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Going Primordial

by Scamper Scamper

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1.
Piranhas 03:35
Well the polar bears are swimming The bees are on their knees While corporate executives Do exactly as they please What do you expect? We're victims of our own success Isn't it grotesque? What do we do next? We're victims of our own success Aren't you impressed? There’s tankers on the ocean With drills down in the deep So people standing arm in arm Just to hear their mother weep We swarm We eat our young Cannibalize Blot out the sun We live Uncertainly But we won’t give This world for free
2.
Carried when I was young Wary of all the shadows that crept up the lawn Traipsing all among the trees Facing away from home and every unease Lively imaginings of old Blithely we imitated the brave and the bold It was great to know you With the earth below you So I dedicate this Why don't you let me show you When I feel like a flunky Some kind of broken monkey I recall you always So nothing has ever sunk me Storming all among the peaks Warning with measured words and realities Fair skies welcomed with good cheer Your wise, unwavering voice I always found near Empowering, when others were in need Towering, true in speech and devoted in deed
3.
Idioms 03:59
She finds the faintest fault lines in my words And in my verse She likes to take a hard line in my bed When nothing’s said And she’s breaking my idioms Winking and making her witty puns But she’s just having a little fun Cause she’s a model of modesty With a bit of a mean streak Surely verging on byzantine She tames the lion lightly with a touch Thinks nothing much She maps the mazes sprightly on her steed While schooling me I don’t mean to seem laughable But my retorts don’t seem passable And she deems them illogical Still I find her disarming And her charm is alarming Humbling isn’t harming
4.
Admiral 04:28
Call the admiral Sprung a leak again And when the fights break out Don't know how to pacify them The rumbles in the brain We drown with silence A sign we're underway Quells the violence Outside, I float in an iron shell Inside, a tale that I can't tell Outside, the look of a scoundrel Inside, a caricature of myself Call the admiral The crew's unruly 'Cause when air is thick Nobody's minding their duty A sounding in the deep Returns a murmur It wakes us from our sleep Renews our fervor
5.
She's a chasm of contusions You're waiting to fall in There's iron in your glances And she's got magnetic skin You can't see anything past her She smiles and looks your way Your breath is coming faster You've become an invertebrate Only a night like any other Following lights right down this rabbit hole Only a night like any other Tumbling down This craze has got you senseless And worn at your resolve Like rolling down a mountain And all the brakes are gone You gave away your freedom To a vision from a movie screen She's a smoldering inferno And you're pouring the gasoline
6.
Days I nearly expire from the grindstone turning Ways I would get so tired by the thoughts I'm churning Strapped in tight fitting uniform that I've been wearing Trapped in a grid that's pushing in with horns all blaring But now I'm fully charged Amazing and bizarre So full of fire, now I'm Headed off the continuum 'Cause I'm fully charged Like an exploding star Blazing with life and now I'm Destined for equilibrium Tamed, I capitulated to the malcontents here Small fries lend honorifics to avoid those sharp gears Crossed town saw graves and niches with their eyes all staring Bent down to salvage something from the nightmare glaring
7.
Girl from a place in the country Set sail to that further shore She got a job in a factory The wider world got their war Fear for her family followed Down dirty streets at the dawn Only the wrens and the swallows Knew where that scared girl had gone With her tiger stripes She met a man from the country Spared by that perils of war They got a place in the city A little shack by the shore And soon a family followed Down sunlit streets at the dawn Only the wrens and the swallows Knew where that scared girl had gone
8.
You banish me from your bedroom And sleep in whimpering dreams When did your life get so complex And come apart at the seams Compelled by whispering voices And their motives unkind You long for peace and release from The push and pull on your mind You live like you're under the covers Your head is a haunted house You look like you're waiting for someone To come and let all the ghosts out You've marshaled all your defenses And fashioned every disguise You severed every connection That may be tainted with lies And now your feet are retreating Like you just want to escape But this is real and you'll feel it Long as you're running away Make a show of being perfectly stable But still phone me up when you're against the wall So don't say that I ever deserted you I'm just the static in the call
9.
Bitter Hook 03:51
Her scars were beautiful And we were tangled to win Our language was physical With our warrior grins Reaching inside for a better look I was all blown away This aching of mine was a bitter hook Like a window to pain The past is vast in you Her outlook was cynical So she wept in my arms A cowering animal Head bowed from the harm Away from the safety of everyone Took a risk in the dark Told me directions her love had run And how it tore her apart
10.
Magazines 03:50
I stand at a loss The line a million miles To gaze upon the gloss Of infamy We're dragged through the dirt That sullies every page The candy coated words That claim me Watch out For the spin these magazines turn out They bring you down What do they want from me? I'd be fine If only I could read between the lines I'm out of time We're moving finally The defamation folds Compact under my arm Secure that I'll be sold Commodities The guilty pleasures wait Their ever changing lure Contentment to berate They frame me Will we be nothing without this? And be ugly without that? Will we be foul without this? Some kind of pariah?

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released November 27, 2014

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