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Palace of the Lightbulbs

by Computer at Sea

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It's measured in the flames from a burning couch just how badly we have disgraced ourselves now. And when we've gotta give mouth to mouth we make a big show about how we're not aroused. Cause the ambulance is only being driven in the hopes that it might crash. The thread is being woven with desire to catch. The firefighter strikes the match. [chorus] Now Milk, your's is not to spill. See the skeleton hand of the civic man at your windowsill. Some ceiling tiles have fallen from the palace roof, the dentist has contempt for the missing tooth. And when we ferment the lightbulb for it's juice we pay no mind to all the eyesight we might lose. The city's health inspector tells a lie because he wants tot stay home. The monorail conductor doesn't mind he lives alone. The dialtone swallowed the phone. [chorusx2] Now one two three four five six seven stop.
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The insides of the rubber band They stretch out all the glass to sand They shake the arms off helping hands They take the wheel and make demands, they say You volunteer firefighters you can only burn it down The Sullen Lamplighters they visit from the shadow towns And all the insiders they make that disapproving sound You skeleton riders you're gonna ride it straight into the ground The conductor wires the electrical fires to a burning bag of garbage and the radial tires They roll through the holes in all the cynical liars who fake the grandstanding that a workweek requires, they say You volunteer firefighters you can only burn it down The Sullen Lamplighters they visit from the shadow towns And all the insiders they make that disapproving sound You skeleton riders you're gonna ride it straight into the ground
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The mecury vapor light flickers once and then turns off Milk politely coughs The triage nurse she traills off while the scanner whispers softly coding accidents certain to happen An exotic meal the fins of a mantaray The weight of a wheel but the wheel has been worstened and then made uncertain A cursory feel but the hands have been broken she's certain they're broken Two dogs were fighting in the parking lot beside of it Milk lays down broken and then shurgs as if to say The hazy detail of taillights a vendor selling paper kites in the field after the midway moved away An exotic meal the fins of a mantaray The weight of a wheel but the wheel has been worstened and then made uncertain A cursory feel but the hands have been broken she's certain they're broken
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Power Lines 03:17
Rolling down the sidewalk like the lank libertarians tearing out the stuffing from the armchair librarians are staring at us glaring at us daring us to move but we can't pay attention till they drop the groove now go Probably didn't matter but we really would have rather had the powerlines be cutting up the view We'd like to say that we're not going to pay but our wallet's always open for you It Probably didn't matter but we really would have rather had the powerlines be cutting up the view We'd like to say that we're not going to pay but our wallet's always open for you Waking in the night with the sudden sense of knowing that the channels now are vacant and your bicycle's been stolen Morning comes creeping with a burned out bag of plastic throwing garbage on your lawn and the air's just full of static, now go Probably didn't matter but we really would have rather had the powerlines be cutting up the view We'd like to say that we're not going to pay but our wallet's always open for you It Probably didn't matter but we really would have rather had the powerlines be cutting up the view We'd like to say that we're not going to pay but our wallet's always open for you

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Most of the sounds on this recording are produced with circuit bent devices, handmade electronics, or videogame hardware.

Physical copies are available on white vinyl for $10 plus $3 shipping within the US.

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released March 15, 2011

All the songs here were written by Galen Richmond.

Ron Harrity recorded, mixed, and mastered everything here, with the exception of the first track, which Jon Donnell recorded and Ron mixed and mastered. Steve Alvarez made the cover image

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