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Die Zauberkugel
02:18
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[Adae B]
Tick, tock, there goes the clock
There goes time slipping by
There goes the rest of my sanity
I heard you have a silver fix for me
Fix me, mend me
Put me back together, make me friendly
Make me talk good, so i act right
tick, tock
[Jesse]
messing me up, my whole head
spindled, mutilated, and folded
signed, sealed, delivered from my cold dead
bear arms from the second I'm amended
[Adae B]
Never mind the small print, happiness is ever pending
Compliance is depending on the truths that are extended
Slated to be sated, explanations predicated on lies
That don't suit majority of lives. So we like
To be seen, just a little bit
just enough so the doc gives me something just a little tough
something to numb the pain, put the monsters away
For good this time, that's what they always say
i find myself alone again
just the way i came, that's the game we play
My mind is always running away without me
[Jesse]
messing me up, my whole head
[Hook]
SILVER BULLETS PILL TO MAKE THE FEELING GO AWAY (BO!)
PRETTY LITTLE PERFECT SILVER BULLET OK (BO!)
PLANT ONE IN YOUR HEART AND YOU WILL START TO HEAL TODAY
SILVER BULLET HELL YES THESE THINGS ARE FUCKING GREAT
[Jesse]
I want a pretty little perfect silver bullet (BO!)
I want to fire a starter pistol, ready steady go (BO!)
No more warning shots, mourning loss, clouds of obscuring fog, enduring foreign thoughts and feeling so weak - i don't sleep, i
sit and stare, -down- decades of doctors who
didn't care, -clowns-, red tape, and talkers just
sitting there. -through- flashbacks to stalkers i
fled in terror, so that set a narrative
i thought I'd get embarrassed if i was uh, seen?
the dark has been there since i was a teen
and I'm sick of sharing my head with a
ghost… father, feed me the host.
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Salvarsan Pick-Me-Up
02:47
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I missed the sun going down on me
Shadows got long in the tooth while I
Wander confused like I'm neutralized
Zombie-like, euthanized
I been on sitting on this
hard floor, this cold floor
Bone tired, my body stiff
my heart sick, my soul sore
All my life I been betted on
All my days I been sold short
Can't reflect if I hold forth
I hold court, I hold the fort
i DON'T sleep I sit and stare
I haven't showered today
can I get away with it
I haven't showered this week
can I get away with it
I can't remember the last time I
I can't come up with a reason to
I can't be further from satisfied
I'm not certain what people even do
Sundown, unwound springs rusted
Run down, this thing's busted
why how do you DO? I'm fine, and you?
what's good my dude? not much and you?
how YOU doin? I'm good, and you?
how ARE you, REALLY? umm
well now that you ask I mean I don't know
I sat on this floor a long time ago
just for a second, but that second stretched
until it was epic like Ivanhoe
I got a to-do list the length of my bills
I'm blaming myself for the strength of my will
I'm needing my brain to quit racing and chill
so I'm taking a pill
ah, don't call it a little white lie
I'm looking for truth, I'm looking for FOCUS
I'm looking for use when I'm useless
I'm looking for hope where I'm hopeless
I want a pretty little perfect silver bullet (BO!)
I wanna fire a starter pistol, ready steady go (BO!)
No more warning shots, mornings lost
Out of the warming pot, cold sweat pouring
off, I wanna hold heat (I don't sleep)
sundown, gunned down my problems, chambered
one round, spun round, I got em
come down, one cloud I'm under
I still hear thunder, no wonder
I don't sleep, I sit and stare
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neverhome
04:52
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[jesse]
how do you go from I love you I need you to
you're not my people I don't want to see you
a camel could squeeze through the eye of a needle
before I could read you as violent or evil, but
where did my friends I would speak to all sneak to?
silence is not always peaceful. ease is deceitful.
no grease for the the squeaky wheel, if we
keep it real - I sleep around and eat my
meals alone, real alone, no matter what I
feel alone and fear unknowns. it's bad enough to
lose, but I've had it up to half as much as I can breathe in
without seeming combatitive and rude
Yeah I know that isn't news, but my attitude
is new: you will believe a mannequin can move
Stiff limbs, stiff upper lip, stiffen up a bit
Nasty fasciitis, such a Midas touch
I'm not quite as much a gilded cage match
Promoter, rather throw a fight than a punch
i'm the same inside as I was
and so's the so and so that I didn't trust!
Don't tell me I was right all along all at
once! All quiet on the front for months
I am disgusted as much as I am discussed
So I am a shut-in. Shut up.
[Tara]
I do not go out and seek my pleasure
I do not belong...
I do not go out and seek my pleasure
I do not belong wherever we've been
Seen together, but
I am never home (woo)
I hide inside, alone, (woo) but
I am never home
[Jesse]
Home is where the heart is, hard enough know that
No defended borders leaves the hearth unguarded
Holding up the bargain, common goods for barter
Not as good as neighbours, call me Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is other artists, art is deadly weapons
Truth is an art, when you use it it looses a
Dart with a breath in my neck's direction; it
Wasn't protected against infection.
No place to rest when my best estimate is a
Guess. I'm Les Nessman: no walls, I'm forever a
Guest. I'm your ghost in the halls. I'm as close as a
Call on the phone you cut off. I'm no one at all.
No little talks, no back talk, should have made the
Whole plane of the same stuff as the black box
Indestructible, easily corrupted though
Magnetic zeros and ones scratched off
remember when a greyhound ticket was a reservation
no name no date just a destination
no hustle no haste no hesitation
I'm on it, I'm gone
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That's Numberwang!
03:27
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[kadesh flow]
[lex the lexicon artist]
[damn selene]
[shubzilla]
[jesse]
wo wowowo one two one two
I did not come to lose, I do not come cute
I did not come to tell you what I'm not gonna do
but I do not come to not run off with the loot
I pocket the jewels then i rocket with you hot in
pursuit, hop in the coupe I can't drive, that was not a good
move, can't decide to act my age or my pants size
DAMN, I hit the stage like a landslide! and I don't gotta
fantasize, MAN, I got fans on my fan site
trophies on my mantle, gold on my enamel,
even when I panhandle my can rattles so handsomely
cops would understandably ransom me off as a
hostage to my family - it's not vanity
god dammit, id box Fox’s Sean Hannity
and knock his obnoxious block off for humanity
Even straight A’s is damning me w faint praise
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Against Dreaming
03:31
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Everything is how it seems
And it means what it is known to mean
I don't speak about my dreams
I am just where I'm supposed to be
Where there's wanting, where there's longing
There are ghosts and there is haunting
There are notes left in the morning
There is mourning what is gone
When there's something that's important
All the humors in your organs
Make you melancholic, stop it, silly
Really nothing's wrong.
i close my eyes and see nothing and nothing is
what I want and what I want to be is nothing
what I got is enough for me, and other than
that I couldn't imagine another thing
((where did they hide the third verse?))
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Getafix the Druid
02:24
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[Lizard]
Don't ask me why I I don't
Why I don't, Why I I don't
Drink that Devil Alcohol
Please
It's nothing personal
You're not my shrink
It's something personal
What the fuck you think?
[ginzuintriplicate]
At night I drift atop an anesthetic sea
the man right here must have been predisposed genetically
auto-coping mechanism, mecca for high treason
never dry season cause I show that bottle nepotism
breathing through gills the world don’t seem so wrong
and vexing, Skeksis in the mirror when you’re clean too long
the next thing, you’re touching the third rail with malice
splashing liquor down your palette out the Jesus Holy Grail chalice
And you ain’t stressing over lessons you earned, imagine that
losing control of discipline you never learned
that’s why I slip, torment myself the way my thoughts do
defective trip, the way I was raised and taught to
You never learned any better, hell adults
never told you this shit’ll lay you straighter out than smelling salts
young man fell into all types of falling off, hauling bottles off
the MacKay Bridge til they call the cops
His world couldn’t work on oxygen alone, he needed
liquid courage he was shown that’s the quickest version.
He couldn’t laugh or cry chill out when alone, his world was extroverted,
Kid that’s my word now you blessed you heard it
I talk to Buddha when I’m needing spiritual receiving
who’s this on seedy city streets fiending feeding demons?
This isn’t me I’m going through some things I need a drink and
This isn’t real I’m not a fiend sometimes just need that feeling
they say go home, I stay on the fence
excuses stagger more than liquor making no kind of sense
I’m talking, all kinds of shit when I’m all kinds of jack danned
Now this ain’t funny so put the beer back man
Fact man, Odds are stacked and, when I’m throttled
Pop bottles and eat up the dots like fuckin Pac-Man
Raise my glass to the man I used to be
And drift ever further on an anesthetic sea
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gottagonnagottagonna
04:20
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I gotta [C]eat, I gotta eat or I'm gonna die
I gotta [G]eat, I gotta eat or I'm gonna die
I gotta [C]eat, I gotta eat or I'm gonna die
If [F]I don't [G]eat, I'll [C]die
Because if [F]people don't [G]eat, they [C]die!
Fish gotta [C]swim, and if fish don't eat, they die
Birds gotta [G]fly, and if birds don't eat, they die
I got a [C]friend, and if they don't eat, they die
If [F]they don't [G]eat, they'll [C]die
Because if [F]things don't [G]eat, they [C]die!
What does the dog say? (WOOF) and if dogs don't eat, they die
What does the cat say? (WOOF) and if cats don't eat, they die
What does the mouse say? (WOOF) and if mouse don't eat they die
No matter how they cry
If friends don't eat, they'll die!
[Am]Up with the dawn, hit snooze on the rooster
Sugar in the gas tank, supercomputer
[F]Run to the job, punch a clock in the mouth
Hunger setting in but you're blocking it out
[Am]Not gonna doubt it, everybody's talking a
Bout it, shrinking is a loss to be proud of
[F]God has announced it's not enough to blast through
Pounds, now you gotta lose them last few ounces
[Dm]Can you count can you stop counting
Over the counter, under the mountain
[G7]Running on fumes is winning, feeling funny now the
Room is spinning - it's a new beginning!
I'm not [C]hungry, (not good not good enough / not good not good enough)
I don't [G]feel good (you would if you were good enough / not good not good enough)
Think I'm [C]ugly (you do not deserve to let the good inside)
[F]No, [G]that cannot be [C]right...
If [F]I don't [G]eat, I'll [C]DIIIIIIE!
'm not hungry (You're not hungry) but if I don't eat, I'll die
I don't feel good (You don't feel good) but if I don't eat, I'll die
Am I ugly? (You're so ugly) no that's not true, I'm fine
I've got to clear my mind because
If I don't eat, I'll die!
Because I'm big, they think I'm gonna die
Because I'm big, I've heard I oughta die
If I'm so big, I guess I shouldn't mind
But I am not my size, and
I don't deserve to die!
which I don't want to do.
which i DON'T want to do.
I gotta eat, I gotta eat or I'm gonna die
I gotta eat, I gotta eat or I'm gonna die
I gotta eat, I gotta eat or I'm gonna die
If I don't eat, I'll die
Because if people don't eat, they die!
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Obélix et Idéfix
04:28
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Don't ask me why I I don't
Why I don't. Why I I don't
Drink... that devil alcohol.
Please
Don't ask me why I I don't
Why I don't. Why I I don't
Drink... it's nothing personal
You're not my shrink
[Jesse]
I can smell it on your tongue and behind your teeth
I been tryna sleep, young in a refinery
Get thee to a winery, I'm known as a whiner
Sport a shiner. Had it rammed down my throat in the minor league
Y'all don't read my liner notes or analyze the quotes
I scan the skies for ghost---riders at night in a panic, so
Hand over that can of Coke, I'll sign the manifold
Handsome folks that dance and smoke, I never been a fan of those
Hey you look sad and lonely - why, what's up?
oh... no, I'm fine but I arrived fucked up
I'm Obélix, sorry if I'm oblique or obsolete
I've always had a ominous feeling that's how it's gotta be
All I wanted was to stand up tall and make you proud
And I got half of that, at least it's the latter half
Matter fact, I'm glad I practice no faith or religion
I pray for wisdom, stay hidden and state I've made my decision, so
Don't ask me why I I don't
Why I don't. Why I I don't
Drink... that fucking alcohol.
Please
Don't ask me why I I don't
Why I don't. Why I I don't
Drink... it's something personal
the fuck you think.
[Nic]
Blind sober, dead ringer for an alcoholic,
L'enfant tomber au fond de la marmitte
The opposite of bad habit but still compulsive, and
Repulsive nonetheless; I'm a mess on account of motive.
And no, it's not religious. I told you: no opiates.
(Je suis) une mauviette épeurée, écoeurée, à l'air bète.
So tap that keg just don't beg me for help.
I'm doctors Jekyll and Banner; I'm scared of myself.
[Jesse]
woooo
steal fizzy lifting drinks. itchy trigger finger,
real busy kitchen sink. pretty picture of a
field with the missing link. sometimes I think it's like
the city isn't listening, but I'm simply indistinct.
Pity, isn't it? No, buddy, pity isn't it.
Nobody sins except in innocence
Pay attention when they say it's paying penitence
Patience, gentlemen. Take a second, take a sedative.
They pretend it's an amenity, like they could defend it with
obscenity, and then descend into infinity
Set adrift on anesthetic sea
Presented evidence but wasn't present at his sentencing
Let it ring, off to bigger and better things
To cigarettes and liquor in the midst of beheaded kings
Mixing up the medicine, bassment to the pavement
To the grave, men, I'm saving it for Satan. Ok then DON'T
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Something wicked this way comes - oh, that's embarrassing.
Something wicked was waving at someone else, behind me.
Welcome... to Danger Grove.
Hello, listeners, eavesdroppers, surveillance drones
Golems who can only recite poems, and nameless clones.
It's me, your guest host, by which I mean the station's only host
But I'm currently possessed by an unholy ghost
What it wants? Goodness only knows. Now, moving on
The Danger Grove School Board has really crossed the Rubicon
They've asked me to announce that due to budget cuts the school band is just
Standing there with no music. And I won't do it.
The Mayor's race was canceled due to too many challengers
That's all for news, on to community calendar.
Sunday has been called for rain, Tuesday is standing in
Monday will proceed as usual, But Wednesday has a thing so
Thursday goes where Tuesday was, then Wednesday, then the rest is normal
Second Thursday still is when the high school holds their semi formal
Friday is the Hemi Demi formal, nearly casual but not
Quite. On Saturday, of course, every dog dies.
So make arrangements. Today's traffic? Cars are fake.
Bicycles are little white lies, and the bus is late.
Keep clear of the highways, the low road, the usual path
Stick to blood tunnels, the cloud ferry, sewer rafts
Sure, Google Maps will open the Uber app
But that's all due to hackers that were trapped in the computer lab
Congestion is light, thank Heaven for small kindnesses
And what little remains is in your sinuses.
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Listeners, my intern just handed me a note
That says the station's getting lots of angry phone calls and I quote, because
Of when I said the dogs were going to die - no, I misspoke!
On Saturday, the dogs in town all dye their furry coats!
Sorry for the worry, folks, in my haste to start the next
segment, I miscommunicated like a text fragment
The dogs will all D-Y-E! please reassure your children.
Side note, the dye IS toxic, it will kill them.
. . oh god there's a noise like a thousand bears outside the station
. . the dogs in the city are forming a pyramid, and they're all vibrating
. . they're angry I said they would die . when they dye, now they're
pulsing and glowing and somehow melting together
combining, becoming a dragon It's turning this way, its looking at me
OH, MY GOD, it's-- it's time for the weather.
WEATHER
I never really knew, so much
Danger lived in me, not just
As a metaphor, but all the
Machete-wielding bees
That grow inside
(and hatch out of my eyes)
Oh listeners, that was a tight squeeze
The windows are smashed and I'm feeling a slight breeze
The dog dragon was fire breathing - I would have been burned
To cinders - if not for Cindy the intern.
She really earned her course credits when she threw herself
Into the beast's mouth and it peaced out - we do, of course, regret it
To the parents of Cindy, we extend our deepest sympathies
She's gone, but she's gained so much experience in this industry!
Stay tuned next for the arrhythmic anti hip-hop rap hour
Followed by the theatre kids rhyme time
And one song among those that makes this seem just alright
goodnight, Danger Grove. goodnight.
Welcome to Danger Grove, two words, is a production of DangerGrove, one word. It is written by Jesse Dangerously, and produced by 🗡️🗡️🗡️ Grove. The voice of Danger Grove is Jesse Dangerously, the rules are quite clear on that. Original music by 🗡️🗡️🗡️ Grove. This episode's weather was "Save The Bees (But Who Will Save Me From Myself, And Also From The Bees)" by The Penetrating Gaze. Comments, questions? Good luck!
Today's proverb: A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet. And a friend? A friend is just a stranger.
Period.
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rap legend Jesse Dangerously Ottawa, Ontario
Genuine Independent Rap Legend (GIRL)
member of Backburner crew
half of Danger
Grove w Lizard Grove
half of The Library Steps w Ambeez & Illgil
one-third of Imaginary Friends w Thesis Sahib & MC Frank Deluxe
one-third of The Sentinels w ginzuintriplicate & Naked J
partially culpable for the nerdcore problem
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