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Lightmares are Rich & Educated

by Lightmares

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Another AM wake up says the coffee pot's already cold shit, shower, shave, brush of make up and kiss the kids before you go Recite the same old story y'know, I sold my soul for rock 'n' roll found education appalling and too bright a mind to shovel coal Oh, but you're getting old and you're still standing in line to smell the sweat of a hero you're still squeezing a lime 'round the watering hole How's the show? I don't care to know let the jester come around when my hungered belly's full Look to the crooked smile of the hangman dangling back and forth the blood that pools on the tile of the lemon scented kitchen floor Don't fight that winding highway stop a while 'til you're sure that you will make it up one day and live the life you're paying for Ah, fuck it, I don't care no more but you're still standing in line to smell the sweat of a hero you're still squeezing a lime 'round the watering hole How's the show? I don't care to know let the jester come around when my hungered belly's full
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Painted to look like a lion faint-hearted runt to the core the rat rolls out of the dry eye socket screaming 'man, I just can't do it no more. Think maybe we were born to boast with the best of 'em Snorts up a rail of broken glass through the funnel of a counterfeit bill says the dope ain't got her neck in a rope cause she knows she's got no life left to kill oh baby, we were born to boast with the best of 'em Eyes like ours won't do nothin' for the cover of no teen magazine brown as the shit we were born in, babe hard as the bark on the tree think maybe we were born to boast with the best of 'em
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Soup 04:14
No soup for no one no beef, no buttered biscuit 'less it's saved and sat upon, and rationed 'cross an endless night shift For every mouse there is a maze, and if there's will to walk it a piece of cheese to eat and shelter in a doctor's pocket but I left my light on that swinging bulb up in my attic I turned my TV off and spared myself that ceaseless static I learned to cross like fingers at the backs of children lying fearful faithful that they've got the facts in times so trying and if you're upset now, then chances are I'll always bring you down Darling, if you're upset now then chances are I'll always bring you down Helping hands, they'll fall they'll ball to fists for pushing flowers or raising alcoholic sips to lips that kiss like ours and whisper word of creepers crawling in the shadows laughing gonna shake free from them answers to those questions no ones asking 'less life's so meaningless that we should owe our puppet master stock in even this we're told to take to kill us faster 'less life's so meaningless that we should owe our puppet master stock in even this we're told to take to kill us faster and if you're upset now, then chances are I'll always bring you down Darling, if you're upset now then chances are I'll always bring you down
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Hey little girl get your head off the floor you're gonna find everything that you've been looking for well, alright but you've skin just as young as a heart that's so old that you've got dust in your blood and you've got stains on your soul well alright it was you that I saw, all painted in pink when your hair was so tight that your eyes couldn't blink so you cracked when you knelt down to pray to your god 'Oh lord, the nights are alright, but the days are so long' and now you're hanging around the fountain of youth tossing coins just to break your reflection and they're all telling you babe that it's not freedom you crave, it's protection Great keeper of karma, hold onto your hat there's a gift in the spit in the mouth of the rat well alright I said and even the saints got a safe place in hell with the sparkling things at the base of the well well, alright and there's a feeling that hides in your spine and it waits 'til your conscience corrodes and your humanity quakes then it leaps, and it screams, and it kicks you around it plants a bug in your brain and sets your gaze to the ground and then its there when you smile and its there when you sleep 'til every move that you make is so raw with defeat that you're trapped in a shack of unlawful design that you built on your own, but now you're wondering why 'cause you think that you might've had more of a chance if advised by some kind of instruction but here I'm telling you babe, that these mistakes that you've made they mean nothing but if you gotta be wishing, wish not for the world but for freedom to be 'cause if the world is listening well then she knows you too well to ever let you believe that the future's unwritten that we're anything more than a handful of stars and that the lives that we're living would be any less hers if they were any more ours well, where are you? I'm down on everything avenue
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Worn a Mask 03:43
Well, strike me still or sew me silent saddest sight that sore eyes, even desperate or blind, could ever hope to arrive at They say they oughta swap my engine but I'm one of a kind so they drive me out and they leave me behind them 'I've worn a mask for sixty four fucking years', she said 'I was born a maid, and I'll die a maid' 'Well, let me introduce myself again I am your sister, mother, daughter, maybe your best friends mom. That bitch you ditched at your prom' 'Sixty four fucking years', she said 'I was born a maid, and I'll die a maid. Some dames got class, yeah, some dames change the world' she said 'I was born a maid, and I'll die a maid'
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Notamotto 04:43
It takes a spotless execution a gunman on the grassy knoll no fear of God, nor retribution upon his meek and mortal coil are we the people in need of a stead hand? A modern spin on the scene we've all been acting in? Well, I don't know but, this is not a motto no disillusioned turn of phrase this is not a motto don't let me read it on your grave Can't build your house of bread and butter can't keep your belly full on cinder brick, your picket fence but lightning's quicker than the thunder and there is bliss in ignorance are we the people in need of a master plan? Lucidity in the dream we've all been living in? well, this is not a motto no disillusioned turn of phrase this is not a motto don't let me read it on your grave
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Beating 'round the bush until my lips won't wet with back and forth, across the board, a perfect ten a pretty smile punctuated by a cigarette a painted finger tracing softly 'cross a swaying hip well, she's sick of playing hooky 'cause she'll always lose she's sick of scraping shit off of her father's shoes all itching to be sad enough to sing the blues and got me wishing that I'd had enough of loving you but as long as I am living sugar, be my honey pie and if my boys are swimming, well then baby, you and I, we're gonna drop another maggot 'top this steaming heap of trash we'll wrap it in a blanket and we'll spank it on the ass so it can see through crying eyes these trying times I ain't a villain, just unwilling to let my stride break got no sympathy for nobody who ain't got what it takes to cast a stone outside their zone, or grab their life between the legs Ain't no secret to succeeding, one seed will reach the egg and one man will move a mountain with enough raw love build something out of nothing 'til he's all washed up and sings a melody so simple all the kids can sing along twists his fingers in his dimples and pretends theres nothing wrong Well, if you catch me falling like I know he must've fell innocently slipping on a psychedelic swell with a glow about him perfect for the one appointed king of a palace built of rubble, and at odds with everything well then let me hold my fingers to the hollow of the sky and if my boys are swimming, well you know before I die I'm gonna drop another maggot 'top this steaming heap of trash and then I'll wrap it in a blanket, and I'll spank it on the ass so it can see through crying eyes these trying times and I'll be moving, I'll be moving, I'll be moving out a little farmhouse up the country, think I'll learn to live without the kind of nights that got me sleeping on that bathroom floor Oh boy and she'll be moving, she'll be moving, she'll be moving in we're gonna have ourselves a little one, at night I'll tuck her in I'm singing 'Oh baby beware, these are trying times' Oh fuck me If you catch me falling like I know he must've fell innocently slipping on a psychedelic swell with a glow about him perfect for the one appointed king of a palace built of rubble, and at odds with everything well then let me hold my fingers to the hollow of the sky and if my boys are swimming, well you know before I die I'm gonna drop another maggot 'top this steaming heap of trash and then I'll wrap it in a blanket, and I'll spank it on the ass so it can see through crying eyes these trying times
9.
So Free 06:40
To my woman as I trace her breast: 'For you, a life ahead of loneliness, cause I am free' I'll let my children die one billion deaths deep in a drawer of filthy handkerchiefs say 'I am free' I'll hold my hands up to a gutless sky sing Hallelujah 'til it makes me cry and say 'I am free' I'll dress myself up in a three piece suit and walk 'round looking for a photo shoot say 'I am still free' oh yes I am and to the monkeys as they work their jobs the starving artists and their filthy dogs I'll say 'I am free' and to the students of philosophy the drunk professor dangling his degree I'll say 'I am still so free' and to my woman as I trace her breast and fumble with the buttons on her vest I'll say 'I am free' and though I've made myself so sick with fear I'll hang a smile over either ear and I'll say 'I am still so fucking free'

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Recorded by Kyle Mcdons over two days at Superbob Studios, Moncton, NB

Photography/design by Andrew Blair

All songs written/performed by Lightmares

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released April 25, 2014

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