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The Bottom of the Barrel

by Fishslaughter

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1.
Return, Human! 02:27
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Hold your ear to a conch and you hear “return, human” Hold your head underwater and you hear “return, human” lost at sea, plug your ears and you still hear “return human” return, human! and the ocean calls to the deep sea animals and the ocean calls to the two feet animals and its calling you back to the ocean to the shoreline to cut some gills in your neck and dive you cut some gills in your neck, you probably won’t survive. Call it "devolution", or "restoring yourself back to the life-giving brine"
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Panko Skin 02:52
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Panko, Panko Panko on a cod and another crop cut a scale and replace not a second thought cut a scale with some blubber from a whale and replace it with some bread stale, have a bake sale Cut off its fish skin and replace it with some seaweed with some butter and some with some take him from the ocean, and replace him with some garbage with some and some acid and some When will you be happy? when you've eaten up the ocean? and swallowed up the shore? Panko Panko on a cod and another crop cut a scale and replace not a second thought cut a scale with some blubber from a whale and replace it with some bread stale, have a bake sale a fish fry flash fry these fish guys a fish fry flash fry these fish guys a fish fry flash fry these fish guys Replace the captain with a deep see animal (panko, panko, panko) replace the mast and sail with their skin teeth and nails (panko, panko, panko)
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The Seventh Course 03:01
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One man’s dinner is another’s son or daughter one with the tome you might find underwater please pray harder, step further in the bowels in the bellies of these monsters And their bodies flop and flounder And their blood boils like clam chowder and it’s like this every hour, every minute that you wait a bit, you let it sit then flip it you do the dishes you wash the blood and call it juices off of your hands off of the plate if you should die before you wake i pray the lord your soul to take up to the sky or down below and have a bake a seven course for every sin you’ve taken out or had upon your dinner plate and defecate you reprobate Water Satan
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Bonnethead 03:18
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My son: he’s the same as me from his spade head to his under teeth My son: he’s the same as me from his spade head to his hate for thee and he’ll rise up to the shoreline to your beachfront and he’ll scan through sand find where you’re hiding soon he’ll have you in his hindgut he’ll degrade you with CCD enzymes Bonnethead: he’ll have you dead enjoy your flesh with side salad Bonnethead; he wants you dead he’ll soon be fed by you on bread Bonnethead: he’ll crush your bones he’ll eat your toes after a scone Bonnethead: he likes his meat with leafy greens an omnivore Bonnethead: he’ll eat your teeth he chomps through dirt to find his feasts Bonnethead He'll soon be fed Bonnethead He wants you dead He’s so driven! He wants your flesh So he’s out here swimmin' No time for rest or he’d soon be sinkin' he wants you dead So he’s out here swimmin' No time for rest He’s so driven! He wants your flesh So he’s out here swimmin' No time for rest or he’d soon be sinkin'
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Opposite Currents 04:19
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Ocean: How it churns protecting its children how it burns and turns as a vortex How it eats your fleets like the kraken how the maelstrom forms and it grabs them when they're in the water will it drown them or will the fish feast first in the Maelstrom Rah! And the kraken he pulls you down and the crocodile takes your crown and the ocean rocks your head pound and the fire goes out Opposite currents they spin right round the pull of the moon and it drags you down
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Terrarium Unreal 03:32
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Able to shake So reach in have a feel What do you have Is it a ray or an eel After each show it's a date with a meal What do you see? is it a friend or a eel? After awhile, how much i won't reveal you'll feel a flipper oh no this can't be real Why don't I can't feel? It's too much it's unreal Bleh The world trade it's fish tanks For one massive people cage Welcome to the fish age No aquariums, bleh Just terrariums, yay Fun terrariums yay Fish will never treat the people like the people treat the fish or will they? Fish will never eat the people like the people eat the fish or will they? Fish will never keep the like the people keep the fish or will they?
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The Fishslaughter Continues... 03:28
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In the ocean, rolling not swimming, floating over, under the water flowing open some wounds like they're gills then I let the water in and it fills... And i alone survived that night The boats searching they found me alone alive With my belly and my eyes up towards the sky And i feel like i remember every night When the Fishslaughter arrived It came, it went, in moved in with tides And then it left It pulled the cities down into the deep Oh it pulled the people down except for me

about

These songs have been weighing heavily upon my hard drive for many months and years. I had it in my head for awhile to build Fishslaughter 3 around these songs, but many of these were written so long ago that it doesn't really make sense to pair them with some new ones and call it an album. The Fishslaughter continues, of course, and Fishslaughter 3 will materialize one day, but not quite yet. Another Grandfather album will be next and it will be heavy on bluegrass. But, for now, here is this collection of songs that were recorded over the years and never made it onto FS1, 2, or 3. Enjoy!

As usual, the proceeds for this album go to oceanconservancy.org. From their website: "What happens to the ocean impacts all of us. The ocean is our responsibility, but we can’t do it alone—we need to join forces with you and people around the world to keep our ocean and our coastal communities healthy and prosperous."

Fishslaughter recommends Ecosia for all your web browsing needs: www.ecosia.org

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released September 16, 2021

Glub - Bass, Vocals
POOT_X - Drums

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