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No Prancing Required

by School for Robots

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1.
Saddlebag 02:18
No matter what you say, No matter what you do They're comin' after you They're comin after shattering the day to wallow in decay, They're comin' after you They're comin' I don't want you in my saddlebag Don't want you in my saddlebag How much do you weight? It's making me sway I don't want you in my saddlebag Don't want you in my saddle When you're leanin' that way You're leanin' that way You're damned if you do and if you don't it will come through that your free will is not your own, you're just a human stepping stone for powerful precious unknowns in towers full of catapults and stones standin' on mountains of our bones No matter what you say, no matter what you do You've had it, you are through and no there's nothin' you can do to delay the rampant runniin' dismay They're still comin' after you, they're comin' I don't want you in my saddlebag Don't want you in my saddlebag How much do you weight? It's making me sway I don't want you in my saddlebag Don't want you in my saddle When you're leanin' that way You're leanin' that way
2.
god you look terrible, i know you get this all the time why's it so unbearable to sleep together in this slime preservative propriety is crumbling from corporate crime these fearless creatures give a shit but only when it's on their dime how's about another punch up drunken in your wedding gown keep on sloshing thinking of the time you never wore a frown then pick up all the pieces of the glass that broke when you fell down and go on carry your head high as you parade throughout the town how's about i just refrain from all these people as long as they still congregate inside my steeple why are you laughing at the way that i wear my hair did your mother never tell you that it's not polite to stare people in the street are hungry for a new dichotomy never thought they'd all just sit and wait for a lobotomy well here we are standing in a new dimension that you made and don't you wonder why violence doesn't make people that afraid did you ever peer inside a vintage mirror and wonder if the image had ever been clearer well strip away the silver backing and it's just a pane of glass with visions from the present future people echoing the past god you look terrible, we haven't slept for a week why aren't you available to come around and take a peek at the image you created through the hands of the elite who's inheriting this now, i know it surely ain't the meek god you look terrible god you look terrible why's it so unbearable to make what's my mine shareable god you look terrible god you look terrible create a new parable and make our clothes wearable god you look terrible, god you look terrible god how's about i just refrain from all these people as long as they all keep inside like docile sheep I'll look away from the cop kicking you in the shin and pretend i don't see mice elf in their shiteating grin God you look terrible god you look terrible God, you look terrible
3.
Scary Things 03:45
If we’re frightened by that which we don’t understand then let’s get to know scary things Mountains of flaws beyond our command without with there would be nothing Nothing to speak of and nothing to sing But nothing is something to me Plaguing my mind with mediocrity celebrated for making us free Making us free, making us free How can this be making us free To demand instant magic from magical machines ones and zeroes hemorrhaging The moment that sparked this mechanical scheme is only a distant memory Too many people, not enough dreams turning nightmares into reality Talking a lot about scary thing They’re becoming one but they can not see It’s starting to show, starting to show Why don’t we know how that scary things grow That’s why I’m getting to know, getting to know Getting to know, getting to know I’m getting to know scary things Turning nightmares into my dreams
4.
Insomniac 03:41
I don't know what you're doin' but I know that you're doin' it wrong You wake up in the morning and you're in bed 'fore the break of dawn I don't know what you're doin' but I know that you're doin' it wrong! You've got your head on shoulders but you'll never sing my favorite song. It goes: I'm a little insomniac, caught up in my own mind. Don't know exactly where it's at, but I'll find it in time. I don't know what to do with myself, I am just a lonely boy. I never hear what I've been told when sittin' here playin' with my toys. Pushin' up daisies with my feelers out, buzzing exposed. And I don't even count the hours lookin' at my hands and my toes. When I become an insomniac, caught up in my own mind. Don't know exactly where it's at, but I'll find it in time by playing horsehoes with my cat, collecting bottles of wine. Pickin' lint off of my hat and I think I look real fine. But no one's gonna see me, no one's gonna see me at this time. Just me in the mirror facial features contort into lines. My life is just a movie perpetually stuck in rewind. No one's gonna hear me if I whisper backwards out this rhyme: That I'm a little insomniac, caught up in my own mind. Don't know exactly where it's at, and I think I'm out of time.
5.
Why don't you take a look around ,slap that boot down on the ground (HEY!) Go 'head boy take a look around, hear that boot when it makes a sound (HEY!) Why don't you take a look around, slap that boot down on the ground, go 'head boy take a look around, hear that boot when it makes a sound (HEY!) Floppy boot stomped down to the ground I stomped that boot all the way across town Walkin' through the forest I done seen a ghost Made my way to my mother host she cooked me breakfast and buttered me toast and said...HEY!
6.
Are you feelin' defensive? Out of control? You got tiny demons clutchin' at your soul and you can't enjoy the things that once brought you joy and you're bored with your job cuz you're underemployed (that's when you gotta) Put it in your pocket, put it in your pocket sometimes Put it in your pocket, put it in your pocket when you cry Are you feelin' lots of pain? Prescribed anti- pills? Blubberin' at the mouth? Over the hill? You've got 17 bibles but you don't know one verse You keep thinkin' about your trip in the hearse (you gotta) Put it in your pocket, put it in your pocket sometimes Put it in your pocket, put it in your pocket 'til you die
7.
Shiny Button 04:41
Got me starin' at my shiny button Keep on clicking but it don't show nothing Never sated I'm a tiny glutton Just a crawl away, but won't come out and play Keep on gawkin' though I should be walkin' Sit here stalkin when i could be talkin' Have another trip around the clock and all we say was said yesterday Say something new that will surely entertain Say something true, or make it up it's all the same Trivial Goo leaks from our collective brain just leak away (today) See what we're doin when we're doin' nothin' Feel what we're feelin' when we're feelin' somethin' Eat when we're eatin' have another muffin and roll away in our mind puree Say something new To keep me clickin' on the shiny button Clock is tickin' but we're learnin' nothin' Never sated you tiny glutton, Hey, why dontcha stay there starin' at the shiny button Keep on clickin' though it shows you nothin' Never stop typin' out your minced word mutton but who's gonna listen when it all comes crashin' down ...maybe now i should try to say something but the words they still amount to nothing Although my head's filled with trivial stuffing, I'm day dreamin', just day dreaming', i'm day dreamin' through life for something new that will surely entertain Say something true Or make it up it's all the same Trivial goo leaks from all our fucking brains Just leak away and keep us clickin' on that shiny button keep on clicking on that shiny button
8.
Valentine 02:08
Would you love me in the morning rain Will you hold me when I'm old and gray Would you hug me on a windy day Will you shield me from the pouring rain And I'll take you out The day after Valentine's Day To avoid the crowds You're not like them anyway Will you keep me in between Your waking life and your dying dream Will you meet me when we're asleep To keep my brain from counting sheep And we'll go to the beach on a Wednesday So we can be the only ones in the waves Maybe a comedy for a matinee So we can laugh and dance the night away
9.
3D Life 03:20
He was born alive with human eyes 
but one pointed outward up to the sky 
and the view was rather small   A five year old who was never told 
why his two hands became twofold 
when the double vision lied   Oh life went on the same within a paper plane  With paper people too, a paper me and you   The celestial sphere didn't cause much fear 
with objects closer than they appeared  He'd never stop too short when the polar planes contort   Oh life went on the same  within a paper plane 
with paper people too, a paper me and you   But then the day came to realign his brain  with an expanded view he wasn't used to  The eye was sliced, incisions so precise  Muscles sewed onto a red eye that once was blue   But with a forward gaze through diplopia haze  A world came into view that he had never knew  And he was interlaced in three-dimensional space   now he walks the street with 3d feet  And all the 3d people that he meets 
have faces once beguiled   i've got a 3d life, no depth perception strife I'm gonna cut my bread with a 3d knife And it's lovely livin' on that layer   Oh life is not the same I done crashed the paper plane  And the paper people came true and so did paper me and you
10.
I can picture wind blowin' in your eyes I read the scripture, all I heard was lies Nobody wakens the dead with lullabies Await the rapture 'til you're paralyzed YOU GOT IT ALL but aren't satisfied You lived the life but are gonna die YOU GOT IT ALL but aren't satisfied Until we're all in rapture paradise i can picture my head in my hands and feel the weight of a grain of sand slip through my fingers cracking dry in the heat and those four horsemen nipping at my feet THEY GOT IT ALL but aren't satisfied They lived he life but are gonna die WE HAD IT ALL but aren't satisfied Until we're all in rapture paradise YOU HAD IT ALL but aren't satisfied You lived the life but are gonna die WE HAD IT ALL but aren't satisfied Until we're all in rapture paradise Yeah we're all caught in rapture paradise

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Recorded in a Somerville, MA garage by Curtis Killian.

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released June 8, 2012

Produced by Curtis Killian and Luke Sullivan.
All songs written, engineered and mixed by Curtis Killian.
Additional mixing and engineering by Luke Sullivan.
Mastered by Luke Sullivan.
Cover photography by Frank Hegyi.
Album Design by Curtis Killian.

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