1. |
Give It Back
02:44
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The band is a brand.
A dissonant vision
Franchised on stolen land.
Original stewards murdered
Heinously removed
Lands of the Osage, Kaw,
Kickapoo, Souix.
White nationalist scum
Mindless, educated only from
The colonizers’ perspective
Pushing westward, misguided virtue:
Give It Back
Wrongful methods, long overdue:
Give It Back
The least we could do:
Give It Back
The least we could do:
Give It Back
Accompany a new melody
Hear the Revolution calling
A privilege to create, to sleep, consume, fully operate.
A privilege to dissent, to rally, inform, counter-instigate.
Pleading, demanding to be an accomplice
Future present past; what will we accomplish?
Mistakes five hundred years later
No better time than now to get our shit together
How dare we ever forget land we’re occupying
Without consent.
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2. |
Sirens
03:42
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My shape symbol of sex
Stolen and shiftless
Bodies rise from the ground
Broken and weightless
Here is a single scream
A siren to sing myself to sleep
Swallow a smattering of shame
I sigh and strip my skin
Slight and suffering
Silence severs myself
In sections and sheds
Here is a single scream
A siren to sing myself to sleep
Swallow a smattering of shame
Hearing a single scream
Screwing sovereignty
A siren to send myself to sleep
Sustain my skeleton
Salivate I starve instead
Series of stones I store
To smother myself more
Here is a single scream
A siren to sing myself to sleep
Swallow a smattering of shame
Hearing a single scream
Screwing sovereignty
A siren to send myself to sleep
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3. |
Bad Poetry
03:26
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Not afraid to show off those trying teenage years
Scratching velvet to prove she is grown
Stretched and twisted up inside, crying out bad poetry
Spot a comet and try to take it home
One step to meet, one step in mush
Trembling knees, stammer in soot
Tendency of perfectly coloring in lines
An avalanche starting her own slow clap
I want to know her, want to see her seeing me
Breathing fire and ask to join the band
One breath of ease, shake through the pine
Hearts on sleeves, urgency to climb
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4. |
Communion Day
03:30
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St. Michael’s getup, long brown locks
Bright yellow raincoat, golden cross
Little virgin a holy terror
The older one should know better
Bummer that the neighbor’s a creeper
Who’s to blame, the parent or the teacher?
Sit down like a lady and pray
On your sister’s communion day
Bow your head like a lady and pray
On your sister’s communion day
'Cross checkered vinyl, basement shrine
Jar of roaches must be a sign
Little virgin don’t walk on the glass
Why’s the veil in your pocket during mass?
Bummer that the father’s the preacher
Wonder how the mother didn’t teach her
Sit down like a lady and pray
On your sister’s communion day
Bow your head like a lady and pray
On your sister’s communion day
If you tell mom about this, I won’t be your friend
And I guarantee you won’t see your doll again
If you tell mom about this, I won’t be your friend
And I guarantee you won’t see your doll again
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5. |
Escape Room
03:53
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I sabotage myself when I call you drunk at three in the morning
I can be such a danger I should report me to the authorities
There must be a better way to get both sides of a story
But you did me so bad now I’ll probably need surgery
To remove my thoughts
Kept your letters in a box
If it wasn’t locked, I’d get out
I apologize too much for the things you did that hurt me
My political warfare keeps me dry but stuck in the minority
I’d tell them everything if I knew that they’d believe me
Or understand why I’m always trapped in a state of emergency
To prove I’m strong
Put the last word where it belongs
If I knew the code, I’d be gone
Ooh sha la la
Ooh sha la la
Ooh sha la la
Ooh sha la la
I’m criticized for failing to read invisible ink
But the truth is I found a key to free me from insecurity
What combination will keep me safe when you’re priority?
Systemic mistreatment is done because it stops with me
Though we’ve both been wrong
Lovesick for you for too long
If I had a clue, I’d be gone
Ooh sha la la
Ooh sha la la
Ooh sha la la
Ooh sha la la
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6. |
Flamingo Stay
03:25
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Cooped up all day
I wanna get out
And stretch my legs
They can’t make me stay
What’s beyond
And out of sight
I think it’s groovy
You’re so uptight
Goose is loose
Falcon fly away
Stay flamingo stay
Stay flamingo stay
Let me love that I am
Leaving you
And stretch my wings
Help me fly away
At first there’s three
Then there’s two
Into the void
I’ll follow you
Goose is loose
Falcon fly away
Stay flamingo stay
Stay flamingo stay
Eat my trash
Eat my trash
Eat my trash
Eat my trash
Goose is loose
Falcon fly away
Stay flamingo stay
Stay flamingo stay
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7. |
Ignore the Ghost
03:11
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Chilly wind moving through your blouse
Hold your breath passing by my house
Low eyes watch you in the night
Say my name three times I’ll turn off your bathroom light
Roll your eyes hoping I’d disappear
Try to ignore me but I’m still here
I’m a sheet in a corner you’ll know soon
You can’t ignore the ghost in the room
I’ll open your cabinets and drawers
Watch your step on the creaky floors
Static for you to see through
Cry out for help but no one will believe you
Roll your eyes hoping I’d disappear
Try to ignore me but I’m still here
I’m a sheet in a corner you’ll know soon
You can’t ignore the ghost in the room
I’m still here, I’m still here
I’m still here, I’m still here
I’m still here, I’m still here
Roll your eyes hoping I’d disappear
Try to ignore me but I’m still here
I’m a sheet in a corner you’ll know soon
You can’t ignore the ghost in the room
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8. |
Carrot Cake
01:52
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Stuck inside for ten days
Can’t stop thinking ‘bout carrot cake
Plant a garden in my backyard
Hope it grows for goodness sake
Stuck inside for three weeks
On my mind is carrot cake
Rows of seeds, sprouts, and leaves
Waiting on that ground to quake
Stuck inside for four months
Hundred twenty-five days straight
Rip the roots up from the dirt
Now’s the time for carrot cake
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
Waiting ‘round for two years
All I ate was carrot cake
Open wide and stuffed my tum
How much longer will it take
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
Carrot cake carrot cake all I want is
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9. |
Blue Marble
03:58
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Extremely hot or cooler than average
No more room for all of our garbage
Forests on fire, water is rising
Species extinct, permafrost melting
Most gruesome year two thousand nineteen
Carbon impact completely obscene
Why did they wear a thermal in June
You know it’s not even cold out
Try a light jacket in a monsoon
You cannot live with or without
Dress to expect our impending doom
Recycle thoughts to instill doubt
Can’t even count biology losses
No more food, trapped in greenhouse gases
Longer droughts, unemployment rising
Our greatest mistake so polarizing
Virus spread two thousand twenty
Global race for the latest vaccine
Why did they wear a thermal in June
You know it’s not even cold out
Try living freely in a cartoon
You’ll never know what it’s about
Dress to expect our impending doom
Recycle thoughts to instill doubt
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10. |
Ode to Keytar
02:43
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You know where to find me I’ll be in my home
No use in fighting when I’m always alone
I’m done done done don’t even wanna have fun
Panic and run from the life that I have because it sucks so bad
Caught in a cycle always staying in
Too scared to get out to see my friends
Even if they could help me forget
You know how I’m feeling ‘cause I’m always depressed
Nothing over the counter can cure my stress
I’m sinking down down down buried underground
Beginning to drown from the year that I’ve had and it hurts so bad
Caught in a vortex always giving in
It’s a cheap thrill not to try everything
So much more to get when you haven’t
Tried everything yet
You could spend all your savings on a brand new keytar
Tried everything yet
You can’t give up because you haven’t tried everything yet
People ask me how I am all the time
Is it a lie to say I’m doing fine?
Get up up up get a half full cup
Get unstuck try to smile a tad I’m sick of looking so sad
Caught in a vortex always hiding in
Not even trying to try everything
Here’s something I’ll never regret
Tried everything yet
Trade everything you own for a brand new keytar
Tried everything yet
You can’t give up because you haven’t tried everything yet
Tried everything yet
Be anyone you want with a brand new keytar
Tried everything yet
You can’t give up because you haven’t tried everything yet
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