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Breaking the rock
04:41
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Caught b/w 2 worlds
03:04
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I could never talk about my home
To the men in ivory towers
For fear I’d get the sack
If they knew about our super powers
No confident in that glitzy world
No one to tell of our pain
To wear a mask and be silent about the truth
About how the other half lives
Caught b/w 2 worlds
Something’s gotta snap
Caught b/w 2 worlds
The real deal & a piece of crap
I’d go to bed in a war zone
& spend the day time folding clean linen
My brothers are dying
But I must keep myself from crying
Caught b/w 2 worlds…
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The Sim Sim fruit
03:45
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Drifting through mystical thonkers
Moralised monsters
Eco warriors
Shifting down disposable stoles
Frozen moments
The ergo sum
Auto rifle butts
Can’t get enough
Backsidedness
Beneath bullet vests
History tests
Well thought of & spoken
Letters and characters
The forceps are grassed
On this sometimes glass
Down the hatch suit sweet sweet hours
All vanished all powdered
Drink drink
The sim sim fruit
Drink drink
Your session’s all through
Pink pink
The windows of psychs
Wend wend
Down plastic drain pipes
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The Healer
05:48
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Retail Companies
05:41
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Swordfish walk in jagged lines
Waltzing and jitterbugging in the rain
The smoke comes puffing down the drain
Risking council fines
I wake and eat swordfish wheat-bix
My heart is in the bin
I dreamt all night I’d committed sins
The devil had me in a fix
Chorus:
U get tricked with good intentions
That’s where philosophy’s fine
But martial arts should line
The forehead to the shin
The swordfish dance turning 45 degrees
Checking 5 moves down the track
The mind flicking like a lizard tongue forward and back
Can overcome the frozen sugar breeze
One day the sun will return
To me in the oolong bath
Coming super light and mentally fast
One day the wind will turn
U get tricked with good intentions
That’s where philosophy’s fine
But martial arts should line
The forehead to the shin
Swordfish walk the midwinter streets
Swordfish walk the midwinter streets
Swordfish walk the midwinter streets
Swordfish walk the midwinter streets
U get tricked with good intentions
That’s where philosophy’s fine
But martial arts should line
The forehead to the shin
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8. |
Kisses
03:50
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So many different kinds of kisses
Red lips on cleanly shaved
Lip balm on lip balm
Brown lips on pink lips
Girl on girl, man on man
Police on robber
Choir leader on a chorister head
Mum on daughter
Grandfather on nephew
Lovers & loved ones
Pets & gifts
So many different kinds of kisses
The best one of all is with you
My invisible ghostly
Black gloved mosquito
Buzzing about love
In my ear
I love you my angel
You live in my head
You kiss my brain
When I am alone
But you return to the living
With me in our bed
And kiss me again and again
So many different kinds of kisses
Blue ones, black ones
Hot ones, moist ones
Stories about others
And songs of fruits and flowers
In praise of God or you and I
Many things at once
And nothing at all
Abstractions and mere flesh on flesh
Love rage, peanuts of peace
You blame me, you save me
You change my mood
Come on, let's open our hoods
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Muddy Waters
04:51
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what does it mean to tangle in the dingle the rope from fair play the dope in ur beard & sail on mother-lode me with silver in ur eyes terror in ur song of waters rising higher when will u be my love again on what salt plain the nerves of the emu shrink under ice & tussocks spur windows into thermometer blasts from the past I last on the fast bowler’s short run late in his career before we were called garden gnomes ever & anon come the silver swans of dust & teacups the nervous parade of gymnopedies & cock tease my main squeeze plasticine & saffron & lubricated lips where will u run to my funny friend over the umbrella & swilling of the tea & do-rei-me here we are again with a powdered geezer ever at the tease but not in front of lode please will this headstrong mounting ever cease with verbiage also on the take but squeezes she so rightly there’s a tiger in my tank I star her star star 4.3 with tweezers of down between my ruby toes I choose I chose melting blues into one what fun my thread is instead
Muddy Waters!
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The wrong drugs
08:19
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Drugs to make the body bigger
And the mind smaller
They're on the wrong drugs
Drugs to make u look younger
But banish youthful hearts
They're on the wrong drugs
Whatever happened to consciousness expansion?
And laughing wildly with ur friends
And meeting Krishna
Not buying a stripper
They're on the wrong drugs
The drugs they take leads to coward’s punches
Bigoted rants
Bullying their way to the top
Corporate take overs
3rd world rape
They're on the wrong drugs
What kind of drugs?
The wrong ones
The drugs they take
Silences conversations
Buys the patents to true innovation
Irons out complexity into final solutions
Smiles only to itself as a muscle flex
What kind of drugs?
They’re on the wrong drugs
The drugs they take are legalised
Only sometimes not on the sports field
The drugs they take
Abuses women and children
The drugs they take makes an angry world
They’re on some kind of drugs
Superhypercompetition
Superhypercompetition
Neglect the needy and the poor
The drugs they take creates men's clubs and faceless power
The drugs they take is male homoerotic but homophobic
It’s true I think
They're on the wrong drugs
The stuff that makes the muscles bigger
And the brain thinner
They do not read
Breed a next generation
The drugs they take yells to get attention
With nothing ever new or wise to say
The drugs they take takes all god's names in vain
The drugs they take makes the good go insane
The drugs they take prevents reflection
Except for flexing in front of mirrors
They’re on the wrong drugs
What drugs are they on?
They’re on the wrong ones
The drugs they take locks up refugees
The drugs they take compounds global warming
The drugs they take isolates us from one another
The drugs they take abandons aged fathers and mothers
The drugs they take are cannibalistic
Meant to exaggerate and humiliate
The drugs they take are onanistic
They can't get enough of their own bodies
The drugs they take cuts down forests
Coz there is dirty filthy lucre to be made
The drugs they take produced the auto tune
Coz these drugs affects ur voice’s pitch
The drugs they take never makes way for ur fellow
Coz I am more important than u
The drugs they take made darling into bitch
Coz it takes away the ability to know tenderness
The drugs they take demands conformity
The drugs they take calls grown men son
The drugs they take wants each day to be over
It never holds hands and watches the sunset
The drugs they take makes u hyperaggressive
It puts us all on notice so watch ur step!
The drugs they’re on takes away patience
I won’t wait for you to compose urself
The drugs they’re on increases incarceration
The drugs they’re on puts them against us
The drugs they take
Drives up house prices
Makes people homeless
Leaves houses vacant
The drugs they take
Rescinds native titles
Stockpiles nukes
Makes u need to puke
They’re on the wrong drugs
What drugs are they on?
The wrong ones
The drugs they take
Propagandas betting
Drowns dolphins in netting
They don’t find this upsetting
They see upsides for banking in every setting
The only thing they’ll compromise on
Is human rights
The drugs they take makes sodomy of women
The new orthodoxy
In pornography for kids
Kids on the phone instead of throwing a ball
Preparing them for life on these pumped up drugs
What kind of drugs?
Not the hippie trippy kind
They’re on the wrong ones
The drugs they use
Uses surrealism to sell accounting
Branding and rebranding
Pursing and pouting
It sells out revolutions to mercenaries
Despots and reigns of terror
They have no third eye these drugs they are on
Putting high prices on vaccines
Selling plastic toxic suburban dreams
Shouldn't drugs help u let go of urself?
Join u with the universal consciousness
Break down the ego?
Bond u with others from other walks?
Connect u with forgotten dreams?
Shouldn't they point humanity along the road to being free?
What drugs are they on?
They’re on the wrong drugs
The drugs they take cuts funding to education
The drugs they take dictates one kind of face for the nation
The drugs they take leads to Donald Trump
The drugs they take leads to total war
The drugs they take makes poetry a bore
What kind of drugs?
They’re on the wrong ones
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People pay for this
05:30
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People pay for this
It's a day in day out
Spend their pay
To get stuck in the middle of a sound system war
Transport, construction, advertisements, stereos from this door, next door, buskers with pas, tables talking about different reality shows, buzz words, sound bites
People pay to go out and listen to this
And add their own little sounds
As if the thing weren't already obese
Jah bring me some peace
Let me enter the root system of a magnificent tree
And hear my breathing at last like a man
For I can't hear myself breathe
I can't hear myself scream
And everyday a thousand new companies advertising their wares are added to the mix
When we all have enough
When we've all had enough
Jah let me ride on the eagle's back
And soar higher than the mountains
Let me touch the silence
And compose myself afresh
Before I must return
To Babylon system
To feed my family
Coz love ain't free
Fruit from the tree
On land conquered and taxed
Who has my back?
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Bait Boonah, Australia
Formed in 2003 set amongst the Otway Forest, S.W. Victoria.
“Bait are rare exponents of the personal. They can easily
perform traditional songs in all their glory with facility but they choose instead, through unique melodic & syntactical composition, to explore their own reality, a reality informed by (post)modernity and popular culture but not limited to their limiting assumptions.” G.Genovese
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