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1.
MAKE A WISH 02:43
YEAHHHHHHHHHHH I GOT A BAD BAD FEELING THAT NONE OF MY HEROES WERE EVER THE REAL THING JUST A CLOWN CAR OF CHEAP JOKES PEDDLING FAKE HOPE AND WARM FUZZY FEELINGS AH I GOT A BAD BAD FEELING THAT EVERYONE I KNOW IS IRONY POISONED BASED PURELY ON INSTINCT AND COPING MECHANISMS THAT’LL MAKE US GO EXTINCT OH MAYBE I’VE OVERREACTING I’VE GOT MY BACK UP AND I LOOK LIKE I’M CRACKING I SHOULD JUST BE HAPPY AND SHUT THE FUCK UP UNTIL SOMEBODY ASKS ME BUT HEY WHILE WE’RE ALL HERE LEMME MAKE ONE THING ABUNDANTLY CLEAR NO QUARTER FROM ME TO CHARLATANS SELLOUTS AND PUSHERS OF IRONY YEAH I GOT A BAD BAD FEELING THAT SPRINGTIME IS COMING AND SO IS THE CLEANING BLACKPILLED FROM THE GET GO AND LINED UP AT THE BOLT GUN CAUSE THEY SAID SO BETRAYED WITH A KISS I ALWAYS KNEW IT WOULD END JUST LIKE THIS NO RIGHT TO EXIST ANY LAST WORDS MOTHERFUCKER? MAKE A WISH WE’RE CONTENT WITH CONTENT ADRENALINE RUSHES WITH NO FRAME AND NO CONTEXT NON SEQUITUR NONSENSE THAT MAKES EVERY HEADLINE FEEL LIKE A BOMB THREAT MAYBE I’M JUST BEING PESSIMISTIC MAYBE I SHOULD LOOK ON THE BRIGHTSIDE AND FLIP THIS FROWN UPSIDE DOWN LIKE I’M ONE OF THOSE HEROES LIKE I’M ONE OF THOSE CLOWNS AND SMILE FOR THE CAMERA CAMERAS IN EVERYTHING WE DID IT TO OURSELVES AND WHAT REALLY HURTS IS WE’D DO IT AGAIN AND MAKE IT EVEN WORSE YEAH I SEE A BAD MOON RISING FUCKING OUR MINDS UP AND PULLING THE TIDES IN YEAH A BRICKWALL ON A DARK ROAD AND LINED UP AT THE KOOL AID STAND CAUSE THEY SAID SO BETRAYED WITH A KISS I ALWAYS KNEW IT WOULD END JUST LIKE THIS NO RIGHT TO EXIST ANY LAST WORDS MOTHERFUCKER? MAKE A WISH
2.
WALLPAPER 02:38
A CORKBOARD WITH A TICKET STUB PINNED TO IT A SMALL FRAME YOU CAN PUT YR PERSONALITY IN A SET OF FIVE POUND WEIGHTS AT YR FEET THAT LAUGH AT YOU WHILE YOU WAIT FOR DEFEAT A MEMORY OF A DAY WHEN LAUGHTER SHOWED NO CONCERN FOR WHAT CAME AFTER ALL IT’S AN OFFER THAT YOU COULD NOT REFUSE BLACK COFFEE, A PAYCHECK, AND ONLY A BRUISE SMOOTHED OUT THE WRINKLES THE AIR BUBBLES GONE AND ALL CRACKS AND CREASES ARE ERASED FROM VIEW WALLPAPER FOR A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM A MEMORANDUM, A GENTLE REMINDER THAT WITHOUT THIS YR BREAD HAS NO BUTTER AND THAT’S A QUESTION WITH NO ANSWER TO CHOOSE GREY SLACKS, A CARDIGAN, AND ONLY (A BRUISE) ROUNDED THE EDGES OUT AND CIRCLED THE SQUARE ALL SHAPES AND SIZES ARE STANDARD AND TUNED WALLPAPER FOR A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM CONTAINER SHIPS STEERED FROM A CUBICLE SUPPLY CHAIN LINK FENCED IN, A CRUCIBLE WALLPAPER FOR A DREAM INSIDE OF A DREAM INSIDE OF A DREAM INSIDE OF A DREAM SCREAM, IT’S OKAY BUT NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM JUST TO MAKE YRSELF FEEL BETTER WALLPAPER FOR A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM INSIDE OF A ROOM
3.
THAT ON THAT 02:55
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OUR BLOOD IS WATER FOR A NEW WORLD WE’LL NEVER LET ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKER LEAD US TO THE EDGE OF OBLIVION WHEN WE CAN GODDAMN FIND IT OURSELVES LIES THE WARPING OF MINDS SAY IT ENOUGH TIMES AND YOU’LL BELIEVE YR OWN SHIT AND THE CRIME IS ALWAYS IN PROGRESS I WILL NOT STEP AWAY FROM THE LEDGE BECAUSE I SAID WHAT I SAID LESS IS MORE IS THE GOSPEL OF THE NEW WORLD AND YOU WILL EAT THAT SHIT UP LIKE IT WAS THE BEST MEAL RAW DEAL CROSS CONTAMINATION IS THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTION IS TO THROW IT UP AND START AGAIN DROWNING IN ABUNDANCE AND YOU WONDER HOW WE GOT HERE YEARS OF BUILDING STRUCTURES MADE OF VIOLENCE AND PLASTIC AND DRASTIC TIMES CALL FOR DRASTIC REPLIES JUST DON’T ASK THE SKIES FOR REMORSE LIES THE WARPING OF MINDS SAY IT ENOUGH TIMES AND YOU’LL BELIEVE YR OWN SHIT AND THE CRIME IS ALWAYS IN PROGRESS I WILL NOT STEP AWAY FROM THE LEDGE BECAUSE I SAID WHAT I SAID I SAID WHAT I SAID I SAID WHAT I SAID I SAID WHAT I SAID AND THAT’S THAT ON THAT QUOTE IT, WRITE IT DOWN, MAKE IT MY FUCKING EPITAPH REFER BACK TO THIS AS IF IT WAS MY TESTAMENT AND DELETE THE REST OF IT OR AT LEAST MAKE THE BEST OF IT LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE SMILING POLITELY IT MIGHT EVEN BE TOO SHORT TO BE TRYING SIGHT SEE FUCKING TOURISTS ARE THE WORST AND I MEAN EVERY SINGLE WAY YOU CAN BE GAWKING AND MOCKING AND DETACHED AND ABOVE IT KNOCKED OFF THE FENCE AND RIGHT INTO THE PIT OF MY STOMACH GAWKING AND MOCKING AND DETACHED AND ABOVE IT LIMB FROM LIMB I’LL GIVE YOU DETACHED AND HOW ABOUT THE HEAD OF THIS MATCH BECAUSE LIES THE WARPING OF MINDS SAY IT ENOUGH TIMES AND YOU’LL BELIEVE YR OWN SHIT AND THE CRIME IS ALWAYS IN PROGRESS I WILL NOT BACK AWAY FROM THE LEDGE BECAUSE I SAID WHAT I SAID I SAID WHAT I SAID I SAID WHAT I SAID I SAID WHAT I SAID
4.
FOG OF WORDS 03:46
OOOOOHHHHHHHH JUST A METAPHOR WRAPPED INSIDE A METAPHOR WRAPPED INSIDE A RIDDLE OF WHICH YOU WERE WAITING FOR DECIPHERING THE MEANING IN THE NOISE THROUGH DEDUCTIONS, REDUCTIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF A WAY FORWARD HIGH DENSITY LANGUAGE AS A WEAPON HIDING SUFFERING AND BUFFERING IN SECONDS ABSTRACTED AD NAUSEAM — REPEATING SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY UNDEFEATED SAME TONGUE BUT SILVER, SHIVERS DOWN YR SPINE, MOTHERFUCKER YOU WERE LIED TO TIDAL POOLS OF NOTHING BUT MUD BYPRODUCTS AND SLUDGE AND SOMEWHERE IN THERE YR FUCKING HEART IS PUMPING BLOOD
 YR HEART IS PUMPING BLOOD BLUE ROPES ALL INTERCONNECTED A STRAND AROUND A STRAND AROUND A STRAND, SOME TENSION ALL INTENTIONS OBSCURED AND NOT MENTIONED CIRCULAR AND IN A CONSTANT INVENTION FROM THE OPEN MOUTH, A SNAKE SLITHERS OUT AND BACK IN THROUGH THE EYES
 ABSTRACTED AD NAUSEAM — REPEATING SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY UNDEFEATED SAME TONGUE BUT SILVER, SHIVERS DOWN YR SPINE, MOTHERFUCKER YOU WERE LIED TO TIDAL POOLS OF NOTHING BUT MUD BYPRODUCTS AND SLUDGE AND SOMEWHERE IN THERE YR FUCKING HEART IS PUMPING BLOOD REPEATED AD NAUSEAM — THE CYCLE SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY ACCORDING TO THE FILES FILED AWAY IN A FOLDER, FORGOTTEN AND LOST IN THE STACKS, AND NEVER CAME BACK LOST FOOTING IN QUICKSAND SINKING BYPRODUCTS OF THOUGHT AND SOMEWHERE IN THERE YR HEART IS STARTING TO ROT TIDAL POOLS OF NOTHING BUT MUD BYPRODUCTS AND SLUDGE AND SOMEWHERE IN THERE YR FUCKING HEART IS PUMPING BLOOD LOST FOOTING IN QUICKSAND SINKING BYPRODUCTS OF THOUGHT AND SOMEWHERE IN THERE YR HEART IS STARTING TO ROT
5.
BIG FINISH 05:11
WE CRAWLED OUT OF THE WATER SOAKING WET  ANGRY LUNGS FULL OF SURFACE AIR GASPING WE TOOK APART THE WORLD IN VENGEANCE FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING OUR PLACE AND THERE WERE NO GODS TO WEEP FOR US THERE WERE NO GODS TO BLESS US WE TAUGHT OURSELVES TO BREAK THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE AND LOOK BACK DOWN AT OURSELVES DID WE LIKE WHAT WE SAW? DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? WE’VE MADE A NAME FOR OURSELVES, KNOWN FOR CRUELTY AND INDIFFERENCE  THE COMBINATION OF WHICH HAS SLAYED MULTITUDES WE MADE IT OUR FACTORY SETTING AND SALTED THE EARTH BEHIND US AND THERE WERE NO GODS TO SHOW US MERCY WE TOOK APART THE MIND AND CAST IT IN SILICON UNFOLDED THE GRAY IN HOPES IT WOULD CHANGE BUT WE’RE STILL WAITING THE WATER’S RISING SO ITS TIME TO PREPARE TO GO BACK TO THE WATER THE WAY WE CAME OUT: CRAWLING  IN HUMILITY BEG THE WATERS TO TAKE US BACK TO LET US COME HOME THE WATER’S RISING AND AFTER YEARS OF GASPING AND ASKING FOR A SIGN TO SHOW US THE WAY WE SEE CLEARLY NOW THERE ARE NO GODS TO WEEP FOR US WE HAVE ONLY OURSELVES AND WATER RISING TO MEET OUR EYES BEFORE LONG WE’LL BE SWIMMING OR WE WON’T SINKING DOWN DEEP BREAKING THROUGH THE ABYSS AND LOOKING BACK UP AT OURSELVES DO WE LIKE WHAT WE SEE? DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?   VISUALIZE THE COLLAPSE SKIN OF METAL GUTS OF WAX INNER TURMOIL A CRACKED FACADE AND YOU CAN PRAY TO NO GOD VISUALIZE THE COLLAPSE GET READY TO CRAWL BACK HOME DISCONNECTED AND ERASED AND YOU HAVE NO GOD TO BLAME

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All proceeds from the sales of this album go to Kawartha Food Share, a Peterborough group that "coordinates community resources to provide emergency food in a way which maintains dignity for all." You can find out more about them at kawarthafoodshare.com

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released May 1, 2020

Music, Backup Vocals, Mixing, and Artwork by Mark Rand.
Lyrics, Vocals, and Mastering by garbageface.

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hardcore / industrial / power slop

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