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WORLD'S A GREAT LABYRINTH

from FRAGMENTED by LOSTBOYEVSKY & OPHELIA DIES

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ennui leads to a fifth and a sixth beer
lying on hard wood. "how did i get here?"
ceiling cracks intricate, world's a great labyrinth
take a sip, cheers

Type of dude to accidentally drop something then leave it there
Type of schlub to sleep in when I probably gotta be somewhere
I'm snapchatting a rose juxtaposed to a city backdrop
Wondering if it has to be a world of haves and have nots
idk, I decay like elk and dandelions
universe a pretty scary place, but damn it's vibrant
What if I just rap to have fun? What then?
Trust pens to just bend my world into some lush zen
Distrust men with expensive watches and scowls
follow your inner moonlight like the dude who wrote howl

ennui leads to a fifth and a sixth beer
lying on hard wood. "how did i get here?"
ceiling cracks intricate, world's a great labyrinth
take a sip, cheers

I'm listening to Mogwai reading Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Feeling how Whitman felt when he wrote about the astronomer
Figuring I could publish worlds of words under a moniker
Or do a normal thing, get married, Chandler and Monica
For now I'm ghost trapped in beat, phantom of the opera
Discordianist Pope who used to think a lot about God and stuff
Harmonic jazz cynic playing my sardonica
Kudos if you can catch em all like Onnix, bruh
Intoxicated art for Nietzsche like we just popped Ciroc
Keeps me in opposition to power no panopticon
Malicious sir-haunt-a-lots in vans like soccer moms
Got me feeling this thing called man really oughta rot
But then again we're all natural like how impalas run
So I guess what's tragic is organic, man that's a lotta thought
But then we've also got the Thich Nhat Hanhs and the mozeltovs
So maybe we're cool and alright and we don't gotta stop

But we need to get our brain game up like Tom Hobbes or Spock
Because we often look parodic pop; is the Office on?
Patriarchies tell too many cock tails umm malatov
So men walk around thinking they're superhuman, comicon
When I was a kid I used to search for frogs in the pond a lot
Nowadays in the city feel we live too fast, you know, Ramadan
But Just another inexplicable human like your mom and pop
So who am I to claim knowledge, um, reconnaissance
Just damn, I see us destroy each other and like flog the tots
And feel its a cruel farce but don't have the gravitas
To be heard so I'll quote the words of Kurt Vonnegut
Dammit babies you've got to be kind, promise us
I said I guess I'll just quote the words of Mr. Vonnegut
Dammit babies you've got to be kind, promise us
I said I guess I'll just quote the words of Mr. Vonnegut
Dammit babies you've got to be kind, promise us

ennui leads to a fifth and a sixth beer
lying on hard wood. "how did i get here?"
ceiling cracks intricate, world's a great labyrinth
take a sip, cheers

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from FRAGMENTED, released March 8, 2016

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