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The world has never been a friend Let us not Pretend If you survive a single day You should yell Hip Hip Hooray The downward vector is the trend What does that Portend? The few who run the fuckin show Don’t believe you need to know Take it somewhere Take it there Just take it somewhere Take it somewhere Take it there It’s one thing to be still alive Let alone to thrive For those who suffer not a bit You and I do not mean shit Just take it somewhere Take it somewhere Take it there Just take it somewhere Take it somewhere Take it there Just throw it in the trunk With all the other junk And go become a monk Knock it off a cliff And let em get a whiff of you Toss it on the fire And get a little higher Ain’t that what you desire? Drain away the blood And dunk it in the mud You’re through Before we call it all a wash Try to give A gosh If you survive another day You should yell Hip Hip Hooray And take it somewhere
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You called me Complaining I heard you out You stall me You’re draining Your words of doubt But it’s only a matter of time Before you show me the bottom line Give me one Good reason Why I should care I’m freezin All season While you’re nowhere But it’s only a matter of time Before you throw me a vertical line Because I earn my share Fair and square The ticking The talking The time for talk has come and gone It's sickening It's exhausting Exactly whose side are you on? It doesn't matter what you say The wait is over either way But it’s only a matter of time Before you show me the bottom line
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Below the snow A frozen crow Behind his eyes The fire dies Beyond the wall The soldiers fall Because the king Knows everything He knows that what is Good for the kind Is good for the mean And good for everybody in between What’s good for the wide Is good for the lean And everybody in between. Before the war A star is born Beside the road She drags her load Between the lines The wealthy dine Because the king Knows everything He knows that what is Good for the kind Is good for the mean And good for everybody in between What’s good for the wide Is good for the lean And everybody in between. There’s only so much to go around So who’s gonna give up An inch of their ground? So good for the kind And good for the mean And good for everybody in between Good for the wide And good for the lean And everybody in between.
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Super Scenic 03:36
Say you love me like you mean it This could be our last catastrophe We won’t know until we’ve seen it If we’ve reached our full capacity Did you see that big explosion? Do they say we should evacuate? What’s that glowing in the ocean? Did our future just evaporate? It defies all comprehension It’s too horrible to mention It defies all comprehension It’s too horrible to mention Hold me closer. That’s an edict We can watch it from the balcony Supersonic, super scenic Universal abnormality So say you love me like you mean it This could be the last catastrophe We won’t know until you’ve seen it Just when we’ve seen the last of me It defies all comprehension It’s too horrible to mention It defies all comprehension It’s too horrible to mention
5.
In the human equation As everyone knows We cannot be replaced by Clever codes of ones and zeroes Are we missing the data? Are we out of our minds? Does the world we created Correspond to any design? Common knowledge All seven billion of us Ought to set aside a certain day To get familiar with a better kind of common knowledge From the time of the cavemen The evidence shows Information behaves like waves That grow as long as they flow In a civilization We pay what we owe And we stick to our stations Till the whole thing finally blows And it’s over All our heads Hangin over Al our heads Common knowledge
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Well your Worship Looks like you managed to keep me around for a little while longer. Just a little while longer. I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks it's dangerous for any ships to leave the system. That’s a good story. I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight. A gorgeous guy like me. I don’t know where you get your delusions, laser brain. I don't know where you get your delusions. Laugh it up, fuzzball. Laugh it up, fuzzball. Laugh it up, fuzzball. Laugh it up, fuzzball. But you didn’t see us alone in the south passage. She expressed her true feelings for me Her true feelings for me My...! Why, you stuck up,... half-witted... scruffy-looking... nerf-herder! Who’s scruffy-looking? I must have hit pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid? I got her all riled up. Why, I guess you don’t know everything about women yet. Like there aren’t any others. Watch me kiss my brother. Laugh it up, fuzzball. Laugh it up, fuzzball.
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Moral Center 03:22
Without a moral compass or A moral telescope Without a moral microphone or A moral calculator Without a moral level or A moral calipers Without a moral microscope or A moral cup of coffee I mean what I mean I lean how I lean I glean what I glean I’m seen how I’m seen From machine to machine To machine to machine Until my code is clean I know what I know I grow how I grow I show what I show I flow how I flow From machine to machine To machine to machine Until my code is clean Without a magic bullet or A magic hand grenade Without a magic missile or A magic neurotoxin Without a magic A-bomb or A magic coup d’etat Without a magic apocalypse or A magic glass of whiskey
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You can’t go home again You can’t go home You can’t go home again You can’t go home You really can’t go home And if you think you can go home again you’ll find that you Were very wrong I’m lousy company I slouch and mumble If you get drunk with me I’ll slur and stumble Until the day You realize you’d really rather not have Lunch with me And keep away I’ll bum your cigarettes And spoil the ending Before it’s over yet And you’ll be spending More money on the meal Which is a lousy deal I understand exactly how You probly feel What kind of asshole am I? Let me spell it out If you shake hands with me I’ll fuck your wife Break up your family And wreck your life I’ll even get you fired Because I’ll burn your office down and then confess and claim That you conspired You can’t go home again Because of me You can’t go home again Because of me You can’t go home Because I moved in with your former family

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Featuring:
Betty Cooper • Stefan Runstrom • John Shiurba • Tom Yoder • Danny Allen

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released July 4, 2015

Recorded by David L. Cooper & guests • All lyrics by Cooper
All music composed by Cooper & guests, except
6 by Black Sabbath (and I would plead “transformative”)
7 lyrics by Lawrence Kasdan and David & Betty Cooper
8 bells recorded by David Wessel, Ed Campion & Jeff Davis

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Dropsy Oakland, California

Dropsy has many musical tendrils, emanating from the vicinity of a funky lounge, sometimes snaking into dark caverns. The band sounds friendly enough, but displays its canines at unexpected moments. Cooper's droll lyrics brim with invective, taunts, boasts, disturbing delusions and bad advice. But he seems to be singing on our behalf, to a mutual enemy, in a bar on a tropical island. ... more

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