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Sever Roots, Tree Dies

by CHEER-ACCIDENT

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Corporate lies Acquisitions of industry Must retain A facade of democracy Rising above The ethics of things Does not mean That that is the way it should be We rule the world The financial maze We make it safe For future gains "We Light Your Way!" So send the children to bed Feed them tomorrow Pale hope as their bread Syndicate autocracy Homogenous prosperity
3.
Uncle Dale 02:56
4.
Hadean eyes that burn on Sweat-soaked sheets that bind me Lady/Pain release me (make me feel) Why can't I be free? (make me feel) Reality doesn't change Only the names change To protect the lies Let's keep the lies alive By feeding them every day Look in the mirror Smile at what you see Ignore the three-foot metal pole That juts out of your skull and smashes Little seven-year-old Christine in the face Making her bleed all over The freshly waxed floor that shines like Well, it shines like it never really knew The meaning of the word "Hell" Until maybe, well maybe, oh well It probably still doesn't know the meaning of Or even the Oh well- small talk rides to work To get paid to work And to get paid to ignore it To get paid to avoid it To forget where he put it
5.
Severed 04:50
Tell me a lie Or tell me the truth It's not that it matters As long as we speak Binds cannot hold When severed in two Telephone lives and empty envelopes Root severed, tree dies Say what you will Believe what you like But don't you recall that I was there too? Grasping the sheets and calling your name No message received, no knock at the door Root severed, tree dies Remember when you looked my way? Believing that we felt the same And now you're just another faceless Memory
6.
Heaven 07:14
Saw you standing there Why weren't you crying Thought I killed you Got rid of you Why'd I choose to stay? I stay In Heaven Everything's so very perfect here Except for you Why don't you go? Leave my soul Maybe I'll just go Leave you here Alone But they tell me it's forever Guess we'll have to stay this way Together Couldn't lose you Though I tried and tried I even died But now I see We're still me
7.
You have a culture We want a culture But can only come up with Slick imitations Without any substance We're the oppressed Comfort has robbed us Of the most primitive skill The ability to feel You are the living You are the feeling We are nothing Complacency's robbed us From the beginning Of any real meaning Please take this heed It's happening to you In much the same way As it happened to us
8.
My name is John I'm here to play on the swings The sun is very warm And I'm happy to be here I love the world And God gave me this park I'm free to roam at will And I'm happy to be h... Look what they've done to you Punish you Frightened boy Hand's on the stove agin Wrong again Guilt machine Shrink to your room again No one can Hurt you now Scream to yourself again No one can Hear your pain Life died inside of you Long ago Kill the pain Nothing can penetrate Fear and hate Isolate Stark white reality burns an impression Indelibly set upon the frailty of youth In life suspended, in life suspended
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Tree Dies 03:37

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Chuck Heston appears courtesy of the local video rental outlet.
Don’t bother suing us, we haven’t got it.


produced by
PHIL BONNET
and
CHEER-ACCIDENT


engineered by
PHIL BONNET


front cover by
THOMA


back cover by
ENZYME


recorded
APRIL through JULY 1988
SOLID SOUND STUDIOS
Hoffman Estates, Illinois



a COMPLACENCY production
These people need
to be thanked:


Brad Schlueter (more things to hit)
Mark Sorenson (infant squared)
Scot Ashley (guitarlend)
Scott Prochaska (guitarlind)
Dan Burke (guitarlund)
Ted Dominick (who else would have a mellotron?)
Chris Lahey (greenish junk)
Sir Playland (round metal things)
Bill Martin (hi Bill)
Georgia Gilbert (she was a baby at the right time)
Wendell Jones (fly balls)
Mike Greenlees (name it)
Jane Bouzek (she laughed)
Dan Barton (centrifuge)
Virginia Schwartz (voice tip)
Jane Jones (likes to read)
Chuck Radtke (religious consultation)
Elaine Rangel (if you look closely)



originally released on vinyl 1988 (Complacency)

credits

released August 14, 1988

Chris Block- basses, piano, vocals, guitar
flute, tapes, samples
aluminum & mellotron

Thymme Jones- drums, piano, vocals, trumpet
percussion, tapes, samples
opus III, centrifuge & mellotron

Jeff Libersher- guitars and upbringing

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CHEER-ACCIDENT Chicago, Illinois

Born during the first few seconds of 1981; many decades later: still here.

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