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Rock the Quokka
03:10
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There’s macropod that I try to model
Evolutionary offshoot, marsupial oddball
It’s okay when there’s bad days and troubled waters are riling
I channel this animal ‘cause it’s always smiling
Rock the quokka
Rock the quokka
Rock the quokka
I rock a quokka
It’s not as if problems don’t exist
Like finding food and staying off the endangered list
But these can be approached with a positive outlook
That’s why the quokka’s on the cover of my guidebook
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Vampire Squid
04:00
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Mesmerized by crimson eyes
Anachronistic predator
Deep sea Nosferatu
Underwater undead lord
Glide beneath the tide
When it’s time to feed
Except they don’t drink blood
Just eat organic debris
We’re gonna get exotic
We’re gonna get aquatic
No light we go aphotic
Vampire Squid
We’re gonna get exotic
We’re gonna get aquatic
So dark we go aphotic
Vampire Squid
Protean transition to a mantle of spines
Tenebrous methuselah
A shadow of out of time
Conjure clouds to obscure
Then steal away so agilely
Bewilder with a show of
Bioluminescent majesty
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Red Panda Jamboree
03:07
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We got an invitation
To the Himalayas
Wanting us to play
A hidden hideaway
Got to the abode
Said the secret code
And started glancing
Red Pandas dancing
It’s a menagerie
Pass the bamboo leaves
Decked out in burgundy
Red Panda Jamboree
We hit the stage
The pandas raged
We dazzled ‘em
Pandamonium
After dropping beats
We swore to be discreet
They said they’d welcome it
If we penned a panda hit
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Underwater superhero
Cut an arm off - it will regrow
Axolotl, he’s a mystic
Neotenic, I’ll get specific
Amphibious underwater
Scientists study his sons and daughters
A special salamander
Popular kind of like Black Panther
But he’s not from Wakanda
Lake Xochimilco, he is fond of
Critically endangered, he’s so special
Attach a head to another, that’s metal
Now he’s got two, he will survive
They did it once, I’m not telling lies!
I saw one on Bojack Horseman
Kind of magic, like the FORCE, MAN!
That’s a lotta dope caudata
It’s a party underwater
Limb Re-Growth and Low-Light Scour
Axolotl Superpowers
What else can the little guy do?
Find a COVID cure, maybe it’s true
Or stop forest fires out in Cali
Wish I had more of them around me
The Mexican walking fish is not
An actual fish, sit back and watch
Neoteny they do exhibit
Metamorphosis? They never did it
Lungs outside their head are floatin'
But don't drop, them it’s verboten
When they smile, it’s cute as heck
Tongue is longer than you’d expect
Between 15 and 18 degrees
Celsius is how your tank should be
If you take home an axolotl
Metaphysical like Aristotle
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Born abnormal
Non-traditional aptitude
Not one for fields or mountains but you’ll find i’m more than happy to
Hunt for sustenance arboreally
Then realized
To my surprise
That I’d found my community
(here we go!)
A coterie of goats in trees
A coterie of goats in trees
A coterie of goats in trees
A herd of nerds
My friends and me
Goats in trees
Goats in trees
A coterie of goats in trees
A herd of nerds
My friends and me
Initially regarded as a body of misfits
But currently sought fervently ‘cause now we’re the hip kids
Pioneers with floppy ears
Getting photographed by travelers
Once novel, now we’re models
On the covers of calendars
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Go-Away-Bird
03:46
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These qualities assigned to me
By forces that exist externally
Sonically ascribed, named after noise
Living as defined by the sound of voice
I’m a nice guy, but I’ve been given this handle
So everyone assumes that I’m an unhappy rando
Called the go-away bird for my particular yodel
But even though they call me that I’m really quite social
Though my name suggests standoffishness
I’ll invite you to my nest
Don’t be deterred by monikers
You can hang out with me, I’m the go-away-bird
I’m the go-away-bird
GET CRAZY IN THE AVIARY
Sleek grey plumage and a sick mohawk
Take a back seat to way in which I talk
Characterized by an abnormal wail
I’ll still meet you for lunch for termites and snails
My nom de plume elicits certain expectations
But reality defies that denotation
Blistering vox with unconventional flavor
Exhibiting communally beneficial behavior
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It’s Stag Beetle Professional Wrestling
Gargantuan action at scaled down dimensions
Catering to bugs across the land
Tree sap and leaves at the concession stand
In one corner was the Tiny Titan
Weighing in at 2 grams and ready for fightin’
In the other corner was the Mini Mauler
Intercontinental champ and ready for brawlin’
It’s stag beetle
It’s stag beetle
It’s stag beetle professional wrestling
The match began with a clothesline by Titan
Then he dropped a superchop right in the chiton
Mauler was in trouble, it was almost finalized
But lauding from the audience soon got him re-energized
He jumped off the turnbuckle, and mid-air flexed his mandibles
A triple somersault, it was barely even landable
A devastating megaton straight to the thorax
He rolled over his opponent right on to his back
MAULER WINS
Please stay tuned for the female division
More powerful pincers and crazier collisions
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Lungfish
03:53
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Every day accommodate
The shifting nature of my fate
Forever destined in between
Can never fit a single scene
Sifting elemental planes
Modifying to maintain
Never quite authentic
Bodily eccentric
Adaptation
Champion
Lungfish
One lung two lung
Complicate taxonomies
Ambiguous identity
Function can be hard to find
Straddling the border lines
Subtly subvert the standard
Terra firma hydromancer
Formatively engineered
To specialize in being weird
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Yo, I'm toxic
Not like 03 Britney in the cut, I mean toxic
Rock sick, Rock star, never really got far
No eyes, no car, never high, just call me Fargo, Margo
So alone, I could break the mold
No friends, no home, even a crowd I'm going solo
I'm basically Han Solo
I'm screaming YOLO
But I'll never find my Kylo
Hurry, scurry, strength in numbers
Always stirring, burrow under
Ground, a clone, a worker drone just
Pink and furtive
Pink and furtive
Though i know i form the whole
Am i afforded my own goals?
Must I concede and always be just
Pink and furtive
Pink and furtive
Number one, like eff the sun, I'm living out my best life
Club was closed but I'm living straight up otter time
No Konami code, never got my thirty guys,
All alone in the Serengetti, I'm ultra sweaty
But I'm always steady in the 16, it's sickening,
I'm Phoebe, I'll never be a Rachel Green
Hey
But at least I'll have the haircut.
Physically, no pain is sensed
Still struggling with arguments
Internally and moralistic
Ectothermic, synergistically
Is how I’m mean to be
But inside I strive to be free
Still needed by the colony
Still feeling this dichotomy
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Gila Monsters
03:26
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Cold blooded ‘cause we keep it one hundred
Bringing dry heat with the hottest sound
Quantifiably the biggest thing underground
Party all night and sleep all day
Dispensing crushing rhythms like we’re
Taking down prey
Possessing of super keen sonic senses
For superhuman audio that leaves you defenseless
High endurance for each show, because you know it has to be
Brought with maximum aerobic capacity
Because we’re rock stars
Gila monsters
You can’t contend with us
Our bites are venomous
Because we’re rock stars
Gila monsters
We’ll leave you in the dust
Our beats are venomous
Gila monsters
Descending from legends of
Cretaceous eras
With an updated style for whole new areas
And spots along the musical spectrum
Prepare for the modern heloderma suspectum
Hitting every gig like we’re armored in scales
Functionally honed to the finest detail
Hitting every stage decked in brightly colored bands
Try to match our tempo and we’ll leave you in the sand
Cold blooded ‘cause we keep it one hundred
Hit the refrain like lava in your veins
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