Exalted Buildings

from Staring Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun by Paisley Nightmare

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They say the bedbugs are our friends
They say we all can pay our rent
But I got evicted today
and I have no place to stay
People spit in my face
This city's got a new love
and it's called hate

Oh oh exalted buildings
Exalted buildings
Exalted buildings

I thought I found a place to sleep
but they made it a museum
for the treasures they want to keep
They say I can work there if I want
mop the floors and help to haunt
a testimony to another time and place
so many things I wish we could erase
And we're still starving today
you live in a mansion or you've got no place to stay
Sleep on the street and meet the prison gates
This city's got a new love
and it's called hate

Oh oh exalted buildings
Exalted buildings
Exalted buildings

I'm going forward
Never back
The sun is coming up
Gonna break my back
and I am ready to attack
all the things this city tries to hide between the cracks
Then I'm leaving and I'm never coming back

Oh oh exalted buildings
Exalted buildings
Exalted buildings

Brick and mortar facades
Something feels funny
looks a little odd
Clean the chimney, kill the raccoons
Death cries will be silenced at the coming of noon.

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from Staring Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun, released April 7, 2016

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Paisley Nightmare Emeryville, California

One thing band. 2012 - 2017. Weird sounds inspired by the death of the hippie movement and the birth of punk rock. Skewed by disabilities I was dealing with at the time. These are all live single track recordings of the creature playing all of the instruments at once in its cave. Some has been taken down pending review by the artist ... more

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