Set It Off & Alec Benjamin

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Steam Powered Giraffe’s fifth studio album QUINTESSENTIAL!

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Quintessential

Leopold Expeditus

CW: Addiction (implied), Blood (brief mention), Death, Derogatory language, Hunting, Murder, Paranoia-inducing, Police brutality (implied), Stalking 

LYRICS:

There
In the clearing
Or the alley
Or a head in the crowd over 
There
Unprotected
Separated 
From the pack, as an ideal
Mark
How their pulse pounds
In their soft neck
Smell the fear in the air as they
Tense
Hold your focus
Keep your balance
Bare your teeth and your claws and then:

Strike
Let all civilized thought drop away
Submit to the instincts of yesterday
Hear the primal command of creation
And obey:
It’s fight or fly, kill or die
Prove you are not prey
Find another to slay

There
Was that pity?
Hesitation?
They turn tail and there’s new prey to
Track
Through the nightfall
Through the dawn break
Through the days, eager only to
Chase
The dissemblers
Guilty cowards
The contemptible scum beneath 
You
Are not like them
Will not falter
You’re a predator ready to

CHORUS

There
Sometimes sleeping
Sometimes crying
Sometimes famished as you are to
Feed
On the anguish
On the terror
On the savage unmatchable 
High
Of the bloodlust
Of the challenge
The implacable impulse to 
Act
The detective
Or protector
Or as vengeance incarnate and

CHORUS

There
In their fortress
Flaunting safety
So determined to keep their hands 
Clean
Every hideout
Every refuge
Leave them nothing and nowhere to
Run
Feel your lungs burn
And your feet bleed
But to stop would deny you the
Hunt
The smooth talkers
The mute monsters
Beat the dangerous game when you

CHORUS

And another (x4)
Another to slay

~~~ For my process, and thoughts on the song go to my Youtube - they allow longer descriptions there ~~~

Music of the Fears

10. The Primal Command of Creation - A Song for The Hunt

CW: Blood (implied), Clowns (briefly mentioned), Coulrophobia, Dissociation, Flaying/Skinning, Identity theft, Imposters, Loss of self, Paranoia-inducing, Uncanny valley

LYRICS:
My name is... (x3)
Mine but don’t fret
Let me get you a fancy new
Mask just don’t ask
Why the ‘paint’ is so warm
Come, take a seat
We entreat you don’t fight it’s too
Late, take our bait
And be doomed to perform

Under the big top
We self-shop
And name swap
Your me is torn free
And you’re not who you were.
But what is who?
Were they you?
Were you them too?
Defaced and erased
In the carousel’s blur.

Who am I… (x2)
Who are you...
Well, some might address
Our impressive ensemble as
Scary or very
Much outside the norm
Pay them no mind
You will find what great fun it is
Seeing and being
The circus take form

CHORUS

My name… (x2)
Where did it go?
A nomen unknown
Has been shown to stoke Strangers to
stress and obsess
About all proper nouns
Here we all share
Like the pair of our strongmen we
Skin someone’s grin
And then send in the clowns

I am a     parent, or child, or favourite brother?
I have a name and it’s  something or other
I am a    partner forgot long ago
I have     You HAD a name only I know 

I am not...        Could you be...
Ira, Dinah Owen, Noah, Olga, Tanya, Kevin, Nora, Orla, Wanda, Yasmin, Oscar, Ursula
Gregor, Graham, Sarah, Yuri, Daniel Nathan, Alexander, Nikola

I’m not
I’m not

Are you sure? Because: 

CHORUS

Could you be:
Ira (No), Dinah, Owen, Noah(No), Olga, Tanya, Kevin(No), Nora, Orla, Wanda, Yasmin (No), Oscar, Ursula (No, no, no)
Gregor (No), Graham, Sarah, Sasha (No), Danny, Nathan, Alexander (No), Nikola
No!

I’m me, not them, I’m me, not them, I’m me, NotThem
And my name is...

~~~ For my process, and thoughts on the song go to my Youtube - they allow longer descriptions there ~~~

Music of The Fears

1. Under the Big Top - A Song For The Stranger

The Black Labyrinth / A Requiem for The Goblin King

I Laugh in the Face of Death

End of Days

End Of Days

VENOM (feat. Table Dave) - CALYPSO

The Greatest Show Unearthed - Nightcore

Friday Night Suicide

This is the Nightcore Version of The Album Death of a Bachelor By Panic! at the Disco! 

The Good, The Bad And The Dirt

NOT MY SONG!!!
ALL RIGHTS GO TO CHRIS RAY GUN!!!
https://www.youtube.com/user/MindfreakCM

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