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Confuseograph

by United Shapes

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1.
Tock-tick Tock-tick I get sick when the capacitor sticks and I'm Not quick I’m not quick Enough to fix my perpetual slips Into what will be Still every epoch pushes up the same hill Pushes up a great weight A great weight We know it’s comin’ But we’re always too late Still My Cassandra mirror shows me What we will have been and My Cassandra mirror knows the Horizon before the event There hi! There hi! Here we come there we’re waving goodbye And I pull my pull my Curtain open see the new model Spy the buttons Yes buttons and lights Surprise! It’s a flimsy disguise for a Choo-choo choo-choo Vaguely familiar did we get it right this time? My Cassandra mirror shows me What we will have been and My Cassandra mirror knows the Horizon before the event Entropy awards supremacy to only one Entropy awards supremacy to only one They thought they were so smart And we think that we’re smarter than them And when they blink and they wink And think their magic It’ll happen again That what’s? That what’s? Shrieks the tourist at the palm of my hand And then bad luck bad luck Time’s up Try to describe it to your friends, man My Cassandra mirror shows me What we will have been and My Cassandra mirror knows the Horizon before the event Entropy awards supremacy to only one Entropy awards supremacy to only one Cowboy
2.
Miss Memes 03:02
Mr. William Asher played us MP3s in his bunker off the grid in 1993 And when all the other kiddies played with fax machines He was bored to death already minting NFTs But he don’t forget to feed Miss Memes her cream Mr. William Asher blew the minds of his friends By placing isolated soundwave spheres on their heads And he’s very well acquainted too with matters impossible Noshing buttered popcorn before popcorn was poppable But he don’t forget to feed Miss Memes her cream Yeah this asshole thinks his Tesla cars are really quite something Will Asher’s got a car that runs on literally nothing When the Flintstones met the Jetsons they were blown right away But when the Jetsons met Will they hung themselves in shame But he don’t forget to feed Miss Memes her cream Mr. William Asher has transcended money No longer is he shackled to his physical body He looks down at the cloud from whatever’s above He makes Dr. Manhattan look like Forrest Gump But he don’t forget to feed Miss Memes her cream
3.
Girl You’re everywhere And girl I’m a little bit scared And girl I wanna go all the way To Walgreen’s And listen to the awful songs they play Y’know the ones that sound the same Because the popstars say That when they sound the same And play all day they sell better that way? ‘Cause girl When I’m with you I wanna sell out too And girl I think the quickest way Would be to use the most overused chords to say you’re Ubiquitous You’re everywhere I look and where I go Ubiquitous A never-ending love set to those four chords that go Just like this Just like this They play whenever we kiss And when we stop kissing they don’t stop They never stop They’re ubiquitous And I can’t take much more Girl When I think of you I close my eyes And that’s why I make you drive Us to Walgreen’s ‘Cause I think about you and those pop chords all the time And that isn’t a line When I hear those chords I wanna die But if dying in peace and quiet means losing you I wanna be alive ‘Cause girl When I’m with you It ain’t a cliché to say When you’re holding my hand I kinda start to stand the things I can’t stand Ubiquitous You’re everywhere I look and where I go Ubiquitous A never-ending love set to those four chords that go Just like this Just like this They play whenever we kiss And when we stop kissing they don’t stop They never stop They’re ubiquitous And I can’t take much more Ubiquitous You’re everywhere and nowhere when you sing Ubiquitous Those Journey chords they stuff into just everything Just like this Just like this They play whenever we kiss And when we stop kissing they don’t stop They never stop They’re ubiquitous And I want so much more
4.
You know how when you’re sewing your shadow To the tower at Charles de Gaulle And the girl in your ear overhears Someone telling their kid not to do that? Woke up with the envelope Only eyes Woke up with the envelope Only eyes Woke up with the envelope Chalk outlines Of haunted spies And then an envelope turns into smoke in your hands Like doves being released And a gentleman hands your another from out his raincoat Which turns to smoke too Woke up with the envelope In my mind Woke up with the envelope In my mind Woke up with the envelope Redacted lives Of haunted spies Woke up with the envelope Set on fire Woke up with the envelope Set on fire Woke up with the envelope On the wire Haunted spies
5.
TV Green 03:40 video
(Come with me And I'll show you what never happens) TV Green swaddle me In the glow of your screen Wake me up from my sleep Then put me back deep TV Green TV Green follow me To the house across the street Lift me up off my feet So I can see the beauty TV Green TV Green from the shining sea To the shining sea and in-be-shining-tween From the fine high palace of perfumed dreams To the kitchen sink I think in TV Green TV Green baptize me In your glow and I'll believe Anything you want me to believe My soul washed clean in TV Green And when I'm sad and it's you I see Well I'm not blue so much as green And bein' sad it ain't so bad In the glow of the screen In the glow of the TV screen In the glow of the green TV screen (Just like that!) So turn on the tube and the ding-dong machine And flip the switch on the confuseograph please And don't remember to forget to sing Everything looks better bathed in TV Green
6.
I got a Philip Guston ashtray With pink cigarette butts up to my face And I got a Philip Guston toupee And I'm laughin' all the way to Andy Warhol's grave I got a Philip Guston horseshoe With a pink and green horse to go with it too And the horse is smoking a fat cigarette And I'm sleeping with a platter of meat in my bed Yes I got a Philip Guston ashtray And I jump in the butts like fall leaves and I stay Comfortably hidden 'til six p.m. When I spring out I'm bleeding And smoking The end
7.
You can't play connect the dots Without any dots But it's worse when there are too many dots Conclusions get drawn and thoughts get thought Alone with my treasures in my red string bunker Thumbtacking torn-apart magazine covers Newspaper clippings cutting room floors I'm two steps ahead Queen to H-4 But the tin of kipper snacks is way more than that And the woman on TV must be sad That she can't have any of my kipper snacks But I look at the tin and it's empty again And the woman on TV is chewing I look at the woman she winks at me Then a commercial for kipper snacks The cover is lifted Both keys are inserted The button can't be unpushed As flashbulbs explode The ceiling opens up And the balloons and confetti choke you Everybody in the town knows something I don't Everybody walks around with their eyes glued to me All the animals in town smell something I can't Birds and rattlesnakes surround me but they won't Tell me anything Everybody in the town knows something I don't Everybody looks around at the clues I can't see All the animals in town smell something I can't Birds and rattlesnakes surround me but they won't Tell me anything (Only kinda people I know are perfect strangers Everybody seems to know something that I don't All the animals in town have started packing Birds and rattlesnakes left town They smell what I can't) (Only kinda people I know are perfect strangers Everybody seems to know something that I don't All the animals in town have started packing Birds and rattlesnakes left town They smell what I can't)
8.
Dr. Haircut 04:22
Dr. Haircut blew into town on a parade float made of cocaine He hopped right into the mayor's wife's lap And planted a big fat smooch on her face He said, "You'll never believe it love I've got one more trick up my sleeve And I'll give you a hint A fine chicken supper with gravy and trimmings And a dance with this ol' gent if you like" Then he was dressed in tails and heels And couldn't give enough sex away He spun thricely and outrightly surprised the Mayor's wife who might've heard him say: "I'm Dr. Haircut I'm Santa's warm lap I'll lie kitten-quiet in a basket of naps I'm Dr. Haircut I'm chocolate and wine I'm a minty-fresh kiss wrapped in glittery twine I'm Dr. Haircut I appear in the stars In a ballgown of glowing bedazzled chiffon I'm Dr. Haircut When it's time for bed I'm a cup of warm gin and a pat on the head" Well The mayor's wife just lit a cigar And blew smoke rings in the doctor's face She said, "I've seen the stars Whoever-you-are And you're a constellation I can't place You're Dr. Haircut as you say But I don't know I hate to stop you there but I've got to go The hypnotic swirling of your glass eyes Is a sight That's right And if I were a different kind of girl I think I might You say you'll kitten-quiet But I think you won't So sell that to cats who'll buy it 'cause I think I don't"
9.
The Antidote 05:14
The creepiness of the countryside As charming as a rattler's smile (To grandmother's house we go) Dilapidated wooden homes Choked to death on poison oak (Travelling in slo-mo) Grey vegetation blurring by Under a color-corrected sky (With David Lynch at the dials) A gun was fired a year ago And now I’ll meet the bullet hole (A million million miles) The Antidote is waiting in line for me The Antidote is waiting behind curtain number three Been dodging bullets Apple pips But all I got are puffer fish (Don’t put it in your mouth now) Yeah a gun was fire but a dart was thrown Paths cross I’m a bullseye safe at home (Shaken off the couch now) The Antidote is waiting in line for me The Antidote is waiting behind curtain number three
10.
Ellipsis 01:59
No soap opera cliffhanger Could ever compare To the last cowboy breathing The crisp Martian air And thinking he'd done it And knowing he's done Entropy awards supremacy to only one And he's counting the days And I'm counting the days And we're counting the days babe Feel the sun on our face Feel the grass on our face Waiting to be replaced...

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released February 10, 2023

All songs written by United Shapes
Drew Cave: guitars, trombone, programming, backing vocals
Joseph Devens: keyboards, bass, programming, lyrics, vocals
Mixed by Joseph Devens & Michael Crow
Recorded at home in Austin, Texas
Samples & mastering provided by LANDR
Guitars designed and manufactured by Drew Cave
Album design and music videos by Joseph Devens
Produced by Joseph Devens

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United Shapes are an alternative pop/rock duo formed in 2004 in Austin, TX by Joseph Devens and Drew Cave. New studio album Confuseograph now available on Flim Flam Records.

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