To Be, Rather Than To Appear

by Slower Loris

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released 09 July 2011

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Track Name: Don't Mind
I love technology... but I hate the internet
You want allergies... I’ll take you to the vet
You want analogies... I got some you ain’t forget

Don’t Mind, Don’t have a mind she said
Don’t Mind, Don’t have a mind he said
Don’t Mind, Don’t have a mind Lee said

I love technology... but I hate the I.R.S.
You want allergies... I’ll take you to the vet
You want analogies... I got some you ain’t forget
Track Name: Triceroclops
It could be a dog with the head of bat
stand back, stand back
Fangs like a gator with barbs on its back
did you see that?
I can’t remember the way back to camp
what’s that? what’s that?

Crawling around with its face all exposed
I don’t know, I don’t know
Monsters collide with terrible groans
Don’t let go, where’d you go?
They’re just here to scare you...

Stolen from bed and taken away
can not fight back
Under the knife in an alien way
what’s that? what’s that?
I lost more than hours and days
think back, think back...

Crawling around with my face all exposed
I don’t know, I don’t know
Monsters collide with terrible groans
Don’t let go, where’d you go?
They’re just here to scare you...
Track Name: Over the Beam
I wander but I’ve never been here before
A few feet off the floor
Couldn’t find none for you.

Never been someone who could wander alone,
So tell it to your phone
When all your freaky friends wonder
why you’re alone.

You can call me out, twisting at the end
Over the beam and gone.

Everything of me is in the tree
And I’ve got nothing more to be.
It makes me run around
but not quite on the ground.

Falling off the chair,
But staying in the air.
Over the beam and gone.
Track Name: Giant Girlfriend
She’s my giant girlfriend (x3)
big and tall, she sleeps in the den
with her feet in the hall, ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!

She’s my giant girlfriend (x3)
and when we’re alone if she don’t pick me up
I gotta use the phone, ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!

GIANT GIRLFRIEND...
HOW’MY GONNA GET YOU HOME TONIGHT?

She’s my giant girlfriend (x3)
swatting at planes when we’re out on a date,
she’s makin’ me insane! ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!

This is the story of my giant girlfriend...
I saw her on the 7th floor
as she stood on the sidewalk our eyes met
and I could tell there was so much more...
She’s got me in her pocket, I can not love her enough
I’m wrapped around her finger
Until she decides to have me for lunch...

She’s my giant girlfriend (x3)
woe is me, ‘cuz when I’m up on the roof
I’m only up to her knees, ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!
Track Name: Thirstin
Don’t want no first class, second class,
third class get out of my way
I’m not the only one
burning hearts in the midday sun

It’s strange, different kind of day
Sun has gone away, it’s true
I am me and you are you
and nothing’s gonna chain.

Don’t want options, minions,
Pushing tooth decay
I’m not the only one,
first there’s none, now there’s some

It’s strange, different kind of day
Sun has gone away, it’s true
I am me and you are you
and nothing’s gonna chain.
Track Name: Recovery Summer
This is not a folk song
It’s not a love song
It’s not political
Or inspirational...

It’s just a song I like to sing
and I hope you sing along.

This is not a pop song
Not alternative
It isn’t protest
It’s not even complicated
Once you know the chords it’s pretty simple...

It’s all part of Recovery Summer... (x2)
It’s all part of the song!

This is not a folk song
It’s not a love song
It’s not political
Or inspirational
It’s not a pop song
Not alternative
It isn’t protest...

It’s not complicated
if you look at it the right way.
Oh, the right way...
Track Name: Dedicated Foe of Evil
It’s dangerous out here! Somebody save us!
Oh, mighty Isis!
Trouble raining down on people...
Zephyr winds please blow us a champion of
Truth and justice
A dedicated foe of evil!

“OH MY QUEEN” said the Royal Sorcerer to Hatshepsut...
“With this amulet you are endowed...
You will run with the speed of gazelles, and you will
soar as the falcon soars...”

We’re balanced on a ledge!
Stand beside us, Leonidas
Free my horses and my people!
Even Mighty Mouse will do,
Anybody who won’t tread on me
A dedicated foe of evil!
Track Name: Toy Revolution
Trapped in my plastic cage... been there too many days
No kids even look at me... What I wouldn’t give to be free
Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution!

Finally I’m taken home... set free so I can roam
Now I’m on display... hopefully this is where I’ll stay
Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution!

I wake the next day... my owner takes me out to play
Soon I’m tied to a tree... my owner plans to shoot at me!
Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution!

Desperately trying to escape... I’m rescued by a man in a cape
Together we flee... soon we’ll set the others free!
Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution, Toy Revolution!
Track Name: Pluto
Very far away, more than a day
to get to Pluto

Very cold, and probably very old
... Pluto

Take me away, to a lovely day
on Pluto

ROCKET SHIP CAN TAKE US THERE
ASTEROIDS IN YOUR HAIR

We should go, you and me should go
to Pluto
Track Name: Uncircled
Cuz we’re crawling around in the undergrowth
And fishing your pockets for treats
Yeah grinnin’ like bills in an envelope
and dogging you out on the street...

‘Cuz you can’t get away from everywhere
And we’re there even if you could
You can’t take a breath without breathing us
we are the neighborhood...

So go lend a hand to old Sisyphus
And haul your cows over the moon
‘cuz All Your Base Are Belong To Us
and the knife cut a deal with the spoon...

And I... I can’t take the pressure.
Somethin’s gonna break
from all... all this pressure.
That’s all it takes.

So it’s bugs in the honey for everyone
So sweet you don’t mind getting ill
At least you feel sick in good company
or very shortly you will...
Track Name: 18 Seconds
It takes 18 seconds from the moment of ignition
for the human body to combust completely
at a temperature of 1000 degrees fahrenheit,
reducing it to a few ounces of ash, dust, and chemicals.

These statements are entirely inaccurate
but still a small percentage of people
will believe some or all of the lie
simply because I am yelling!

It takes 18 seconds
... to falsify legal identification
... learn to play 4-square
... prepare fresh broccoli
... swallow a full grown frog
... without oxygen for your brain to start laughing
... for the venom to reach your heart

It takes 18 seconds for me to run
from where I am to where you are,
and when I get there I won’t be where I was.

That was 18 seconds ago, and now is now.
Now is now and I am yelling!
Track Name: Tammy Killed Her Dad
Tammy killed her dad
She had to now she’s sad
She turned and walked away
The sky was cold and gray.

She watched it on TV
And everything seemed free
She knew it was a sin
But infection had set in.

And nobody would know
The deed would drain her soul
We knew that she was bad
But Tammy killed her dad.