Ridiculous Trinkets

by Signal Valley

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1.
Sweat 10:34
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Grind those glutes, work those pecs Pound that iron, forty reps Press 250, sprint a mile Make your bones’ chakra smile You, you incompetent fool I will show you the light, just follow the rules In no time your soul will shine Ares build in seconds time Make your peace and depart this plane The only world you need is in your brain Sweat, sweat Now sweat your woes out Now sweat for the better of your heart Your mind, dripping in agony Nothing’s gained if you don’t hurt In no time your soul will shine Ares build in seconds time Hell can rain down waves of foes No match for your warrior pose It’s your own damn victory At stake, it’s your own Dream to forsake It’s your own sweat In no time your soul will shine Ares build in seconds time Down your ship goes, down your crew None of them were as tough as you Sweat! It’s your own life on your own time In times of sea and steel There was but one man who could do it all Reigned with fury and duty His kingdom could not fall Someday it will be you Someday your dreams will come true Just sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat No sign of despair No malfunction in his state of being Impenetrable force All-knowing and all-seeing LIfting mountains from the earth Melting glaciers with the heat of passion Hell did try to take him down Left the demons worn and ashen Now, my liege, your quest has just begun The demons are back on the run They’re going to block out the sun Unless you kill them first Now, onward, to vanquish the beasts Lay their cadavers at your feet Your name will be given to streets Unless you give up now You know the rules You’re no longer that shivering fool In no time your soul will shine Ares build in seconds time Make your peace and depart this plane The only world you need is in your brain Hell can rain down waves of foes No match for your warrior pose Down your ship goes, down your crew None of them were as tough as you Sweat of the gods rain down on your shoulders
2.
The Pursuit of Knowledge 03:06
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Sunlight blinding, never finding Answers to questions, learned no lessons I wanna know everything The pursuit of knowledge keeps me up at night Melting in the heat haze, death rays Mindless wandering, never wondering
3.
Vignette 02:52
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Dreaming, dozing, sleeping Ringing, waking, beeping Yawning, stretching, blinking Wondering, mulling, thinking Reading, eating, toasting Checking, browsing, ghosting Wasting, weeping, hiding Twisting, turning, biding Time until the next time and time after that, the time after that is mine
4.
Living on Autopilot 04:48
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It’s not so easy, you know I don’t know how the story of my life’s supposed to go It has an ending but I don’t know when And it’s far too late to begin again It’s not so simple, you know When the curtain opens to begin the show I’m saying words but I don’t know why Just waiting for some meaning to rain down from the sky Nothing is quite at all what it appears to be Not moving enough, need to find sense in this silence I can’t keep living on autopilot I can’t keep living on autopilot Time slows down to an endless crawl And I can’t stop staring at the back wall I’m used to thinking I’m never at my best I’m dead on my feet and I need to rest
5.
Skeleton 01:35
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Thoughts and urges trapped within a skeleton Heart’s desire trapped within a skeleton Lung inflation trapped within a skeleton Gastro-fire trapped within a skeleton Sharpened femur makes a spear to hunt Ligament whirlpool connects the dots Illness forces blood at bat to bunt Leukocytes join hands to stop the rot
6.
Ocean Home 02:57
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Adrift, blue above and below Lone blip on the radar Landward delirium I am not a captain but a quasar Guess I’ll call the ocean home I have no flag to fly of Romeo or Juliet I have no treasure to plunder I have no crew to mutiny against me Just the sun I’m under
7.
Vicious Mutant Alligators 03:49
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Vicious mutant alligators inherit the earth Crawling out of swamps/in the Everglades Luxury condos/drove them out in spades Ecosystem blight/loss of habitat Population down/force them to adapt Cannot hide for long/keep their scales intact Smog-infested wind/chemicals react Tar pollutes the lake/water turns to black Reptile revenge/go for the attack Taking to the streets/from the sewer drain Poison spread from man/modifies their brains Nobody suspects/yet to realize Bloodlust in their hearts/murder in their eyes Modern dinosaurs/hunting modern prey Landowners will not/live to rue the day Sacrificed, they thought/for new real estate Congregation feast/heads are served on plates Vicious mutant alligators will devour you whole Vicious mutant alligators masticate your soul Vicious mutant alligators astound with their girth Vicious mutant alligators inherit the earth Taller than the trees/longer than the road Teeth as sharp as swords/Gut acid corrodes Panicked citizens/flee the state en masse Soon their homes will be/overgrown with grass Tanks and fighter planes/can’t stave off the beasts No soldiers remain/to admit defeat Cities laid to waste/highways rendered dust Apex by design/in gators we trust
8.
I Can't Go to the Beach Anymore 02:25
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I can’t go to the beach anymore Where is the ocean, where is the shore? Dried out and arid, canyon behold There is no treasure, there is no gold I want to go home Raptor ribcages and pterosaur claws Power the vessels that fuel all the laws Interstates spread and they assimilate Nature into its gait Can you imagine a land without end Desert arena for death and their friends Slowly but surely collapse into dirt Even the thought of it hurts
9.
False Awakening 04:06
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Good morning, sun I haven’t seen you in a week or two I’ve been sulking in my hollow Good morning, sky It’s been a while since you caught my eye The air’s too hard to swallow So much for well-rested night after night So much for ten hours of sleep, no food before bed Hey wait a minute now There didn’t used to be a door here And it leads to a dwelling in a field The deer have headlights for eyes The rabbits hop in perfect unison Should’ve suspected this was not for real So much for lucid awareness and touch So much for whimsical flights of fancy and such End the cycle, no more Good morning, sun You look just like I remember I’ve been on vacation Good morning, sky The clouds you herald are floating by Avian tintinnabulation
10.
Dysfunction 02:30
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Do the thing. I should organize my shirts in the order I got them. I could bend a spoon with my mind, but a friend of mine in college bent a spoon with her hands, that seems much easier. I will not go to the park and throw rocks at people. That is bad. They’ll get mad at me, they might even throw the rocks back. I just don’t have the constitution for that!
11.
The End of Time 11:33
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At the peak of dusk, when I'm all alone I yearn to be beside you, but you're at home Nothing haunts my dreams, more than losing you I'd give up hours of sleep, what more can I do? When the moon is down at the witching hour You’re too far from reach at the top of the tower By the dawn I’ll climb, though the sun is gone When I meet your eyes, I’ll cherish you in song If there is a hope in the world that I Will see you again with my own two eyes Following the wind and the evening sky I can only dream and hypothesize If the seas dried up, I’d still sail to your shore heart If the sun flickered, if the moon exploded, it still wouldn’t kill me as much as being apart Soon we will live as one Like how the ocean meets the shore Like how my hand touches yours I'm lonely tonight and I miss you If you were right here then I'd kiss you I wanna see you I wanna feel you I wanna love you Until the end of time Of all the stars in the sky You're the one that catches my eye I'm cold and afraid and I need you If I was right there then I’d free you And how I miss the way you talk about the things that make you happy And how I miss the way you sang your favorite songs

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released January 12, 2024

vocals (1-11), synth (1-7, 10, 11), drums (1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11), electric guitar (1-3, 5, 7-9, 11), bass (1-4, 7-9, 11), organ (1, 2, 7, 11), 12-string electric guitar (1, 2, 9, 11), clavinet (1, 2, 11), shaker (1, 5, 11), tambourine (1, 11), mandolin (1, 8), rototom (1), trash cymbal (1), electric piano (2-4, 10, 11), electric grand piano (2), piano (3, 9-11), maracas (3, 5), drum machine (4, 6, 8, 10, 11), Mellotron (4, 8, 11), acoustic guitar (8, 9, 11), baritone ukulele (8), 12-string acoustic guitar (9), electronic drums (10, 11), text to speech (10), cowbell (11)

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