1. |
Size M
01:42
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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!
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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!
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Are we all medium men?
We are all medium men
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2. |
Embargo
02:20
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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
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3. |
Johnny
00:57
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When Johnny comes marching home again hoorah hoorah
We’ll try to remember where he’s been hoorah hoorah
The men will cheer and the boys will shout
The ladies they will all come out
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
The old church bell will peal with joy
Hurrah! Hurrah!
To welcome home our darling boy,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The boys slash girls and girls slash boys
Have transitioned since he deployed
And they all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home
Let's call off the jubilee hurrah hurrah
He's dealing with PTSD hoorah hoorah
All his claims have been denied
But cannabis is legalized
And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes Marching Home
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4. |
Alarm
01:42
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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
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5. |
gleed
02:24
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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
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6. |
Rose
01:46
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I'm bereaved
Sad about everything
My truck broke
And my cat’s leaving me
I just two-stepped
On a rusted-up barn nail
My beer’s flat
And my cat’s history
And it smells
and it smells
and it smells
like a gas station rose
I’ll get me
A busted up dump truck
Drive around
With my old junk yard dog
He cain’t bite
Has some trouble with his eyesight
We’ll drive on
Until that cat catches on
And it smells
and it smells
and it smells
like a gas station rose
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7. |
Republic
02:47
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Earth is but a falling
Leaf it to decompos-
ing as a social an-
imal logic clothes-
ing off of all this-
tory's out of time
I must relinquish
my balls I'll let one go
Gophers gnawing theory-
public is over now
and then I'll grieve it
is time to watch it go
Trees are slowing down
Green has turned to brown
Leaves are on the ground
Fall has come and gone
As I sat there brooding
On the old unknown world’s
dream had seemed so close that
We could hardly fail all-
ready behind us
in that obscurity
The Republic's gone
Republics roll on
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8. |
Kafka
01:07
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Because you've not read Kafka
Because you’re not a mom
Are you going to let your emotional life be run by social media?
We just can't get on
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gleed Urbana, Illinois
Two guys with kids, jobs, done wondering when it's our turn.
gleed recommends:
What I've Learned So Far [two-volume set!]
by Paul Kotheimer
Paul's well-tempered discography offers many paths for the attentive listener. But I say go deep and dive in here. Kotheimer is thoughtful, precise, and defiantly, delicately, professionally DIY.
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