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Bad Turnip

by Billy Mack Collector

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Bad Turnip 00:36
There was a BAD TURNIP sitting on the kitchen table. and i should have known that this would happen. 'cause we got it at the flea market from that guy from the city and i should have known that this would happen. i was caught in the moment. we were caught in the moment. and we should have known that this would happen.
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Hums 01:22
i went for a little drive this sunday i drove up to the mountains and i found my friends around a fire chanting all the names of their enemies i took my time taking the key out of the ignition and i thought about the last time i sat out on the prairie drinking beer around a fire watching the horizon so i revved up the engine and i drove up to the summit oh, i looked for dusty buildings and grass beyond the forest i found nothing but my home and smashed up booze-y bottles hums came from the highway, it kinda sounds like waves now i thought about the last time i sat down in a cafe i can't say what i did there but i laughed til i cried, oh!
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The Press (free) 02:26
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I want to see my friends living all downtown opening their shops, living off their art. i want to see my town, grow and learn to breathe open up the gardens and let us make amends I want to take a chance and change the zoning laws manufacture pop and manufacture goods I want to see small towns regain character define their own culture and share it all around
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and it was Cold, very cold in the town where the sun died. and the folks all gathered round singing tales of their past lives but by midnight they'd gone home to lay in bed, shivering it seemed like no one had a wife, no one had a man, just their lonely hands all over their old lonely bodies and it was Cold, very cold in the town where the sun died. and since morning never came, they all stayed in bed no more talking to each other no more learning how to love it seemed like no one had a wife, no one had a man, just their lonely hands all over their old lonely bodies oh, the snow kept falling down turning streets into hallways only narrow little paths to guide us to our next haunts but slowly, those filled too and no one left their doorstep and good god i wanna know what all my neighbors look like i want to study dimples and run fingers over smiles but i can't - but i can't - but i can't and it was Cold, very cold in the town where the sun died. and on good days i could hear echoes of someone snoring and then suddenly i know what it's like to breathe again i let out the deepest sigh and just feel my body empty i let out the deepest sigh and just feel my body empty
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there's a color locked away, deep in the valley where the rivers turn copper and your neighbors have guns. you can't find a sidewalk or save your life. but in the woods; small steps. take off your shoes. careful now. the river's fast. careful now. careful now. you can smell the backyards' of a million men, roasting a fresh kill, or a frozen moo-cow. something is alive. and something is dead. careful now. careful now. up on the mountain, deep in the woods - down an old dirt road, lies a vacant church. nobody's been there since '73. careful now. careful now. that man on the street, kittycornered by strip malls said he used to believe but now he feels worn out. and he grit his poor teeth until they all fell out but in the woods, they grow back. if you believe. careful now. the river's fast. careful now. careful now.
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i bought the donut yesterday and the soft pretzel today. welcome to the land of variety. oooooh! good to be alive and i try to spend just three dollars a day. i just got a raise oh almost ten an hour now! i am living downtown in the land of variety. oooooh!
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There was a BAD TURNIP sitting on the kitchen table. and i should have known that this would happen. 'cause we got it at the flea market from that guy from the city and i should have known that this would happen. i was caught in the moment. we were caught in the moment. and we should have known that this would happen.
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Wyoming 02:45
my face, blinded by the sunset or the mountains! i woke covered in these blankets yes im awake! oh my home seems like a dream now the ground's red here! music comes out from a side room i hear singing! then a dog appeared his name was connor hid behind a gate kind and frightened eyes did glow and scan my eyes in silence had a cup of coffee then i spot a herd of horses called my friends and asked "where am i? and i'm getting famous!" then i looked over the cliffside i see more cliffs! no one at all could see me or my friends! i spun around in some circles no one saw me! my eyes were no longer mine a gift to strangers! blinked and then i found myself hung high above the city i'm clapping and im stopping and i think i hear a parrot yelling "somebody turn off the lights in the sky and let the darkness shine down!" then i blink again and now i'm back out with the horses. the sky is clear and i can see the rockies in the distance. i grab a drink and then i wobble well beyond my limits. i walk around front and i hop in the car and i listen to some music. i scrounge and a search for a horn section to fill this endless vista. then i forget that i turned on the engine and dive into the abyss. i wake up shaking, shocked that i'm breathing and head onto montana. but no one can say that i'll once again feel like i did in wyoming. no one can say that i'll once again feel like i did in wyoming.
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oh you've been to maine and oh you've been to chicago. and once i saw your face in a bus stop in cleveland. but i don't know where you are these days. i don't know where you are. i don't know where you are these days. i don't know where you are. maybe you're swimming in the ocean playing your viola or you moved up to the mountains with a bunch of friendly anarchists. i don't know where you are these days. i don't know where you are. maybe it almost kinda sorta just about almost works out that some people settle down and other people disappear. and maybe they're swimming in the ocean playing their viola or they moved up to the mountains with a bunch of friendly anarchists. bought a one way ticket out to rural california where they off the grid and they bake their own bread. but i don't know where you are these days. i don't know where you are. i don't know where you are these days. i don't know where you are.
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The Best 02:49
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oh, i came to in a basement in wyoming i wondered whose eyes were staring back at me oh, i had fallen asleep in front of a mirror and i don't need anyone, i don't need anyone; that's what i said. oh, i drove around for a couple of days, and went and sat out on the beach all by myself. a little seagull stole the sandwich i had been eating and i don't need anyone. i don't need anyone; that's what i said. when my little bones brought me to carolina, the ants in the sunflower field bit my feet. i went to the piggly wiggly and bought some bread. and i don't need anyone. i don't need anyone; that's what i said.
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Lettuce Bee 01:17
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While i was chasing mushrooms down the Appalachian information raceway a charming mono-sodium humanoid came up to me and said "I wanna find a forest made of monochromatic fuzz tone, I wanna put my fist through a brominated partially hydrogenated limited edition kind of fungi" and i said "don't you talk about the woods like that, go take your anger to the oldest pharmaceutical store in the northeastern corner of rural pennsylvania and demand to know where the culture went, where the feeling went, where the feeling went where the feeling went..." and the mono-sodium humanoid said "build me a better language grow me a sharper forest build me a more endearing god-fearing, disappearing city skyline dust scraper."
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there's a mattress shop on 6th street. it's past midnight and it's still open, it seems they've added a bar. and i can't see inside, the windows are all blocked. i jump off my bike and try wipe away some dirt from the doorknob. an unfamiliar face appears in the door and says "i don't know what you're looking for but i ain't been drinking and i ain't lonely. you're just wishing you were both." just about that time, my eyes got all wide and i ran to my bike and jumped aboard it. while biking past the Wendy's, some drunkard knocked me down. and then i lie there quiet, wishing i felt some other way. an unfamiliar thought came into my mind and then i picked up all my stuff and left my bike for dead right in the middle of the busy intersection "no cars are out tonight," i said. i move my hands a little slow wiping off the dirt from my knees. it's october and it's cold. i won't see the little sun for months now. and if i can't see my breath i must be a ghost, but i can't seem to ever scare myself now. i feel a little lost but mostly driven by a pulsing dislocation caused by time.
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released July 21, 2012

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