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Demo Tape

by Rats Rest

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an impossibly tiny thread through the bone of my forehead my heart could not push blood but i knew i wasn't dead and at the other end the impossible machine and a crowd of ugly men they will send it down the string and i don't know what they want from me unreasonable things bite through the plastic tube spraying blood into the room somehow moving down the hall then i slip and then i fall a stranger takes my hand and she helps me try to stand and she asks me if i can explain to her just who i am now i'm sitting in a chair she washes blood out of my hair oh yes, she wants me to stay she says it'll be okay but i can still hear that creeping sound oh yes, i know they're still around they got that thing pointed at my face and i gotta leave this place and i don't know if it's them or me supplying the power to the machine then my father came to hold me and he told me not to worry i would find a way even though the men were crazy and the machine so very deadly i would find a way to cut the string to be free
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looking out from the darkness and the shit keeps rolling on by grabbing hold of my brain and i keep falling it's past the point of shedding tears it ain't no use to sit and cry everybody knows the reason why in the parade of damaged people now it's the blind leading the screwed laughing or crying we keep falling another day goes by another species dies it ain't no use to sit and cry everybody knows the reason why gripped by this feeling this terrible urgency everything conceivable it's an aspect of the permanent catastrophe and it's killing me at the slightest provocation now my heart's skipping a beat one thoughtful gesture and i'm falling i see a light in you but it runs me through and all i can do is sit and cry everybody knows the reason why gripped by the feeling this terrible urgency everything is nothing and it burns inside of me gripped by this feeling this terrible urgency everything conceivable is an aspect of the permanent catastrophe it's killing me it's killing you it's killing we
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when everything's fucked and you shit the bed and nothing's gonna work out right and you'll go to prison for the rest of your life if you try to step up the fight you can roll twenty deep while the city sleeps feel your people come back to life wiggle in the middle of the sweaty pile! out of the darkness into the night! thats right! taste of this freedom goddammit burning bittersweet love it a little harder its the victory! feel the defeat! there's no surrender there's no retreat shake it til you break it destroy reality! when you get tired of living the chaos too bad baby its too late we still got fights to face in the war... even though we don't wanna burn it slow lasts longer
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rolling with the crazies down the hill into the forest where all the trees have smiling faces and the wind comes blowing in a thousand singing voices to me it's all there is then the day came when the bitter wind came blowing in i could feel the whole world shrinking the savage images of the leaders' philosophy trapped inside now never to escape frozen with disbelief and standing beside myself it just can't be not just a sad little boy's dream didn't wanna see now there's a scared little boy's dream fermenting all the things that can't be realized and it takes up all of my time it just can't be not just a sad little boy's dream everyone can see i got a scared little boy's dream trapped inside never to escape to guide me when everything's at stake you won't find me begging to please the leaders' philosophy

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Self released first demo tape featuring thee Evan Malone on drums

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released March 1, 2013

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Rats Rest Kansas City, Missouri

Cinque A, Timmy P, Maria P, Mike W.... P.A.W.P.

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