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Monday 23rd March 2020
02:10
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I never liked Mondays, now everyday’s a Monday
But we’ll endure one way, or another to the other side
But we won’t know what will be if we don’t stay inside
So, lend a ear, caterpillar
You cannot see this killer
So stay safe, stay put, do as your mother would
Now’s the time to make the great cocoon
This will all be over soon
As you can see the blue moon
Beware the ides of March
‘Cause no one wants to be the bait
So we wait…...so we wait…...
I could do anything….I could do anything…..
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I got 20/20 vision when both my eyes are open
But when I close my left eye, I see the right one’s broken
One compensates for the other’s short-sightedness
Some estimate, but I am the only eye-witness
To my impacted cornea, this blurry euphoria
When I look through the telescope with the wrong eye
The asteroid looks like another star in the sky
My depth perception represents
A introspection of events
That led us to being retroactively screwed
If we kept both eyes open, we’d have less attitude
About the current situation that we find ourselves in
We’d see it coming a mile away before it could begin
But despite the promise, this would not be the year
To have perfect vision, the irony’s clear
We get a laugh at that over soup with drowning bat
Oh wait, there’s a hair in it, send it back
I could go on and on and on and on and on
In this song so long I yawn “come on” get on with it
And then I remember I got nowhere to be
I give in, I surrender to relativity
I’ll just sit on my ass ‘till the skin around it harden’s
But hey, at least I got a garden
(CHORUS)
At least I got a garden to enjoy the fresh air
At least I got a garden to wait out the scare
At least I got a garden to pretend I’m debonair
Tanning in my underwear, without a single care (X2)
I can only imagine how hard it must be
To not feel the soft breeze whenever you please
If you’re stuck in some block feeling like livestock
Then by now you want me to get off my crock
I don’t mean for the mention of my garden to be boastful
It does seem my intention shouldn’t hearken being noble
But when was having a garden a luxury?
“Since we’re now social distancing?”
Oh I see
Yeah fair enough, you guys have it tough
You need a telescope to see the diamond in the ruff
And you can’t even afford it on the furlough scheme
The inferno seems like such a pleasant place to visit
At least Dante got seven circles, one’s your limit (NINE ASSHOLE)
Just waiting for limp tactics to finally pivot
Can drive you crazy, as the days get hazy
They turn into weeks and the weeks turn into minutes
And we forget the regret the government fails to exhibit
Whenever there’s a new reason for contemplating treason
And they bribe Santa to tell us “‘tis NOT the season”
So when should we protest? When everyone’s dead?
Though it’s hard to argue with a bunch of hollow heads
When you lounge in your birthday-adjacent suit
Avoiding dispute with acutely stupid people’s a hoot
I can just win arguments with the echoes of my mind
And agree with my kind that the proletariat’s blind
In my little patch of paradise, that clarifies my appetite
To sanctify my human right to be secure day and night
It might not impress King Louis the 14th
But I don’t care for the royals grinning with their false teeth
I only dress to impress when I’m feeling depressed
So don’t you bless this whole mess I confess is unstressed
With the flora and the fauna, a plethora of the former
And the latter looking dapper as they traverse the borders
I might not be well-equipped for when the world around me darkens
But I’ll be okay, someday,’cause hey, at least I got a garden
(CHORUS)
And as the day turns into night
I only just wonder what day is right
Turns out it’s Thursday
We support it in the worst way
And clap for the NHS
#blessed
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To all the clerks who service the jerks who purchase all the toilet paper
So they can wipe their mouths and continue being chro nic masturbators
Just because you had no choice doesn’t mean you’re not brave
To take pity on those who scavenge pride from being the knave
They pretend they’re just like you; just as dependable
But to them you’re as essential as you’re expendable
To all the doctors and nurses expelling curses from all our souls
So we can sit and wait for the latest update from those in “control”
How much did you get for the medals you have to pawn
To keep those debt collectors off of your neighbors lawn?
Your sacrifice for their avarice is commendable
But to them you’re as essential as you’re expendable
To all takeaway providers, delivery drivers, and trash collectors
Keeping all us abstinent sinners alive within our sectors
Sorry we missed you out of all our thoughts and prayers
We can give applause to make you forget no one cares
For you it’s just another day barely spendable
‘Cause to them you’re as essential as you’re expendable
To the teachers inherent, and stay-at-home parents, doing their jobs
Who tread a fine line in dealing with snobs, slobs, mobs, and knobs
Your children shouldn’t be canaries for the waylay
As they flaunt their immunity down the motorway
You’ll suffer at the hands of independent variables
‘Cause to them you’re as essential as you’re expendable
To all my friends and family, weaving tapestry, keeping me sane
Who love me no matter how much weight I might lose or gain
Someday soon I will embrace you and you will know
I never felt I gave you enough to truly let you go
Though not every moment we shared was unforgettable
To them you’re as essential as you’re expendable
So to those in power, wet from golden showers, undeclared
We do not thank you for the few of us who remain spared
Enjoy the champagne you probably drink out of a baby’s skull
I learned that from your tabloids erect with vitriol
Enjoy not having to hide behind shame, so proudly despicable
‘Cause to us you’re as essential as you’re expendable
I don’t pity blue-bloods who barely look vestigial
To me you’re as essential as you’re expendable
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Level with me now, when we will get out?
The uncertainty is perverting me
Into someone you don’t deserve to see
Undue, undone, inadvertently
Become lighthouse keeper to this urban sea
I find no enchantment behind the light
Why bind the commandment to the respite?
Your kind might be kind to living this way
But I’m blind to the givings of Groundhog Day
So level with me now, WHEN WILL WE GET OUT!?
Am I selfish to see this cage before me?!
I just can’t see past this rage
You think we all share the stage, sorry
We’re not on the same fading page
I’ll level with you now
Shut your filthy mouth!
You will not disavow
The anger and the doubt
They relish it somehow
They love a perfect crisis
The powerplay is priceless
D’you feel fulfilled and righteous
To suffer for your highness?!
Well do ya? Do ya really?.....yeah that’s what I thought
Am I selfish to see this cage before me?!
I just can’t see past this rage
The sick smell of salt and sage, floors me
And cold hearts bring the ice age
Oh yes. They do. Wouldn’t you agree?
Well I thought we all in this together
Through this perfect weather, oh well
Wear my clothes I’m better off cold and naked
Don’t shake the sacred, cow bell
Am I selfish to see this cage before me?!
I Just can’t see past this rage
Better than to just disengage poorly
Nostalgic for menial wage
So level with me now, when will we get out?!
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Mettle In The Vow
05:20
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Government’s made another decision
we’re addicted to being imprisoned
What a revision, forced rescission
Acting like it wasn’t their decision
That screwed up everything into undefined subdivisions
King of elisions, lizard provision
This is why I don’t watch television
When I told you to level with me and tell me “when will we get out?”
I meant without having to worry about another outbreak sprout
Now you tell me you don’t care what I do as long as that I don’t doubt
The efforts to relabel the right thing to do as a “handout”
Fuck you
Put some
Mettle in the vow (x4)
You think I like being here?
Living each day with fear?
Wondering whether we were wasting what was working with
Staying the fuck away
From anyone who might spray
Pathogens poised potentially permeating people’s plinth
You’re dam right it’s a scheme
A greasy snake-oil salesman’s dream
Taxing totalitarianism to Trump temperate treaties
Fuck the new normal
From something shit to something awful
Blatantly buggered by bastardised bourgeoisie
Am I selfish if I wanna stay in the black and white room?
Away from the doom?
I’ve decked my house with the verve of an Egyptian tomb
Proud to consume
The materialism that distracts me from all the displume
Of society’s gloom
I’ve practiced for this since I was kicked out of my mother’s womb
I’m not ready to bloom
So put some
Mettle in the vow (x8)
It wasn’t so long ago
They were willing to kill half a million or so
Gentrified genocide’s genuinely justified, judiciaries joke
But they pretend to laugh
When you snap them for a photograph
Fallacies flounder flagrantly for fuhrer-fearing folk
So don’t pity the fool
Who makes killing fields out of schools
Empathy exits every event etonians escape
Accept the misery
We’re on the wrong side of history
Routinely resisting redemption, replicants relate
Am I selfish if I don’t wanna die for their bloody little ‘cause
Festering with flaws?
I still got alot I can offer the world or so I like to think
I’m right on the brink
Of finalising the formula for Nirvana here on Earth
Gonna earn what I’m worth
Otherwise all this time I’ve wasted here was barely spent
Not even worth one cent
So put some
Mettle in the vow (x8)
Maybe on the other side I will get fortified
Become the person that’s deserving of my mother’s pride
I could be the saviour so successful we can relish the respite
Or a raconteur that prefers to blind the darkness with the light
I could do great things with my hands, that no church could reprimand
Sear images in your brain, to help you forget all the pain
I could be someone that helps you contemplate reality
I could do anything if I knew what I wanna be
I could do anything if I knew what they wanna see
I could do anything if I knew what is wrong with me
I could do anything, I could do anything
OH GOD IF I COULD DO ANYTHING
WHY DO I CHOOSE TO KEEP ON DROWNING?!
I NEVER LEARNT HOW TO BREATHE
IT ALWAYS CAME NATURALLY
AND NOW I HAVE TO LEARN IT ALL OVER AGAIN
DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START, WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?!
DO THEY FEAR AS MUCH AS ME?!
I DOUBT IT, YET SUPPOSEDLY
BEHIND THEIR GLASS EYES LIES THE LAST OF THEIR HUMANITY!!
Maybe it’s too late for them
Maybe it’s too late for us
But I’m willing to take everything I am
and break it all down to dust
Make something good for once
On behalf of the runts
Who never stop wondering why they’re here,
as the seconds turn into months
Maybe that’ll be enough
It’s probably gonna get rough
But I have to try, I have to prove
My life is not a bluff
But I know I’m gonna need help
With my own mental health
I’m an atheist with a god complex
I don’t believe in myself
So I’ll put some mettle in the vow
Put some mettle in the vow
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The C Word
02:38
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(CHORUS)
Complacency is currency to the C U Next Tuesdays who run this country
“Keep calm” They claim “we can’t be blamed
For the culling we curate carelessly”
Would you rather get cancer from the air
Than to cancel all their million heirs?
So burn their cloaks, melt their clocks
‘Cause it’s time their false colors were stripped bare (X2)
Save the drink, piss in the sink
Fix the glitch, eat the rich
Are you bored, of these lords?
Sort your shit, you thick git
Help yourself, for you health
Pay no mind, to their kind
You are great, shooting straight
Soon you’ll bloom, from your cocoon
(CHORUS)
NOW PUT YOU HANDS UP AND PRETEND YOU CARE
WE KNOW YOU DON’T REALLY BUT FUCK IT
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Objection Permanence
03:00
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It’s the definition that
objections continue to exist
even when they can’t be perceived
That the guilty remain
dutily long after they finally rest
in a peace ill-received
Just ‘cause it’s such a beautiful day
doesn’t mean the world
stops slowly suffocating
For every breed freed from the threat,
seven more take its place
and cease generating
When the president was black,
the filth didn’t step back
from profiling posthumously
You don’t think it’s a joke
when you find other folks
barely poke at your roast profusely
You and me get to see
days without decisions that don’t carry
the world in response
Our objections are relative
to a paradigm sedative
leftover from the last renaissance
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Don’t not go to work at home
Yo, Look
You know it’s on purpose
They circumvent the circus
No one can get mad at just how bad it can get ‘cause we don’t speak cursive
I’m done being nervous
I’m part of the surplus
Don’t get paid to preach, don’t drink the bleach, I am barely subversive
I’m just another asshole
Shitting on the flag pole
There’s something patriotic in being moronic, if I wipe my crack with the union jack
Would that be a felony?
I offer no equity
So I guess it must be, bank account’s so dusty, bunnies breeding it’s hard to keep track
Don’t not go to work at home
What a well constructed contradiction
Don’t not go to work at home
Do other people have to write your own fan fiction?
Don’t not go to work at home
It was bad enough with your slurry diction
Don’t not go to work at home
If you say it enough times it will stop being fiction
If we can only meet one mate
At a time in the park, great!
I guess we’re dogging now, no flogging, ow, I’m just doing what you told me
Gonna get my rocks off
Suck my cock, but don’t cough
Hey buddy don’t use teeth, don’t give me grief, I’m sorry I just miss my family
Menage a trois okay?
I like to go both ways
Oh only one at a time? I guess that’s fine, but I prefer to have the whole sandwich
But I’m not greedy, I’ll wait
And until then, masturbate
Oh hi mum and dad, I hope you’re glad, I wrote this while Cummings makes the PM his bitch
Don’t not go to work at home
If you can go to work, then don’t go to work
Don’t not go to work at home
Exercise everywhere, but don’t go berserk
Don’t not go to work at home
We’re out the first wave, he claims hiding his smirk
Don’t not go to work at home
In how many directions of the circle can this jerk jerk?
Three-hundred and sixty?
He don’t look it but he’s nifty
Wish I was that prevalent, despite the evidence, that he shouldn’t be trusted
I’m not a perfect person
I relate to the serpent
But even I know the deal, he soiled his spiel, his crocodile teeth are busted
He’s speaking out his rectum
I should know, I’m on the spectrum
I all #nofilter, I’m slightly off-kilter, say whatever to get a response
My diagnosis was pervasive
My development was evasive
It may have took me longer, to get here but I’m stronger, I got not time left for this ponce
Don’t not go to work at home
When they ask me if I could do a better job?
Don’t not go to work at home
I say I probably could, and that’s the problem, shut your fat gob
Don’t not go to work at home
The uneducated like me shouldn’t have power
Don’t not go to work at home
The US is an example, their stability’s devoured
Don’t not go to work at home
Not that they had much in the first place
Don’t not go to work at home
They’re now a third world country with a nuclear base
Don’t not go to work at home
And all his rapist buddies are still getting mates rates
Don’t not go to work at home
We will see what changes before it’s too late
DON’T NOT GO TO WORK AT HOME THEY DID NOT SAY
BUT THEY DID SO THERE
OH YEAH
FAKE NEWS, FAKE BLUES, QUIT DRAGGING YOUR FAKE SHOES
MADE BY SWEATSHOP CHILDREN WHOSE FEET REMAIN BARE
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Peanut Butterfly
07:45
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Next year I’m gonna learn to fly
I’ll get there if I start by July
Don’t care if I fall, I gotta try
Next year I’m gonna learn to fly
YO, PEANUT BUTTERFLY, PUMP UP THE JAM!! (x4)
I’LL NEVER FORGET THIS YEAR, no no no no I won’t
The year of the rat, ain’t it funny like that
It was written in the stars
but our deciphering was sub-par
Speculation sells
Oh well
Better luck next year
Crack open a beer for the ones no longer here
Were you able to steer clear of frontier peers?
Or were you caught in the headlights, sacrificial deer?
It might have been a leap year but we’re stuck in first gear
Oh yeah
Another trip ‘round the sphere
Another excuse to become austere
Another deadweight in the atmosphere
Another vaccine bought by the auctioneer
Oh yeah
And if I ever see you in a Wetherspoon’s
I’ll slap the bitch outta you, you spineless goon
I know many more were meaner, but on social media
You were quite vocal ‘bout supporting your local
So fuck the conglomerate, they polluted the omlette
With broken eggshells, recalibrate your tolerance
Oh yeah
Now shut the fuck up, while I pledge allegaince to reconnaisance
CHORUS
BUT WHY NOT NOW?
Well,
it just ain’t the time
All I gotta do right now is survive
Keeping cool in the cocoon ain’t a crime
The only person telling me to contrive
Is me, myself, and I
Oh wait
But did I already have it, and just didn’t know?!
I mean….. maybe?
I really can’t say, all cards at play
I just live day to day on the edge of foreplay
Halfway to nowhere, always over there
Insert Schrodinger joke here
Looking forward to things being a little bit clear
HAHAHAHA
DON’T HOLD YOUR FUCKING BREATHE
yeah
I’d be better off wishing for a quick death
That’s what happens when you sympathise with Macbeth
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow full of sorrow
For the blow from the shitshow to Jane and John Doe
The tory’s keen knife sees not the wound it makes
In lockdown, what light through yonder window breaks?
THAT’S ROMEO & JULIET
YOU FUCKING FAT DEGENERATE
And never was there a tale of such woe
As the UK’s response, it was an all-time low
And we just had Brexit, how low could we go?
Apparently we could go even lower
That’s what happens when you’re run by growers and sho’ers
And you beg for more smoke from the King ass-blower
Oh yeah
And if you wanna know how I spent my time in lockdown?
I made a whole fucking album, you listening to the last song on it, you clown!
CHORUS
So now, what happens next?
We’re all, frankly perplexed
Are there anymore side effects
Letting these leeches infect?
LIKE A MEGA RECESSION?! Well, pardon my regression
I don’t fucking care anymore
Boris survives the virus and is still a massive twat
That is...supposedly survived
I’m not saying he died
Though I’m sure by now he’s dead inside
But at this point I would not be surprised
If he never fucking had it
Would you?? After all this, would you really be fucking surprised?
Maybe that’s why the antibody test is so delayed
Bring the magic money tree out so Richard Branson gets paid
I’m getting more comfort out of the conspiracies I’ve made
Okay, that’s enough shade
But I don’t know how long I can take this
I’m starting to lose all of my fake bliss
How long before I don’t believe we’ll be okay
That’s a question to answer another day (x4)
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