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That Old Kentucky Blackgrass

by The Minni-Thins

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the old home town still looks the same as I step down from the train there to meet me is my Momma and my Poppa and down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary hair of black and lips like cherries it's the black, black grass of home yes, they'll all come out and meet me arms outracing, smiling sweetly oh, it's so good to touch the black, black grass of home the old house is still standing the paint is cracked and dry there's that old oak tree that I used to lay on down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary hair of black and lips like cherries it's the black, black grass at home yes, they'll all come out and meet me arms outreaching, smiling sweetly oh, it's so good to touch the black, black grass of home then I wake I look around me at those four black walls that surround me and I realize, "Hell, I was only dreaming" for there's that guard there's that sad old padre and arm and arm we'll walk at day break then again, that black, black grass of home yes, they'll all come out and see me when they put me 'neath that oak tree oh, it's so good to touch that black, black grass at home oh, it's so good to touch that black, black grass at home
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sweet is the day when you pass it away with your hips and your thighs and your feet and your legs she surely can't dance but she surely can sway what it's really about's the lips on her face it's a sin, girl it's a sin, girl when you sway, oh it's a sin I do not know where she learned it all from her Daddy's side or maybe her Mom sweet Jesus knows what I'm talking about it's the Devil's work when she comes around it's a sin, girl it's a sin, girl when you sway, oh it's a sin when you sway I heard the truth in an old country song the preacher's not right if his wife is all wrong the Devil can't dance but she surely can shake the Devil can't dance but she surely can sway
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Apparent 02:04
the ashtray stain gives a human face to your Mother's place where we held a race for your Father's pride and his country bride while your Mother lied, "I'm doing fine" Hey, ain't that apparent? Hey, ain't that apparent? Hey, ain't that apparent? Ranz hoarding thoughts like unsorted mail stacked on the floor next to materials I just took three and asked for more I don't know why I took those for Hey, ain't that apparent? Hey, ain't that apparent? Hey, ain't that apparent?
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Germs 02:01
Damon! I'm afraid of bacteria, germs, and burrowing worms from your expectorant hack all you do is cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cover cover cover cuh-cover cover your mouth cover cover cuh-cover cover your mouth cover cove cuh-cover cover your mouth don't talk at all cover cover cover cuh-cover cover your mouth cover cover cuh-cover cover your mouth cover cove cuh-cover cover your mouth don't talk at all cover cover cover cuh-cover cover your mouth cover cover cuh-cover cover your mouth cover cover cuh cover cover your mouth there's a sentient infection in my knee
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all I wanna do is feel bad for myself yeah, all I wanna do is feel bad I don't ever wanna do no good for myself that's too bad, that's too bad, that's too bad oh, but it don't do no good to get mad now the only time I got is now tequila always makes me lose a bit of myself but I'm stoned, and I'm out of my head the morning call will let me know the things that I've done I pissed on some band's gear in the hall oh, but it don't do no good to get sick now the only time I got is now all I wanna do is feel bad for myself yeah, all I wanna do is feel bad I don't ever wanna do no good for myself that's too bad, that's too bad, that's too bad oh, but it don't do no good to get sad now the only time I got is now
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Becky, don't you know that's not the way that it's done? Russell's chasing after Moses with an old shotgun and Becky can't you choose the one you love? Terry's not an honest man he's stealing from the trucks at work and Becky, please go home you been sleeping on the couch for days drinking all the beer and saying you ain't got no reason you ain't got no reason you ain't got no reason to go home Sister Liz is out there telling tales she's at Grandma's and she's got her on the telephone, calling Russell, saying "Russell, go and get your gun you won't believe what our sweet little Becky has gone and done" oh, Becky, please go home you been sleeping on the couch for days drinking all the beer and saying Rusty's kicked Dilaudids he's calling on the phone and saying, "Man, I need my Becky man, I need my Becky man, I need my sweet Becky at home"
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she said, "It's almost my birthday, so we should have some drinks" so we settled down at my favorite bar and we hit it off, I think we moved on down the road so that we could get some food she showed me her tattoos we drank a lot of booze we drove past the police station to her place there was a headlight out we were drunk we watched a movie with my head in her lap I said I wouldn't hit her, so she headed to he back and I said, "Do you always sleep with your ashtray?" and she said, "No, that's just there to keep you at bay" she said "I gotta tell you something cause your my only friend I prefer girls cause they can't knock me up you see, last month I got drunk and miscarried" and I said, "Huh" she said "I'm sick of all the drink and I'm sick of all the drugs I'm sick of being sick, I'm so sick of being sick" so, I said "You sound like my kind of girl"
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Julia, on her prayer stand and she's feeling disdain and the troll where the doll was is what the doll became to understand a man has got to have a place for plants and they water him and then he grows his own legs she keeps asking where the door goes well, dear, it opens a wall go and open it right now reveal the great hall let loose the hose that knows where all the words they go the point of this speech the sequence of events is not coincidence the sequence of events is not coincidence the sequence of events is not coincidence the sequence of events is not coincidence
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The Itch 04:05
under the left side of the right leg, my knee that's where they be that's where they be that's where they peed that's where they breed that's where it's green I itch I itch I itch and it stinks now they got little homes made from scar tissue and bone government hideaway fat cells that's where it gels when I itch I itch I itch and it's green now they got little kids' school of thought on things they bought religion eases them my fingers where I heard their prayers I itch I itch I itch and it stinks
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take my insides out and wrap them all about my house then you turn the lights on to watch them blink bright burn out rip your arms around me like I'm not in this sphere of the the south upon it everyone goes dancing in their head wrap up all your strings until you form the membrane then you stretch it all about me and you make a big bang all the invent bodies in your infinite space are south upon it everyone goes dancing in their head rub your self against me then you do a twist thing then you take out all your insides and you make a coal vein all the little bodies in your infinite space are gone south upon it everyone goes dancing and they're dead
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the zombie apocalypso is the song of the prudish melody we're calling "God" and all his daughters are conjuring up six Pagan dogs with their priestesses with fiery red flesh headdresses on her and all the muddy rivers of this vital Earth are over teeming with six corpses giving birth to awful armies rape the world and giving head to the master all the dead look simply understated in his arms and I was certain to be be the wonder certain certain certain certain certain to be the wonder certain certain certain certain certani to be the one certainly the wandering eye o' six six six keep me abreast keep me abreast keep me abreast keep me abreast of the zombie apocalypso is the song of the prudish melody we're singing, God
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released November 24, 2016

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The Minni-Thins Newport, Kentucky

Hailing from the original Sin City (Newport, KY), the Minni-Thins were a notoriously loud indie rock band with an old school punk rock approach to making music. Their award winning first album, "In Black Cause I Asked" was an ode to drunken fun and self loathing. Their sophomore effort, "That Old Kentucky Blackgrass" took this theme, filtered it through a psychedelic horror film, and got perverse. ... more

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