you leave behind.
Is not what is engraved in stone
But what is woven
Into the lives of others
MONUMENTS
These are the words of inspiration.
Printed on an inspirational tablet displayed in my mother-in-laws house during isolation.
LIVE BY IT!
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13. |
Too Punk To Live
00:59
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Disaster capitalism
play into our fears.
Trying to make me wear a mask
I've been suffocating for years.
Too Punk to live.
Won't believe your lies.
I listened to my heroes
now i'm gonna die.
Jello Biafra gave me the truth
with his irreverent take on the news.
Disaster capitalism
play into our fears.
Trying to make me wear a mask
I've been suffocating for years.
I really liked the song
Goverment flu.
But now I just don't what to do.
Even in a pandemic
I wanna stay punk.
And even with Jello
pedaling junk
Disaster capitalism
play into our fears.
Trying to make me wear a mask
I've been suffocating for years.
It's the fine line between being a realist and being a contrarian punk asshole.
What do you think Jerry Brown????
OK boomer
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Return to the birth of my destruction
Here we are again
The cycle continues
on Crystal Blood Mountain.
Mask upon my face
Axe in my hand.
I don’t think that we should be going anywhere
As the world opens.
None of this feels right
So I return to Crystal Blood Mountain.
The only place I feel comfortable
We are all caught in a rip
between space
and time
as dimensions open I am scared.
Can’t believe we are doing this shit again
HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING
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How much more can you take?!
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16. |
UnityUnityUnityUnity
01:47
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Unity
Unity
Unity
Unity
Punks and skins
Straight Edge and Crusties
Mall punks and Bike Punks
Old hardcore kids and these young hardcore kids that like Nu-Metal too much
Normos and actually interesting people
Liberal, Conservative, and even weird Libertarians who love MMA
Unity
Unity
Unity
Unity
If you’re wearing a mask
Or if you are not wearing a mask
Whatever side of this made up culture war you are on
Well actually
If you are not wearing a mask
STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!
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Geoff Garlock Pasadena, California
Geoff Garlock was the former bass player in Orchid, Panthers and The Year Is One. He currently plays in Ritual Mess and Low Estate as well as composing solo synth recordings, featured here. Geoff is also a comedian and sketch teacher. If you needed to know more he would tell you. ... more
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