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Bring Your Own Brick

by samhears

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1.
I don’t care Where you’re from I don’t care Where you from Buy my album Or don’t It don’t make any difference Where you call home But bring your own brick Bring your own brick Buy my album: Bring your own brick
2.
I want it written in perfect language that I don’t stand behind this I want it recorded in the grand iron ledger with ink made out of god’s piss The squirrel climbed the ladder to eat nuts out of the gutter now it’s too fat for the return trip Language does matter wars aren’t won the morning after unless we refine the grift You see the language must be perfectly clear must be perfectly clear The language must be suitably appropriate get your best people up in here No abbreviations or sordid affectations it should be a good, clean read Syllabically sound on every occasion it won’t be perfunctory You understand the language must be perfect it must be kept perfectly clear And of course it must be sustainably aggregate get your best people up in here Cover all bases make it appear to be faceless to ensure there’s no room for posturing Go grab some metrics from verified sources and clear out the search history I won’t be remembered as the guy who stood by While the language fell bleeding out to the wayside
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Behind 02:57
That’s quite some fear You’ve got there Can you let me know Where I can get a pair of my own This is quite some cold We’ve got rolling up in here Me out in the rain You ascending your stairs There’s no telling What I’d do Just to be beside you If you’d unbound my hands I promise I can scratch my own mother fucking back If you’d forgive my sins I can eat those bloated ticks from off your fat fucking ass Those are quite some holes You’ve had Doug dig there Can you let me know Which is for shit and which is home There’s no telling What I’d do To get a load of you If you could let me in I would be forever in your debt If you could let me win I promise you a slow and painful death
4.
Hold your nose Don’t get to close That’s no budding rose He forgot to take his Megalatriphalinalin That damn coffin It’s never forgotten Everytime is to often Double the dose of Megalatriphalinalin A disastrous odor A slump in the corner It forgot to refill its order Of Megalatriphalinalin Use as directed 1 with your breakfast 2 before boarding 3 when in mourning 4 at the border 5 in that order 6 just after you feel your lips cease to exist Codone Corridors Ketamine catchphrases She demonstrated There’s nothing like Megalatriphalinalin
5.
The experts all agree They don’t know how the electric sea came to be Perhaps a tear in a pocket dimension Perhaps an overreliance on nuclear energy Whatever the case there it is Blinding the young who refuse to stop staring at it Don’t worry about them we can teach them to echolocate But for now let’s try and stay on topic Sail away with me To the electric sea We’ll hitch a ride on a nonconductive ferry Lather up in cream that deflects the current sea My best friend told me she’s been to the bottom And it charged all of her devices absolutely free I find the glow alluring but that ominous hum disturbs me I’d write this song if I can cross the electric sea Whatever the case I hope it never quits Being an ocean electric It is almost absolutely perfect If only it didn’t blind all those dumb ass kids Sail over me For I am underneath the electric sea If you could have seen what I’ve seen You’d be as blind as those stupid kids
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Cat God 03:30
What did I say? Where was I going? Oh yeah this way let me get back to showin’ What’s beneath The Cat God sleeps The Beast dreams peacefully That is until it gets hungry You know it’s stirring When it stops purring If I were you I’d sit down and listen If I were you I’d shut off my device In the beginning a kitty Found the world’s teat Then it grew bloated contracted devoted On this I can be quoted When it grew teeth It ate whole families The survivors dispersed To the four corners of the Earth If I were you I’d call in sick for work If I were you I’d make the goddamn time It’s a once in 9 lives Chance to see the slits of its eyes I can’t take your place Wouldn’t want those straws to go to waste Look at it the other way around We all end up hairballs in the ground If I were you I’d be proud food When the Cat God dreams We dream to
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Rebar skeleton is all that remains of him when the concrete crumbles the whole damn world groans Shattered glass and swivel chairs coffee mugs and keyboard hair when the concrete crumbles the whole damn thing shows And as the thing fell in I didn’t blink the whole time I’ve never felt this compelled to watch it all again in rewind Maybe we could push this shit in a cereal bowl on the box we could prescribe “if you survive you take home the gold” Sift through rubble with salad tongs keep the whole thing dragging on when your soft palate starts to bleed you should’ve stuck with blue cheese As it rakes across the tongue leaves the whole area feeling numb these concrete crumbles will take some getting used to It’ll grind your troubles down into a fine powder we could sell by the pound And if you finish a whole box then you’ll receive a voucher guaranteeing you more... Concrete Crumbles part of a balanced breakfast one bowl isn’t enough
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I broke every bone Just to make myself known I took the mystery from its eyes It slumped down paralyzed It’s all I’ve ever known The snap of a broken bone Every rigid edge Pushes me over that livid ledge Feel as though I shouldn’t have to ask To soften up my path So I’ll be askin Have you heard of the mighty Crackin’ Soon the world will pay out its eyes And I can doff my disguise Whom I lust will be awoken On the account that their bones be a’broken I know those bones will wait and mend They swear they’ll catch me around the bend But they’re just as fragile as before So I shatter them to the floor Now the crooks bend to a bow Floppy beasts can’t track me down What’s leftover I’ll grind Into a powder refined Mix with clay and water I’ll mould it into the shape of my moniker The world can’t support its weight It just wails as it deflates
9.
Shit it followed me here My trail of tears From the damp dark parts Eh it starts A sick in your brain Then a loss of restraint Then it tricks out your heart The better to tear apart I strive to find the words To condemn that habit of yours We’ll get the whole fucking family involved And I swear Damp dark parts Tear us apart Purge and purge again Scuttle those feelings Send them back into The damp dark parts Slip down the ravine Slop from the latrine Slapstick gone all wrong Grease up squeeze through the throngs Get them singing along To the dampest of songs Then they’ll do what you want If you’d just succumb And spread all of that filth No better than your damn ilk We’ll get the whole fucking family involved If you lapse Damp dark parts Tear us apart I can quit Whenever the I want
10.
No need to break them in I only need them for standing Nowhere to go Meetings over phone We made our choice Now we can’t be left alone Always watching Always quick saving No need to break a sweat I know a guy who is good for that His prices so low I don’t think he knows We made our choice Then we lost our voice It usually comes crawling back But maybe this time it’ll stay where it’s at Show me your best fit so I can snap you out of it Shoe me it better fit so I don’t have to break it in Leave me with benefits so I don’t have to work to bits Dump me in landfill filled with stuff used just a little What am I supposed to pull If seams were left out of the design When it’s threadbare Better to replace than to repair When we made our choice We thought we were on our own And now that we’re on our own We’re going down the only path shown Grant me a final request if it must end make it last Drag me out back the best defense a heart attack I will stand perfectly still so motion detectors can rest a little Above and below shark infested waters so I will know to quick load
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Non Believer 01:38
I don’t believe you I can see right through you When you lie to me I want you to die Now that you’re dead I cut off your head You can’t be brought back with that short stack Run me off the road Run me off the road Run me off the road I’m a non believer I’m a non believer I don’t believe in you
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Slow down pull over Let it out it’s trying to re-member How it formed the fist of its caretaker It’s place as a superior pretender Now it sticks out like a sore loser Cause it lost out on being a proper contributor It doubts it can handle loose change It counts if we keep within it’s range Now the doctors say I should amputate but it’s my thumb And my wife she says she can’t take me anywhere without my thumb I’ll have a hard time tapping out a 5/4 beat without my thumb I sit around twiddling absolutely nothing without my thumb It’d type it out but there’s a spot in its vision Which coincides with a mark of derision It wants to hide but it can’t grab the curtain And by its side conjoined dissociation Where did it go? It didn’t act like this back in it’s day It could at least phone It doesn’t have to end this way I guess this is just how we end up losing shit like thumbs Sort of thought it’d find it’s way back to me but it’s just a thumb I’ll have a hard time unlocking those smart things without my thumb I sit around twiddling my normal fingers without my thumb

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It's hard to truly escape into past fantasies when the present and future loom dark and uncertain. After two albums of recording unreleased songs I needed to remind myself that I can still write personal and visually provocative tunes. With my short and naive experience being an adult/american/artist I've decided to create my third studio album, Bring Your Own Brick, to explore raging apathy and somber empathy. With a sprinkling of feline omniscience.

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released May 1, 2019

Samuel Michael Christopher Luke

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