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Home to Roost

by Scandaliz Vandalistz

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1.
Ghettoblaster 02:04
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I'm gonna turn on my ghetto blaster So I can get back to you faster It's gonna blast me out into space I'll surf the soundwaves to yr place I'm gonna run a few red lights So I can get into your bed tonight I want you here in my passenger seat Its easy to get lonely while motoring Loneliness grows as my gas tank depletes La la la la la la la la la vroom vroom vroom I'm gonna round this corner at 55 So we can read the bible all damn night I'm gonna get followed by the police, But even they can't stop me Cause yesterday I bought a po-lice scanner He'll sweep my dust like a school janitor But where is Lamar? And which way is south? I wanna hold your hand at the haunted house Yeah yeah we'll cruise all night and smoke all day Man, I really wish that I could live my life that way. I want you here in my passenger seat Its easy to get lonely while motoring Loneliness grows as my gas tank depletes La la la la la la la la la vroom vroom vroom I should have paid attention in drivers ed Reckless driving isn't really wreckless And now I'm dead, I'm dead dead dead I'll never see you again again again
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Panamanian Fighter 01:40
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I am a Panamanian fighter Against the imperial power The canal queue grows longer Our labor just gets cheaper Thank God my girl is a prostitute Or else we would be destitute All the country's banks in American zone While my kid is skin, bone. Where's the money? I want my GDP At least the bit that belongs to me To the Republic for which they stand The Banana Puppets will shake the hand Of any law maker breaker business man Sent to strike a deal On our sand Well you made us succeed It was part of your plan But we're taking it back We're making a stand Panama is a sovereign land Unless a nation state Is your clan's brand Go home Leave us alone Go home Leave us alone Torrijos got us back the canal Got the School of Americas shut down But that very army training ground Trained the troops that sent his plane to drown Then came Noriega, former US clown But he wouldn't give back the waterway So there was no way he could stay Smear campaign made it politically sound And Bush sent bombs raining over town… Oligarchic regime! I am a Panamanian fighter Against the imperial power The canal queue grows longer Our labor just gets cheaper I am a sabotageur bullet dodger Teacher preacher Farmer striker tribal leader I am a Panamanian fighter!
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Demi-National Bra 01:45
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Two lights no rights to the punk rock show We can't tell you where to go in Punk rock new Hampshire, punk rock new Hampshire Live free or die, live free or die Let's all go to the ice cream shop Then we'll go and smoke some pot in Punk rock new Hampshire, punk rock new Hampshire Live free or die, live free or die I don't know just where I am The highway is just like god's hand Leading me to find myself I really need to find myself in Punk Rock New Jersey, Punk Rock New Jersey Drive on the sidewalk, drive on the sidewalk Past New York, it's just bad lands Sorry we're late, we had to pee in the van Go buy us some 40z, BUY US SOME 40z Go go go Brandon Ride ride that fat man Teenage kids singing Against Me The dog bed's the only place to sleep in Punk Rock Carolina, Punk Rock Carolina (ON HOME TO) Punk Rock Tennessee, Punk Rock Tennessee Live Free or DIE LIVE FREE OR FUCKIN DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
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Blue Egg Blues 02:56
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One spring I loved a robin's nest I watched two birds build it with sticks and feathers Each morning I watched their gutter home From over a bowl of Cheerios Three perfect blue eggs in a perfect brown bed I waited for you to hatch Three fluffy balls softly crying and growing Did you see me through the glass? I knew that someday you'd have to go Leave me with National Public Radio I already had enough holes In my bowl, in my bowl, in my bowl Spots of milk on my nose Spots of milk on my toes I will have the strongest bones Spots of milk on my nose Spots of milk on my toes God bless this bowl of Cheerios I watched you get stronger and ready to fly You got wings I got down I stayed low you got high I stayed stuck in the kitchen chair I'll never have feathers I only grow hair Birds will grow Birds will go I sit here and eat Cheerios Mothers flush dead fish down toilet bowls Bread grows mold Songs get sold The sewer is swimming with goldfish bones Bread grows mold Songs get sold I sit here and eat Cheerios Cheerios, Cheerios, Cheerios Spots of milk on my nose Spots of milk on my toes I will have the strongest bones Spots of milk on my nose Spots of milk on my toes God bless this bowl of Cheerios Which little robin's the one that I love When you're one of the many pecking in the mud You won't recognize me or love me back When you're searching for worms in the sidewalk cracks
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Morphine Sister 01:55
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The sister has appendicitis Staying up for all the night is No fun in a hospital room They gave the sister morphine So that her mind could be more clean But her thoughts just got a little bit sticky like glue I love my morphine sister I love her more and more She says that I can't do anything right But what are sisters for? I love my morphine sister I love her more and more I love her broken appendix It's lying on the floor I love my sister's E.T. finger And although she broke my dictionary She has a smile so merry That my anger never lingered Very cold and all alone Little dumpling has no home I am lying very badly She has the mommy and daddly I love my morphine sister I love her more and more She says that I can't do anything right But what are sisters for? I love my morphine sister I love her more and more I love her ruptured appendix It's lying on the floor Bring me there that oatmemeal Until that little 'ppendix heals Yeah make that little 'ppendix heal And better we will make her feel
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Grandeza 02:39
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Paola he had never been away to Rio For his family oh he knew he had to go Cuz in the north it's only drought Landlords will buy you out Kids hug their moms And leave the house Join the crowd snaking south Have you seen the cars And the towers Reaching up to the stars They say if we all do our part Then we'll get ours Grandeza Industria brasileira The generals have planned it out It's a miracle no doubt But even while Jesus looks down Paolo's in a shantytown Favela Grandeza Brazil has got a destiny So manifest for all to see Bom dia auto industry For our great super power We'll take loans out by the hour The real lingua franca's Portuguese Grandeza Industria Brasileira Homem no ha trabalho There is not work for Paolo There is no corn to shuck The World Bank's got us stuck Grandeza Industria brasileira
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Fireworks 02:09
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If your head were on my chest Then I'd explode in happiness And you'd be covered in blood Skin can't contain my love My stomach's dangling from the lamp My fingernails are on your pants I hope you don't go bowling 'Cause in your shoes lies my colon Put your head on my chest And I'd explode with happiness Bloody fireworks to celebrate my death Mop my intestines off the floor Scrape my eyeballs off the door My belly button can be of use To replace the missing one on your suit I understand if you don't want to come near Don't wanna make me have a fit But I assure you, there are worse ways to die Than exploding like this Sometimes I wish that I didn't exist That I was nothing ever nothing never Didn't think and could just sleep forever Oh! This world could be so much better If you held me things would be much better But I'd die, and my blood would be redder Than the hair of an Irish Setter All over your woolen sweater Put your head on my chest And I'd explode with happiness Bloody fireworks to celebrate my death
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Relief 02:40
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9.
Little Brains 02:50
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Madonna! You can't be in our closet band! Cuz! We're in a closet Hey Madonna! you suck! you suck! We don't need your fashion show We don't fit in the places you go Madonna asked if she could be in our band and we said NO! We're in a closet We're a closet We made a world in here, we got plenty to wear Sick and tired of breathing bad air Needing a change in the atmosphere We hide away in a place that's small But there's no wiggle room, so it makes us feel tall A tiny space filled with tiny kids Our brains are little, but our thoughts are big so so so so so big! In here our minds are free Floating around with the dust bunnies In the closet We learned your rules and now we're done with them We don't want a part in your pretention Necessity is the mother of invention We put ourselves away It's dark in time of day In here it's like another dimension But it's a closet We made a world in here, we got plenty to wear Sick and tired of breathing bad air Needing a change in the atmosphere We hide away in a place that's small, But there's no wiggle room so it makes us feel tall A tiny space filled with tiny kids Our brains are little, but our thoughts are big SO SO SO SO SO BIG It's a small world after all No tune: we've broken all our strings No room: this place is shrinking. The good air's all gone Maybe we were wrong About the closet Obsessed with a life of prevention Now closet is the necessity of invention The sun is brighter than this little light bulb And we're starting to forget what we're missing We're in a closet And we've lost it
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Annabelle 03:42
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Annabelle fell from the sky One dark and stormy evening Bounded up to help me As my heart would not stop bleeding God hears all his little lambs When they are loudly bleating Sends someone in to calm the din Annabelle I was needing Annabelle, oh my sweet Annabelle Stay with me, don't leave me now Annabelle, I really need some help Stay with me, don't leave me now I know you are made of steel Much stronger than the others But tigress please play careful With your sisters and your brothers I feel weak, a marshmallow A kid who's on the couch Annabelle, my girl, my friend Come and help me out Annabelle, oh my sweet Annabelle Stay with me, don't leave me now Annabelle, I really need some help Stay with me, don't leave me now When you're curled up on the bed You're meek, never too tough But when we're playing tug-of-war I get scared, you get too rough Girl, you know we are alike Sunny, sometimes dark I'll do my best not to go down If you don't give any angry barks Annabelle, oh my sweet Annabelle Stay with me, don't leave me now Annabelle, I need some help Spotted paw Tiger jaw Keep it shut You little mutt I don't want to give you up No, I don't want to give you up

about

This is the album we recorded in the hot hot summer of 2008, as a follow-up to our first album, I Forgot Where I Was Going, So I Came Back.

These songs were composed between 2005 and 2008 as we left our hometown and began our college careers. Despite having attempted to break up the band at the end of high school, we continued to find ourselves periodically reunited in Memphis, and, thus, Home to Roost was born. We hope you enjoy it.
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released March 3, 2013

SV is Alice Buchanan, Katherine Dohan, Alanna Stewart, and Brock Terwilleger

featuring Dustin McCormick on drums,
and Wesley Morgan on upright bass on tracks 10 and 4

Recorded and mixed by Noah Glenn

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Scandaliz Vandalistz Memphis, Tennessee

Some friends who love playing music together and screaming in harmony...

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