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GRAMLINS

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1.
gramlins 01:40
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2.
neoteny 04:21
little men, fortune ascribed searching for that space to cry infant boys under the skin they'll become the big victims gilded kings of violent dreams tricking fools with ancient means hide beneath the alpha's wing where cowards join and sing woah you and i both know how stupid rhymes time after time will capture artless minds so why run to your daddy now? 'cuz his prestige is under siege and cheap bromides are all you'll find shallow lines drawn up in rows take a sniff and watch them grow paper thugs with trebuchets cower while shit ricochets gruesome is your damage done paving way for number one while winning digits point your way
3.
inside he knows outside it grows those familiar foes and so he plays one flip, one phrase he'll win the children's praise heightened norms across the screen comforting while it's still green hiding in the laughter from the cold pianos and games one in the same an avarice to tame my childhood greed continues to feed into these grown-up needs lick my wounds with forkèd tongue kill the ache while it's still young feel like a child but that ape's still growing old pry open your mouth pearl sinking south at last we pluck(!) you out touching down one decade late tasting wise and smelling straight stretch my face around the tube warming agents, nothing new heat the blood to awake the tongue once more
4.
rabbits 06:56
gentle schemes of man, the objects we desire soft and beautiful, they crackle in the fire perfection only found in the circle it creates spiraling and branching off to replicate the precious ones, all in my hands not for me to understand fleshy slaves to dissonant cognition pray pray for those and prey on those who won't obey dedicated to this vestigial tale function served, as we all prepare to fail and I should know, from where i stand father's tusks, they will demand dark horns below us sound through the din nothing before had ever rung so clear tend to the rabbits as we both deny the fragile nuisance looming ever-near
5.
It's a God-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling, "No" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on America's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a saddening bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man, look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?
6.
Been waitin’ a long, long, long time, For things to come together, Everything I want is mine, Couldn’t ask for any better Any better Any better Been waitin’ a long, long, long time, It is now forever. Years and years will go by, nothing could be any better Any better Any better
7.
Tears of the feeble Hands of the slaves Skin of the mothers Mouths of the babes Building the towers Belongs to the sky When the whole thing comes crashing down Don't ask me why Don't ask me why Under the shelf The shelf of the sky Two eyes, two suns Too heavenly blinds Swallowing rivers Belongs to the sea When the whole thing washes away Don't run to me I'll be going down For the rest of the slide While the rest of you harvest the gold And the wreck of you Is the death of you all And the wreck of you is the break and the fall I'm the wreck of you I'm the death of you all I'm the wreck of you I'm the break and the fall Under the red break of the lights Heroes in the stretches Inch to the site Blowing the pieces Belong to the wind When the whole thing blows away I won't pretend, no I'll be going down For the rest of the ride While the rest of you harvest the souls And the wreck of you Is the death of you all And the wreck of you Is the break and the fall I'm the wreck of you I'm the death of you all I'm the wreck of you I'm the break and the fall Behind the blood-red brake of the light Lies the wreck of you for the rest of your life And the wreck of you Is the death of you all And the wreck of you Is the break and the fall I'm the wreck of you I'm the death of you all I'm the wreck of you I'm the break and the fall While the rest of you harvest the gold While the rest of you harvest the souls
8.
Gifts I'm preparing For some Christmas sharing But I pause because Hanging my stocking I can hear a knocking 'Zat you, Santa Claus? Sure is dark out Ain't the slightest spark out Point my slackened jaw ... Are you bringing A present for me Something pleasantly Pleasant for me? Then it's just What I've been waiting for Would you mind Slipping it under the door? Cold winds are howling Or could that be growling? My legs feel like straws ... Yes, hanging the stocking I can hear a knocking 'Zat you, Santa Claus? Oh there, Santa You gave me a scare Now stop teasing 'Cause I know You're there We don't believe In no goblins today But I can't explain Why I'm shaking that way...

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SMELL - GRAMLINS

© 2021 by patrick scott barry

"GRAMLINS" is a collection of tracks I recorded circa 2016-2018 under the "Gramlins" moniker. for the sake of keeping things tidy I decided it is now official SMELL canon. the cover tracks got a new remixing/remastering but i left the original GRAMLINS tracks as originally released. i prefer to live with my mistakes from time to time.

credits

released April 2, 2021

recorded between 2016-2018 at Twin Tabby Studios (Allston MA) and Twin Tabby Studios Slightly West (Marlborough MA)

tracks 1-4 written/performed/engineered/mixed by patrick s. barry
tracks 5-8 performed/engineered/mixed by patrick s. barry
additional mixing on "rabbits" by christopher g. brown

backing vox on "rabbits" by gina monafo

tracks 2-4 mastered by devon wedge
tracks 1, 5-8 mastered by LANDR

all music and lyrics by patrick s. barry except:

"life on mars?": music/lyrics by david bowie
"any better": music/lyrics by abram taber
"limo wreck": lyrics by chris cornell/music by matt cameron & kim thayil
"zat u sanny claws (or like wtf)": lyrics by jack fox/music by patrick s. barry

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