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from TOPONYM HYMNAL - Tascam NEO2488 (Exported St. Masters) by Animal Holograms

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All empires
eventually fall
back into the
Earth as if they
never at all
towered high above the dirt,
and stared into the eye of the Sun,
calling the Devil's bluff
with a loaded gun
jammed into your lungs.

Gagging on the barrel of
some metallic and holy love
that's only given to you this
way when enough is enough.
You took everything you could
and never gave anything back.
Now you're just paying for
the suffering of every poor
corpse under the
floor boards in the back.

Sleeping on the street
in some city
that you can't recall
ever traveling to,
what a pity, yeah…
Can't you see
that everything
is crumbling down around you
and everybody else too

Animal eyes
Try to reconstruct the world
But the images reflected back
Are inadequate maps of a map
The futility of communicating
Anything imbued with meaning
Between two human beings
Is a pipe dream waiting for a deep sleep

Leaving in the heat
of the moment
to avoid a fall
whenever running away
from the foment, oh no
I can't breathe
When everything
is weighing me down
and surrounding me
with everybody else who….

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from TOPONYM HYMNAL - Tascam NEO2488 (Exported St. Masters), released August 7, 2016

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Psych-rock sextet sometimes labeled a grungegaze "outfit?" making dream pop music for downtrodden scumbag droves sporting mothball, over-sized flannel & fashionably expressive shredded, sewer-stained, denim heirlooms called "My fucking jeans, you fascist!". We're admittedly naive to the grunge/90's alt rock revival subculture apparently all the rage suddenly...

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