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2005​-​2011

by Ketman

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hey governor where ya running for or from now monitor for answers ya thought you’d find in a chant arrested the wrong jack still bragged about yr handcuffs shining like diamonds congrats on yr big bluff shining like diamonds it’s quite a drop from a big bluff hey sister really miss the way you’d come undone just remember we have it better we never went to work with guns hideout from the sun hideout in the sun hideout of the… I got something left to say to you; I’m about ten feet off of the ground
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Can’t control this circus outside my room. Freaks and thieves and human anomalies They are dancing hand in hand While Mr. Barnum is approaching me to see if he could lease my gold. The freakiest little thing off the Fiji coast. Though she’s not as pretty as you may hope, She is the siren of my wealth. When you crawled out You tried to walk on hard ground. Sun cracked your crown. oh my mermaid dragged throught the jacked parade you hid allright at sea on the crest of a wave we crawled out to see the sight curiosity called sides
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Swimming past headlights, I stop to stare Through all the clouds and wonder what’s there. If my world is bound by the words in my head, I am the object of everyone else instead. Call into question what all the words mean. Pay close attention to the spaces between letter and letter as they form your mind. The ghost of what’s real is the thought that is here in my head. Blowing kisses in a mask, they tell it to ya last you thought you saw the end, you thought you saw the end only bones point to show you home again be sure to know that no one knows Whitman’s head split on the floor of the lab gifted to science, this gift it proved to fall too fast
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Song Binbin 03:48
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The Switch 01:58
He tied me tightly to the wheel for 13 shows a week Narrowly avoiding death is not a new routine I’m spinning around in this circle, spinning around in this circle, spinning around in this circle wondering if I’ll ever make it out on that day she told her heart to take a little time off from tossing knives in the dark serenity will do me good in this box out in the woods taking up a new routine, breaking ranks with Carney kin sideshow royalty in captivity calcified, trapped inside, wondering if I’ll ever make it out walking away she sold her heart the day he tore them away from tossing knives in the dark boredom’s contagious they were doomed from the start their eyes held smiles bared teeth tear apart highwire sideshow she was the queen spun around in a wheel catching bullets in her sharp teeth
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Chapter Five 01:48
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Oubliette 01:54
in the hills ‘round ‘bout Kentucky there’s a place I long to know it’s a hole free from ballbreak and heartache the keys to the door I’m yet to be shown Into the oubliette Forgive me Juliet It’s a long road home I pray I will get back there this time I’m gonna pick that lock let it be known I’ll kiss the ground get a good foot down on that one and only walk
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Saint Jean 03:17
Sweet Jean have you seen the pirates of fortune who have squandered all our goodwill with the smuggest smiles. Take heed and sow seeds we’ll make it your virtue After cointelpro has laid your baby down to rest And now you wait for the end and your will won’t bend as you’re waiting (leaving) to find your home again When you think for a minute that the scene is cut it’s the same take once again St. Joan you shoulda known the pirates would find you you’re a critical disaster burning on the pyre. All of your last days are lived out in solace With your docile mind all boxed up in the 2” pine tumbled off some tumbled off they dragged you out you kept teeth sharp stood them off til laws got lost no halt
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Picaro 02:51
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Dancing Man 02:14
I am a dancing man With pockets jingling Where does the money flow? No one knows Suits knocking, white papers signed I lost my mind And as I’m walking down the street to the sound of my shoe scuffle beneath me, It forms a song I’ve never heard before. The one that’s ringing in my head And as I wonder how much time has passed, I put my face up to the shattered glass. I see a man I never thought I’d know. A failure out at sea in misery on stilts a court calls out for more kangaroos falls for yet another encore so sick of city stress the art of breaking bricks and pulling ponytails and pulling legs And while you’re walking down the street to the sound of your shoe scuffle beneath you It’s a song you’ve never heard before. wedged within all of our heads now all the suits have come to hunt for you. Blood is dripping from the rabid tooth. It’s never captured in a photograph; But but you can hear it on the phonograph calling those they called off time to kick the dust off
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Dan-No-Ura 02:38
High above the arrows fly; we wait below for one last chance to strike Weighted armor set to sink into the ocean falling honorably Only in a dream… Restore the fortunes nothing’s free; let’s all contribute to the killing spree. Years of golden rule are gone and now we all litter the sanguine hills. I hold this ground to wait for days and liberate myself from this campaign. Only in a dream… only in the sea… The ebb and flow of ruling men has caught up to us evening the score. Only on the floor of Dan-No-Ura is where I will find my salvation Only in a dream, only in the sea. Only in a dream, only in the sea we lie. With no air left to breathe
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Celia Cooney 03:45
March of ’24 despite composure so demure she found herself locked behind the slammer door. Months and months of pulling heists while playing pistolero with the barrel of her dirty thirty eight. there's a cat pawed lady I know shooting out the horrorshow. with brooklyn distressed she gives it a go her baby oughtta automatically grow. Diminutive and dimple-faced her victims shake beneath a loaded gun. Steel nerve for baby waiting in the belly of the bob-haired beast. When really she’s no desperado All by herself In her lonely Cell While tears of glycerin stain her face Anarchists and Bolsheviks explain away the squalor in the street Wave to crowds who’ve gathered here to look upon her celebrated locks a sealskin coat, for the regal bandit Wild tears of glycerin stain the page
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Moomat Ahiko 04:50
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Epilogue 01:48

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released September 1, 2011

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