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spring has come!
00:48
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robins in the yard
robins in the air
such an abundance of robins
i probably shouldn't care
but i do
and there's a patchwork of white
with a stream dividing it
trickling from the road to the field
where there'll be robins, too
robins and you
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dirt (exerpt)
05:26
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got a shovel, got a pickaxe
it's a grave, it's my own
it's a life digging holes
walls too high to sling the dirt
sting in my eyes
the rain will wash it away
it will leave a corpse drowned in the water
come floody, muddy collapse
i shall dig myself
there's time wash your hands clean
be in for supper
watch the dirt trickle down
the thirsty drain
swallows out of sight
and down from your height
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medley
04:38
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i, you and arty and me
you and arty and me
we're as happy as squirrels can be
you and arty and me
we're taking over the world
hey arty, don't you think that subsistence farmers
should really be working in factories?
they won't need a pay raise until
completely modernized and I can give them a call
the world seems so sad, living like pigs
but I'm also kind of glad for the opportunity
to take advantage of their ferality
and assimilate them to my economic morality
ii, poverty
poverty is the legacy of the rich
it allows them to be, well, rich
poverty over 3 billion people
not getting enough of what they need
iii, sod farms, factories, and death
the sod farms where no food's to be grown row upon row
for your stupid lawn in your goddamn dependent neighbourhood
the factories that eat half the land at the stickpit's command
for your hollow legs and the taste of inhumane murdering
iv, sprawl
the sprawl of our communities' new houses
with lawns where forests used to be
but back and forth, back and forth
with our blades, our spinning knife machines
and there are species gone from habitat loss
and people with not enough to eat
and the river's are brown
while the lakes are blue green
v, reprise
you and arty and me
we're as happy as squirrels can be
you and arty and me...
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"democracy"
01:47
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democracy is a word dictators like to use
but they don't give a damn about its meaning
the audience cheers upon hearing the word
from the mouths of power hungry dictators
tomorrow we sigh at the death of our future
they don't give a damn about it...
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big boy's coming to town
02:50
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big boy's coming to town
he's going to just what he pleases
big boy's coming around
he's going to cut down all the trees
he's come to build a shopping mall
for the automobile
building a shopping mall
all you ever wanted was to show off all your wares
show them to the children and send them to get a pair
what is the meaning of all the things we see?
default human nature of the results of history?
big boy's coming to town
he's going to do just what he pleases
big boy's coming around
he's gonna...
WE DON'T NEED A SHOPPING MALL!!!
WE DON'T NEED A SHOPPING MALL!!!
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you take our home for yourself
and say we must hewer your wood
and harvest from your fields for you
and we shiver in the cold outside your door
begging to please let us in so we might warm
and then hewer wood for you
to our cries, no answer/our grievances, ignored.
then suddenly it came that we shall no longer beg
and from there everything fell when we raised our heads
when we freed our hands
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don't want
01:04
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don't want
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Graham Janz recommends:
ToooT Suite
by Arthur & the A-Tones
Arthur and I have worked together, it's true. Especially on this small concept album about toilet paper.
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The Only Punx In Town
by moledebater
It's true I played bass on this album and some other Moledebater EPs. Many of these songs are close to my everyday life. Like when I'm cleaning up garbage and think "whose mess you gonna clean up"?
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Hip Hop Scotch, Get Goin'
by Horsebag Mama
I'm on this album too. Why not, right? But I shouldn't take too much credit, if you read the credits. I cut my hair and Ben and Marshall stopped hanging out with me until it grew back.
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