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performance:composition/production:jason harvey: composition
michael ambro: composition
paul ambro: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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Have you got a light
I've seen this door a hundred times
Touched this railing like a hundred hands
Seen these faces rage and fade
And crumble into lonely age
I know what it's like to be a liar
When everyone around you is a fire
I think you know it too, don't you
Let's have a drink or two
We're not rebels, we're not heroes
We're just here, we're just queer
The fuzz can smell our fear
The cameras are rolling when they pull us apart
We didn't know this was how it would start
Break down, silent sister
Look out the bars for the one you lost
All we have are shadows and shame
What's your name
Will you stay
Before they take us away
We saw them throw stones
We buffered our bones
The whip cracked
The jail cell full of queens of all sizes and colors
You weren't there
They dragged you by your hair
This beautiful boy
Taken away in rags
Taken away in bags
The cops went home to their wives and their steak knives
And we screamed for years
We felt the sting privilege had pried from us
We were the faraway boot-crushed boys
We want it us over them
We take the bullets and grin
We saw our faces in films and photographs
We were the martyrs for progress
What was your name againperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
composition/production:dennis harvey: composition | lyrics | mastering | mixing | production | recording
notes:Samples from "United in Anger: A History of ACT UP" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrAzU79PBVM), Sylvia Rivera's "Y'all better quiet down" monologue (https://videoactivism.net/en/yall-better-quiet/), footage from the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9OJnRnZjU), Advise and Consent (clip from The Celluloid Closet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL_vrb4-6_0), Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4).
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Once I had a cavity bigger than my head
It covered up passers-by and very quickly spread
To the supermarket where I planned to buy bread
To pack the gaping seeping wound but instead
The cavity had enveloped it
(You should use the Listerine)
Once I had 20 throwing stars +1
I used them all fighting Demogorgon
I rolled 6 20s and used "Power Word: Stun"
And he still kicked my ass
(You should use the Black Razor)
Once I was walking down the street on my way
To the street corner where I saw a suitcase
All along the sidewalk was a trail of bloody spray
I turned around screaming and ran the other way
Instead of finding the cause of it
(You should use the DNA)
Sick
Hypochondriacperformance:composition/production:paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
michael ambro: composition
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file_downloadAnd so Bilbo Baggins found himself within the crutches clutches of the One Ring of Power, preparing to leave behind all he ever knew and travel to faraway lands. And there, under the Hill at Bag-End, he prepared to take the One Ring with him on his perilous journey.
But then he didn't.performance:composition/production:jason harvey: composition | recording
michael ambro: composition
paul ambro: composition
dennis harvey: composition | lyrics | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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These initial exercises are all derived from simple proven methods to help us better gather whether you suck at your job
Please agree so we can monitor you closely
In each exercise, place an asterisk where your soul has been sucked out
(See aggressions we eat, they're like a crowbar to the jaw)
In the cage on the stage are the places where the hands fall together
In the lines on the page are the places where the hands fall together
(Why don't you stay and fuck up everything)
When you know it don't matter
If you will or you won't
Endure or cower
There's no sinking the boat
We think that nobody's home
We can assume that someone like you is alone
Didn't you abandon everyone and still expect to be treated like a superstar
The golden behaviors are all derived from number one: be successful
It is placed first because it's something you'll never be
So pay attention
Listen closely
In each exercise, place an asterisk on what might have been
When you know it don't matter
If you sink or you float
Punch a hole in the hull, smash the mast with your skull
There's no sinking the boat
When you know it don't matter
If you win or you choke
Take it out for a ride, tear it up from inside
There's no sinking the boat
When you know it don't matter
If you quit or you cope
Tell yourself it's a trap, make a mess of the map
There's no sinking the boat
When you know it don't matter
If you will or you won't
Kiss the captain goodbye, throw him over the side
There's no sinking the boatperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
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