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Freud's Shit Nephew
05:53
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Wear hair long, buy more hairnets
Green is in, buy green cigarettes
Actors in lab coats announce
Thumbs up for the food in Pavlov’s pound
Did I eat my canary?
Did you use your magic on me?
Physicians recommend you eat bacon and eggs
Defeat collectivists with morbid self-interest
So no more tea and toast, it’s bacon coast to coast
The surgeon-general declared it pleasurable
Choke these primal urges
Sate my demons, send me for a splurge
Professional poison inside my head
It shapes the leaders and the led
Vaudeville pancakes with the president
Is there such thing as enough?
Can I turn the beeping off?
Make it stop
Wave your wand at Guatemala
Watch it turn into a banana (na na na)
Move over Joseph Goebbels
Went off like a hundred Chernobyls
Did I eat my canary?
Did you use your magic on me?
Physicians recommend you eat bacon and eggs
Defeat collectivists with morbid self-interest
So no more tea and toast, it’s bacon coast to coast
The surgeon-general declared it pleasurable
Choke these primal urges
Sate my demons, send me for a splurge
Professional poison inside my head
It shapes the leaders and the led
Vaudeville pancakes with the president
Is there such thing as enough?
Can I turn the beeping off?
Make it stop
Did I eat my canary?
Did you use your magic on me?
Physicians recommend you eat bacon and eggs
Defeat collectivists with morbid self-interest
So no more tea and toast, it’s bacon coast to coast
The surgeon-general declared it pleasurable
Choke these primal urges
Sate my demons, send me for a splurge
Professional poison inside my head
It shapes the leaders and the led
Vaudeville pancakes with the president
Is there such thing as enough?
Can I turn the beeping off?
Make it stop
Make it stop
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I never know what time it is
I never know what day it even is
I never know what time it is
Till it’s too late
Maybe I could keep
A diary
I never know what time it is
Till it’s too late
I never know what time it is
I never know what day it even is
I never know what time it is
Till it’s too late
Disorganised
Good Lord, is that the time?
I never know what time it is
Till it’s too late
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3. |
Desert Island Dicks
03:14
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We crashed a plane and we’re stuck on a desert island, yeah, oh
Can’t do a thing except send smoke signals up into the air, oh
And we don’t know how to survive, we’re too civilised, oh no, my god
And we’ve got time to kill, get saved, but until then, let’s be... desert island dicks
Desert island dicks, we’re desert island dicks
And we run around and stab each other generally just acting like pricks
Desert island dicks, desert island
Desert island dicks, we’re desert island dicks
Cause now tolerating other human beings is a problem we can fix
Desert island dicks, desert island dicks
Let’s all be primitive, let’s all strip down to our underpants, oh
Let’s all make spears and kill each other and hide between the plants, oh
Yeah, let’s hunt, fight and sometimes kill, let’s grow wings and gills, yeah, let’s have fun
Cause we’re not going home, so leave us alone for we’ve become... desert island
Desert island dicks, we’re desert island dicks
And we run around and stab each other generally just acting like pricks
Desert island dicks, desert island
Desert island dicks, we’re desert island dicks
Cause now tolerating other human beings is a problem we can fix
Desert island dicks, desert island dicks
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You think you’re all there is, a star of denial
And that’s how you ran him over at zero miles
Your conscience has manual override
And the boredom keeps you up at night
There you are
A display kitchen that’s come to life
In beige and slate
Looking out for number one
The work will stop but it’s never done
Your conscience has manual override
And the boredom keeps you up at night
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5. |
Decompose and Swim
02:31
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Under every drop of rain
From the seabed to the sky
Every drop of urine from dinosaurs
And every tear that’s dried
Voices cross the ocean floor
Passing through you every day
As you carry their discussions
But you can’t hear what they say
Shoot you up into space
Drop you one town away
Shoot you up into space
Drop you one town away
Shoot you up into space
Drop you down, one town away
Ancestors decompose and swim
Words run through wires
As sparks traverse their silent dream
Midwifed by divers
Shoot you up into space
Drop you one town away
Shoot you up into space
Drop you one town away
Shoot you up into space
Drop you down, one town away
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6. |
Super Bravo
01:19
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La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
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7. |
Other People
02:07
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You’ve gotta be independent
You can’t ask much of your friendships
You might think someone’s beside you
But they can always surprise you
When they’re nowhere to be found
They never lift you up, they let you down
Other people, other people
Other people are the bane of
Other people, other people
Other people are the bane of my life
Are the bane of my life
Isn’t better to have loved and lost
I prefer to live at lower cost
Without emotional bonds
I’m free to just get things done
And though my life may be dull
At least it’s in my control
Other people, other people
Other people are the bane of
Other people, other people
Other people are the bane of my life
Are the bane of my life
Are the bane of my life
Are the bane of my life
Are the bane of my life
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C+
02:18
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I’ll just stay home and teach the dog to flush
We can split up, the kids are old enough
And your hand’s not even
Talking to me anymore
That’s all right, I know, I’m a bore
I’m C-plus right across the board
Neither bad nor good at anything
I wait for my reward
I’m C-plus, I’m informed, in touch
I know just a bit of everything
And not a lot of much
Forgettable, fluid-faced pedestrian
Vanilla kaleidoscope, I’m protean
And I never make a sound
Never thought that I’d amount
To someone so mentally sound
I’m C-plus right across the board
Neither bad nor good at anything
I wait for my reward
I’m C-plus, I’m informed, in touch
I know just a bit of everything
And not a lot of much
Once upon a time so long ago
I went up to my ivory dome
I’d never been out of my comfort zone
I’d never been so far from home
I’m C-plus right across the board
Neither bad nor good at anything
I wait for my reward
I’m C-plus, I’m informed, in touch
I know just a bit of everything
And not a lot of much
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9. |
I Love Everything
01:58
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I just wanted to tell you that I love everything
And I don’t even care because I love everything
And now I don’t mind
Everything will turn out fine
In the end
Unless the same thing happens to me again
I just woke up today and found I love everything
It’ll all be okay, you know – I love everything
I think life is good
Life will pan out like it should
In the end
Unless the same thing happens to me again
No other news, nothing to do
So I write to you
Don’t be afraid, maybe someday
You could like me too
I just wanted to tell you that I love everything
And I don’t even care because I love everything
And now I don’t mind
Everything will turn out fine
In the end
Unless the same thing happens to me again
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It doesn’t matter how you live
What you get or what you give
Just how drunk or fit you get
Or if you win the bet
Or if you stay in bed
It doesn’t matter, life’s not fair
It doesn’t matter and no one cares
How long you live or how you die
Or if you were a decent guy
It doesn’t matter, and no one cares
If you leave or if you stay
How you choose to spend your day
You could find some things to
Or hang out in your room
Writing hackneyed tunes
It doesn’t matter, life’s not fair
It doesn’t matter and no one cares
How long you live or how you die
Or if you were a decent guy
It doesn’t matter how you look
Or if you’ve never read a book
It doesn’t matter, and no one cares
Do what you’re told
Die when you’re old
Know when to hold ‘em
And fold ‘em, like Kenny Rogers
If you don’t know what is in
Or do not understand that meme
Or if you haven’t seen that film
Or if you join a gym
Or if she chooses him
It doesn’t matter, life’s not fair
It doesn’t matter and no one cares
How long you live or how you die
Or if you were a decent guy
It doesn’t matter how you look
Or if you’ve never read a book
Or if you’ve never had a job
Or if you never find true love
It doesn’t matter, and no one cares
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