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Gravitys Rim

by Vampire Rodents

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1.
Rain Wheel 03:09
It was to come before It was to walk away It was to come before It was to walk away Unforgotten, underneath Out of breath and everything Stories turning into rocks on the break Salty tasting erosion concave Inhale howling Whirlpool brave Teeth click shatter Arms to take Written on it Time to save It was to come before It was to walk away It was to tell them something It couldn't say Tell it to me, tell it to me
2.
Underneath 03:16
I remember the buildings I remember the stink Toads that laughed at me as a child are now becoming extinct Extinct! Chairs of doubt are always filled with the over-paid and under-skilled Underneath Dance of war Awaken Jacob Barrow his genetic makeup And then what? Chewed up armistice from voices and access Chamberlain jellyfish try to surface Underneath
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Beta 04:50
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Contrary prophet clown Source of an accidental sound A suburban low lowlife mercenary was the only one around Millennium twits, can I laugh at you now? I'd profit from your arrogance if only I knew how Just sit back and open wide Wider, wider This door opens from the inside Deep inside her Dogs of war are now in place Man's best friend wears an armored face Still waiting in the trees With a brand new old disease When chainsaws cut the center It soon will cross the seas Just sit back and open wide Wider, wider This door opens from the inside Deep inside her Boarded up and crumbled away Even the basement mice won't stay Decay is just a way to say Everything was history yesterday Decay is just a way to say Everything was history yesterday
5.
Chain 02:55
Chain of the living Chain of the dead By the chain we're shaped By the chain we're lead Will the legless politician still give a stump speech? Will the pudding shape our policy when the pistol's out of reach? We want to show the brilliant children the species can be redesigned The time has come for the world to know the power of a modern Frankenstein Chain of the living Chain of the dead Connected by hunger Joined at the head Our chains are always linked in time And the chain keeps growing The prey ate the hunter and the bad ate the good The pen ate the paper and the sword understood The paradox is an answer to a very simple question Big fish had to learn about allergic reactions And the chain keeps growing...
6.
Gravitys Rim 03:32
A dorsal vein The size of two fingers Half above the surface lingers Should he embrace your morals or your lover? Covered in honey and sheathed in rubber We are air We are everywhere Trapped inside the cookie jar If he gets out, he won't get far He needs your compass and you need his direction Wake up darling for your morning inspection Should he caress your significant other? If he does it again, will you do his brother? We are air We are everywhere
7.
Calibrations 02:52
A word on the lips A lie in the making Block his progress, catch his fall Let his master make the call Passed the age of taking sides In the corners of your eyes it lies If we would all turn green tomorrow It wouldn't mean a thing We'd soon divide amongst ourselves According to the pitch we sing The wheel is shrinking Snake swallows its tail Passed the age of taking sides In the corners of your eyes it lies Alchemist, lungs of gold He should've stopped when he was told If we would all turn green tomorrow It wouldn't mean a thing We'd soon divide amongst ourselves According to the pitch we sing
8.
Ice Borers 02:13
Voices in a freezing rain Driving all the rats insane Creature, sister, brother come around Burrow deeper, tunnel underground They can hear you Draining vacuum rodent blades They consume what penguin saves Plunging, through the ice Grouping, circling twice Feeding, cut and slice Poison, love-bite, dizzy, going numb Moving southward, welcome here they come
9.
Code 02:10
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Obsidian 04:49
You want to hear noise and you want to hear screams When the laughter begins, will you know what it means? We are obsidian Returning through the glass again We are obsidian Feel the mirror twisting in The seventh level is closer now Character emissary on his way to mars Some cheap card tricks and frippery and gigs in leather bars Sit the plate in front of him See if he smells the poison Poison isn't possible We just might have to brick him Yes, feels like obsidian I saw a shining from the dragon's den All the sweat and all the heat couldn't make his life complete You should choose your enemies as wisely as your friends We are obsidian We reflect the fifth of men All they offered, all they'd do Wouldn't get his image through Unfolding situation on the outskirts of the city Tree-dweller found the earthling cut in two but felt no pity We're ready now, we're going in Blackness shattered, a liquid din We are obsidian
11.
It's happy in here Thinking everywhere Page by page Coloring everyone Lip on a maze It's happy in here Shy away through Tangle up tripping Feet go too It's happy in here Cover me outro Up to the top Tuck me in tightly in my box It's happy in here Shy away through Tangle up tripping Feet go too
12.
Please release this troubled soul Life in the city has taken its toll Please release this troubled soul And they just kept coming He dreams of flowers from other worlds Which could explain his trouble with girls He said no, but they said yes Brownies started to undress Please release this troubled soul Life in the city has taken its toll Please release this troubled soul Kindly state your preference, please Take your pill, protect your knees And never, ever, ever eat these
13.
Patterns 02:54
Laughter by this definition If you can predict an end in a room full of classes Remove everything the light has shown In the laughter a memory in motion is real Can she ride to me? Remove everything the light has shown
14.
Porker 03:39
A parasite administration baffled by imagination Bubble-head with a bubble brat gave up her name for a Cheshire Cat Taught not to accept her human feature Carve it and starve it into a new creature He will not heal who cannot pay Building a grand mediocrity Blue cross before the oath they pray A shrine to Hippocrates's hypocrisy Monkeys with new haircuts in shirts that claim "no fear" Slave labor in the garment world leaves more cash for beer Diet pill and bulimic joy Models shaped like Klein's pool boy Taught not to accept her human feature Carve it and starve it into a new creature Darwinian appraiser Female form eliminated Asexual erasure fashion guides emaciated Oh, I feel so fat
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Sandtrap 02:12
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Core 03:10
Liquid dementia pulled and influenced Your position on the list Through the black highway Vegas At the core The passing days veiled underneath Taught to replicate and breed Cut the hand At the core Tore the casing from the wall The laughing way The curtain hid us all
17.
Creeper 02:42
Creeper in your cellar Creeper in your bed Time to come out of the hole Time the creepers took control Wealthy sinner, lonely saint Creepers on the hunt for taint Through the walls they come So familiar to the numb Creeper in your lover Creeper in your head Out of touch or out of place? Did you see its smile? Did you see its face? Creepers wait outside your door
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19.
Fossilized 02:12
Fossilized, flesh to stone Forgotten face, a lonely home One hit wonder Two year careers A fatal blunder Scrapbook fears Buried, fossilized Dinosaur with a Vegas whore Royalty's revolving door Fossilized, flesh to stone Forgotten face, a lonely home Neanderthals, misunderstood The ancestors of Hollywood Guilty dreams of those he screwed The rest will soon be interviewed Once predictable, soon expendable
20.
Albatross 03:08
Thanks a lot, lady But my cheesepocket's full I wish I knew what planet you're from Maybe you'd seem less alien Oh lovely, I'd whistle you a melody But I haven't been able since I was three Played in the yard under a tree When a mean old robin came after me Go ahead, laugh away Just wait and see how robin makes you pay Now you've gone and done it, boy Honey, I'd sing you a melody But my feathered friends won't let me be Rising up Floating down My new wings make no sound
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Goatweed 02:56
Look at all the prefab shells Burger joint and cheap motels What exactly are weekends for? When work is such a bore All my weekends made for Michelob All the pills that I take Take me where the sun never shines Where regicide is still a crime I will eat my shit And I will worship it I will...
23.
Evasion 02:40
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H M P 03:22
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Smartass 02:52
26.
Chain of the living Chain of the dead By the chain we're shaped By the chain we're lead Will the legless politician still give a stump speech? Will the pudding shape our policy when the pistol's out of reach? We want to show the brilliant children the species can be redesigned The time has come for the world to know the power of a modern Frankenstein Chain of the living Chain of the dead Connected by hunger Joined at the head Our chains are always linked in time And the chain keeps growing The prey ate the hunter and the bad ate the good The pen ate the paper and the sword understood The paradox is an answer to a very simple question Big fish had to learn about allergic reactions And the chain keeps growing...
27.

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Gravitys Rim is the fifth studio album by Vampire Rodents.

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released May 14, 1996

Vampire Rodents:
• Daniel Vahnke (Axon Tremolo, Ether Bunny) – sampler, bass guitar, guitar, composition, vocals & lyrics (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20), piano & orchestration (27)

Augmentum:
• Maria Azevedo (Battery, Ivoux) – vocals & lyrics (1, 11)
• Chase – percussion loops
• Dave Creadeau (Society Burning, The Watchmen) – vocals & lyrics (24, 25)
• Mark Edwards (Fleshhouse) – vocals & lyrics (22)
• Jared Louche (Chemlab, H3llb3nt) – vocals & lyrics (3, 9)
• Athan Maroulis (black tape for a blue girl, Spahn Ranch) – vocals & lyrics (5, 7, 13, 16, 26)
• Boom chr Paige (Society Burning, The Watchmen) – vocals & lyrics (23, 25)
• Franz Schubert – composition (27)

Production:
• Judson Leach – mixing & mastering (1-24, 26, 27)
• Neil Wojewodzki – management, mastering (25)

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Sample-Based Composition is a music construction process by which complex organizations of extremely varied sounds can be designed and recorded. The results are complete self-contained sound structures of remarkable density built from hundreds, even thousands of small sound events and instrumental fragments. ... more

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