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The Old Goat
04:26
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So nice to meet you girl the pleasure is all mine
So sorry if I stare but you just look so fine
If you'll just come this way that wiggle in your walk
Is so distracting but I’d really love to talk
I have the influence and yes I have the means
To give you everything you want
to hand you all your dreams
So take my hand
I’ll make you understand
This is a church of sorts why don’t you have a seat
You should take off all your clothes I’m turning up the heat
I have the influence and yes I have the means
To give you everything you want
to hand you all your dreams
Forsake the light for dark and live deliciously
Wrap your hands around my horns and take a ride with me
So take my hand
I’ll make you understand
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What Happened Here
05:44
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I came back home to find you there
Sitting naked and serene just brushin' out your hair
Something was very wrong as you kept humming some old song I saw blood splattered everywhere
You smiled and asked about my day
I replied and whispered “Is that all you have to say”
You pointed to the bedroom door and said there was a little more of a mess we’d have to hide away
I won’t say anything I’ll help you clean up everything but I can’t help wondering what happened here
You showed me what was on the bed
I couldn’t bring myself to ask where was the head
I didn’t understand but I just took you by the hand and with a sigh I softly said
I won’t say anything I’ll help you clean up everything but I can’t help wondering what happened here
You know I love you so I mean it I’ll pretend it’s all a dream and act as if I’d never even seen it
I will make it go away push it from our lives and conceal it
Baby you’re the one
No matter what you’ve done
I scrubbed the red from all the walls
Scraped the hair and teeth and brains from up and down the halls and I can do it all again if you should make another friend I’ll be there for you when darkness calls
I won’t say anything I’ll help you clean up everything but I can’t help wondering what happened here
I don’t really need to know
What happened here
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Simulacrum
07:06
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With these two hands I made it from fallen leaves and mud and blood and a lock of your hair I put your red dress on it and left it there waiting for nightfall
Then lit the candles one by one black wax melting and dripping staining the circle I drew on the floor
Now wake up and open your eyes
I’ve had some time to reflect and I’ll be just fine with you gone
I made my own version of you who won’t just leave when she’s done
with me
Sweet simulacrum
I heard her footsteps on the stairs and waited there anticipation making me squirm she looked exactly like you except her eyes were black and endless and swirling with stars
But she only says things that I wanna hear never anything ugly or mean
Even with worms falling out of her hair
She’s the most beautiful girl that I’ve ever seen
So just go lose my number and find yourself someone new
Her breath might smell like a graveyard I still prefer her to you
My sweet simulacrum
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Shambles
05:44
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There isn’t much to say her life is not like your life he keeps her locked away the remnants of his old wife he knows she’ll leave someday and take the whole world with her
But that’s the price you pay for love
He can’t bear to let her go he can’t let anybody know they won’t ever understand even though she’s dangerous he still wants to hold her hand
The girl he knew is gone but he still sees her clearly behind those snapping jaws and knows he loves her dearly but those men she feeds upon their cries they haunt his living nightmares
But that’s the price you pay for love
She sits tied down in a room that smell like lavender perfume and rot they mix together sick and sweet he can’t feed her fast enough and she can’t get enough to eat
What’s not alive but somehow stands dead starlight shines on haunted lands her lips are red to match her hands
and when she walks she shambles
The doctors grim and grave said she was too far gone to save but a clever man always finds a way some books should not be read and some things are better dead but he just couldn’t let it end that day
She never sleeps she never breathes she never speaks she never reads
Her hunger goes on and on and on he’s just glad that she’s there and he doesn’t care that she kills she kills
she kills she kills
What’s not alive but somehow stands dead starlight shines on haunted lands her lips are red to match her hands
and when she walks and when she walks
What’s not alive but somehow stands dead starlight shines on haunted lands her lips are red to match her hands
and when she walks she shambles
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Barbara and Ben
04:07
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It’s been a truly rotten day in the most unexpected unpleasant way
Johnny’s gone now I’m alone Johnny’s gone and something killed the phone Johnny’s gone I’ve got to hide but there’s a light shining outside
I’m not alone anymore anymore I’ve got someone to help me nail up the door it’s not as bad as it seems
Soon this will just be another black and white dream
It’s been a really trying day I think I saw the dead walk but I just drove away
Here I am I’m on my own here I am outside this house I don’t own here I am I’ve got to find if anyone’s alive inside
I’m not alone anymore anymore I’ve got someone to help me nail up the door it’s not as bad as it seems
Soon this will just be another black and white dream
I don’t think they can get in we will see the sun again when this night comes to an end we will walk out hand in hand and we’ll find your Johnny then safe and sound and waiting for you
He’s waiting for you he’s waiting for you Johnny’s waiting for you
He’s coming back to get you girl he’s coming’ back to get you
He’s coming to get you
They’re coming to get you
They’re coming to get you
They’re coming to get you
They’re coming to get you
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Guess I should have known nothing you said was true now I wait here all alone in this crazy-house for you’
On the night we met you picked me up and you took me home
To your not quite empty castle and you watched me drink alone
I looked in your red red eyes and finally realized
That I could never stay angry at you that way all of the spiders and flies in the world can’t make me walk out that door for good even if I still could I will remain unrequited eternally yours
But hey I understand I know I’m not your only one I am just a filthy plaything you can use to get things done
Yeah I’ve seen her face shining like the moon in this dark place
I’d like to warn her about you
But I can’t help wondering how her blood tastes
I won’t renounce your name I’ll worship you the same all of my life for you all my life for you
Just let one thing be true I’ll die and kill for you
Give me the blood is the life is the blood is the...
But I could never stay angry at you that way all of the spiders and flies in the world can’t make me walk out that door for good even if I still could
I will remain unrequited eternally
I will remain unrequited eternally
I will remain unrequited eternally yours
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The Magic Attic
06:04
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Time ticking slowly till the sun sinks in the West when shadows march and hungry night-birds leave their nests
There is a world behind a wall behind a door and I will climb the stairs beyond to find out what she has in store
I know a secret sorceress who sees into my dreams she waits for me with magic and she always gives me what I need
Take me to the attic
all her spells embracing me
Let me feel your magic
Take me to the attic
Colors change so easily
Our own private planet
You have to be invited up into her den and once you’ve been inside you want to go again
Her hair is dark and wild like wind through winter trees her stormy eyes are ocean-blue and tease their mysteries
She conjures fantasy with fire from her hands I can’t get enough ‘cuz she’s the only one who understands
Take me to the attic
all her spells embracing me
Let me feel your magic
Take me to the attic
Colors change so easily
Our own private planet
Smoke remembers we stoke the embers
Stretch out with your feeling ‘cuz it’s bigger than you think
Peel open the ceiling you can see stars laugh if you don’t blink
On the sofa beside you she is watching galaxies twirl
With a twist of her finger she’s a goddess living as a girl
Take me to the attic
all her spells embracing me
Let me feel your magic
Take me to the attic
Colors change so easily
Our own private planet
Smoke remembers we stoke the embers
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Damned Again
05:01
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It can be hard waking up when you’ve been dead for so long but every hundred or so years you feel like groovin and all your friends are wailing dying to be misbehaving yeah
So when our spirits are high we wanna get them higher those coffin lids open wide and all the graves spit fire we rise in celebration brimstone scented reprobation
Spinning in my grave is fine if you’re only spinning records I like
So baby let me haunt your house now for a little while
Before I’m dead and gone
‘Cuz I’ll be damned again by dawn
No need to open the door ‘cuz I just walk right through it please drink some bourbon for me ‘cuz I can’t seem to do it and if we should possess you you’ll have so much to confess to yeah
Spinning in my grave is fine if you’re only spinning records I like
So baby let me haunt your house now for a little while
Before I’m dead and gone
‘Cuz I’ll be damned again by dawn
Whoa
Spinning in my grave is fine if you’re only spinning records I like
So baby let me haunt your house now for a little while
We wanna keep this going all night
Cover all the mirrors and turn out the lights
And flip that crucifix upside down
Can you play the music backwards till the needle snaps
I need to hear that sound before I go back down
Before I’m dead and gone
‘Cuz I’ll be damned again by dawn
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The Obliging Victims Cincinnati, Ohio
The Obliging Victims is a band of one—the brainchild of Cincinnati musician Kelley Kombrinck (vocalist/guitarist for
longtime Cincy band “Pike”) who writes performs and produces every aspect of the dark psychedelic rock project.
A blend of sixties and seventies rock refracted through a prism of modern influences (grunge, LA psych scene, doom) to create a fuzzy, lo fi, psychedelic trip.
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