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Basement
02:35
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BASEMENT
We’re in the basement
Everyone came
Beer pong & vaping
Stinking up my hair
Vodka is flowing
Who’s over there?!
She’s kissing my girlfriend
Chunda in her hair
Smells like Palm Bay
My friends are good friends
My friends don’t care
My friends will take it
If it is there
My friends are like that
You’re just the same
You were my girlfriend
Chunda in your hair
Smells like Palm Bay
Nude bombs all the way
What you gonna do with a house full of reprobates
Boys are just toys when you play with them they will break
5 o’clock came and your dad chased me out of there
Running down the road with a bottle in my pocket
There was no way that we were gonna stop it
I text you from the park, ‘Come meet me in the dark.’
I’m gonna wash that Bay right out of your hair
I’m gonna wash that Bay right out of your hair
In the rain
And then I’ll go down again
Turned to steam, turned to steam
Turned to steam, turned to steam
Turned to steam, turned to steam
Turned to steam!
In the rain
Chunda in her hair
Smells like Palm Bay
Nude bombs all the way
Chunda in her hair
Smells like Palm Bay
Nude bombs all the way
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PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
Anything.
What moon landing?
I slept with an alien.
Joined the Flat Earth Society.
The Lost Boys of Bird Island
Order more pizza.
Let’s make a meal out of this.
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
Anything, anything.
9-11
Say, how many virgins?
Dubya or Osama?
Playing in the garden,
Obama bin Laden.
Then Trump fell out of the stew.
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
Anything, anything.
And in a bizarre twist
Cyberbots have successfully
Infected the internet.
With the lie that this law is
To let a woman kill her rapist,
Putin is The New Age,
Sensitive,
G.M.O. banning,
Anti-vaxer,
Bee-saving,
Flower Child
He most definite-
Ly is not!
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
Anything.
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
People will believe
Anything.
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3. |
Bubble Pop
03:08
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Bubble Pop
What you looking at?
What you looking at?
Steal my time away.
Where you coming from?
Where you coming from?
Keep my mind at bay.
Tell me what I think, tell me what I know,
Make me think that I don't know.
We better get ready, we better get ready
To see the other side (See the other side).
Offer me nothing.
Offer me nothing.
Sell it to me anyway.
What's this "Fight for Peace"?
What's this "Fight for Peace"?
Scare me with your doomsday news.
Making me think I'm on your side,
Here we go just for the ride!
We better get ready, we better get ready
To see the other side (See the other side).
None of this is news to you,
The streaming your daily blues.
Then offer me solace in another way.
Commercial breaks say, "Use every drop!”
And squash the show that would help me stop.
Making me want it anyway.
Making me something that won't last,
Making money, it's a blast!
We better get ready, we better get ready
To see the other side (See the other side).
Round and round the mulberry bush
The monkey chased the weasel.
That's the way the money goes round
Pop! goes the weasel.
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4. |
Ningy Nang Nong
06:11
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NINGY NANG NONG
WaayyyoooOooo!
(yayayayayaaayyaaayyaaii!)
AAaaaAaahH!!
(yayayayayaaayyaaayyaaii!)
Wayyyyy oooOOOooo, (yayayayayaaayyaaayyaaii!)ooOOoo- ahhhaaaaaahh!
Ningy nang nong sakka reppetoor Peppay!
Intaaa, sakarotey!
Imponaa,, TakkaseKKeTToReTiyyy
Impaa sakka rottoweeey.
Oooooh OOohh Oooooo!
(My-YaiiyEyEyeY)
Wayyyyysyyyaayy! (My-YaiiyEyEyeY)
Aaaahhhhh(ooOOOoo!) AAAAA(oooOOooooo!!) AAAAH!(oooo)
Oooooooo, ooooooooooo, ouuouououuouoou!
WeyOooooooo!
(oYOyOyYoyoyoyoooyyootoo!)
AaaaAaa!
((oYOyOyYoyoayayayyayyaayaayya.)
WayyyyyyooooOOOooooooo,000,0ooo (yoyoyoyoyoyayayayyaaiiayyayaaii) 0000ooo-aaaaaah!
Ningy nang nong sakke repetoor weppay!
N’taa sakka totorey.
Imponaa taakree weppe, intaaa naaka ro sette.
Weyyyyy , aaaAAAhH! AAaaaaA1(2)!
Waayaayyaayayyyy!! (aaaaaahhh)—aayyyayyy!!(oooOOooO!)aaay.
Oooooo-(AAaaaaaaH ), eeeeee!OOoooooOo000oo!
Hoowa!!!
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News of The Phoenix
04:10
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News of the Phoenix
Adapted from the poem of the same name by A.J.M. Smith (1902 - 1980). Published 1943
They say the Phoenix is dying,
Some say dead.
Dead without issue is what one message said,
But that has been suppressed, officially denied.
I think myself the man
Who sent it lied.
In any case, I'm told,
He has been shot,
As a precautionary measure,
Whether he did or not.
Phoenix is dying, some say it’s dead
Phoenix is dying, some say it’s dead
Phoenix is dying, some say it’s dead
Some say it’s dead
Some say it’s dead!
Aaaaaah!
They say the Phoenix is dying,
Some say it is dead.
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The Perfect Song
04:54
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THE PERFECT SONG
They say you say I should say ‘you’
At the very start of my (Oh! It should be simple) story.
That way you’ll be sucked into what I have to say.
So here I am on bended knee asking you to marry me.
I’m so sorry baby I’ll say anything.
Dance, dance the night away and we’ll just fall in love.
Living in a Perfect Song,
Following the instructions,
Pay Day!!!!
Pablum for the average Soul,
What are we living for?
It feels alright.
If I were a woman I’d be telling you my problems.
She’s a Tiger! She rise up above them.
Come on Sistas, you got it all together, you’re going somewhere.
I’m no woman handling no problem,
I’m a Man, got Power, I got Money.
I got You, come on Baby! Here’s my limousine.
Living in a Perfect Song,
Following the instructions,
Pay Day!!!!
Pablum for the average Soul,
What are we living for?
It feels alright.
It feels alright.
It feels okay.
It feels alright.
It feels okay.
It feels alright.
It feels okay.
Okay.
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7. |
Open The Door
03:24
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OPEN THE DOOR
Holding down the fort
While the buggers play
Making all the dough
Hiding all the hay
Buying all we read
Buying up the floor
Making all our fears
So we don’t show them the door
Let’s show them the door.
Selling all the guns
Following no law
We’re just beasts of burden
They suck our life up through their straws
Paint a pretty picture
Hang it on the wall
Sharpen up your pitchforks
Gird your loins for war
Let’s show them the door.
Let’s show them the door.
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Buzzed
02:57
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BUZZED
I said, “Godspeed! You should look up this band.”
He said, “Here it is, I found them on the internet.”
I said, “That’s one song of theirs I never heard before.”
“Let’s give it a whirl.”
“I love their drones, I love their fuzz.
Turn it up. Let’s get buzzed.”
“Listen now.”
And here we are,
Amazing start.
“Fuckin’ amazing.”
“That drone is crazy!”
“It just keeps going on.”
And On
Don’t adjust your set just yet
It’s just the story of this song.
Nothing wrong, carry on.
We will get there before
Too long
Finally
We realise
There’s something wrong, it’s gone too long,
Something must be going on
With the computer
Maybe just a cable thing.
“It’s not the band
It’s not the band.
It’s not the band
It’s not the band!”
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IF I’D KILLED YOU WHEN I WANTED TO
If I'd
killed you
when I wanted to
I'd be out by now.
Walking
a lonely lane
it's you again
my refrain.
I know
there's nothing left
of you and me
the goal is set.
There on
the horizon
the sun is gone
the moon is set.
Wasting your time hanging 'round with me,
Crossing a line though the sign's plain to see.
Hanging so close there is nothing but trees.
What else can I do?
Never gonna feel your rain again
I say, looking back,
There’s something on, something black
You turn and smile at me,
Black glitter on your cheek I see.
Wasting your time hanging 'round with me,
Crossing a line though the sign's plain to see.
Hanging so close there is nothing but trees.
What else can I do?
Never gonna feel your rain again.
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10. |
The Other Side Of Real
02:59
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THE OTHER SIDE OF REAL
give me your day, give me your way
watch the birds cry their way through the sky
of aerial warfare
only in the sundays of my 2nd hand mind
dear louisa, the boer war and the washing of the spears
in trafalgar's blood
a rusted windmill stands amidst a field of painted crockery
buddha sits and stares out passed the bicycle on his left
what stares? what cares have i found on this journey to rest?
will the golfshoes on the v.c.r. save me from this test so far?
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Roger Seldon British Columbia
South AfriCanadian independent songwriter.
Now settled on Vancouver Island, Roger Seldon was raised in
South Africa before travelling widely, playing music, and just playing. He has recorded tracks in various locations, such as Cape Town, Johannesburg and Vancouver.
Like a swallow in reverse he travels annually to Zululand where he is a regular feature each winter on the South Coast music scene.
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