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Detachment
03:40
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Detachment
Staring down the pixel priest
A mexican stand-off
All hail the pig for the feast
Righteous profiles
Stolen lunch money
From the good side
Afraid to be eaten
By everyone’s hungry evil eyes
Welcome to the doom side
There sitting on the back seat of your car
In your broken back yard
Making out to shortwave radio
And your skeleton sister’s screaming halo
And the doors are locked
And the word is “fucked”
Banging your head against the dread
In a town called Nowhere
Got to get away from here
You may have had a skill or two
But youth troubled and wasted you
So here you arrive
Lazy, in desperation
Dreams haunting you
You have no friends
They’re all dead ends
Is there nothing more!?
Is this all!?
Welcome to
Complete
And utter
Detachment
Welcome to…
…complete…
…and utter…
Detachment.
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Ever & Ever
01:45
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Ever & Ever
one step more and that’s the end of the road
you hum & howl, show your teeth & growl
while you know you can’t win
hot on your heels, they snarl, rattle & squeal
and you know it’s too late when the rats don’t wait
So here we are, a little wild eyed
pushing on until nothing’s right
everything appears closer in the rearview-mirror
when they’re only keepsakes for god sakes
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Forever & Never
03:49
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Forever & Never
Palm trees, desert winds
run for days on end.
Mosquito heat, thick and still
it’s sinking in, good times pretend.
Snake oil charms
a fever dream
I’m a chameleon.
Slow thoughts creep into the night
Duelling hearts, like throwing dice
lonely words, but some catch fire.
A growing moon, both tame and cruel
must be leaving soon.
Forever & Never...
Ride into the sunset
will i find a little love?
But then again, you never get what you’ll pay for.
Snake oil charms
a fever dream
Am I a comedian?
Slow thoughts creep into the night
Forever & Never...
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Humbugger
04:41
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Humbugger
as i walk through your door
casually crawl through your walls
through the picture perfect portraits
& cause your memories to fall
Wake up to your dreams, motherfucker
you got to go it alone
keep your hands on the wheel,
keep trucking
because you’ll never run out of road
humbugging
humbugging’s just the way
like nails on chalkboard,
(the hooks hold)
you’re nothing but small talk
& it’s all talk when you won’t say a word
sayonara, say no more
Wake up to your dreams, motherfucker
you got to go it alone
keep your hands on the wheel,
keep trucking
because you’ll never run out of road
humbugging
humbugging’s just the way
keep strutting
strutting it all the way
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Cottonhead
03:56
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Cottonhead.
push, push, push, pushing it down
can’t remember if you’re on top or out
you should fear the vitriol in my veins
came to see it
strapped your eyes
had to breathe it
could only try
in your brain your perception is a stain
eyes like sunflowers
in bitter bloom
stare stone cold from the corner of the room
spread out like plaids
the story they display
where real words won’t see the light of day
stand and watch
hands tied to a clock
(your) life unfolds like geraniums in the sun
you’re looking good but you can’t get nothing done
Haven’t seen you smile
Not for a while
Want to be alone tonight?
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Camel
03:25
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Camel
I’ve been wandering around for a long time now
without water, without wine, sunny side down
it’s hard not to hate it
the whole world seems jaded
I’m slowly fading out of view
I’m not just fiction
of my mind
i come around here
all the time (2x)
I’m not just pictures
i can’t hide
i fall apart here
all the time
I’m not just fiction
of your mind
i come around here
all the time
sands of time and oceans
of magic camels and lyrical potions
you write what’s yours and make it all pan out
I’m not just fiction
of my mind
i come around here
all the time
I’m not just pictures
that you find
i fall apart here
all the time
they’re not just pictures
i can’t hide
they’ll come around
every time
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Saints, Sedated
03:16
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Saints, Sedated
pretty girls
fast lies
all that glitters gets hooked
at the end of the night
muscle, cars,
faux diamonds
you’re loss
if you’re out to find them
when you’re too far out
to hear their call
when you’re too far gone
to care at all
rabid priests &
little lambs in heat
licking heals
down on dirty streets
used, broken & loathing
perks & delights
live the fight
for the end of the night
the city
buckles & sighs
dropped by the side of the road
the world gets dark,
the light turns cold
your heroes are dead,
your friends all fold
bright lights kill the city’s soul
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Lone Motel
05:13
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Lone Motel
oh well so here we are
it has come to this…this
an ungrateful death at a slow motel
you stand staring longingly down the hall
littered with preoccupied portraits of self idolisation
hanging on by tooth and nail
the sickly green polyester carpet
a reminder what promise that prevails
out in the yard
lone cars
empty magazines
open windows
closed minds
hair in the wind
locked doors
stagnant hours for every slow moving century
screens… escaping distant visions
rustily stranded scenes of a fading arcade
hope
you entertained for a while
hope
birds of paradise
like postcards from a distant movie
and parental lullabies
live the endless night
circular traditions
galleries full of frustrated fearful faces
until one escapes
and moves south
and now here we are
and you find yourself
so here you find yourself
and it has come to this
you know you had your chance to chuck a “u”-ey
but what’s the point?
if you don’t even know who is who or what is what anymore!?
instead you are running, screaming at a hundred miles an hour
fast away, down the highway, drown the high way
knowing that this town ain’t yours anymore
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Musk
03:55
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Musk
i know, knew all along
down in the bottle
the truth didn’t drown
It’s a wonder with all this alcohol
tiny temper
you come on strong
didn’t know how fast I should run
desperate little lifeless vampire
The oil & water
you sink your teeth in
no matter what you believe in
you’re bleeding & seething
you’re drifting & drowning
alone in
these desperate oceans
of your dark & bitter potions
headstrong
the way it is
a little heavy on the grave-y
contemplative
ignorance is bliss
can’t handle it
damned if i do
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An Affair To Remember
03:44
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An Affair to Remember
like a moth to a flame
like a wolf in disguise
to follow you home
to kiss you goodnight
in an iron embrace
forever mine
down the deepest dreams
i steal your time
though everything is poison
no matter what you do
the world revolves
endlessly around you
you’re my love
so strong a desire
to shed old skin
to crawl inside
the one you’re living in
in an iron embrace
forever mine
down the deepest dreams
i steal your time
though everything is poison
no matter what you do
the world revolves
endlessly around you
you’re my love
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Conquistadores
02:55
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Conquistadores.
Dead bird in the driveway
Found a horse between the sheets
Don’t come to me with rats on your tail
The story won’t end so well.
After all
- that i know -
Conquistadores & Parasols
White Russians
Brown Sugar
after all is won and lost
without you
I’m lost
with you
Ran over a goat on the way
ran right back to pick me up
never hit my head on the same stone
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Parasols
03:18
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Hands Like Haunted Houses
I’m bored and lonely
All these people don’t grow on me
vintage T’s & runny noses
Plastic angels striking poses
covered in pure white snow
where’d the white powder go?
Got to go, got to let it go
God I know I got to let it go
drink to the beat of a dying earth
And it’s a shit town full of shit people
who give a shit about nothing but their shitty little egos
And then you find yourself knee-deep in it
up to your neck and forced to cop it
but booze and pills and parties will get you through it
uh-huh.
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Emotionless
05:05
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Emotionless
Lost the plot for a moment
hey there’s our face on the floor
and from beneath the wondering eyes
suck it up and smile straight out the door
“death breathes live into lost souls” - they say…
well hey-hey ho-ho
like ants are plenty, we’re one of many
so does it matter if we don’t come close at all ?
dancing in the pale moon
time to follow it home
into the tale where we belong
down at a dead end
emotionless and low
pick up the courage that carried
so does it matter if we’re too broke to go for gold?
nothing’s better than nothing,
but nothing at all is just so-so
animal instinct’s calling
scratch the itch, bite the bone &
let the monkey go
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Magnus Sydney, Australia
Sydney band Magnus formed in 2012 to bring their urgency, fearlessness in experimentation and healthy disregard for genres
to Australian music.
“The band clearly likes to tease and with terrific self-confidence in their undoubted abilities the approach does create a lively anxiousness within their music." - The Sydney Morning Herald
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