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Noodle
01:10
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Diseased Machinery
01:47
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Playing God With Insects
02:03
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All afraid and all alone you swat a common fly
He would have survived the fallout - you would have died
So you kill it because it's tiny and you control its life
No control of your life
Playing God with insects
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Over The Edge
01:43
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5. |
Our Friend Neal
01:14
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Oh Neal, what happened to my brother
He's 8 feet tall, kinda ugly and he hovers
Over there by the bathroom
And I've got to take a dump there
Before it goes too far
I guess I better call my mother
Pardon the expression, but he looks like hell
What have you done to him, Neal?
Our friend Neal...
I should have been suspicious when I met your other friends
They took off all there clothes and held a seance in the den
Things around here changed when you evoked satanic ghouls
At least the kids are quiet now when they come home after school
I'm not the kind of guy who frightens very easily
But that slime you ate for breakfast made my stomach pretty queasy
It isn't very cold but your breath is always steamin'
I put two and two together and it comes up you're a demon!
Pardon the expression, but you look like hell
What's going on with you, Neal?
Our friend Neal...
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6. |
Go To Hell
03:02
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I'm not just flesh and blood
So tell me now
Who is this God who threatens my position?
I'll do as I desire
Show me a court that's higher
It's all superstition
And so you cast a spell
You tell me that I'll go to hell
I've got news - guess where I'm living
What acts have you committed
What words have you bullshitted
You have such gall to call me bad...
Just go to hell...
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Thieves Are Thieves
02:47
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Where does the fiction end?
At the end of the stage? No!
I put the bruises on your hips
And the cold sores on your lips
How do you want to die?
Have you got your seven sins?
How about a cancer?
Or will a bullet do you in?
Coca-cola classic kids
Spending the summer in Brazil
Terracotta Porsches
And daddy pays the bills
But he's in a special prison
He borrowed company funds
All the cons there are bankers, accountants and bad nuns
A thief is a thief...
And have you fucked for money?
How do you support your habit?
I don't want no phone job - I don't work for gratis
And I'll show you who you are
In the backseat of your car
I love you
And I don't want to go to school
Had enough of that shit
I just want to be loved but I can't steal it...
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8. |
Nightmare
00:40
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Splitting Image
01:44
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Sad, slow, and boring song
Is this the shape of things to come?
And if it is, why do I try at all?
Maybe we can set the date
To suffer the Huskers fate...
And my image seems to be splitting
And I'm sick to death of these pretentious worms
Sacrificed a normal life to spill my guts on the floor for you
Who are these people?
And why do they matter at all?
My image seems to be splitting...
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No Soul
02:11
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Hemlock
03:24
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What was I eating - hemlock or Heather?
Can't stop the bleeding
Does it get better?
There's something you're not telling me
Find a way to tell me honestly
It disturbed me - what you said
Draft my apology
Bars of a cage
We came together
Became outraged
There's something you're not telling
Find a way to tell me honestly
I cannot live like this anymore
My body's riddled and festered with sores
Am I really passing on?
There's something you're not telling me
Find a way to tell me honestly
I need answers
I need a sign
No one believes me
Do I have time?
Have you forgotten?
Did you forget?
How can you mock me?
I paid my debt
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If God Is Dead
02:12
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Ambitions were never ambitious enough for me
Nothing left that I want to be
I heard the news - can it be true?
Now *there's* something I'd like to be!
If God is dead, then gimme the job...
Taking the power is a lonely road
Who cares if you've got control
Stick a needle in your eye
Just did it and don't know why
Because you lied to me
If God is dead, then gimme the job
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Radiation Victim
01:38
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Blood & Steel
03:13
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Fake
02:47
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Human Feces
03:23
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C'mon Baby Tonight
02:45
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18. |
In The Afternoon
02:49
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19. |
Assault
01:08
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20. |
Interlude #69
02:58
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21. |
96 Hours (Part 1)
02:52
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22. |
Big Electric Fred (II)
01:14
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23. |
Boys For Hire
03:30
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Deviant & The Clones Vancouver, British Columbia
Deviant: underground musician and by-product of the thriving Vancouver scene 1981-1992. Too many projects and pseudonyms to enumerate here, but subscribing here: ffarchives.bandcamp.com opens the whole can of worms. Mostly demos & GMOs here. 20+ bandcamp pages for other stuff. Active in Chicago in the 2000s, LA. and San Francisco in the 2010s, before retreating to a compound in Colorado. ... more
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