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by the tortoise and my hair

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shame is UP your highness under garments showing draping ºheld beholden TOP above time • OVER same last century under ground god golden idols ºburning up in effigy • surrendertRUth by rendering sun2 shine on sunny DAZE the Hipocracy of ignorance is growing vines around your fence ºing U in2 A corner closing in on U again strangling U by coroner ºquincy A dams apple (A)day • gulping in the guilt double cruci -fixed christ sympathy flying over fields of fortune dropping bombs ON children reading ºbOOks on safe removal oF live mines ºin jungle sanctuaries believing ghostS of gallantry • citing quotes on chivalry • gaping eyes young mouths 2feed • gauntlet lancing WARt worries bureaucracy leviathan’s clammy hands clamp round your ring • fingering distracting U • soothing what YER SOOth seeing creature comforts creep A way • themeek inherit last class seats • leaving earth 2burn behind • A monu mental man made feat sad seeing things through eyes strain hardening 2 comprehend • living in among mere GIANts • immoral mortal hope less MEN sins accusing god excuses lacking IN self lESS restraint • behaviour gone unpunished • due 2 kamicosmic skeptic debt the democracy of cretins ºis dreaming in what’s seem ing ly • impossible 2 C thin air seeping bREAth • 2 black 2 breathe changing blind direction • waiting on A new BORN dream • prying out enamellED nails • scratching right back at U babe
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pooling at the corner big money on the pocket chick hens chec king clucking stare ring popping bottle rocket a hun dead doll A.R. raising de pends on if i’ll drop it i smoke her through the hazing pur ple rain poor ºold seat bucket chorus D A E DC/AE x4 big money booze drug sex drin king eve nings deeper in debt big money funny how up set U get once i lose i’ll bet pinching pe ne noodle • rol led oats hall car pet ting a lie a loof in plain dis pute • Oºver co star red orion cinematic story boredºsell an atom apple early evening in the sand paper re fining fables glory phoney ball be lonely for lorn • eich man searching h’ordeurves taste testing his tory dress sing up in arms crossed for war sa luting tears salt watering • gas wide eyed re volving carousel piggy backing bacon wrapped warm hiding loo king love ly in the light low laughing at the chorus the bears row in a thruple • fun nelling nature’s golden porridge bon ding by james’ river º7 ven dou bull split ban-ananas mo no 2 nal monk keys un lock • neo lithic cam er as oranges mourning sun day • kiss sing lips buzz squirrely squirming with the worms the early birds absurdly worry arg u ing down town preaching • blaming HIGH attendance on the dancers folding flaps up on the pants hot trotting ten ets
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lean-to willows fill with sparrows begging god’s protection under bleeding suns black clouds gather - the locusts scatter a wet road grieves and turns to winds away a dog out on the road tail between its legs hobo ghosts, their box-carred souls riding for their lives along a cargo line we tap in time to fading rhymes rehearsal to a show that was on last night our fingers now fiddling frantically to keep the time the air breathes thick, the crickets pace grass freshly cut gives the air its taste stinging streams of gasoline running through a blood red handed race between man and what he plants and what he reaps the jig is up, the water’s rising heroes baling out a boat that’s burning our promised land - slip sharp in god’s great hands feel his tense steel wire gripping round your neck all helping hands below this shipwrecked deck no one cares what you wear you’re wearing nothing, you’re naked now dance my child, wild round the fire mother nature burning, deepens her desire her back up for attack for years of rape echoed words(echoed words), cawing birds flying in and out an old man’s eye a bloody river reflects a manmade mirror the devil’s given in to all of our demands this tangled web we weave with idle hands
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they R lying in the road • they’re taking way our children preaching us that luck • ain’t too far a way guns hired out for haunting houses/dollars five and dime ing watches turn rewinding back 2 golden age Em A Bm i won’t be playing with no GUN CUZ we gotta a lot of fun gus among us in U.S. the states making A atate ment ON becoming # 1 trusting US 2 slouch 2 beth le ham trusting that we’ll slouch to beth le hem groping in the grandeur of A castle building broken banks cliff hanging waving busted legs reaping joys of sticky hand ling greener groceries jamming in the basements factories A ban doned Em A Bm i won’t men TOR fOR rote i got a coat of coloured things 2 sing 2 fill my throat • the sinking in my chest for what we all all ready know the hole2 crawl through ’s quickly closing UP time/light has(co) lapsed/stalled throwing US back in2 the dark (in time to start) we’ve been playing in the sellar tired of printing money galloping far behind every black knight’s mare warning is the sun shine high above US burning (infirmary) petered OUt ON paying river jor DAN SIN Em A Bm i won’t be playing with no GUN CUZ we gotta a lot of fun gus among us in U.S. the states making A atate ment ON becoming # 1 trusting US 2 slouch 2 beth le hem

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DO YOU LIKE SEA MONSTERS? DO YOU LIKE C-MINOR?

Holy Crap Records Spring Songwriting Contest!

RULES:

All entries must be in the key of c-minor. That’s important! See below.
No profanity (radio-ready, see? We’re going to try to hit the radio HARD with this album. See below.)
All entries must contain the word `LEVIATHAN’ at least once. (Leviathan means sea monster. Note that leviathan doesn’t have to be the song’s title, or the chorus. You just have to sing it once. Your song can be about anything. But it has to be in c-minor.)
No covers. Originals only.
All genres welcome.
Home recordings are great. Studio recordings are great.
Get your band together if you can. Or do it solo, if you don’t have a band, or if you don’t like your band.
Our judging pool will be made up entirely of contest entrants. (Everyone who enters gets to be a judge, if they want to be.) This time we’re going to split the judging up into smaller groups, so get ready for some mother fucking smaller groups.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR EVERYONE IS MAY 1.

PRIZES:

Honor. Glory.
$100 for the winner, plus extra honor & glory. Plus theirs will be the Leviathan Album’s featured single. OOOOooooooooooo!!!
All entrants will get T-shirts and naloxone from Musicians for Overdose Prevention, plus stickers and zines and whatever other kind of stuff we can russle up for you. (We like you. We’re going to try and send you a nice package of stuff.)
BUT…WHAT CAN HOLY CRAP RECORDS ACTUALLY DO FOR **ME/MY BAND** ???

Our big vision for this album: We want to NOT ONLY put it out for sale on various platforms as a regular album, but ALSO to blend all those c-minor songs together into one massive chunk of Leviathan-ness, like a huge mashup. (That’s why we want everything in the same key. We think this will probably/maybe work.) We will then send that giant brick of a c-minor Leviathan music out to all radio stations in the US and elsewhere, in hopes that they will play it, in all its massiveness, at 2 am or something. That is our VISION.

(This last part of the plan is contingent on radio station cooperation.)

Sea monsters. It’s real. It’s happening. Please enter. Due May 1.

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released March 18, 2024

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the tortoise and my hair Guelph, Ontario

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this diary on this scary day is one of warmth again and play i am not going to say what my feeling really is in fact it’s just a lark that i have any at all no one’s left to listen, no one ever has, my bed’s been made un-wizened so been judged to be the best, but somehow just one wrinkle in my head is always left. ... more

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