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Corporate Callosum

by With a Gun for a Face

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1.
Help Us 02:00
Help us Heaven is a fire Nuclear desire Batter my heart Help us Arsenic oceans Inoculations Tear the red marrow Out of my bones Patience Patience Patience Patience And the thunder said I'm just like you I am a liar And the thunder said I'm just like you My fingers are wires Which stretch out forever In all directions And never touch And never touch
2.
Pyramids 02:40
Ding Ding Settle in Let's see some hands on hearts Stand up like good soldiers Bend down like good wives Arrange yourselves by color Proximity to God Attractive multipliers Come up to the front Dollar signs on battle lines Let's get filthy rich We'll construct our pyramids Inside this bloody ditch Don't forget your counting, kids Five and ten and twenty Life is only time Time is only money Calisthenics, shall we? Keep busy, busy bees Hydrogen and scissors A lesson in release Dollar signs on battle lines Let's get filthy rich We'll construct our pyramids Inside this bloody ditch Ducks and rows of ducks Click next slide Generals and genocides Click next slide Jumping jacks and panic attacks
3.
I've got bugs in my skin And they're networking Drawing blueprints and plans Trying to do me in A crooked spine will keep my eyes fixed On their workings beneath Frozen operations Sights set on me Trench warfare can be a good time In the right frame of mind With oppositions out of focus You're free to shoot blind Irrationality's a comfort You don't need to be tense Go and purchase a firearm Anything can make sense A swallowed tongue can be the best medicine It can help you relax There's no cause for suppression When you're on the attack Trench warfare can be a good time In the right frame of mind With oppositions out of focus You're free to shoot blind It's the foxhole for me It's the foxhole for me You are counting Cells dividing Hands cut in days and months Chronology comes all at once You have just embraced the dust
4.
I saw the great man Leprous, bone thin Rising from the sand Vulgar ambition Alligator skin Gas chamber grin And I knew not fear But love Weak hearts Vile children At dinner Joked of war Ten dead One more And the baby Will require explaining Feeling easy of myself Talk of lesser angels And I speak with much Contempt Weak hearts Vile children Mine was an act of ignorance He slit me across the palms His was an act of brilliance Why won't you be quiet? Why won't you?
5.
Severance 02:40
Another disappeared Into the abyss Another all strung out On the ladder of success Everybody gets Everything they want We got mouthfuls of Black petroleum All of your thick-winged productions Harness my thin lines Traded my pink claws For your convict stripes and stones Filled up my old skin With new muscles and white bones Everybody gets Everything they want We got mouthfuls of Black petroleum All of your thick-winged productions Harness my thin lines Don't be indelicate Sever your corporate callosum
6.
Birthings 02:19
The flavor's in the fat The flavor's in the fat Can you hear the pitter-pat? Start trying, trying, tried But nothing lives inside Don't cry There's nothing you can't buy Test tubes and gas tanks Oil lubes and sperm banks Let's make some little ones Extract and mix and spin and in you go Pony up the dough And what do you know? A handful of weight A handful of strain A handful Rip and drip the pain I want I Me me mine Press my shirts when you have the time Test tubes and gas tanks Oil lubes and sperm banks Let's make some little ones Extract and mix and spin and in you go Pony up the dough And what do you know? First a nanny Then a nurse A pharmacy inside your purse That light's too bright It hurts my eyes That man's not right He's in disguise Wake me if the baby cries Just one more pill Just one more pill A few Suddenly so still
7.
The Living 03:34
We are manifest Sacrificial men Brought in on a skewer Helpless and obscure Abandon moral thought Kill man, a pig or God Filled to the mouth with rodent hope A blackened lung, a choking growth Broken teeth The deaf and the blind We are not innocent Heart-sick with intent Planning out routines Devising guillotines Abandon moral thought Kill man, a pig or God Filled to the mouth with rodent hope A blackened lung, a choking growth Broken teeth The deaf and the blind Snow falls on the dead and living
8.
I am afraid The marching mascarade Of slaughterers and slain Is on its happy way To brutalize my good name Me oh my Oh me oh my Oh me oh my Oh me oh my oh Have yourself a ball Round them up And round them up And round them up And round them up and Crucify them all For the love of God In the name of charity String them from the neck Hang them from a tree Parade of horribles descends on me I talk in circles I split my tongue in thirds Catcalls and whistles I'm riddled with guiltless words Slick tricks to lure the herds Me oh my Oh me oh my Oh me oh my Oh me oh my oh Have yourself a ball Round them up And round them up And round them up And round them up and Crucify them all For the love of God In the name of charity String them from the neck Hang them from a tree Parade of horribles descends on me The brass torso The black wing The singing swing of he who steps on chests We have our man The god-eyes cry And smile as they hang me on high Parade of horribles descends on me Parade of horribles descends on me (Oh, No!, Oh, No!)
9.
Artery 03:53
It is coming Lungs spasming Aneuristic tics rear up in you White hands ringing Glass eyes singing Jury-rigged arrest inside of you What if there's no face to smile at you? Perceptions deaden Receptions let in Eternal men in endless waiting rooms Particles in motion Coughing up devotion Chemical construction's all you knew What if there's no face to smile at you? Lock the door Lock the door Build a bunker in the floor The walls are closing in The walls are closing in The walls are closing in on you What if there's no face to smile at you?
10.
Killing Hour 03:40
Beasts that line Winter streets Hard black hair Eyes weep Swaying steps White snow roads Soon the cold Will come The sky is dark They will die They'll be dead by morning Six by six Shoulder-width Pierce the Icy night They cannot Understand What comes before First light The sky is dark They will die They'll be dead by morning Step together All at once Don't disturb The frozen march Step together All at once The killing hour Is coming on

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released March 30, 2012

WITH A GUN FOR A FACE:
Nathan Graves : Vocals/Keyboards
Matthew Graves: Guitar
Brandon Dvorak: Bass
Jake Anderson: Drums

All Songs Written and Performed by With A Gun For A Face ©2012
Recorded by Ryan Mach/DolceForte & Matthew Graves
Mixed by Ryan Mach/DolceForte
Mastered by Greg Reierson at Rare Form Mastering
All Artwork by Nathan Graves
Graphic Design & Layout by Brandon Dvorak

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