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REAPER MAN (EVERYTHING CHANGES SO WHY CAN'T I?) - Stacking Theory

I SIT HERE EVERY DAY
I WATCH THE SAND SLIP AWAY
YOU MEASURE YOUR TIME IN DAYS
I MEASURE MINE BY THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES

I KNOW THAT EVERYONE CHANGES WITH TIME
AND I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ONE CHANGE THAT IS MINE
IF I WERE ABLE TO PUT DOWN MY SCYTHE
COULD I MAKE THE CHANGE THAT’S RIGHT?

BUT IF I CHANGE
WHO WILL CARRY YOU AWAY?
IF I CHANGE
WHO WILL CARRY EVERYONE AWAY?

EVERYONE CALLS ME THE REAPER
THEY KNOW ME AS THE SOUL KEEPER
I SEE MYSELF AS A DREAMER
I WANT TO MAKE A NEW LIFE AND MAKE IT SWEETER

REAPER MAN
THAT’S WHO I AM
REAPER MAN
SINCE TIME BEGAN

YEAH YEAH YEAH

[exit stage right]

Climb Up The Leaderboard
by see-man-ski

I'm going to rock the rock
in the fall of 94
I've been practising all summer long
a couple years before

I've got my eyes on the prize
and my sega mega drive
has never let me down before

so I'm gonna
climb up the leaderboard

I'll never cheat the system
I don't need your konami code
my fingers and thumbs can work their magic
with them and them alone
and my blue haired friend
with his red haired sidekick
will help me collect all the rings

so I can
climb up the leaderboard

I can see the blockbuster sign
that was advertised to me on MTV each night
I'm driving down San Fransisco bay
and the prisoners of Alcatraz
are not welcoming
in any way

but I don't mind
I know that I'm leaving with the all time high

I'm gonna climb
I'm gonna climb
climb up the leaderboard

Phlubububub - Lost With The Plant People

Olimar, so far out in space
Olimar, in another place
Very far, 30 days of air
Oxygen, more than I can bear

Ooooh, I found the friendly carrot people looking out for me

They follow me, they don't bother me
Assisting me when I'm in need

(ooooohh, aaahhh)

Oh, I want to return to my planet
Oh, I want to return to my home
So far away from here
So let's go find my gears

Third Cat - "Techno Man" (from the imaginary sci-fi musical THE SINGULARITY)

she said it was just a freak accident
but she was scared of what I found meant
it works but we don't know how
lost too much blood, must connect my mind right now

no longer fear what I don't understand
have to become something more than a man
this world can't conceive of me
I can be more than they can believe they see

I will become techno man, techno man
I will become techno man, techno man
plugging my brain into everyone
I will become techno man, techno man

(instrumental break)

I will become techno man, techno man
I will become techno man, techno man
plugging my brain into everyone
I will become techno man, techno man

with what I'll know we could sail through the sun
with what I'll know we could sail through the sun
and there'll be nothing between anyone
with what I'll know we could sail through the sun

Cavedwellers featuring BSS
glennny-guitar, slide, lyrics, production
Truth- Vocals
Geech- Drums
Martin- Bass
Ken- Guitar

I want to be ME

I thought I’d be an artist
But in math I was the smartest
I could take a point the farthest
My perspective was the sharpest

I can make it better
I can make it cheaper
I can make it quicker
Now pick 2

I just want to be an ME
Drive a motorized carriage and fornicate
There’s poka-yoke with you and me
‘Cuz there’s just one way to make things great

I will excel at GD and T
If you have tolerance for me
I’ll do the FEA
If you give me the time of day

I like you in General
At least in this Dimension
I think you have the Tolerance
In my analysis

I just want to be an ME
Drive a motorized carriage and fornicate
There’s poka-yoke with you and me
‘Cuz there’s just one way to make things great

Ever since I became a Trekkie
I wanted to become a MechE
Just how to make a halo-deckie?
The science it seems circumspect-y

I just want to be an ME
Drive a motorized carriage and fornicate
There’s poka-yoke with you and me
‘Cuz there’s just one way to make things great

Sober - Leave the Ladder

Do what makes you happy
Never work a day in your life
School and work and Sundays
Retire at sixty five
None of us want that exactly
Even if we could afford it
Just space, a little understanding
And time alone to mourn it

All that we want is a shot
At the life that we were promised
And all that we ask you to do
Is to leave the ladder behind you
Something for us to climb to/too (interpret as you like, idgaf)

Nobody asked for the ribbons
Never wanted to raise a voice
For attentions taken or given
It would be nice to have the choice
You’ve had your run of the palace
Those days are almost through
Give over the keys and the atlas
They can’t be trusted with you

The Stars Overhead
Timothy Patrick Hinkle

I wanna belong—sometime, someplace
To have my own space
No need to erase each trace I’ll leave behind
Before I leave it behind

I long to arrive—finally at rest
Not just a houseguest
Settled in my nest—depressed, instead I find
To traveling on I’m resigned

We swim among the stars, I’d rather they were overhead
I could be still and watch them wheel across the sky instead

Wherever we go, there’s no place I can stay,
From Skaro to Cathay
Have to run away, replaying my heartaches—
One day I’ll put down stakes

Grandfather tell me how you miss our constellation
We’re joined in sorrow, each the other’s last relation
Tell me a story to remind me of my mother
Don’t sulk in silence or my memory will smother
Leaves of silver shivering underneath an orange sky
Tell me again, Grandfather, why we had to leave them—why?

You’re frightened of tears—you tell me, one day we’ll get back
To the home that we now lack
That idea won’t track, it smacks of hopes forlorn—
I just need space to mourn

We swim among the stars, I’d rather they were overhead
I could be still and watch them wheel across the sky instead