When I was a boy, I looked up to my dad. He was a very tall man. He was not a big man. But he wasn't a tiny little man! Is he a medium man? He's a medium man I believed I was born a poolhall prince That despite my sloppy moods I was significant I would be a big man someway someday Somewhere somehow in someone's eyes Am I a medium man? I'm not a medium man! XLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXL Am I a medium man? I am a medium man Now I'm almost 50 If I were the 20th Century I'd already have had two wars and an economic collapse Me and my band Ed just released Gremlin EP Are we medium men? We are medium men I mean some of these boys look middle aged Pudgy brains all in their beards Who do they look up to? Their dads? Are we all medium men? We're not all medium men! XLXLXLXLXLXLXL Are we all medium men? We are all medium men

Not a single reason for this Not a single reason for this Blah-Blah Head, Blah-Blah Head I don’t want to be in this song I don’t wanna be in his song Blah-Blah Head, Blah-Blah Head Everybody can be happy Everybody can be wed Everybody can be welcome No one has to be in debt Not a single zero one thing Crackerjack box with no prize Blah-Blah Head, Blah-Blah Head There is not a single reason President is just a peasan/t Blah-Blah Head, Blah-Blah Head Everybody can be healthy Everybody can be fed Everybody can be wealthy No one has to wash up dead I will protect everybody I will push the clown head off Blah-Blah Head, Blah-Blah Head I will tip the white bowl over Owls will eat the pig idiot Blah-Blah Head, Blah-Blah Head Everybody will know safety Everybody will know home Everybody will know comfort Everybody will know love

You’re stuffing buckets of rage Force-fed like pigs in a cage Stuck with shit scripts on the stage Skewered through with a dull wage Rapists and racists they spout You pull your eyelashes out We tell the world my friend It isn’t you it’s the end We are the needlessly gleed We are the needles of gleed We are the Beatles of gleed We are the powers of gleed We are the flowers of gleed We are the glowers of gleed We are the glowers of gleed Here come the angels of gleed Here come the angles of gleed Here come the jangles of gleed Here come the signals of gleed Here some the singles of gleed Here come the jingles of gleed Here comes the hingeing of gleed Here comes the singeing of gleed Here comes the signing of gleed Here come the fingers of gleed Here come the singers of gleed Here come the stingers of gleed Elderpunk wizened we too Here to bear witness to you Let’s sing it once more with soul As the final credits roll

Hey moron There’s a war on Longest war ever before [longest war we’ve ever had] This horseshit you paid for it Did you choose blood on your shoes How much more will you ignore [wake the fuck up] You can’t see it on TV [not on TV] President won’t mention it [he can’t spell it!] Off radar on NPR Omission ain’t a mission What's the plan Afghanistan Two hundred thousand lives dead Nine hundred billion bucks bled Suicide five grand died by Hey Obama got Osama In Pakistan So what’s the plan? 911’s prodigal son Deserts flood with money blood We’re out manned in this quicksand Somebody’s making money What’s the plan Afghanistan? Hey moron There’s a war on Longest war we’ve had before This horseshit you paid for it How much more will you ignore You can’t see it on TV President won’t mention it Off radar on NPR Omission ain’t a mission! nor rendition!

edit navigation bar Embargo from GREMLIN EP by gleed Wishlist Edit Bulk Edit 00:00 / 02:20 Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. $1 USD or more Buy the Full Digital Album lyrics She's a castle I'm a moat You're an asshole In a boat You're a hassle I won't float you boy I'm gonna sink you Sink you Down to the sand You knights in shining armor sink so fast She's nutrition You're Iraq I'm a vicious Bomb attack Penicillin Won't get past me boy I'm gonna block you I'm gonna bomb you Back to the past You knights in shining armor sink so fast In Havana She's a song You're a piano I'm a long Trade embargo I won't float you through I won't sign off on you I'm gonna hold you back Until you're flat... You knights in shining armor sink so fast

Did you feel the sky? You can see it fry. Did you see the poles? Now they’re steamy holes. Did you see the shore? It ain’t there no more. Did you taste the seas? They have a disease. Can you hear it? ALARM ALARM ALARM Can you feel it? ALARM ALARM ALARM Can you taste it? ALARM ALARM ALARM Can you face it? ALARM ALARM ALARM Did you hear the cloud? It is getting loud. Did you smell the trees? They are sceaming please. Step back from your debt. Step back from your screen Step back from this dream. STEP BACK AND YOU SCREAM Can you hear it? ALARM ALARM ALARM Can you feel it? ALARM ALARM ALARM That bloom of panic ALARM ALARM ALARM Evacuate the planet ALARM ALARM ALARM Can you see the earth? Ask it what it's worth. Can you taste the sun? All will be well done. Step back from your nukes. Step back from your smoke. Lean into the world. Lean until you choke If your dream ain't real ALARM ALARM ALARM You will scream for real ALARM ALARM ALARM Can you feel it's real ALARM ALARM ALARM The real fucking deal ALARM ALARM ALARM

Now I’m a punk star I had to crawl far My sad and broken way DIY MFA to AA My indebted ass Now is middle class Back from the ledge’s edge Bought a house and made my wife a pledge For my crumb of pie Live a happy lie Pretend I only want To earn and spend and eat and shit and die Something went amiss When a youngish miss Started sending to my wife Love texts bent to wreck our home and life Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! Stop freeze desist and cease Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! You’re a fatal disease Ivy’s thirty-one Slept with just the one Man she married whose kids She then carried her life is still unbegun Pretty mild mouse Trapped unhappy spouse Used to be in a band Got minivanned now she’s bored and bland Hearts and emojis Saccharine selfies Acronyms OOXX Dribbling lazy layup score some sex Counterfeit pretense All your innocence If you’re gonna flirt then Admit you’re inflicting vicious hurt Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! I exist! Feel unease! Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! You listless little sleaze Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! Your texts are stinging bees Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! Stop climbing up my trees Insecure and cold Afraid, getting old I’ve eaten slum and sky This’ll stay my family till I die If you cheat you’re gone Your shit on the lawn The life you’re gonna get Pain divorce match dot com place your bet I’ve smoked many miles I’m no pile of smiles An intermittent jerk Committed to make my marriage work Shove your dumb smart phone Back off of my home Know no millennial Gets to wreck my semicentennial Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! Love’s not your expertise Ivy please! Ivy please! Ivy please! Log off and feel the breeze

I recycled, I freecycled, I bicycled I’m feminist. I’m socialist. I’m fucking pissed I tried religion. I tried sedition. I signed petitions. I made my mission to have suspicion of politicians. I told Ed to say. LGBTTQQIAA. Instead of gay. Tried meditation, tried levitation, tried alcohol. Ism. I tried to sympathize. I tried to criticize. I cut way back on fries. I tried anxiety. I tried sobriety. I tried hypocrisy. I vilified, was mortified, tried suicide. I voted I am left wing, it is my thing, to fix everything

At your peach resorts you’re a dirty clown In your tennis shorts you’re a dirty clown With genital warts you’re a dirty clown You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown With your trophy wife you’re a dirty clown And ex-trophy-wife you’re a dirty clown And ex-trophy-wife you’re a dirty clown You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown With your goldy drape you’re a dirty clown With your pee pee tape you’re a dirty clown Grunting orange ape you’re a dirty clown You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty clown dumb it down With your Cartier fiberglass toupee And O’fish filet You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown With your spit of lies With your supersize With your lizard eyes You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown With your racist votes With your rapist gloats With your bloodless bloat You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty clown dumb it down With your penthouse suite With your daddy’s teat With your scum elite You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown With your fractured rants With your sycophants With their Nazi chants You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown With your urine stain With your gravy train With your fascist reign You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty-d-dirty-d-dirty. Dirty clown dumb it down With your fake-ass class With your fat-ass ass You’re so fucking crass You’re a squirty brown turdy dirty clown

I remember I met her wiping down the bar With some blowhard brotard who asked her to his car She had an M sixteen and her own zine and she Extracted his spleen without an X-Ray machine Electric lime chiffon guitar Convertible black lace sports car White leather icing on spice cake Jalapeno cherry on a shake She was a girl from Normal but didn’t fit in She wasn’t beige or bland, she wasn’t even thin She was a rainbow fashionista statuesque Drove a pink motorcycle but worked at a desk Angry candy red silk bass amp Volcano blue neon heat lamp Black licorice barbed-wire thong Steamed cream hot espresso-shot strong I blurted out I like your style even clothes She spat sized up my mind and wrinkled up her nose I asked is that your hair or a solar flare-up She put her shades on and put her nose and hair up Don’t take offense and like mace my face but ahem You cool cruel beauty cause mayhem in my brainstem Ultra-violet lioness Skin as juicy as flesh peaches Kisses dangerous as napalm Baby you’re a ticking sex bomb Though she ruled derby rinks in seventeen precincts I sweated pages of ink and asked to lip sync

My banking My spanking And Whether I'm gay credit My debit and my DNA breathing Heart beating I Make Data all day DATADATADATADATA Subscriptions Prescriptions The keywords I use bookmarks My birthmarks Political views water My power A And Psychic tattoos DATADATADATADATA Several stalkers Are in your home Flush your wristband Hang up your phone My contacts My secrets my privacy Cameras Microphones Always tracking Me lonely Big brother A Keeps me company DATADATADATADATACRASH

Though words will fail us we march on As you burn the earth and sing your song. We burn the earth we eat the birds You build new plants you lose old words We chop the trees we bleach the grass You burn off every frakking crack of gas We feed on carcasses and corn You read Fox news boxtops and porn We damn the earth we dam the streams You vomit logos in your dreams Behind our PowerPoints we hide You burn the earth and show your slide We bomb ourselves until we win And then you let the next war begin. We fill the seas with plastic spoons You leave junked space craft on the moon We excavate we slash and burn You shock and awe not look and learn Is there life on Mars we have to know If it’s not burnt you have to go. Make it glow. But for now we burn from end to end Where ever there's a drop of fuel to spend We burnt the plains we'll burn the sphere You'll burn up in the atmosphere

And so we march Backwards in history Straight into Our scariest memory And so we swim Over the waterfall What was dystopic then Is now engulfing all As we devolve Into our ancestries They express Their ugliest tendencies And so we dive Into the whirlpool What was a reasoned calm Is now a raging fool And so we heave Over the tipping point You can't tip back Over the tipping point And so we race Over the marble cliffs And leave behind Only our garbled glyphs

Oh my baby I’m so happy You draw skies blue You draw suns gold You draw grass green You draw clouds white You saw beaches You swam in waves It’s too late to Blame my own dad For the world Now it’s my bad > What do I tell Heather Rose With her precious Little toes What do I tell My sweet daughter Dying oceans Poison water Global warming Nuclear threat Savage storming Credit card debt }} Will she blame me What did I do? Will she shame me What could I do? Predatory Men in pickups Scary enough to Kill your hiccups Rich get richer Poor get horror Wall street monsters Give no quarter They hate brown skin They hate black skin They hate all skin That isn’t pig skin }} They hate countries They hate cities They probably e- -ven hate kitties I never told you What a war is Afraid you’d ask me Why we do this Environmental Deregulation Wall Street Banking Deregulation They all poop in Nature’s garden Fewer rules than Kindergarten }} All your toys are Made of oil Their packaging goes Into the soil Will your best friends be deported When their parents are reported Will your teachers Get arrested Will your classmates Get molested Will your children Get what you had Mommy daddy Kitty iPad What do I do Heather Rose What do I tell Heather Rose What do I do Heather Rose What do I tell Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Rose }} I’m so sorry Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Rose I’m so sorry Heather Ro-ose You deserve a per fect world I’m so sorry Heather Ro-ose This is no place for a nice girl