"Mean Letters"

1. Letter to the Editor

Gonna write a letter to the editor
Because ive got some things I’d like to say
About the problems with the public transportation
And something about that poor lost little whale

Gonna write a letter to the editor
Gonna tell you people what I think
I am going to fill up your inbox with unwanted messages
Just by clicking on this hyperlink

Gonna write a letter to Mcluhan
Because I think he might have made a small mistake
When you wrote about the importance of television
I think you meant the internet instead

Look it up on the internet
We’re so into our inner net
Important signs signing meaning
Deferential layering
We make meaning mean
We make mean meaning
Meaning makes us mean
Meaning means we make

Cell phones getting smaller and smaller every single year
It wont be much longer til they're implanted right behind your ear
Then we will have telepathy
Then I will know just what you think
Microchips implanted in your brain

 

2. Sunshine

Sunshine and rainclouds and those in between
Some people are nice, others are mean
Favourite number’s always two, all you / I could think about was you

Yellow and green on the colour wheel
Ten million flies are having a meal
If you cut them they’ll be gone, dandilions on the lawn

Some things are different with the name of your year
Say a lot of things and drink a lot of beer / listen to your ear
Its really very / not that interesting, I see / don't know why you’re interested

 

3. Mirror Stage

There is a mirror stage
In you I see all the little parts of me that I rate
Reading Jacques Lacan in a car in a parking lot, in Anacortes, Washington, right outside of the church
Sometimes I only see the parts I would like to purge

There is a super-ego
He tells me all the things I like to do are illegal
Such a nice haircut, clean shaved face and the glasses too, oh my, and the shoes, what did ya do, did ya go to
the university of indie rock?
You forgot about all that other stuff

This is not a reference to ‘We Dance’ by Pavement
If you thought that pat yourself on the back for being so significant
But that’s not what we’re saying now, these are different times now
When I wrote that other song, hadn’t discovered The Fall yet

 

4. Look to the Sea

When I look to the sea, my eyes look and see grey, blue, green and it’s shallow
Then I turn to the deep and I sure do believe this means more than its shadow

I know these symbols are real cuz I made them that way
They take shape in my mind like the lines on a road
And there are systems and signs that tell you how to go
And that’s good cuz we like to go out to the show sometimes

When you look to the trees you see more than just weeds that were printed on paper
Then we turn to the breeze this is making me sneeze won’t you build us a shelter

I am embarking on a mission to colonize nature
I’m armed with machine guns that are loaded with meaning
I’ll fire and rebuild these objects as structures
And systems of metaphorical layers
And I know that they’re real!!!!!!

When I look to the scene I see everyone meaning to see what to think about
And since there’s going to be judgement please won’t you give us something just to talk about

I’m going to throw up some flags, I hope that you catch them
And tell all your friends
This is marketing these mean letters I hope you reply

And I know this song it sounds a bit grungy
and I bet that's probably not what you thought it ought to be
but that's okay, because we're looking back to the nineties

 

5. Looking Back

Waves crash on a shore
They aren’t just waves
We’re something else altogether
Boats working away
We’re not really working
Just looking back
Looking Back
Into illusions
There’s something that’s soothing
About oceans and soft light
Looking back
To your favourite movie
And everything’s moving
But not today

Clouds reflect
Fiercest architect
Space is cold
But then it got sold
Ozone layer
Is in your prayers
Cuz ultraviolet light
Might restore your sight

Shells cover your skies
Block out your eyes
With visions of salty sea air
Lips distract you with diss
It’s hard to persist with
What we were just talking about
Looking back
Into the future
Time will calm me down
As waves heal these rocks
Looking back
Into our lives
There'll be a time
When we will both die

Concave, convex
How should you frame it?
Photograph won’t
Express what’s in your
Brains aren’t important anymore

 

6. Unusually Significant Artefacts

You ordered a veggie burger from fast food restaurants
You crossed international borders
Everything that you trust was imported
You’ve always known youre so important
Coffee ordered with three sugars inside
You asked for ashes in your fries
Since youre going to die someday
Theres no need to floss or take multi-vitamins
She may as well suck you off again

You chased the copcar until there was nothing else to do
But get your own copcar, if you cant beat 'em join 'em
They say two stones are better than one bird anyway
Late modern polluter commuters – there’s no center so we'll drive all day
Freedom reigns and national flags

 

7. So Important

So important
So important (so important)
So important
So important
Tearing up molehills
Building up mountains (two giant mountains)
Writing in clouds
Monuments and fountains (and paragraphs about clowns)
So important
So important
So important (so important)
So important (so important)

I am fire
You are water
He is earth
I am so much hotter

Hyper-personal
emotional confessional
Yes it’s true that the
situation's probably not sustainable

Waiting
For breaking
I know I probably shouldn’t be writing
Right now

Meta-personal
try for universal
maybe these things will
also apply in your world

Breathing
Or reading
A man can only do so much
Sleeping

Critical elevator
Reader-writer penetrator
I am god my voice inside your
Headphones

Engines burning
Smoke is streaming
We will meet or
There will be disaster

So important
Meta meta meta letter
I ’d better go get ready for the
Pending critical disaster

Falling falling
Faster faster
I am going to crash into
Your ocean

Falling falling
Faster faster
Pages burn and
Ashes fall to the ocean

 

8. You Can Never Kill Me (Because I Will Never Die)

You can never kill me
Because I will never die
You can stick a needle in my eye

You can not erase me
Cuz im not gonna hide
Its just downhill from trying to explain why

You can spit in my face
I will learn from that
If you spit in my face
I will be back / be assured of that

 

9. Neutron Star / Pulsar

Riding on the night train, all day and night train
I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna
Go back to Bahrain, write another quatrain
I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna go

This world is a sham
This show is a fucking scam
I want my money back
I expected a band
Instead there’s just some hack
And he don’t know how to play guitar that good either

I am a fish I live in the ocean
When I go to the surface the air breathes me poison
Hey bartender I want a refund
This beer tastes like ocean
Well you’ve been lost in your world of thoughts
And you only emerge to see a band play

So you go to the venue and you sit in the back room
But the people recognize you from the pictures in the news
And you recognize them too
But they don’t know what to say to you
And you don’t know what to say either

So you leave the show early
And walk home alone in the rain

And when you get in
You climb back in your fish-ball
You are a reverse scuba diver

Well I’ve made some big decisions
This is what I’m gonna do
I’m gonna roll around in my fish-ball
Yes I’m gonna move
I’m gonna move so fast that I will surpass
The speed of light squared

Then all my mass will drip right past
I exist in time but not in space
I have no body and I have no face
I am pure energy, I am dark matter surely

You cannot see me, I move faster than seeing
I am an electronic medium meaning
I will enter your brain
And when you click send
I’ll pass through Dallas
Then appear on your friend’s monitor’s field of vision

Now he changes his mind,
When he walks down the street he likes the graffiti
When he gets something to eat

I am media letters
And I aim to make things much better

 

10. Pure Energy

I wanna be pure energy
So please set me free from this ugly body
Cut off my head to leave only pure meaning
With no underlying form

We went for a walk and wrote our name in the trees
And we conquered this world to proclaim its meaning
But I tripped on my heels and landed flat on my knees
Skin burns and lungs still bleed

I want to be a spark of energy
I’ll move in through your ears and then out through your teeth
And I’ll make you rethink all these crazy ideas like
Space is preferable to time

 

11. Mean Letters

This is one-way media this ain’t no chat room
We have not met yet so let’s start with a letter
I’ll write you a mean letter to think about things
You leave me a message on the answering machine

We both want to go and listen to our ears speak
Trees are cocks are guns are men and cars and power
So much signs I can’t stop trying to signify them
Let’s go conquer some free space, that’d mean so much to me

The letter’s been sent
The deed has been done
Now we just wait
For your reaction
The votes have been cast
The bomb has been dropped
Now we just wait
For whats going to come

 

 

 

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