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Vasectomy

by CHEER-ACCIDENT

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Behind a tree whose leaves don't fall Next to a bench uncovered The fading door still opens wide The bar still serves to midnight You know I wonder, I wonder how he saw it then Did he drink with a lover? More than 40 years it stands More than 40 years The trick of light still hides it well The element disguised it It only shines in afternoon You wouldn't want to spend it You know I wonder, I wonder if he saw it then Was he the one to hide it? More than 40 years ago See it -- how it's stayed the same Yet my eyes have altered it Knowing not where it had traveled Or the part it played See how it must never change But my eyes will alter it Still there's this moment to steal To see it feel it try it find it More than 40 years it lies More than 40 years Through 20 cities and 16 towns It carries me to the ocean It doesn't stop and it won't slow down It doesn't ask any questions You know I wonder, I wonder how he saw it then Did he ride to the ocean? More than 40 years ago
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Someday they'll hear this song Someday they'll know it Someday they'll know how wrong How wrong they were For ignoring it No they won't It's just a song No one's wrong For ignoring a song It's just a self-indulgence Now I'm near dead Forget what I said I wrote it for you Cause I'm wrong there, too I wrote it for me And now I can't even see What the point used to be (So maybe I'll turn into a businessman and die)
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Gosh 02:20
Maybe you have an answer Maybe you have an answer Maybe you have an answer Maybe you have the answer Maybe you're God Are you God? You're so beautiful You're so perfect You must be God I thought I found you once before Maybe twice before But they just ended up being human It got so boring I'm glad you're not boring I'm glad you're perfect God
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Don't brush against, don't bruise the certainties -- kernels Indispensable, at the center of being, grains of truth soft beneath a life's rough shell. Do not rupture, don't ruin mind's genitalia, home grown or paid for with tuition, prayed for and swallowed whole.
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mind all dead and body crying looking forward and seeing nothing the past is heavy and rich with promise future is stark and future is dying the present murders without trying without thinking there is nothing
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Information 04:12
Eating eating eating Not gaining any weight But not gaining any knowledge They consume what they can And then shit it out later In trivial banter Collect all the wordage And use it as roughage Describe non-experience
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Touch her meanings, pick, peel assumptions, and mace sprays from her tongue, the car keys gouge, feet kick and run. And him-- his certainty's like a wallet he needs to buy the world: he pats his hip ten times an hour, defends his creed with shouts and blows.
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Anachronism 01:37
trapped inside today but yesterday was so pure everything that's now is a lie
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Hope 04:18
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Meaning slips away Life remains-- but it's see-through and empty Action without motive Action without feeling Action without actual movement The movement's in the past Present looks to past But the past never gives-- it only hints At what the future will never bring and all I can do is stand here and watch all the glass break around me discarded action oppression prevails where's the emotion? there is no motion as humans, we've failed
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Unconscious 04:22
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Worldpain 00:26
What is happening to our world? (It seems like we're not even part of it)
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Concrete and steel: the buildings make up the walls of our cage Bones, blood, and flesh: we aimlessly walk through the man-made wake (We're barely alive we don't even see that we're part of the earth)
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Art 02:07
YOU KINDA GET TIRED OF BEING TEN-THIRTIED TO DEATH YA KNOW SO SO COULDJA EXPRESS ME PLEASE REALLY AND COULDJA MAKE IT QUICK I'M SORTA IN A HURRY TODAY OH THANK YOU THAT'S A PRETTY COLOR HOW MUCH WILL IT COST CAN I PUT IT ON MY CARD WANTS TO KNOW WHY IT'S GETTING SO HARD TO HEAR YOU WHAT WITH THE GARBAGE BAGS OVER THE WINDOW AND THE MUZAK SHITTING ON MY FOOD I NERVOUSLY UNWRAP THE TOY PRESIDENT AND WHILE VOMITING YOUR DESSERT DISCUSS HOW IT'S GETTING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN ONE'S OWN SEX ORGAN IN PRIVATE AND IN PUBLIC WE RUN TO GET TO THE WALK SIGNS SO AS TO NOT HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT'S BETWEEN OUR NOSES SAFETY FIRST WE JUMP OUT THE WINDOW ON FIRE AND THEN DECIDE TO COMMIT SUICIDE IT'S THE NEW AGE SO DON'T MAKE A MESS WHILE THE REST OF US TRY TO SAVE THE RACE FROM EXTINCTION AND FOR WHAT REASON SEEMS LIKE THERE USED TO BE A REASON HMMMMMM..... MAYBE IT'S AN ENDURANCE CONTEST
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Alone 01:25
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Beautiful 03:40
You might as well be beautiful Go ahead-- it doesn't matter I don't know you I can barely see you I could probably hear you if I tried This sickness doesn't see It only breeds And what it's doing to me: I can see how it feeds how it needs and needs and its seeds are growing and not letting me be free to leave

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released September 26, 1989

JEFF LIBERSHER- invisible dissonance and guitar
CHRIZ BLOGG- yosemite conditioning
LAURA BOTON- speaking
THYMME JONES- piano, vocals, drums, keyboards, trumpet
DAN BURKE- a sampled rhythm
CHRIS BLOCK- no bass
JITT LORBERSCHER- salamander jokes
DAVE ROBERSON- in the background
SUZANNE RAFALSKY- just as far in the background
JIM O'ROURKE- a guitar solo

Recorded in Evanston, Illinois
during parts of '86, '87, '88, and '89

Produced by SIBERIUS GNAT
COMPLACENCY PRODUCTIONS

Originally released on cassette.

Cover photo by Dan Barton

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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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