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All aboard this plastic jet stream, salivating cyclone wet dream
Rubber burning forms a beacon, the balance beams have all been weakened
Phone calls from the kitchen psychic, forty days and nights deposit
Temperament has turned to panic, hungry mouths but zero Xanex

I’m living in formaldehyde
Wanting it to end but I won’t die
Maybe bending a happy ending but the numbing won’t subside
I’m living in formaldehyde

Mary led her lamb to slaughter, a midnight merchandising mother
Laughing at her Eloi lottery; tomato, vodka, and a stalk of celery:
A cornucopia of caution, someone caught the cashier coughing
Sucker-punched subdued civilians, overdue, the banker’s billions

I’m living in formaldehyde
Wanting it to end but I won’t die
Maybe bending a happy ending but the numbing won’t subside
I’m living in formaldehyde

The lion to the matador said “How do you do?
Don’t bother dancing because it ain’t no use.
The rook is a crook and the bishop’s a fool;
It’s hard to look to God with your head in a noose.”
The Manchester management is missing their cues
From the polio toys in their escrow schools
The guided mistletoe is hanging over the pews
So Jesus saves! (but only if you’re buying their fuel)

I’m living in formaldehyde
Wanting it to end but I won’t die
Maybe bending a happy ending but the numbing won’t subside
I’m living in formaldehyde

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from Translucent Dreams in the Orange Crematorium, released August 3, 2015
Jesse Miller – lead vocals, guitars, bass, drums, chord and Silvertone organs,
glockenspiel, toy piano, melodica, Hawaiian tremoloa
David Schmitz – guitar
Jeannette Kjos – clarinet, saxophone

The Maybe-Bending Happy Ending Choir – Mason Butler, Gretchen Doebler, Elizabeth Gross, Jeannette Kjos, David Schmitz & Emily Tenczar

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The Curiously Strong Peppermints are an unexplained purple cumulonimbus cloud formation hovering above Western Abu Dhabi that has been emitting unusual sonic frequencies since 2004. If you stare at it long enough you can see a Jesse, a Ben, a Sean, and sometimes a David and Jeannette. Four pieces fell to earth, available here. ... more

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