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Billy Callous (2012)

by LPS

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1.
Invocation 03:49
(whispered) 2... 3... 4...
2.
You'll never have to work with a face like that, no. You'll never have to work with a face like that. You'll never have to work with a face like that, no. You can spend your life in the pleasure dome. Oh Anima, ain't you as comely as they come? I'm into ya, yes you've got billions on the run Don't worry, no my pretty I'ma help you get there stunned No worry, no, no pity But then I ain't the guilty one, no. You'll never have to work with a face like that, no. You'll never have to work with a face like that. You'll never have to work with a face like that, no. You can spend your life in the pleasure dome. Oh Anima, what's animating all our friends? I'm onto ya, I'm into all that this portends Come curry favor quickly Briefly like a candle burns You're early, you're so lazy Better yet, too late to learn, oh. You'll never have to work with a face like that, no. You'll never have to work with a face like that. You'll never have to work with a face like that, no. You can spend your life in the pleasure dome.
3.
74 03:00
Maybe this time, we can make it on our own here Rig up a fight so we'll never feel alone Maybe this time, we can make ourselves at home here Standing like a flame instead of sinking like a stone
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5.
Bone Orchard 03:06
No I can't deny you, whenever I try to Always I wind up in some kind of hell The two of us only, together alone We are gently confounding the musical spell In the city you found me, in the desert you drowned me But in the shade of the palm tree, the battle was won If anyone wonders, don't say I've gone under Just tell them I died with my headphones on Bone orchard, a burial at sea Someone was tortured, it wasn't me We're sliding up the banisters, all the way upstairs Yeah we're sliding up the banisters It's easy going as long as there's nobody taking care
6.
Hot on the trail, the trail of your love The tale of your love could never grow old As long as there's omens and portents of romance, I can't imagine more You cunts are late, you cunts are late You cunts are late again Hot on the train, the trail of your love The sale of your love could never grow old As long as there's omens and portents of romance, I can't imagine more
7.
I've seen you one too many times It's not a matter of taste No matter how it's defined One too many times And I don't care how well you can rhyme Because you don't make sense And you're never on time One too many lines Are you some necessary evil? Are you some necessary evil of mine? I've seen this one too many times It's not a matter of taste No matter how it's defined One too many lines Are you some necessary evil? Are you some necessary evil of mine? Are you some necessary evil? Are you some necessary evil? Are you some necessary evil of mine? A most singular air (Not unlike the feeling of culture) Whenever you're there (I weather your insistence on leisure)
8.
Billy's soul is an empty hole That nothing and no one can fill But buyer beware because he don't care He wants it to grow larger still This is Billy's war and it's an open sore As long as there's someone to thrill If it's fight or flight, he'd be gone tonight There's money to be made in them hills I know he's an American Roman in an American Rome And I know he can't see the motorcycles for the chrome But try to picture how you'll feel on the day Billy Callous comes home All Billy sees are them verities Swirling around in the storm She may be faster than her old masters' plan But her thinking will not keep her warm Yes the one he loves makes below above Makes the way up the way down again She may be Billys pride, but she ain't Billy's bride Patricians are plotting the end I know he's an American Roman in an American Rome And I know he can't see the motorcycles for the chrome But try to picture how you'll feel on the day Billy Callous comes home
9.
So Wot? 02:45
(So Wot?) So wot if your mother doesn't get you? (So Wot?) So wot if your father's not there? (So Wot?) So what if your lover won't let you (So Wot?) Put it in where the others' don't dare? (So Wot?) So wot if the government's incompetent? (So Wot?) So wot if the corporations lie? (So Wot?) Underfoot, a broken caterpillar (So Wot?) And it's never going to get to be Be a butterfly Be a butterfly Be a butterfly Be a butterfly So Wot?
10.
Rendezvous 02:32
I can hear you thinking that you're evil But all the things you've done, I've done them, every one I can hear you thinking that she's evil But all the things she's done, I've done them, every one Settle in, you're waiting on your rendezvous Who knows who is who? Who knows where the world is going to? Settle in, you're waiting on your rendezvous Who knows who is who? Who knows what the world is coming to? I can hear you thinking that you're evil.
11.
Drop me off, I shan't be partner to these petty crimes You can call me when you're serious I've something much bigger in mind What was that? No way Were you appealing to my better side? It cannot be, I haven't got one Yes I'm fit for only to be tied Will you remember us when we sit in the lap of the soul of delight? Come bathe in the spine, be glad we're not starting on time Not on your life, there's no down to the wire When it comes to these questions of rhyme You're a Greek at heart, don't start, You're looking backwards to a glisted age I bet you wish you were a soldier, The epitome of Achilles' rage So tedious, so what? There's no depositing your load of tears You render second into hours And the hours into countless years Not on your life, not on mine, and not tonight. I'm telling you, is it getting through? Not on your life, not on mine, and not tonight? Am I getting through Forgetting you? Will you remember us when we sit in the lap of the soul of delight? Come bathe in the spine, be glad we're not starting on time Not on your life, there's no down to the wire When it comes to these questions of rhyme ("...The answer is disturbingly interesting. There is, in general, no consciousness in The Iliad {I am saying 'in general' because I shall mention some exceptions later}. And in general, therefore, no words of consciousness or mental acts. The words in The Iliad, which in a later age come to mean mental things, have different meanings. All of them more concrete.") (Automated sorcery)
12.
Billy Callous couldn't feel a thing The driver's lash, the serpent's sting The fog of war, a wedding ring No Billy Callous couldn't feel a thing But he's made of love Yes he's made of love, yes he's made Yes he's made of love (Made of love, made of love) Yes he's made Yes she's made Yes she's made of love, yes she's made Yes she's made of love (Made of love, made of love) Yes she's made (All this time, Everyone, everything Made of love One substance Uniting all beings Through space in time Emanating from the imagination of the poetic genius So that all the possibilities of creation may be realized Made of love!) Billy Callous wears the pants A master of his circumstance A critic of your modern dance A cowboy hat and a b-boy stance Down upon a bridge at night He's reading books by candlelight Old-fashioned yes, but out of sight He blows my mind, and that's his right And I don't know what he'll do next But I'll be there, I'll always check And write it down, and pass it on Till everyone's in Billy's song. Made of love.

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Recorded through 8 channels into Chris's laptop at Problem House in the "Fake Live" format.

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released April 14, 2012

All songs written, performed, & recorded by LPS.

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