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Crazy Eyes
04:05
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Fluorescent snappers are the beacon of death
You cannot swim, you cannot fight, you’re shark bait tonight
Fluorescent snappers are a herd of street lights
Before the tunnel, before the teethbefore you’re pulled down into the deep
Your homing dart is futile against the Jaguar shark
Steve’s got crazy eyes, crazy eyes
It’s the ghost of captain Ahab in disguise
Steve’s got crazy eyes, crazy eyes
His loyalty remains despite the tide
Put on your scuba suit and dance
The waves can quell this fiery trance
And bury your vindictiveness in the sand
Esteban was eaten, but erase that from your mind
If you obsess about this mess you’ll get your crazy eyes
Esteban was eaten, but a death at sea
Is glorious, for men like us who eat our anchor chains
and park our mobile homes on the seventy-one percent
What are you doing Steve? What are you doing Steve
You’ve made a mess out of me
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Tonic for The Toques
02:16
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All we need is a tonic for the toques
Get them dancing to in their funeral suits
Esteban's dead but he's not forgotten
We need hair from the jaguar shark that got him
The shark has a head start
Ready the Bonaparte
We must avenge our friend
The jaguar shark will meet its end
Give me some juice tonic for the toques
Give 'em a groove to dance to
A tonic for the toques
A jig will warm these workboots
They don't need any more loss
They just need some sailor sauce
Or at least sailor singalong
To mourn our beloved Esteban
Revenge is a fire that can't burn for long
When you're surrounded by water and singing your songs
There's no sense making your nemesis a fish
Cuz I shark don't know what a nemesis is
Grab your whiskey
Pick out which key
You wanna jam in
And sing a tune with the salmon.
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Rubber Tide
04:12
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Rubber tide recharge my mind
Light up the path so I can find
My white whale my jaguar shark
Try to penetrate the dark
Light up this beach, light up this beach
And bleach the T-shirt path in front of me
When there's no sidewalk in the sand but there's are lightbulbs
Luminescent walkway makes wanderers insightful
The nights are overcast with empty thought bubbles
Rigid earth gives the sailor lots of trouble
But he walks the coastline
Nothing in his mind
Hoping that he'll finally find a rubber tide
Rubber tide recharge my mind
Light up the path so I can find
My white whale my jaguar shark
Try to penetrate the dark
Light up this beach, light up this beach
And bleach the T-shirt path in front of me
I was born on a stack of fresh wheat
But I always wanted to feel sand under my feet
Endless liquid blue puts my tempests at ease
So jellyfish show me the way out of the trees
Jellyfish lighthouse
Can you turn around
Your sailors are lost here on land
We shot down our albatross
Now we’re forever lost
Oh rubber tide would be nice
Lead us out of the ice
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There's an aeroplane
On the ocean floor
There's an aeroplane
On the ocean floor
I wonder who was lost
I wonder who was but now is not
There's a fusilodge on the ocean floor
There’s something odd, on the ocean floor
I wonder who was lost
I wonder who was but now is not
From our submarine on the ocean floor
We see twenty bodies on the ocean floor
I wonder who was lost
I wonder who was not
Underwater aeroplane
Underwater aeroplane
Plane at the bottom of the pond
The plane don’t belong
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Swamp Leeches
05:05
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The beaches still got leeches
And your mind can be unkind
There are leeches in the seaweed, and in the mud
They'll suck out all your teeth and then they'll take your blood
But things are not so bleak
Cause there's a remedy you seek
Your death’s made pretty by the kiln
Because the surveillance turtles got it on film
I felt something when I was out shark hunting
The leeches were drinking and I was shrinking
Swamp Leeches drink your body’s sun
You’re helpless with your harpoon gun
Leeches can get through even the strongest wetsuits
When they come They won’t even let you
Wear your rose petaled glasses
As your watch your life pass by in flashes
People wil watch the video
But it'll just make them want to go
Take out a boat and jump overboard
And set their cameras up to record
The leeches'll enter right on cue
And these fools will al perish too
The videos will show they didn't care
They just want people to think there never scared
But eventually years after the video’s released, do you think anyone will care?
Or will they find it wrong that the leeches are going strong, and just wish you were there?
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Shark Brilliant York, UK
Folk-Punk Anthems in the Key of Sea. NOT the vacuum cleaner of the same name. Best enjoyed chilled.
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