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These Gnarly Beasts

by These Gnarly Beasts

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1.
Exquisite Corpse (free) 04:04
I hardly know. I hardly know why. I hardly know why you're invisible. I hope for a time when we're divided by nothing, for a time when we've decided to be united in cryonics to be united in cryonics to be united in cryonics. AMEN Our frozen home. Our frozen home lies. Our frozen home lies in liquid nitrogen. I long for a time when we're united in cryonics, for a time when we've decided to be divided by nothing to be divided by nothing to be divided by nothing. AMEN
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Summer of Love, 1692 (free) 04:36
Yeah, burning at the stake now, baby What you think this town was built for? Dancing around the fire, baby Ain’t gonna suit you anymore If it’s a witch you want, baby, I’ll find it for you It’s the witch you want? I wanna get witchy with you Yeah, come out to the woods with me, baby Gonna have some fun when the sun goes down Yeah, you bring the wolf-bane, baby Gonna let the villagers hear the sound Yeah, put me in your cauldron, honey Let me see the way you stir that pot Yeah, come into the woods with me, honey Show me all the magic that you got Yeah, when they come to take you, baby Gonna find me blocking up the door Yeah, when they go to drag you, baby Gonna find out what all this witching’s for
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Future Love (free) 03:06
You said you'd like to mash ourselves together And I said that's why people have kids You said I know but I mean something better I want to download your brain into my head And now that the poles have flipped And north is south Yeah, now that the poles have flipped Aurora Borealis sleeps above my house We've been alive about 500 years now We've hopped galaxies like stellar playgrounds We've time-traveled back to the future and now Do you think it's time we maybe settled down 'Cause now that the poles have flipped and north is south Yeah, now that the poles have flipped Aurora Borealis sleeps above my house And though I know you like to free float and though I know that you like to tread sky I've got to know if you're up for coming down Wanna know if you can stay by my side So I think it's time that we exchanged brain cells Just a simple act of file transfer So link up, come in, check out the new view now And if all goes well maybe we'll forever merge
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Boo! (free) 03:47
Stranded. I was just vapor on your breath, and you walked out and I had nothing left but the echo of your tires. I watch the cars all drive by with their brake lights, illuminate this hollow shell, this graveside that we once called a home. I was just wondering if you would be, be the ghost that haunts me for the rest of our lives. Baby, be my boo tonight. What's that? You're taking out those sheets that kept us both warm? And now you've gone and cut out holes for your eyes. Oh, I see, I see how it is. But, maybe I won't let you hurt me this time. The witching hour's passed and gone from my mind. Oh, whom I, whom I kidding? We once called it home. These ghosts won't leave me alone. We all need someone to trust. Someone to scare the shit out of us. We all need someone to trust.
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I Am a Zombie (free) 04:52
Welcome to the night of the pimp-ass dead All you stupid human tricks better hold onto your heads Give me one good reason why I should let you live Oh, you got a beautiful wife and two-a-half kids? Well, they better get used to only having a mommy, cuz their dumb-ass daddy kept trying to reason with a zombie, I ain't afraid of your flame thrower and your shotgun, I'm gonna turn your head into a snot-gun Don't need a reason, man, i already got one, Ripping faces, eating brains, that's my kind of hot fun. Bring em out bring em out bring out yo dead I got a lady without a heart and a dude shot in the head got a book of mad raps and five or six gatz for any thieving MCs overcome by greed hear me: if you're looking to bite my rhymes then i'm looking to fight and recite some lines raise up a deadly posse, throw dirt in your eyes knock you down to the ground, watch 'em multiply they eat brains for breakfast cuz they trained with the bestest minds of their day they like the cassius clay undead army: you know how they say float like a butterfly, sting like a zombie. When I'm up to my elbows in blood and gore, I gotta take a look around and think, What's all this for? On the surface, I am shirtless with a hurt-stick in my work-fist. Got some zombies on my hurt-list, quit your cryin, watch me burn this. After all I've seen, you know it's hard to say that there's a purpose, when you're just the sideshow in a goddamn zombie circus. Running around, screaming, "Brains! Brains! Brains!" Driving me insane, there's only so much in my veins. But I'm trained for the pain and I'm ready to set this place aflame. It's my claim to fame. They know my name. Gonna bring this ghetto back to good, Cos when the zombies move in, there goes the neighborhood! Hey, who's back on the vocal attack? It's MC Zombie, you know where I'm at: Brooklyn, New York. What's the 8-5-0? We can't spit numbers we've got four area codes. It seems this place is teeming with convicts, Slave to the wage of voodoo economics. Running around like they're looking for brains, Yeah they've got no soul stumbling down Broadway. Now I'm one of them too, I have to admit. When it comes to paying bills, I don't give a shit. I'll walk through fire just to get paid. Hey, I go to hell and back every week for five days. So, I am a zombie, well so are you. You think you got it all together, well, do you really do? 'Cause from here it looks like you've come unglued, Like the spirit undead has taken over you too. Here I am here I am dead girl runnin' zombieland bout to spit my shit again i'm nitro-jeanne, I ain't yo friend brains be in my way, I eat 'em deadbeats in my sway, I beat 'em see them all turnin' green jealous they ain't where i'm being my plain of existence ain't nothing like in your cognizance you might think you've seen some shit but mine's the path of most resistance I be queen jeanne of the damned empress of zombieland so impressed by my own hand a wave can freeze all of man i'm down with double seven kelvin fuck fahrenheit and centrigade if watson asks, then i'll tell him get your ass to second grade get out my way or I will freeze you just one touch and I ZOMBIEZ you I BE LIQUID NITRO-JEANNE ALL YOUR BRAINS (ARE) BELONG TO ME so i'm back from outer space i walked in with that look on my face and you, you look like you'd seen a ghost grossed out, but defiant as if you can't believe the miracle of my return but don't worry, i'm not here to stay collect my things and i'll be on my way one last kiss and you can get back to not missing me what happens after you're dead? the sky goes black and the moon turns red and MY GOD IT'S FULL OF STARS and one of those used to be ours we picked it out and named it something cute what, i don't remember in orbit around this star is a gas giant with a moon and slowly, ever so slowly, gravity's pull is crushing them together yeah, they'll be together forever
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Chanson de la Haine (free) 03:55
You've rolled yourself into a big fat cigar Every day since fifteen so your teeth are fuzzy yellow You've grown your hair smoke-sticky and glib-long You think you're play-it-cool, but you're a bastard of a fellow You drive your leech-filled eyes like oil drills To inky black depths of every book ever You suck up all my words like they're yours, too You're a bastard of a fellow, but you think that you're so clever So this is the end of the line for your brain This is the end of the line for your brain This is the end of the line for your brain Cuz I'm gonna eat it like a snake eats an egg You act like you ain't got no time to address cameras You've mastered the art of posing from the side You think your profile makes you look like a brooding genius But it's really cuz straight-on you've got a fat face & squint-eyes You thought your love the biggest whale in the ocean Because you bought twelve roses and black Chantilly lace But when your precious brown-eyed girl went off to India You burned all of her lingerie, then prosed your angst for praise So this is the end of the line for your brain This is the end of the line for your brain This is the end of the line for your brain Cuz I'm gonna eat it like a snake eats an egg So pal around with heavy hitters in three-piece suits and four-part names Drink your bourbon, get chum-chum, get so fucked up won't miss your brains Bow for the bow ties, then go home, settle into flannel with a fart Then leave to me, Million Dollar Baby, cuz I'm fuckin' Picasso in the brain-eating art
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The Keening (A Song for the Dead) Your eyes softly close, This box, this worn soul: All for nothing. What's the point when we turn to ash? What have I done that I'll leave in the past? We sleep, we wake up, We never know just What's for real, what's not there. The keening fills the air. I'm by your side day and night. I won't forget, I won't forget. How do I know you're there? We start to slip away. Who was first to say: It's tragic, it's sickening, The static, still it stings. But the hurt is gone, And I'm wandering on. Oh, what's this? Oh, what's this? How do I know I'm still here? Phantom Limb (Letting Go of Those You Love) I can still feel you there, you there. I can still feel you there, you there. You are so scared, and yet, so free. I can feel you, can you feel me? Life. Death. Passion. Change. Weight. Lead. Suffer. Chains. Fame. Loss. Fortune. Blame. Risk. Fault. Exhale. Pain. Haint (The Clawing Hands of Demons) You can't hide, you Haint, you got not soul. You got a smile, but you aint, gonna take me home. Take me home. You can't hide, you Haint, you got not soul. You got a smile, but you aint, gonna take me home. Take me home. No you aint gonna take me home, take me home. No you aint gonna take me home, take me home.
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Whitman (Interlude) (free) 00:58
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Lack of Soul (free) 03:40
Verse 1 (The Great Gatzby) M.C. Double Gees, The Great Gatz A-K-A T-H-E G-A-T... to the Zeezy then it's Breezy and blap! — and oh yeah, Yeezy Now all these lazy emcees resting on they laurels, they grab a couple beats but can't get no referrals, probably had raw shit in the days of Urkel. Did I do that, or have they been drawing circles? Now we up to 3D graphing cubes and shit, playing P-S-3 D-L-Cs, as we please, shooting skag til they fuckin' bleed, man, these dangerous MCs need to try and push me Cause I push back harder, spit hotter rhymes and I shoot gatz farther, break brittle spines and I'm way more smarter, got more damn soul than a podiatrist's office Verse 2 (MC Zombie) Stand back, bitches and ho's My lack of soul don't mean I can't roll With the king of the zombies, Capital Z It's me, MC, You see? I think, I caught it from the greatest of Gatzbys. Blat, blat, blat and a rat-a-tat-tat. You keep gunning us down, but we keep coming back. Yes, my chest's a hole, I must confess, But if I had a soul, it would be well dressed. 'Cause that's me, MC Zombie, know what I mean? I may be bloody and gruesome, but I still have that sheen. Ding dong, the witch is dead. It's all in your head. There's not much there, well, that's what she said. When it pours it rains, and it's raining on you. I'll drink up your brains like they're Campbell's soup. Possibilities, yeah, that's what I'm all about. Sit back there and hear the mad scientist start to shout. Verse 3 (E=MC Alien Invasionz) Straight outta T-L-H, the 8-5-0, I'm the mad scientist that's gonna steal the show With rhymes like these you don't need equations E to the MC alien invasions On the mic, I'm crossing all your x and y axes, Only three things for sure: You a chump! Death, and taxes! Step to me, and you better bring your rhymebook I'm flippin' flap-jack rhymes like a short-order rap cook! If you need further proof, just check my passport I come from the land of kicking your ass, Short Round is my boy in the Temple of Doom, All I wanna do, zooma zoom zoom zoom and a doom and gloom! You think you got swag, well, parlez-vous Français? I got more soul than the fuckin' Musee d'Orsay!
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Bonedaddy Boogie (free) 03:23
I don't give a damn about what you've got to say. If you've got a bone to pick send it my way. I don't rob graves. I'm just borrowing, Won't be missed anyway. Girl, when the lightning strikes, these old bones shake. Come dance like the dead and help me make Life mean more the second time. It's only love, it's not a crime. Look out, it's the bonedaddy boogie! When lightning strikes twice those deadened eyes will glow. And I'll scream, "Rise!" and, "It's Alive!" you know. We'll stay up, we won't ever go home. Won't you stay and do the bonedaddy boogie with me? You bring the candles, baby, I'll bring the wine. Have a little dinner 'bout a quarter to nine. I like the way you wear that low cut dress. Got a dead man's heart beating in your chest. I like to put my girls together bit by bit. Come on, you're a special woman, it's too early to quit. Sewed you all together, should have sewn up your lips. You light up the dance floor, shake of your hips. Look out, it's the bonedaddy boogie! When lightning strikes twice those deadened eyes will glow. And I'll scream, "Rise!" and, "It's Alive!" you know. We'll stay up, we won't ever go home. Won't you stay and do the bonedaddy boogie with me?
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Alien Lover, Baby (free) 04:01
The first time I saw you, I thought I had lost my mind. I was taking a piss outside, and I thought I had lost my mind. Saw you floating up in the sky, nothing but a beautiful light In the middle of the Kansas sky. Nothing ever felt so right. So I ran home through the back yard, Through the shadow of the parked car. I crept in through the side door. I want just a little more. You're my alien lover, baby, and everything was going fine. Now you're driving me crazy, always trying to read my mind. When I said I never loved you, why did I even try? You saw right through my bullshit. You knew that was just a lie. So I ran home through the back yard, Through the shadow of the parked car. I crept in through the side door. I want just a little more. You're my alien lover, baby, but I'm starting to feel the strain. Our interplanetary romance, keep your thought-waves off my brain. When you said you'd always love me, why did you even start? You traveled all those goddamn light-years just to break my heart. So I ran home through the back yard, Through the shadow of the parked car. I crept in through the side door. I can't take any more. When the nights get long, and the Kansas sky groes cold, I search up in the sky for a hand to hold. One who sees my mind as more than an equation, More than just a tool to help with your invasion. So I ran home through the back yard, Through the shadow of the parked car. I crept in through the side door. I don't want any more. You're my alien lover, baby, and we'll always have that night Before your telepathic bullshit started that big fight. I remember all your romance, and the way your forehead shines, Glowing with that bright light every time you'd read my mind. Why'd you read my mind?
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The devil, she is a woman Long legs and a face that shine. That woman gonna leave you every time Said, that woman gonna leave you every time. The devil, she's got eyes of blue. The devil got eyes of blue. Lord help you, son, if she turn them eyes on you. Lord help you, son, if she turn them eyes on you. She love you when the evening come. She love you when the evening come. But you find yourself alone in the morning sun. Wake up cold and tired in the morning sun. I'm going down where the train tracks run close by. I'm going down where the train tracks run close by. Gonna find that devil woman before I die. Gonna be the death of me before I die. I'd sell my soul just to see her again. Sell my everloving soul just to see her again. When I met that devil woman, lost my only friend. Said, I met that devil woman, lost my only friend. I love her, ever since the day. Said I love her, ever since the day. Ever since the day she went away. But only since the day she went away. The devil, she is a woman Long legs and a face that shine. That woman gonna leave you every time Said, that woman gonna leave you every time.
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Evil Glitch (free) 02:49
Evil glitch Make it real Dig the ditch Spin the wheel

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