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1.
She’s got factories for eyes And you can tell by her gaze That these shipbuilding waves Are in undertow of lives She’s resourced at lip service But this lift is in disservice And enlisting the servants Last call for service She’s got more arms than venus she’s got She’s got you between her thighs And everything she says Does not explain her legs As they tighten and surmise Her hands from Coin and Pawn Wear a ring right through your nose And everywhere she knows She’s got it going on She’s got more arms than venus she’s got The voices that she hears Come right down a wire Amendments are acquired Decrypted to her ears The sermon that she mounts Helps to defray the cost And every life that’s lost Shows how a body counts She’s got more arms than venus she’s got The story that she tells Goes by the metes and bounds It grows by leaps and bounds And everywhere it swells The sword’s become her pen But her thunderbolts don’t spark This virgin’s on a lark But she’s SO wide open She’s got more arms than venus she’s got
2.
detached 03:45
I dreamt last night he burned down your house and all that remianed were ashes of roses. The petals cindered in splendid coronas. And all that remained were ashes of ashes. The walls were all bare and flecked with no color. the organ was scorched and left without donor. To speak no remorse is craven, remember. All that remained were ashes of houses. The rope that she's thrown is burnt but unbroken. Easily lost in the sound of the motion. Been over things that make up the tangle. Dragging the lake of unbridled moorings. The potential flames released from their structure. Piously bent the timbers, the ceiling. A shingle was spent crumbles under foot. And all that remained were ashes of ashes. The rope that he's thrown is burnt but unbroken. Sadly lost in the sound of the motion. Been over things that make up the tangle. Dragging the lake of unbridled moorings. The limbs whole outstretched denuded by Autumn. Were blackened by windows unframed by season. A shingle was spent, crumbles under foot, residually leaving memory and record memory and record. The rope that she's thrown is burnt but unbroken. Sadly lost in the sound of the motion. Been over things that make up the tangle. Dragging the lake of unbridled moorings, moorings.
3.
to arms 04:31
my lips still burn from the taste of your skin every place every where you let me in in the corner of my mind I see there's a face in your future that face is me and there's something hapening it's over the horizon there's some thing he--re every call that I make is a call to arms to arms two arms to break a fall breaking like the setting sun too fast too fast, for the feast of us the feast of us, the feast of us Set your filters on GOD Set your books on the car and drive a-waaaaaay every thought that I have is a thought I own, I own at least these two arms falling like the autumn leaves to go and show, and show what we are, what we are Get your news from the face Get your hand on your heart and pledge away every call that I make is a call to arms to arms two arms to break a fall breaking like the setting sun too fast too fast, for the feast of us the feast of us, the feast of us Get your face from the news Get your ass off the couch and run away. hey.
4.
monstr0 02:59
I am the king of everything that I can get away with. I will break your thing and I will make you scream if I can get my hand in. I will steal your life and come on to your wife. I disappeared your passport. You can’t tear us apart. We’ve got more money than you have heart. We’re taking names staking claims property is theft staking claims. I can take your identity and avail us of your amenitites and do it with your taxes. We can shine a light on what you do at night and leak it to the papers. I have read your mail and I will set your bail to something you cannot afford. You can’t tear us apart. We’ve got more guns than you have money. We’re taking names it may sound funny liberty is property making money. I’m gonna take all the differences we have. I’m gonna tear all the differences in half. I’m gonna take all the evidence we have. I’m gonna tear all your liberties in half. I’m a machine that takes down everything and everyone that protests. I will get upstream and deflate all your dreams and every law that protects. I will steal your life I’ve come home to your wife and renamed all of your kids. You can’t tear us apart. We’ve got more money than you have heart. We’re taking names staking claims property is theft staking claims. I’m gonna take all the differences we have. I’m gonna tear all the differences in half. I’m gonna take all the evidence we have. I’m gonna tear all your liberties in half.
5.
I see the people coming down I watch the person getting off and in the midst it all looks the same I watched you by the wall drinking lite on your cycle of red and white well groomed and prosperous • call me irresponsible • call me to the festival • call me on the telephone • please he's popular and in control impossible to console inbred like all religeous folks are you watched him wading in the sewer he's in the lite of something newer the myths are just antiquities and dust • call me irresistable • call me at the restaurant • call as soon as possible • and bleeeeed - • call me impetuous • call me irreverent • call me while your still on your • knees wel come to the bottom again we got everything you need right here removing your top and bottom again I see everything I need real clear witness the rapture of his bender patient claims he won't surrender he's got a point and might do some harm we've IV'd BS PRN and punished with attention despite our anti socializing fees • call me imperious • call me insidious • push me off the precipice • please
6.
overwrought 02:54
This is the time, the time that we have we better make haste, while we still can This is the can, where we put all the time and make a footnote to remember the date Fruitful of dates the tracking of time we're over the quota of fruits and their labor Fearful of time the ticking of tolls we're under the radar belabored, belabored. The tick of the talk the toll of the bell the screech of the chalk on blackboards in hell the ringing of thoughts the ringing, the ringing where is the pittance we show for our time? - The tick of the talk the toll of the bell the screech of the fowl are blackbirds in hell the ringing of thoughts the ringing, the ringing where is the pennance you paid for our time? <instr> This is the clock that tells all the time If you set it forward you travel in time This is the tell of something's gone missing Extolling the presense of something unheard Fruitful of dates the tracking of time we're over the quota of fruits and their labor Fearful of time the ticking of tolls we're under the radar belabored, belabored. The tick of the talk the toll of the bell the screech of the chalk on blackboards in hell the ringing of thoughts the ringing, the ringing where is the pittance we show for our time? - The tick of the talk the toll of the bell the screech of the fowl are blackbirds in hell the ringing of thoughts the ringing, the ringing where is the pennance you paid for our time? <instr>
7.
second best 03:29
(needs some more water here boss... I can get some more water here boss...) The second are gone, the second you're gone and the seconds amended. Displays the unbearable lightness of the rights to be wronged. The right to be killed, the rights to bear will, and the rights to protect it. In the capture of time who takes all the arms, makes up the arms, sounds the alarms. The second is second the bullet is first the finger that triggers a life is the worst. It's second to none in the order of one. Who takes all the cards, and deals all the dice on a second chance on a second life... In the capture of time who takes all the arms, makes up the arms, sounds the alarms. The seconds are torn from the arcs of a life point inward and outward to council the time. The seconds are tragic and awfully spent in the time that we don't own, that we merely rent. the last word of ruin... felo de se
8.
new new one 03:41
I'm not just falling down. I'm like that brassed off clown. I can't hang myself right. I can't get through the night. These things are real to me. This is my empathy. I'm just another pound. Of flesh in the underground. When I've sloughed off this mortal coil. Please set, my feeble bones to boil. This is my last old testament. Keep me inside of your monument. I'm just my love's misguided sound. You are, the earth and all around. We are the first thing never found. We made everything out of sound. These things, they are so real to me. Our love, it's not a ministry. I'm just, I'm just another pound. Of flesh in the underground. When I've said goodbye to this world. Please set my wasted youth to rest. This is my last old testament. Keep me inside of your sentiment. You can go back to metric, without ever consulting me. Rosebud, your not just a sled to me. Julia, you're all of my memories. These things, they are so real to me. Our love, it's not a ministry. I'm just, I'm just another pound. Of flesh in the underground. When I'm a savage beta plus, please set your alpha heart on trust. This is my only document keep it inside of your firmament. While this might be a culture shock this is your recepit for your man. This is 27B/6. This is 27B/6. These things, they are so real to me. Our love, it's not a ministry. I'm just, I'm just another pound. Of flesh in the underground. When I'm a victim of entropy, please let's pretend it's victory. This is my only covenant keep me inside of your compliment.
9.
We're coming back and keeping on track we're on the attack we're better than ever we're in your face and 10 feet tall keeping pace like the Upsetter we want two eggs any style two eggs any style the bar is crowded band is kicking front of the line drinks are picking make your mind up this time in this line we're all waiting for two eggs any style two eggs any style Society eats its' own Society hangs up the phone two eggs any style we’ll have two eggs any style two eggs any style we’ll have two eggs any style Society’s seats are worn society acts forlorn we make the machine to do the things that we find most distasteful in our spare time we act sublime just as if we are grateful for two eggs any style two eggs any style the spokes of a wheel click at our heel and for this we act special and we are but this far on borrowed time we are waiting for two eggs any style two eggs any style Society’s teeth are worn Society is not informed two eggs any style we’ll have two eggs any style two eggs any style we’ll have two eggs any style society’s feet are worn society should not conform
10.
it's a sign and these are times and the symbols and distillations are only proof we are rearranging it is the time to fit the crime and the mantras and abstract notions put all these signs in motion exchange the generic for the esoteric export the ingredients of your disobedience oh yeah I like to watch the wrecks oh yeah she like what she inspects oh yeah they fuck like mad insects oh yeah you get what you invest listen up when inclined these things we're told are true are often misalligned see for yourself engage your mind these omens and totem poles don't belong in our time deface the canary coal mine visionary detain the unwary if the origins are scary oh yeah I like to watch the wrecks oh yeah she likes what she inspects oh yeah they fuck like mad insects oh yeah you get what you invest -what you invest
11.
imagine that 03:48
I can't see why you would even Imagine that? You've got rifles on parade but we're making a stand. We got everything we asked for but we still have demands. We've got love and everything you don't understand. We take part. You get fractions. We take heart. You get factions. The bridge ices over before the road. If you tightening up my belt you better loosen my load. If you're taking all my money you better hit the road. We're gonna fly, high now. If you're winding all the wind you better spin some new yarns. Because your fabic is a tonic of economic harm. Polling integrity is transit to the farm. We take feet, you get inches. We take miles you get measures. Your bayonets are fixed but ideas are broke. Your religion is a mirror that just went up in smoke. You always laugh along, but you never get the joke. We've got memory, morality and access to the law. We make history and art and justice for us all. We have words of inspiration but we don't afford a god. We take part. You get fractions. We take heart. You get factions. the civil disobedience is carried through the street. It's adopted by the tide that's lost on its' feet. Oh the tin of the drum dances on with the beat. We're gonna fly, high now. You got products everywhere so you're not all alone. You're prophet's in the air. So you can't call on the phone. We are dancing to the beat of the drums with your bones. We take feet, you get inches. We take miles you get measures. Your bayonets are fixed but ideas are broke. Your religion is a mirror that just went up in smoke. You always laugh along, but you never get the joke.
12.
estate 04:10
born with issue of her body living by issue of her body share the property of providence while she questions privilege she provides evidence and claims divided interest a corner of America intersects her eastern edge a corner of the pavement intersects her card board box a sideline of America bathed in only street lights free from all encumbrances except easement to a storm drain relative in testimony where the parties have washed their hands and set their seals that they are seized in fee simple that they are seized in fee simple freedom beyond dignity matching funding in the wind a corner of the pavement intersects her card board box a sideline of America bathed in only street lights born from tissue like the pavement now she lives with ancestors shaded instruments cloud the title in fee simple, in fee simple that they are seized in fee simple that they are seized in fee simple freedom beyond dignity matching funding in the wind a corner of the pavement intersects her card board box a sideline of America bathed in only street lights
13.
therapy 02:35
-Therapy- From the Champs Elysees to Madison Avenue everything that you say is half-baked agita accosted by your right-wing platitudes the topics escape your malaprop punditry Ther apy Ther apy Ther apy courtesy calls on the industry while courtesans are mistaken for idealogues signalling the end of a sickness leaves history in search of a therapist Ther apy Ther apy Ther apy I take offense at your fools and your fence I take offense at your fools on the fence your empty promises are lifeless gravitas your attemps at concern are only lip service the empty spaces that you tried to fill are made up of people you tried to kill Ther apy Ther apy Ther apy calling all cars there's a bible on fire with illegal aliens and guns for hire measuring the distance left between us the divisions of us seem close and few between Ther apy Ther apy Ther apy I take offense at your fools and your fence I take offense at your fools on the fence I take offense at your fools and your fence I take offense at your fools on the fence
14.
If I can get through just one minute It will be one in a row If I put my heart in it I might last a whole hour Insert tab D into slot C (Assessing the tenor‘s complex area collisions.) Insert tab D into slot C (The race to link man’s illness and insincerity.) Fold Flap F over the rest (Food additives journey fuel touching everyone.) Fold Flap F over your sex (Medical scandals break enemy opinions.) If I can get through just one minute It will be one in a row If I put my heart in it I might last a whole hour that was the flower that bloomed at the hour (Street level repeated visits from thrown out data.) roots and leaves paper the trees (Targeting but also details from sickness.) Insert tab D into slot C (Documents indicate spreading considerations.) Fold Flap F over your nest (Previewing the fall session of missing boys.) If I can get through just one minute It will be one in a row If I put my heart in it I might last a whole hour that was the flower that bloomed at the hour (Assessing the tenor‘s complex area collisions.) roots and leaves paper the trees (The race to link man’s illness and insincerity.) Insert tab D into slot C (Food additives journey fuel touching everyone.) Fold Flap F over your nest (Medical scandals break enemy opinions.) If I can get through just one minute It will be one in a row If I put my heart in it I might last a whole hour If I get through just one day It will be one in a row If I put my heat in it I could understand the flower.
15.
it ends 04:08
-IT ENDS- she's just workin' for a hit. she just wished that she could quit things she's done off her head. she's just outside lookin' in. and that's the way they say it is and that's the way they say it ends, it ends he's just looking for his life back when the state would drive and it was safe out of his bed now everything involved his meds hepatitis A hepatitis B and that's the way they say it ends, it ends <instrumental verse> when little words were spoken at night on the phone when everything got broken before everyone's alone she's just walking for a drink something calls beyond the brink then the tremens break her bones the weakened family link and that's the way they say it is and that's the way they say it ends, it ends <instrumental verse> and that's the way they say it is and that's the way they say it ends, it ends
16.
She’s got factories for eyes And you can tell by her gaze That these shipbuilding waves Are in undertow of lives She’s resourced at lip service But this lift is in disservice And enlisting the servants Last call for service She’s got more arms than venus she’s got She’s got you between her thighs And everything she says Does not explain her legs As they tighten and surmise Her hands from Coin and Pawn Wear a ring right through your nose And everywhere she knows She’s got it going on She’s got more arms than venus she’s got The voices that she hears Come right down a wire Amendments are acquired Decrypted to her ears The sermon that she mounts Helps to defray the cost And every life that’s lost Shows how a body counts She’s got more arms than venus she’s got The story that she tells Goes by the metes and bounds It grows by leaps and bounds And everywhere it swells The sword’s become her pen But her thunderbolts don’t spark This virgin’s on a lark But she’s fucking wide open She’s got more arms than venus she’s got
17.
it's a sign and these are times and the symbols and distillations are only proof we are rearranging it is the time to fit the crime and the mantras and abstract notions put all these signs in motion exchange the generic for the esoteric export the ingredients of your disobedience oh yeah I like to watch the wrecks oh yeah she like what she inspects oh yeah they fuck like mad insects oh yeah you get what you invest listen up when inclined these things we're told are true are often misalligned see for yourself engage your mind these omens and totem poles don't belong in our time deface the canary coal mine visionary detain the unwary if the origins are scary oh yeah I like to watch the wrecks oh yeah she likes what she inspects oh yeah they fuck like mad insects oh yeah you get what you invest -what you invest

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released June 10, 2010

Eric Cavanaugh / Maria Zaccaro

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Illicitizen are a varied mix of thought provoking lyrics, melodic bass grooves and spikey guitars. Without fail the duo is noted for exposing norm violating rhythms and lyrical eccentricities. The constants are dramatic and demonstrative vocals and a stimulating bass beat. ... more

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