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Straining the Retina
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For fans of nine inch nails, tool, nirvana, sonic youth, faith no more, tomahawk, led zeppelin, pink floyd, melvins,
Mannequin is an independent, experimental, industrial rock band. My music has been described as dark & disturbing, but simultaneously beautiful and honest. Full of revenge for scornful lovers, as well as disgust, self loathing, and regret. The debut album, "Denial Fixation" was finished in 2002. "Straining the Retina" is a concept album started in 2002, and although never officially released, the songs have slowly been surfacing in different forms. "Worn" is the current album for the songs I'm releasing now. I'm looking at releasing it physically and/or digitally later this year. Also see my page on myspace:
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Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
Peak #1,114
Peak in subgenre #139
Author
Kevin Wheeler
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Kevin Wheeler
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November 18, 2004
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MP3 5.4 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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18 hours a day, propaganda soaking in another layer of guilt and remorse too many ads for me to sort out too much pain, I need to get out these ads are killing me subtlety & slowly manifesting the physical misery straining the retina with dopamine and saline constantly berating me flashing consistently unrelenting, stimulation gradual, saturation of, dope-amino-acids soaking in Good morning, Mr. Johnson. How was yesterday’s rectal exam? Would you like a minty hemorrhoidal cream? Maybe some cushy new sweatpants!? Mrs. Adams, another abortion today, huh? That’s the 10th visit this month! Why don’t you treat yourself to a few drinks? Have a smoke. Relax! You’ll be clean soon. (CHORUS) 19 layers of noise manipulating our pain & our fear to sell us your trinkets and toys pretending your so sincere Hey Pam, don’t you like this coat? It would go wonderfully with your new snap-on-soul, and coke! Buy more. Give in to desire! Reward yourself. Remember the pain & humiliation. Supplement the anguish. (CHORUS) tortured voices from the past used to defraud & to harass you’ve harvested and archived all the trauma in our lives flip on the switch to increase the pain flooding the memories back to the brain Remember the way he used to touch you? How could she lie to you like that? (Remember that lie she told you?) What a betrayal. I can’t believe he said that to you. Remember how that made you feel? Don’t forget it don’t let go! Supplement the anguish. (CHORUS) Buy more. Give in to desire! Reward yourself. Remember the pain & humiliation. Supplement the anguish. My eyes swell up They itch & burn. I think my head might explode I’m not sure what to do The doctor was no help. All I can think to do is cut out the pain. My eyes, my head they hurt so bad The pain shoots straight to the back to my skull Constantly throbbing...
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