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Botanical Castings

by The Lentils

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i remember it so clearly i even remember what i had fr lunch the day i heard the song that ruined my life now every time i see my stereo it's like human food to a dog i just gotta have that song ringin in my ears well i heard it on a monday and by friday i would loose all control tell the drunk umpire he can have my room how could i know what it would do to me? it was just a rock song after all but ever since the day when i listened to that song i've never been the same well it started on a g chord but it would end on my demise tell my little sister she can have my drums i put the song on repeat until i couldn't recognise my own face tell the fat cheerleader that she broke my heart i put my other records in storage i said who knows i might need these some time but who'd i think i was kiddin, they would never suffice
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i'd rather not be the perfect guy i'd rather not leave my bed but the heart is a monster and it must be fed i'd rather not have to huff the tomb i'd rather not touch the ground but the heart is the searcher that is never found i'd rather not taste the photograph i'd rather not get wet feet but the heart is a river and who knows how deep i'd rather not have to do or die i'd rather not have to char but the heart is an archer never misses it's mark i'd rather not have to fall apart i'd rather not be destroyed but the heart is an asshole and it's paranoid a season invented a season inside a delicate gender a delicate crime but i gotta get back to my secret body i gotta fill every limb with light there is a vapor of green hovers over the river as the river flows down my spine i got an ocean of wanting behind my eyes a delicate plunder a delicate prize
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hair-brained schemes align open up yr hands cause i deserve every joint in the world and i don't wanna go home cause only the real thing hurts where did the human heart learn to suck so much? and why can't i admit that my philosophy is fucked? and why does everyone debunk what only the true punks know? but why did the tambourine lie? and how many drugs did it take to come true? hair-brained schemes align for once in my life cause i've got a different face that i'd like to try and why does no one suspect the ticking behind the eyes pillows of the world unite and conquer the human race won't you let every ear hear that there is no escape and why is no one concerned with the music of no return but why did the tambourine care? and how many lies does it take to unwind?
5.
the demonstration of the babylon in the basement really caught me by surprise the exploitation of some young drunk constellation never could get the neighbor's hearts to sympathize they left their ethos and their theory of the zero underneath the bathroom sink and still it haunts me every morning when i go joggin and the neighbors all look at me like i'm seeing things a babylon was found in my salad someone call the cops and tellem i died and someone hit the lights cause i'm naked and i'm only made of circles and squares and i don't have to care about the practice bloom cause everybody knows by now where i come from i think it's funny that the blind think the sun eats only what it cannot find while science tells us that the heavens are still jealous of the smells and textures of the human mind a babylon was found in the basement someone call my mom and tell her i'm fried and i don't have to try to be finite cause every now and then i question the craze cause i don't wanna flake on my 7th house cause everybody nails the bloom where i come from
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sunday's jammers might forget their names but still i wouldn't face up to a pocket full of blame the smell of your trumpet still tortures my room but i just wanna get some sleep i don't wanna know the truth but one of these days i won't pretend well the rappers might freeze and the raphaelites might melt but still i wouldn't have the balls to be honest with myself i think the birds should shut up and go back to bed cause i'm listening to the rolling stones and i don't want that backbeat to ever end but one of these days i won't pretend one of these days i'm gonna question my movies one of these days i'm gonna get my shit together and learn to put up my hands maybe we could meet up in a year or two and maybe i'd be kinder and maybe you'd be too but by then my sense of timing might be too obscure and my arms too full of memories of the living room floor but one of these days i won't pretend seems the reason for my pleasure is the reason for my pain but my memory sucks and i don't think i'll ever change but i broke my last mirror seven years ago today and my hands are feeling hectic like the rhythm might just be saved but one of these days i won't pretend
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let the bears in the backseat clutter up their minds with the things of this world and let my picture repose with your proof of insurance and if a public defender came around to your house just to ask about me would you tellem my secrets? would you tellem what the umpire said? and how would you answer? what would you say? would you tellem how i rigged the rescue? would you tellem how i lost my hands? and do you think they'd believe you? do you think they'd really care why i been playin for the local sports team but i been routin for the other side? and if you ever go back to the movies now you better hope that i'm wrong and that i've been mislead by my insistence on the perfect bloom and i would like to take a second just to say my peace and i'll go back to my trance i am a normal guy and i only tell normal lies nothing to see here no nothing to see i'm just a member of the local sports team but i can never figure out where i'm from why am i so beastly? why am i so full of holes? i'll give you till a week past tuesday and you better figure out where i'm from
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Mama's Boys 04:03
i am a mama's boy sister sally would like a little less reality she looked at me and she painted my pain mama never said it would be easy to take apart daddy's machine but the piper at the rest stop doesn't have to be so far from reach mama didn't raise no DJ to waste away in some magazine mama didn't raise no pumpkin pie so I could cover my life in whipped cream someone take me back to minnesota where nothing ever touches me brother billy would like a little less sobriety he threw his cell phone at the life-gaurd's tower mama never said it would be easy to deconstruct daddy's room but the life-guard's whistle doesn't have to blow so cruel mama didn't raise no hemingway to waste away in some coral reef mama didn't raise no rice-cake so i crumble at the lifeguard's feet sorry that i stole your favorite color and i never even read your zine
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The Heckler 02:36
i think it's harder to unperfect the gesture i think yr daughter's should not regret the heckler although that hothead would not let up on my cuticles he was the only one to make it to my funeral my friend the heckler haas an ocean in his room i once knew a spell that made him split in two but i couldn't memorize the words the hecklers sandals are all unloved and mangled his yankee candles are not all that newfangled i think your daughters should give back the hecklers glasses after all this a praxis so get up off your asses i never told him how he broke my little heart i wrote a song for him with 700 parts but he couldn't comprehend a word i'm so happy to meet you and do you wanna wash my fishes i gave my hands to the actress playing on the television and now i'll cry until i'm 45 cause i never got to take up boxing
10.
if my gem tactics are correct then every finger is forgiven with the placebo effect well it might take my whole life but i'll tear a meat from a shadow with that placebo effect the placebo effect waits where you never expect with the placebo effect you'll never have to touch the bed again i'll never understand why a million hands stand uncurated and they wait up for the worm in another million years when human kind is perfected we'll all live in a state of placebo all alone with the oranges and a mirror without end just me and my BFF, the placebo effect you could fill me up with salt and numberless affections but it won't do me any good but i will still swim in fear of the oranges in the mattress without my placebo effect
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i remember that young green sound and midnights without warning i remember that cream that you stole from my home but if i should have known before i first strummed what the guitar would do to my life i would have set my hands on fire and to the dogs would have gone my ears but it's all right just leave me here lost in the woods where it's never felt so good to be so misunderstood one last time i remember the days we sank and the summers unprotected i remember that soft spoil falling down like rain

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"The Lentils aren't like all the other bands. We always give you everything. We know your heart is on the line and we're gonna do the right thing. Relax, The Lentils are gonna be there for you when you need them."

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released July 15, 2016

Botanical Castings is a swim spot in southern Vermont. The Lentils is mostly Luke Csehak but Nehemiah Saint-Danger plays bass on 1, 3, 8, & 9. Gracie Jackson sings and plays guitar on 3, 6, & 8. Peter Nichols plays drums on 9. Danny Bissette plays some mouth guitar thing on 3. Lettuce appears throughout.

Recorded in Brattleboro VT and Goshen CT 2011-2015.

Released with Danger Collective Records:
www.dangercollectiverecords.com

CHECK OUT THE LENTILS HERE:
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