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Thinking Hard To Overcome Nervousness

by Johnny Unicorn

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1.
Break Out! 09:09
There is an evil that's inside of you Only comes out once in a while On a first date or at an interview Wedding reception or a trial Messages sent to your sebaceous glands Increase oil production to your pores When they get clogged, unsightly pimples form Leaving you with a face that isn't yours Everytime you have to show your face in public You break out You search for answers on the internet But nothing you find can help you cope You go to the local dermatologist He tells you that there is still some hope You write a check for half your bank account He writes a prescription for some soap Everytime you want to make a good impression You break out No matter if you clean or scrub or cut your hair You still break out Sometimes you break out Maybe it's a curse Squeazing them only makes it worse If you want someone important to take an interest In what you're all about Well you know that you'll break out
2.
I can't believe it's Christmas again I can't believe it's Christmas What am I going to do? I love you! I'm gonna send you a present in the mail Just as long as I can find that thing on sale
3.
They say it is a jungle But I have seen no green They call it civilization, But I don't know what they mean The buildings, they surround me Just like iron bars I cannot hear the crickets And I cannot see the stars I feel like a machine When I should feel like a man I want to get out of this city Just as fast as I can There's a rainbow that will lead us to the mountain And the rainbow seems to say "hello, there" But as we gaze up at the summit That extends into the clouds We are unaware of the bear I see country open up Before me like a book So I head off for the mountain Just so I can have a look And when I get there I climb up Past the treeline to the snow And I look down at the beauty Spreading out far below And I feel like I am king And I feel like singing songs And I can't believe I've waited For so long There's a rainbow that will lead us to the mountain And the rainbow seems to say "hello, there" But as we gaze out at the country That extends beyond our reach We are unaware of the bear We are unaware of the bear But the bear can smell our scent in the air And although we have been told To beware, to beware We are unaware of the bear My father told me, "one day, son You will become a man; but not before you're eaten up" I guess that's just god's plan Well, I had reached the peak And no higher could I climb There was no greater love That a man like me could find But we were not the only ones To have ever gone this way The bear was closing in now On its unsuspecting prey I screamed out in anguish As the bear bit down on me My eyes ran red with blood Until I could no longer see I could not hear the crickets And I could not see the stars I only felt a longing for the Concrete and the cars But I know I can't go back again To the way I was before, but that's okay Because I know that after death There's so much more There's a rainbow that will lead us to the mountain And the rainbow seems to say "hello, there" But as I gaze into the eyes of forever I will be aware of the bear I will be aware of the bear Oh yes, I will be aware of the bear
4.
It is so hard, it's unimportant: the distance (It is all because of our time together) Will you see me when we return from heaven? (We will see, in time, what our fates will bring) How many missions must I complete before you love me? And how, on Earth, can I compete for your affection? Those strange positions that we explored forever haunt me We found each other. You can't ignore cosmic connection I have seen the Earth and the Moon together I have seen the Earth and the Moon together I have seen the Earth and the Moon together I have seen love
5.
Why is everybody afraid of the orgasm? Everybody has 'em except for a few people Who hide under a pew, under a steeple Why do they think a creep'll do what a deep sleep'll do? Morning dew Morning do be fantastic If that creep's plastic face had more ass-kick He's stiff as a board, bored stiff And often slippin' off in a coffin within a muffin mitten But never admitting anything of substance It's just an inch But he'll take a meter Pumpkin eater Pumpkin eater
6.
How can it be that your mother is older than your father? Well the question they ask is telling about their culture But who am I to judge what they believe about the role of a woman and a man In their family, when I, too, subscribe to the same old plan: That a man can do whatever he can, and a woman's just a mutated man? I cannot see beyond my mechanical inventions And I cannot feel beneath my maniacal intentions But "who am I?" you ask, when you're a mess That's when we take matters into our hands We can make you crack under the stress And then we'll always have a place to stand On your face, you in the palm of our hands Maybe some day you'll understand That you gotta take it like a man But you're never gonna be a man
7.
Bullcrap 04:44
8.
I cross the ocean to the curb And I take the things that I think I deserve I never look backward to the sea Because I am here to get mine for me The white man says "go" The red hand says "stop" My big strong hand reaches deep into the ground Where gold and silver, coal and oil can be found My carbon nanotube neck stretches high into the sky Where spacecraft and weather balloons and jet airliners fly But don't you worry, I've got a place for you to go To the desert, and to the graveyard, to where the rivers never flow The white man says "go" The red hand says "stop"
9.
Clear out the fields of wheat So we can build an empire of milk and meat No room for nature's will We can let them live or we can kill them slowly Beneath the hands of fate, we see the face of horror We can't believe the ways we lied And I've got no pride Take me to somewhere sweet Where daffodils will frown underneath my feet Take me away from this I will stare deep into your eyes or kiss you slowly Beneath the hands of me, we see the face of failure I will remove them from your eyes You whisper in my ear, we see my face grow paler I will remove myself from you And that's what we're gonna do That's what we're gonna do
10.
There's meat on the table That's as much as I needed to know And there's meat on the table That's all that I need before I get up and go Frankles had a beef with the diver Who put his foot down Reef ashore Venezuela Or was it Australia? Oh, what can I tell ya? That beef ended up on the floor There's death in the ocean Like a cookie in the mind of a child There's meat in the ocean That's all that I need before I get up and go again "Get up and go" he said Frankie wrangled him up, by his ankles he dragged him I don't know how He must have weighed 300 pounds But Frankie had a strong diaphrag-m He rode the diver [down] He rode the poor diver just like an old raft And he tied on his saxophones and blew his way across the ocean Using only the following sounds Blow, Frankie, blow A taste of kindness That's all that I need to have meant Meat on the table That's all that I needed before I got up and went Meat on the table Franklin Proud of his victory Settled on distant shores In a sunny foreign land The meat runs deep within his blood The meat runs
11.
The peel of the paint The smell of the vinyl The mold of the floor The pieces of foam The screech of the belt The rattle of plastic The creak of the door I know I am home This is where I sleep (my car) This is where I dream (in my car) Take a look outside (driveway) Won't you take a ride (in my car) The quivering night Receives without protest The rumbling flight Of my Corsican beast I chase down my dreams With passion and fervor But dreams are cut short When it shudders and stalls Why did I ever dream of owning that ridiculous machine?
12.
Don't Wait 17:12
I. We ran away from what we were doing We saw the shimmer of stars through the myst In a haze of hope we set a course for a distant world Across the vast expanses to the unknown "Don't let them see me Don't let them know I am here" "Look, up ahead! There is a gleam" And patterns of lines; they must be like us We brace ourselves as we come in for landing We swing the door open; their world we are shown Here is my home now I can be everything Don't let them see me, if they do I will be filled with fear (fear) II. In the shadow of the future I crumbled to my knees I rose to brush the dust away And saw the motes afloat toward the door From the doorway of a building The sound of stunted songs I chose to throw my cares away mmm mmm mmm mmm mmmmm Sickly specks of prickly light Deflect my second sight So we sauntered to the street Soon I would retreat III. A:Let me go Please let me go To a place that I have known before B:Don't let me go Don't let me go Please don't make me close the door on you A:Let me go Please I must go There's something I must do to make me better B:Don't let me go Don't let me go It's better than we ever could have hoped for B:We don't know We don't know Our brains can even fit inside our heads A:I don't know I don't know My heart is taking blood right from my brain Touch me B:touch me A+B:It might be the last time... A: Don't wait for an answer Don't wait for the answer B:Won't hold my breath in Minnesota A:Wait for the answer Don't wait for an answer B:Hold my breath and drown in soda Please don't make me A:Don't wait for an answer B:I'll wait for the moment A:We'll wait for the moment We'll wait for the... B:We'll wait for the moment To touch California My hope will never (A+B) leave B:Say goodbye Say goodbye Perhaps the future will be not as stupid Say goodbye To Californ Soon I will see the oran-ge of Minnesota Say goodbye Let it end A:This might be the last time IV. This is not my home I'm driven to change I follow the fates where they summon me when will they summon me home? V. (instrumental)

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This double-length album uses a mixture of comedy and jarring juxtapositions of musical styles as a way to reveal, through sound, the frailty of human existence, the folly of infatuation disguised as love, the terrible price of humanity's quest for domination, and the freedom of letting go. Listen to it from start to finish on compact disc for maximum effect.

It is Johnny Unicorn's fifth album.

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released June 21, 2011

Featuring the following guest musicians:
Naomi Adele - vocal on 12, bass synth on 3
Matt Clifford - double bass on 4
Jennifer Collier - vocal on 4
Rogelio G Garcia - drums on 3, 6 and 8
Alex Hamel - drums on 4 and 10
Jhole Jackson - drums on 12
Bea Miller - flute on 12
Davy "Defos" Nefos - drums on 11
Corey Eno Ruffin - tenor sax, baritone sax and contra alto clarinet on 10
Brian Woodbury - spoken word on 7
Phideaux Xavier - vocal on 4
Lauren Zeck - clarinet on 12

And the following audience members:
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Ryan Rufener
Kristen Stewart
Michael Trew

All other instruments by Johnny Unicorn

All songs recorded, mixed and mastered by Johnny Unicorn, except "The Earth, the Moon" and "Meat On the Table" recorded and mixed by Alex Hamel.

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Johnny Unicorn is based in Seattle, and plays progressive rock and quirky pop.

Johnny Unicorn is also the proprietor of the prolific Zorznijor project.

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