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THE 92nd LP: 10 TRACKS BY VERNON HOWL


The long-awaited sixth installment (of 71) — remember #5 with fat yoda playing slots? Wow, feels like a 100 years ago. I'll be honest, this one is pretty bad. I'm still getting the hang of the new GarageBand software. Maybe it's not any worse than any other record in the discog. Who am I to say. 0:55 of Track 4 is pretty good - sounds like a videogame.

♫ TRACKLIST – 10 TRACKS (29:36)
1. My Only Enemy is Restless Energy 02:39
2. The Milk of Mancuso 02:24
3. Bodies on the Brink 03:29
4. Summon the Flames 02:27
5. My Salacious Saloon (Donny Trump's Sump Pump) 01:32
6. Conjuring a Furious Jury of Your Peers 02:56
7. The Names That Don't Have a Sound 02:00
8. Hello, I Love Mayonnaise 06:11
9. Meta Antoinette 03:33
10. Mr. Zuckerberg's Personal Plumber 02:25

Music & Words by Vernon Howl ©

01 My Only Enemy is Restless Energy

My only enemy is this crazy restless energy
It's also the only ally that I know
If you take a swipe with balled up fists, just remember when it's time to quit
You can only take to punching up for so long

If you ever saw an osprey fish
You would know that the spirit world exists
The vile geese versus the proud and noble cormorant
The seagulls are the reverie
The lake is the arena obviously
I must defeat this restless energy


02 The Milk of Mancuso

Tuna fish from a gas station
Masochists they have no patience
Except that they have the most patience
I'll be your companion, dig in

To all my salami tomboys
Filing a grievance with the sea
I offer you the milk of mancuso
As severance onto thee


03 Bodies on the Brink

The juvenile delinquents
Are all just jonesing for cronyism
They're all just bodies on the brink
Of interoffice politics

I've never had a bad meal
And every movie is good
I wonder why every bug will die
Before they're understood

I’ve never been born again
I don’t know what that means
I think about my body
Bursting from the seams


04 Summon the Flames

Summon the flames!
Summon the flames!
Who would believe
That out of the darkness
Would come light

I talked about
The massive shits
Of a bald eagle
With a sorta friend
Out on the sand pits
And the sun burned bright
As time stopped again

I thought about
Being there
But not being there
Being where the heart is
Never scared
And it felt good
To exist in that moment


05 My Salacious Saloon (Donny Trump's Sump Pump)

I am a loser and a liar
Yes, that much is true
But I'm a truther not a birther
I was born onto you

I cried one time
Thinking about the moon
And that patronage betrayed my
Salacious saloon

Donny Trump's sump pump
ain't working so hot
But he likes to hear that thing go
Sitting in his basement all alone

If it were up to me
I would let the whole place burn
Water vs. fire, baby
Neither one is home


06 Conjuring a Furious Jury of Your Peers

Conjuring a furious jury made of your peers
To sing you lullabies, to rid you of your fears
Why is my mouth shaped like a fountain?
I ask my reflection in a moment of despondence

The jury unveils a mural of horrors
The native suspicion that not much is borrowed
I realized what flowed from my gullet were words
Before they were simply sounds that you heard


07 The Names That Don't Have a Sound

Fanfare for the electric chair
I got carsick from flying through the air
You couldn't hide from the sea in a tsunami
A reckoning is coming soon

The cul-de-sacs are bigger and rounder
Like Epcot Center flattened by a bomb
When altruism is in full bloom
We will chant the names that don't have a sound


08 Hello, I Love Mayonnaise

It took me five days to finish one podcast
Baby, better call the ten o'clock news
When it's forty degrees, minimal wind
The sun is shining and I feel elusive

A sale on bleach?
Well what did they teach ya?
Ya best bet’s teaching the teacher Nietzsche
You say hello!
I love mayonnaise
As a thousand algorithms raise up the roof


09 Meta Antoinette

Cutting my thumb
On my cracked phone
Can't stop scrolling, can't go home
If there's no purpose in it
I don't know what it is
Feels like a film, forever TV
It'll be worth the wait
If we can stomach the deed

I'm letting blurry movies wash over me
Like salty waterfalls
The secret freaks are studying
The best voiceless gall
Do you own an orange sweater?
Do you drink Sprite in the night?
Do you exorcise tooth decay
By simply mining all of your might?


10 Mr. Zuckerberg's Personal Plumber

Can you spare a penny
for the lethargic gestalt
For Mr. Zuckerberg's Personal Plumber
is an all-time dolt

A drop in the bucket
A scream down the well
Personal freedom for everyone
Is an impossible sell




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