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The Fringe
02:36
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Me and Panic woke up together
This is not one night, no it is forever
I will make breakfast (avocado toast)
You'll be father, son and the holy freaking ghost
I was just awarded my advanced degree
Now I'm in a band making musique concrète
Dishwasher tumbles dry a Pringles can
Sounds about as good no matter where you stand
Success is cringe! Success is cringe!
I wanna be on the fringe
I wanna be on the fringe
I wanna be on the fringe
I wanna be on the fringe
Me and Panic wearing really big shirts
Looking for others wearing really big shirts
Carving massive nudes out of cold mayonnaise
Guess there's no accounting for taste ...
Opening night at my gallery show,
"A Personal History of My Runny Nose"
A towering achievement in aesthetic design
The critics don't like it, they are here for the wine
Success is cringe! Success is cringe!
I wanna be on the fringe
I wanna be on the fringe
I wanna be on the fringe
I wanna be on the fringe
I want to be on the fringe
F-R-I-N-G, the fringe
F-R-I-N-G, the fringe
I want to be on the fringe
F-R-I-N-G, the fringe
F-R-I-N-G, the fringe
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2. |
Popular 2
03:08
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Subject verb
I want to be disturbed
I just perturbed the pigeons now the pigeons are perturbed
Lately I'm rustling the blinds
I got a lust for life, a life that is inside
Free shoes
Free Whoppers and Cokes
I see someone normal and I make a mental note
"Hey buddy, this is private property! This is private property! This is private property!"
But you're never ever gonna be alone, here in your community neighborhood home
I just want to be popular to watch
In the movie you put on from the camera on your porch
Your across the street neighbor walks his dog on TV
The future is now, unfortunately
And if I'm never ever gonna be alone, here in my community neighborhood home
Then I wanna be popular to watch in the movie you put on from the camera on your porch
Subject line: What's a lawn chair like?
Do you ever sit outside getting 69 bug bites?
Ask away, is it punk to complain?
The salad's mostly iceberg when it should be romaine
I fly my drone high above your home
I see someone normal and I feel less alone
"Hey buddy, this is private property! This is private property! This is private property!"
But you're never ever gonna be alone, here in your community neighborhood home
I just want to be popular to watch
In the movie you put on from the camera on your porch
Your across the street neighbor pulling weeds on TV
The future is now, unfortunately
And if I'm never ever gonna be alone, here in my community neighborhood home
Then I wanna be popular to watch in the movie you put on from the camera on your porch
But you're never ever gonna be alone, here in your community neighborhood home
I just want to be popular to watch
In the movie you put on from the camera on your porch
Your across the street neighbor watches you on TV
The future is now, unfortunately
And if I'm never ever gonna be alone, here in my community neighborhood home
Then I wanna be popular to watch in the movie you put on from the camera on your porch
Woo
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I love Mess
Mess loves me
Me and Mess are trying on contemporary jeans
Mess is an authority on current events
And we are not that jealous of our former college friends
Whose careers are going great
And their bands are blowing up
And their coffee overfloweth from their thrifted coffee mug
We are radically transparent as transparent can be
We are reading you the screenplay of our new wave masterpiece
Thrifting from the sand
Thrifting from the bank
Dispassionately vaping while I water the plants
I am continuing to do my thing
I am continuing to do my thing
I am continuing to do my thing
I am continuing to do my thing
I love Mess
Mess loves me
Me and Mess are rooting on the trophy winning teams
We are leaving fingerprints wherever we go
We are running over road signs on the side of the road
People are yelling
“Hey I’m walking here!”
But if you steal a cop car you will never get pulled over
And Jeff Bezos put a hit out
Bought insurance on our lives
And he’ll probably use the profits to build server farms for ICE
Waxing in Atlanta
Waning in Wisconsin
Vaping in the parking lot with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
I am continuing to do my thing
I am continuing to do my thing
I am continuing to do my thing
I am continuing to do my thing
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4. |
Grad School
04:49
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Hey man
Is today your real birthday?
In the city where you were born
Have they designated today your day?
Hey man
Everybody wants to ruin the world
Every mom is calling up just to talk
I read the news and it was bad, in my opinion
We found your social security on the dark web
We found your social security on the dark web
We found your social security on the dark web
And we used to open your email
And your email said
Everybody looks familiar
I’m waking up again and again
I threw chum in the ocean and the chum swam back
The currents are recurrent events
Everybody’s here for the first time
Reducing their emissions with death
Because they heard it in a podcast and it changed their minds
The currents are recurrent events
They are recurrent events
Shift change
You are going from the cradle to grave
Then heading back from the tomb to the womb
From grade school to grad school
Shift change
From Easy Mac to Big Mac
From anecdote to irrelevant quote
To laughing your ass off at your own joke!
We found your social security on the dark web
We found your social security on the dark web
We found your social security on the dark web
And we used to open your email
And your email said
Everybody looks familiar
I’m waking up again and again
I threw chum in the ocean and the chum swam back
The currents are recurrent events
Everybody’s here for the first time
Reducing their emissions with death
Because they heard it in a podcast and it changed their minds
The currents are recurrent events
They are recurrent events
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5. |
Life in a Bag
04:04
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OK Cheesecake
I saw you at the pharmacy
I wanna survive as your faded memory
Heaven is just wiggly air
And I’m alive now
Heaven is just wiggly air
And I’m alive now
Up and to the right
Up and to the right
Are there too many dudes in the kitchen?
Ooh!
Mentally I'll
Mentally I'll
Mentally I'll be fine
Life in a bag
Living my life in a bag
Thank you for putting me in this bag
American chaos, carnage and death
Nature really is returning
And we really are the virus, dude
We got a raise and a promotion at our job
We used to brush our teeth but we got hotter since we stopped
Our artsy friends have settled down
We put our feelings in a sock
Looks like we got got got got got got got got got got it on lock
We got a raise and promotion at our job
We’re getting shamed online so you don’t need to call the cops
Our hippest friends are getting square
They cross their arms, they check their watch
Seems like we got got got got got got got got got got it on lock
OK, doctor
I saw you at the pharmacy
Can you tell me if something’s wrong with me actually?
After I admit I have a problem what’s the second step?
No runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left
Down and to the right
Down and to the right
I contain multitudes
I contain multiple dudes
Mentally I'll
Mentally I'll
Mentally I'll be fine
Life in a bag
Living my life in a bag
Thank you for putting me in this bag
American chaos, carnage and death
Nature really is returning
And we really are the virus dude
We got a raise and a promotion at our job
We used to brush our teeth but we got hotter since we stopped
Our artsy friends have settled down
We put our feelings in a sock
Looks like we got got got got got got got got got got it on lock
We got a raise and promotion at our job
We’re getting shamed online so you don’t need to call the cops
Our hippest friends are getting square
They cross their arms, they check their watch
Seems like we got got got got got got got got got got it on lock
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6. |
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New year
New you
New colds
New brews
New Balance
New shoes
New year
New you
New life
New limbs
New car
Expensive trim
New dawn
New way
Or same shit
Different day
Hunter and Junior
Start a podcast
Start an airline
Start a hedge fund
Start a manscaping brand
Drive their Tesla
Down to Best Buy
Now they got a new TV
Hunter and Junior
In their suits
Buying art
At the Louvre
Trophy hunting
At the zoo
New year
New you
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7. |
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Heaven or Heck
Eat the rich food
Half-time breakdowns chopped and screwed
Pruning shears
Cutting liberty spikes
On the hedges of mind
This is so inclusive
I feel so included
If you’ve got plugs and gauges
You are welcome in our spaces
I’ve got friends in crowded places
We’re not much for social graces
We are social dissidents
We do not send condolences
And I hate to send mixed messages
I love to send mixed messages
I hate to send mixed messages
I love to send mixed messages
There was so much time
I spent rent free in my mind
I was radically transparent
Then I reverted to the mean
But there were changes in the hardcore scene
There was so much time
I spent rent free in my mind
I was radically transparent
Then I reverted to the mean
But there were changes in the hardcore scene
What’s the opposite of optimal
I think it’s liminal
Let’s get liminal
Bro we’re liminal
I’m the new New England grindcore
And I don’t need help
I’ll do it myself
And it will be so inclusive
You’ll feel so included
If you’ve got plugs and gauges
You are welcome in our spaces
I got friends with background checks
With X tattoos all up their necks
We are social dissidents
We do not send condolences
And I hate to send mixed messages
I love to send mixed messages
I hate to send mixed messages
I love to send mixed messages
There was so much time
I spent rent free in my mind
I was radically transparent
Then I reverted to the mean
But there were changes in the hardcore scene
There was so much time
I spent rent free in my mind
I was radically transparent
Then I reverted to the mean
But there were changes in the hardcore scene
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8. |
Largest Muscle
03:12
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Your heart is your largest muscle
Your heart respects no authority
Your tongue is your largest muscle
You talked so much you had to get corrective surgery
Your eyes are your largest muscle
They can recognize me when I’m wearing a hat
Your ass is your largest muscle
Why don’t you sit down a while and think about that
The way you take it there
I think it’s cool. I really do
The way you take it there
I think it’s cool. I really do
This life is not a special gift
But you can make the most of it
And your politics were good but you got weary
You tried solving all the world’s problems with your unifying theory
You got your heart in your hands, but your hands are in trouble
Because your heart your heart your heart your heart your heart your heart your heart’s your largest muscle
Aaaaaaah
Aaaaaaah
Your brain is your largest muscle
Everything on the left is also on the right
Your mind is so big and supple
And you can turn that thing around at any point
Your thoughts are a handsy schoolboy
Who is working part time at a Target store
You and I have so much in common but
Why don’t you sit down a while and think a little more
The way you take it there
I think it’s cool. I really do
The way you take it there
I think it’s cool. I really do
This life is not a special gift
But you can make the most of it
And your politics were good but you got weary
You tried solving all the world’s problems with your unifying theory
You got your heart on your mind, but your mind is in trouble
Because your heart your heart your heart your heart your heart your heart your heart’s your largest muscle
Aaaaaaah
Aaaaaaah
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9. |
Don't Stop Believing
02:09
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Here comes a sermon on forgiveness
Here comes another hill for you to climb
You’re a special guy, you have lots of talents
You should wear a seatbelt, it could save your life
We hum through our days of constant striving
And everybody seems to hum in time
The lies come for free
The truth’s behind a pay wall
For a dollar ninety nine
Every time I try
I lose track
I don’t text back
And they say don’t stop believing
But it’s just too late for that
I think it’s just too late for that
Everyone cool will die
Everyone weird will also die
What lives on is the destruction
Caused by market economics
Being unique does not fit neatly into the grid of corporate needs
Still I work like a dog doing a dog’s day’s work
And who could blame me? I live in a society
Every time I try
I lose track
I don’t text back
And they say don’t stop believing
But it’s just too late for that
I think it’s just too late for that
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10. |
Plastic
03:10
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I can only do one normal thing a day
Order from the menu $20 buffet
I am people pleasing and I follow the rules
I am bending over backwards, does it make me look cool?
Who modeled the behavior in which I engaged
A permission structure built on what you took and what you gave
Say RIP to everyone who died
Everything is gray now, do you like it?
You know I only want it if you want it
Whatever you need now, we can make it
Out of plastic
Everything’s in place now, do you like it?
No matter what you don’t like, we can move it
I think we can make it
We can make it
Out of plastic
Maybe I should call and apologize
It isn’t what you ordered, but it’s battered and fried
Hold on just a second while I transfer you
A Zero and a Three, big gold balloons
Who modeled the behavior in which you engaged
A permission structure built on what I took and what I gave
Singin’ RIP to everyone who died
Everything is gray now, do you like it?
You know I only want it if you want it
Whatever you need now, we can make it
Out of plastic
Everything’s in place now, do you like it?
No matter what you don’t like, we can move it
I think we can make it
We can make it
Out of plastic
Is there recycling?
It's sorted
Everything is gray now, do you like it?
You know I only want it if you want it
Whatever you need now, we can make it
Out of plastic
Everything’s in place now, do you like it?
No matter what you don’t like, we can move it
I think we can make it
We can make it
I think we can make it
We can make it
I think we can make it
We can make it out of plastic
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