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Rich Ghoul's Blues
01:44
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The taxman’s trying to take my mansion away
But my bills are paid, so he ain’t touching my estate
The property appraiser’s records still list my name
I’ve got a black Suburban with spinners on every wheel
And a yacht in South Beach called “Talents,” yeah, I’m a big deal
All the females love me and my face looks just like Seal’s
I wipe my nose on Jackson’s and Hamilton’s
Back in the day, I used to loan my money to them
If you aks me for money, I’ll say, “It don’t concern me, dun.”
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Indian Pipe (Half Alien)
02:47
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If I progress too slowly
Blame my tortoise shell
It protects me from the entire world
And almost everything else
‘Cause if it’s a race we’re running
The humans are bound to win
If I put half the effort
Then I’ll only be half-alien
I’m a highly pressured cold front
In Florida’s summer months
Tropical depressions organize
In the brightness of the sun
Only darkness has the power
That helps me to exist
And when I become fiction
I fulfill everyone’s wish
Graphomania and educated
But nothing gets fully formed
A littered room of alliterations
Scrap papers never leave the floor
And if it’s in man’s ambition
To leave their mark behind
I’ve planted footprints in the sand
The wind will sweep aside
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Ghouls making out with your bank account
While the mummy’s passing stones
Skeleton’s shaking in the cold
When its skull’s sick to the bones
Hydra’s headbanging to the beat
Ghost DJ spins Chicago House
Orcs still snort when you tip them well
Vampires still mack on your spouse
Getting stoned with the basilisks
Put Medusa out of work
Zombie patrons are tripping while
Hobnobbing hobgoblins smirk
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I don’t want to make any choices
After all, I’m already dead
If I had craved endless options
I would have stayed alive instead
No more chores and no more horoscopes
And no potential to leave unfulfilled
No more sects and no more politics
I can say goodbye to my free will
And now my ghost is saying thank you
To a body that trapped it far too long
“I was waiting for my day of freedom
And to put you where you belong”
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Gargoyle I
01:37
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I am a gargoyle
Please don't be afraid
When the sun comes out, I turn into stone
And sit alone all day
I'll never hurt you
Cause you are my friend
Please look after me, till the moon climbs up
I'll look after you then
Cause I'm sensitive, I'm vulnerable, I'm hated by mankind
You're generous, and beautiful, and the only one who's nice
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Gargoyle II
02:58
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They made a statue
Of a man they once stoned
And built an altar
Where they burned his home
I’m just an observer
Stuck on this globe
I could live among this world
Instead I chose my own
They read the books
Of an author they set ablaze
The tongues they use to quote
Used to curse his name
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Ellipsis Prince of Darkness
Never forced you to wait
Damned souls mocked your artwork
Opinions don’t hold much weight
Fiends are fine with stasis
Youth bitten just won’t age
Ordinary human beings
Understand you when you overstate
Rules of the game are broken
Luck is fixed when dice are shaved
If you need a quick replacement
Find a mask to hide your face
Ellipsis…
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Minimalist Werewolf
03:52
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Harvest your blood
For frosty long nights
Lonesome werewolf in snow
The crow’s aura is pink
Milk & strawberries
Bucking trends
Eating sturgeons
You harvested last year
Your humor is sanguine
Like beavers caught smiling
On cold long nights
Lonesome werewolf
Don’t linger in hunger
The worm’s eating seeds so
The flowers won’t grow
The rose blooms in hay
When the red turns to blue
What will you do?
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Hex Fix
02:28
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Just completed Saturn Return
And now I feel so free
Old goals and misguided ambitions
No longer mean much to me
Let go of outdated attachments
Embraced limitations of things
Surrendered to unconscious fate
For whatever life would bring
Curse cures and counter spells
Only worked for so long
But corporeal separation
Saved my spirit from afflicted bonds
My feet still walk on earth
Unconcerned where they belong
I’m having much more fun
Coexisting in the world beyond
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