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1. |
Probably Nothing
03:33
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Your disk is too slow
Your drive's hanging low
You don't feel right
Call it in tonight
Life is a drag
What else is new
Maybe I think I think
There's something else to do
No no no
I guess I was wrong
Oh oh oh
I'm still singing that song
It goes…
{It's probably nothing}
Life's hanging low
They foreclosed your home
Your dog thinks you're a dick
Well actually you are a dick
Oh oh oh
You could get screwed up about it
Screwed up again
Thinking too much, can't sleep
Draggin it out again
Taking stabs all you want moving
Cuz who are you anyway
Why'd you say that shit to him?
Why'd ya split it that way anyway?
What's wrong? {Probably nothing}
What's wrong? {Probably nothing}
Probably nothing {Probably nothing}
Probably nothing {It's probably nothing}
Do I need to say it again?
It's probably Nothing {Probably nothing}
Why is Nothing always bothering me?
Hey Nothing can't you bully somebody else?
It's probably nothing {Probably nothing}
Probably nothing {Probably nothing}
I'm pulling my hair out
Draggin me into the street
Oh, what's wrong? {Probably nothing}
What's wrong? {It's probably Nothing}
It's a chronic problem I guess.
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2. |
Spine of the Staircase
02:17
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Always every step of the way
Keep down on the spine of the staircase
That's all I've got to say
I'll play it as it lays
Anyway
Tripping on the sidewalk
Shoulda fixed that crack
Chalked arrows bring me back
It's a pain
It's the spine of the staircase
Leave it alone
That's all I've got to say
I'll play it as it lays
Anyway
Keep down on the spine of the staircase
Keep down on the spine of the staircase
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3. |
God Awful
03:28
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God awful
God awful
God awful things are happening, I say
God awful
God awful
God awful things are happening again
Where you wanna take it
Where you wanna go
I say god awful
What do they want
What do they want from
God awful
What do they want
What do they, yeah heh, want from
Why you think
There couldn't be a link
Now there's nothing to eat
And nothing to drink
In a hole
It's god awful
It's god awful
Where you wanna take it
Where you wanna go
What do you want me to say?
It's god awful
Why did you think you could make it
Just a joke about it
Just a joke about it
Did you think it was funny
Are you laughing now
Where you wanna take it
Where you wanna go
It's god awful
For everybody
This stinks
I don't want to be a part of it
It's god awful
It's god awful
Fucking awful
Fuck this
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4. |
Don't Really Think So
02:43
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Is it real?
I don't really think so
Is it gonna last?
I don't really think so
When am I gonna learn?
When am I gonna pay attention?
When am I gonna burn?
When am I gonna attract attention?
Oh!
Is it gonna work?
I don't really think so
Is it gonna live?
I don't know
Is it too much?
I don't really think so
Is that all it was?
Yeah I don't really care
When is it gonna turn
Up to stay?
Wasn't it your concern?
Wasn't it an unstoppable runaway?
Is it fair?
I don't really think so
Is it the worst?
I don't really think so
Who am I anyway?
I don't really think so
Why…
Is it what it is?
I don't really think so
Isn't it though?
I don't really think so
Is it all over yet?
I don't really think so
Oh
At the point of no return
When am i gonna pay attention?
Feel so taciturn
When am i gonna attract attention?
Is it good enough
I don't really think so
Is it gonna fly
I don't really think so
What is this for?
I don't really think so
Why…
Is it already lost?
I don't really think so
Has the coin been tossed?
I don't really think so
Has the line been crossed?
I don't really think so
Oh
When are we gonna learn?
When are we gonna pay attention?
When is it gonna burn?
I never could remember
Now hold inside
Burning embers
Is it gonna work?
I don't really think so
Is it gonna live?
I don't really think so
Yeah
I don't really think so
I don't really think so
I don't really think so
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5. |
Guy Fantastic
02:44
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I think I got it right
I think I could show it tonight
I got a new plan, I put it in a dress
It's not a monster
No, it's the new Jess
I think I got a van
I'm gonna live in it, I'm gonna drive to Japan
I'm gonna freak out everyone in my new hat
What do you think of that?
CHORUS:
La la la back to the land
Can't you see it's written in sand
Even Einstein couldn't understand
It's la la lovely to have
A left-hand gland
Hey Jess - What?
You got a new plan I heard
Yeah I learned it from this guy
What was his name - I think it was
Guy Fantastic
Guy Fantastic told me I could
Believe anything that I wanted
Changing my arm into a crane
I could leap up a mountain, live in my van
I've got a plan, I'll drive to Japan
CHORUS
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6. |
Wearing Black
02:49
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It's been awhile
It's been a long time
But I'm back again
I'm wearing black
I got my Ray Bans
I'm looking down at consumerism
I'm wearing black
I'm listening to guitar bands
I don't know what you were thinking
But I'm a feminist, motherfucker
I'm wearing black
I got new ideals
I won't look back
I'm wearing black
I'm wearing black
I'm listening to AC/DC
I won't look back
Johnny Cash is my personal hero
Did you see these tattoos?
Who'd expect it to be the same again?
It'll change into something else
It's a throwback, a revisioning
We're gonna grow up nonlinearly
It's uh attack of the soul
It's a shattered culture
I'm wearing black
Like a vulture
I'm wearing black
I'm looking inside again
I won't look back
Unhunhahahah
I'm wearing black
I got new ideals
Yeah since you asked
I am vegan
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7. |
Number Nine
02:36
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I'm a hound
For multidimensional vices
When they're around
Well you know what my advice is
I wanna get into it, I wanna get out
I wanna see what it's all about
I'm not harmless
But I know what the price is
CHOURS:
The number nine
Getting number all the time
I'm disinclined to have
Wishes on my mind
In the bummer time
It's a victimless crime
Got nothing on my mind
Getting dumber all the time
A loner is never lonely
But no one's on my route anymore
I don't need your testimony
But I don't wanna doubt myself anymore
CHORUS
You can't get out of it
Can't get it into it
What you can't get out of it
You gotta put into it
Beyond a doubt
I wanna see what it's all about
I'm a climber
I climb
CHORUS
Feeling dumber all the time
Waiting on the number nine
Getting number all the time
I'm disinclined
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8. |
Without Queens
03:13
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Broomsticks and jellybeans
Holding down the tent stakes with dramamine
We can't play it fair anymore
Cuz all the written words got torn apart
And reassembled in a deck of cards
Without queens
What was that they caught at the nunnery?
Did they throw her back cuz she was too small
Or because she smelled funny?
Well oh we gotta play this one without queens
Oh that's what it means
Without dreams
Without explanations
It's in our genes
Without communication
There's no feelings
There's no lovers
In quarantine
Without queens
Without the guillotines
Without passion
Like a machine
Oh that's what it seems
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9. |
Rainbowsexploding
03:01
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Rainbowsexploding
Rainbowsexploding
Rainbowsexploding
All night long
Why am I hearing nothing?
I asked you to speak
I asked you to stand on top of the tree
And squeak
Why am I hearing nothing?
Why am I hearing nothing?
Why am I hearing nothing again?
White noise fades to black
Gray matters less and less
Looking at the rainbows
In black and white
In black and white
Why am I hearing nothing?
It's a sound
Why am I hearing nothing?
Why am I hearing nothing?
It's a song
All night long, oh oh
Why am I listening to nothing?
Why am I listening to nothing?
What have you got to say?
Have you any advice for me?
I would like to pray
All night long
If you tell me the name of your yard
I could tell not by me
If you talk to me
I will say please
Say it a little louder
Why am I hearing nothing?
Why am I hearing nothing?
Why am I hearing nothing?
Why am I hearing nothing again?
Like hands of sin
Rainbowsexploding
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10. |
Fascinating When We Lose
03:02
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You don't want to confuse
Screamin J. Hawkins with Stephen Hawking
There 's a temporal disconnect in my brain sometimes
They call it a manufactured train sometimes
Well I didn't hear that from you
Burning kitchen news
Do you find it fascinating when we lose?
Well I didn't
Where do you get your ideas?
And where do you think they go at night?
Where do you think I could use?
If I manufactured the facts
I could be a lot better
Where do you think I could lose
All of my dignity in the world?
But I think perhaps we could choose a better
World in which to do that in yeah
That's OK go ahead just sit there
Where do you think we can break it apart?
Where's the fracture, the seams to take it apart?
I need a heart doctor now
Where do you like to move?
I don't wanna have to choose
Where do you like to be?
I like to be somewhere between you and me
We can't decide, we want to patricide
Our own selves in reverse time
And grandfather ourselves s out of history
And all of those shitty things
Oh we like to lose all the time
Better unwind
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11. |
You Know It
02:05
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You know it unh-hunh
Oh can you hear it
When it dies
Uh bugging eyes screechur
Rolling over your thighs
You know it unh-hunh
Can you expect anything else
To take
Well I couldn't decide
Maybe it didn't go that way
Whoa
Whoa
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12. |
Seem Like an Asshole
03:35
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Whoa oh Grandpa's dead
And everyone was a liar
And I have to leave here
Cuz Grandpa's dead
And you don't want to call
Dead people liars
Cuz you seem like an asshole
Seem like an asshole
Seem like an asshole yeah
Well you seem like an asshole
You seem like an asshole
Seem like an asshole
Yeah
Oh yeah you buddy
I wanted to say something to you
I wanna say
Yeah you seem like an asshole
Seem like an asshole
You seem like an asshole to me
Well I've know a lot of people
In this world
So I guess I could be wrong
Whoa baby but you seem like an asshole
All of my friends say
You're also an asshole yeah
You seem like an asshole to everyone
So what do you say to that?
Oh!
I don't wanna bring you down
But after church in the front row
Everybody was passing a note
I gotta say that caricature
Looked like you but
It also looked like an asshole
Cuz you seem like an asshole
You seem like an asshole in church
You seem like an asshole
You seem like an asshole
I guess you're an asshole
Yeah it could be worse
I mean it could be a lot worse
You could actually have like all your skin
Inverted around your whole body
Like you were an anus to the world
You wouldn't just seem like an asshole
You'd would have gotten your
Deepest darkest secret coming true
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13. |
Vigilante Gang
02:34
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The moon learned a new word tonight
I wouldn't even put up a fight
I joined a vigilante gang that's right
Now no one will win (exist again) anymore
We all forgot the rules
(And then we kept playing)
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14. |
Boxcar Baby
04:04
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Ghost train feeling
Just fine night train
Train me now and don't think twice
Boxcar Baby into the night
I don't want to know about your file
But I hold you too 'til the morning comes
Boxcar Baby
Touching fingers touching toes in the sunfalls
I think I don't know where I left my clothes
Was it in number two or number twenty-six?
I lost my clothes on a night train ho-ho-ho
(But I gained something else)
Boxcar Baby don't let go
Until the morning comes
Boxcar Baby yeah where you wanna lay tomorrow
We can get there I got a flying broomstick
When we were little ones
We held out our faces and we stuck out our tongues
With hands alive and bolts for hearts
We're robots for tomorrow
With all the broken parts
Well Boxcar Baby can you hold me tight
Until tomorrow
Breaks its light
Oh on the broomstick we can fly away
We can take it how they say
Cuz it's not to say
Yeah it's not to say
It's not to say
Boxcar Baby keep me alive
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15. |
High Above
01:58
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The infinite city without electricity
I guess there's no place to hide
Flibberty gibberty goes lickity splitty
And that's the problem everyone needs to elide
We don't want doubles that's too many troubles
And I told you about all these other things
But you seem to be distracted
Be distracted be distracted
Um ha
High above the city below
It hides in the cloud searching alone
We don't want doubles that's too many troubles
There's so many other problems to collect
You could itemize them you could
Come up with a spreadsheet I suppose
If that's correct
(It's correct)
Rising above the city below
Biding its time until the circuits are blown
High above the city below
It dives from above to reclaim its home
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16. |
Work the Ass
03:44
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You couldn't get that up the hill
So you asked a friend and he said
You can borrow my ass
She can haul a load
You can borrow her
And then you try to get the ass
To work for you
You try to instill soul
In the ass
In the ass
Soul in the ass
Soul in the ass
(Just about now)
You could work harder
Or we could come to some kind of
Compromise
Oh watery donkey eyes
Oh can I get you to accept
My ideology
Oh putting an idea
In your eyes
In your ass
In your eyes
In your ass
In your eyes
Going straight to your ass
It's beautiful
It's wonderful
It's lightning in a bottle
It's diamonds with pearls
In your eyes
Pearls in your eyes
Pearls in your eyes
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
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Lemon Thunder Seattle, Washington
All of these songs began with an improvised single take. We recorded many hours worth of weirdo songs, chose the best, and
assembled a Frankenstein's monster of live and dead recording techniques by mutating the arrangements, and enhancing them with cybernetic overdubs. The composition process torn asunder, this is the music of Lemon Thunder.
-- Brandon MacInnis and Jesse Reklaw
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