Let’s Start Degeneracy

by Microwave

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	Bored of Being Sad 00:00 / 03:20

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1.	Portals 02:26	lyrics	buy track
softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me see, on the portals he's waiting and watching, watching for you and for me come home, come home ye who are weary come home; earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home time is now fleeting, the moments are passing, passing from you and from me shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming, coming for you and for me come home, come home ye who are weary come home earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home
2.	Ferrari 02:23	lyrics	buy track
in a fiberglass Ferrari fueled by the pure hatred of joy, I've been out blurring the line between freelance and unemployed somewhere across the plane of immanence shouting into the void only a fool can make a difference and they don’t really get a choice I’m not aiming for the bushes when I jump out this window I refuse to act on fear no thank you, I’ve been down that road there are a thousand million ways to drive that nail into it's hole, to keep running in place cause it’s a bit more comfortable than peeling up the veil from that illusion of control and learning when to leave yourself alone
3.	Circling the Drain 03:46	lyrics	buy track
I am below the bullshit let the pendulum swing drive the boat like you stole it let's grease up this hate machine I've got a flare for theatrics it feels like punching a bruise I've been getting my ass kicked but I'm playing to lose the sock drawer that we're snooping in the bane of all our inhibitions the dead horse it's a blood sport yeah, you can dig for pity in the hearts of your peers or cover up your eyes and make the world disappear you can start a fire but everybody's singing the same stale song "You gotta go along to get along" this was as far as my plan went smacked up against a wall it feels like I'm being punished for something by “good folks” in scare quotes in the sequel to politics "Unanswered Prayers and Crying Fits" in free fall into the chipper with it all I could really give a fuck about anything I'm just blowing raspberries and circling the drain fucking with what's right front of me no one can give you peace no one can take it away yeah, we can build a new religion write a new alphabet I'm here justifying the future not redeeming the dead my father says, "You've gotta go along to get along" and I do
4.	Bored of Being Sad 03:20	lyrics	buy track
call the bastard up and buy him lunch. let's talk about the future how I've grown to feel so little love how you act like you don’t understand a short word with the lonesome balladeer a long weekend all bent out of shape a new self help book for each year annotating the path to my grave I don't want to talk about the future No I don't care if I'm wasting my time I've got time to waste and no will to participate I've been wasting my whole life and I’m so bored of being sad it's not cool anymore it's old and I'm bored shit’s really not so bad I created this hell I have no one to blame but myself if you romanticize misery, brother, you're gonna be miserable I was dead I was looking for companies to sling shirts at the funeral all the makings of a pacifist, another hypocrite, hippie weed head throwing out the dogma and cashing in "we did the math on it, it wasn't happening" the villain arc of a wanton rogue one of heaven's tortured souls with a cold heart, a white dwarf headed for a black hole sharpening my teeth on the bones of my old enemies I'm over saying sorry and I'm bored of being sad it's not cool anymore it's old and I'm bored. shit’s really not so bad. I created this hell. I have no one to blame but myself
5.	Straw Hat 03:31	lyrics	buy track
straw sun hat, in a pair of Sean John boxer briefs, sipping the sweet taste of relief, not tortured like we used to be I love you because of the things you do for me this is a meritocracy no one is responsible for anyone's feelings I know that you're trying to parry your doubts that you want to trust me I know that you're spying on me now through the dog camera but everything that I do I would do in front of you and I don't really mind what you do no one owns you tax my gig I pity every asshole now if you treat people like that, I know that's how you treat yourself it feels good to kill we did all of this advеrtently yeah, we got all thе luck we need no shame no fear no guilt no, everything that I do I would do in front of you and I don't really mind what you do no one owns you
6.	Let's Start Degeneracy 03:58	lyrics	buy track
a fleeting moment of clarity at the end of a dead end street caught up in shit you don't believe it's always been like that I’ve been sucking on this battery keeping it cool around your family taking every opportunity to get you on your back it's a convent at your parents house laying on the carpet barely tethered to the ground shut the door and turn the lights out crank the shit up to ten say fuck you to your friends I want to wrap around and break you like a glowstick get us thrown in a cell ring in your head like a bell I want to be another one of the beautiful lies that you tell yourself a fleeting moment of clarity at the end of a dead end street caught up in shit you don’t believe shoveling a way out mixing styrofoam and gasoline better living through chemistry ready to be a liability blowing out a war cloud I want to crumble down this hill into the highway I want to come to in the middle of the interstate cut a trail from the beach to the city skyline with my last brain cell I want to wrap around and break you like a glow stick take a hit and write us both out of the narrative I want to be another one of the beautiful lies that you tell yourself
7.	Omni 03:32	lyrics	buy track
you missed your flight out to New York. now you're back here killing swallows and boarding up the doors, putting holes in every wall spinning on in absolution cause none of its your fault pray to your favorite constellation press your candle to the flame paint yourself into a corner with your bridges all ablaze are you hearing voices now? holding your breath until you pass out still inside a burning house still not sure whether to put it out or to burn it down pray to your favorite constellation press your candle to the flame paint yourself into a corner with your bridges all ablaze no one's safe until your somewhere far away no one's safe what's it like to be a martyr? or is it god you blame? are you looking for a new god or do you learn from your mistakes?
8.	Strangers 02:54	lyrics	buy track
I used to see myself standing in the background I woke up today and everybody felt like strangers I’m ready to leave I know where I was when the light went out everyone I know, I treat them all like strangers I’m ready to leave
9.	Concertito in G Major 01:16		buy track
10.	Huperzine Dreams 03:17	lyrics	buy track
3-star hotels enough is enough kicking someone that you're close with in an impulsive act of love toes in the deep end by the pool speaking in tongues we pause the screen god’s face burned in the tv what if everything’s as perfect as we suspected it would be? what if we dropped the catastrophic fatalist philosophy and looked at what's around us as lucid as our dreams? bidding farewell to the the last thing that you know When you lose everything, the whole world becomes your home the heathen doomed welcome you to the fold trickling down gods porcelain throne getting the one-way ticket itching to get on with it in a pair of green shades running every red light feeding the flame oxygen feeling the room start spinning cutting all ties saying goodbye

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released April 26, 2024

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