Confuseograph
by United Shapes
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1. |
Cassandra Mirror
03:44
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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
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2. |
Miss Memes
03:02
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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
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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
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Haunted Spies
03:47
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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
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(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
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6. |
Philip Guston Ashtray
03:31
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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
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7. |
Too Many Dots
04:12
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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)
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8. |
Dr. Haircut
04:22
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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"
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9. |
The Antidote
05:14
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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
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Ellipsis
01:59
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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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credits
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
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 Austin, Texas
United Shapes are an alternative pop/rock duo formed in 2004 in Austin, TX by Joseph Devens and Drew Cave. New studio album Confuseograph available 2/10/23 on Flim Flam Records.
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