1. |
No Harmful Effects
03:59
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I was looking for a good time
With no harmful affects
Cause I'm living by the standards
That Linkletter set
Nothing out of line or out of reason
Nothing kinky for me
I'm always curled up on the couch
With my color TV
I'm on the edge
A borderline normal
Always on time
Never too informal
I work on my car
And I talk about sports
Always taking vacations
At skiing resorts
I was looking for a good time
With no harmful effects
There's no surviving my driving
Always getting in wrecks
Never out of line or out of reason
Never stumble or fall
There is a certain fascination
Doing nothing at all
With no harmful effects
No harmful effects
No harmful effects
No harmful effects
Lyrics – Burke
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2. |
Chemicals
04:08
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Chemicals drive me out of house and home
Make me want to get up spit and moan
Make my life incredible
Make my food inedible
Try to find some food that's valid
I make a fresh fruit salad
Are used to eat it with cream
But now I read the label and screen
Take it from the freezer
Put it in the pan
Give the to a squeeze sir
Pour me out a tan
Try to kill the bugs until everyone is dead
They've colored all my corn flakes
The milk is turning red
Chemicals emaciate my big Mac brain
Pulverize the sunshine
Obliterate the rain
Make my mind unthinkable
Make my soap unsinkable
And when my hair turns gray
I'll wash it all away
Are used to think it was fun
But now I read the label and run
I buy a beer and go for a ride
Soap suds and formaldehyde
They say it stops decay
Even when you've passed away
Chorus
Chemicals running up and down the drain
Making me sickly as the ease the pain
They make my life conspicuous
They make my health ridiculous
I wear a plastic jacket
My dinner comes in a packet
Are used to think it was fun
But now I read the label and run
The pills inside the medicine chest
Are guaranteed to be the best
Take them till you grow very old
You're lucky if you grow very old
Lyrics-Burke, Censky
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3. |
The Marine Song
03:36
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Up in the morning with the rising sun
We all shave our heads for fun
Run and jump and hit the ground
Smoke cigarettes and stand around
Sergeant tells us what to do
Screams until his face turns blue
This man's army loves to fight
We kill everything in sight
Lyrics-Burke
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4. |
Tumbling Down
02:24
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5. |
Tandem Raddle
08:54
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6. |
Politico
04:01
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I wanna be a politician
I'll be a new edition
I'll make the money left and right
I wanna to be a parasite
You can join the Secret Service secretly
You can shoot at commies
who are shooting at me
You can be my fool
I'll use you like a tool
Send you off to China
Nothing could be fina
I wanna be the mumbling genius
I'll send in a request
I wanna take the credit
And do without the test
You can ride along and
catch me when I fall
You can cut me down
when I've become too tall
When I'm old and crazy
You can have the money
I'll be pushing daisies
Every time it's sunny
Secrets are told
But they never change the past
Don't take the message to far
Watch for the stumbling guitars
Be what you are In the dead of the night
But don't take the message to far
Watch for the stumbling guitars
I wanna be a five star general
I'll stay behind the lines
Interrogating prisoners
And screwing up their minds
You should cut me down
when I become too tall
I'll still be fighting when there is
no more war at all
You can be my victim
Like Kennedy and Nixon
I will take the mainland
You can have the quicksand
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7. |
Viewless
06:13
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I'm caught up in my confusion
I'm trying to sort
The simple truth from the simple illusions
My logic ignores
And I miss the mouse
And I miss the point
My heart is a leaf
I'm shaking inside
I'm looking through glass
I am lost in the past
Can't leave it alone
Can't leave it alone
Can't leave it alone
Villas hours and endless days
Nothing drives them away
I am silent I'm only silent
I've nothing to say
But I miss the mouse
No I won't forget
And I miss the point
No I will never forget
I am grasping at straws
I am lost in the cars
Can't leave it alone
Can't leave it alone
Can't leave it alone
Up and down lost then found
I change every day
I make the point decide to leave
Then I want to stay
And I miss the mouse
And I get it wrong
I see you in dreams
And here are you in songs
I'm grasping at straws
I'm lost in the cars
Can't leave it alone
Just can't leave it alone
Lyrics-burke
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8. |
Substrata
05:13
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9. |
Mentality Meltdown
08:08
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I've got it
Someone's trying to take away my sanity
Someone's trying to minimalize my scrutiny
It's a plague that spews out
Into the air through radio waves
Contorting and distorting minds
Until there's nothing left
To go home
It's coming
An age of mental mutants
That can't think for themselves
Controlled by vacuum minded men
Who play this clinching game
They suck you dry like parasites
And hold you to the floor
Abuse your ears and burn your eyes
Commercialize you poor
Poor boy
The question
Is in escaping this fallacy
Creating reasons for liberty
With minds like ours there's no clear end
Turn back the meltdown
Open up and change your mind…
Your mind…
Your mind….
Lyrics-Censky
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The Parasites of the Western World Portland, Oregon
Review by Soundholm
The Parasites released their debut in 1978. It's a fascinating spin, a galactic
ramble across otherworldly themes of alienation and paranoia.
Primarily the creation of Patrick Burke and Terry Censky, the Parasites were limitless with invention and completely DIY.
They remain light years ahead of a time that has yet to come.
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