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The View From Earth

by Kemman

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1.
Centurion 03:31
Caesar stabbed in the back Antony take my legions and defeat them May the gods be in your favor It's the way The only way the people will be with you Octavian forges a plan All his money he is now demanding But make no mistake Cleopatra's heir won't be legitimate We will see who the gods favor Long live the 13th An iron bond that cannot be broken A shadow falls The Aventine cries out Vorenus Cicero stalls for time and his life You may not want to watch this His daughter's a prostitute And a wife that died at her own hand The boy is not of his making Any words behind his back He will know the reason This man is a murderer He's a jealous brute And he's only good at one thing Memmio serves as his example His love is buried in an open field All lives have been spoken for So let it be done May the gods always be with you son In truth there is no surrender May my name live on forever Oh Let them all work out their differences today May the children see you in the light you've shined E pluribus unum
2.
I learned a lesson real young My daddy beat me raw You don't fuck with the best, son And a stupid man goes for my gun I shoot fools and thieves I ain't hiding from no one Riding out on top of my horse, Piss Down Westchester ridge Loading up six talons quick Blasting out all of my dip No reason to be fair I settle debts with looks Killing cheats and honest men Spade the queen of hearts on dares Well shucks don't waste it all baby I got no care for love Sentimental time-wasting idiots And I've notched more belts than you've dropped shits While shoeing up my horse I've killed more injuns from a thousand paces My copperhead descends upon your life My treachery slithering down from yonder Biting up your wife I only see you dying When I slap that trigger back I'll stick my fork in you, cowpoke A learned man I'm not And I tip like shit "Here I lay me down to sleep To wait the coming morrow, Perhaps success, perhaps defeat, And everlasting sorrow. Let come what will, I'll try it on, My condition can't be worse; And if there's money in that box 'Tis munny in my purse." "I've labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you've tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches."
3.
Terrarium 04:43
In a brand new world that I made Walls made of glass I say who goes, who stays Where you grow these days Stones so far beneath you Stones to deep down I placed them there To your left there's a valley At your right side a forest but no city, no city And the wind won't blow but the grass will grow It's all part of the plan It took a single day It took just one day to create where you stand A wave of the hand and the water falls down Deep in the Earth it starts to pool underground and cycles around And the water shines in the air And the trees grow to collect the prize Standing side by side the trees take it in And begin to grow 10,000 feet high And the wind won't blow but the grass will grow It's all part of the plan It took a single day It took just one day to create where you stand The trees reach up and break the sky The limbs branch out and shatter the sides Of this glass world The roots grow wide a thousand times They cover the Earth and to no one's surprise Our time has come Emergency Everyone aboard We've got to leave this place Evacuate What you once called your home Leave behind everything you own An exodus An exodus to the Moon We will be home soon
4.
Sleepseeker 04:20
This sound means war Identified I am waking It sounds like you're dying man Three more minutes and I'd be sleeping Bad habits not only affect you And now I want to kill you dude Please take care of this problem Or the future of us will be affected There'll be peace without you A vortex of sucking air And now it's my problem too Now the way I see it is No daytime catnaps There's a study for you With masks that breathe right for you And diet, breathing strips My insurance should take care of it And there will be Pieces of your heart for me Back together now peacefully I am dreaming again of you No disturbances I'm the former bear You've got to train yourself alone for me To learn what you don't know unconsciously This is what love is babe The effort that's given On a daily basis
5.
Blackeberg 05:28
Keep your body tense You’re just countering her move Try surprise Ringing ears hear everything Man don’t panic now Just stop fidgeting and breathe Come alive Soon your teeth begin to grind She spent days on end Waiting Close that fucking lid Don’t you let them in But don’t you let her out This building Is a hungry animal Through the cabinets and the drawers I know what you’re looking for Rotting meat In the back of a Chevrolet A city of light in her eyes Fading into black Fading into She spent days on end Waiting She’s sleeping in the bath Don’t you let them in Don’t you let her out
6.
Starcharger 05:57
7.
Sometimes I see you This thickened skull of useless cells And I'll burn you to carbon With a look You got it wrong You need to go somewhere right now That ringing It's not in your head It's around your neck You purposeful ignorant An implosion of creativity Galaxies of incapability You're a gas planet So I wanted more To be anything Trying is involved I know you don't get it That's why I'm here To streamline the process Problem solved Let's begin a new way Of seeing thinking and accomplishing Oh just dreaming of the impossible These living speed humps are just obstacles Oh how progress could be exponential Your project, it looks dire The future, well it's on fire Archimedes to Pauly Shore Call me Dinosaur
8.
The Alps 07:32
I saw your eyes and I settled down The two of us can’t be this way It’s already hard enough You’re acting out like an amature Trying to grab all that you can I don’t think you even care It’s time to leave And you don’t want to But you didn’t want to come And if it wasn’t your idea Turn up your nose and walk away It’s driving me up a wall We’re just starting out I can’t lose my cool Gotta learn to slow down Play without a clock Stop and count to ten Another dose of patience We are aware of your every need I said I'm all in though you can't agree Pleading the fifth means we get to sleep No attitude detected no not a peep You're up and down like a mountain range Feels like I'm always climbing up But you didn't even care It's time to sleep but you don't want to I'm calling shenanigans Now I can picture a couple years into the future You'll be hanging on me looking for some direction When all the things you'll ever need Are laid before you at your feet There's still a sense that things are not complete And I, I hope I don't let you down And I remembered how you were always faking While twisting raw emotions into some kind of shaking Now confidence and rugged ideals Uphold your cynical locomotions I'll let you explain away the details So black out you adorable drunkard It's a complex world after all It's surgical precision Such blissful anticipation Of making these decisions It seems we're in position to impress Soothing your distress I used to get crazy with my friends Now I'm just glad to see a normal life right in front me It's Bedtime for Bonzo
9.
1516 02:43
You've been a friend to me And I'm a friend of yours But I never thought we'd be the kind of friends behind closed doors I always wished we could You kept a width away And now even here in bed we find there's nothing much to say When you leave everyday What lock do your keys fit? Do you put love away And forget where you leave it? Do you cry on the phone Over sensitive issues? When you sleep all alone Do you wish I was with you? (So what, my neck's already broke) It happens every morning Or every once in a while Baby you don't talk about yourself that way it's not your style I know you'll sleep alone Despite the face you show And you might not let it get you down but morning tears will flow I know it isn't my place I know I don't have a prayer I know decisions are made I know I'm not being fair
10.
Chime Spiral 07:45
I've got someone I'd like you to meet This cat lives out by the refinery His dad started his own company Built on buying foreclosed property He worked with his old man for a while Dated a girl with a passable smile In time, asked her to walk down the aisle Raising goats was her style They moved near the airport and purchased some land Some say he paid over 200 grand They built up a farm and success hit them quick Things were just fine 'til the goats got sick Just one at first fell to the floor Within a day the rest were wailing Some were crawling to the door And when they died they left a mark The stains were glowing in the dark They can't be buried underground He tried to sell them by the pound Hang them, hang them up high by the tail Just like criminals locked in a jail Spiral made from the shell of a snail It's time to put them on sale

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Recorded at Oscillator Studios by Kemman, with additional engineering by Brett Meingasner at Green Room, between 2009 and 2014. Mastered by Carl Saff.

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released January 17, 2015

Matt Barr: Drums, Vocals, Keyboard, Sax
Andy Preston: Bass, Vocals
Jeff Vidmont: Guitar, Vocals, Sax

Matt Schneider: Guitar solos on 2, 4, 10
Jon Arturi: Vocals on 3
Sarah Barr: Vocals on 8

All songs written by Kemman except 3, written by Kemman and Jon Arturi. Additional lyrics on 2 taken from poems by Charles Earl Bowles, aka "Black Bart." Audio samples on 6 taken from A Brief History of Time directed by Errol Morris, which itself includes samples of Disney's "The Black Hole."

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