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Proto

by The Jack McCoys

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Untitled #1 02:45
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Untitled #2 02:57
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Foggy And Fucked Up 02:05
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The slightest evidence of impending confrontation Is consistently distorted beyond all hope of recognition There are no victims of organized reprisal But everyone suffers from unyielding resignation The scrutiny remains impressively selective A damaged intellectualism that pollutes the sociological ether Movement is labored here And distance is secured between orbits Whose ellipses flirt with theoretical collision You couldn’t get much more fucked than that Your silence is a cumbersome new weapon That intimidates as it perpetuates The lingering of targets close to where you don’t want them While the vaguest notion of what to do Evades your every attempt at capture
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Failure To Remain Inconspicuous 01:49
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Ducked under the awning and threw up in my hands A troubled pose with my secret exposed Eyed the cars as they all went by in the shit-flecked night You’ve always been too excited By other people’s good ideas A gauge by which they hear themselves think And wish themselves silent in the shit-flecked night Tried napping on the bus ride home But despite my exhaustion Was kept awake By the murmurs of my fellow travelers Who refused to ignore the smell
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The Bereaved Have A Certain Flair 01:49
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The bereaved have a certain flair A swagger in their gait A real take-no-prisoners mentality ??? of renewed perspective That grants them a considerable edge In sinister processions they patrol The foothills of complacency Flashlights bustling like insect antennae They wipe their handkerchief all over the reasons I didn’t go out last night
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Cari 01:21
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Cari, Poopies sail through the ghetto of your love Picking up speed The wrong turn is all pinpricks and puncture wounds Cari, Purity is relative And you transgress with such grace You got lipstick on the sucker’s heart When you leaned in like a bolt of lightening To say that only jerks flinch at confusion
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Expense Accounts 02:11
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Expense accounts won’t make you smile Or hide form you the blood that’s spilled Accouterments of your disease Won’t crack the dull façade I’ve built The wretchedness of human beings Just makes me want to dance and sing You underestimate the world But I believe in everything ??? yourself to all their charms Complicit and begging for ??? As we pander to the middle class And aging rockers never failing to ask, What the hell are you boys doing here? Gird yourself with pills and booze Pack your bags, we’re off tonight Portion out your schadenfreude It’s going to be a bumpy ride
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A Quiet Place To Sweat 01:52
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Barreling through the fronds Speckled with toads and butterfly slime I sloped into a fever And was tempted to abandon the path For a quiet place to sweat The gut of a dead trunk A gallery of snakes The moon is plaster of Paris I’m a scrap of bark whittled to the stub I chisel new topographies into the surfaces you told me not to touch And your poison is slow It’ll take me years to know that I’m gone
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Hopelessly Bent 02:11
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What you said ricocheted off of everyone’s ears And landed in a heap by the last thing you said The mud-dripping pile The trail along which the runoff runs By I know what you meant All hopelessly bent Around the sludge path scent What you did left a scab on my aura And pecked a Pointillist painting Into the softest part of my inability To resist being smashed and stomped And all the reds and pinks Are excruciating inks No matter what the esthetes think
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Untitled #3 01:35
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Everyone loves to ??? Everyone’s aimed at sex Everyone knows better what makes the exception Everyone gets a little killed Everyone apologizes eventually Everyone thumps with guilt Everyone cultivates secret spells Everyone dips their cool in the panic pot Everyone keeps a monster in their heart Everyone gasps when they fly apart Everyone accommodates their parasites Everyone cruises toward sleep Everyone tries to love what they ??? Everyone confronts an evil twin Everyone seems to be a victim of something Greater than themselves
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She Goes West 02:25
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Surely all the little things Have collected in the valve Her love is working ten times harder to expel the sludge The pressure shoots through her teeth She explains to me That each new cock-sure ending is Unfinished murder sucking on The wounds of our steadfast resolve They pork up and threaten to explode All the way to California Boots to kick the road scum on you Suddenly, the direction she’s been heading in is wrong again And I won’t get in the way of that beautiful progress Lo, the introduction Speeds through the whole story Like a popular new chemical Quick and unpredictable A fear-edged, sinister buzz
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Untitled #4 01:19
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She Goes South 02:40
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Was it sad, the way he left you? And did you cry for a little while For all the wrong reasons to cry? Did you get him in your eyes? Did you get a warmer climate In an apartment so beyond The way-too-shitty zone That you blow through each first kiss Like water through a shark? Are you numb around the gills? Can you see the beach from your new terrific porch? Are the bathing suits on tight enough? Do the tan lines map out a whole new geography? Are you still going to call me?

about

Recorded on 4-track.

On 11/21/98, Dan and I recorded basic tracks for 13 songs in his bedroom at 110 Central St. The tracks were improvised. Over the course of the following year, we finished writing and recording them (more or less).

Some of the songs would be re-recorded in the studio later. Some were never quite finished.

At the time, we were very excited by the prospect of writing electric pop/rock music... and our interest in writing Godboy songs began to wane.

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released January 1, 2000

Dan Madri—A little bit of everything
Matt Savage—A little bit of everything

With:
Ben Blanchard—Trumpet on track 1

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