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Eager Maniacs - Random Encounters (Nodding Off)

from Grind Yo' Teeth by Eager Maniacs X Bruxism

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I'll never forget what it tasted like to watch my hero crumble in his armor.
Bittersweet swollen teeth die fashionably early in honor
of dark humor. You'd clear your throat then they'd pack the room,
but life's a half empty saloon when your dreams become a tomb.
He took the path less traveled by, then they all followed him,
until his little misunderstood paradise swallowed him.
You could feel the regret they'd etched into his skeleton,
sick sadistic snapshots of places where he'd never been
happy. Summer was left choking on his laughter,
as the fall became a monument that framed his predicted rapture.
It's all aftermath when the high comes down to the hammock that fate groomed,
cause there's no sex, drugs, or champagne in the panic room.
Static soon became clear, the smoke signals disappeared,
Every time I walk alone you're still yelling in my ear.
Embellished fear painted my imaginary friend past tense over a boo-boo.
Consume or be entombed by the spare room in his new shoes.

Let's toast to the ghost ride,
the host with the most pride.
Hiding behind closed eyes.
Don't or live, Do or die.

It's like here's a scratch, there's a scratch, every other word's a backlash.
Fine print tattooed mind splint; this wimpy kid is makin' a big splash.
Mad Max stuntman landing pads can't save you from collapse,
so we watch in suspense like this might be our last chance to clap.

Once upon a time we spoke candidly on a street corner.
Bastille day in a city squared, the sun somehow felt warmer
than it had on any other previous day.
I watched you storm the stage like a sea locked inside a cage.
Engaged the citizens by playing post rock possum.
Some morons called it wack but I thought the shit was awesome.
Though a burning question was still festering,
I guess it was let in by all of your nihilistic gesturing.
I mean how do you ask someone you if they're trying to die
without coming of as a tad bit mighty and high?
So eye to eye we gazed, I thought about that moment for weeks;
Until the day I found out that you'd been given the gift of defeat.
If I'd known then what I know now would I have been able to change the trajectory?
Or am I just letting my imagination get the best of me?
I know I could never recreate the most random encounter of all.
Every flower pedal falls, every hero is nodding off.

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from Grind Yo' Teeth, released August 3, 2013

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Eager Maniacs Marquette, Michigan

The Upper Michigan hip hop duo Eager Maniacs are as bad as they are weird, as hip hop as they are punk rock, and as cynical as they are eager.

Stark’s synth-laden minor-chord beats paired with Gerko’s aggressive, nasally staccato-rap makes for a sonically provocative combination.

They're here to fling blood and pulp at a new generation of hip hop heads.
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