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A Flat Thing

by The Hathaway Family Plot

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I DON'T BELIEVE IN GRAVITY YOUR INSTITUTIONS LIE TO ME WE'RE CAUGHT IN THE MACHINERY NOW EVERY LIE'S THE SAME TO ME AND EVERY TRUTH IS HERESY AND YOU KNOW THAT THEY SHOT KENNEDY BACKED KILLERS AND INSURGENCIES CLASSIFIED IN SECRECY THE TRUTH IS A FLAT THING THAT STRETCHES UNBENDING THE TRUTH IS A FLAT THING DON'T TELL ME IT'S CURVING I DON'T BELIEVE IN GRAVITY THERE'S NOTHING PULLING YOU TO ME
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Lizard Brain 03:06
It's in the blood. Through thousands of years, you have protected the blood. Royalty breeds with royalty, nobility breeds with nobility, celebrity with celebrity, all to protect the blood. You have kept the impure in subjugation, in bondage. The resources of the earth belong to the few, the evil, the reptilian. And I am not like you, I do not have your blood, but I know that I am capable of evil, too. I do not have the lizard blood, but I have the lizard brain. We all have the lizard brain.
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We don't deserve this world. We are a plague. We are a sickness. We only destroy. There is no good in this world, save for that which survives in spite of us. Nature is resilient. Someday the universe will take us back Someday the sun will explode Someday the black hole will crush us into a singularity Someday, my children The world is too beautiful for us. We don't belong, we are invasive. We don't evolve in harmony. We were left here-- spores on a boot. Someday the spaceship will come Carve Out The Cancer Take us back where we belong, some distant planet of poison and fire of bile and rot Our home. Someday we will go home.
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Keep your eyes on me, you see and watch the bouncing ball. It will kill you all, you see, it will surely kill you all. All the others lie to you, they want what you have earned. They'll storm your castle, finally, your home and family burned. Your neighbor may be one of them, an enemy within. Those unlike you cannot be good, they reek of sloth and sin. Our country will be over soon, I tell you this is true, so rage against the change, all change, any change will do.
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It's a false flag. When nothing means anything, anything can be seen as nothing, and nothing can be seen as something, something nefarious, something evil. And any fool with an algorithm can predict what you will see by what you already believe. This is your truth, this is our inevitability. We watch the end of an empire and you know whose fault it is. Who is really pulling the strings. Who is manipulating. Who is lying. It's a false flag! It's all a false flag! Everything is a false flag! This is your truth.
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A waterfall flows uphill, to cascade down, to flow back uphill, to cascade back down. We can split the molecule and harness the energy to split a new molecule, and we will never want again. We'll burn the hydrogen, we'll breathe the oxygen, our waste will be water, and water shall not be wasted. To bring us together I will split the molecule, and if it will keep us together, I will split the atom. Money is only paper, is only numbers in a database. Energy is freedom Water is life. To bring us together I will split the molecule, and if it will keep us together, I will split the atom.
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They poisoned me!
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I don't believe in gravity. Your institutions lie to me. Open up your eyes and see we're caught in the machinery where every lie's the same to me and every truth is heresy. If you study the topography your mind becomes a casualty, blinded by the fallacies, without belief I still can see the bright intrinsic beauty in your theory of gravity. The truth is a flat thing. Don't tell me it's curving out on the horizon. The truth is a flat thing that stretches unbending in every direction. The truth is a flat thing. I believe that they killed Kennedy, backed killers and insurgencies from Bolivia to Haiti, classified in secrecy. I don't believe what I can't see, and you tell me about gravity. No, I don't believe in gravity, it's not in my philosophy. Your institutions lie to me. We're caught in the machinery. When every lie's the same to me my every truth is heresy.

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A collection of songs about conspiracy theories, and a country that fertilizes its soil for them to grow in glorious bounty.

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released January 13, 2019

All pianos, drums, keyboards, vocals, electronics, kazoos, melodicas, toy pianos, snake charmers, Thunder Tubes, guitars, etc. performed by Kevin

All songs written by The Hathaway Family Plot

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The Hathaway Family Plot Buffalo, New York

A pianist / hermit living in Buffalo, NY with a penchant for noise and weirdness. This is his attempt to put something into the world that doesn't sound like anything else. For better or worse. It's all CC BY-NC-SA, so use away for your non-commercial projects, though the musician appreciates when you let him know. ... more

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