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Speedbumps
03:27
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Speed bumps
you try to slow me down
in a fast world
you try to hold me down
with your slow words
it's not your fault
I see planets
you see suburbs
we started out with the same goals
same love
same lifestyle
6 musicians from the same mold
same highs
same lows
same clubs
same shows
watching all our colleagues get hot
while we stayed cold
immune system down
you caught the bug
stopped the head nod
started to shrug
start to plant root
cable TV
start to think "I"
stop thinking
"we" always laughed at
people who fell for the blue collar trap
and the college degree but as
as time goes by you
start to wonder
who'll be laughing further down the line
it's all about time.
Speedbumps? G, for me it was like "speedspikes..." laid a slick little trap at night... at the height of the ride when everything I thought was all right, pulled some shit that makes a nigga wanna (fight).... threw a speedbump when you was tryin' to speedball, go ahead with ya bad self because it's all good - for the karma, for the honor, for your mama, for the house, for the wife, for the change-the-baby drama. But I still love you, and I'm understanding better, I'll never be clever enough to put some hella cheddar before dreams, my love (after) material things, in search of what "the good life" means. It's a tough recovery but I'll be fine, and for a lack of hope in hard time I pray you stay blind... so do your thing and I'll do mine and in time we'll sit back and all laugh. Ha.
Immune system's down,
you caught the bug,
stopped the headnod,
started to shrug...
start to plant root,
cable TV,
start thinking "I,"
stop thinking "we" always laughed at the people who fell for the blue collar trap and the college degree but as time goes by you start to wonder who'll be laughing further down the line. It's all about time.
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Punchdrunk Love
02:23
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When I first saw you, girl, I knew you had it in you (and I gots ta get it out). I rushed down to the hardware store, got some sheeeet for ya. Hey. First thing you're gonna do is lose a tooth. I wanna hear you spit my name when I bring the pain. I'm gonna tie you to a tree, leave you in the rain. I'm gonna sand down those lips, see if they kiss the same and if you struggle, we'll have to start again.
Send you home with bloody pants and half a foot. I'm cookin' toes up in the microwave to watch 'em dance. Teach ya - wash your hands. Captain hook ya with a fryin' pan. Come to visit, fill your body cast with fire ants.
Tear your whole shit apart. Lock you up in a room made of darts.
I'm gonna get a bottle, baby, shatter your nose and smash your teeth... cover you with gasoline... light you up just to see... I'm gonna get a bottle, baby, shatter your nose and smash your teeth... cover you with gasoline to see burnin' beauty in my dreams.
OOOOOOooooooh, I'll take my baseball bat right to the small of your back... then send you out to pick a switch. I'm gonna beat your ass, baby, have you burnin... screamin... sounding like "yeaasrgarggggggggghhhhh!"
I'm gonna get a bottle, baby, shatter your nose and smash your teeth... cover you with gasoline... light you up just to see... I'm gonna get a bottle, baby, shatter your nose and smash your teeth... cover you with gasoline to see burnin' beauty in my dreams.
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Well is it politics or pressure?
Measure life for nothing lesser
stressin me for what?
Because you know what's better?
We're talking about those in the preacher role
a student on stage with the teacher voice
and the choice of course is yours but what's the cost?
philosophies and ego trips that mean shit
you can't possibly think that reading a bunch of Michael Moore books and rehashing Public Enemy hooks is inspired
because you're wired off them soy chai latte drinks
ready to prove
killin the truth
neo-fascist is you
Wow - you're a vegan?!
I'm glad you're leading the troops against the troops in a campaign to keep the Bad Guys from getting paid too much
your bad guy rhetoric
sounds quite confederate
illegitimate - better yet just pass me a cigarette
Got a light?
God, I need some more advice
and I gotta stop living wrong
put more life into what you write
you need to stop with those songs.
Leave me be... to my own demise... and your words won't change my mind.
Your life, your experience
ain't what's really right for me
love life for experience
maybe only then you'll see
Brother please get off it - that "whoa is me" morbid hoopla
can't endorse it
more pissed when you force it
Got time? Don't ignore it
ever drink? ever got high? Oh, I forgot, you're that guy
don't knock mothafucka just try
you might be inclined to just live a little this time
Anti everything
pro at nothing
just because the youth follow suit doesn't mean you ain't a cufflink
authority on nothing
every generation thinks it's smarter than it's parents but it's not
it just hasn't learned you can't fit a round world into square holes,
or take a whole system of thought down with action-less, unbearable, ironic rap parables
what's really ironic is you preaching hard times while you take the easiest route
it's EASY to pump those fists
EASY to sell those records sounding like this,
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK BUSHHHHHHH ETC."
Rock show politickin never did shit.
Your life, your experience
ain't what's really right for me
love life for experience
maybe only then you'll see
Arggghghghghghgh
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Bad Rabbits
03:41
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I'm not a trapper
you're not a rabbit
so don't look at me like that.
I want your old face back.
I had four days of silence
three days of starving
two days of blood-knuckle boxing and hitting the wall
and one day to just lose it all.
Uncivilize yourselves
jump from the highest cliff
down to the bottom shelf
shed off your First World skin
sleep in a cave again
For tweny-four hours
we stayed on our backs
we were the happiest rabbits
in the happiest cage.
With soap in my eyes
I catalogued you like a crime scene - here a shoulder, there a breast
it might've been a baptism if I weren't pawing at you.
It's too late you untaste the fruit.
Uncivilize yourselves
jump from the highest cliff
down to the bottom shelf
shed off your First World skin
sleep in a cave again
start a fire again
'til we're monkeys picking things off monkeys again
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I Life
04:29
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(lyrics by Blak)
Slave to passion for this life everlasting / heaven after death is the truth that they masking / so I'm blasting all this contradict tough talk / anglo-saxon irrelevant con art you damn right I'm a' catch the holy ghost on this track / go get the usher - I'll push his shit back / understand that this lifetime is bigger than your petty grind in due time you'll see the jewel in this line my friend it takes time / they weave lies / it's the eyes that wreak havoc on a weak mind so speak wise cause your words hold a heavy price / just a caution of (the) divine in this I life
hook: Livin the I life cause it's my life / well I gotta get it right in this time life, the I life, cause it's my life / do or die / I gotta get it right this time
Well I invite you to take a glance into my vital / ever present mode of survival / based on recital issues that be so deep / they just as real as street / I'm twisting in my sleep cause waking life giving me creeps I'm trying to make my moves / still thinking in terms of twos / when I know "to be" will bring out the death in me / attempt to intervene in between what all it means / in hopes of living dreams in this scheme of money things... then it came to me - the bullshit of this life, of greed - and I start to see it ain't no friend of me / I'm thinking on a higher plane to fulfill desire so i can clarify a need to dispell the fire 'cause it's this lifetime and I need to get it right / God please see me through the night in this I life
hook
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Gavin Castleton Portland, Oregon
Gavin has released 9 solo albums and 8 EPs. Over the last two decades he has performed and recorded with acts like The Dear Hunter, Gruvis Malt, Ebu Gogo, Paranoid Social Club, Sage Francis, Club D’elf, Lex Land, Facing New York, and One Drop.
Gavin Castleton recommends:
Alive and Alone
by Apres Vous
Beautiful and vulnerable EP from The Dear Hunter guitarist and backup vox guru Rob Parr.
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FutureCastle (2017)
by FUTURECASTLE (Rare Futures + Gavin Castleton)
Here's a fun EP of covers I made with my dear friends and long time collaborators in Rare Futures!
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The Other Side
by VAVÁ
A very talented songstress and guitar shredder with deep pocket.
go to albumIf you like FortNightShift EP (2005), you may also like:
Maximum Unicorn
by Gruvis Malt
supported by 7 fans who also own “FortNightShift EP (2005)”
Early "King Crimson", "Van der Graaf Generator", Frank Zappa... those are the names that come to my mind while listening to this bizarre and extraordinary album. I've found it in Alan Benjamin's collection, which is one of my primary sources of inspiration on Bandcamp. "Grüvis Malt" called it quits after this release, and the band members pursued various other music projects, which are quite interesting as well.
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FutureCastle
by FUTURECASTLE (Rare Futures + Gavin Castleton)
supported by 6 fans who also own “FortNightShift EP (2005)”
More fire tracks than Back to the Future. Someone lock up Gavin. He's an arsonist.
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Panodrama
by Chirag Todi
Crisp, taut pop-rock from Chirag Todi that incorporates jazz and funk into its dazzling arrangements.
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