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Megalodon
04:53
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Deep within the jaws an isotope
Deep within the ridges stem cells
Waves as mountains petrfied
Beneath them swims Megalodon
So we pitch and slide down slopes whose lines
Advance and retreat absent regimes
Like teeth in the mouth
Reaching down deep inside an extinct predator
Whose dorsal fin makes up the skyline
Skeleton of modern industry
It once swam as Megalodon
So we pitch and slide down slopes of time
Like teeth in the mouth of Megalodon
Reaching down deep inside an extinct predator
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Khmer Avatar
02:49
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The Invisible Hand tore the city down
The Disco platform has failed
We lay under Banyan root
The stone lotus, in petrified bloom,
Towers above the statuary reformed as an accretion
The Terra Cotta soldier's salt is the glue in the faults
The military platform prevails
We slid away a carbonate, expressionlessly awaiting the avatar
And the continents, they shake and dance, they sift our pieces
I am stumbling across the Khmer bas relief and on the downward
My knees crumble into stone and dust I'm bleeding out the treasures
Tectonics conspire to swallow me whole
Crushing the chemistries of symbiosis and organelle
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take a switch from the willow tree
Meet me behind the milkhouse door
This will hurt you more than it hurts me, boy
See the gold flash in hs shit-eatin' grin
Hear the snicker the chowderhead brogue
This will hurt you more than it hurts me, boy
Out of sight and sound of your mother
Out of sight and sound with you, stepfather
Out of sight and sound
Brown Courderoy, he's a new friend
Brown Courderoy, It's his uniform
Brown Courderly, he's getting even
From the silo top he's pulling on you with his invisible strings
Behind the rockpile he gently sings
We will hurt him more than he hurt us
Out of Sight and Sound
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Anxiety Disorder
03:00
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Alarm, Alarm
The most intimate voice says, Alarm
Yout tripped the wire that let the poison darts fly
You set the trap that broke your back and started your collapsing
You blew a seal to reveal phytotoxic insides
A pathologic reflection anti-matter collection of bad seeds and clones
Watchful, these little minds, they work wonders build universes to defend
To pretend that the enemy is not in the house
They are not alone trembling in the bush
When surviving the present moment is the best you can do
Informed by memories compressed and dangerous
and coiled to spring, I apprehend
That the enemy is now in the house
We are now trembling in the bush
You scan the skies, only moments left under the missiles
So you run and fall and cut yourself on a broken personality
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Swarm Theory
02:40
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Under latticed wings of shifting symbols
Axioms connect the head to the thorax
United sgments a formula
A distant thrum now soon the skies will darken
The bit storm, the cloud, the swarm is metastatic
The bit storm, the cloud, the swarm is quadratic
Proof comes within numbers astronomic
Toward any cause with means to gather it
A trillion autonomous components
All movement as if by a single mind composed
The bit storm, the cloud, the swarm is quadratic
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Ocean of Storms
04:09
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As you lay seething under your hood of moss and fear
The white gloom of reflection from satellites fails to fill your
Black hole of an eye
As you lay seeping into the mangrove the vital flow
Night beams trap the conscious; implant in orbit a barren sphere
Reborn a sea of dust
I was born on Oceanus Procellarum
On the inching squall between day and night
As you lay sleeping, your limbs the roots down through the swamp,
A dream breaks the surface, a face gasps for air, the moon shines in your
Black hole of an eye
I was born on Oceanus Procellarum on the inching squall between day and night
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Reanimus Cataract
03:35
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They saw the bite wounds and chased you away
No dose could cure you so ran to the wild
Like Jeremiah Johnson the mountain man
Lie in hibernation and you rise again in the spring
When your eyes dropped open and your mind is in the sway
To a foreign alkaloid or alien half-life
You could not quite understand how you wound up doing this
So you roam at random and take what comes your way.
From then on your life is a cataract
Going over the edge is the easiest choice
And looking down from the cliffs above you see the patterns ran against you
I hid under copper leaves like coins over the dry ledge of Niagara
My face broke the frozen ground blind cold stars a galaxy to bedrock
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When the agent found me lying, her arrow knockd and drawn
I tried to move, she said, "Son, don't try it, I've got the drop"
I said, "Oh, I shot my arrows years ago, they're just now whistling back"
My contingent has abandoned and my mouth's a dead connection
I move like the eyeless fish in abyssal water
I stumble from the party, caved in to the forest floor
Shot in the back with arrows
Once upon a time I loosed from my own bow
And later I fell
Birthed and squirrelled in leaves my frozen extremities
Arranged to spend the winter's night wedged into the earth's crust
Man how I failed again
You see, it's all about survival, so I chew the leaves and the seeds
Of these exiled weeds, of these crude remedies
That are worse than the disease
Man how it laid me out.
You see the time-line has two arrows
Catch me now I'm flying backward
Catch me now I think I'm falling
Catch me now
You're a damn good archer 'cause I keep falling
Shot in the back with arrows
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Children ready, get on your marks, get set, GO!
Round and round the track we go
Race round the rim of the hole
We keep climbing out of, we keep climbing out
I reach down to fill my cup against the handicap
You see where the blocks are set, way ahead of the curve
Round and round the track we go..
Reach down to fill my cup against the handicap
You see where the blocks are set...
They say you gotta be practical, you gotta run hard on the trickledown
That there are winners and losers, so you better place in your heat
Heard it said it's the natural order each one's gotta learn his place
Well I'm tired of being bounced around and running hard on the trickle down
Running hard on just a trickle
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Swing your hammers for free
Come on all of you brave people
Let's look back from a crisis averted
And swing your hammers for free
We can forge the times with better reasons
And more elegant modes of action
And swing our hammers for free
Or not at all
Held in the furnace, and quick to the anvil
The instincts must be turned and struck when the iron's hot
History seems so deep just an eyeblink in natural time
Populations burn bright and out unless survival is recast
Mobilize the intellect and redirect the animal
Breath to life the synthetic
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Clovis Points
04:29
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After the exchange is closed on all the profit taking
The towers leaning over test our featherless flight
Because we're jumping free
Where are the technologies that put our feet back on the ground?
Where are our Clovis Points?
Here we run down the edge of lake, smooth sand records our feet
Weapons balanced over shoulders
A dry sun sees a backward History
And we run to take down all giants we can find, every single one
These songs, they are our Clovis Points
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Alarms & Controls Washington, D.C.
We are:
Chris Hamley: guitar, vocals
Arhur Noll: bass
Vin Novara: drums
Burleigh Seaver: guitar
Michael Honch: bass (2010-2013)
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