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I see you got yourself a wooden head
Guess you’re better off than being dead
But I wonder what happens when
You’re lying in bed
What’s going on now behind that bark
Sap, buds, and fibres quiet in the dark
I have to wonder if your thoughts are
Now much slower
I see you got yourself a wooden skull
No existential crises left to mull
Now years are passing oh so slow
Oh so slow
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Valley of the Skids
05:26
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Grey day, in the valley of the skids
Eating at a greasy fast-rood restaurant
Distracted from my fried eggs by tracks on the server’s arm
And you don’t want to go, no, you don’t want to go into that restroom
Bleak day, there’s a midwestern rain spitting down
We drove by the crumbling clapboard wrecks of elder days
The stars ‘n stripes are only flying for the wealthy
Not here in the valley, never here in the valley, of the skids
Hey dudes, says the skinny tatted guy in the next booth
You guys look like you’re in a rock n roll band
I guess, we say, you could say that, you know
So he asks, of course, he asks, do you guys play any Sabbath?
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Cosmic, Girl
04:07
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Come on out, let’s gaze at the moon
The way we did all those years ago
When we could stay awake past ten
Come on down, let’s do our meditation
And focus on the emptiness within
Like we did back when our knees could bend
Cosmic girl
You’ll always be the same to me
Cosmic girl
Let’s travel on and on
Come with me, high up on the hill
Let’s look up at the stars until the sun rises
Like when we were so cosmic, girl
Cosmic girl
You’ll always be the one for me
Cosmic girl
Let’s travel on and on
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Evil Mofo
04:34
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Evil motherf*cker raping the world
All YOU do is buy buy buy
Evilmotherf*cker ending your world
All YOU do is cry cry cry
Evil motherf*ckers ruin your life
All they create is war and strife
Evil motherf*ckers poison your days
All you do is pray and pay
You get what you pay for, what you deserve
When you stop caring and you lose your nerve
Just let me say so there’s no misconstruing
This shit-show is all your doing
You spit out babies like it’s going out of style
Hatch ‘em out like insects, but meanwhile
You’re making sure their world is gone
Still so smug despite your wrongs
Now we’re in the so-called information age
And the drooling everyman vents his rage
You love to tell us who to hate
But wait till we come to seal your fate
Evil motherf*cker puts drugs in your veins
Evil motherf*cker does wrong in your name
Evil motherf*cker, police state men
Beating and killing our Black friends
Evil motherf*cker weapon of the state
Spreading lies, violence and hate
Evil motherf*cker we’ll take you down
This time you’ll stay on the ground
Motherf*cker!
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Forest Floor
04:43
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Leaves lie thick on the forest floor
Birds call sweetly from above
We don’t know what to call this state
Let’s call it love
Light plays on the branches
Only quiet reigns here
You say you are in search of peace
Well here it is, man
Here it is
Leave no tracks on the forest floor
It’s like no one was ever here
If you’re looking for meaning
Well, here it is man,
Here it is
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Song of the Tastemaker
03:50
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Hey man, heard the tunes, I’ll give ‘em five out of ten
I don’t really get your vibe, but I don’t want to offend
My thing is sort of Pavement in ‘95
And your album reminds me of KISS Alive
But I really appreciate you sending music
To my blog
Hey girl, fronting a band, I really dig your sound
Female vox were out of style, but they’re coming around
Is that you on sitar guitar on track one?
Sounds like you’re having soooo much fun
But this ain’t a retro blog, so I’ll have to give you
Six out of ten
i hope it helps you get some more streams, babe
Cuz I’m the tastemaker
Hey band, I really love the drums, bass, and axe
But the vocals should really go, along with that cheesy sax
I know you’re going for vintage E-Street Band
But I’m more of an old skool ambient techno fan
If you send this album to Pitchfork
They’ll just delete your email
But I really wanna thank you for sending it my way
Cuz I’m the tastemaker
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We didn’t want this future
What happened to utopia?
We didn’t want this future
We never asked to be your robots
We didn’t want a longer life
We just wanted a better life
We didn’t want this future
What happened to working less and living more?
We don’t want your future
Attached to your machines
We don’t want your vision
The endless feeding of your profit machine
We don't want it!
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Allister Thompson - The Gateless Gate North Bay, Ontario
This is the place to meet the psychedelic, progressive, ambient, and folk/rock music of Allister Thompson released under his own name and as The Gateless Gate, Sons of Birches, Twilight Fields, and Khan Tengri.
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