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HORSELESS HEADMAN
Dollars and cents
Invisible hand
Supply and demand
Legless foot
Faceless eyes
Armless Hands
Horseless Head
Living dead
Sleepless bed
Come apart
Finish the start
Begin the End
Chorus:
She's a black empress for the new world
She's a black empress for the new world
Dead goddess clipped wing cage medusa
She's a black empress for the new world
Change your friends
Change your name
Change your band
Legless foot
Melting nose
Armless Hands
Horseless Head
Raise the dead
Sleepless bed
Come apart
Finish the start
Begin the end
Chorus.
Instrumental.
Chorus.
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DENTADA
Her name was Dentada with the silent father
She chewed me apart until my parts couldn't bother
and Then lay me down in the fields of fodder
Pulled from the socket by a brain so lawless
Chorus:
I need you to turn the world upside down
so I can buy this fallacy
Dentada was always so unclear from the start
why I could never push too deep.
I will melt your sugar skin coat
If you burn my sinking tug boat
Definition insults reputation
Injury salts my amputation
Chorus:
I need you to turn the world upside down
so I can buy this phallusy
Dentada was always so unclear from the start
why I could never push too deep.
Chorus.
Chorus 2
I thank you for telling me what life ought to mean
so I can never rest in peace
I thank you for telling me what life ought to mean
ya it's just like pulling teeth
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QUEEN BEE
01:50
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QUEEN BEE
Deep inside a hive
Stillborn but alive
Her milk is honey
She is my Queen Bee
She will never die.
Bitterest of sweet
Bed ridden, asleep
Black shroud made of me
She is my Queen Bee
She will never die.
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DANCE SONG
03:24
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DANCE SONG
Your condition
Is my Religion
Health is sickness
Health is sickness
Duxpeak, newspeak, straw math
Nonsense, chatters like a scene rat
Mean teen, vacant scene queen
Acts like nothing's even happenin'
Loose lips sink ships
Cleft beaks, Clipped lips
Ignorant Bliss
Health is Sickness
We sleep so long,
There's nothing wrong
We wake so soon
in a coma cocoon
My condition
Is your religion
Health is sickness
Health is sickness
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CAVE
02:12
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CAVE
In a cave, I will cave
Revel in my mistakes
Miner for the Undermined
the new king of Philistine
Sun I know, Sun I know
In a cave, I can't grow
Sunless now, and alone
This cave has become home
I will die and you will never know
Excavate and exterminate my bones
In my place, I am free
to admit my defeat
Put in place, duty's slave
Troglodyte in a cave
Sun I know, Sun I know
In a cave, I can't grow
Sunless now, and alone
This cave has become home
I will die and you will never know
Excavate and exterminate my bones
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ETERNAL LIFE INSURANCE
02:25
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ETERNAL LIFE INSURANCE
I don't need a partner to die alone
I refuse to call a road a home
Wild horse fossils roam the night free
Octopus skeleton begs for sleep.
I see a phantom no one else sees.
Out of sight and out of memory.
Nothing ever lasts forever.
Remembered as members of whatever.
Exception. Except this.
Conception. Accept it.
I see a phantom no one else sees.
Paralytic fear of psyche.
Nothing lasts not even nothing.
Reality can be so crushing.
Exception. Except this.
Conception. Accept it.
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MELTING WITCH
02:54
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MELTING WITCH
If the torch is real
Then the light is fake.
If the torture's real
Then the fight is made.
And if 4 is 5
Then I promise to sway.
I will be the blade. I will be the frame. I will be the blame.
Chorus:
Feed a poison rabbit to the bundle of snakes
Snake eater's belly ache.
Keep a rotting plug in the silverfish drain
Won't make them dissipate.
No one's gonna rock my black cradle grave.
No one's gonna kill my itch.
Would you thrive in a desert like you've thirsted in a lake
or would you melt like a melting witch?
When you opened up
to my orchid entrails,
I saw a coven of witches
through a wall of scales.
I drew a bucket
the size of a lake.
Melting witch, real pain
is relatively fake.
Feed a poison rabbit to the bundle of snakes
Snake eater's belly ache.
Keep a rotting plug in the silverfish drain
Won't make them dissipate.
No one's gonna rock my black cradle grave.
No one's gonna kill my itch.
Would you thrive in a desert like you've thirsted in a lake
or would you melt like a melting witch?
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BLACK SWAN
02:59
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BLACK SWAN
Ride that black swan
Ride that black swan
Ride that black swan
Over the edge of the world.
This vast Ship of fools
This vast Ship of fools
This vast Ship of fools
Over the edge of the world.
Blind white sunshine,
dead sea albedo.
Thin snail shell home
cracked by mollusk beak.
The unchosen promised land
sky ceiling springs a leak
Ride on
Ride on
Sail on Sail on Sail on
Cracked glass iceberg exposed
through tundra plateau,
Blind white sunshine,
dead Sea albedo.
Thin snail shell home
cracked by mollusk beak.
The unchosen promised land
sky ceiling springs a leak
Ride that black swan
Ride that black swan
Ride that black swan
Over the edge of the world.
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BAT A LASH
03:15
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BAT A LASH
Emptiness and nothingness
Light speed bat-eyed loneliness
On a speck of dust to ponder this
Until you bat a lash
Long blue
Nothing new
Same like me.
Same like you.
Emptiness and nothingness
Light speed bat-eyed loneliness
On a speck of dust to ponder this
Until you bat a lash
Blood like tar.
Earn your stars.
Wear the badge.
Buy the farce.
Mind your change
Change your mind
Until you Bat a lash
Until you bat a lash
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COALMINE CANARY
02:55
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COALMINE CANARY
Treated me like a coalmine canary
In your mind's mineshaft, a cemetery
I've been appointed for disappointment
I've been anointed for shit employment
"I know you'll keep coming back here.
I know you'll keep coming back here."
Treated me like a coalmine canary.
In your mind's mineshaft, a cemetery.
The going currency is cruelty.
Commodified things running smoothly.
I've got a thirst for blood
I am the hunter and the hunted you've become
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FRANKENSTEIN
02:48
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FRANKENSTEIN
I'm a whole and I'm a part
I'm an end and I'm a start
Just an end to an unjust means
Didn't mean to be so mean.
A Shame!
It's such a Shame
to be Shamed
fuckin lame!
(Meth meth crystal meth, you keep on pushing til there's nothing left,
Now it's alright to waste your time coz I'll become a Frankenstein)
so I
Shed Shed Shed Shed My fake skin
Steal and stitch the parts I'm missin'
I'm a hole and I'm a part
Reductionist who fell apart
Gestalt, My fault, My shoulder's raw
Hibernation broke your law
Shame!
It's a shame,
To be shamed
Fuckin lame.
(Meth meth crystal meth, you keep on pushing til there's nothing left,
Now it's alright to waste your time and you become a Frankenstein)
So I shed shed shed shed shed my fake skin
Steal and stitch the parts I'm missing
you keep a knockin but you can't get in
you keep a knockin but you can't get in
you keep a knockin but you can't get in
come again tomorrow night and try it again.
Shed shed shed shed shed my fake skin
Steal and stitch the parts I'm missing
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ACHILLES HEEL
03:52
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ACHILLES HEEL
Never letting go
Was my Achilles heel
I'd stub my toe on details
Forget the sun was real
Dirty little secrets
And dirty little games
Flew too close to the sun
and my waxwings came undone
Flew too close to the sun
But I'm not the only one
Flew too close to the sun
Only to plummet into shedding blood
A dead ringer's hired gun
A fool who won't be outdone
Flew too close to the sun
and my wax wings came undone
Flew too close to the sun
But I'm not the only one.
Never getting old was your Achilles Heel
You'd cut your nose to spite your face
Forget the sun was real
Fuck those dirty secrets
I don't want to hear your name.
Flew too close to the sun
and you lost your only son.
Flew too close to the sun
But you're not the only one.
Flew too close to the sun
To plummet into shedding blood
A dead ringer's hired gun
A fool who won't be outdone.
Flew too close to the sun
And you lost your only son
Flew too close to the sun
But you're not the only one
But you're not the only one
But you're not the only one
No we're not the only ones.
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WAR BABY Vancouver, British Columbia
Booking: warbaby8@gmail.com
Management: terry@thenoisefloor.ca
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Members: Kirby, Brock, Jon
What would happen if AmRep bands in the '90s were obsessed with disentangling pop sensibilities from their knot of noise? Vancouver's War Baby is exactly that: one part grunge ugliness, one part perfect pop pitch, two parts noise rock abandon. It's new wave for a disfigured world.
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