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Shotgun Lobotomy

from Absurd To Wake by The Ugly Facade

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Done anticipating dumb apocalypses
These are the anti-complications
The magic word to open gates of unimportance unforeseen
The magic word spelled backwards forward hungry lacking FUD
A fly in ointment, solvent sharpening its early broken wings
The evidence refuted last reviewed appearance made unseen

We shout and swear some non-plus-ultra sounding left-wing misery
And God is dead as untucked ABCs in bed and woe is me
Accordion existence, folding back a whore of God made real
Until the matrix fails and nihilism is the sim revealed

You overthink you overanalyze a thing to make it hard
To catch and kill and eat and play and fight and build and to discard
To wonder is to hold at bay the pain of being caving in
To wonder pain is such a hell and such a waste of staying in

But stay inside, dear, while you can
'Cause Mother Nature’s coming fast
And coming has become the reason we can’t conquer what is past
Almighty buck, almighty fuck, almighty queen and queer and quest
And we can’t win until we try our best

Oh, my, absurd is not a word
It’s just a bluster by the smart
Intelligence is bought by money and it’s funny, so is art
The false complaint of never-read and over-gossiping elites
Is all the inside baseball to the game they rage quit in defeat

They pile into the dinghies disappearing as we start to sink
Commence the orgies and the opiates the masses start to drink
And it’s a shame that as we drown we realize all the rules were fake
And all our gods were killing Christ for money’s sake

And no amount of making life surreal
Can capture all the fucking hate I feel
The new absurdity is just a trick
To pacify the margins, poor, and sick

We bathe in exile
We drink in exile
We float in exile
We drown in exile

We bathe in exile
We drink in exile
We float in exile
We drown in exile

And no amount of making life surreal
Can capture all the fucking hate I feel
The new absurdity is just a trick
To pacify the margins, poor, and sick

We bathe in exile
We drink in exile
We float in exile
We drown in exile

Oh DADA let’s go down
Come on down
Let’s go down
Oh Tristan let’s go down
Down to the river to pray

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from Absurd To Wake, released October 6, 2023

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We live our lives in boxes, with little glowing screens. We fill our blood with toxins, so we can deal with things. And sometimes, more than often, the bitter masks the taste. The fruitless failed reflection: what if it's all a waste?

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