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Written an performed by Adam Selene and Joshua Coberly
Produced by Adam Selene
Engineered by Christopher Hisey for Studio SLAMO!
Sage Francis appears courtesy of unauthorized sampling
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Lyrics:
(Adam)
look at the ethnically translucent
and their collection of novelty humans
all sorted by colors and flavors, cultural capitalism reduced lending
to the commodification of truth blending belt buckles into bruises
leaving poor little casper's lack of a reflection forever transmuted
so when the hip is dislocated from the movement
I bet the one legged race will only then serve to label the stupid
swallow that pride down to the root and conjoin the knees to the dirt
of every star bellied sneetch found bleeding ink from its ironic t-shirt
see, wegro fruit less strange on these suburban lawnscapes
typical sheep skinned lycanthrope types with a tourist's gaze
these kids are last in place, stuffing voids with the soul they sought in slums
devoid of a point they sift through shifting sands searching for glittery crumbs
sucker punch or run, fucker, clutch your fisher price hand guns
but when the man comes around you need to return the investment and then some
they'd slammed their thumbs too many times to try building any culture at all
and practiced jumping to prove them wrong but never learned how to play basketball
(Joshua)
With a mouthfull of shame, claiming the missing link in the chain gang,
He sang an out-of-tune redemption spiritual,
Figured spitting on something beautiful amidst a tragedy was exactly that bit of unusual needed for his act,
We planted social moths in the suburbs,
Somehow nature selected abandoned test subjects to remain under one herd,
And I've been fearing sleep since a young age,
Afraid of the reappearing sheep, convinced of neverending dreams,
It's the new scarlet letter, go on talk the walk, whatever,
Start some friendships, get in groups, devolve together,
Starve heritage for a homage to unshared accomplishments,
Endeavor 'til the last drop of effort shows just how flawed it is, no pressure,
Haunting, you can hide white lies inside of blackface,
And label it artistic when the audience doesn't get it,
With all these food critics taste-testing strange fruit,
You'd think they'd disallow the counter-culture's attempts to reproduce
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Rhapsody In Rhyme,
track released May 30, 2012
Written an performed by Adam Selene and Joshua Coberly
Produced by Adam Selene
Engineered by Christopher Hisey for Studio SLAMO!
Sage Francis appears courtesy of unauthorized sampling
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