Human Inhuman Records: Artists
Cold Sponge
August 9, 2011
Damn this album was a bit challenging to make... story coming soon.
TRACKLIST
1. Bloodbath
2. Naival's Cold Sponge
3. Imaginary Conversations
4. Tall Girl
5. Confidential Overdose
6. I Don't Have a Prayer
7. Sisyphus
8. Where my Mind is
9. Jealousy
10. Fuck a Soul
11. People Grapple
12 Hard Hugs
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LYRICS and notes
1. Bloodbath
New and very different version of a lost track.
Did we prick our fingers on the moon?
Did we reach up, prick our fingers on the crescent moon? Did all did all the droplets land with a lop bam boom?
when we pricked our finger on the moon?
verse 2
Did a cyclone wrap us up in a cocoon?
Did a cyclone thunderclapping wrap us up in a cocoon
Ripping a cow from its Koran, a witch upon a broom
when a cyclone wrapped us up in a cocoon?
chorus
We took a bloodbath as babies borne of amniotic
We got a smacked ass got severed/ suffered from our symbiotic
Cause and effect gets wrecked at the sub-atomic
Neuroses are red violent and erotic
verse 3
am I projecting pictures in a room?
I'm projecting pictures from an empty room
Whose slomo instant replay shows we know not what we doom
I'm projecting pictures in a room
CHORUS
instrumental Bridge
CHORUS2 naival's cold sponge
Verse 1
Naival’s my name I was born with a migraine
I asked that spanking doctor for a cold sponge,
He said, "In time, you will have one"
Chorus
My love of blood, my grain of salt
Bflow my windowsill, a bullhorn calls
A flat G flat
My love of blood, my grain of salt
Ff B Gf Af
Below my windowsill a bull horn calls
Verse 2
Naival is my name, I was born with pain
That denying doctor added this about my cold sponge
“So will everyone.”
Repeat chorus
Bridge
We’ve got that sponge surrounded to investigate the cause of death Ff B Gf Af
For which we’ll need our very very best serrated saws
To learn if we were worth our salt of the earth
to grasp at straws
--------- to suck more what? … well that gives one pause
Chorus
Instrumental break
Chorus
Verse 3
Naival is my name, the saws of autopsy turvy exposed my brain
That doctor told me I’d get my cold sponge
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3. Imaginary Conversations
I've been sitting in the shower
for about a half an hour
Havin imaginary conversations with you
I've been staring into space
For about a couple days
Of having imaginary conversations with you
So that when we bumped into each other in let's say the subway
Everything you'd say'd come as no surprise
Cause I'd already considered it an option in the many
Millions of rehearsals in my mind.
I've been a complete and total freak
for a forthight -- that's 2 weeks
Of having imaginary conversations with you
Gotta stop this pattern at once
It's goin on a month
Of havin imaginary conversations with you.
so that when we bumped into each other in let's the store
everything you'd say'd come as no surprise
Cause I'd already considered it an option in the many
Millions of rehearsals in my mind
And then you'd come inside my mind
This world makes me get my doubt on
There's 1 thing that I can count on:
That's that you'll come inside my mind.
Ha -- oh yeah
I've been lyin in my bed
with you inside my head
Havin imaginary conversations with you.>/td>
4 Tall Girl
Tall girl -- British exchange student
High school and college went where I went
Shs really dug my language command
But in the end left with me with my Dickens in my hand
which was fine by me
She wanted to ss
Herself doubleteamed by her boy and me
She had a streak
Of controlling the meek
I may be small I may be gentle
But up I can speak.
Verse 2
Different tats, different town
Same Victoria's Secret sinning gown
I thought I was a much too young lookin boy
But a couple whiskers and a strat found me some employ
I guess in truth I usually refused
Call me insane or rude
Call me Catholic, But... call me?
Chorus
Tall girl, stay awhile.
Tall girl, stay awhile.
I like your smile.
Verse 3
Tall girl, stay awhile. Life is short and so am I.
Keep it innocent, look away when eyes are much too pleased with what they find.
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5. Confidential Overdose
Around these parts obsession is the dirty word for long distance admiration with an attention span.
Around these parts she needs a kind reminder of the man in every woman and the woman in every man
Yeah and around these parts some hibernatin something that is wakin up just might fuck up the masterplan.
oh oh oh oh
Chorus:
Take a group of party people, watch how their romantic interests interchange and intertwine.
Uh uh uh oh
Confidential Overdose in mid December I remember stuff I meant to tell you back in mid-July. ... no, I'll pass on the wine.
Verse 2
What could be more importan? Stout, I suppose?
Let's tout and pose indifference to what's brewing inside.
Stripped of all my dignity, I thought I saw you diggin' me.
Maybe you were just trippin' when you gave me those eyes?
Daughters of divorce lead boys like lambs to the slaughter
In a pattern of behavior dance
I thought if I spilled all my guts out right up front
Then maybe there might be a chance..?
But no, no, no, no.
repeat chorus
bridge
Soarin a wide wide world, a boy and a girl
Sore in every way.
Searchin for why we're here, it isn't clear,
But it sure is that those eyes have cleared of their haze.
Chorus 3
Watch how those departed people's memories do not fade or dissolve in time
onfidential Overdose 1n 2016 I'm still cleaning up the stuff that I spilled out in 1999.
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6. I Don't Have a Prayer
God is in this place.
God is in the air.
God does not have a face.
God does not care.
God just arranged the plan
That has always been there
God cannot change the plan when asked
I don't have a prayer.
God is the atoms, the molecules
And all the microscopic stuff
In our genes
Represented as numbers
Stats and graphics on
Our computer screens
On which I can see
mmmy reflection and
I can see
That I'm losing hair
But I see no dignity in pleadin with numbers.
None. I don't have a prayer.
Come on creatnine
Come on sodium count
Please don't soar so
Come back to standard amount
We don't have an option
We don't have a prayer...
God is down here in this place with me
God is up there in the airGod does not have a face.
God does not care.
God just is the plan
That has always been there
The plan had no way to spare me
I don't have a prayer.
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7 Sisyphus
verse 1:
the dinner conversation turned to sell us teenage angst awhile
the man on the tv with the quarter million dollar smile
if you’re thinking what I’m thinking
are we thinking are we divine?
Better bring a string along because the way there might be labrynthine
Chorus:
I got a myth in mind I got a myth in mind
Verse 2:
?? bring connective dreamstate about
I awoke with bloodclots in my mouth
?? ?? ??
if life’s a brew it must be rolling rock I got a myth in mind
I’ve no idea what any of you are talking about
chorus
I’ve a vague idea what some of you are talking about
Chorus/instrumental bridge
Now I know and yes it’s clearly true
What everyone has always
7 Sisyphus
verse 1:
the dinner conversation turned to sell us teenage angst awhile
the man on the tv with the quarter million dollar smile
if you’re thinking what I’m thinking
are we thinking are we divine?
Better bring a string along because the way there might be labrynthine
Chorus:
I got a myth in mind I got a myth in mind
Verse 2:
?? bring connective dreamstate about
I awoke with bloodclots in my mouth
?? ?? ??
if life’s a brew it must be rolling rock I got a myth in mind
I’ve no idea what any of you are talking about
chorus
I’ve a vague idea what some of you are talking about
Chorus/instrumental bridge
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8 Where My Mind Is
Being of sound mind, it's my opinion
You stole yours and I made mine
You strut like the rooster who just plucked the chicken
Old chord changes, licks, 'n' lyrical lines -- that's why I'm grinnin
And bearin the bind I'm in -- it's boundless but brilliant
GHORUS
This is where my mind is: splattered across pieces of paper
I use my muse to stay blinded: I tie her to a chair and I rape her
It turns her on for sure, she always wants more.
This is where I cannot escape her.
Verse 2
What kind of microphone does a mime use?
It must be extra extra sensitive to grease paint and body moves
To black hats and the street corner's most annoying grooves
Guarantee in a decade the technology will be much improved
Chorus
Instrumental Bridge
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Chorus
______________________________
9 Jealousy
Jealousy's the color of the dollar
The lawn always a sickly shade of yellow
When it gets much too much sunshine and no rain
And while I'm in the middle of this rainbow
It might be in my best interests to sing some blue notes
To indicate the nature of my pain
Aaaaah.
Verse 2
I'm up on a stage bein honest
Which never gets you nowhere with nobody
Admitting to a slowly seething rage
Is it just me or can a positive course
Spring up from a negative source
And earn me more than depression era wage?
Chorus
Jealousy never leaves
Will envelop me if you ever leave
Jealousy never leaves
Will envelop me if you ever leave
Jealousy is the color of the dollar
A feline beast
Stranglin me in my sleep
Aaaaaaah
Verse 3
The model man has a mild mannered image
Never seems to have the slightest suspicion
And I could play this part to good review
And though my record's clean -- check my references --
The underlying current is something different
Something other than what I say and do
Aaaaaah.
Chorus
______________________________
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10 Fuck a Soul
Fhck a soul, fuck a soul
We cant even fuck a soul
You fucked us all
Fuck a soul, fuck a sou[
In utero or up asshole
We're so moved -- how much you love us!
To improve us of our crudeness
You made it that we had to fuck to exist
Who made the thought: "Those are best to resist"?
Whether for pleasure or purpose, fucking's purely earthly -- not for spiritual bliss
To get from one act some of that AND some of this
-- wouldn't that be a twist?
A soul is not a body and a body's not a soul
Surely you tabooed us: "Take some pride in being prudish"?
Fuck a soul, fuck a soul.
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11 People Grapple
12 Hard Hugs