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Secret Weapon

by The Pink Noise

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1.
Breaking 07:02
This is for a starter Last pieces of night breaking swept into a corner, shadows sag Morning time Sunlight through the blinds Stay tuned to a good mood Church bells ring out across the suburbs A series of green and red lights brought me to this place and time Drive your car like an artform Skirting the end of the cool era Stay ahead of the comedown Breaking Bombshell malice sounds like massive attack Then folded like a cheap card tables Exhale dragon snout Reveal the clouds Back to youth Go North where the major streets thin out to dirt roads On a campaign to capture Saturday And fight for you dummies A direct line A lazer beam ride to godhead, energized Slumber Breaking There's a signpost up ahead Lean on it and weep Exhale dragon snout, fold the cheap card tables Fold the featherweights Staying ahead of the comedown Last pieces of cloud, breaking To the rhythm of footsteps, to the rhythm of chewing gum So arrive on time Straight, another corridor Enter green world Snowmelt has swollen the river
2.
Kamikaze Run 03:59
I'm already on this kamikaze run White hot Timeslot Smack those rose coloured glasses off your face Not nice Damn braced Riding high I'm already on this kamikaze run Burn bright Bucking bronco
3.
Lifespan Beginning, middle and end It ran it's course When the spells breaks Hands shake Couldn't sleep Couldn't cross the street Cue disintegration Got close to the edge It was courage Lost my swing To the wide-eyed grime It was time for some soul searching Cue disintegration
4.
A forcefield protects me A forcefield prevents me From the ordinary Then I was reaching from the brass ring Now I don't reach for anything Still the fingernails extend All set and shipwrecked When the lifeboat arrives It will be in disguise More and more small potatoes That you can't see More and more small potatoes For me to eat All they thought about All they got themselves Money If you lie to yourself You'll believe everybody else They'll call you stupid They'll call you names They'll call you superfreak You think I'm crazy You're probably right More and more small potatoes That you can't see More and more small potatoes For me to eat Everybody tryin to get by When the only failure's suicide It's gonna be alright I've seen the afterlife We were all composed of gold light More and more small potatoes That you can't see More and more small potatoes For me to eat
5.
They want it all, picture perfect But there's a crack in the portrait At the mercy of Sunday chat Always with the Jones's Spider in the bathroom And money down the drain You can't have everything Banished to the corner And can't get in the store You can't have everything It's a feeble show Hit delete Moving inches closer to, kind of useless Chained to the fence Of haunted houses Bedbugs in the floorboards And poison in your bed You can't have everything Up and down the backstairs But locked out in the rain You can't have everything
6.
Catch the dream factory Catch the dream factory Walking along, on my frequency Started too fast, then laid by the sea Not overthinking Doesn't bother me There's a calm in the park A breeze in the trees Sundae crowned A dollop whip cream In the parking lot, of the liquor store Bottled and jammed Sunbathers galore
7.
All rookies have since retired Now nobody knows My course, my course, my course, you can't take it Enter newcomers In waiting room vacuum Show to be mediocre All gone, that was precious Turn up the boredom knob, till it breaks off In a room with three walls Worn out But saw an opening Ticking time bomb, present problems Right now the stocks are down Strike oil in a rage The baggage to give away Letting go pieces of space shuttle Leave the scene in miniature Propping up the avalanche From a room with three walls Stand up to robot cop's son In the last days of Rome My course, my course, my course, you can't take it
8.
Freaks 03:30
Stand up on your own The laughter is not sold Now that that's out of the way The party don't last Still the numbers man with the gift of gab Sings college songs with drink in hand Do I find the freaks or do the freaks find me? Mass production Chase pennies down the sewer grate Misdirection like the tits on a magicians assistant Rad radar gave Chance meeting No choice in the matter Had the good sense Not to adjust your set Do I find the freaks or do the freaks find me? Just pretending to be weird Not like us Fruit flies chime against the roar of my hot rod Most in my profession die at twenty seven Do I find the freaks or do the freaks find me? Killed like Rothko Killed like Van Gogh Not like them
9.
Sent off as too close Cold as Pluto Fraudster on Fair heart Gossip non-fiction Laziness to get the work in You can't comprehend Don't live inside the pang Can't live inside the pang Shy as an alley cat, brave as a stuntman Golden goose and hunger Spotlight and stand-bye You don't understand Can't live inside the pang Don't live inside the pang Youth and experience Pride and letdown Ease and Anxiety Real deal or posture Let live or harangue White whale or wife beater It doesn't work when I try Can't live inside the pang Don't live inside the pang Brains and stupidity Flab and muscle All it takes is proximity You don't understand A rotating cast of dogs and cats nuzzle and attentive
10.
Strife 03:54
I'm off my meds Send me to the lab Dim the acute recording device It's all in your mind Strife Not a day goes by That I don't think about the girl in the white dress Who's toes point toward you Her technique See you at the finish line Strife Head shrinkers from left to right I'll freeze you out Generous hate mail sink the bitter flotilla Count the digits Wrecker of serenity Prodding compose Strife Can't stay in the same place Hold a razor to my face
11.
Waterloo 05:05
Waterloo You're all thick Kind of Stupid Kinda Did I hurt your feelings Price tag Attach the ball and chain, I'm ready Don't I seem to be carefree Paid for it, in baby fat Trampled raggedy Andy under jitterbug rock The coins go in and they flip Lick my wounds after Waterloo And now I know what class is Weaknesses A failure, but only on paper My address, the rat's nest My office, dog shit park Run circles around the AstroTurf Working on my pull Moving like a dancer, through the ice storm Moving like a panther, through the third warning Stretch out in the schizophrenic weather Price tag Attach the ball and chain, I'm ready Lick my wounds after Waterloo And now I know what class is Working on my pull Kiss frog prince nurse Ratchet Smiles from the sidelines At the deathbed of a health nut Have power over you Don't I seem to be carefree Good for minutes, bad for days Did I feel your hurting Pucker
12.
From empty shell to all fleshed out Now lay your hands on the backburner And squeeze all the life out No passenger to take the blame For screwing up on the sharp turns Drive this car into the ground A stranglehold of floods and drought Never know the real story What's the secret weapon? Battle-scarred mind of a child Something dishonest win the gold medal Bearing down on a Ming vase See the set up as crooked frame Stacked up against the backburner See the constant as flame It's a war on slackers Burn off the top The roots will reach up Second chance What's the secret weapon? Taste the brick wall Wash your mouth out What's the secret weapon?

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released July 15, 2022

Recorded by Mark Sauner from 2020-2022.
Mastered by Sandro Perri
Thank you Rob Watson, Eric Sauner, Kevin Hainey
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Founded in 2005 by Mark Sauner at the corner of Dupont and Lansdowne in Toronto, Ontario.

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