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Sunny Suburban Saturday
04:07
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I've made it back through the fog
In my head, was met with a surprise
Now I am told I have to go and explore
The world with my own eyes
I kinda just wanna sleep
I don't have a choice
I step outside for a walk
With my dog, to see how people think
One's telling his wife why they're better than their neighbor
Because their fence isn't chain link
That's gotta be sarcasm right?
They're side by side
It's just another sunny suburban Saturday
In the spring
Greeted with a shallow smile and a wave from
The neighbors across from me
The kids are outside enjoying life
Playing in the streets
And my dog shits on the neighbor's tree
*Aw, I forgot the doggy bags*
Poking around a garage sale I find
a vintage beat machine
Next door there's a man watching his daughter
Water the grass in efforts to keep it green
What's pressuring him to waste water in a drought?
It's just another sunny suburban Saturday
In the spring
Greeted with a shallow smile and a wave from
The neighbors across from me
The kids are outside enjoying life
Playing in the streets
Making the most time living rent-free
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2. |
Carbon Copy
02:21
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You would think it's hard to be lonely
With neighbors all around me
But in my garage with hopes and dreams
Sure feels lonely
I'm lonely
Lonely
Here I sit by myself in this two-story
Built-on-a-40-acre plan,
All of them identical themed
Hard to be yourself when everything
Around you's a carbon copy
I'm lonely
Lonely
While they're all satisfactory
Go ahead and try to travel away
Far from the place you were raised
It's in you from birth , an endemic stain
Hopefully the Man can take it away
At least I'm safe at the sacrifice of being interesting
*Fuck*
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3. |
The Way
03:26
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"BB Gun" Tommy *spoken* [Both]
[Spoken]
Hey that was pretty good, dude
"Thanks man I appreciate it"
No worries, what's your name?
"Uh, you can just call me BB Gun"
For sure, I'm uh, I'm Tommy Apollo
"Nice to meet you"
Hey, I'm looking for something, you wanna come along?
"Uh, sure I am too, let's go!"
Alright for sure, so what exactly is it that you guys do around here anyway?
[End]
"Everyone here sleeps hard after a glass of Easy T."
So everyone trudges on without ever thinking critically?
"*Exactly* stuck in mediocrity the rut slowly douses their torch"
So eventually they won't care what goes on beyond their own front porch?
I guess I don't know where people stand
"No one really reaches out to give you a helping hand"
"Using our legs, we're on our way"
To launch this dog into space
"Unlike those before us we will"
Walk at our own pace
"This journey's going so well it's almost to easy"
[Out towards the city]
So are these people victims of circumstance or choose who they want to be?
"This isn't a puzzle they just make it puzzling."
So everyone has their life set up for them, and there's no one to blame?
"As long as they teach us more than just how to behave"
"If I were to gauge
We all got lost by the time we reached this age"
"Using our legs we're on our way"
To launch this dog into space
"Unlike those before us we will"
Walk at our own pace
"This journey's going so well it's almost to easy"
[Out towards the city]
To switch a pup for my kitty
I'll show that I am listening
And doing what she told me
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4. |
Block Party
04:12
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"BB Gun" [Spoken] (Surburbanite) -All-
[Spoken]
So who is this guy anyway?
"Uh, his name is the Red Flyer. He helps you get whatever you want. Within reason."
And so we're gonna find this guy here?
"No, but uh, he's not going anywhere. We'll just kick it here for a sec and, you know. Chill."
Are you sure we're gonna have enough time? I mean, I guess you said he's got nowhere to go.
"Time for some brewskies, man. Always."
Alright, well, I guess I might as well try to find out what these kind of people are
[End]
Every weekend's a small relief from my 9-5
The house was cleaned last weekend by my at-home wife
Sore from sitting at my desk every single day
Dreaming of that promotion or at least some better pay
(My newborn acts so fussy
Now my husbands he's talking to that hussy
Down the street)
Is this the way that people greet?
-Hey neighbor, it's been a long time
We have the day off the weather is fine
We spent our nickles and times to pretend that
We're genuinely happy. Block Party!-
(Thank God this happened because my babysitter's off
After the long week I don't want all the chaos
It's really my me time to relax and kick up my feet
And about time I soaked in Paul and Karen's Jacuzzi)
"Their envy gets really bad,
Especially when test driving the things they don't have"
That makes this kinda sad
-Hey neighbor, it's been a long time
We have the day off the weather is fine
We spent our nickles and times to pretend that
We're genuinely happy. Block Party!-
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5. |
Telephone Poll
03:47
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"BB Gun" Tommy (Suburbanite)
Evening falls a man walks by while scowling at the floor
Wringing both his hands and growling
(I should have asked for more
The Red Flyer took my wish and turned it into a joke
As if he secretly knew I'd eventually choke)
"That's where we want to go"
(Dumb kid don't waste your time)
I'm sure you asked too much and that we'll be just fine
"Middle finger up at us, climbed into a Mercedes"
Ranting instead of watching crashed into a pole at full speed
"Don't worry, he should be alright.
So far that's the only weird shit that's happened tonight"
And that's when the telephone poll decided to ignite
The wires crackled in the dark
And the body burned, lit by a spark
Screaming from the corpse emerged a ghost
Tearing down the street from its old host
And as we followed this dark display
It paused outside an Alleyway
The Scorpion took interest in devouring its despair
The specter opened up on finding its anger was bare
(I wished I listened to the words the Flyer spoke to me
Instead of playing with the gift I'd gotten for free)
"I'm sure he'll help me break the mold
To escape the place which caught us in a stranglehold"
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6. |
Alleyway
02:09
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7. |
Monochrome
04:30
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"BB Gun" Tommy (Red Flyer)
(I peddle useful things, nothing I can't bring
And though I'm not divine, my words are worth the climb
Fools come far and wide, for gifts not the advice
No matter how concise, it tramples on their pride)
I just need this one last thing
I just need...
"This trail is dangerous, but press on we must
Cuz I must reach the top, and nothing will make me stop"
(Doesn't matter what they ask for, big or small
They fly with newly given wings, not prepared to fall
Then they lick their wounds sitting safely in their homes
Complaining nothing ever changes, lost in their rage, they're)
Stuck in monochrome
Stuck in monochrome
I just need this one last thing, and that will end my suffering
I just need this one last thing, and that will end my suffering
(I've seen a thousand other's reach up for the crown
Then they lose their footing fall right back to the ground
Still I can't give an ounce of pity for their plight
Seeing how they're set up if they play their cards right)
(Fools come far and wide, no one is denied
Tell me what you think you need
And maybe you will succeed)
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8. |
A Star Is Born
02:28
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BB Gun "Red Flyer"
"Have you noticed? I have noticed
What you wished for
The way you fix it is what you've been given
What you've had all along
By the way I had forgotten when a star is born
The particles change, home will be rotten
We hold it in our palms
Yeah"
I feel like I've been asking all,
When we slip we crawl
Down the mountain
But here, where I know fall
I'm hauled, in the bucket
Think I'm lost now but I just found out
Where I'm going
Gonna start now, til I found out my place on this planet
"By the way I had forgotten when a star is born
The particles change, home will be rotten
We hold it in our palms
When a star is born, a star is born,
When a star is born
When a star is born, a star is born,
When a star is born"
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9. |
Rat Race
04:20
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Tommy "Nameless" -Both-
Lost once more
as the skies turn to grey
The beat machine lights up and
shines towards the way
I must go
Hitchhiking inside a car, fender bent out of shape
I asked her where she's going, and she said
"To escape. Life's very different
You wouldn't make it if you tried
Now let me take a breath and
I'll explain why"
"Cog in a machine, with no dignity
Cog in a machine"
-Hands kept busy and eyes focused, turned down
To beat poverty, but really ran into the ground
Time's the enemy, and it slips away vanished
With the money without a trace
Til sleep relieves us from the rat race-
"The dark circles under my eyes is the light split from
My friends in overtime
For every quarter of a dollar you'd make I'd have
Five cents of my manager's dime"
-I'm not a machine, I have dignity,
I'm not a machine-
-Hands kept busy and eyes focused, turned down
To beat poverty, but really ran into the ground
Time's the enemy, and it slips away vanished
With the money without a trace
Til sleep relieves us from the rat race-
Lost once more
the beat machine lights up
And shines it's
Light on her
I know I must follow
I'm not a machine, I'm not a machine...
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10. |
Escape
03:05
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Tommy "BB Gun" (Spirits) -All-
New memories fill space old ones left behind
Though I can hear the echoes deafening my mind
The spirits say
(Don't be lazy in your chase,
Break our endless cycle
Follow Nameless for her life path
will be insightful)
Doesn't matter if I'm skilled or weak
Or trip over my own feet
At the end of the day
I'll go the only way I know
To escape
And most humans, affluent or poor
Struggle against the world in an attempt to
Even the score
While one breaks away, and others follow suit
Some fall short and leave behind
That pursuit
-Whether they're skilled or weak
They'll trip over their own feet
At the end of the day
They will follow the only way they know
To escape
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Tommy Apollo Riverside, California
I'm Tommy Apollo!
Prog, Electronic, Psych, Blend
Up in the clouds without a skeleton far away from societies.
Apollo & Arowan collab streamable from SoundCloud!
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