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Prime Motivator

by The Giraffes

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1.
well i dont' feel so fine the machine makes up it's mind and its searchingdown the line and it gives me some more time i need it i need it i need it BAM BAM BAM i'm trying baby i'm tyring we don't even care we don't even care stick around for the ambulance moving and i'll pretend that i know what i'm doing elctrocution and conditions improving we don't even care we don't even care if you want to try this machine of mine have a friend slam a crowbar into your chest every time that you think that you'll be catching your breathe and slam your heart to spine BAM BAM BAM oh try it baby oh try it we don't even care we don't even care stick around for the ambulance moving and i'll pretend that i know what i'm doing (garble) if you think you can prove it we dont even care we dont even care ambulance is on the road but it won't be here in time we don't even care we don't even care we don't even care we don't even care
2.
Done 04:27
you shot the best of 'em right down and then you claimed you own the town you put your name over the door somehow you never wanted more the other side of the thing is insane and they've given you a different name but they know how to keep it down yeah we do it that's how we do it i told ya yeah we do it that's how we do it on and on yeah we do it that's how we do it on and on yeah we do it that's how we do it let it go and i oughtta know and they will tell you so god damn you chase the rest of them around no one can keep a good man down they know how not to go get found this is there only stomping ground the other side of the thing is the same and they've given you a different name but you're ignorant to the sound yeah we do it that's how we do it i told ya yeah we do it that's how we do it on and on yeah we do it that's how we do it on and on yeah we do it that's how we do it there we go and i oughtta know and they will tell you so everybody left alive is gonna listen listen to it everybody left alive is gonna listen listen to it everybody left alive is gonna listen listen to it gonna listen listen to it gonna listen listen to it gonna listen listen to it babe and we do it that's how we do it and we do it so good yeah we do it so good yeah we do it that's how we do it and we do it so good yeah we do it so good yeah we do it that's how we do it and we do it so good yeah we do it so good yeah we do it that's how we do it and we do it so good yeah we do it so good
3.
big big terror give me big big smile and i feel a little itch i haven't felt in a while i can hardly contain the way i got my last paycheck on my last friday i leave it sittin in my lap got a lump inside my chest about the size of an egg i'm pushing in thru the back and make my way to the stage i'm gonna spread it all around i'm gonna spread it, spread it this is sickness i'll say anything just give me some more medicine this just may be the last of my days call the guidant corporation make sure to use my name then call the nearest electrician people i'm in some pain get on the radio to HQ maybe that means their gonna try to say i keep the magnets away i the same for microwaves they get inside my veins they take away my legs and i'm forgetting all your faces i'm forgetting all your names i got a pony in my ribcage and shes dragging me away i gotta make it thru the last song maybe thats insane i gotta do it to the death to the death to the death and i'm a give it all away because i'm mother fucking vain the press is on the way i got an image tro maintane this is business i'll say anything just give me some more medicine this just may be the last of my days getting sicker everytime we play getting sicker everytime we play check the ticker, check the ticker, check the ticker check the ticker, check the ticker, check the ticker and there's a first time for everything like everybody says and i do all the measuring that's me all fucking day i keep a smile while i'm measuring every fucking day i keep a smile while i'm measuring the festering the pestering and there's a last time for everything just might be today another line of questioning that don't get in the way it never was worth mentioning ah no it never was worth mentioning now was it this is sickness i'll say anything just give me some more medicine this just may be the last of my days
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Honest Men 04:38
here comes a man with the last of my medicine one more, one more a dog among men a slob among slobs one more time hands me a pill and he dont mean to mention it one more, one more my halcyon days are just gone one more time oh if you only knew what can happen to one honest man for telling the truth oh if you only knew one honest man one honest man secretly terrified must be american one more, one more i'm taking the high road and letting it slide one more time stockpile knives gunparts and vicoden so call up the boys take 'em all out for a ride dont give in when they beg you for rest you thought that you knew how much time you had left oh if you only knew what can happen to one honest man for telling the truth oh if you only knew one honest man one honest man do ya funk garble
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everybody says i'm too uptight and i spend too much time alone these are the same people friends of mine i rip em off GARBLE i'm as pure as a pretty little baby with a name that everybody hates when i make up my mind to get out of bed when the chubby baby legs start pressing the ground its time he was poor boy once but it didn't sit well having doubts about his friends movin out of his home town know he's looking for the best way to let everybody know just how far he's gone he's as pure as a pretty little baby with a face that everybody hates when i make up my mind to get out of bed when the chubby baby legs start pressing the ground its time thats what smoke machines are for help to spread the glow thats what I.C.U's are for let the good times roll and now i got a brand new best friend and now he knows just where i been and now i'm gonna use his name use his name on everything i ever have to sign again that's what smoke machines are for help to spread the glow that's what german names are for tell the inside joke i'm as pure as a pretty little baby with a thing that everybody hates when i make up my mind to get out of bed when the chubby baby legs start pressing the ground its time
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Clever Girl 05:07
well you must be making someone very rich she said to make a living off of trying to hard and you must be overdue now for a rest she says from time to time she makes some pithy remarks ah garble escapes from the great majority just like everyone else it's as easy as a counting 1,2,3 it's as easy as a counting 1,2,3 it's as easy as a counting 1,2,3 it's a simple formality wants respect from the great majority just lilke everything else it's as easy as a counting 1,2,3 its as easy as a counting 1,2,3 its as easy as a counting 1,2,3 a simple formality well you know you're very lucky to be sick she says everyday i work on new ways to show this and if she rattles off the things she won't miss like moi i get a million dollar smile that won't go ahhh
7.
mostly people say they can't believe that someone just like me can be still standing they can't believe how lucky mostly i agree lucky old me i feel the street press on my back i've seen the shoes of passers by relax and watch the sky i've seen machines i hear the beeps i feel the tubes go in my mouth and i try to pull 'em out didn't hurt i can't decide i didn't see no other side at all there was no pain it felt like sleep it was not mystical or deep and i didn't wave goodbye i have to stay away from things that have a dose of nicotine my friends i am allergic to magnets can't believe how lucky wouldn't you agree lucky old me i feel the street press on my back i've seen the shoes of passers by relax and watch the sky i've seen machines i hear the beep i feel the tubes go in my mouth and i try to pull 'em out i feel the street press on my back ive seen the shoes of passers by relax and watch the sky ive seen machines i hear the beep i feel the tubes go in my mouth and i try to pull 'em out
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you are speaking to a man has injured himself pass me the medicaid benefit applicaid holding it down taking my time municipal girl on the end of line tell me my numbers send me some batteries stay outta sight outta mind and the whole world is going to believe you get what you pay for t he first taste is free and theres something i heard something you'll see on this medicaid benefit applicay read it to me read it to me (repeat) and the whole world is going to believe you get what you pay for the first taste is free and theres something i heard aint nothing simpler rest of its gone
9.
i am at home i am at home i am at home and i'll fuck you so hard i am at home i am at home i am at home and i'm wanting more i get the best for me just me and my kids home, home, home and i'll fight you over every little bit and i say oh la di da la di da di da ah home, home, home is she speaking for a reason where is the evidence for me i want your hands up high up over your head and your waving your arms waving your arms looking like a hometown whore waiting on the bedroom floor absolute trust kept us going in the right direction will making war and demanding more you get the best from you just you and youre kids and were fighting over every little bit
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Diskowarts 02:11
where are the boys where are the GArble my friends no excuses so many uses my face will swallow GARBLE GARBLE my face will swallow the world
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Clever Boy 05:17
i know what you're thinking the solution to this so simple its shocking you're so smart you're lucky they taught you so well in spite of their own living hell want some advice here's what you do when you think you're getting away with it nothing nothing do what you will and you swear you won't try to keep it all still oh how you will oh how you will and so you're thinking of in this place there are names for what you've been spittin' on call it a feast throw your hands and drink in the sweet relief want some advice here's what you do when you know youre getting away with it nothing nothing do what you will and you swear you won't try to keep it all still oh how you will oh how you wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiill la da dee la da da ah when they say it was you and my friends what would you do all i need is time to get everything right (x12)
12.
louis, you see right thru me garble there's a home for youre garble though youre dying to kill me dying to kill dying to kill me dying to kill oh lou you don't know how i try i try to tell it like it is she wouldn't even look me in the eye someone's gonna die someone's gonna die tonight your guilty louis there's nothing more i'd like to do then to roll your body off of the side of the road your dying tro kill me dying to kill me dying to kill dying to kill me dying to kill oh lou take your fill i try to tell it like it is you wouldn't even look me in the eye someone's gonna die someone's gonna die tonight
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E.S.F 04:10

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released October 20, 2008

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