1. |
We Sell Sugar
03:05
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We sell sugar / Icing on the cake
We deliver, we shake and shiver
an insulin insult every day
The fine print has never been finer
Frontpage with a bold-faced liar
It’s outrageous by design and
Like icing sugar in a thin white line
Bump, bump…
We laugh it up, but you don’t get it
Overhead charged to your credit
What we say don't make much sense
And the jokes all come at your expense
Bump, bump, pick you up some
Bump, bump, give you the news
Bump, bump, hook you up
Aint got nothing to lose
Extra, extra,
Read about the next one
We want to help you help yourself
Try some, buy some
Get a little high from
The candy at the back of the shelf
We're family-friendly
Nothing for you to fear
Timely and trendy
Nothings sweet whispered in your ear
Bump, bump, you gotta try it
Bump, bump, breaking the rules
Bump, bump, a rich white diet
Bump, bump, is breaking the news
We get in your system
We just don't listen
We want to make it our mission
To be the cinnamon sticks inside your brain
Riled up and righteous
Y’all want to fight us
Get back in line cuz
You’ll never find us, never mind us, turn the page
Extra, extra,
Candyman expects a
Piece of the apple pie
Let me tell you something, sell you something
Can’t a man who has it coming
Get high on his supply?
You go where we go
Following your ego
We are an institution
A sticky sweet solution
To media confusion
A so-called social discipline
Crashing while we’re cashing in
And the sugar we sell is saccharine
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2. |
Time To Retire
03:51
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We will miss you when you go
But the world will be better
You're a problem but you're old
And you'll soon be gone forever
We'll be sad to see you go
We love you but you're killing us
You knew better almost always
You taught us to look both ways
Yet saw nothing to avert the tragedy
Whatever happened to
A sense of gratitude
And personal responsibility?
We will miss you when you go
But the world will be better
We're on fire but you're cold
And we can't ignore weather
We'll be better off alone
We love you but we've had enough
The greatest generation
From the grave mourn their creation
The pervasive babies still in infancy
Boom and then no one's left
You never listened when
We warned you we were struggling to breathe
And all the children say
We'll miss you when you go
But the world will be better
You're a problem but you're old
And you'll soon be gone forever
We'll be sad to see you go
We love you but you're fucking up
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3. |
The Knee Jerks
03:58
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The Knee Jerks live in concert
Outrage in spades but tender where it hurts
Paranoids
The ruby pill is poison
Our baby bubble boys are
On a Kool-Aid-addled trip
Right at home down the rabbit hole
So susceptible
Shaded eyes, polarized
Blind men reading in between the lines
Stand by, bystanders cry, it's nothing
Fake blood, voyeurs of mud, just trust me
The Knee Jerks, black & brown shirts
Drunk on oppression so eagerly coerced
Shelter cats
Indignant when threatened
Alert the thought detectives
When a skeptic appears
Time blown in the phone, scanning for scandal
Bullied by thumb thugs, gullibly manhandled
Butterfly, flutter by
Disinformation from the hypnotized
Talking points to
Propaganda working
Knees keep on jerking
To the same old drum
In the Knee Jerks' perfect world
Nothing works and everyone's wrong
A reverse circle jerk
Saboteurs let no one
Come out on top
The Knee Jerks...
Hearsay heretics / Armchair anarchists
Can’t stand authority / Grandstanding morally
Allergic to nuance / Objective truth truants
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4. |
Hurt Like Hello
03:48
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Arrive, the place is on fire
A face in the haze, recognized
And it hurt like "Hello, do I know you?"
My reply, "I don't suppose you do."
Destined, never to mention
Our stint in the city of eleven gates
Drive, stay in the lines
Kind of reminds you of another time
And it hurt like "Hello, have I met you?"
Last you heard, "I won't forget you"
Misunderstood the intention
So far back, who can remember?
While you were dreaming, I made a beeline
Read from the street sign into the phone
Paid for the late fee, with the bills from your wallet
But to be honest, that's not all I stole
And it hurt like "LOL, do I know you?"
My reply, "I don't suppose you do."
Destined, never to mention
Our two-stepping south of heaven
And it hurt like, "Hello, nice to meet you."
Long ago, I might have said, "Me too."
I confess, names still escape me
I was once yours for the taking in
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5. |
Achilles' Last Straw
04:02
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Dirty blondie laundry
Airing live on law TV
Another lie in the library returns
Rabid with a dead saint’s dance
Shaky as he takes the stand
He's got answers in his pants to burn
Beaten soldiers frog-marched past
All those tamed silverbacks
Grab 'em by the old burlap and pull
Leader's pack mentality
A little misunderstanding
The poison’s in the dosage she took
He said that she said he
Said she should take it easy
Memory / Bright and clear
My oh my time flees
Just wondered how you've been
My Tantaleer / Do you still live here?
Priapus the fool
Hasn't he been through
The hoops and jumps
Gave her his word,
His word against hers
Isn’t that enough?
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7. |
Everybody Gets One
02:58
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I signed up, said I had enough
Trouble in the neighborhood
Asked if I could help
Reply came, "Sign somebody's name.
Fire when ready, now
Welcome to the game."
Everybody gets one
Everybody gets one
Everybody gets one round, one shot
Limited engagement
Give a body take the one assigned
Everybody gets a body
Everyone gets one
No questions or consequences
Maybe somebody done somebody wrong
Too much, for any one of us
Takes a villain village
With a laser focus
I sealed the letter, returned to sender
Someday it could be my
Name along the bottom line
Everyone gets
One chance to let one fly
Swing for the fence
Last chance to testify
Everybody gets a body
Everyone gets one
Forget those coerced confessions
Be somebody, help them move on
Everyone gets a body
Everybody gets one
Best defense is always offensive
One more, more or less, play along
Everybody gets one
Everybody gets one
Everybody gets one round, one shot
Limited engagement
Give and take and live and let die
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8. |
Silence, Please
03:38
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Look what arises from the depths
Percolating with every breath
Look what arises from the deep
Solitary rounds of hide and seek
Original creation myth
Erupting from the darkness
But give it not a thought
Not even one
Can’t wake up if you can’t sleep
Somebody shouting “Come find me"
Look what arises from the deep
Misfired shots of “Silence, please”
How fucking lucky can you get?
Stumbled into the viper's nest
How fucking lucky can you get?
Holes punched drunk through to consciousness
Who is it making all that noise?
Must all you seek be thus destroyed?
Behind the curtain who resides?
One hundred monkeys of one mind
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9. |
Finish Line
04:19
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Been around, bit the dust
Chewed the pavement up
more than once
Hit the ground
Running like a panther
Gunning for an answer
From the starting gun
There's a beauty waiting at the finish line
There's a beauty waiting at the finish line
Checkered flag
Waving you homeward
Arms wide open
With a knowing smile
There's a beauty waiting at the finish line
All will be revealed on the other side
Where the circle begins is where it comes to die
There's a beauty calling at the finish line
Podium, come on up,
Presentation of the winner’s cup
Her secret is about to
Knock the wind right out you
And your fever dream
There's a beauty waiting at the finish line
Where the circle ends is where it comes to life
She whispers in your ear
Transmission crisp and clear, she says:
You made it, you made it, you made it up
You made it, graduated, no more waiting, you're done
Congratulations, you made it, celebrate it, you've won
Can’t contain it, you’re elated, now you're waking up
You made:
The moon & sun, the taste of sweets
Your obsessions, your family
The songs you sang the stones u threw
The joys & pains, they came from you
Your third-grade crush, your enemies
You're everyone and everything
You made them all, & made them move
All your mirror gods, yah they made you
Thanks for waiting, getting late and, you're staying Up
Long engagement, wouldn't trade it, but you've made enough
Now awakened, from sedation, generated fun
Glad you made it, fabricated, all that silly stuff
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10. |
Prologue
01:54
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We're all gonna die
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Slingshot Miracle Calgary, Alberta
Stunt Rock for obsessives.
Influenced by punk, classic rock, pop, and funk, Slingshot Miracle has released 9 albums since 2012.
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