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Kings Gonna Crawl
02:27
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They lay another brick, they build another neighborhood
And I wanna yell out that they’re overdoing this but the trees are all gone
And my breath’s all out
Baby I think it’s time we find that shelter on the outside of town
I’m scared to be under the weight when it all comes crashing down
Yeah, they built it up so tall that when it falls Kings Gonna Crawl
Kings Gonna Crawl
Yeah, maybe the end is in sight or maybe I’m just paranoid
Either way it’s gotta change their steel beams turned to razorblades
So I’m rollin and I’m strollin down Sunset boulevard again
And I look up at your billboards
All covering the hills
And the smog and greed it starts to rape my lungs
And I try to get away but I got nowhere to run, nowhere to run
Yeah, they built it up so tall
Lyrics, Guitars, Keys & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
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Code
03:53
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Turned on the news and it got me down again
Like an overdose on Lithium
There’s mist of blood in the air and hate on the streets
And there’s a man, pointing his finger at the statue of Liberty
And he tells me it’s all meant to be, like Manifest Destiny
But you stole that shit you know you did
Under a thin veil of propaganda’s charm
Go buy a gun just don’t shoot anyone
And love who you love, you know no one else can judge
I won’t change you if you won’t change me
And I’ll respect you, if you respect me
Worship god, or Krishna, or Satan, or nothing at all
Just don’t shove it down my throat when I don’t wanna eat
I’ll respect you if you’ll respect me
And that’s how we’ll make the world go ‘round
And the left wing cries and cries and cries
While the right wing lies and lies and lies
And we all get text invited to the same party
And we sympathize but scrutinize
And stare into our enemies eyes
With the same lack of care
That creates piercing cavalry swords
And the bad make lives
Off of everyone’s
Empty encounters
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Drums, Keys, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
Banjo: Andres Valenzuela
Horns: Tom Miskell
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3. |
Shell Shock
02:39
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Cold persimmon pond
Sprawling out below my feet
My mouth too full to talk
Did I say something wrong?
To get me wrong with god
Man, myth, maker of May
I storm into the city, my boot heels dragging in clay
Make your little men out of it
Make them strong and perfect gentlemen
But give them temper when they walk
So they can shove their foes against the wall
Stand tall above the rest
No one has to see the flaws behind the rage
Soak your brain in Shakespeare’s plays
So you can say you know a funny thing
I tried to save Ellaye from the fire brewing over their heads
But the news man made a puff piece out of it
So tell me something’s wrong
I can’t be the only one
I came out from the wildernesss
Got Shell Shocked by the animal culture
Another pawn protects the king
They both move so slowly
And they are waiting to be saved by the queen
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar, Drums: Victor Duran
Keys, Lead Guitars, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
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Peace of Mind
02:38
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My mind is a silly space where Sunflowers bloom into Fleur-de-lis
Each bush is a lion’s mane and the pools are filled with swimming rattlesnakes
Summer days are such a waste we go round and round the round about again
Laying on something fake
And your false eyelashes are digging in
It seems we found the hope to throw away the key
You wrote that you were mine but you forgot the apostrophe
We’re trapped inside the room and there’s no place I’d rather be
There’s something in my mind you brighten so it shines
Like warm perfume
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Drums, Lead guitars, Keys, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
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5. |
haze (frank28:06:42:12)
01:24
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OOOHH Ah AHHHHOOOOO
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I woke up bought a corporate coffee cup
I felt guilty as I looked at the design
Of greed and vanity, all the things that I despise
You can’t despise if you want a Nobel prize
You gotta see both aching sides
Before you decide which self-righteous ride you’ll be on for the rest of your life
I turned on the news and it got me down again
I just turn it off and walk outside
Analyze the sky, find a better state of mind
Read from a bullet point website
Don’t want your bullshit blaming the president
Or screaming how the world is gonna end
Because of course it’s gonna end but what’s the difference
Between tomorrow and a hundred years from now?
You best decide what you think you’re doing with your life
Because nothing is ever gonna change
With you preaching homicide
Every day and every night on every channel with a careful pallete
To paint the picture just as you want it to look
Your agenda’s more important than your family
But can’t you see what’s wrong with that, O say,
O say can you see?
Attend each party in your finest suit and start to analyze the room
As soon as you arrive so you know which side you’re gonna like
You take a shot of cocaine and your brain just goes ablaze
And you’re a great mustang with big ideas
To run this world into the ground
I had a dream last night
It was the 4th of July
And I got text invited to three different parties
One offered friends, one offered sex, and at the third one
We would all commit suicide
At the end of the night
And I still don’t know which way to go.
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Lead Guitar, Keys, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
Drums: Chase Nissen
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7. |
Nobel Prize pt. II
05:27
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Well I know the sun is sinking, cause the man on CNN he told me so
And I know that I should stay here, but there’s a million routes that I would like to travel
Impeach a poet, kill a servant, take a lover, tell the communist to die
And in light of your commands I’ll take a minute and think of all the times I tried
I’m not a ‘commie’ or a socialist but I know that you would love to label me as so
It’s a hard, mad world and you have to throw your enemies into the pot
Where you boil lobster
But when you lose to bloody Lucifer
Who is going to lose their furry coat?
No it’s not you but a stranger
You would starve the world to feed your sorry self
You bastard
There are roads across the nation
And there are cities spawning from them
There are guns within the cities
And there are bullets in the cemeteries
Oh, there I go down that road again
Thinking all this negative bullshit
Costs $10 for a bottle of wine $3 more for coffee in the morning
But I’m sure the horseman landed on both feet
Hey I was only joking, hey I was out there smoking
When I fell under the weight of my own terrible remorse
For choking you the other day
I didn’t do it, but I thought about it
Long and hard, and that’s enough
Hey I was trying to find a fragile place within your mind that showed me all the things you like
So I could shower you with them
Do you want a severed rhino horn?
You can say it’s from a Unicorn
And sleep with it at your bed side
And every last thing you find is the last thing you need
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Lead Guitar, Keys, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
Drums: Chase Nissen
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ooooh ahhhooooooo hoooaaaaaaa
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9. |
Cement & Stone
04:10
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Oh I'm not so sure you should believe
In all the cash that you've received
It's paper thin and blows away in the wind
Just so you know
Oh and gold is like a cigarette
It calls you when you walk away
And always leads good men astray
From the path they hope to hold
As the world turns cold
And there's a time bomb hidden under the bank
But you can't walk away
'Cause you can't take your safe
And it's OK to wake up in a world blown
If you're covered in salt
And you tell me that I'm not supposed to feel
The way I feel, it's not masculine
But are your green slips really all that strong?
Oh another thing that's on my mind
Is how you claim yourself divine
Yet scoff at the ones who love the way they love
And you judge each man by the color of his skin
Man I don't get it.
Oh if Karma isn't consequence
Then the path you lead us on sure is
It's a world of hate and war and Calvary swords
Just so you know.
Oh Cement and Stone
Lay the nation
Over broken bones of the natives to this land
And call it good
When you give them some money and some barren land
And you tell your children it's the way it had to go
For the greater good
Oh Cement and Stone
Cement and stone
Cement and Stone
Why's the world so cold?
Cement and stone (whoah oh oh oh)
Cement and stone (whoah oh oh oh)
Cement and stone Oh no you make the world so cold
So shoot me with your favorite gun
I will not be your prodigal son
Oh shoot me with your famous gun
Oh shoot me with your famous gun
I do not want to hurt anyone
So shoot me with your favorite gun
Oh Cement and Stone
Lay the nation over broken bones
Of the natives to this land
And call it good
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Keys, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
Drums: Chase Nissen
Banjo: Andres Valenzuela
Horns: Tom Miskell
Additional Keys: Chris Barrett
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Broken down, hastily put back together
With glue and rubber ties and pills to take
Walk the world, become a modern stranger
Despised by every acquaintance that you make
An animal born, already bored
We took to fire and stakes
To place ourselves above the ones
That we decide to hate
Laugh and drink and be merry and
Burn the witch, the gay
Stone eyed, steel faced
Try to keep your sympathies at bay
Well can I walk away?
And all you deemed so awful
Was it ever wrong?
Was it ever wrong?
And all you deemed so evil
Did you ever examine, imagine
The cause behind it all?
An animal born already torn we took ourselves away
From all the things we deem unsafe just watch as it floats on by
Never try to see the other side, it’s not your fight
All we need is here within the light
All you need is here within my eyes
As for me I will kiss my brother
And pretend the world is a giant hole
Where we are thrown here black and white together
To find the interlockings of our souls
Follow me, I will give you shelter
Follow me, I’ll show you the place
Where hieroglyphs are tattooed on each body’s skull
To tell their story, tell it whole
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Keys, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
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I’ve been told not to trust in other people
But I still try, I still try
I’ve been told that there are too many heartaches
To fix them all, but why can’t I
Just play a little music, and help out who I might
God knows I’m two-toned tongue tied tragic
I don’t know why, I don’t know why
Venus roaming realistic romantic
It kills it all, kills it all
If everyone could see what they want to be we would all live in forbidden fairy forests
If everyone were alone how would we know where to go when the mushroom cloud rings out over our heads
And our lungs are stripped by toxins but we never smoked a single cigarette
Washed up, worn out, weeping Warlord Wheaton
Was such a sight, when he blew bright
General Jenkins over bloody sneakers
Curses death, curses life
Always remember the names that disappear and check behind the billboards
The ’85 All-American homeless man will eat you in the end
He will have his fill in the end
Come on my lover, take on another, run this world into the ground.
Lyrics, Rhythm Guitar & Vocals: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Bass Guitar: Victor Duran
Keys, Guitars, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
Drums: Chase Nissen
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12. |
We’re Funny Animals
04:49
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Keep dancing in the storm
Don’t look at the cities, at the cities
Crashing down all around
We didn’t know anything
We were hopped up on morphine and watching our sweet flat screens
Worshipping the celebrities
We didn’t know
Another noose to know
Dangling in the shadow
Just knowing what it’s worth
So I’m down at the crossroads and I’m trying to sell my soul
But I’m not sure what it’s worth
And I’m not sure what I want
Now tell me does the devil give appraisals?
Kill me Mary-mae I hope you feel the same
Two steps to your room I put cyanide in your perfume
It’ll kill you too
I hope you don’t mind
I hope you don’t mind
Lyrics, Guitar, Vocals, & Keys: Kevin Matthew Hunt
Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Jordan Velez
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Them Poehler Bears Riverside, California
Formed in Riverside, CA around the songwriting of Kevin Matthew Hunt, Them Poehler Bears have been building and tightening a resume of songs that range from somber folk to energetic indie rock in their rehearsal studio and around the Inland Empire.
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