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Basic Malaise

by Flowerstalks

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1.
My Marantz 06:58
Question Are you into design You and I are data-mined and fine to be amused Notified anew to keep our glazed gaze well trained I’m a real voice here A depiction of myself yea I’m true content My Marantz and my public plans Proclamations and my fans Your inside subscribed behind my eyes Aren’t I supposed to change what’s in me I don’t have conversations anymore I’ve been saying the same thing over and over aren’t I supposed to change Council gave again definitions dressed Anecdotes and allegories nothings sinking in I read around the edges I don’t learn anything I’ve decided already exactly how I feel See me at and with partially exist From in a server farm A filter for a day reverence edited Solemn for a spell a thread or two to the most use You’re a good prospect for the brand You see people are beneath what anyone could be You’re a breeze in a daze on a binge in a loop Plunking wit in little bits and fits of earnestness A cat in a cap and a baby in a boot and a favorite thing to you News you want pictures of browsing heinous casualties Half read and recommended now you think you’ll care for awhile You’re a breeze in a daze on a binge in a loop My attempts make no sense they make no sense Anchor them thin in air I followed up but I am nowhere close I wonder was it that which I would even want if given I’m paging through eyes flirt and flutter Humdrum ho hum and kinda getting off It’s irony shot and cut and cropped quantified and bottom lined to death A love that never ends they spend and spend Picture me and My Marantz my fans on every word I have been fit in I’ve been bent straight I’m pulled in opposites Aren’t I supposed to change after all we talked I speak as thoughts arrive Completely acronymic ephemeral conviction Pureed effusions floating down the feed When what I’ve made’s escaped me My hands are idle A cavity remains Manic oscillations I could go for anything right now You’re a breeze in a daze on a binge in a loop We’re catalogued disseminated Signed in on a server farm In Altoona, Iowa
2.
My friend in the news He takes on a take A minute in and he’s following it News of the world The state of the news Basic malaise he’s gonna give his take Monitor white and notified Remote and at home declaring into his phone Don’t ever change Amazingly bored A breeze in a daze But once upon at the “U” you were relevant too The ditto device Inventories effects Extension of skin and medium is The faster I talk my thoughts in a trail it sounds perfect to me I blink in a blank I jerk and I shake it sounds perfect to me Speaking in the tongue of ones and zeroes Daydreamers of dystopia live stranger than the fiction read Brought to them by cookie trails and algorithms in their heads Bridle me bride I need to be bound In this electrical age why don’t we settle down Jesus be beat into me Belief between and keeping clean I’m pretty aware a paper you wrote has started a band I’m always getting asked Say in the tongue of zeroes and ones have you ever thought Man I’ll never change And why might you You’re in with the college crowd now you’re in the Cities ages Hits on Radio-K and spins on The Current Your efforts are well attended The faster I talk my thoughts in a trail sounds perfect to me I blink in a blank I jerk and I shake It sounds perfect to me Basic Malaise Daisy chained It’s only a year How bad could it be
3.
Doomscroller 04:35
Oh boy... today I read the news
4.
I wanted to get on the radio Tell about how astounded I'm Wrapped up in whatnot and so on and forth Gene pollution predation plasticity and you and me Habitat degradation and tons of other "tions" Mutational meltdown I'd love to be around I bet a bunch of of billions the odds are them to one By chance a soul Interpose or coextinct I mean what I had meant to say Everything I've so impressed I got right off the internet I wrote this in a bit of pinch All the same it's close to snuff In between my afterthoughts A picture for a paragraph Don't you feel consigned Foolish to the wise Do you know Him too Heavens have declared Evidence impaired Nonsense to the deaf I missed you The same old blues More of me And no excuse I picked up a force of habit I wonder what if I'm a dinosaur hack No I'm not fancy philosopher biologist No peer reviewed schemes Of journals and of dreams Casual interest Chaff in the wind I'm no man of note to publish what I've wrote No rodent in this race I have no face to save and I have no grade to make Extinctions ended extinctions over Now I have no lines to recite I've replaced my mind I'm wholly resigned Thy will be done unto anew Extinctions ended extinctions over I have a new mind unto thine A new mind unto thine
5.
Hollow Shot 04:41
I’m hollow All shot through Like bullet poked Full of holes My new car My new phone A better job Lots of clout Fills me up but leaks right out I’m hollow I quench and quench It’s endless, see But everything Just leaks Announce my name All adorned and peer reviewed All lettered up but hollow shot Dr guy, what might help I’m leaking, see Might you suggest I take a day, or trip abroad Perhaps some hot yoga
6.
I can’t start over and I know I’ll be back where I’ve begun The threads are running through and I’ve become a threat to you and anyone When I was a kid I learned about the mark and devastation days yet to come You had me backed up you offered me the cup You passionately pressed me to the wall How I wonder did I only looked a bit Now everyone’s in pieces that I pick Devastation Days are yet to come yes indeed Testimonies now abound about the beast scrolls and bowls wrath And sirens in the sky Assorted others all are nigh Yet I see wits and wags who laugh back “All there is is what you can prove to yourself” “All there is is what you can prove to yourself” Honey lipped, her mouth is an open grave Another one had just become You took hold and changed your clothes Picked a name but you are still the same Something new something you could nice and easy do Your made up and making such and effort The enviable lists the circles to be in If someone could just get us on the bill The metrics and the means I got a dire need I’d pay some Russian bots for the hits I peruse all day I window shop and wish For something I could get to get me in Here’s the next big thing, upon us like thief Hundred-pound hail, blood bridle high Now we’re cooking with fire from the sky The sickle and the son, here for everyone Now the earth quakes Devastation Days The sound of no mistake, the world has been in wait Devastation Days In so many words, in as many ways
7.
Psalm 12 04:26
Help, LORD, for the godly are no more The faithful have vanished from among men Everyone lies to his neighbor Their flattering lips speak with deception The poor are plundered the needy groan Help, LORD, for the godly are no more The faithful have vanished from among men On every side the wicked prowl Vileness is exalted And everyone lies to his neighbor You say you will now arise Your words are silver, purified Gold in a crucible Seven times
8.
Summary 04:58
Grace and peace to you According to the counsel of his will All glory evermore be to the truth A kind of famine’s been summoned on the land They choose when they’ll care and when they won't All depends who the joke is on The modern eras clerics clown around I’m just a geezer obsolete Ones out of date so quickly now As to for the what’s with it and so in a how but when will the rhetoric end Amending minced and mended renderings of a lie belief you use to make your means In a singularity, omitted, oh my, neat You’re working for big banks and the war machine advancement by degrees on meager minimum And um ya know, making bomb parts and bone screws As focused as a star collapsed This here's my favorite time of day See now these dim and automatic eyes I think you see they prophesy I think you have no excuse I think you know this is no joke Put us in a pile with a piece of code a mile We're born inside a vault of video screens with an app for that Where a better interface is in the place of making much inside the way of any true human to and fro No first I and then you And what's that mean anyhow these days for chumps like us in running wheels Who jabber on stupid faced Replaced by ones and zeroes Summary Attention please abbreviate A fitful night you wake in sweat your eyes are blackened by the dread residue Your brain is bladed razors whip and spin hotter as you get hotter, hotter still Your frantic flaccid lamentation issued to and through the mute medium Summarily swallowed whole Do-Re-Mi and all the other songs we sing I’ve got nothing to claim at this party anymore Round and round the dancer in the music box Fixed into her turns the bolted ballerina cast We’re like her also fastened to machines In perfect twirling tempos imprisoned to the tune Born in a vault of videoscreens and completely worked over Summary Attention please abbreviate
9.
Stay Sane 07:13
Quarantined in a vault of video screens Stuck face to face and pacing end to end Been talking with my thumbs and through cameras Peak fever pitch I’ve come to complete arrest Shannon said you got a false faith You gotta make hay Stay inside your pajama pants Quarantined in a vault of video screens A moment for the kids sat in front of glass Remote and in a corner and climbing up the walls Folks in droves have picked over the holes left the in the aisles City slicker survival Buy a Switch and hit the sticks Another syndicate’s preferred expert Our guest tonight is harping on and on But I got time Run an errand just to get out of another zoom chat Silent ocean still as glass Wrecked routines and pent up families Everything’s empty Echo alone A ghost city incubates in place staying safe Little lists and listlessness Coping in a vanished land An evening walk to prove it’s all still out there I fear I’ve been going on and on Edgewise words and upturned spurned me on Undercooking a bat Oh MacGyver a mask The days stretch and blend Models and myriads The markets heave and they ho Money’s just made of math I read on the news just this morning they now think it floats through thin air Cadential steady sigh vent the breathing machines A nurse slumped in scrubs on the bus I feel inert and immune and unprecedented Nothings coming to me Magnitudes and platitudes and YouTube rabbit holes Everyone aligned maligns the other side You’d think somebody died My-my What a fine spring day we have here Far out folks Stay sane
10.
Glory and relationships Desire and delusions I suppose no words mean nothing these days And I owe some explanations Erasure and deletion Complete detachment Absent without excuse I see you see through me I am worse than gross perpetrators I commit silence Standing talking in the dark the out front Another pleasant evening at the Neighbors In the course of conversation Gun shots about a mile or so Fully automatic Now this is just preceding and followed by the following An SUV crossing up the street Curiously slow in shadow, windows partial 24th and Bryant North Suddenly explosions 3 firearms discharging Muzzle flames are dim but sounds as loud as hounds of hell I had no expectations my instincts failed me Full frontal to the bullets, I see you and I follow suit Thrown flat spread completely, in the cool soft grass The smell of early autumn, my cheeks on freshly fallen I haven’t done a thing today My job means nothing What I wonder doesn’t in fact I could die in minutes My child could die I have no predictions Adrenaline and nausea I could jump into space I could just throw up Anyhow Who’s this for and what’s it to them Glory and relationships Desire and delusions

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released December 31, 2020

Chris Vogel- Guitar/Vox
Keith Lindgren- Guitar
Jonathan Neighbors- Bass
Brice DeGrand- Drums

All tracks written by Chris Vogel
Produced by Ethan Brashears and Flowerstalks
Mixed and Engineered by Ethan Brashears of 6070 Sound
Mastered by Garrett Reynolds at Electrokitty Recording- Seattle, WA
Recorded throughout 2020 at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in America

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