1. |
The Axolotl
03:11
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I wanna come to a final decision
I wanna taste freedom deep under the sea
I have to foil down the security fail
My prison jar is damn well engineered
Far from the sea
I think there really is a way to escape
If only I could jump overboard
To dive into the screen just beside
I would merely have to wait for a picture
With coconut trees and white sand beach
But I'm deadly scared to fall into a reality show
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2. |
We Love all of Them
03:30
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Oh! That’s enough!
Oh! You don’t belong here!
Oh! That’s enough!
Oh! You can’t belong here!
You’d put inside
A flower ment to be razed
Oh! That’s enough!
Oh! That’s enough!
Oh! You don’t belong here!
« I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the » entire world « dream.
I have a dream that one day this » world « will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed (…) to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day » this fucked up economic system filtering « with the heat of injustice » filtering « with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. »
(Citation: Martin Luther King)
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3. |
Paul the Polar Bear
03:53
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Paul the polar bear
Was yamping on the cool ice floe
He came across a giant billboard
Emerging from his homesick dream
He is thirsty
The picture is a representation
Of a humanized puffy bear
Drinking a soda
It was as if the whole sea ice
Was peeled off the earth's crust
To melt into the ad
He is thirsty
Paul the polar bear
Is not an insipid teddy bear
He could drink a child
The heat, the dust, the smell of sweat
The rocky ground under his feets
That's unbearable to him
So thirsty
Suddenly the sky darken
A huge fleet of sheeps pop up
Surrounding Paul
At last, here comes The Green Bears
They are bringing back
The whole sea ice
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4. |
Praying Mantis Dilemma
03:52
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Hey men, sketches from my own
How could... what could I say...
I drew all of it,
I caused our... my birth
You'll rush my death
Here is the nonsense
That wastes my work
I don’t know catechism or other « chisms »
Black or white I can’t choose
Between me and men's disasters
Or I'll do have to erase
Sketches from my own
So myself with it
And all of all with it
And timeline could be re-written
Without you and I my disappointing friends
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5. |
You Platypus
04:48
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Are you ready
You platypus
Are you shy
To track the prey
Beyond your plans
He fell in love with you
You just fucked him
Are you hungry
You tasmanian devil
Are you enjoying
The most beautiful day of his entire life
He fell in love with you
You just fucked him
He hopes you will live with him forever
Are you ready
You platypus
It's mating season
Get out of your den
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6. |
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There's a rally point
On the map says the cell
Saddle Node
Or an absorption
Of the kind by the whole
That's called
The bifurcation
As well as one plus one
Can remain unresolved
To be or not to be
Is there an other solution
Equilibria
On the game says the cell
Should not be broken
Hysteresis
Should not come, otherwise
It's over
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7. |
Disaster Hat
05:58
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It’s all you’ve got
Happy on your head
To use a solid hammer hat
The sky could fall on your head
It's all about tears
Things that mesmerized you
It’s all you’ve got
Happy on your head
To use an umbrella hat
The ocean could break on your head
Do you have a tornado Hat
Winds, chasmes, vortices
Could vaporize your body of flesh
Did you buy a nuke hat
To protect you from blasts
Did you provide a tsunami hat
Nature, fantoms and chemicals
Could gang up against your being
Don’t go without your iced age hat
It’s all you need
Serene on your heart
To use a powerful hippy hat
The hate could waste your happiness
It’s all about fears
Things that traumatized you
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8. |
&
01:43
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9. |
Widow Pigeon
04:04
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A pigeon tells:
His wife was flying to school
Each day at play time
To pick up any kind of crumbs
She was always first on site
One day she decided to walk
To go there like rats
For the sake of equality
Crossing the road
She was hit by a car
Reaped by the sickle of death.
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10. |
Ad Nauseam
04:08
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Bills in line abreast
Bills in line abreast
Abysmal Hole
After taste
Of slavery
Ad nauseam
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11. |
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It is why I come to paralyse
I can show you sadest side
It is when I cancel everyone
When you don’t think that you fall
It is why I call it The joke
It is a joke i cannot spell, Angels…
Legion of emotions
I belong to the dark side
It is a gateway that never ends
As a weird open door, bizarre
You lucky boy you don’t decide
What is true , what is fine
I’m choosin’ you but don’t realize
You are cold and such a fool, Angels…
Legion of emotion
Will grow up to the dark Size
I like it cause i’m an excentric fish
On weightlessness
This is why I come to paralyse
I am slow to play the game, don’t you
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12. |
Buzzing Fire
04:18
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Into his brand new veranda
The old man sits
Thinking about insect stings
And mosquito bites he is safe from
A sudden burst of astonishment
Takes hold of his body
Fuzz on his arms, metamorphosis, weird.
Into the mirror
He's like a buzzing fire
Now he is flying driven by hunger
His sting is cutting through the air
Looking for a juicy feast
He is starving for blood
Down from his flight
He sees that the earth
Is fire-covered
Ubiquity of human kind
Now what? He could poison it
And so turn out the lights
He is the venom himself
He could fix the world
He could give the shine back to stars
And then he wakes up
To die in the veranda
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