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Magic Beans

by Magic Beans

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1.
they swell in numbers year by year normal people who want to be more than they will ever they want to be rich don't want to be poor they want to be known and to be adored don't want to be normal don't want to be poor they want to be something they want to be more talent contests tv dreams pull yourself up by the hair change your body change your face wear the scars of the disease of the age fifteen minutes of cashable fame is all that anybody needs make yourself consumable and put a price tag on it
2.
Lazy Susan 02:15
can't i just stay in bed that's what she said i think i'm nearly dead such a sleepyhead they say 'you snooze you lose' it doesn't matter to lazy susan there's nothing worth winning out beyond my blankets why would i rise and open my eyes there's nothing worth having out beyond my blankets turn out the light don't want to be upright there's nothing worth having out beyond my blankets can't i just stay in bed and play dead there's nothing worth having out beyond my blankets
3.
A Bargain 02:28
she knows what's holding them together is keeping shtum, is telling lies they could muddle on forever if they keep the truth inside them do you promise you won't be honest it could be a match made in heaven or that's the way that it could seem things unsaid don't need forgiving so they won't say the things they mean do you promise you won't be honest tastes and styles and opinions differ methods, ethics tactics too truth is cold and sharp and bitter if you want to see this through then do you promise you won't be honest
4.
Moving On 02:30
she tried to walk away but time and time again he succeeded in making her stay for a while anyway but it's only a matter of time before she escapes moving on he tried to change or at least he told her he was trying trying in vain she knows he's a fake she's not an idiot she wasn't born yesterday moving on now she's clawed her way free she can be anything she'd like herself to be he was only holding her down and she's busted and she's broken and she's burrowed her way out moving on
5.
your silhouette in the headlights as they shine on the wall of a house that nobody lives in a perfect place for what we're doing were you followed? does anybody know you came? will anyone come looking this far out of the way? you open the door for me good, i didn't want to touch the handle i'll do everything properly i've brought all the tools i need to do the job were you followed? does anybody know you came? will anyone come looking if you don't get home today?
6.
a long life well lived what memories kept? can't keep it all can't keep it all even that which meant the most in life can depart you on the fall and you reach around, you seek around for anything at all deep hole dark earth no where you are
7.
she saw him coming he's under the thumb but it's the best thing for him self-determinism it never gave him nothing just let holes in his judgement drag him under no she's giving him substance she's a planet he is just a rocket burning in her orbit he's black and white and she is a colour he's bleak midwinter and she is the summer she's a planet he is just a comet burning in her orbit she saw him coming a mote without purpose crashing, burning scratching her surface he is nothing nothing to speak of she's a planet and now he is just a creature on it she's a planet he is just a rocket burning in her orbit
8.
there's a shadow an unidentifiable shape looming through the doorway slip out a side door but there's no hope of getting away they've got the place surrounded how many are in here with us? what horrors lurk among us? how will we ever last the night? how did they get in with us? well does it matter? does it matter? oh we will never survive we've seen what they can do we've seen the lengths they go to we've seen the bodies strewn outside death is stalking the corridors behind us and this fortress is just a pile of sticks and straw eerie silences broken by mysterious noises dread is a palpable presence an inescapable presence inescapable is the only word inescapable is the essence dread hovers at every corner dread is a palpable presence a beating heart a once beating heart
9.
Hard Day 02:12
hard day everybody's breathing down your neck you're okay roll one from the medicine chest hard day but fading further from your brain you're okay breathe out and blow the smoke away all the time at the mercy of dark forces that conspire to keep you blind you work too hard to push them all outside can't breathe just gasping groping at the air don't feel don't see don't look don't know don't care hard day yet another of them all the time at the mercy of dark forces that conspire to keep you blind you work too hard to push them all outside
10.
okay so maybe white trash multiply in these caravans all and every night action movies and k-fry and then they put the lights out and cell divide oh but it's a growing neighbourhood and the prices are still very very reasonable hose pipes and power lines oh there's everything anybody could ever claim to need to have a pretty little middle class life wasp's nest cyanide just ten minutes from a shop that sells potato chips and wine all yours if you play your cards right okay none of them look happy but that's about their lives not their location oh and it's a growing neighbourhood and the prices are still very very reasonable
11.
Horrors 01:55
it's not 'til late at night that we come alive shake off the stone personas that we wear in the day under the street lights see a sight for sore eyes we give a warmer performance than we gave in the day monsters marauders vampires and troglodytes horrors marauders vampires and troglodytes in a patch of shadow we await you breathlessly keep one eye fixed behind you there are creatures of prey monsters marauders vampires and troglodytes horrors marauders vampires and troglodytes
12.
Ghost 02:11
lying under the tree with it's spindly fingers making scratches on the sky it's cold and i can't move any more lie on the ground feel it's arms around me it won't ever let me go it's cold and there is nowhere to go just a ghost
13.
Second Sight 01:49
with your sixth sense your second sight how come you never get things right what's premonition even worth if you can't make the bastard work to your advantage to your gain it's not a gift you're just insane with your sixth sense your second sight how come you never get things right what's premonition even worth if you can't make the bastard work to your advantage to your gain all your clairvoyance is is pain it's not a gift you're just insane
14.
your book is full of murder homophobic and incredibly sexist kiss the foot of an arrogant blowhard lick the crack of malevolent forces your moral authority should be your own responsibility is your own this life is IT you creepy little christians don't listen to the little christians

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Guitars/Words - Louis Smith
Sampling/Synthy Stuff - unmusic

Cover Art by Mishca Rhys Hill

released in partnership with Woollen Records
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released July 15, 2015

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