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Reading comprehension, 99th percentile
Sing the siren song of the gifted child
Believe in yourself and follow your dreams
Found out the hard way to see where that leads
I did everything
I was supposed to do
Bet the farm on this wish
And it didn’t come true
Walk along the prescribed path
Never think about the math
A failure to prioritize
Living as a consolation prize
I did everything
I did it all
Climbed the ladder to the top
To maximize the fall
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Applied industrial science
If you got the notion
Vibrations on stage
To put bodies in motion
With EBM theorems
‘Cause we keep it nerdy
At a Sheraton Inn in the middle of New Jersey
Dark mass times dark acceleration
Gothic physics across the nation
Dark mass times dark acceleration
Dark Force Festival: A science celebration!
Dark Force
Dark Force Fest
Bringing that heat like thermodynamics
Breaking all the rules like quantum mechanics
Barely contained chaos theory
With a Doppler effect ‘cause you’ll be moving when you hear me
Showcasing the faces of energy
Frenetic kinetics and potentially
Fusing molecules to blow the whole place apart
Friday after Panic Lift and before Hexheart
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Woke up with a curious strength stat buff
But strangely cannot move, it’s as if I’m handcuffed
Lying supine, but below the neck I’m covered
Why do I feel the presence of another?
What did I undergo?
New body ratio
Start the horror show
Ape torso
Made a stealth check, set free from bondage
Burdened by new unfathomable knowledge
Sutured at the spine
Clinging to humanity
Bare my hairy arms and roll for sanity
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My soul belated
By the leeway given you
Meeting halfway leaves me
Only one way I can move and that's down
Don't owe ya nothing
Now my bill is due
I'll keep on adding zeros
'Till you tear it up, tear it up and go
I'll take you down
Tear it up and
I'll take you down
I Tear it up and
Hold you to my law
Tear it up and
Then tear it up, tear it up and go
I'll take you down
Tear it up and
I'll take you down
I Tear it up and
Hold you to my law
Tear it up and
Then tear it up, tear it up and go
Tear it up
Lacerate it
Once one piece now bifurcated
Take it, tear it, rent to own it
Break it down into components
Now this thing is modular
I'm starting to lose the metaphor
Need to rework the second verse, 'cause
I forgot to ask just what it was
I forgot to ask just what it was
I'll take you down
Tear it up and
I'll take you down
I Tear it up and
Hold you to my law
Tear it up and
Then tear it up, tear it up and go
I'll take you down
Tear it up and
I'll take you down
I Tear it up and
Hold you to my law
Tear it up and
Then tear it up, tear it up and go
I'll take you down
Tear it up and
I'll take you down
I Tear it up and
Hold you to my law
Tear it up and
Then tear it up, tear it up and go
I'll take you down
Tear it up and
I'll take you down
I Tear it up and
Hold you to my law
Tear it up and
Then tear it up, tear it up and go
My life
My life
My life
My life
On with my life
On with my life
On with my life
On with my life
On with my life
On with my life
On with my life
On with my life
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Damocles in the seas of me
Basilisks and subtleties
A chaos train with just one constant
With the magic to migrate monsters
I think it’s time to stop
You know you can’t
I should stop
Self sycophant
I need to stop
Nothing left inside
To hold back the tide
Stagnancy is suicide
We can’t stop
We can’t stop
We don’t stop
Displaced waste will multiply
With a well that never dries
Achieve reprieve through ingesting distress
One clean thing in a gasoline mess
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Ululate with these ear-piercing primates
Can’t be confined or contained within a category
Ears get sheared when we mark binaural territory
Levelling up by way of barbaric yawp
Climbin’ to the canopy ‘cause we head to the top
We gotta make a decree
And do it loudly
Projecting audibly
Howler monkey
We gotta make a decree
And do it loudly
Super sonically
Howler monkey
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Howler monkey
No joke vox that rattle brains in craniums
Sound waves for days ‘cause we play gigantic stadiums
Hear us for miles ‘cause we’re off the richter scale
You couldn’t grasp our style with a prehensile tail
Ululate with these ear-piercing primates
Coming from Boston
And La Crosse, Wisconsin!
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TIGERSQUAWK 254
Hi, my name's Brian Graupner and I've gotten into the habit of releasing these annual compilations on (or around) my birthday to showcase all the stuff I did with my various bands the prior year.
The first two tracks are new for this album!
"Gasoline Invertebrate - I Did Everything I Was Supposed To Do" produced and mastered by Cryonica Mastering
cryonicamastering.com
"The Gothsicles - Dark Force Fest (Mass x Acceleration)" was released as a free single as part of the "Festival Songs" series.
"Sanity Checks - Ape Torso (Batavia remix)" is available on Industrial Side Quest (Tigersquawk Records)
sanitychecks.bandcamp.com/album/industrial-side-quest
"Bounte - Tear It Up (feat. The Gothsicles)" is available on The Graupner Dichotomy (Tigersquawk Records)
bounte.bandcamp.com/album/the-graupner-dichotomy
"Amalgamated Cadaver - Grandma's 80th Birthday, 1988" is available on PLAY AUDIO (Tigersquawk Records / Memento Mori Theatricks)
gasolineinvertebrate.bandcamp.com/album/play-audio
(This is the OST for "PLAY", a new analog horror RPG from Memento Mori Theatricks!
www.memento-mori.com/books/play-rpg-print)
"Gasoline Invertebrate - Stop (Sweat Boys remix)" is on Cure Light Wounds (Tigersquawk Records)
gasolineinvertebrate.bandcamp.com/album/cure-light-wounds
"The Gothsicles feat. Choke Chain - Howler Monkey (Spray remix)" is available on Howler Monkey (Tigersquawk Records)
thegothsicles.bandcamp.com/album/howler-monkey
"Amalgamated Cadaver - Three Bees and a Sherman Tank" is available on Live From The Dentist's Office (Voidstar Productions / Tigersquawk Records)
voidstarproductions.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-the-dentists-office
Massive thanks to Cryonica Mastering, Zoog von Rock, Memento Mori Theatricks, Deftly-D and Voidstar Productions, Planetdamage, Batavia, Sweat Boys, Spray, Gopal Metro, Tigersquawk Records, and all the amazingly sexy and thought-provoking PATRONS at
patreon.com/gothsicles!
released August 11, 2023
