THE LAST DAYS OF THE SHOGUNATE

by SIXSIX

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1.
FLOATING 03:36
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I wish I knew why the rules of gravity exempt you Floating indefinitely while I'm eating dirt Laying, back on the ground to see the curve of the earth The god of insolence has blessed me so I pack up my boon and get running home Every piece is a part of something larger to start and I am fortunate that I have found the prodigal heart So cut me open and see if I match If my vena cava links up the best of the batch I'm flexible Built like lego Saturn's rings and their sickening spins need to slow down a minute so I can get a better grip on reality and that shit You're the only thing allowed under my skin I've been nice I've been cold I've been coloured paper with uneven folds But whatever I did Whatever random combination of buttons I hit It's all led me here Put the batteries in my halo take my turn at playing the angel Know I'll bury your bodies in the woods out the back Trust I'm keen to repay the debt of overlooking everything that I lack Saturn's rings and their sickening spins need to slow down a minute so I can get a better grip on reality and that shit You're the only thing allowed under my skin And while I'm at it I might as well say you've been real good to me I'm the waves swaying infinitely to your pulsing beat Saturn's rings and their sickening spins need to slow down a minute so I can get a better grip on reality and that shit You're the only thing allowed under my skin
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BAZOOKA 03:08
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It's not just the spies, but the battalions at my bedroom window Throwing pebbles burning pretty words to get through the winter It's barely left my mind while I'm lying awake at night With dried eyes With fixed teeth Painted sorrows in my bin Saving the feeling I'd take it and run if I were you Cutting my hair and changing my name It's too much, too much I'm everywhere all at once It's too much, too much I'm not bitter I'm chocolate sweet Sitting just rosy Lonely on the moon making friendly with the dunes all weekend long Slowly but surely the days go by along the wall The breaker hits and as it cedes in bits I see whats left It's too much, too much I'm everywhere all at once It's too much, too much The time we spend The lives unmended by the lies we tell ourselves It's all good fun but it ain't worth that much In the dim of the sodium streetlights In the tracks in the snow Now they only remain in the stains in my winter boots and the socks they ruined It's too much, too much The time we spend The lives unmended by the lies we tell ourselves It's all good fun but it ain't worth that much
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HOBBIES 04:16
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A light blue above me dancing down along the moonbeams and I pray they support the weight of my pockets I made my bed so here I'll lie till the morning comes Gregor Samsa dreams I'm turning about In midair Floating along the axis of the light Half diluted My being soaking through the cracks From the morgue to the beach it stays with me on my eyelid insides tauntingly Under the sun Hidden in the shade Light crawling off My crushed hands at the stake My blood goes molten Squirting from the pores poked Dripping over my stuffing Bursting from out amongst the seams and I'm pulling and tearing to see where it leads to Like napkin ladders out the window Back doors under cover of night Stumbling dizzy through the forest in the moonlight making trouble for the nightwatchers to make sure they're still awake I made my bed so here I'll lie till the morning comes I stay still so gravity forgets about me I'm lighting up the diary I'm taking my mind for a right Chucking value-laden breaths and sighs into the night I'm taking up new hobbies Unmaking sense I'm spending all my evenings with my favourite plot convenience From the morgue to the beach it stays with me on my eyelid insides tauntingly Under the sun Hidden in the shade Light crawling off My crushed hands at the stake I made my bed so here I'll lie till the morning comes My mattress lumps are getting the better of me A light blue above me dancing down along the moonbeams and I pray they support the weight I'm lighting up the diary I'm taking my mind for a right Chucking value-laden breaths and sighs into the night I'm taking up new hobbies Unmaking sense I'm spending all my evenings with my favourite plot convenience From the morgue to the beach it stays with me on my eyelid insides tauntingly Under the sun Hidden in the shade Light crawling off My crushed hands at the stake
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HARBOUR 03:44
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I've started to notice the weeks passing by progressively quicker It's starting to get me right where it hurts I feel my eyes crawl under the sink I see my coats turn from dirty to dusty before I can think I hear the horns from the harbour sending sailors off from the shore But I can't help but keep noticing that bird you said you adored And I keep in the sun It's nice to think I once was a special part of your heart And no harm no foul We're all maybe ships been rebuilt from the start I didn't really think much of it at the time but looking back I'd do it all a thousand times Life gets us all that way and I guess we're just on for the ride I am quite alright My skinned knees have long since started to heal But lately I still feel like Ive been stuck in the past with a scar on my eyelid blocking the mast of the boat that Ive hedged all of my hopes on the SS. "Life mostly goes on" But I'm used to it I'm making do I'd pretty much moved on but lately I've been falling apart taking my chances in the dark Making home in the chambers of your soul Scratching my name on the tables on the low Lights slammed on as the credits roll Left stuck in my seat while everyone goes home A type of lobotomy that takes the best of me Hole in my head screaming I'm okay It's nice to think I once was a special part of your heart And no harm no foul We're all maybe ships been rebuilt from the start I didn't really think much of it at the time but looking back I'd do it all a thousand times Life gets us all that way and I guess we're just on for the ride
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THE MOON 03:44
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Summer love on the cold tarmac I've got blood in my veins again Got the hole in my chest Whistling so sweet to the sound of the wind Gotta get more, more more So the roar of the car exhaust Suffocates the beating of your heart Sipping on hot tea in the sun My terror on a picnic blanket in the mud Oh, I wanna make it last till the last of the snows come down Don't move Do nothing Don't move I'm hiding away on the road off the way Shoveling dirt And digging my grave By trying to be smart Trying to be honest I'm still honestish So when you've got it all Let me know So I know whether to bother Or if it really Drowned out the pumping of your heart Or if it just

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Five pop songs found on a musty cassette recovered from the guest room of the extravagant country chateau of recently-deceased magazine mogul "ARSENE CAVAGLIA". Initially confiscated by authorities as evidence in the ongoing case of his mysterious murder, when its contents were revealed, the tape was deemed uninteresting and unimportant and set aside. How it then ended up in the second-hand shop in which I myself found it is not my place to speculate, and thus an entirely undeterminable section of its lineage is possibly lost forever. I upload these songs here only to ease my conscience when I inevitably discard this mediocre and inconsequential piece of art. Enjoy, if the feeling takes you.

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released March 4, 2022

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