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1. |
Coming Down with Covid
03:46
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My body's aching,
My sinuses are all packed up
I'm slowly shaking
I'm keeping my door locked shut
This time I'm fading
Falling into vertigo
I'm stuck relaying
How I feel through a dying phone
Goddamn Corona, you're
Sucking my spirit dry
You got me so bored
Waiting for the day to arrive
When I can finally
See my kid again
But see I'm lucky
Because I have room to bend
My beating heart my pounding head
My burning eyes my dissonance
The feeling's real I'm scared to death
Will I come out unbroken?
This is what I get for
Coming down with COVID
It's so magnificient
Spreading its love around
And every time I think
I'm starting to feel better
Here it comes again
To drive me into the ground
This is what I get for
Coming down with COVID
I thank the maskless for
Spreading its love around
Caught at the office
Strong as the weakest link
Nobody had it
That's what we're told to think
Get back inside here
Get back in line get back to work
There's nothing to fear
From giving up your latest perk
My boss is cranky
That he can't plan our every move
You see he's panicking
About the control he could lose
Productivity
Is up when we're all at home
But managers see
Their power shrivel as we roam
My beating heart my pounding head
My burning eyes my dissonance
The feeling's real I'm scared to death
Will I come out unbroken?
This is what I get for
Coming down with COVID
It's so magnificient
Spreading its love around
And every time I think
I'm starting to feel better
Here it comes again
To drive me into the ground
This is what I get for
Coming down with COVID
I thank the maskless for
Spreading its love around
My lungs are wet
My throat is dry
My nose is bleeding
I might die
But that's okay
We've had enough
Now COVID's over
It was too tough
It's been two years
We're tired of it
Doesn't it know
We need our kids
Forced into schools
So we can work
To make our bosses
Wealthier
What of our weakest
The sick the seniors and our kids
Surely they need to
Shut up and get over it
Their sacrifice is
Really the least they can do
The economy need them
To take a lot less room
Meanwhile I'm shaking
The chills have started up again
And I can't think straight
My heads gone right around the bend
And I can't take more
Unpaid time away from work
The CDC is clearing me
To come in spreading my germs
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2. |
Brain Damage
03:02
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I think my brain has been slowly leaking
Out my nose and down my throat
And now we're all in the same boat
A frontal lobe lobotomy
Is nothing very shocking see
This disease kills our brain cells
In myriad ways
And now my blood is positively boiling
My labored heart is toiling
These arteries are coiling
Around my bones are breaking down
And blowing off and leaving town
I'm bubbling and stroking out
This isn't just a phase
We know
What's coming
Don't hide
Stop running
My neurons
Are firing
Slower than ever before
Synapses
Are sparking
Their shine is slowly dying
Memory
Is fading
I'm losing track of myself
Furthering
Risk taking
Behavior spreading it airborne
I think this fog is now slowly seeping
In and out nerual pathways
I cannot think straight through this maze
This haze has ways to phase our brains
Into a stunned and broken space
Where we never seem to place
Our finger on how
But
Corona flows through our vascular systems
And everything it touches is
Affected by the viruses
That ride our blood like busses
Sussing out all of our weaknesses
And leaving us in pieces
Sideways broken and bound
We know
What's coming
Don't hide
Stop running
My neurons
Are firing
Slower than ever before
Synapses
Are sparking
Their shine is slowly dying
Memory
Is fading
I'm losing track of myself
Furthering
Risk taking
Behavior spreading it airborne
Corona
Is coming
And yet we're doing nothing
Mutating
So quickly
We can't defend against it
Mutations
That go wild
Are ones that aid its spreading
Like killing
Brain regions
That govern risk assessment
And so it goes now it's taking over
Whatever's left of society
Each infection makes us weaker
Each infection takes away our memories
I think my brain has been slowly leaking
Out my nose and down my throat
And now we're all in the same boat
A frontal lobe lobotomy
Is nothing very shocking see
This disease kills our brain cells
In myriad ways
We know
What's coming
Don't hide
Stop running
My neurons
Are firing
Slower than ever before
Synapses
Are sparking
Their shine is slowly dying
Memory
Is fading
I'm losing track of myself
Furthering
Risk taking
Behavior spreading it airborne
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3. |
Inflation
04:03
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The stars are shining
Dazzling diamonds on the screen
That glows so brightly
Showing how empty this room is
Where once was laughter
Now there is only misery
I can't afford some new decor
To spruce up what was once part of a scene
Scrap and fight for every bite
Of each dollar I earn and right
Around the time I crash down
On this old and beaten couch
All I'm left with is an empty pit
A gaping void in my stomach
Food is too expensive
So I'll shoplift just to stay alive
We can see
Inflation
Starving us
Out of house and home
Now life is
Expensive
What point will
Make us all explode
The world is turning
It's slightly stumbling at least
And while it's burning
We shovel funds to the police
So when we rise up
And we take it to the streets
There's a hundred thousand more
Now champing at the bit to be released
This money's better spent
On paying for meds food and rent
For citizen civilians
Who will otherwise fight back
Against the monetary system that
Controls us up down front and back
It isn't working out for us
The only way is rioting
We think
We are
Human beings well
Nothing
Works out
As expected but
This time
We find
Prices rising and
Blame it
On us
And the pandemic now
Lockdowns were nonexistent
Stimmy checks were just a two time deal
Meanwhile there's record profits
For the people gouging us for real
Our media has gaslit
Our entire population so
Their advertisers keep on
Paying them to push us down below
The stars are shining
Dazzling smiles on my TV
Prices are rising
And we can't afford to eat
Our rent is climbing
It's shooting higher every week
No other reason but the
Common thread is flagrant corporate greed
It's time we rise up time we fight back
Grab a hammer strike the beast
Why should they profit from our labor
Give us famine while they feast
They think they're stronger think they're safe with
Pinkertons and the police
We have our labor to withhold
Let's cut them down right at their knees
We can see
Inflation
Starving us
Out of house and home
Now life is
Expensive
What point will
Make us all explode
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4. |
Sneak a Peek
03:37
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You know I gotta sneak a peek!
All these streets are starting to blur
Here in the suburbs scoping out the hedge rows and windows now
Here we go I got my camera ready
To start snapping some x-rated pervo pics again
See I go out every night into the wild wild world
Of the upper middle class's castle parks
To see what kind of fun that fun bunch is up to
And what kind of kinky shit they're doing in the dark
But lately it's been a tad bit disappointing
See these Trump flag flying fuckers are coughing a lot
Where these richies used to swing like chimps in trees
Now they're homebound sick with covid and monkeypox
See I got something of a special set of skills
I pay my bills and buy my pills by being a creep
But with covid running rampant and a pox on all their houses
Times have never been tougher to sneak a peek
I'm out here sipping my third cup of coffee
It's a hot and humid night too much to be out
But my rent has come due and I haven't yet
So I'm hunting from the fences but I'm starting to doubt
Now the pickin's have been slim and disgusting
I'm not a big enough freak to get off on sores and snot
Now it's not like I'm some kind of conservative prude
But don't get me wrong I get off on a good shot
And so what's left is pathetic and the keys in the bowl
Barely ring out with the tiniest clink
It's so hard to film a party in someone else's home
With the host passed out and the guest puking in the sink
The time has come I realize
To pack it up pack it in
In drab disappointment
And my thoughts are aligned
With my feelings I guess
I'm walking on eggshells
With blueballs stuck to my legs
But it doesn't matter
I tell myself again
This time I really mean it
But it's a become a trend
These selfish sons of bitches
Need to take better care
I can't get off when they're off sick
From miasmatic air
You see I tried to sneak a peek
And what I found was horrific
You'd think they'd mask up for their own good
It's really so sophomoric
All these streets are fading away
Leaving the suburbs scoping out the hedge rows and windows now
Here we go I got my camera packed
To give up snapping some x-rated pervo pics again
See I go out every night into the wild wild world
Of the upper middle class's castle parks
To see what kind of fun that funky bunch is up to
Just to see what that fun bunch is coughing up
But lately it's been extremely disappointing
See these Trump flag flying fuckers are coughing a lot
Where these richies used to swing like chimps in trees
Now they're homebound sick with covid and monkeypox
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5. |
Giving Up On Covid
03:36
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Wave to my neighbor
Get in my car
Get a move on it's time to get to work
Sit in my cube
Staring off
Cubemate is coughing through his stupid salesman smirk
Too much commotion
Lay my head down
Temples are pounding then a scream comes from the back
Down in the break room
Sprawled on a table
Once an able bodied man had a heart attack
But it's fine
The boss said back to work
Leave the body there
Staring only makes it worse
We're back to normal
And the change was quick
Nobody said a word
We're great at ignoring it
Step past the body
On the way to my afternoon cup
He is the table now
A fruit bowl's been set up
People are talking
They're coughing loud
They're taking bets
On the next to hit the ground
It doesn't matter that masking can stop this
It doesn't matter if this disease kills our kids
It doesn't matter if it shreds our immune systems
It doesn't matter much to class capitalists
We're here
We're watching
Our western culture floping
We're busy ignoring it
We've given up on covid
It's here
It's staying
No matter how you're praying
We're far too scared to fight it
We've given up on covid
The drive home
Driving like psychopaths
Three dead in a road rage rifle attack
Blank out
My mind goes fuzzy
I made it home but I can't recall the path
Turn on the TV
Turn on the game
80,000 and not a single mask
Can't hear the players
Can't hear the ref
Can't hear a thing but coughing from the stands
Every time I watch the news
I grow a little colder
To the people all around me who
Just couldn't bear to shoulder
Just a little bit of empathy
And self responsibility
Having so much difficulty
Doing the slightest thing
To keep their families
And friends and neighbors
Safer than a little shrug
And a lazy halfassed Watcha gonna do
Well first you could put on a mask
And keep a little distance
You don't need to ride up on me
In the supermarket queue
It doesn't matter that masking can stop this
It doesn't matter if this disease kills our kids
It doesn't matter if it shreds our immune systems
It doesn't matter much to class capitalists
We're here
We're watching
Our western culture floping
We're busy ignoring it
We've given up on covid
It's here
It's staying
No matter how you're praying
We're far too scared to fight it
We've given up on covid
It feels like I'm stuck here
Living in the Twilight Zone
It's no big ask to wear a mask
Or leave me alone, but
It shouldn't be this much of a giant fucking deal
To stay far the hell away from me
This pandemic is real
It doesn't matter that masking can stop this
It doesn't matter if this disease kills our kids
It doesn't matter if it shreds our immune systems
It doesn't matter much to class capitalists
We're here
We're watching
Our western culture floping
We're busy ignoring it
We've given up on covid
It's here
It's staying
No matter how you're praying
We're far too scared to fight it
We've given up on covid
It doesn't matter that masking can stop this
It doesn't matter if this disease kills our kids
It doesn't matter if it shreds our immune systems
It doesn't matter much to class capitalists
We're here
We're watching
Our western culture floping
We're busy ignoring it
We've given up on covid
It's here
It's staying
No matter how you're praying
We're far too scared to fight it
We've given up on covid
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6. |
Brain Damage (Punk Rock)
02:53
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Faustbot Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Faustbot is an synthpunk new wave project influenced by Adult., Gary Numan, Devo, Polysics, The Faint, Wall of Voodoo, Talking Heads, and, bizarrely, surf rock.
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