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Stories from the Panopticon

by Elstein

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1.
Shadows in the fog make that one a double you see the blue lights i'm staying out of trouble could not leave the city I don't regret that just half a prayer I can stretch that, bet that some of the neighborhoods underwater some of them gone and some are lost and all changed for good i'll accept that but I can't stand to live inside the panopticon with all the eyes on every corner every keystroke damn it all the gutter's for the hunger dogs the 21st century full of cameras first they take your cigs away very next day might take your chances they dont' know the half they dont see the cracks in it central square is clean now but it's so fuckin passionless seems like a fever dream, this country's a pyramid scheme and your fearless leader's not who he appears to be he guzzles champagne and he worships antilife we're under the gaze of brother eye, he's never satisfied yeah he talks all populist but when you looking past the rhetoric, it's just a plutocracy an some of the lucky ones get the crumbs, and some of the bums get nothing and some of these young ones fuckin dumb cause they think that they can trust him so why not get in line and take what they will give you and swallow all the pills like madmen locked in bellevue and that's the way it goes and none of us can change that I still got my memories time cannot decay that
2.
Casablanca 02:57
nothing like the sound of a violin crying rubies by her throat fingers weighed with silver rings searching for the source of the nile river but they'll never find it and I been on that nod like an opium fiend I been gone in a poppy pod dream when your heart beats slow and you stop your breathing and you give in to to the colors and they sound like egypt just like a snakeskin baby shots lookin grainy retake them the prostitutes priests and the traveling salesmen living in trances and transit lookin through the crowd , see the strangest faces maybe scratch the itch but it don't replace it time, time goes hazy, but he's only dancing fields lie fallow, something in the tarot and her face shows nothin, like a scarecrow one more cup of coffee one more for the road working classes, draining glasses standing in the shadows, watching for the blues an me I'm livin like that me i'm laying low baby i'm yours tonight, yeah it's quiet here but the war's outside they sacrifice the young to their iron gods and cross burn the dead like anthracite opium smoke, like the man who fell to earth the heart is full of gold like a purse and for what it's worth, promise that i'll carve it into stone nothing like the stars in the sinai desert diamond dust on the jeweler's velvet when i've had enough of the high life fill up my cup choose to forget it all the people here carry scarabs conjure illusions bind their eyes one of these days they'll pay the piper maybe after that you'll be mine
3.
רק כך he knew the only way to freedom was by this alone he knew that western promises are made of silk not stone deep in his bones, heard the screams of dying souls knew a bullet in its in time and place would change the globe young asher, black hair, dark eyes born outside the city walls born to struggle born to fight and see his people rise and see the ships come in despite the men with rotten teeth with empires and schemes started as a spy smuggled guns and made his moves from the doorway of the shop the british calling dirty jew limey bastards, fit inside a casket send em back to england with their head gone backwards asher wanted vengeance, he followed jabotinsky knew how to use a rifle and how to shoot a pistol knew the smell of evil, he fought the sons of darkness the sunburned khaki soldiers made a perfect target the world war was winding up, and the good guys won churchill stalin roosevelt lounging in the sun divvy up the spoils, lines across the map you can take a piece of this i'll have a piece of that the british in their compound just off jaffa road set the jews curfew and where they couldnt go a rainy night in march the sun was blocked by clouds asher and the etzel snuck in unannounced the irgunists had guns, the irgunists had bombs the british had the money, the etzel had g-d asher caught a slug, took aim shot back saw a british soldier caught a bullet in his hat then everything went black, his body in a bag they dropped it at his parents house and left it on the steps he sacrificed his years, he died a hero's death, cut down so young, but died with no regrets
4.
dna and fingerprints documents in triplicate kids gettin high on anti life in synthetic skin an the starlights gone in every place and they die for darkseid I seen on the news that scott free caught one slug ripped through his heart like it's nothing, asked to see the warrant just before they kicked the door in cannot record the cops in boston this is war and we lost it time goes down the faucet neighbors watchin, talkin I knew there was something wrong with him open wounds from when I tried to get close to you but I live in the panopticon where all your neighbors take notes on you my dreams play out in technicolor musics in computers lines up precise in infinite grids that look just like the future xanax cocktails how do they taste like nothing? I'd rather sleep forever than to deal with this country xanax cocktails how do they taste like nothing? I'd rather sleep forever than to deal with this country takin my sex in pill form an I hope your body's still warm remember you say you love my features tell me will you kill for him dwell on it. still wanted johnny law don't ever rest and he don't understand and he don't relent there's a war outside and it never ends the synagogue this morning, the butchers came with guns and knives five dead, only jews, it's a kind of justice right the world's sick, inverted speech, married to a crucifix married to a bloody moon these human pigs die for darkseid, no miracles left or prophets die for darkseid when i'm stuck inside of boston satellites on fire, the hunger dogs at the gates I don't got any sympathy for people with silver plates xanax cocktails how do they taste like nothing? I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country xanax cocktails how do they taste like nothing? I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country you know if I won't have you babe no one else will have you told you the day you quit me babe the day they carve your crying statue swamps are full of secrets flowers kept in ether the kids jump into the mouth of brass or else die in arenas for caeser for preachers, for sedatives in several scripts desaturate the color scheme you can see it like it really is really been in abyssinia several years with no compassion just some tapes of the twilight zone and dirty flicks and tobacco velvet goldmine, they'll never take my rayguns america's full of cops and clerks and I renounce that nation telegrams from sound machines that simulate emotion and all the slaves of antilife whose veins bleed coca cola xanax cocktails how do they taste like nothing? I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country xanax cocktails how do they taste like nothing? I'd rather be sleeping than to deal with this country
5.
Dresden 04:03
Baby I'm the sun when you're lying in the dirt I could be your maggots and your worms while the west declines, I dine and dash no friend of mine, let em crash let em all starve incessant, pray to reason and choke never ever met a german who, could understand a joke no, just like her empty head, sunny side up fried eggs an all she got for her troubles; was cigarettes and ricin I like it, you're an open window and you don't even care who sees thru, you don't even close the curtain it's so generous, you share what's mine like it's yours to give nothing that you wouldnt do to prove you're clean of sin she cares so much her heart's so big, mad sincere, what a fuckin saint she always turns the other cheek, it's just like a jew to shank she care so much her heart's so big, fuckin saint same old engine, different coat of paint yeah, wise up and get lost, I don't wanna hang around I don't wanna talk babe six horses, one box how you gonna dance puppet when I cut you off slim and hard like arrows, mechanical life syntax so fugazi, hedonistic princess always at the parties I can be your car crash in the four way I can be the stranger in your doorway all in different angles, contorted your fancy car I could not afford silver spoons glass tables , I seen it before I don't like your language babe I don't like your scriptures your chthonic peasant face on christmas I don't like when you rewrite the past then ask for forgiveness maybe he would be your friend but me i'm so dismissive to lay with a beast a shande, bitch lookin just like her father same ones in brooklyn buying condos, I don't talk to em socks and sandals, pictures with a camel, you're so ugly and tryna have the world to yourself , so prussian like a landlord, all these things I ain't ask for swear you say you'll transform, you're past war, yeah yeah like honest, you ain't lit by a comet you ain't coming to my concert, yeah, you're awful everything you get from me, extra cheap, plague and pestilence and a piece of history, and a testament everything you get from me, plague and pestilence like i'm laughing when death descend on dresden
6.
Time out the moment before the rain white clouds I look through the window pane smoke loud all the walls fade away down in the palisades ringing the bells today yeah, they diving for pearls an everything's wavy but that's just the surface and I want to be yours but that's not for purchase an i'm just your clown in the circus an i'm takin pretty pictures tryna warn the flood come, people woudlnt listen maybe I would call you now if I could get a signal or is this a war of attrition, is it a firefight, but we don't get tired right you could think the worst of me and I might slash your tires righ t that's how it goes, we add it up like dominoes but there's things I don't wanna know it all goes down the drain we ring them bells today laugh now she thinks she's a lot to me got it all wrong cause she just a bop to me hit up the phone if, you tryna cop the greeze it wouldn't be like it was, why talk to me heard your apology, an it don't change a thing I know what you'll talk about an it wont change a thing pray to your cross an all he won't change a thing it could be different nah babe it's too late to change That shit don't matter none both tried to run from life you were the faster one coudlnt outlast it, nah it don't matter none sometimes you throw a line sometimes you have to jump money comes and goes, currents of currency you can't buy cures for your insecurity all of these pretty things, gold in the dawn your dreams are nothing like mine and my phone keeps on ringing told her lose my number but she didn't listen you just a shikse to me you just some practice now you want a fight or some kind of action it could be different but we live with the facts I hope you see the picture, like why you even mad and I won't be your friend now why you even ask you really think i'd come back yeah, ain't nobody gonna miss you
7.
Snow 02:59
Kosha Dillz: A snow storm and my flow on Blizzard and wizard main objective get green like skin of these lizards Alright I relax but can anxiety prevent me from making my children I ain't even got a girl to chill with She too busy hitting nonsense I should create the content prevent me from being so common Since I make out a prayer like Amen, Baruch Hashem On a solo quest, forever mobbing Doors shut, locked in, this life, ain't thin Abraham make a man fake a plan improvise all of it Truth meets new lies never been forfeiting Why you wanna go and call the kid? Bars so healthy make you call in sick Well essentially but can you still remember me? Like McCartney said, let it be Elstein: Look just like a centerfold, seven veils, wish you will We can be discrete baby, on the low no kiss and tell Visit hell it's all cold but I got what you want tho Yeah I got them chickens in the cargo, pronto Float on the track with Kosha Dillz I'm from the Chi I drill Keep it all Klal Israel she captured my heart it's real I'm not on the charts I'm in the ditch but the way I live got benefits Fill your cup, pour it up, take away your memories Take you out to ecstasy Show you things you never seen In your dreams baby you could send that postcard I just met my destiny, Elstein, go hard Space age, MJG and 8Ball Wanna see the stars girl? Lean back, take it off Haha, in the sky, touch the face of g-d Life is just a stage, gotta play your part
8.
Straight Up 03:06
love's a furnace burns when you're closer but it's colder in the distance that's your fortress cut off all my hair off, and I let the phone ring pull down the blind, now the twelve know nothing static and a hiss like vinyl records my eternal sunshine only three days and then you come back and actin like you was just acting, actually seen this one before I slammed the door your waaaay's way less flashy dont we look just like kodachrome i've seen you with your mask off an I still believe there's life on mars I still believe in nasa straight up, straight up straight up, straight up straight up, straight up you said it, you left it straight up straight up straight up, straight up straight up, straight up on the nod out, since I dropped out like time moves backwards I jumped out the taxi faster then I trade some andrew jacksons for satisfaction starin at your face in the ceiling see it's just a pipe dream it's real to me waiting for my flight to the golden city but til then it's boston aladdin sane, london calling playin all the songs that take me back music that could laugh and swoon and move you music then was made to last that circle I used to know we don't talk that often back then I was someone else and that's me being honest everything's electric , my adolescence empty all the bottles but never send a message communicate raw like you in my heart I won't be waiting for long big spender , november hittin the beat like rain on the windows after fires we get the embers i'm caught in the game now, super nintendo
9.
Like you dont know who's watching huh, bpd still plot on me in this stiflin atmosphere, hard to breathe talk is cheap stay away from cameras, blend in with the action the future looks like plastics, stagnant I don't love these broads at all, I don't share my thoughts with her I might walk the block with her if I can get some top from her stalk the docks with an eye for rags and used slag, old phones, loose change find a new past like hussein, just outside the clinic itchin twitchin a lot work in line and lately it's so drainin fuck it never mind it's the boston olympics, something, to build for, something to starve for, something to steal for believe me man I seen some shit that would prove to you that babylon is risen the man of god is nothing in a pack of wolves oh, the tyrant sea that turns the walls to rubble the prostitutes on private jets are prisoners all he knows is opera and helicopter dinners man he don't know the squalor, he don't know the winter ls on your dial babe, take another shot for me january 26, 2015 stop i'm so fuckin hot now i'm living in a basement sublet fuck it what's another month my albums gutter pop ls on your dial babe, take another shot for me january 26, 2015 stop

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tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 produced by baby goijra
track 2 produced by elstein
track 7 produced by big boy traks

additional vocals by kosha dillz on track 7

photo: martin iragorri
album art: afsha iragorri

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released March 15, 2015

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