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21 Dead Bugs

from Carnivore by Idiot Magnet

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This song was originally written and recorded in about 12 hours, then mixed in 2 hours the following day. It was for a multimedia art exhibit which included sculpture, painting and various pieces of music by a variety of different artists all responding to the phrase "21 Dead Bugs As A Gift". Of course I went and took the theme very literally and this song is the result.

It was never intended to be part of the Carnivore album, but it seems to fit in with some of the thematic elements, so it is included here as a bonus track. Enjoy.

lyrics

Twelve dead bugs as a birthday gift.
Wading out of my head and into the rift.
Through a shadow so long it bruised my shins.
Then she opened up her chest and the rain fell in.

Dead bugs.

Cracked open my head on the concrete floor.
Smashed the back of a bug with the front of my jaw.
Split my lip with shards of my broken teeth.
Taste the cooling blood of the bug beneath.

Dead bugs.

Polaroid. Pole the void. She’s getting higher than an asteroid.
She’d piss most people off but I’m not even annoyed.
Hear the static. Automatic. Psychosomatic.
She's laughing harder than a sitcom.
She's my monosyllabic hydrocephalic sex bomb.

Scoop the pool for playing the fool and now she’s lost her composure.
She feels the chill while I’m feeling ill at the thought of her exposure.
I've let loose the tiger but there's a kitten wrapped up inside her.
I won’t be undone. Here I come.
Watch me run right over your moral divider.

So many bugs but no cause for alarm.
One each for stigmata at the end of my arm.
Two more bugs for your hollowed out eyes.
Three for the space between your thighs.
One more bug for the back of your throat.

Aaaaarrrgh.
Dead bugs.

credits

from Carnivore, released August 19, 2009
Lyrics & Music: Rohan Voigt
All instruments: Ro

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