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The Penguin League

by Antarctica Takes It!

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itsyaboysam Circuits was the second-most-played on my iPod c2007 (lost out to a Mountain Goats track). Biiiig teen nostalgia. Favorite track: Circuits.
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1.
I'm No Lover (free) 01:35
I'm not a lover I'm a fighter I will burn your house down I will eat your children alive I will turn your lover's bones Into tiny violins to play when you die It's not a matter of expression For I have come here to destroy Everything you have held dear Throughout your life So you'd better buck up Because I'm coming for your throat.
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Circuits (free) 02:56
Send me a signal 'cross my circuitry There's little tiny lights blinking randomly See the spark ignite with electricity I know there's light inside of you and inside of me. There's highways in your bloodstream There's highways to your heart See the muscle see the bone See each sinew tie each part See the synapse fire wildly see the chemicals collide Such a wondrous thing you are. But where did you go? There's gravity that's pulling around the places where you are. And I feel the pull. And though I'm flying through the dark I will always know how far I need to travel to find you. I know you're out there. All of the lines of your fiber interweave With the oxygen and soil and the water and breeze All of your molecules will fall apart and leave But the pull of your light still finds me.
3.
Have you seen the skeleton dressed in a suit of human skin? Did he come this way? Did you hear him say: "Wish I could spend my nights and days, sleeping in a grave" Have you seen his staggered step, his gaping jaw, or collapsed head? See his sagging flesh, his polluted breath? Singin' "lay my body down six feet underground." The walking dead destroys, everything he once enjoyed His fingertips will burn, every pleasure he has earned His molecules won't see the soil they must push the boulder and forever toil away. Whenever he coughs you can hear the bones rattle in his frame. Whenever he talks you can hear his dry throat crack and strain. It ain't oxygen he's breathing it's just dust in those lungs. It ain't blood that he's streaming it's just rust that runs. The beard grows thick, and the eyes sink deep And this tired corpse will his vigil keep Oh the haggard wreck, such a derelict He says: "I can't be blamed no more" The days will burn and the nights will freeze He'll surrender to rot and disease But death will not arrive to take away his life To take the fire from his chest, To put the goddamn soul to rest.
4.
I broke up, I stepped out of the light My arms didn't have to fight All my thoughts avoided January My head exploded into a million sparks I had to set it in the dark And I walked it off You've got a heart of stone, so just leave me alone. I lost my way on a beaten track, I had to retrace my steps back To a home I never called my own, Some ocean view, some birds out on a limb, The freckles in your skin, broke the camels back She said "You've got a heart of stone, so just leave me alone"
5.
He bears the heart of his only son in a tiny mason jar And plays the funeral music from the moving train-line cars The water on the window reminds him of the tears He has used to preserve the organ he has carried all these years He plays their song. And the ghost of his love sings along His cello glides. With the ghost of his absent wife. In the winter they will bury their father in the snow So in the springtime all his bones will surface from the soil to glow The brothers will remember exactly how he died In a drunken fit of jealousy to make the queen his bride When he was on his knees. With the upturned piano keys. Singing "Canada, won't you come home my love?" She sits upon a wooden swing high above the stage And he can't believe it's her he sees cause the years hold not a trace But her memory cannot recall the life she left behind And his broken heart will accompany his mental health's decline She sings their song. But the tune comes out all wrong. Her tapeworm cries, "He was the one, the song, your life!" His brother the American holds his bloodied side He stumbles across the burning stage while the fire rises high He finally sees his destiny, his fortune falls in place In the thundering crescendo of the white inferno flames But the music plays. It comes through sick, malformed, depraved His body glows. With the fire from the hells below!
6.
Fog Song 02:25
All the people wrap up, See the steam from their coffee cups See your breath through the pines See the cars follow those street lights The fog rolls in each night See the storm spread out See it slide and swim about See the gulls all cry And the harbor workers sigh The fog rolls in each night I saw you: swimming in the breeze I watched you: the air became you wings Sing me that sound, sing your ocean song to me.
7.
Flightless Birds (free) 02:27
8.
Davenport 03:50
The sunflowers along the bay, the goats were the same See them chewing away There was light in your eyes that day The black berries hide in the lagoon Tie this string around your wrist attach this blue balloon To lose at a party soon The coast was tired with a summer light We tossed up our hands to a dragon kite I don't want to sleep at all tonight The fruit that we taste, the sandwiches we made The sand in your shoes, your smiling face Let's stay here, let's stay I can't believe this is actually working out, so perfectly. Now there's distance between, trace this wide globe. I hope that your heart knows its way home To mine, cause I'm all alone
9.
Antarctica (free) 04:09
We stole away from the crown of flame For a cold land without a name We had our maps and our compass set For the long journey ahead We traced shapes cross the starry skies And made our way through each tender night We heard the weary whales tune And sang along 'neath a silver moon Antarctica! You stole our hearts! Antarctica! You stole our hearts! We saw the ice storms and glacier peaks We watched the skies lose light for weeks We felt the madness shake our souls We grew our beards down to our toes Do you remember the giant squid? In our cabin deck we hid Our bending hull in tenacious grip All trapped inside our tiny ship Antarctica! You stole our hearts! Antarctica! You stole our hearts! And when our ship's mast was seaward bound Toward icy depth, towards Poseidon's crown Oh you banshee wind you came singing In a whirlwind I thought I saw our end On a frosty wine-dark sea We fought brave and gallantly But now our parts all sink into The bottom of the ocean blue Backs bourne against the tide Our fate writ on the heaven's high In a frozen grave, above the ocean's waves In a tattered part, see the broken heart. Antarctica! You stole our hearts! Antarctica! You stole our hearts!
10.
Goodbye 01:36
I've walked every road of mine I think I'm alone this time Goodbye, love There's a place I'd like to be Where the river meets the sea Goodbye, love Lay my body on the shore Close my eyes forevermore Goodbye, love

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released June 1, 2006

Dylan McKeever
Tyler Martin
Maria Schoettler
Vanessa Waring

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