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JACOB: Marathons in mile high shoes. I swear they mocked your defenses. Woke up in Lady Luck's clothes. Brick walls on the offensive.
PATRICK: Veins throb. Hangovers. One night stands. Cash never stays in the wallet long. Twelve hour days. I've never seen the sun.
J: Twelve days of sleep. I built an iron mask. 9 to 5 a war inside my head.
Clouded. Warhead.
J&P: Meaning's left us.
Blank page best seller.
Breathing faster.
Falling last in the race.
Sin inside us.
Where did I once begin?
Paint my skin white.
Hide even my eyes.
Sweat drips. Sheets soaked.
Curtains revealing weakness.
Shiver through the night.
Night terrors my only guest.
Six shooters ring from the high windows.
This is the big city, Baby.
Bright lights. Dark nights.
J: You must admit, you've never known cold.
This season's mist has taken the bold.
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The Porta Mountains
01:04
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JACOB: Journey home, random destination. A bed to sleep in keeps the demons at bay.
J&PATRICK: Sketch from corner to corner. Just pay the bills and you will never feel lonely again.
J: Go out and play, just mind who you take gifts from.
Go home and pray, and don't dare miss a single one.
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Bitch, Yo!
01:34
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PATRICK: Cold cement beds where the world is welcome. Just to feel.
JACOB: They feast on flesh. Losing proof of who you were. Find out who you were in the past and shout out to find it. The echoes never grace your ears.
P: We have a gun and a trigger and the bullets to deliver. Our brains can't wait to see the sun.
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JACOB&PATRICK: Products of our own devices. Now we are falling down this hole we have dug ourselves.
J: Face it, you are lost.
Taste it, taste the shame.
Forget, lose each night.
Repeat, repeat.
Falling down.
P: This youth is. Drowning. Burning. Freedom rings in our ears.
J: Peaks looming and staring. Witness.
P: We treat the whole wide world like a gift to us.
J: It is not ours.
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Alien Shark Embryo
01:04
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PATRICK: This is life as we know it coming to a close. All the money raised is going to the pits.
JACOB: Forward time and lose your mind and unleash it all on the kids.
P: Burning all our babies, for they need not suffer.
J: Recycle all the people, get back your five cents. No more mouths to borrow, no more lungs to feed from. No pain, no Gein.
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Apply Yourself!
04:34
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PATRICK: Reach inside yourself to find what's left.
JACOB: Car's on empty, bank's on empty, dream's are full, but the map is gone.
P: Preaching the bleeding. These three words. You will burn.
J: Gravity fluctuates when you skate on Escher concrete, Rag doll, cut your strings, pick yourself up, put your feet down.
P: Our teeth rot from our mouths. Our tongues are not our own. I taste the blood in my gums.
J: Bus stop cardiac arrest trash can hospital. Make a voice, tear down emptiness, push the matter up, draw the eyes in your direction, draw the fate in your reaction. Watch your work glow.
P: Friends. Listen to me. Hear all my pleas. I'm down on my knees. Won’t you try to set this life straight? Don't be a waste of time. These complications. These segregations.
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Traditional Fire
02:35
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PATRICK: Pray to your god. Go home. Crucified in stone.
JACOB: Stone chamber, damp hallways, finding riddles in the scraps. Press on, each key, unlocks a monster.
Walk.
Violent or fake, your mind unravels all the same.
Can't find enough matches in the dark,
The tools are missing in the lake,
Need to bury this lost art,
The monsters chase relentlessly,
The path leads me to this church,
The altar continues to bleed.
J&P: Mother. Where are you?
Father. Where are you?
These demons have taken me in.
They are calling me their own.
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Placenta In a Bottle
01:24
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PATRICK: Browning leaves. Keys to the city. Let me inside your mind.
JACOB: How long in a padded cell?
Cotton seeps out my mouth.
P: Don't leave me all alone.
J: Hands pressing against my skull.
10 to 20 seeking escape.
The walls don't hold the right key.
A key of tissue never unlocked anything.
J&P: Go home. Go home.
The beasts are out.
They feast on us.
P: Bubblegum pink walls ooze your dreams to green.
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10. |
Space N00dz
00:43
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JACOB: In-room delivery, I send it back with vomit.
Walls changing hue, like a student's belt.
Learn your steps child.
Learn your steps child.
PATRICK: We sit fetal at best. Laugh at ourselves with no excuse to jest. Crest fallen, destitute, pathetic crawling creatures.
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JACOB: Restraints, I'm limbless, they're lucky this time.
But a kiss, I'll spit,
You're welcome my dear, take care.
Take care!
PATRICK: Pieces of pieces of pieces left behind. The fire has engulfed us. We're stuck! We're stuck! There is no safety in these numbers.
J: Would you like to stay in my cloud sometime?
You did one hell of a job!
Keep screaming! I love it!
P: He's always right behind you. He's always thinking mean. Creep upon the victim. Leave no trace behind.
J: God, you're mine.
Going home, I'm still with you.
See your husband? It's just me.
You're all I think of.
I'm all you think of.
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PATRICK: Please the kings. The peasants will only cause hurt.
JACOB: Keep screaming, I love it!
P: These scissors have split and taken our eyes with. Blindly wander down the pit. Goddamn, what a fortune.
J: Keep screaming, I love it. Just one more stain you have to clean. Until next time. Until next time my dear. I'll see you again.
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JACOB: You'll always be mine.
PATRICK: Blessed be thee. The bugs have multiplied. We are without our savior. He abandoned all to rot.
J: You're my beast, my pet.
I'll never let you go.
Even after I'm dead.
You're stuck with me, you miserable shit.
This is what you get.
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Ben Doyle. O'Doyle Rules
If Ben can't do it, no one can.
Why? Because he is the man.
He knows the future and the past.
Get in his way, he'll kick your ass.
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All these Parnassian phrases I try to utter.
Well, I must say, you're a real humdinger.
And I am a monad.
Watch these sentences I build.
Please, I beg you not to fleer.
Focus.
I feel like all the planets dancing on your orrery.
And as you spin me on your fingers, I can't help but joggle.
And I become dissilient.
Watch me dissolve
Daughter
You shake in your steps
The gears keep grinding
Steam spewing from the pipes
Counting every breath
Let go
Just let go
I feel like a bauble.
I feel like a jester's scepter.
I know you lift your peplum for all of the tongues who ask.
I know you lift your chambray for every voice you hear.
I know you wear your toile for all of your male callers.
I’ve provided all you need
Unstable trace leviathan
Cache from cold and twisted womb
Alone abomination
Drain the excess
Maintain your gingham.
Maintain your habiliments.
Skedaddle.
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16. |
This Pen of Darkness
01:49
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This road you paved for me has become anfractuous.
Counting every breath
Check your bordereau.
It's printed with an ikat.
Skedaddle.
All this world can be is serotinal.
All this world can be is pari passu.
I was born drowning
Like a roach in a mall
A mole’s den in a concrete ash tin
My friends are on the other side of the looking glass
Dying each day and safer than I
I’m feeling compressed
The weight of the world on both sides
Current so turbulent he tosses us around
Left standing on your hands
Can’t tell up from down
Come home so we can auspicate.
Come home.
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Dead is the Best Gender
02:07
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We are God's cause for washing away the world
You sailed in on your corsair.
You rule your own gynarchy.
All these bulbous creatures riding on our feet.
And all they ask is for a pittance.
And so they meander, never knowing where to go.
And beg us as troubadours to listen to their songs.
But of all their doggerel lines
That manage to bedraggle me.
Their Viceroy of Country has left me lower than any.
"I know just where to look when you’ve been gone too long."
And it says:
"I know just where to look when you’ve been gone too long."
And it says:
"I know just where to look when you’ve been gone too long."
And it says:
"I know just where in Hell to look when you’ve been gone too long."
From this quincunx of branches.
Hang ten gibbous men.
Though their necks are broken, they all play their psalteries.
And through an od force the hangman finishes them.
They are limp and lifeless, lacerated straight through.
Without sign of espousal
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18. |
Phone Antics Theme Song
01:07
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Get yourself prepared for antics bitch
You're about to get prank called
Phone Antics style
I said you're gonna get prank called
You never should have given out your fucking number
'Cause now you're gonna get calls all night bitch
Now your voice is on the Phone Antics Podcast, bitch
Don't try to call the cops you fucking dunce
You're about to get prank called
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Devil Glass
05:54
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In brighter days than this,
We were closer than this.
We've forgotten the equation,
so now we are a fraction of what we should be.
The sun seems to always be setting now.
Everything is orange and a darker version of itself.
Everybody has that one.
Whose face will never leave them.
It floats among the memories.
That you both created.
Getting harder to see you now.
I don't know what steps to take or in what direction.
Don't forget. I loved you when.
Don't forget. Remember when.
I dropped my rusted bicycle into the weeds.
To let it sink into the soil.
Soon my roots will devour it all,
And lift it atop my branches.
I'll give everything I can to you,
Until they read "Return to Sender."
But, now that she's gone.
And you've been up for three whole nights.
Can you think of a better way out of this mess?
That you both created.
I won't dissolve but I can feel myself fall.
I won't dissolve but I can feel the coming fall.
My head feels empty.
There's something wrong and I'm not okay.
Remember when you would catch me every time I fell?
Well, I'm falling.
On the shore you walked from me.
The sand less soft than it was before.
Sticks to my clothes as I make tracks on the shore.
Is this how I lose you?
Can you even still feel?
I know that you are still real.
All dressed up for sex appeal.
Don't ever leave me again.
My world's empty without you in it.
And if you can't forgive my sins.
Then I'm better off dead.
I wish for once that we could follow the rules of this madness.
We set before ourselves because they only ever lead to sadness.
And I know that my desires may sometimes bring out the worst of me.
But if part of you still wants to see then please won’t you set her free.
Just set her free.
I start to follow vapor trails in the sky.
Leading me to new possibilities.
But you are on the planes that lead me far ahead,
Past hills I can't scale.
I dig tunnels with tooth and nails to get there,
Until I break bone and find comfort in the grave that I dug for myself.
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20. |
God Glass
19:56
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The floor creaks under your feet
Drowning out the silent roar
Eyes gaze barely from a safe distance
Rooms, floors, memories
Shifting, sifting
Empty bed
Never slept
Floor littered with words
Walls littered with fears
Ceiling caving in
Crushing all I've said, accustomed to
the dark
Ceased my struggle
Stopped the begging
Forgotten freedom
Gaping mouth
Jaw unhinged
This darkness swallows me whole
I hear my mind dripping on the floor, This is
unrelenting
Tormented hearts, repeating
Missing pieces, stolen
Punisher; relentless, unmerciful
You're trapped! Imprisoned
Fouled the incantation
I feel a creature living in
The shadows beneath both my eyes
Hiding in my darkened circles
Blackening my sight and my mind
Your demon looks so much like mine
My demon looks so much like you
Secrets found in a red velvet bag
Will you ever see your friends again?
No one could guess this is what life had in store,
So unfair and cruel but this isn't life anymore
Those you knew changed
Growing outward, grasping and reaching
Like vines, twisting around the trees, killing them, suffocating
Murder
Premeditated
Resignation
Withering
Forgotten
the use of friends
Hydratation
from the blood that forms
in my mouth
Bubbling sores
Feast on the flesh that is presented
Get
out
of
my
head
Whose eyes are these that watch me? Never seen
I know they are there. Patient and lingering. Passionate suffering
No longer seeking a light to blind me
The darkness has blinded me enough
Stories plastered on the walls
Dripping to the ground
This building sinks lower in hell
Taking shape based on your will
It's alive because of her
They died because of her
The men are just puppets
Pulled by their own unraveling seams
Living an endless cycle
Empty torment
now I start to feel it
the nightmares are just beginning
Thick
Calloused
These scars make up my whole body
A dead tree in the wind
I have no more leaves to give
I hoped to get used to these pains
But that time has yet to come
I doubt that it ever will
This feeling of dread rises inside me
Becomes my gravity and crushes me until I give in
Secondary witness, experience death
Find sympathy
Agonizing thirst, fatigue, hunger
Pretty little noose
Inviting deathbed
Be swallowed whole
Welcomed with open arms, claws
Vice grips in eternity of rot and decay
Your new friends are here
No more smiles, no more laughing
Eyes staring infinite
The company is full
Hell is full
Will you ever find your friends again?
Your demon looks so much like mine
My demon looks so much like you
And now I start to feel it
The nightmares are beginning
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PlasticBag FaceMask Fresno, California
Est. 2008.
Studio band of Patrick Hogan (Time Bomb, Bookburner) and Jacob Lee (Keeper, Elder Devil, Hellish Form, dontcryformeimalreadydead)
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