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Swamp Spice - Retroviral
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I've tried nitroglycerin
And pesticide
Tried listening to the monkey you hide
I've tried red water
Painting sacred marks
Nothing stops your face
Appearing in the dark
The hokey writer's babylon
The phantom train
The whisper in your terminal
The barcode on your brain
Are all as temporary as the teeth of a shark
Nothing stops your face
Appearing in the dark
Through retroviral
Exchange of DNA
You left something
The day your needle broke away
You can break me down into my constituent parts
Disconnect the valves from the pistons in my heart
Vaporise till molecules phase into quarks
Nothing stops your face appearing in the dark
And all the Queen's destroyers
And all the Queen's tanks
And all the Queen's soldiers
Arrayed in murder ranks
And every single policeman
And every smirking narc
Couldn't stop your face
Appearing in the dark.
Through retroviral
Exchange of DNA
You left something
The day your needle broke away
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You prayed for time to stop its wheels
As if you knew there were a god
The parts of you I see are of bone and real
But in your mind there's something odd
Something
Hazy
Fading
With the moment gone
Conscious
Surrenders
To the dryad's song
Mystics
Physics
Wave the magic wand
Atma forever
The universe rolls on
You lie in bed and close your eyes
Wishing that you'd disappear
Until your flesh breathes out a sigh
And you admit that you're still here
You're still
Hazy
Fading
With the moment gone
Conscious
Surrenders
To the dryad's song
Mystics
Physics
Wave the magic wand
Atma forever
The universe rolls on
Regardless of how deep you hurt
Or how profoundly you feel numb
I'll love this animated dirt
Your being that becomes
Something
Hazy
Fading
With the moment gone
Conscious
Surrenders
To the dryad's song
Mystics
Physics
Wave the magic wand
Atma forever
The universe rolls on
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Dreamlike an astronaut
Paced like a spirit
The folk in the forest
Were chasing their hit
How simple the substance
Made you an ethereal being
You're back on the drug
That you thought had all drained
And that kid in the photograph
Swaggers on stage
Those motorbike engines
Will scream through the trees
Once more
It must be a chemical within your brain
That infinite void where we are the same
And I pray in that place that you'll never forget
About me
Dripped from your third eye
The horror escaped
You cried laughter the moment
Your senses were faked
But you left the woods
To its moans
When you aged into dread
They said some year soon
That you'd have to pay
Smoke winds through the woods
Like a veil blown away
You remember that junkie
Staring at nothing at peace
It must be a chemical within my brain
That infinite void where we are the same
And I pray in that place that you'll never forget
About me
You're drilling a tunnel
Back into those days
With your hole of a synapse
That still reeks of haze
But your tread remains buoyant
In spite of depressant effects.
You want to describe
That far towering sight
Yet your blood holds
The only communion at night
And your words are submerged
And cannot bring them into view.
It must be a chemical within my brain
That infinite void where we are the same
And I pray in that place that you'll never forget
About me
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Grab your doctor
And join the dance
You'll do it if you're smart
First we licked some bullfrogs
Then we played with poison darts.
The older man who plays the pipes
Wears an expensive suit
You wonder what a crab like him
Is getting from this hoot.
Pharmaceutical economist
Loves a happy schitz
As long as we keep putting cash
Into their sticky mitts
Pharmaceutical economist
Has no need for a cure
The longer your case is prolonged
More income is assured.
The fiddle keeps on flickering
Now it's strip the willow
And if you were younger you'd be outside doing blow
But you've paid your ticket
And you'll stay for the whole bill
The doctor asks to dance again
And offers you a pill.
Pharmaceutical economist
Loves a happy schitz
As long as we keep putting cash
Into their sticky mitts
Pharmaceutical economist
Has no need for a cure
The longer your case is prolonged
More income is assured.
Pharmaceutical economist
The doctor is their tool
Your sickness is their appetite
Their lips are wet with drool
Pharmaceutical economist
Wants more than equity
They control the lives and deaths
Of those who take their remedies.
And so the ceilidh
Night by night
Reels off its many jigs
Though it's becoming hard to dance
At every single gig.
The doctor looks a little sad
As you fall away
She fixes you some morphine
For your final Strathspey.
Pharmaceutical economist
Loves a happy schitz
As long as we keep putting cash
Into their sticky mitts
Pharmaceutical economist
Has no need for a cure
The longer your case is prolonged
More income is assured.
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Keyboard Warrior
On the planes of the internet
Stride forth, brave soul.
Keyboard Warrior
With a pain that you can't forget
Your words shine like gold.
Take my hand-le
Guide me by the light of your candle
Through the darkest thread
I follow the warrior's tread
Keyboard warrior!
Figure with a thousand names
Keyboard warrior!
Walking through the flames
Keyboard warrior!
Is born and dies every day.
Keyboard warrior!
Your belief will fly you far away.
Keyboard warrior
Protects the innocent:
You are my shield.
Keyboard warrior
Your ultimatum has been sent
And the foe gallops through the field.
Don your mail,
Give them hell!
And with every post
You strike at the heart of the host.
Keyboard warrior!
Figure with a thousand names
Keyboard warrior!
Walking through the flames
Keyboard warrior!
Is born and dies every day.
Keyboard warrior!
Your belief will fly you far away.
And if my soul
Should fall beside you,
Will you find someone to blame?
And if my soul
Should fall within you,
Will you spread word of my shame,
Of my sordid name?
Well, take aim,
The foe comes to mame.
Keyboard warrior!
Figure with a thousand names
Keyboard warrior!
Walking through the flames
Keyboard warrior!
Is born and dies every day.
Keyboard warrior!
Your belief will fly you far away.
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Stop trying
Give up
Stop learning
You're too dumb for this stuff
Stop crying
Man up
Stop squirming
And we'll fuck you up.
(We're gonna fuck you up)
Like you've never been fucked before
Our boots on your head
Your tongue on the floor
Lay your body down in the morgue
Or be our whore.
Stop eating
Give in
Stop dreaming
You'll never be thin
Stop fighting
Drop
Stop living
And we'll fuck your corpse.
(We're gonna fuck you up)
Like you've never been fucked before
Our boots on your head
Your tongue on the floor
Lay your body down in the morgue
Or be our whore.
At these romantic moments
I wish time would stop.
Every second is so precious
I wish they would stop.
You say that wishes don't come true,
Yet I'm certain that I'll rot.
One day control will be taken from you,
and then we'll fuck you up!
(We're gonna fuck you up)
Like you've never been fucked before
Our boots on your head
Your tongue on the floor
Lay your body down in the morgue
Or be our whore.
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Swamp Spice Edinburgh, UK
Acoustic Punk from Edinburgh.
Follow on soundcloud: soundcloud.com/swamp-spice
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