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Demonstration

by Starparty

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1.
Skydiving 03:00
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Stablizers down, let's hit the ground gasoline and gravity surround us all the birds part like the sea and we start to fall. Out of consciousness and height realize fright won't make you any less likely to die than anything else. Cigarette light on all night, how appropriate and trite, stars encapsulate the flight anyone got a light? The captain's voice on the machine sounds more like the ending of a Stars record, than a warning. Life is not a box of chocolates life is like an airplane ride and holding your breath won't make you survive. The drinks are falling down, crash positions assumed, there's nothing left, that we can do. Under the glow of electric lights flickering to keep up with their average life the patrons watched their fellow beings swiftly drift into the sea. In a slow motion fury of breathing and sighs there was peace in the panic of knowing your going to die. Die... Life is not a box of chocolates life is like an airplane ride and holding your breath won't make you survive. The drinks are falling down, crash positions assumed, there's nothing left, that we can do.
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This Better Get Better 03:48
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It's much too late to think before I leap and so I leap anyway and land where I don't want to be. What is wrong with me? I called you just tell you that the sun looked better tonight than any other night. But I think it was just a bad excuse to say goodnight. This better get better get better in time and this better rewind and pull itself back into line Until unraveled tape is strung throughout your bedroom where you sleep at night. I tried to shrug it off and walk with a smile when I found out you were lying when you said we'd be in like for a while. But as it turns out you just liked the Rubik's cube kind of feeling. Of never being sure. This better get better get better in time and this better rewind and pull itself back into line Until unraveled tape is strung throughout your bedroom where you sleep at night. This better get better get better in time and this better rewind and pull itself back into line Until unraveled tape is strung throughout your bedroom where you sleep at night. And it keeps you up. This better get better get better in time and this better rewind and pull itself back into line Until unraveled tape is just an unwound ball of twine. To tie your Christmas tree down for your Christmas without me around. And I hope it falls down. I hope it falls down. I hope it falls.
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Chemystery 03:43
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Chemicals kill bugs chemicals make love chemicals blow up and put a country in the rut Chemicals make drugs chemicals are dumb chemists have to run sometimes when chemicals combust all over us Chemicals react inside our hearts and souls and pants and minds our organs are their playground our faces, their disguise reaking havoc on our minds they turn and churn and tantalize what we used to call our own... lives. If we wrote the chemystery how can the chemicals kill me? chemicals in test tubes solve the problems they created cancers viruses and hazardous amounts of radiation bubble forth from below north and take our lives and take our souls and take our hearts and take our minds create a lack of creative control Chemicals are DNA it's a with t and g with c but where's the adam wheres the eve? where's the lack of a repeating act it seems to me we're all the same a code of sorts, with a luster sheen and underneath are we beings? or are we are we... are we? If we wrote the chemystery how can the chemicals kill me? If we wrote the chemystery how can we be?
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Cute Names for Dangerous Things 02:51
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A girl short in stature around the age of five is jumping through the puddles and she doesn't realize she's jumping in the liquids that fell from the sky when god sent torrents down to earth and cried out "die villains, die!" from time to time we tell ourselves it'll be alright but that's a lie because even sunshine burns the earth at ninety plus degrees and threatens death to all who come within a million feet don't get too close to a good thing Cute names for dangerous things like stars and cars and aeroplanes and dinosaurs and gremlins nibbling at your tiny little feet Cute names for dangerous things we hide behind these words and imageries life is but a dream. Cute names for dangerous things like stars and cars and aeroplanes and dinosaurs and gremlins nibbling at your tiny little feet Cute names for dangerous things we hide behind these words and imageries life is but a dream. Cute names for dangerous things like stars and cars and aeroplanes and dinosaurs and gremlins nibbling at your tiny little feet Cute names for dangerous things we hide behind these words and imageries life is but a dream.
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Time Bomb 02:41
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She paints her face with a brush dipped in kerosene and sprays her neck with bottles of liquids that smell like a time bomb's fuse ablaze a time bomb that doesn't tell time quite right. cigarette smoke and ashes rise up to the atmosphere the very ozone she's protecting now has a lot to fear and if she's nothing but some chemicals held in by skin and bones then someday she'll have to explode Close your eyes Jump and dive the camera slows down to half the time close your eyes and plug your ears there's nothing here there's nothing to fear Tick tick tock the clock goes by faster than she can close her eyes seems like it suddenly all went awry crash crash crash she split in half and gave her strength to another day it was all a waste she wished on herself for just one final day to laugh in the field where she used to play one more smile to return one more hand she could hold and someone to kiss all the wounds she had grown but instead she curled up in the fetal position she was drug down down by her knees down to the depths of deep blue sea Close your eyes Jump and dive the camera slows down to half the time close your eyes and plug your ears there's nothing here there's nothing to fear Close your eyes Jump and dive the camera slows down to half the time close your eyes and plug your ears there's nothing here there's nothing to fear
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Canary in a Coal Mine 06:21
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Starparty's first EP. All of the tracks were recorded live at KPSU for Arya Imig's Live Friday, except for Cute Names for Dangerous Things which was recorded on a dirty 8 track in Rock School's basement.

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released August 7, 2009

Caleb Misclevitz, Sonia Weber, and Raine Frederickson wrote these songs.

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