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Album // 2026-07-31

Cut On An Earthen Vessel

The 2026 freebatteries album.

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Smoke and Flame

He said I've got this hand grenade I'm sick and tired of the way everything stays the same I'm gonna pull the pin take my chances with the pain Escape from this grave Escape from this grave

When the dust cleared Nothing had changed Nothing had changed

America like them dwarves from tales of old In their greed they dug too deep n dug up A creature wreathed in smoke n flame rising on a super heated gust A future shrived in lust choking on fiery words and lack of action Lava hot flows spitting magma straight from volcanoes Bodies turn up like Jane Doe Covered in hot ash like Pompeii tho After a thousand years pass they gone dig us up like what happened

Magnanimous and grateful a humble servant to he who is most high and his faithful Cept that ain't count most of yall I seen what y'all counting and how you're figuring The lie on the lips of every parishioner In service of they own ambitions Got y'all out here sinning with a signature grin On that high horse y'all might catch the lightning Coursing down from on high sky to ground a judgement cast A plague of locusts and a soft discordant keening Left the question writ in smoke so you can catch the meaning

Is you stewarding the earth Is you counting money in the temple Maybe just look the other way a minute Oh is you benefitting Oh is you benefitting You remember what he said up on that mount in the beginning You remember what he said up on that mount in the beginning

You got children here You got children listening in They hear the sound of that Ferrari pulling out the church parking lot You got children tuning in n paying attention Making long term decisions Bout the direction of they life n where you fit in Is this what you want em witnessing They walking away shaking their heads You preaching a life you ain't living You're pushing a lie your head spinning Lost in the rapturous applause from them bots on the internet you stay winning got all the right opinions

Who you saving where you spending are you even tipping after church on Sunday or are you just playing victim

Well Lord I love the sinners And I love the saints Hope I see you all When I wake up in the fire

Faxes

She's an 80s baby She still sending faxes She's so Hollywood So Hollywood She got a fan page

She a writer she wanna get written about He musta done something to get himself written out Caught her coming out the salon With a brand new bob in that platinum blonde Black tank top with that pushup bra The way she look I know he barely holding on She wanna play games well put me on the chessboard I'll be her pawn Hit him with that en passant Hit her with that Southern drawl I know she'll like that The way I cook I know she'll bite that Look at me look away and then look right back That's a double take She wanna know how often I play the bass I wanna know what it look like at her place R I P to whatever y'all had going on

Black tank top Push up bra Southern drawl Platinum blonde

Black tank top Push up bra Southern drawl Platinum blonde

Then we'll hit the street at twilight Like Nietzsche with the maxims and hammer If I see she thick on the cover of maxim I'm gone have to drop the hammer She gone feel that tomorrow have to put her sheets in the hamper Breakfast simmer in a pot on the stove Hot coals and embers that a plate to remember Whisper in her ear I ain't telling y'all what You gone have to put some onions in butter make sure that oil get hot enough If you want them potatoes come out proper She look so good I'm gone tuck in I'm stuck in Pluck an angel from heaven or maybe a flame from the desert You see them embers dance in her eyes when you stoke them fires Got her giggling and sinnin well sinnin if you believe them preachers hollering bout villains Y'all think that garden wasn't full of snakes n vines Sweet nectar drip down that tree bark Flowers in full bloom luminescent in that moonlight Water trickle through slick rock on the creekside Y'all get my drift you feel that warm sand under your toes laughter on the wind Or do they got ya locked in Or are you that caged bird learn to sing from the television Did you even know they could steal your senses Did you even know they could steal your senses Every trumpet in heaven play a prelude to a dirge Cause they can't help but weep at the scale of it all Soot stained dog woods choked out by that highway expansion Three mile high plume black as judgement day from that chemical plant fire in the neighborhood Third one this decade Creek full of Styrofoam and bull shit plastic bottle Honey suckle languish on the roadside Sap gone sour from gasoline Wildflowers dream of blue skies they can't remember Butterfly can't cause hurricane if she ain't dance in the sky Is it worth it in yo eyes Butterfly can't cause hurricane if she ain't dance in the sky Is it worth it in yo eyes

Mission Street // We Built Skynet to Do That

What if there ain't a revolution coming What if the first time someone gets burned alive by a robot dog the rest of us jump back like a kid just touch that hot stove Call that a lesson learned, 21st century knowledge earned plywood penitentiaries are just too apt to burn Pain is a reminder to mind your surroundings Back to the wall we might not be making it out Them bricks pretty solid I don't think they gone end up breaking it down Left to our own devices like a baby with candy for the taking Lotta feral eyes got that lil cherub in they sights unmistaken Sweet tooth and a crooked predatory smile young parents left with an empty cradle not even a changeling replacement to console them That's All that they need to control them a promise they might not be the next up on that chopping block Read about the disaster the next day from the comfort of a single family home with nice neighbors At times like these you feel it right in your bones that prosperity gospel at times like these you feel it right in your bones Ain't it horrible to hear bout how all them people lost they homes Say an extra prayer tonight before you sit down at the table Make sure god know you extra grateful Make sure to visit them plagues somewhere far away though so you can keep reading about them in the paper Spend the next 3 days binging any and all updates cause each time you get a lil dopamine hit remembering it ain't you this time Wake up tomorrow another day, rise n shine

Barbed wire and concrete edifices Whole area patrolled by drone Pack of wild dogs running down a lone figure out in the cold Soft moonlight glints off them chrome edges Hard lines in the night that betray the intentions Of a citizenry at the precipice ready to preserve at all cost A lifestyle they only ever really saw on the silver screen Plate got a sliver of a slice like tiny tim at that Christmas table Cheering on their betters from the sidelines Lord knows that steak must be succulent Lord knows they drinking to get drunk in it Lord knows I aint never had no ill intent Just believed in freedom and the constitution Lord knows I ain't need no absolution I'm just hoping you'll understand it from my point of view How things ended up this way That camp with a million souls living in squalor didn't start that way That militarized border outside San Francisco developed over decades as them disasters beat at the heart of the continent Heat waves n flash floods drove more n more to her outskirts Till she was overburdened with the poor Then the people cried out with malicious intonation So the fences started going up n checkpoints to show your papers Make sure everyone was where they ought be And everything was arranged in favor of the aristocracy Them water wars in the 2040s really accelerated the change That conflict came home before those troops ever left the station Citizens saw all kinds of demonstrations wound up with a thousand frustrations Took it out on a dozen demographics each one gone never seem to bring about that promised salvation

People got tired of looking over they shoulder Hoping to make it home safe Started believing lethal force was necessary Started thinking dispensing justice ought to be automated Skynet didn't come about after no machine realization we built it this way from the beginning We thought this was gonna save things Or at least enough of us with power and station Every machine is built to produce what it's gone be making

They still find God in that ole church on mission Street The lucky ones living within the border of the city proper The rest of us know when them robot dogs caught you god gonna watch silently while the incident is recorded and uploaded to a publicly available database where the only ones watching is sickos getting they rocks off on that free entertainment

Fuck the prosperity gospel n all y'all fake ass fascists

I been to yo house I seen that golden calf and them graven idols

It's forever camel through the eye though I remember the scripture I got the sword in the temple point first at them money lenders

It's forever camel through the eye though I remember the scripture I got the sword in the temple point first at them money lenders

Stochastic Descent

Making bread from them circuses I know you can't Dopamine dreaming y'all gone drown in that paint She might die off them Percocets Meet a saint

Rolled back in time I ain't holding the line They been pickling in the brine Opinions straight outta 2025 Brain rotted by a constant stream of Data with suspect Providence A B tested to drive the desired results Why you think they got you convinced Of your innermost desires did they read your mind In your habits and predilections Choking down that smoke like Alive with satisfaction Careless Constructions of a piece meal fiction It's pleasure in the Newport original Even that pack of smokes a recombinant derivative Tailored to draw your attention to the Highest bidder a real time market to change your influences Precipitate from that solution an advantage They were willing to pay for Change yo whole mind Change yo atmosphere Got you showing up thinking it was your idea

Thought yo dreams grew on the vine Turns out you were hooked up like neo in that vat Just another battery for the machine that whole tine

Making bread from them circuses I know you can't Dopamine dreaming y'all gone drown in that paint She might die off them Percocets Meet a saint She gone die off them Percocets Meet a saint

Caught up in that pecuniary interest Cause you from a peculiar age Got a strategy hope you gone get you paid High life and champagne You gone live that sweet life man glass bottles and silicon cans

Got yo mind focused on which direction that arrow go between them perpendicular lines Y'all worried bout some bull shit Got me so I can hardly bare it They got a golden calf on the street in the holy city I know what that mean Across history you might find some parallel times I know that camel ain't gonna make the squeeze through that needles eye Take another drag off them camel silvers back in time Exhale n watch it float up to that landfill Rip to Jeff I appreciated those sweet sketches for your Valentine Sometimes God wanna bring His song bird back inside Gilded cages nestled in that tesseract time Yo perspective shift when you run out of time

Just another canary in the coal mine I'm gone sing until that last gasp of bad air Another of God's creatures caught up in the service Another hundred thousand accumulate to the winged serpent Cast out adrift on a tempestuous surface Caught up in them landslides flash floods n wild fires And Still expected to show up to that 9 to 5 n deliver those goods and or services

Y'all following at the farmers heal like chickens on the way to the slaughterhouse thinking maybe you crow the loudest you get spared that predestination The Pied Piper dearly paid still gone carry them kids away Would you know Him by another name? Stochastic descent wiped away the tears and the rain Rendered it all down to a fine yellow tallow Not the first time God went up in smoke from the lamps in a thousand houses They ain't got a care in the world and an endless stream of pixels got em satiated Left the lights on and the kids in they flophouses

Head out to pick up a pack of smokes and wander the earth like cain did

Wouldn't you exchange a silver steel cage for a cold day on the gallows your breath hanging in the air your thoughts soon to follow

Roman Holiday

She got her toes out like Ms. Hepburn at the start of Roman Holiday I love it I love it

Snuck out the palace so salacious Got her down here on the pavement She so voluptuous I wanna taste it She want it now she impatient Calling my phone from her day shift Fill her up with the latest Got her on her side in some laces Knock her down in the basement Knock her up cause she like in naked N I aint about to argue with no lady

Got a hundred thick women in they thirties on this dance floor Call that 3000 years of longing shoutout george miller I wanna see her on the silver screen I wanna see her on the

We got a hundred reasons why in just the front row But call me loyal cause im loyal i aint fuck around You look good ma'am hope you got someone gonna pipe you down

She got her tits out at this wedding I love it I love it I love it Furiosa Furiosa Furiosa Run me over with your v8 interceptor

You might have to burn it down like Max did Flipped over on the side of the road thats wreckage Blessed are we to look upon her hallowed presence Formaldehyde veins brought back to life like a Golden regaled king long dead in his sepulcher Jolted back out that forever slumber cause the click of her heel on that marble floor Got my reptilian brain dreaming electric dreams Woke me up from a dead sleep now you gone have to Knock ya out the park like hank aaron Put my name on a plaque in the parking lot This a record i aint sharing

I aint a follower but i'd follow her wherever she heading Run down the whole earth cause of what she wearing Unrepentant when she catch me staring Look me in the eye see herself on her back in her reflection Now i got her talking to me about how we got a special connection Now i got her walking with me down the aisle on her way to the reception Three days later roll that stone to the side we outta there like the resurrection Three days later roll that stone to the side we outta there like the resurrection

Paper Butterflies // pick ur switches

Olu ask where would I be if I was not here Well I was fool enough to try find the answer Hit escape velocity like a rocket 1200 degrees in that atmosphere Left Atlanta bleeding cause I had to get out of there It was now or never heard west like them pioneers Stop on the moon for a lark Look back to see A perfect blue jewel hung in the dark

Alone and unique Face shrouded in dancing clouds Beguiling as she whirls Soft winds brush lush fields of wheat Got a white couple taking engagement photos in the background I hope them kids stay together if you could see them thousand facets of the same moment frozen while that diamond spin on its axis you'd understand we all tethered

Paper butterflies drown in that ditch water Paper wings cant fly any farther Pigment and glitter all they got left to offer This world was once a garden

Hope every child inherit the earth If you Christian you sposed to know that Every child gone inherit the earth Every motor leave a stain that ain't gone wash out to easy There already plastic in that baby brain You in love with oil that necrophilia Or necromancy we all choking down corpses better left buried Pfas instead of porcelains each of us apportioned a tiny fraction of our sin A balance we can never pay Might have to work for hundreds of years even if we start today

Might have to pawn some shit we ain't ever gone see again If we topple the natural order we might find ourself unimportant the earth ain't always have oxygen but take it away n we'd just be bones on rocks again flooded out and sharp with ice and fire the only voice in the air a howling wind Them rocks that say king of kings ain't gonna be more impressive when there no one there to read em Shout out to the Shelly's Mary first percy second That girl changed life on earth with her pen Hope we still got life on earth in the end The oceans boiling Texas is freezing Another hundred thousand on the move every season We gone end up praying we don't end up praying for fema

Paper butterflies drown in that ditch water Paper wings cant fly any farther Pigment and glitter all they got left to offer This world was once a garden

Traded it all in for base model Fords and Chevron profits Even our temples full of hollow prophets Fallow fields surround fallen flocks Any fucks given still in that man's pockets Y'all worried bout the devil's influence and the enemy within When the man doing damage in your community standing there smiling shaking your hand on Sunday while you give a good morning sir Holla at me if you need anything more

Y'all gone get them heat waves and them heaters Fighting over what lil remain might have to secure that water Building walls thinking you gone keep out the hurricane Asthmatic gasps as the air go brown from the fumes in the gas Burning ancient flesh a sacrament for a new age No holy book written but we all worship every day

Console full of hollow points Cause you can't trust your fellow man Living in a fallen land If you got problems you gonna have to solve em man One in the chamber and your head on a swivel When you hit that grocery store parking lot That ain't even where the real danger at Head inside the prices going up produce looking shriveled Shelves going bare and your finances can't bear that much more inflation Now you hoping it'll all come crashing down maybe that'll save ya We pass that inflection point hope you paid attention in calculus We in a new age with that acid rain Food ain't ever gonna be this cheap again Fuck around and found out them consequences Now like my great grandma say you gotta go pick your switches

Paper butterflies drown in that ditch water Paper wings cant fly any farther Pigment and glitter all they got left to offer This world was once a garden

Mmmmmm I got lots of gratitude She dont fuck me I got an attitude Losing interest switch that 9 to a 9 to 2 I got a dream to be Outside with my bros We aint slipping lean Got a tattoo on my back Shit look like lion king She asked me what do i put in my cup I said purple lean I said purple lean Promethazine

Walk in the spot like I own it Cartier lens can see it in motion Phone on dnd and I'm floating Talking to god while im coasting

She said I changed Im like obvious My cup still dirty aint no hobby Tat on my back like a prophecy We dont sip lean we embody it

Hoes in the whip like a ritual Pull up to clean looking spiritual She stare to long she mystical But I can't feel love thats fictional

Hold up, hold up, hold up Butterfly butterfly stuck in the cup Cartier time but I'm fucking it up Dreams too big can't shrink this up She ain't mine she a face Not love, not love yeah Hah you thought this was love Hold up '93 gas I don't ride the bus Still outside trying to stack like Russ I was broke now I'm up no fuss Still got pain I just sip that hush I got dreams to be Don't fuck it up

Fireflies in Babylon

Perhaps you know more than the guy with a guitar hung from his shoulder Perhaps you've heard more than I In your throne rooms filled with whispers Perhaps you've seen more than I Atop your golden plunder So tell me Can you still see fireflies in the end? So tell me Can you still see fireflies in the end? Or did the price we paid Include those little wonders Have the stars all fallen down? In New Babylon while we build our towers Have the stars all fallen down? While in New Babylon we build our towers So tell me Can you still see fireflies in the end? So so so tell me Can you still see fireflies in the end?

They got fires on the grecian isles And fires on the beaches of hawaii The power company been saving on maintenance So they got fires in the wild Families standing waist deep in the surf Hoping someone's got help on the way When the boat gone get here I hope its soon We starting to get a little cold and im Getting a little tired of waiting on Those with all the gold

I bet the invisible committee know I bet they going by zipcode I bet we going to warm beds and dry clothes How many people they fit up in that superdome Back in '05 ya'll remember were you watching live? Ya'll remember was you watching live?

These fields used to be filled with fireflies Now there's just ashes and embers drifting down from on high Under a pallid ruby landfill fucking joke of a sky When was the last time you saw something glow in the wild? Was it a firefly? Or star strewn across the night? Or bioluminescence blooming in the depths? Was it real? Or was it just pixels drawn to a screen? Whole time they've got you locked away in a dream Making money for some fiend Have they stolen everything? Have they turned off all the lights? Have they filled up all the night? Got it so you can't see no stars cause its just too bright When was the last time you was in a field full of light On a summer night, cool breeze and soft delight? Did you even know you was saying goodbye? Do you even know you was saying goodbye?

Have the stars all fallen down? In New Babylon while we build our towers Have the stars all fallen down?

MILA KUNIS // ay slav

I been putting all the zombies in military fatigues I been putting all the zombies in military fatigues They're piling in the trenches They're hiding in the leaves So, you oughta watch your back Cause I, I been putting all the I, I been putting all the zombies I, I been putting all the zombies I, I been putting all the zombies I, I been putting all the zombies

I didn't catch my breath til I was in grade school Born with a hole in my heart my father was active duty The top brass at that military facility Decided it was better for a baby to spend Five years gasping for breath and hope he die rather than pay for it

Remember that before you sign on that dotted line They ain't just gone gamble with your life son Got yo whole family shacked up in dilapidated base housing Going to school with lead in the water fountains Living on land poisoned by years of cavalier chemical compositions Waiting in line at that company store Got just enough script to make it to next week long as y'all don't eat no more

My daddy was in from the time he hit 17 Really believed in that American dream A lifetime in uniform only dividends disability Got out of it 4 years of VA benefits that amounted to like 30,000 dollars The type of shit they blowing on a knock around bag in the halls of power Something cheap to leave in the dirt when it convenient He knew what he signed up for In the words of that commander in chief yeah

It's a rich kids world full of wicked boys n wicked girls I'll put a lighter to the wick (no butane in my system) Fill the room with smoke as I reap what I sow Threw that seed to the wind Brought it back round like future sex love sounds They gone pay what they owe n not another cent You see how long that line is to sue the government Lawyers eating good, your families life forfeit You still sure that life of service a sure fit Look up at the top see that surfeit gold plated That wave coming you gone have to surf it

Semper Fi motherfuckers Now I done caught my breath

Ay slav Ay slav Ay slav You thinking of putting on that hood n gown Marching around, burning crosses tiki torches in hand Burning it all down Well I hope you remember I hope you really consider Where you think they got the word slave from slav? what you think is going on They wanna put us back in cages Ambitions shackled, continuous, malicious observation Dreams deferred wealth evaporated They ain't want they kids to compete and they like having a vast pool of desperation To dip into whenever their predilections take em They run the same play every year every game slav Pony up 30 silver pieces so one of us sell out the rest of us slav Get us all back in line and at the back of the line slav Take a look at history or read a news story from last week We been dying by the hundred thousand for more than 100 years now More like a thousand and best case scenario They still gone have Mila kunis toilet bowl cleaning on the silver screen Ukrainian she been working since 14 That ain't a new story. This ain't a new story In the mines in the trenches dancing on them tables Any chance at all you got you gotta be grateful Getting on screen at all that a big dream That a success story guess you turned out to be the cream at the top of that glass bottle

Cam girls prostrate on camera for the price of a sandwich In the Czech Republic just trying to make rent while you got a buncha Bitcoin millionaires with just enough aristocratic tendency to wanna see em piss on eachother in a 10 x 10 cubicle in that warehouse with 400 other girls in the same circumstances He Ain't even even leave his house in 3 weeks 7 thousand miles away cause he ain't even gotta participate Just sit there in the dark and degenerate Fulfill every lil fantasy his feeble mind can generate Superfluous man like Dostoevsky character Hope he gets that Dostoevsky ending But I know that ain't how God be playing it Walk in the valley of shadow cause he ain't gonna move the cliff for your convenience That just all our situation Ask yourself if you gonna be in that 5% or if you plan on perpetuating The system that got us fixed in a place Like butterfly wings in them pages They said he died on the cross and because ya heard later at the tip of a sword y'all oughta lie there n take it

You quoting from the protocols Like it's secret knowledge that's cause ya real masters got you reading from that trash Same reason the tsar had it written in disseminated They ain't want y'all to realize who hold the keys to y'all kennel Who got the boot on ya neck n the rod to your back Look around who paying minimum wage in your town n who owns all them franchises We do it to ourself just like radiohead And you wanna fantasize about some external evil otherwise we'd all live in harmony n be taken care of That heart of darkness don't just lurk in foreign lands Got plenty in our own community with blood on they hands Blood pooling on the sand Turns out in the end it was friends gunned down Pat Tillman That tall stalk gone get cut down when it take a stand The reaper man watch that crop closely hold his scythe with a steady hand Every night he sleep sound cause he know means justify those ends anyhow Every night he sleep sound cause he know means justify those ends anyhow