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Fun! Fun! Funeral!

by kittycat lollipop

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Boneblack 03:28
Swallow me like angry Saturn Swallow me like the Golden Calf Swallow me like swords like razors flaming torches And keep me there in your gut Never let me go I would never leave you You know I’d never leave you Swallow me like the Serpent’s tail Swallow me like God’s gray Whale Swallow me whole I’m yours to hold Swallow me like a much loved drug Swallow me like the barrel of your gun Swallow me like arsenic like hemlock epileptic tongues I would never leave you You know I’d never leave you Swallow me like holy blood Swallow me like your lover’s cum Swallow me whole I’m yours to hold Sugar is sweet
2.
You’ve seen better days I’m sad to say But there’s no use in crying now Raise a toast to what was, Laugh together, fight the tears Turn your back on better days We are wanting, we are wanting, We are wanting, we are wanting And from my window I can watch the cruelty of children, The vicious sparkle in their little eyes Smiles like jagged scars, deserts in their hearts See myself reflected in their eyes We’ve all seen better days I have to say But I really can’t be bothered with it now Nothing to be done, Oh, what’s the use? Close the lid on better days I can hear it in the distance, As it crushes one more city, As it gobbles up another family After all the fires, when only ash remains There’s still something left for me We are wanting, we are wanting, We are wanting, we are wanting, Wanting, wanting, We are wanting….
3.
Love, walking pigeon-toed, stumbles, cries to see its bloodied knees If I open myself to you like a whore’s bought thighs and reveal the subtle truth within my lies, where is my reward? Have you kept your word? But there’s something in your smile, that keeps me here a while Yes, I’m in love with ruins You know I’ve always been It hangs in the air like justice, like hungry mob justice The smoking gun of your goodbye The wasted breath of my alibi I came back from the edge of the world The doors were shut, the windows fast I returned from the end of the world and I could not meet my past How do I remember warmth how can I remember comfort Now you’ve left me here alone I could never own your heart, kept behind skin and bone I could never keep your heart, though I thought I did my part It hangs in the air like justice, like hungry mob justice The smoking gun of your goodbye The wasted breath of my alibi But there’s something in your smile, that keeps me here a while
4.
You break it apart And put it back together But there is something missing Something is lost It must be a tiny thing to slip away so easily to hide beyond finding Useless little thing But the hole it leaves is a puckered mouth that sucks up hope and starves it to death Nothing fits anymore Do you even notice? Or is it all good enough this life you've thrown together? Only one answer is possible You've made a stupid mistake There are no second chances But you will try anyway Try anyway Try anyway Try anyway Try anything at all Twisted by indecision Bludgeoned by intellect Betrayed by fairweather birds of a feather who told you they'd be there, then fled the scene Betrayed by fairweather birds of a feather You lied to your future and murdered your past Just like a snake slipping skin One answer possible A stupid mistake No second chances Try anyway Try anyway
5.
You said you'd always protect me You told me you'd be there to save me from myself to show me that you care My stick-thin legs can't walk without you there to guide me I rely on you to hold me up We grow to fill our boxes our cases our cages No further No further No further We grow to fill our boxes our cases our cages No further No further No further Your eyes in every keyhole Love me with your gaze I cherish your attention I love to run your maze I don't want to see tomorrow Give me eternal now There is no place to go No dreams get in the way It takes a strong arm to protect freedom It takes a strong arm to protect freedom It takes a strong arm to protect freedom It takes a strong arm to protect freedom
6.
We should pile our dead up high make a ladder to the sky We should shove the sun aside and let it tumble down and scorch the earth and burn the seas We won't need them anymore We'll find God in his heaven yet We will make him love us yet Our blood will fall to the earth like rain We will make the world green again The dawning of a brand new day Oh, we will find a way Our blood will fall to the earth like rain We will make the world green again The dawning of a brand new day Yes, we will find a way We should throw the corpses down into a ditch into the dirt We should make our fathers proud So let us follow after and choke the earth and spoil the seas We should finish our fine work a monument to our memory We should make an ending Our blood will fall to the earth like rain We will make the world green again The dawning of a brand new day Oh, we will find a way Our blood will fall to the earth like rain We will make the world green again The dawning of a brand new day Oh, we will find a way Yes, we will find a way
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Kill your food before you eat it Do not let it go on It must not dream of the future It must be dead It must be dead Its days of bland waiting are gone Its purpose is found It is too late Kill your food before you eat it Do not let it live Do not forgive It will not have children It will not look for work It will not juggle bill payments and cheat on its spouse It will not wonder is that all there is? Because it is food It is your food Do not let it squirm and flop in your stomach You give it meaning Do not let it kick You have loved it with your knife and fork You have moved your tongue over its surface You have rolled it in your mouth It will no longer wonder if it should have stayed in school It will not scratch its head in dull silence It is digesting It is a kindness It is the only kindness Kill your food before you eat it

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FUN! FUN! FUNERAL! collects the attenuated, fitful outpourings of latter-day kittycat lollipop. "Boneblack," "Puppet Theatre Cathedral," and "This Inexorable Shape" were recorded in 2005 and 2006, the final songs written during kittycat lollipop's main period. Then the two halves of kittycat lollipop slumbered, mostly, in separate cities. In 2008, despite the abysmal distance,this fallow period came to an end with the recording of new songs and new versions of old songs, such as "Tender Mercies" and "Isinglass (clarified)." Living in the same city again in 2009 resulted in the songs "Shattered Windows and Overgrown Lawns" and "Every Wish Bestilled." A two-night reunion tour (of sorts) followed, and then kittycat lollipop succumbed to physical separation again.

The video for "This Inexorable Shape" by Patrick Loveland, editing together footage from a performance and the film projected for that song, can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g5iRWE2Cfo

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released May 10, 2018

Christopher Smith Adair: vocals, additional music ("Isinglass (clarified)")
Mark Randall Loveland II: music

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