1. |
My Jumpstart Noise
02:09
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My jumpstart noise overflows
Barely bearable decibels
Too stable in my stalemate
So i switch up my fate
Last time I headed East
I made some lies for keeps
Tuned into Coast to Coast
That devil saved my soul
Whoa, whoa...
My life is one big, bad mess
But it couldn’t bother me less
My future, we’ll see how it goes
Where will I end up? who knows?
I will face up, I’ll confess
And this time I’ll head out West
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2. |
Praymantis
04:31
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Scoot up to me
Be my reason for livin’
Oh, scoot up to me
Get to know me
Better than I know myself
But of course I let her have it her way
Grand exceptions to the rules of play
If I could just say no she’d respect me more
But my praymantis I’m quick to miss
Before you devour me
With your brand of honesty
I get my end of this deal
Yes, it gets freaky
Wha, whoa-ooh-oh...
Scoot up to me
Be my reason for livin’
Oh, scoot up to me, yeah
Get to know me
Better than I know myself
Myself, myself
Oh
You’re gonna turn on me
I’m just waiting now
For you to turn on me
I know
You’re gonna turn on me
You’re gonna turn on me
Wo-oh...
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3. |
Kaboom
02:54
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Demons don’t comb through their hair
’Cause they figure, “What is the use?”
People just don’t seem to care
Why they’re layin’ down clouds shaped like mushrooms
Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom
Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom
Oh, I’m insane, and that’s how I will stay
Yes, I am insane, and yeah that’s how I will stay
Witches don’t wear underwear
So they can have grip on their broom
Bitches say, “How do they dare?”
But they do the same to keep with their groom
Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom
Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom
The statements I sang here
Could be said are misled and crude
But I’ll reach through your speaker
Before we play on and it gets out-blown
Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom
Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom
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4. |
The End Is Near
03:16
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The end is near, the end is near
They have been sayin’ that for years
But this time it feels, yes it really seems
Like it is all on its way
Whoa, ah
But stranger things, much stranger things
Must first take place
My idle hands, my idle hands
Are this music’s plaything
Whoa, ah
Hurricanes
They’re now made to repeat
Earthquakes
Start to go with the beat
Kids on the dance floor
Get knocked off their feet
Somethin’ is a miss
Somethin’ is not right
But that’s how it’s been
So why am I so surprised
Yeah I’m still here, just living in fear
Stockin’ up goods, collecting my gear
For the day will come like a nocturnal thief
All wired-eyed and armed with sharp teeth
Oh, ah...
Wait, wait up, wait now
It can’t possibly happen just yet, no
Haven’t met my one and only
Haven’t passed on the name of my family
But many have passed before me
Wearing same shoes
The end is near, the end is here
So come get drunk with me my dear
We’ll make it be one hell of a night
And when the sky drops we won’t hide
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5. |
Morning Wood
03:50
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Whoa, yeah...
I’m fully loaded, but I lay alone
I wanna get some, but I stay at home
And I’m an all-in-one, but I can’t pick up the phone
I let the grass grow over my feet
Can’t get my move on
It’s so simple so why don’t I
Sweep you off your feet?
Is it ‘cause my God-given
Gift comes with a cancelling curse?
I don’t mean to get deep, I rattle
My souped-up cage, I’m a trapped parakeet
Just lookin’ in my mirror
If I turn away
My makeshift friend will disappear
Nearly narcissistic
I never did understand my flock
Annoying sunshine
My curtain’s drawn for good
Give life to my lie
Avoid the obvious truth
Call me up
Switch off my morbid mood
Once I get to you
I’m gonna be rough and rude
Horny hopes
Knock on my morning wood
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6. |
Thick Atmosphere
03:54
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And right where I stand
Is pretty much known as
Nowhere-man’s land
And who, or what, or how I am
Is ready switch to up change, wide range
Of random game to strange grin upon
My face, see
‘Cause I got to feelin’ lately
Like an alien kickin’
Through this cloud of dust
Gaspin’ up my mustard gas
While I’m tryin’ to ask
“How did we land and settle
In at this here
House that we love drenched in our
Thick atmosphere? (ah-uh)
How did we land and settle
In at this here (ah-oh)
House that we love drenched in our
Thick atmosphere?”
Atmosphere, atmosphere, atmosphere
Oh-ooh, oh-ho...
Dish-dishin’ it on, on out, out for days, days
If I crack one dish it comes out of my pay
I’m ki-kiddin’ ‘cause that’s, ‘cause that’s what I do to
Get this shift swiftly going by fast, get it moved through
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7. |
Wake N Bake
03:54
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Mornin’ breezy chill
Once in a while I start up high
Crisp dollar bill
Dial a few digits and wait a while
Parents gone and time to kill
Got no real reason not to start getting high
My routine needs some thrills
I tried stoppin’ a few honest times
Mornin’ breezy chill
Today I started by getting high
First comes what I feel
Throw some music on, enjoy the life
I dance ‘cause I can’t sit still
Quitting has never really been my style
’Cause how many times more can I
Be born over? ah-ah, oh-ah
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8. |
Be My Girl
04:30
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Wha, yeah...
Oh, who is going to be my girl?
Oh, who is going to clean up my world?
Dress me up all nice?
Cure me of my vices?
Be there to hold me
When I’m feelin’ corny?
Spread those legs for me
When I get dick-hard-horny?
Dick-hard-horny
So I take an awkward chance
Feel you up with ice cold hands
You roll your eyes and say, “No thanks”
Just walk away laughin’ with all your friends
But before this night hits its end
You come runnin’ back
You come runnin’ back
And when I tell the boys
How I have made you all mine
Nobody’s gonna wanna believe me
Nobody’s gonna wanna believe me
Nobody’s gonna wanna believe me
Nobody’s gonna wanna believe me
Hoo-ah
Keep cool, keep cool
Keep calm, don’t loose your cool
Gotta keep her guessin’ if I wanna keep her
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Ooh, ah-ah...
Enemies in surround sound
Thought we had our kennel locked up
Left to right, a canine growl
These visits were supposed to stop
I didn’t care then but I do now
’Cause things have not changed a whole lot
’Cause you can keep a sad dog diggin’
For some sort of a way out
Get out, you just want
Revenge for our screams and shouts
But we’re too used to tastin’ that wrath
Classic tension does tend to mount
Who is gonna claim that last laugh?
Ha-ha, ho, yeah, ah
I know it’s beyond what can be controlled
Hard to place blame when everyone
Is rarely sane, but I can’t get caught up
In this game, it’s a game
And it’s new tricks for this old bow wow
Gotta learn how not to snap
But what I don’t get is how
I walk right in-to your traps
Thought I earned my keep, keep
Thought I earned my keep, keep
Now I’m barkin’ in my sleep, in my sleep
Thought I
’Cause every dog needs a gate to guard at
Every dog needs somethin’ to growl at
To bark at
So we’ll see
How long this feud
Can keep its fire
Till we’ve got no fuel
To raise flames higher
How long this feud
Can keep its fire
Till we’ve got no fuel
To raise flames higher
How long this beef
Stays on the counter
Till it just goes old
Yes, it expires
Hey, yeah, hey, ah
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10. |
4 Horsemen
04:28
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That’s the sound of the Four Horsemen gallopin’
They’ll be here soon, maybe today
They want our doom
The good souls lifted already
But don’t get mad, no, don’t get heavy
Let’s just start this very last party
I could use an honest change
The doors I’ve closed get unhinged
Join in on the amazing craze
Still my taste calls for some grace
All the voices I keep hearin’
They’re directin’ my steerin’
Where I’m going, I don’t care
But I sure like gettin’ there, oh
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11. |
Smoke Screens
03:13
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Ho, yeah…
Did I surround myself with these smoke screens?
I keep my reason close but my drama closer
Those scallywags, are they followin’ me?
These days I keep checkin’ over my shoulder
On my lifeline, I swear, they’re closin’ in
Time does seem faster as I get older
Better not waste what I’ve been given
So I save and build it up
Bill to bill and scrap to scrap
Few mornings later I am
A different man completely
Formin’ exes over my eyes
Feedin’ my hell-bent needs
That’s when I just can’t be bothered
Plannin’ my days like they mattered
Grinnin’ for and pleasin’ people
Never cared that much for money
Bitchin’ right now hits the spot so
Even if I know damn well
What I came here for I’m
Forced to return to
Where this journey upon me dawned
What’s foreign I made familiar
Gathered so-called clues
Gotta repertoire of prototypes
Waitin’ to be put to good use
Back at the battlefield that
Doubles as my home
Kinda gets hard to hop over the
Barricades we’ve been addin’ on
For too
Long, yeah…
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12. |
Jig Cycle
02:50
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Back when I was a little boy
My thoughts were awfully full-grown
And now that I have to be a man
I can’t quit playin’ in quicksand
I can’t quit playin’ in quicksand
And it ain’t whatever’s in my closet that’s
Been causin’ me to loose sleep
I’ve gotta brand new set of setbacks
That can really keep me feelin’ mazed-in
But the more I think about that
The more that it comes back
So I’m tryin’ to think of someone new
And darlin’, you’re all that’s in my clear view
Yeah you got me
Jumpin’ over just about any fence
Learnin’ a few steps to every dance
Maybe you’re not new
But you’ve changed enough
Here little girl, this time will be right
We’re hangin’ out often, eyes lock a lot
Prove science through what this brings
Skin-smackin’ endorphin-rise, but that’s not
To say there’s no turbulence
Don’t need to explain this at all
This story is well known
Many of us let someone, I’m sure
Root up around their core
Yeah she creeps up on me slow
I don’t even know
Oh, she creeps up on me slow
I don’t even know
You could say that’s how things go
It’s part of my jig cycle, oh…
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13. |
Without a Name
04:23
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Out in space I’m in place
Unclassified I’m justified
Without a name it’s more sane
Life’s got me tryin’ out many roles
Yeah I play along, yeah I strike some pose
And any other line that I do read across
Commits to my mind, now they won’t get lost
Ah, ah-ah...
Out in space I’m in place
Unclassified I’m justified
Compelled by a televised voice
I’ll go throwin’ out what I cling to most
So in character that I feel no remorse
Till the credits roll, till it runs its course
On me
But literally
What I want to say is I don’t know what I do
Until I’m done and then I see what I had is gone
Farewell, so long
And the other must of been something about
An identity toss-up causing my moment of doubt
Oh, now I’m reachin’ out
Singin’, “It sure is high time for a revival
Of some kind,” amen, Godspeed that one greatest day
Yeah come without delay
Singin’, “It sure is high time for a revival
Of some kind,” amen, I see that it’s up next
On my TV
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14. |
Cool Is Forever
03:49
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The buildings are topplin’, the sirens are blarin’
But this don’t affect you, so sit back, keep glarin’
Not the same for me though, so I run for cover
But the house that I am from is standin’ no more
Now can you see why I’m spendin’ no time
Holdin’ in my breath till justice does come?
Oh, yeah
The reason my trust gets lost will be on tonight at six
Preachers on payrolls, what can I make of this?
Smoke rings as halos, my eyes are glued to your hips
All my opinions are somebody else’s
Like history’s over, now cool is forever
The way you shake it makes my mouth water
Oh, yeah
Oddly, oddly
They wanna know
They wanna know what happened
Rubble step-stone
I landed the way I was thrown
Rubble step-stone
Visions of things to come often visit me
But this was something I could not foresee
All my prospects good as gone
But I’m still singin’
Na-na-na…
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Ah
Even though his end was sad
Look at all that Caesar had
He must of known how to live
When to fight on and when to just leave
To victory his troops he led
And everywhere he’d go people would
Stand up and applaud
Stand up and applaud
But he didn’t let it go to his head
He valued real skill instead
Of boastin’ nobility
Virtue above of life if need be
When Med-Sea pirates kidnapped him
He joked around and said to them
“Raise the ransom”
“Raise the ransom”
And as his power racked up
He pleased the many on the bottom
Which scared the few rich on top
So they conspired to stab him
60 of them with daggers in hand
Includin’ his best friend
Yeah that was Caesar’s sad end
But his name lives on and on
It started out a common one
But ended up the highest title
For centuries to come
So what’s the point I’m tryin’ to prove
With a moral I should close
Well I don’t know what to say
Still got my own conquerin’ to rein
And I shouldn’t be worryin’
’Bout exactly how, where, and when
It will all tie in
It will all tie in
Ah-ah...
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Rock Despot Montreal, Québec
Rock Despot, now solely Peter Jarecki’s project, is a continuation of Ghetto Pony, which also included David Hoult and James Rogers. Since the release of “Overflow,” Jarecki has been creating video content for its various songs, collaborating with other musicians, and formulating a solo approach for future Rock Despot music. ... more
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