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What Your Teeth Do

by The Figurants

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1.
Nordoshan 03:33
I was excited for her to leave before she even arrived It’s just this sort of over-planning that allows me to survive At worst, she’s just “best in theory” The kind of ghost who just follows dogs around. Why don’t you yet remind me of the youth that’s behind me And fading fast, you have too much class. There’s too much “you” I like those who remind of how I followed so blindly whatever’s down the stairs If anything’s even there and if there was even a “you” What I brought up was not even in the scene They made it look just like I was lying I got so angry I couldn’t see, I woke up and was already driving Looks like I lost much more than hours I’m on a boat that I’d rather not talk about
2.
Hanger 21 04:03
All I see is progress and new buildings Move blankly straight forward until the bell rings Signifying either someone is right or Someone walked again, too deep into that night Pigeons act drunk around the fountain Make no headway, their steps just keep on mounting What exactly am I supposed to do With all this information that has nothing to do with you? Do you think that your distant history Is why your feet are always in such misery You can’t walk off what you likely can’t even seem There’s no accounting for taste, it’s true But nothing good can come of or from this dude Somewhere you’re still too young for people so crude Tubes and wires run deep into the distance Which becomes important to understand this instance Where the narrative ran amok When we didn’t account for his near super-human luck In all the dust that’s blown out of the smokestack We lost our footings and lost him at the last trap Now how are we ever supposed to show That he is the reason these buildings continue to grow. Something better than us, barely catches a bus And I’m supposed to be impressed?
3.
The New You 02:24
You know, your stupid horse jokes aren’t amusing You’re making the whole thing more confusing. So this “New You” is a lot like the “Old You” Except now you don’t use staples to hold together your shoes I don’t know how much more I can take Taking your woes on the road was a big mistake Even if you come back here kinda stronger Even if this path takes you a little longer So the “New You” is a lot like the “Old You” Neither of you could hold onto your booze We all know you’re so good at words I don’t know how you’ll top what you said to Earl But the lack of ice in your glass should be a warning I doubt you’ll be able to see me come the morning
4.
I hope you know better than to try and be obscene Cause you fit in there about as well as a thumb in a magazine But the mission was coming together Yeah, we almost knew what to do But then it came: all the newspapers described it all the same way It was a mission to the sun, that had another name: Magnifying Shame There was a darkness all around him, like he always had to sneeze “Here I’ll show you where the car is” he said to the sea Everything was glowing red which probably didn’t mean a thing. You’d be better served to treat you with more respect You’ve seen horrors overlap and often intersect But don’t you try to blame this on all this terrifying sameness That you described, it was buzzing all around high You expect a lot from folks who don’t even exist: Terrifying Twists
5.
“If I wasn’t afraid of curtains before, well I am now” You told him in the theater, much too loud I started to get that “nearby” feeling again When I heard about the damage to ceiling and your friend “Let’s pretend the episode just ends there” There wasn’t enough time left in her for fanfare Now go out and have an active night, they need you out there There’s scary things in all the windows, pretend you don’t care “Let’s pretend the episode just ends there” There wasn’t enough time left in her for fanfare He vomited skyward and it disappeared mid-air Someone go and figure out how to get him cab fare
6.
Infoshed 02:51
Until you’ve got another way to make it on the news One that doesn’t require footwear Then I’ll just sit here like a log, or however they say it Let’s just hope the signal is good there Now why would I care about any other moment Now let’s throw it back to Peter for Sports If this doesn’t get us arrested by morning Then I truly don’t know what will He was suffering, oh how he was suffering He made a horrible scene When he threw up on the caddy, we knew that he was batty But had no idea just how obscene He’s on a phone, in a robe made of foam I know where I’ll hide if they even try to find us I’m sure the Anchor has a “Wine Vault” We’ll just have to look in the cellar and the rooftop And if I’m wrong, it was the wine’s fault Now how could I lie about any other movement Let’s throw it back to Peter for Sports If this doesn’t get us killed within the hour Then I truly don’t know what will He was suffering, oh how he was suffering He stood there perfectly still. So they hid the money from him and pretended to be invisible. Which was a thrill to be relieved of the con They didn’t need all along
7.
Astricin 02:44
So you thought you were bending space and time And manipulating motion You said you were “more there to the left” And pointed to the ocean Your census proves itself, you’re both wonderful people All that pity and prestige coming from one, singular gene pool Oh, but over the horizon, there’s boats that are as strange as you and me Like us, they had to find direction when they couldn’t find the sea And you know how that goes We made it harder than it needed to be Instead of going through the motions It felt just like a year adrift at sea As we just practice locomotion She was so beautiful that her watch kept crashing It was always noon or midnight, she was always in fashion
8.
No, I mean the kind…the Mayonnaise Open it up to your fan base An ocean, so far away Will lead you home, via the bay Everything I need, I make up before you even get here You’ll bring this back to me and you, Like lately you’ve been tending to You talk like you were always on the news As if these stupid onions wouldn’t have grown out on their own As if we need another excuse to get you on a phone You know what your teeth do, they dominate They numbly follow your tongue, right off the plate And Carol as our tagalong is making zero sense I thought he could have hypnotized me in the present tense
9.
So then we started a band that had zero fans Seems that was kind of the point And you came down, from College Row With the flu and wearing some guy’s weird shoes And you were at your best when put to the test and You’ll snooze, you’ll lose and you did. Down by the foundry, we invaded each other’s personal boundaries And let the record show, what the papers already know You were robbed of your shadow, out on the patio While your dog just sat there There’s kinds of light in the hallway that helps in a small way Which is better than none I brought it up on the dance floor, the one place you abhor Even more than me. Some Christians march against their laundry Our town’s in a quandary, we’ve got problems like these With cavities filled in the porch, when your son used a torch On a bunch of snails.
10.
You only had the tools to deal with half of this, out loud And everyone is well aware of how you feel about crowds We know you’ll never feel that you’re for this world And everybody over there is always comparing you to “this girl” Carol was a nightmare when he drank cheap beer He’d work himself up to think that he was a seer I only have the time to deal with half of this, right now Unless you have another way to make it back from town Horace liked everyone to know that he was loaded He filled his house with rare cats and cash until it exploded But don’t expect to hear about it on tonight’s news They’re too busy getting kale and spinach confused There are words coming out that you don’t recognize right now You’re now further away from home then you thought you’d allow

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released August 12, 2018

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