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RIP Trilobites
01:37
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All around us the planet is dying
No wait it's fine; we're only a thin film of life on the surface
The planet is in need of our protection
No wait it's fine; we were only protecting ourselves
Four-plus billion years have made one thing very clear:
This big dumb rock doesn't give a fuck who's living on it
Your life depends on biogeochemical cycles
Our lives depend on biogeochemical cycles
The ocean is filling with plastic
Seabirds are dying and the water's increasingly acid
Deforestation turned into a serious habit
Now we grow methane cows and diesel plows instead
Four-plus billion years have made another thing very clear:
Successful species aren't immune to mass extinction
Your life depends on biogeochemical cycles
My life depends on biogeochemical cycles
Don't go fuckin around with biogeochemical cycles!
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Campaign Finance
02:33
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Isn't it discouraging when well-intentioned authority figures are wrong wrong wrong?
And doesn't it make you sick when they're bribed and killed and tricked into playing along? Oh no!
They get away with murder operating in broad daylight because:
because it wouldn't be legal if somebody else made the laws laws laws!
Ronny Regan's in your pocket; I've got honest Abe and Washington in mine mine mine,
No Bennies, no Ulysseses, no human fingers touch the assembly line. Oh no!
The phone you called your mother on came partly from a conflict mineral mine; it's true.
Just keep checking Facebook. Drink Pepsi. You'll probably be fine.
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Dresden
02:56
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The ashes on my hands won't come off in the water
Watch them billowing high from the opposite riverbank
Dancing fly-ash air: the softest reminder
The clouds have dusky undersides tonight
They painted tiny rainbows on the water as they flew overhead
Avarice and rage replaced with envy for the dead
Caught between the Winter and the sum of our wrongs in Dresden
Caught between the Winter and the sum of our wrongs in Dresden
We left Mizube park with an empty horizon
A thunderclap so loud it disappeared into smoke
No one ever told them "look away from the window"
Her AV cables torn until the end of the show
We sounded Isaac's trumpet call as we flew overhead
Avarice and rage replaced with envy for the dead
Caught between the summer and the sum of our wrongs in Nagasaki
Caught between the summer and the sum of our wrongs in Dresden
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Robot Children
02:57
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The Earth has been invaded by psychopathic giants
Returning home to conquer their creators
And everyone is The Manchurian Candidate:
You could be their agent and it's already too late
"Cause they're painting little rainbows on the water
Smoking tall cigars and shaving the ground
They are robot children and we really feel we need them
The World fits right in their hands
Fits right in their hands. Oh no!
And there are those who serve them by breathing in the vapors
And others more by giving up their lives
But we are eating ice cream 'cause the robots like us better
And the dead live far away so we don't mind at all
That they're painting little rainbows on the water
Smoking tall cigars and shaving the ground
They are robot children and we really feel we need them
The World fits right in their hands
Fits right in their hands. Oh yeah!
We had a bad El Niño Summer
And a Red October Autumn
Nuclear Winter and Silent Spring
And you can feel the end a coming
it's flowing under the doorway
Here it is: the final gift they bring
After they painted little rainbows on the water
Smoked up tall cigars and shaved the ground
They were robot children and we felt we need really need them
The World fits right in their hands
Fits right in their hands!
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Deuterostomous
02:51
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Deuterostomous
Deuterostomous you were an anus before you were anything else in the world
Deuterostomous in before eyelids, a cranium cavity, fingers or femurs
Deuterostomous the mouth that took so much more from the Earth than your anus can leave it
Deuterostomous growing like magic before you had the cognative depth to percieve what you were doing stomous
Do do dooo do doo doo
Do do dooo do doo
Do do dooo do doo doo
Do do dooo do doo
Deuterostomous you did not ask to be born when your innocence died of consumption
Deuterostomous you were an anus before you were anything else in the world
Deuterostomous in before eyelids, a cranium cavity, fingers or femurs
Deuterostomous the mouth that took so much more from the Earth than your anus can leave it
Deuterostomous taking and taking and taking but whatchu gonna do with everything you tooken stomous
Do do dooo do doo doo
Do do dooo do doo
Do do dooo do do do do do do do do do do do do do dooo
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HOT MEMOS FOR A HOT PLANET
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