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Mortal Folly

by The Monstars

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1.
Hello 04:13
Hey Howdy doo Do do do do you know who I met today? They said my name Hello hello Nobody talks and nobody listens, avoiding your contacts by making up missions Stuck in a cycle of putting your head down, please look up and say hello Hey Is it true? Did you mean that thing you said? Because I really hope you did Hello hello Nobody talks and nobody listens, avoiding your contacts by making up missions Stuck in a cycle of putting your head down, please look up and say hello Hey Howdy doo Do do do do you know who I met today? They said my name Hello hello Nobody talks and nobody listens, avoiding your contacts by making up missions Stuck in a cycle of putting your head down, please look up and say hello Nobody talks and nobody listens, [If you're lonely] avoiding your contacts by making up missions [You can tell me] Stuck in a cycle of putting your head down, [Stuck in a cycle of putting your head down] please look up and say hello [Please look up and say hello] Say hello say hello-ohhh oh no no [x4]
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It pulls my hair It strings the daisies In chains In chains It strings the daisies in chains Chains[x4] Playing games With figures made of anger And tears And tears Figures made of anger and tears Going on and on and[x8]
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It took me Through endless weeks to even try and think again It took me far too deep The pressure It came rushing in Like steam Breathing got hot and and cramped Up inside this room My body ached against these walls Damn it ached for you I need a touch I need a kiss I need my soul sucked from my bones If i asked real nicely Would you please not let me live alone And if I begged, pleaded- on my knees with my heart unfurled Would you tell me the secrets on how you came to end my world x2 It's not quite right, all my friends are dying in the streets I miss the bullets, man, the rats are burning in the heat The doctors mask is so tight that he can barely breath But who would want to, cause it's the air that's killing me It took me Through endless feats to even want to love again It took me far too deep The pressure It came rushing in Like steam Breathing got hot and and cramped Up inside these fumes My body ached against these ruins Damn it ached for you I need a touch I need a kiss I need my soul sucked from my bones If I asked real nicely Would you please not let me live alone And if I begged, pleaded- on my knees with my mind unfurled Would you tell me the secrets on how you came to end my world x2 It's not quite right, all my friends are dying in the streets I miss the bullets, man, the rats are burning in the heat The doctors mask is so tight that he can barely breath But who would want to, cause it's the air that's killing me I'll hold them off, just a little longer, break their stride This infection will leave us all paralyzed paralyzed, and The doctors mask is so tight that he can barely breath But who would want to, cause it's the air that's killing me (how you came to end my world)
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I'm gonna pay you back in blood And all the sorry snakes Will whisper in your ear No more No more All this will end at the strike of twelve Call it wrong Or call it cruel But count your aces Because you're the fool, dance fool Call me broken Or call me blind But soon my vengeance Will seize your mind
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The Big Ugly 03:47
The biggest bad in the baddest town, ain't half as big when you chop him down, and when he falls, yeah, when he falls they'll string him up in the city halls Take me for a loop because im working like a goddamned tool And im trying to play this one way through just to Get it through to you, Can you hear it now Can you hear it through the static shock Plug in baby, we're rocking at Eighteen thousand ectowatts These cameras got more than eyes These snares got more than fears Monkeys got less under-knuckle Cause they rocked this sound right out of here In fact i think you caught it first, dude The worst crime, clued in, ever since Kanye and all his friends, first discovered auto-tune To whom it may concern, ive consumed All that i have ever learned I learnt to keep my mouth agape For great apes to come and feed their brain To me, you see I'm a vacuum Of wit, too full so I got to spit it out Regurgitate the hate that spawns from every soul I take Right now I'm feeling awfully full But a heart as caverness as mine Is one I cannot hold in proper tune So I vomit bright hip-hop'plasm Bout my spasms To silence macro-phantoms Atoms split, go boom This sound fills a room It's silence of the bands As monsters reach their hands out To raise music from the dead And to stick it in your head, now Your ear holes hear me But its your brain I want instead Thats my target, and im dead on red The biggest bad in the baddest town, ain't half as big when you chop him down, and when he falls, yeah, when he falls they'll string him up in the city halls Yikes, shock and awe Here we go, its another attack Too many name's that i've forgotten Leads to mine being without no tracks And the fact of it is That i'm sick trailing without a fight Now I got my knuckles up So let's swing wildly into the night and Make a plan, With the cards You were so unfairly dealt And work your way out the ground And grab the legs of those who put you down Cause I'm living proof, even the dead can raise again But once you're gone, its certain, that coming back wont be easy, man And i'm stuck in keter land, I'm stuck in the wetter sands of time And now im bitter man, looking for better ways to hit rewind But this aint click, i aint no adam sandler bitch This is real, real talking, feels blocking Give me a reason to not be knocking do you hear the talking? Cant get in, for fear of walking dead And now im in your head, just like surgeries of shutter islands end Who am I? Who be you? Who will you grow on to be? Not my call to make, just wait the time out And we will surely see It's silence of the bands As monsters reach their hands out To raise music from the dead And to stick it in your head, now Your ear holes hear me But its your brain I want instead Thats my target, and im dead on red
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The Salesman plays his lullabies And as the moon falls down a tear it cries A man with a view he sees it fall And considers it a useless haul No the people in the town don't leave their paths Can you hear the stal-child laugh? Now the bells of the end begin to chime But there's time for one last story time All the bedtime stories Begin with once upon a time Happily ever after Warms this frozen heart of mine Now tell me of the fairies Bury me in fantasy Sing about the giants That live so high above me All the bedtime stories Even the ones that are boring Have saved me from when sleep delays Now let them save me from the end of days
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Mockingbird 03:00
Wake up in the morning but the gifts aren't there You search beneath your bed to find bunnies made of hair On this blessed day you thought the world would kiss your hand But on this cursed day it seems your stomach's filled with sand You watch her bring the gifts in, but watching from afar Soon you'll be detected and her lid will shake ajar The morning comes in aching throbs and then the day will crawl Wishing it was over wishing hands would end it all Hush, little baby, don't say a word, Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird won't sing, Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring. Your palms are red and sweaty but you think that you can bring some joy Working late into the night making a metal toy When it's done you'll play it back and sorrow to it's song The bond that you used to share feels thin and stretched for far too long One by one the gifts are stripped their mysteries exposed But yours you've kept under you bed tied up in some clothes A homemade piece made with love (and the burdens of the dead) When it's time to open it up it's sure to turn some heads The wearer of the hat bends down and plucks a ribboned box You see them walking toward you but their face is like a fox On a dime you know the gift was never meant for you And in that moment everything seems old and never new Finally the faces turn and you are given a gift You tear apart the paper but it's already ripped Inside you find a mockingbird wishing it was dead It's song is sad and shrill ringing loudly in your head Hush, little baby, don't say a word, Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird won't sing, Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring.
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Hey you know the devils got your number, and now he's calling it in You know the devils waiting on you, and you'll never get away from him Heya kid did you dare sign on the dotted line He said "you're dead to everyone else so why not make your soul mine" And now you're Dragging your feet Dropping your eyes Singing a song just to survive Gotta a contract to keep Gotta a debt to be reaped Shoulda stayed dead But you live for music Now you``re stuck, soul sunk, in the deep dark rings of hell Waiting on eternity to work for your free will Youll never sleep a single wink- you`ll never dream again Youre playing some rock n roll, you cant die but you cant live And now you're Dragging your feet Dropping your eyes Singing a song just to survive Gotta a contract to keep Gotta a debt to be reaped Shoulda stayed dead But you live for music Dragging your feet Dropping your eyes Singing a song just to survive Gotta a contract to keep Gotta a debt to be reaped Shoulda stayed dead But you live for music Say goodbye Hollywood, say goodbye to your old hood Say goodbye to that dark night on the road where you Should have died
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Almost Pop 02:31
You're caught inside a windmill and your head's on the line You know the next thing you say will doom or decide Your place in existence, your place in his heart What kind of monster shows you light then shuts you in the dark Without an answer there is no call. Without a city, there is no wall Without a purpose there is no love Without a branch there is no dove Without a waste there is no water Without the fire, who needs fodder Without the sun that heats so freely Wheres the moon belong in the evening? You broke their laws they broke your neck Leave his life in ash and wreck You love him so but what a fool To unleash this phantom zombie ghoul
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Helsing 02:07
The altar boys walk past me And for a moment Our eyes meet I look up because you're taller than me You've swept me off my feet a stranger Helsing tell them This guy's not on our side Helsing Helsing Please take me for a ride I think we'll never meet again But I I'll dream sometimes Not pictured here is Dorian Yeah he's the one who took my brother Helsing tell them This guy's not on our side Helsing Helsing Please take me for a ride Helsing tell them This guy's not on our side Helsing Helsing Please take me for a ride
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Ooo the leaves are falling round me I dance in circles for a while [a while] I thought you'd never ever find me The leaves had buried me in piles The creepy woods on the sorrow coast Emit the shrieks of the fallen host This swing set rusts and my childhood rots Trees and trees and trees I think I'm lost Oh what a night to have a curse [x4] I see a castle in the distance Its flags are colored with the sun [the sun] There's someone hiding deep within it Yeah I think they're on the run These endless paths twist and fall in loops They're riddled with the boot prints of the phantom's troops Oh what a night to have a curse [x4] I believe that the morning will come The sunshine will dance 'cross my face And if you cross that bridge my friend "The ghost is through his power ends" Oh what a night to have a curse [x4]
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What I think is special And what you think is rad Align like toyland planets made of gum and sand There's twenty billion things out there almost all brand new But what I think is special is that I met you The cavities in space collide and shoot out purple dust If you try to count the grains it's all or bust I wish my hands were super-huge, ten or twenty feet So I could cradle all the things that mean so much to me The rarest things in all the world pile at my feet I know they'll live forever on this ball of heat I swear if they make me leave I'll dream of this place Nothing could be rarer than your smiling face
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Pizzafunk 03:44
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credits

released October 30, 2013

Music by The Monstars.

Special thanks to Ian Worthington and Eric Beer for production aid.

Also special thanks to Dana Bowman, Megapaul, Cdonelson, Weazelbeats for their help. Amazing work!

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