from the EP Bonobo Project (Global
Seepej, 2004)
These Boots Shoot Lasers
Tenderizer
Let's Get Valhalla On It
Karl Across America
Women Of The Tribe
Apes Of Wrath
THESE BOOTS SHOOT LASERS
People come here looking for something
they're afraid they might never find.
Or because they're running away-
something that they tried to leave behind.
Implicit promises made-
young, clean, and full of freaks like you.
But the same old stories prevail
in the rain, at the bar, under the bridge.
Red sweater- soft skin
Good drugs- dollar Pabst
Big porch- irony
Outside I breathe
It's been weeks since I've seen the sun
Too fucking cold to leave my bed
Warm body's lying next to me
But I don't know who's inside.
So easy to sink to the middle.
Different in the exact same way.
Magic fails when you look close.
Human shit floats by.
Live it up underground
while agents confiscate your life.
Albinos are chasing tail
while Sleestacks plunder the cave.
Bonobos just wanna get their salad tossed (2x)
Hoody kids try to get fucked up (2x)
Or are we after something else?
When will we rise above ourselves?
Portland- city of transplant seeds
Your thorns grow limp in the rain
Down south we eat you for lunch.
Try to remember why I'm here.
I don't know if I can anymore.
Turn around take a look where I'm from.
What does all that mean to me now?
My best stories all lie in a gutter.
Wasted whisky and a puddle of bile.
Try to synthesize-
Create something like a life.
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TENDERIZER
My eyes are brown, my hair is black,
just like the soldier on the attack.
Across the wall my cousin plays.
Raises his eyes to meet the coming of the new day.
The sun explodes- his eyes to ash.
The air to bane- his throat to meat.
I can't feel any hope at all
but I can hear the engine of history
above the roar of the Apache.
Our land is holy- but our life is cheap. (3x)
I feel the earth start to rumble.
I see the wall begin to crumble.
As my mouth fills with holy land we died to reclaim
it occurs to me for not the first but the final time
that a people without land are scarcely people at all.
All land is holy but all life is cheap.
All land is holy.
All life is cheap.
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LET'S GET VALHALLA ON IT
Oh fuck.
Woke up much too late and way too drunk.
On the wrong side of the street, on the far side of the bridge.
Had to walk all the way to the station, had to get at the back of the
line.
I hope my ticket is accepted, I hope my bag isn't searched.
Taking Dirty Dog down to Bakersfield-
Central Valley nervous nauseous how I feel.
People next to me are always obese.
Battered children kick the back of my seat.
Sexist driver's stupid jokes are never funny.
Can't help smelling bathroom shit is always runny.
Teenage rent-a-cop confiscates my booze.
I truly feel I've got nothing to lose.
Confiscate my booze (3x)
Someone's gonna die (3x)
Stab you in the eye (3x)
I'm paying my hard earned cash
to take too long
to get somewhere
that makes me miserable.
They say thank you for going Greyhound,
they mean thank you for being broke.
They say leave the driving to us,
I say....
I'll take care of the rest
from the back of the bus with the beatest and the best.
Where I swill liquid anger from a cup,
sharpen claws, break heads and laws.
Welcome to my compost pile.
I took the bus by the 800th mile,
near Madera there's a carrot field.
A machine there cleanses and peels.
I hope you enjoyed your trip.
I decided to make it a one-way.
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KARL ACROSS AMERICA
In a world grown progressively decadent
in which the boundaries between taboo and decency
are increasingly fluid
it becomes harder and harder to shock and titillate.
But in all places and at all times
there remains a category of practices completely beyond the pale.
Chief amongst these is the Hot Karl.
Let's dim the lights
I want brownout tonight.
Prune juice and wine
All I need to relax.
I feel a deep cold pull in my bowels
and a raw hot throb in my loins.
I've been eating chili laced with Viagra
and I can tell this one's gonna be good.
Karlsage on your chest.
Bifecal for your eyes.
Turdban around your head.
Snorkle for you to breathe.
Lucky Pierre
Dirty Sanchez
Muddy Mollusk
Don't forget Sizzling Connie!
Wanna drop the deuce right now.
Serve you up Seattle spice.
Take you down Carlito's way.
Cleaveland steamer? You need plastic wrap.
(repeat)
Your brown star
blooms for me.
I can see
all that you eat.
Really, you out to be ashamed.
You ain't no fuckin' vegan, babe.
Karlsage on your chest
Bifecal for your eyes
Turdban around your head
Snorkle for you to breathe.
Lucky Pierre
Dirty, Dirty Sanchez
So many ways to karl across America.
Karl across America, yeah.
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WOMEN OF THE TRIBE
Inside out upturned
So confused by you
No taboos tonight
I know what's on your mind.
Gynecentricity- Focus explicitly
Matrilocality- defining reality
Came as a surprise
Biting on your thighs
Anyway way you want
I can be your cunt
Submission complete
Woman of the tribe you're nubile and lithe
My mouth's open wide so shave me and stick it in.
No taboos at all undo all expectation
Legs around my head I can feel you breathing
No taboos tonight
Scratches on my back
From behind or not
Laugh till sleep takes us away
Categories smashed.
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APES OF WRATH
Something's wrong- wrong with the cages.
Locks fail, keys drop, a chimp rages.
Numbers grow one to all.
Out of the lab, into the hall.
Electro-shock on the master:
wear a monkey suit you science bastard.
Hijack an ambulance, let's go downtown.
Hairless apes- we'll burn em down.
Primate riot/howlin' on The Hill tonight
Breakin' out/orderlies all run and hide
Primate riot/howlin' on the hill tonight
Breakin' out/orderlies all run and hide
Apes of wrath- revenge on homo sapiens.
Wrath of apes, they've got thumbs just like us.
Apes not monkeys-I don't see no tails here.
Drunks not junkies, they are making Molotovs.
CHIERS van capsized outside of Hung Far Low.
Northwest 23rd- bloody streets and cold lattes.
Pioneer Square- disembricked and colonized.
County jail- last are first and first are last.
We're the apes of wrath.
Coming down from The Hill
into the city streets.
Men, women, little kids-
they're all gonna pay.
No remorse, no regrets, no escape
from the wrath of apes and the apes of wrath.
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