Culture Vulture

by Paper Machete

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Purchasable with gift card

     

1.
Thanks For All The Medicine 02:53
lyrics
download
I've done my best to hold my breath Because in my lungs I have become so indiscreet I'd be suppressed if I'm not the first to retch Because everything I taste Is so bittersweet Like a kiss on the cheek I thought that a teaspoon would do me fine After a shot of sugar I could say goodnight So I plugged my nose and I closed my eyes But something about that dose Took me by surprise A spoonful would have been alright What I've been ingesting Is working underneath my skin In my heart I said farewell And thanks for all the medicine Oh, Anodyne You behaved so benignly I was unkind Until I let you remind me Every cure has a cause Then there came all the adverse effects Dissecting me In some cheap unexpected thrill But I had to swallow that pill What I've been ingesting Is working underneath my skin In my heart I said farewell And thanks for all the medicine Oh, Anodyne You behaved so benignly I was unkind Until I let you remind me Every cure has a cause But you know that both can be blinding We'll find out in time Which one will be resigning Oh, Anodyne Please, don't leave me tonight
2.
Theives Of Belief 04:50
lyrics
download
I'm sitting with my favorite flavor of fiction With all its distorted depictions Falling like a favor on me With every subtle shift of degree I dog-ear this preferred memory This isn't how I hoped it would be I'm sitting here so impatiently If I could speak honestly I wouldn't be honest tonight Wring out my tongue and be done And get no words right At least not for your appetite As for me i'm sitting with the Thieves of Belief And I can't see a goddamn thing I'm left here imagining Some breath in the dark Starkly reminds me I'd rather not see my preferred company Coming clean Because it would be such a scream We've been bitten by the innocent attempts of intentions With its allowances and suspensions Balancing so delicately They cast a shadow over me I dog-ear this preferred memory But it reappears inaccurately Still I bask in its phantom frequencies And if I could speak honestly I wouldn't be honest tonight Wring out my tongue and be done And get no words right At least not for you appetite As for me I'm starving with the Thieves of Belief And we won't be fed a goddamn thing We're left here imagining Then some spark in my heart Violently revives me All this blood that's pulsing Gives me new-found feeling It seems these flooded arteries Are keeping me reeling I command my hands They move emphatically, magically I kick my legs They move, swinging me, bringing me Through this ever-blooming runaround That hollow sound Reverberating in my chest Is such a tangled mess I wouldn't be honest tonight Wring out my tongue and be done But get no words right At least not for your appetite As for me I'm starving with the Brides of Belief But I still can't feel a goddamn thing I'm left imagining I'm asking for proof Because the truth seems so useless From between my teeth comes this question I repeat And it just goes to show It wasn't for me to know
3.
Culture Vulture 02:06
lyrics
download
I see your shadows circle me But you can't eat something that's still living Why don't you come in my yard? Come on, now pull me apart Clean the bones Sell the meat Your dismantling beak Gives you cause to repeat And devour the weak Parasite in flight Culture Vulture With your carrion wealth Culture Vulture Why do you dine by yourself? Dig in They end and you begin This meat has got to be red This meat has got to be dead You let them make the kill You let them make their fill You wait so patiently Your beak keeps quivering Jackals for company And hunger that's growing Parasite in flight Culture Vulture With your carrion wealth Culture Vulture Why do you dine by yourself? Dig in They end and you begin Clean the bones Sell the meat Your dismantling beak Giving cause to repeat And devour the weak Parasite in flight Culture Vulture With your carrion wealth Culture Vulture Why do you dine by yourself? Dig in They end and you begin
4.
I Survived The War 05:07
download

credits

released January 29, 2010

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Paper Machete Nashville, Tennessee

contact / help

Contact Paper Machete

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Paper Machete, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Seafood Sam joins the show to discuss his newest album, " Standing On Giant Shoulders".
listen now