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Skeuomorphic

by The Syllables

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1.
I got a black bloc baby and you know she loves me right I got a black bloc baby and she knows how to love me right she ain’t slowed down since I picked her up from jail last night she wears a black balaklava under- neath a black beret yeah there’s a black balaklava under- neath that black beret and you don’t hear her coming till the minute she’s slippin’ away she likes to read to me Kropotkin and Bakunin in bed yeah she does, she reads to me Kropotkin and Bakunin in bed in her Guy de Bord neglige the spectacle gets to my head my baby don’t like fighting she wants everyone to just get along my baby don’t like fighting she thinks everyone should just get along but she says you can’t put out a fire with kind words and a song no you won’t change change a fascist with logic or reason or sense you won’t change a fascist with logic or reason or sense so just pull down your mask but don’t become what you’re fighting against from Seattle to Berlin she’s been teargassed she’s been maced from Seattle to Berlin she’s seen teargas she’s seen mace so watch out little Pepe my baby’s gonna bust your face my black bloc baby drives me crazy and she keeps me sane my black bloc baby drives me crazy and she keeps me sane I love my baby like a brick loves a window pane yeah I love my baby like a brick loves a window pane
2.
Cynical 04:06
well, you think you know about me people talk trash as they will I live inside a wine jar where I deface dollar bills you prob'ly heard about me with my lantern at high-noon I was searching for an honest man I guess I come too soon there's some folks seem to think I got some wisdom I can teach but most these fools see me as a mad dog off the leash but I don't growl much and I hardly ever bite and I can read your thoughts when the wind is right and if I don't like what someone's got to say I just start barking 'till they go away.... ...I guess that makes me cynical.... ...I'm just cynical.... well, I don't race with the rats I don't worship the machine I don't carry a spade or sword I keep these hands clean if you wanna chat about it we can grab a beer somewhere I usually got a couple bucks after busking in the square see I'm not antisocial and I'm not opposed to fun, and I ain't tryin' to be rude but could'ja please step out my sun I don't care much for money I don't fancy trendy clothes I don't want what I don't need and I don't need one of those I eat when I'm hungry and I drink when I'm dry if you think there's a better after-life just go on ahead and die... ...I guess that does sound cynical.... I'm just cynical.... everything I own I carry in this leather pouch and I only need to crash a couple-three nights on your couch see I live free of all hope and fear like the pigeons out on your stoop you'll understand me better once you try my lentil soup no, I don't want any hang-ups I want the tyrants out my head when someone tried to steal my guitar I gave it them instead I still vote for Kucinich every couple years or so I wrote his name inside a heart in a phone booth just an hour ago it's not like I don't understand real change starts from within I want your revolution too just wake me when it begins... ...my friends know I'm just cynical.... ...I'm just cynical....
3.
they came from a system in the distant Plieades they arrived on a cloudless day with barely any breeze as their spaceship finally landed and the people gathered ‘round I wondered what they’d look like and how would they sound? ’we come in peace’ was the first thing that they said ‘we come in peace’ we all heard them in our head, they said ‘we’ve journeyed lightyears just to make sure you exist we’d like to know you better so let’s start by making a list, ‘cause we come in peace we come in peace’ at first we all wondered why they traveled all this way did they have something to show us? something mystical to say? would we finally learn the truth about just what we’re living for? with their space-age weapons could we finally end all war? ‘we come in peace’ they’d say with a smile ‘we come in peace and we plan to stay a while! we’d like to teach you lessons that you can’t learn on your own we’ve brought you bigger TVs and and even smarter phone, ‘cause we come in peace, yeah we come in peace...' ‘we come in peace’ why would they lie? ‘we come in peace’ you know I even saw one cry maybe they’ve run out of something they need back at home not sure what that means for us but it proves we’re not alone ‘we come in peace’ ‘we come in peace’... they got science, they got culture they got different kinds of math they got a twisted sense of humor— kinda scary when they laugh but they only want to help us become better than we are if we just do what they say we’ll live forever in the stars ‘we come in peace’ I believe them when they say ‘we come in peace’ wouldn’t matter anyway, they say ‘we know that you’ll adjust to your new roles in a while so get in line and climb aboard and don’t forget to smile 'we come in peace you must believe us we come in peace just like Columbus! we come in peace it’s exploration, nothing more we come in peace just like the conquistadors!'
4.
So Gitmo 04:45
baby your shit's so gitmo, got me going I just don't know where you pull that hood over my head and you tell me not to be scared oh when I say 'gitmo' I mean phat like cool as in orange is the brand-new black bad is good and only squares do what they should I'm talking more hip than a heart-attack but with your love's location undisclosed just where I stand only Dick Cheney knows baby your shit's so gitmo, got to get me some of that right away must of been all that time alone I forgot what I was just gonna say you see I spent some years in a little room in the Caribbean sea I didn't get much news of the world back then and the world got none from me but now in spite of your enhanced techniques I haven't uttered a goddamn word of sense in weeks baby your moves are extra-judicial like you're seven steps in advance it looks like you're trying to rig the game but honey all I want to do is dance and I might be forgiven you know I just might not be alone for having conflicted emotions when you demand 'where's the microphone?’ but your extraordinary rendition of ‘Feelings' just confirmed my suspicion baby your love transcends the law I'm reminded of it every day first you're keeping track of everyplace I go now you're writing down the things I say all my friends say I should feel fortunate to have a lover so clearly concerned but I feel just like that frog in the water it’s gettin' warmer but I'll never learn but if there's one known known that's for sure whatever you do just don't call it torture baby your offenses charm my resistance come sun rain snow or hail maybe I wouldn't act so sullen if you'd just let me read my mail now I'm jumpy every time the phone rings might be my lawyer, could be my mom either one just as like to paint me carrying roses or a bomb but I'm just trying to let my mind float with my limbs restrained and this tube down my throat baby your shit's so gitmo got to quit this place as fast as I run I know you're not really listening when I keep on telling you that I'm not the one so maybe we just go our separate ways let the lawyers bury the past ‘cause I cannot escape the certainty a love-affair like ours just won't last so consider me deaf dumb and mute oh and thanks again for letting me keep the jumpsuit
5.
as of tomorrow it's a brand-new me you'll all figure out eventually come hell or high water I'm bound to be free but as for this evening I got nowhere to be as of tomorrow I'm not paying the rent just me and the dogs, gonna pitch us a tent with my memories scattered and my youth misspent but tonight it all hinges on your consent as of tomorrow I'm not picking no fights not gonna drink till it's all just a green hazy light not gonna chase every hot piece of tail in sight no those are all things I'm gonna get to tonight you see the past never leaves and the present won't stay how come I just discovered this today? that's why tomorrow I'm just running away as of tomorrow I'm becoming a mime those glass walls around me will be all in your mind it's all just a prelude to my life of crime but if you still want to talk well tonight would be fine by this time tomorrow I'll be two weeks gone you'll be looking at your watch wond'ring what's going on the neighbors will swear they saw me mowing the lawn but if you're out tonight I'll be dancing till dawn as of tomorrow I'm not making no sense with my mind mis en abyme if you'll pardon my french I'm not offering thanks nor recompense but tonight you'll get a kick if you're still on the fence my future's been waiting since the day I was born but it was just yesterday I was informed that's why tomorrow I'll be gone in the morn as of tomorrow it's a brand-new me no matter where you're looking somewhere else I will be I'll be changing my legal name to Mister E. but for one last night, babe, you'll get what you see
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released June 14, 2018

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