1. |
The Young Turds
06:41
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Every day a newsworth battle
All you care for is the chatter of your priestess
Bartering concience for her fame
Vouching for the loser's reign
When she rants and cries we hear it
You make sure the herd will cheer it, all the usuals
Join in for the common call
That their greed will be our fall
Have you listened to your foes?
Are you even sure who share your goals?
On your one side are your kins
On the other those who cover your sins
You're the world, you're the young turds of the day
In backwater, in the retrogressive sway
Though you're free and the ruling referee
Never happy with your granted open tray
So you say you care for people
Whatever their tone or figure, quite a saint then
Work your morals or admit
That your heart is full of shit
What you vouch for states your outlook
A cracking shelf before the lone book
All is equal in your world where no one wins
Lest they share your view of sins
It's so easy now to do good
All you need are loud endorsements of Robin Hoods
While your guardians run your chores
Run for daddy when they're mean, little ward
You're the world, you're the young turds of the day
In backwater, in the retrogressive sway
Though you're free and the ruling referee
Never happy with your granted open tray
Waiting for the next hard luck
To feign someone who gives a fuck, gathering backslap
When your pink-washing is done
All your pity's just a hum
Ethic fronts and social warriors
Roaming academic corridors, where you learned to loot
The minds of reasoning
For your governmental whim
Lefty chicks in plaid giving you head
Socializing all their means of seduction
From each according to his ability
To each according to his greed
You're the world, you're the young turds of the day
In backwater, in the retrogressive sway
Though you're free and the ruling referee
Never happy with your granted open tray
So, before you wield petitions
Come back when you're self-sufficient, then you may cry out
When no longer what you do
Is hung up on other's due
In the search for a religion
You will opt for state tuition, PhD whore
While you claim your fame for peace
You let mobs kill at your ease
You pretend to cry for the poor
You pretend to be against any war
Solidarity is on your badge
And you show it through the guns and the gags
Here's your world, all you young turds of the day
In backwater, in the retrogressive sway
Though you're free and the ruling referee
Never happy till the beggar funds your pay
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2. |
Talkin' MWP Blues
04:11
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I got a monkey on my back and he's mourning for me every day
I got a monkey on my back and he's mourning for whatever I say
I got a monkey and a beggar keep telling me who earns my pay
I'd get a dollar for my baby if she'd only let me let her be
I'd get a dollar for my baby to keep her dignity for to see
I bet she's never been around someone acknowledging her esprit
If I'm in trouble or am down, it's not because who I am
But I could take on this town, that is because who I am
If I'm to listen to the folly I'd seetle for the one night stand
Talkin' MWP, talkin' how I have to live the decree
Talkin' MWP, channeling the monkey mentality
I'm sorry if I let you down and never pissed upon your oak tree
If you see my monkey man, don't trust him that you know where I'm at
What you see is just a monkey, no telling where I will lay my hat
I guess I owe it all to him, that you're still lying tied up on your back
Girl, if you tell me you're in trouble just because who I am
Without a bundle of sticks then I guess I'm part of the plan
And if you listen to the folly, you're worthy of the one night stand
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Finally a living, a pocketful of margin
A monthly yield of labouring
But I ain't gonna waste it on food
Everybody's saying where I should be bidding
A higher form of cookery
But I ain't gonna waste it on food
The reason for my being, it doesn't lie in eating
As long as I'm kept full on scrap
I ain't gonna waste it on food
To keep my guitars coming, to keep my old car going
To keep my savings flowing means
I ain't gonna waste it on food
And well, you know I'm lonely
And eating's never funny
It's only for surviving the day, the easier way
But baby, if you showed it
The chores of dinner habit
Is worth it in the knowing what it's for
If only for you, for your love
Girl, you hold your ground, I know your way around
The pots and pans and cutlery
Be sure you don't waste 'em on me
Considered all my saving, my bleak ideal of nurturing
A token of priority
I might invest it on you
Anyway you want me, any film you wanna see
Anywhere you wanna be
I'm sure gonna spend it on you
But know that my well-being ain't hung up on dining
My money's where my love is
I ain't gonna waste it on food
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4. |
Lady of the Dawn
03:36
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There was no first in what we did
Apart from our goodbye
I'm surer every day
I got to make her mine some way
And though it never will return
True love will never heed
The grace of novelty
She'll always be that dawn to me
Bless the day that I greet her sunrise
The morning I dry the rain in her meadows
Green as the way she knows
That I will await her final toll
The glow she's radiating high
The beauty in her smile
Can wipe the world away
Along with the days that brought her nigh
And when the night is coming down
I watch her in her sleep
I need no other dream
Now she's the only dawn for me
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5. |
(Your Name Here)
03:51
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Save the world, save the trees
Save the child from disease
Save the poor from the war
Save the government's score
Save the world from yourself
Save your words for the shelf
For while you were asleep
World rolled down in the deep
Your name here on the line
And things will be so fine
I can tell you're the good guy
By your blue rainbow eyes
And as the vegan kicker
You're not meant to survive
Save the world, save the guns
For the unprivileged ones
Save the people at ease
With their wealth guarantees
Save your girl for your bed
Save her for giving head
Save her vote for the red
Where you're from she'd be dead
Your name here on the line
So I can get home on time
Bald martyrs of the mountains
Now point you what to do
They know their sack and ashes
So we can see they're true
Your name here on the line
And please refer a friend
Save the world, save the grease
For the sporting obese
Save the whores for the pimp
Gaining likes off the wimp
Save the birds, save the bees
Save the queer from the fleas
Save your face, sign the line
Show that you are aligned
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6. |
Motorcycle Maintenance
04:34
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Photosynthesis around with capillary force
You can watch your garden grow but not to know
You can seek for any answer though you've got to know your weaver
With a blessing from the dean welcoming to the machine
Putting crosses on the table of your own
Bolts and nuts and torque strain measured radial movement
There's a right way how to dial its harmony
You resort to guess the answer to the tune of withered clovers
Trusting only what you know, knowing only what is shown
Showing only crosses already your own
Now you've got a world on your own
No spare thought of how to retain your supper
It's easier to claim your role
In the pond in which you're handed the bowl
No strive for to know, but for an open mind
A little motorcycle maintenance will do
Don't know if you've met me though I know you think you have
See the avatar of high-brow harmony
All in all you feel as always but no thanks to public doorways
In your ancient boarding school where they taught you how to rule
And the minders of their own were never cool
I don't claim to know the answer, though I know there is one
Lest we'd never even have this conversation
There's no force redistribution nor thermodynamic quotient
Where your reason wouldn't start rambling 'round your bleeding heart
Seeking only crosses where the truth ain't too hard
Now you've got a world on your own
No spare thought of how to retain your supper
It's easier to claim your role
In the pond in which you're handed the bowl
No strive for to know, but for an open mind
A little motorcycle maintenance won't hurt
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7. |
The Nine Lives of Malloy
07:46
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An engineer of second rate
Never content with only water or lemonade
He made a living for the bottle down in Fulton Avenue
Whatever he could get in the prohibition queue
Five good men, as good as he could see them
Looking for a way to make him worth his meat
He would call them all his brothers, trust them all his bothers
All but a boozer with no future or call
"We don't want you here if your worth could be invoked"
"We don't want you here if your soul could yield us gold"
They took him down, speakeasy ground
Though he got no money he could have all the rounds
Have a drink on the house, every house in the town
Have a bottle for the road, all that you can down
The bottles kept on coming, the content kept on going
How the five would never know
Well, we've got a boozer with an A plus in carousal
It's only fuel to the fire, only fuel to the fire
What can we do to take him out?
We got a contract on his body, we must make sure it will pay out
Whiskey or gin, oysters on a rim
A poisoned tack sandwich, that should do him in
Leave him to the winter, subzero twenty-six
A barrel of cold water, that should do the trick
But Iron Mike persisted, Iron Mike would never go
Even taxis on the charge couldn't wipe him off the floor
Finally his brothers of the policy pact
Tired of his stubborn will to never die
Cranking up the artillery with a hose to a gas jet
Leave him in the bedroom and the death scene is set
An execution second rate
They couldn't get him to expire merely by ethanol bait
Then the justice caught them on their tail
Where did you get the money? Explain it from the jail
"We don't want you here if your goal is reaping souls"
"You wouldn't want to fear for your lives, nor would Malloy"
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8. |
She Wound Up
04:11
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She got off to the image of her sordid cunt
with an apt justifiction of to have a little fun
With a wink of her eye she got down his guard
as he claimed full emancipation for woman to get laid
Lay lady lay is their tune of the night
The times are not a-changing yet
"Throw my sister a kiss in the sleepy village green
where she ended up to show the rooted inbreds how to be
Still a bit touch-and-go in the way she reads your kind
Though dressed up in a rhetoric coat to cover up her slow-witted mind
She said I musn't be with that joker from our town
He'd only let me down"
And then by her bedtime
she wound up her Derridean zine
that went "lalalalala"
With a glass full of ice and fake glass in his eyes
he put forth indecisive propositions to a rhyme
Careful not to be frowned on for his thirst for juice
he pulls a queer to be sure he's way above you and the ones who have to choose
But still she's joining in with the usual wooden route
He's stuck with meatwarm substitute
On the seminar today she would fill her head
Patting backs, highing fives at how everything that's said
is a quote of the realm where she's kept at a loss
She had finally confirmed that she's under a thumb that should be overturned
And overturn she will on the bedside with a friend
The one for whom she'd overbend
And then for her soundtrack
she wound up with her favourite band
that went "lalalalala"
In the nude gallery in which she openly scorns
she dressed down to exhibit decadence that she adored
In the hip metropolitan bisexual crowd
she made the initiation as the fragile dandelion standing proud
And at the fancy glass-eye she scored apologies
by flashing him a stockinged tease
She tried hard to make sense of her reality
And it's filtered through the notion that it's only what you feel
So with Kant in her larynx and Bourdieux in her womb
she would bleed on the show to which she secretly canoodled on her room
So not to be displayed to her mental dissonance
she kept to primal quiet bums
And then by the morning
she wound up her thoughts and conclusions
that went "lalalalala"
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Once a talker of my schemes
Once believing in pushing for peace
Information, unaltered and straight
Guaranteed to put people at ease
Yeah, I thrived on the thought of rebellion
That an open-source language was king
That our talking fed mutual gain
For then I believed in communication
They taught me how to kill my darlings
They taught me of critical thought
That a message is only completed
When arrived, comprehended and bought
So I killed her, my muse of ideals
In the interest of mutual view
Understanding won't show anyway
But once I believed in communication
To what ends should I be clear now
When those ends are aligned to you will?
To what use is information
When the ambition to heed it is nil?
If I told you, would you be listening?
Or just seek to approve your conception?
And you'd think we'll reach an agreement
For once I believed in communication as well
Every time you're asking for clarity
With an attention span of a bird
Turning coats or remain in the sand
Where no off-sounding voice can be heard
Come back when you got something to say
Not just hung up on rambling call
Make your notion last more than one day
Or I won't believe in your communication at all
Yeah, you want me to say what I mean
As if you would be listening that long
As if insight would grow from candor
As if people would gather in song
And I know now what's in your head
How your insight is in what I spell
I can't blame you for wanting it said
For once I believed in communication as well
Yeah, you want me to be available
As if all that you say would remain
To sift out the truth from your nonsense
Just to find out how fast it will wane
But I want you to believe in this song
It's not words in which I have no faith
It's the sender, the channel, the reader
For once I believed in communication as well
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10. |
I'm Not Your Man
05:09
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I'm not your man, don't say a word what I am
I'm not your ward, I don't ask for your guardian sham
I know what you want, a reason to rise your will to law
Leave me out of your vision, I'm not the man for your plan
You're not my king, haven't seen any contract agreed upon
I'm not within, I don't see any sign on your creed
Never a tide, never a notion on behalf
A man is no land, so save your demands for the damned
You write a sign and make sure everyone sees your equity
Blacking out what is not reaffirmed by our peers
Lost in a tale where you claim to comply with counterflows
But you side with the power, too dull to rely on your own
I'm not your man, I am not represented by anyone
You don't speak for me and your wish won't make you in the right
My lady, I will never oblige unto your faith
In your PC terrain, so curse what I am; not your man
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11. |
Mystery Woman
03:17
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Mystery woman, d'you read me?
How long you've been riding alone
Is there a sun in your world?
Mystery woman, d'you want me
To tell about my intents?
What is your way to happiness?
Mystery woman, d'you listen
Only to those who confirm
You are a chewed gum on a sole
Mystery woman, do tell me
Whenever I don't make sense
I know I don't, but don't know when
Once alone I fill my head with things you said
Make up your turning down to justify my worry
Though I seem out of line
I really want to make you mine
But then you did me in
You're a woman, still a mystery to me
Mystery woman, d'you read me
In that I cannot read you?
I need for you to be true
In my mind you are blooming
Through your absence alone
I want you more for every day
Mystery woman, so quiet
Your words are losing their weight
How sweet you talk, I must beware
Now that I have invested
Quite a lot heart and mind
Ain't it a shame to pull away?
Mystery woman, you're better
Better off all alone
You don't need someone, they don't need you
Fed on cynical readings
Squandering of hard earned love
You're way too proud to see it through
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12. |
Happy New Year
04:34
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Happy new year, all of your lighters
shine on your beer, drunk to the righteous
A wish for peace, voting for riddance
at home, at ease, safe in the distance
I'm happy you jeer all stuck in shadows
so that at least one of us wallows
It's nice to mourn at your demand now
To feel as though you're on the down
In your search for a victimhood
You will vote for a faux common good
Happy new frown, where was your flag then?
When they shot down words of the free men
And here's your world, all that you call for
To feel as though you're on your own
And you search for a helping hand
Put all faith in a mirage of land
Where the powers be
All hatred that we deserve
Happy new tear, cry me a river
for those in fear of losing a giver
And in the search for a heart to soothe
You must find a brain to bias and loot
Happy career in the commission
Your reverends weren't clear in their solemn vow
to cure your ills and vouch for your fortune
Meanwhile goodwills are saved for tycoons
In our quest to be looking good
No one cares for the freedom or truth
Let the powers breed
And what we get we deserve
Happy new year, all that you called for
Rules of the gun, will of the many
Still there's time, if you really mean it
To turn on their crime, I'll wish you a happy new year
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Fred Rand Örebro, Sweden
Fred Rand is a one-man folk rock project featuring multi-instrumentalist Fredrik Andersson. The debut 'This machine kills no one' was recorded and digitally released in 2015 and the sophomore 'Archipelago' a couple of years later.
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