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Anti-Music Ville Forever
04:05
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Do you wanna come down to the place I live?
Anti-Music-ville?
That's it's actual name
There's lots to get hung about
Anti-Music-ville forever
Living without music sucks
Did I stutter?
There's absolutely none
It's getting hard to find swing records from the 90's
But that doesn't matter much to me
(the 90's swing revival sucked!)
Do you wanna come down to the place I live?
Anti-Music-ville?
That's it's actual name
We'd vote against this mayor
But he commits voter fraud
Every single year
He even chopped down all of the trees
Now we cannot breathe
We don't have radios so you can't tune in but that's all right
Because local DJ's suck
Do you wanna come down to the place I live?
Anti-Music-ville?
That's it's actual name
There's lots to get hung about
Anti-Music-ville forever
Anti-Music-ville forever
The mayor will banish anyone that's caught with music
That's why Bill's a castaway
You remember Bill?
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The Mayor
02:10
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The Mayor wasn't old but he was a man
When he was a teen he bombed the Isle of Mann
The police caught him watching the disaster
So they drove him to the clink on their furry donkey
and in that cell, his cellmate, played top 40 radio all fricking day
and that day caused him to hate music
Which in turn made people unhappy
And ever since that day, he made the town that he mayors a terrible place
And ever since that day, he made that town a terrible place
Rated number two on NME's list of ten worst places on the planet
and that one day when he was a teen caused him to hate music
That psychopath absolutely hates music
Hates top 40 and all music
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3. |
Music Avenue
04:12
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Back then we had music
Before the '96 election
We were all dancing
Then the new mayor came because they rocked onto Music Avenue
Then they broke out the tear gas
They rocked onto Music Avenue
Smashed all of the records
And then for a while
We switched to pen and paper
(I mean, we had to do pen and pen)
But then he shot us down too
Because they rocked onto Music Avenue
They broke out the tear gas
They rocked onto Music Avenue
They smashed all of the records
Then later on, he rose to power
He changed all of the laws
And then he added some
Said "Bank robbing is A-OK as long as you have a salary of 70 bucks"
Because
Guess what's now non-existent?
Music Avenue
It's crossed off with duct tape
There's bodies in chalk on Music Avenue
There's bricks and crap on this one
When I was a young lad, I set the isle in flames
Became a mayor in '96
And then fear-mongered music
Because in that cell when I was a teen
They played Top 40 radio all fricking day
And it did something to my head and I became mayor, you know
And then I fear-mongered all music
And went down to a party
And I shot down and set flames
And now people know it as the riot of
I rocked onto Music Avenue
Smashed all of the records
I rocked onto Music Avenue
And I broke out the tear gas
I rocked onto Music Avenue
And I broke out the tear gas
Smashed all of the records
I rocked onto Music Avenue
And I broke out the tear gas
I rocked onto Music Avenue
Smashed all of the records
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He was the mayor
Numero uno
And other than politics
He gathered all the city's scientists
Made some crazy equations and now he's travelling through time
The people are insanely mad because everybody knows that Back To The Future physics says if you mess up something it will have major consequences on the future
The mayor threw out a piece of gum into a trash can
Then a rejected painter found it
and saw it's potential for evil
Then he rose to power in German politics
He was tired
He was sleepy
So he went back home
While he was sleeping
The entire world changed from what you learned in history class
The next day, when he woke up
He saw the weirdest sight ever
He heard a German guy yelling everywhere
Then he realized the mistake he made
He started laughing
He screwed up bad
He screwed up bad
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Snails
04:38
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I'm beginning to see a lot of snails everywhere in this town
I threw out some gum in 1907
Now all I see is insects
Now I see everyone else looking so normal
Now I'm in a war where the two universes are fighting and I'm fading away
Turns out H****r* found the gum and made versatile weapons with it
Then some snails chewed the weapons up and won World War II
Now I am wishing I hadn't gone back in time
Because I am taking it that I screwed up bad
Now I need to reinvent time travel
Which is quite a task
Because my scientists (which I didn't pay) were the ones who came up with the formula
I read a history book and found out after that
Snails were hailed as heroes and they took over the world
Now I am wishing I hadn't gone back in time
Because I am taking it that I screwed up bad
Now my machine got destroyed by some snail punks
Now I don't really know what caused me to burn down the Isle of Mann when I was a lad
Now my checklist is
1. Invent time travel
and
my second is to do some soul searching
Now I am wishing I hadn't gone back in time
Because I am taking it that I screwed up bad
And I think there's something wrong with me
Because I feel strange about this whole insane stretch of events
I feel like I need to fix some stuff
I'm writing down everything I find different from my already existing universe
I hear something on the radio
I think of shutting it down
But I like it a lot so I'll leave it
While I try to fix this I need to do some soul searching
I'm finding a lot of snails
Because I'm still seeing a lot of snails
Silently laughing snail-ly
(silence)
That was a snail's laugh
I need to fix this now
Because I might never get out of this nightmare if I don't
* Name astrisked because I don't wanna get reported.
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6. |
Future Man
09:04
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I figured out time travel on a Saturday
Thoughts come into my mind, shuffling
I land in the Isle of Mann and see myself with a gleam of fire in my eyes
I say "Son, don't throw that match
Because you'll end up in jail
And you'll probably turn into bitter old me, who everybody hates"
"Ok, I'll listen, because you're future me
Because I was having second thoughts
And I'll try to be really good
Because I know that I will"
Now I go down to a bar
Where I see the cellmates about to violate some really important littering laws
I say "You're gonna make a guy say 'This is killing me'
Because your music tastes suck
And you're gonna turn him into a bitter old jerk just like to did to me
"Ok, because you look like you mean business, I won't litter"
And he walks away
I finally think like I'm doing some good stuff
Now I see another guy that's a novelist
Who I think is teenage me
I remember hiding out in this bar after the fire thing
I say "Did you burn the Isle down because you're hiding out here?"
he says "No, my girlfriend is a waitress who is practicing politics"
"Ok, that's also fine and legal, now I gotta check on my time machine"
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7. |
Purple Wormholes
02:41
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We Don't Like Tuesdays
05:06
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10. |
Mr. Weaponry Man
05:58
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11. |
Time Travelling In A War
19:17
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