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It ain't easy getting old, ain't easy being broke
When the engine light is flashing
And the car begins to smoke
You know just where you stand when you're shit out of luck
Bills are filling up my mailbox and my joints are full of pain
The news is always bad and it's driving me insane
You know just where you are when you're shit out of luck
I gotta get out, I gotta get out of here
It may sound easy but the answer ain't so clear, my dear
When you cannot get a break and can't afford the gas
Can't even find a place to park your sorry ass
You know just how it feels when you're shit out of luck
I'm losing all my teeth and my clothes are full of holes
I get no sympathy, not to save my soul
I know just how it feels when I'm shit out of luck
I gotta get out, I gotta get out of here...
I gotta get out, I gotta get out of here...
It ain't easy getting old, ain't easy being broke
When the engine light is flashing
And the car begins to smoke
You know just where you stand when you're shit out of luck
Bills are filling up my mailbox and my joints are full of pain
The news is always bad and it's driving me insane
You know just where you are when you're shit out of luck
I gotta get out, I gotta get out of here...
When you cannot get a break and can't afford the gas
Can't even find a place to park your sorry ass
You know just how it feels when you're shit out of luck
I'm losing all my teeth and my clothes are full of holes
I get no sympathy, not to save my soul
I know just how it feels when I'm shit out of luck
I gotta get out, I gotta get out of here...
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Sea Change
02:40
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There ain't no mercy on this chunk of stone
On the downside looking up
You can hang up my hat and bury my bones
A half-full is still a half-empty cup
I think of all the things I could have said
And how I should have said much more
In a dream I heard your calm and reassuring voice
But I was busy heading out of the door
Everywhere I look the water's getting higher
I've got wet feet, but the well is getting drier
I'm a smooth-worn tire
I was talking to you in a dream last night
When I remembered that you're gone
It's not you, just circumstance to blame
Has it really been so long?
Everywhere I look the water's getting higher...
Where do you go, when you're swimming slow
And the undertow's too strong?
This sea change is what you're trying to get through
And everything's gone wrong
Lots of dire predictions, ominous restrictions
And the peddling of fictions, oh yeah
Wanna find a better place that I call home
But wonder just how long that it can last
Everywhere I look the water's getting higher...
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Odium
04:34
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Not looking forward to waking up
Don't want to hear the news
Another day the world is falling apart
There's nothing I can do
I can't believe someone can make me hate
As much as I hate you
You fan the flames and then prevaricate
The world's most dangerous fool
I'm sick of seeing the TV screen
With your hideous pumpkin face
Lying and bragging, it's so obscene,
Your very presence a disgrace
Propaganda your accomplices spread
As toadies lick your boots
What the hell is that on your head?
What are you hiding in that suit?
We've seen your type so many times before
Throughout the history books
Another mad king rotten to the core
That's just the way it looks
I can't escape I am a prisoner of a viral mind
Can't shut out the odious psychopath
That left his people behind
Disease is bad but you made it worse
To save your evil hide
You urge your people to drink it up knowing it's suicide
We've seen your ilk so many times before
The bloody history made
Another Nero trying to ignore the burning as you played
I've got to get out of this place right now
Don't know where I should go
I'll get across the sea somehow
Somewhere I can lay low
Made preparations on an old sailboat
For the voyage I'd withstand
Out in the southern ocean so remote
Somewhere that's far from land
The Roaring Forties southern latitude
One hundred twenty degrees west
Twenty days out of Auckland, the journey was quite a test
To just a lonely patch of watery desert
On an overcrowded rock
How long will it take for me to run out the viral clock?
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Winter
03:11
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Hard cold winter, when the sun has gone away
When the snow falls on the ground
And the colors turn to gray and you cannot hear a sound
I'm looking out, from this frail cocoon of flesh
I feel the cold against my skin that freezes white my breath
And reminds me where I've been
All these years and all the things my eyes have seen
You never would believe
But now they're memories that live and die with me
Hard cold winter, when the sun has gone away
When the snow falls on the ground
And the colors turn to gray and you cannot hear a sound
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Point Nemo
04:24
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Can't hide from the Sun anywhere
I taste the salt on my tongue
A damp wind blows through my hair, another bell has rung
I leave behind a muddled world that I don't understand
A sorry raft of flotsam hurled so many miles from land
Who are you? I am nobody
Who are you? I am nobody
Who are you? I am nobody, I am nobody
Calm sea, there's no sign of birds, horizon all around
Stars shine and I lack the words, so dark, without a sound
I leave behind a raging planet of schemers and of fools
I tried to fit but could not stand it, I won't live by crazy rules
Who are you? I am nobody...
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6. |
Poseidon
04:21
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(instrumental)
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7. |
The Prodigious Sea
03:59
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(instrumental)
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Eurypterus New York, New York
Written, performed and recorded over the past few years at Snorklehound Studio, with additional mixing and mastering at Digital Weasel Studio II.
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