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life reeked of joy: unreleased tracks from 2008​-​2011

by arlo brooks

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seaweed 02:38
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i caught a fish right down ashland street the feds tried to rip me but i got them one beat scaring kids and stomping on feet there ain't much of nothing coming from the concrete these days these days oh no i've got laundry to do oh no i've got laundry to do corpses creek bloody leak and fucking everyone that you meet i've got positive sight intentions to enlight the demons of fatigue come to wrap up everything i've come to rely and to reply to your standard mail that always fails in the air and we will meet some day and i will beat you to a pulp, oh it's true and i will vote conservative, blonde fair well king this is the end of the song
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flying home 01:06
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i cannot make the scene shine as brightly as it did to me she walked so gracefully holding her arms out straight to me oh heavenly thing now i see what this means to me i know these needs i can meet daffodil flowers surround everything i hope she'll come find me in forest room one seventeen she'll smile so warmly and she'll say this song's about me
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my doctor 02:14
my doctor said that im gonna need some surgery so something's wrong and it wont be gone by just waiting but im not scared for the wear and tear of my body and the doctor's scares increase the fares of his taxi so im just gonna play it off like hes just doing his job ive seen my doctor, gone, and go grabassing yeah hes a human being he likes fucking just like me i cant take what he is prescribing me because hes not me and hes got not control over what i do everybody's just doing their job
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planet earth 01:12
i love this planet earth id be sad if it changed for the worse i realize what its worth no i dont have this rehearsed didnt plan a single word wont go and let it go unheard that's talking and theres verse with no meaning immersed just language packed and terse til the coming of the hearse
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theres a whole lot coming right this way pull out those weapons as fast as you may troop four please go deploy your shit we got kong coming straight to our transmit our bodies not our souls coming back from the sea watching moms cry for a dad's heartbeat i can feel that i am getting weak there is no hope there is only lucky
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grind 2 00:29
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death crisis 02:45
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missing girl 01:08
she went missing just about a week ago she probably aint coming back but who knows the police are reaching a gypsy the legend says that she's got the knack the pi said he'd be right on it right after the current murder case theres hope for nothing im telling you something i could tell it by the look on his face the family is undergrieved they havent got a lot to say the dad has said its unfortunate but its one less tuition to pay
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death fuck! 02:27
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stuck in the swamp lets wash ourselves out by the lake i wont sacrifice it we got struck down by the quake i wont have no fighting as long as you are awake is there any way to make it out alive? cuz i was hoping to make it out alive
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tossed aside the banner alive with concrete to grasp to ensure you survive and i will hang there and give you a big scare flipping and slipping and dripping with grime seizures abound from the rope to the mayor and i will swing and hang there
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billygoat 00:57
the billygoat squeals blood thirsty meals we are a family of farmers conservative leans overall jeans we'll take a gun to the mormons incestuous taste rip of dark lace feeling among the family we are the creepsters that cause all the weepers in the deepest and darkest of stories
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about

this is a collection of songs i wrote between 2008 and 2011, almost exclusively in ashland, oregon (except for tracks 1, 6, and 19 written in winchester, uk and track 20 which was written and recorded in pasadena, ca). some of these have been released before under a different name. these are all incredibly rough and embarrassing, but i figured i needed to get them off my hands once and for all. what you will find here is a mix of experimental (and very amateurish and strange) singer/songwriter songs, dorky computer math jazz tracks (complex jazz tracks composed with fake instruments from garageband), and ambient, noisy soundscapes. these were recorded in a dorm with a laptop and an acoustic guitar and that's it. message me on facebook if you can actually make it through this album and if you are in la i'll buy you a beer.

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released December 8, 2015

***on your computer speakers, this album may sound like a gurgly mess; on your preferred headphones/real speakers, less so. thank you for listening!***

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