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Produced by Andrew Metzger and Jim Watts

1. My Muse Is Dead
2. Clock the Honeycomb
3. I’d Pay
4. Dulcet Sounds
5. Theory of Everything

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My Muse Is Dead

The desert sun was blazing down
And I was waiting for you
You were nowhere to be found
I stood there numb

I was writing a love song
When you clutched for your thigh
You were always the fastest
Not this time

CHORUS:
My muse is dead
Felled by her own conceit
My muse is dead
So on to a new pastiche

The dust was swirling in the air
I stood alone on Main Street
A tumbleweed blew through the square
I paced home stunned

I was singing a chanson
When you raised your gun high
Aim was never your strong suit
It was mine

CHORUS:
My muse is dead
The price of a turn to sin
My muse is dead
So maybe I’ll write something

About a clever disguise
And believing those eyes
Those ballads I wrote
Every word was a lie

[Meredyth:]
I cheated and stole
I mortgaged my soul
I gave you your music
Now my body’s cold

[Andrew:]
That’s another cut I’ve etched in wax
And you’re still dead
Yeah!

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Clock the Honeycomb

You’re old enough to know better
Chasing the change as it rolls away
Another would-be Trump
Shaking her old tin cup
For a bone
You want that honey
So clock the honeycomb

You’re loose enough for loose lucre
But you can’t cash out if you don’t get paid
A shameless corporal sop
A faulty gynoclock
And no home
You want that honey
So clock the honeycomb

CHORUS:
Ambrosial visions of the honeycomb
Held by a god to your lips
Another chapter from an ancient tome
How honey’s hard to resist

You’re lithe enough to slink lower
Till your back gives out and it’s all made plain
Your lips are honey-sopped
Straight from the honeypot
Honeybee
So drool that honey
And slur your oil-smooth speech

CHORUS

You played at high finance
Fellated and romanced
But I could still buy you and your dog too
You took as your credo
Every bromide they’d feed you
But I know the truth and so do you

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I’d Pay

I’d pay for the privilege dear
To get my nose in your pudic lair
And I’d pay for the damage done
My hardened heart and my mind are all one

Hey! You! Climb onto my cloud
I got the bounty to get you
Taking me out

CHORUS:
You took one lick and swallowed me whole
I set the price and you took your toll
I took my time and you took control
I know I’m going to pay

So I’d pay what the market bears
To split my sac to a thousand common shares
Yeah, I’d write you a guarantee
If you’d cram it right down in my hour of need

One! Two! You understand now?
Just sign the contract and get to
Cleaning me out

CHORUS

Your heel on my coccyx and your lips done up in red
Trigger an all-out panic
And circuits breaking in my head
I should be jumping from buildings but I’m going long instead
You know where’s your daddy when you need him

CHORUS

Dulcet Sounds

I remember it well—it was another lifetime
Found all the joy that one voice could bring
And if those sounds could have kept us happy
I’d do anything

I used to believe in a brighter tomorrow
I used to believe in a love come true
Life wore me down till I believed in nothing
But I believed in you

CHORUS:
But no dulcet sounds are going to set things right
‘Cause the fairy tale ends with a half-lived life
Scandals stream but I’m remembering
How my world lit up when I heard you sing
They can grind a man down
But they can’t take
That place deep inside
Where I keep those dulcet sounds that you plucked from the depths of your mind
They can take my laughter
They can take your life

I remember the time when a touch could soothe me
I remember the time before this all came routine
Now all we got are some plans, grand ideas
And a shattered dream

CHORUS:
But no dulcet sounds are going to set things right
‘Cause the fairy tale ends with a half-lived life
Scandals stream but I’m remembering
How my world lit up when I heard you sing
They can grind a man down
But they can’t take
That moment in time
When you sang those dulcet sounds that I’ve trapped in the depths of my mind
They can take my laughter
They can take your life

Before you even sang a word
You screamed aloud and you kicked the dirt
Then everything I’d hear and see
Became another part of me
Your every breath, your every sigh
Sped like a demon through my mind
I may be lonely, filled with fright
But those dulcet sounds they made my life

Theory of Everything

They come out at night
From their time machines
Got a theory for everything
That you’ve ever seen

The perfect sweater-vest
For when the sun burns out
Ain’t never fathomed even
A semblance of a doubt

How could I argue when you bat those gray-green eyes?
So off you went
As I gnashed my teeth and sighed
But now you’ve got it

CHORUS:
In your eyes I could see
This was never meant to be
Then you danced your dance for me
Yeah!
You were sprawled on the floor
As you told me you were sure
And you purred your philosophy
Yeah!

You found it
You found it
The theory of everything

The latest protocol
An investment tip
Happiness can only be found
‘Neath a goddamn pyramid

If the moon implodes
If the drachma fails
The lizard race has a handshake that can
Keep us out of jail

Now who needs science when you wield that smile so bright?
So I said yes
And you just went on all the night
But now you’ve got it

CHORUS

Now they’ll brand it on
A line of toys
For little girls
And little boys
Who’ll revere your name
Like Kim Jong Il’s
Like Jesus said
Meekness kills

CHORUS