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1.
make a new friend (try to remember) - remember the name (it rhymes with september) - not a new trend (but everyone's different) - always the same (but i know we're different) birthdays (saturdays) - handshakes (hand grenades) big hugs (eating cake) - everyone's a fake cementing relationships - oh what a bore cementing relationships - what are friendships for i know stuff (i said i'd remember) - you know stuff (what's there to remember) - useless fluff (i think it rhymes with september) - knowing stuff just sucks not what i know (it's who you know) - but who i know (robo afro) - and that's why we go (to secret shows) - to our little shows cementing relationships - oh what a bore - cementing relationships - what are friendships for - cementing relationships - voicemails i can ignore - cementing relationships oh what a chore all the old bones are gathered here inside my living room - smiles and wine are filling up all of my empty time - what do i think that's not a skeleton - in my walk in closet i have got them dangling mnemonic devices (try to remember) - for remembering names (rhymes with september) - a squirrel is a squirrel (no faker than strangers) - but a human just ain't the same this is my friend (best friends) - from long ago (from long ago) - I know his name now (what's his name) - because he's at my show cementing relationships - oh what a chore - cementing relationships - my friend dan on bass guitar - cementing relationships - oh (hey!) what a c(b)hore - cementing relationships - what are friendships for
2.
Manatee 02:56
manatee you call me you find me in the sea sea cow don't know how you fuckin miss me speed boat killed my nephew aunt and niece miami around me polluting up my gulf stream carefree manatee - jet skis you are the enemy saltwater sweetwater upriver varieties evolving for a million years was the bees' knees lately propellers been carving up a killing spree it seems humanity's going to be the death of me carefree manatee - jet skis you are the enemy floating fat mass of eternal serenity americans should have empathy for my obesity please please let me be ponderously obviously land of the free don't apply to my species carefree manatee - jet skis you are the enemy carefree manatee - carefree manatee jeffrey/carefree you're a/manatee - care(ful/free) of yo(h)u(r)manatiy(ee)
3.
Super Dave 02:53
i'm dave i'm super dave villians they will be vanquished but not today i'm in a haze and it's ok because the city's safe but dr. freebase is out on parole with marijuana to lace ...the people say... dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it the city is run amok and i am on my duff wicked thugs and their processed luck are getting their yucks off of my hard earned bucks up in a puff of smoke goes my job and i'm out on the street with a quota to meet two bank heists and super villains thwarted each week ...the people say... dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it and if you take some of that money from the robberies you've stopped you can quit the hero biz and maybe join up with the mob oh and dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it i'm on a cliff a precipice it's a slippery slope for a junk-eating joke dr. freebase flies up in the air he gives me a look a comic book stare he's got the potheads all smoking crack i know what i've got to do to fight back rose clenched between my teeth i plunge into the darkness beneath ...the people say once more... hey dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it dave - we've got a crack pipe if you want it no way - super dave is here to stay
4.
Mr. Fish 04:16
my name is mr. fish i live behind a rock school is in session down the block so i go out for a walk i spend my money on the paper the current warns of impending danger but i forgot my lunch overhead there is free food to munch in the newspaper i read the food reviews - the chum and chew opens half past two - i've heard about life up there where there is no air the missus has me on a diet i'm hooked on kelp but i want to try it i'm sick of seaweed every day my hunger for meat cannot be kept at bay i hear my wife's voice in my head - let me cook you kelp instead - i tell myself i'm not a bisque that mr. fish is plenty quick but the meat inside my mouth tastes good and i go limp like she said i would the deal's been sealed for an ounce of flesh hey boys i'm headed for the nets mr. fish mr. fish you're putting up a fight but mr. fish mr. fish the missus was right mr. fish mr. fish you've had your last bite mr. fish mr. fish you're headed for the light my name is mr. fish i live upon the ice this is water i have not known cold and hard not like home but my life it aint' so bad in fact i'm not even mad i don't have to think or swim or eat now i'm just a piece of meat
5.
AirWolf 04:40
i fixed your bow tie you fixed my smile you let your clothes fly into a pile burned that pile ran a mile found your blood floating in the mud you ate your mountain you drank your river i laid some clothes out so you would not shiver i brought a cake home ate it in the car by the time i heard you leaving i was breathing in the dark since that last fight i've been hugging a rock waiting for the dogs to come since you took flight me and my light been eyeing the night waiting for a dog to hug you helped the moneys climb on your back you burned your books and your prayer mat you left your guitar for the birds pushed your harpsichord into a gorge escaped your tv escaped your city you built your house into the trees worked like a smithy and in a jiffy you had your house burned to the ground since that last fight i've been hugging a rock waiting for the dogs to come since you took flight me and my light been eyeing the night waiting for a dog to hug but with that fire so bright the wolves will eat me alive won't you sit for just deserts tonight i baked a pie out of your breakfast lies tastes of hands hard upon my face oh i beg your pardon if i still need my space cannot shear the sheep with the wolves so close all the dogs are barking at last winter's ghosts lawyers in the market rags on your feet put your name to parchment and i'll exchange the meat disappear into my world of law i'll sleep well tonight under air dog's paw
6.
Extra Heads 03:00
universal healthcare bill in the mail today i'm paying for my neighbor's cyborg legs his robot wife having robot babies bob barker on the tv saying get your robots spayed cyborgs cyborgs humans are mutating are they creating a cy-robot army homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads obamacare obamacare obamacare obamacare homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads average joes now seem like they're all homos coworker of mine named joe went and got prego homo robots are at the baby shower more and more dudes pregnant by the hour homosexuals is knocking at my back door does my brains taste good to homosexuals homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads obamacare obamacare obamacare obamacare homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads stop - martian abortion - stop - plutonic sex they're storming the intergalactic fence i'm the only one incurring expense abortion abortion innocent unborn martian will the second trimester extend beyond the milky way homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads obamacare obamacare obamacare obamacare homeless people gonna be the ones who want the extra heads.......................................................................................
7.
it is a big house it is a new car it could be your spouse and it will take you far it is all the things that i do not have it is chateau margaux and a back stage pass it's hiking part of the appalachian trail for its vay-kay and it is buying a soy mocha latte here we go it is a good sexual candidate (3x) oh hey what is it it knows all the nicknames of the safeways in town it bullshits through brunch and it buys the next round it blogs about the mysteries of your daily life the sleeves on its t-shirt were cut with a knife and usually it's white it is a good sexual candidate (3x) hey hooah what is it oh it's republican or a democrat it ain't no independent who'd vote for that it is in a band and it's got facebook fans and it's a top 40 jam and it's a five year plan it is all the things that i've wanted to be maybe it's you because it sure ain't me it's got plans almost every friday and it's on top or behind or watching as you are getting paid it is a good sexual candidate (3x) hey hey what is it it is a good sexual candidate (3x) andandisit who is it i am a good sexual candidate you are a good sexual candidate we are a good sexual candidate oh hahuhah oh it's tommy chong's bong or it could be this song
8.
he gets drunk at straight edge shows he goes toe to toe and he throws elbows he shows up at your parties he sneezes in your coke lines he says you're gonna die so quit wasting all of your time everybody hates jim but i love him (4x) he doesn't like to give hugs and his handshake is limp he doesn't believe in anything he's hot air like a blimp you can toss your ethics out the door tooting your horn about absolutes to him is a bore everybody hates jim but i love him (4x) he refuses grandma's christmas dinner because it's made of swine he celebrates ramadan by eating in the daytime he hands out raisins for halloween he do not like bohemian rhapsody the song by queen everybody hates jim but i love him (4x) GO! everybody hates jim but i love him (4x)
9.
Got a Job 04:46
got a job got a job got a job today steady pay healthcare and a 401k curriculum vitae's going to get refined 9 to 9 computer chair bound to crush my spine how do you turn this on legal paper is the one that is long and all the colored toner is gone where does this plant belong i used to think it was ok - for you to go to work all day remember that you were blessed - to not have to send remittances ain't no taxman goin greet you in the afterlife backpay hey no way i hope you loved your life jobs - everybody wants a job...jobs - everybody gets a job lost my job lost my job lost my job today sat me down wished me well with two weeks of pay escorted out of the building with my cardboard box suddenly i notice that i had holes in socks what is gross misconduct - this duck feels plucked and i have a got a mistress' luck - which means that I got (*****) i used to think that it is ok - for me to go to work all day and now i'm eating on the dole - and looking like a jelly roll ain't no taxman goin greet you in the afterlife backpay hey no way i hope you loved your life jobs - everybody wants a job...jobs - everybody gets a job love love love your job or love love your life love love them both and you're gonna win a prize try working from just 9 to 5 work will be there waiting when the weekend flies by jobs for you jobs for me jobs for all womankind heck it beats standing in the unemployment line work for love work for hate work for your bones just remember work's at work and not at home who is blue and who is red - coffins under every bed in heaven i will work all day - to make the bill collectors go away ain't no taxman goin greet you in the afterlife backpay hey no way i hope you loved your life jobs - everybody wants a job...jobs - everybody gets a job outer space outer space outer space they got the jobs inner mongolia-golia they got the jobs we need some jobs in pittsburgh boys
10.
lyrics by steve kane monday morning in the office by eight debiting and crediting them off of your plate making amends for the ones that i ate i check the calendar that seals my fate there's nothing i can do, there's no escape my life's running out like an adding machine tape friday night i die a work week death - paisley noose around my neck and i take my last fermented breath - atop the covers i'm laid to rest (2x) working late on wednesday counting the beans debiting and crediting to vent my spleen this job is as hard as the world is mean it makes you crazy like the mujahideen there's nothing i can do, there's no escape my life's running out like an adding machine tape friday night i die a work week death - paisley noose around my neck and i take my last fermented breath - atop the covers i'm laid to rest (2x) end of the week feeling worse for wear debiting and crediting the cages bare look up at a vent i smell death in the air i'll have six empty bottles to be my pall bearers oh there's nothing i can do, there's no escape my life's running out like an adding machine tape friday night i die friday night i die friday night i die friday night i die.....................................

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released April 11, 2014

noisemaking: alex, dan, leah, dave
omnipresencing: jim morey
soundscaping: tommy sherrod
pandahandling: johnee dub

recorded at bathtub studios in washington, dc september 2013

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