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Rough

by Gene Israel

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1.
Firewater 04:46
We're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water Our lungs are full to the brim with sulfur and we're all feeling a little bit hotter Yeah we're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water I got an obsession with a bottle, this lady who knows I bought her My lies keep flowing like honey love and I'm goin' down below when I aimed for above And I'm comin' through your life like a heart attack and Im just trying to get my bottles back And so I trade them out for another spine, a better me that's dead on the vine And I'm an idiot full of fury and sound so let's get this merry-go goin' around We're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water Our lungs are full to the brim with sulfur and we're all feeling a little bit hotter Yeah we're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water I got an obsession with a bottle, this lady who knows I bought her I'm banging hard on the door and I'm feeling a little hungry so I'm eating the poor and I'll save the meek for my just desserts, a sentence without sense to quench my thirst Cashed in all my Mercy and Grace to save a little shame while I'm savin' face I'm the canker of this cruel world casting to this swine all my pearls We're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water Hell is creeping just a little closer so we're all feeling a whole lot hotter Yeah we're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water I got an obsession with a bottle, this lady who knows I bought her Hahaha! What were you thinking?! Take another drink, I said take a drink, I said x6 'Cuz I'm an idiot full of fury and sound, so let's keep this merry go goin' around We're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water Our lungs are full to the brim with sulfur and we're all feeling a little bit hotter Yeah we're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water I got an obsession with a bottle, this lady who knows I bought her We're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water Hell is creeping just a little closer so we're all feeling a whole lot hotter Yeah we're drinkin' firewater, yeah we're drinkin' fire water I got an obsession with a bottle, this lady who knows I bought her I'm the canker of this cruel world casting to the swine all my pearls!
2.
I think I'll ask where this train is going in case its where the wind is blowing And maybe you could say I am a weatherman passed along over the everyman But I can't be responisble for the things that are arguable One day maybe I'll be a winner when all of this evil makes me a sinner YEAH Yeah yeah, yeah Yeah YEAH x2 Well I have got the bold upper hand and a lot of words you misunderstand 'cuz if my soul were any kind of edible I think you'd think that it tastes incredible And I'm alright as long as you don't tell that I'm the one going straight to hell And when I get there I'm gonna party and I'm bringing you with me even if you fought me YEAH Yeah yeah, yeah Yeah YEAH x2 I am creeping up behind and I'm filtered into phase into your mind It's like I'm a new cannibal disease eating your coil and cut through with ease I'll take you apart and rape who you are, drag you down and lower the bar that's who I am - the worst of us all, involved in every matter no matter how small YEAH Yeah yeah, yeah Yeah YEAH x2 Well I am taking my time and I'm working down to the fine line So I'll twist you around my little finger, girl I'm gonna make you into a singer Scream a little louder cuz you've got the lungs, ripped all out and ran through the rungs You will break oh god you're gonna bend, 'cuz I'm gonna gonna get you in the end YEAH Yeah yeah, yeah Yeah YEAH x4
3.
Isaacs 02:56
Life is a soft mess and my enemy My heart is hardened and still getting harder God is a rapist and his victim is me Well I didn't know that I was a martyr My intestines will make great potpourri Yeah my pride is such a delicate armor I'm a cesspool of low self esteem Yeah come on closer, yeah you're getting warmer Tell me my grave will be pretty Yes, tell me it's in the middle of a city They say youth is wasted on the young Well let me gouge out that bitter fucking tongue Let's eat the old, set fire to the sky Because I intend to deserve to die Yes I intend to deserve to die Well I intend to deserve to die-hi-hi I am the consummate fugitive sound Breaking through with all these floodings of excess someday I'll return to rust in the ground where the coals of faith are scorching in absence you can take my flesh in inch over pound with the weight of my heart which has become an absess the choirs screeching offkey with musics around and now bleeding my ears clean, that old man relaxes Tell me my grave will be pretty Yes, tell me it's in the middle of a city They say youth is wasted on the young Well let me gouge out that bitter fucking tongue Well let's eat the old, set fire to the sky Because I intend to deserve to die Yes I intend to deserve to die Yes, I intend to deserve to die-hi-hi
4.
Im gonna take my, I'm gonna bend my, I'm gonna break my bones I'm gonna pull them apart so I can build you a home With four walls and a roof top and between-sheets warm In which I will lose my self inside of your form So come on... come on... come on down Now Fate ain't nothin but in the way It's a blockade of ships that we will blow away With the hurricanes and heaving rain inside of our chests That we let out in sighs at every caress So come on... come on... come on down x2 Now come down off your high horse And call it just a matter of course 'Cuz I don't really know this dance I'm one half of this romance 'Cuz I just wanna live in a city by the sea But I'm expecting hope to abandon me Against all those cliffsides close to her core 'Cuz this overlooked window is a closing door So I just shut off, I shut off, I shut off me x2 So let's shout out the differences And chalk it up to the instances Of persuasive self-implore Those warnings that we ignore Come on... come on... come on down x2 Come on... come on... come on down x2 Come down off your high horse And call it just a matter of course 'Cuz I don't really know this dance I'm one half of this romance Let's shout out the differences And chalk it up to the instances Of persuasive self-implore Those warnings that we ignore This playground was always ours The opportunity to be stars You're making this L over me A lover that I cannot see So come on... come on... come on down Because I'm not... no I'm not... not coming down for you
5.
I never knew change to be good I kept it all the same as it stood About ten thousand years into your B.C. While you were singing the do-re-mi Yeah if you're gonna find yourself once again Maybe we'll call it the new-fashioned end, but Something made me think x2 Something made me think about this bend Well I got gloves and I got cloves I got the droning guitar string roads And I'm winding on down to the bitters And I cannot quite quit these shivers God damn it all God damn it all again x2 I cannot wait to see you break carving up goodness for goodness' sake Your pain is a liquor that I must intake I need this to stop the shakes But if you think you think you knew about me Think a bit again about your enemy 'Cuz while you were singing x2 While you were singing the do-re-mi I was there, creeping up behind Filtered into phase into your mind Walking around and spilling all this stress Turning your life into a fucking mess God damn it all God damn it all again x2 I never knew change to be good I kept it all the same as it stood About ten thousand years into your B.C. While you were singing the do-re-mi But if you think you think you knew about me Think a bit again about your enemy 'Cuz while you were singing x2 While you were singing the do-re-mi I came in just like a messenger As I dropped this charade and entered into her Face you me, and see this now I've made my show and took my bow God damn it all (it all) God damn it all again (God damn it all) x4 Yeah while you were singing x3 the do-re-mi
6.
Back behind the wind in the corner of the world and all of its horror Made of sounds and disorder and carefully laid bricks and mortar Playing house x3 Well I know I said I'm a liar, a mouth of soap and pants on fire I'm crossing myself as I kneel to be sired, but if I knew you I wouldn't desire Anything x3 Well I know that it's all been done Yes I know that it's all been said And the prizes I could win were already won And the Greeks did it all but they're still dead HAHA! A face with a name sewn in the bone, basking in the light she's never been shown Cliffs of candy sour and alone, a tongue of cotton and eyes of stone Staring out x3 Questions abound without answers, twirling in my brain like a hundred dancers Made of lime and thirteen cancers, asking me just how to romance her But I don't know x3 But I know that it's all been done Yes I know that it's all been said And the prizes I could win were already won and the Greeks did it all but they're still dead (THANK GOD!)

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released August 1, 2014

All songs written and performed by Gene Israel, except
drums provided by Ian Aughinbaugh on "Hatred Guy and Three Guns," and "The God Damnit All Blues."
djembe provided by Mark Kephart on "Seashell Blues."
Special credit to Mike Bundy on "Hatred Guy and Three Guns."
Special credit to Mark Kephart on "The God Damnit All Blues."

All songs recorded, mixed, and produced by Mark Kephart

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