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Mummified video

Wrote a new song about mummifying pets. Can’t remember where i got the initial lyrical idea. I had it, googled around, and found this fun little site: http://www.summum.org/mummification/pets/. The lyrical content is based on shipping instructions and the other info from the site. Pretty strange. I know. Thanks for listening!

UPDATE: Figured out where I got the idea. It started after a friend was having problems with a roommate that was sticking dead animals in the freezer for some art project without telling the rest of the house. classy.

more about pet mummification:

Mummified

Scrub off the dirt off his corpse
Wrap him in a nice plastic bag
A cooler of ice water tight
lay him on a towel inside
send him off to be mummified
she won’t let go

they’ll dunk him down in the oil
they’ll put on the salt and put on the spice
they’ll wrap him up really nice
for the journey into the light
pack his favorite things for the ride
to the Unknown

she mummified
her dog when he died
so she won’t be alone
mummified
mummified
she keeps him by her
she keeps him by her side

paint on the eyes happy-like
on the casing bronze he’s inside
paint on a smile big and wide
so the guests can see what he’s like
pet the metal as if he’s a live
stiff as stone

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Half a Heart is Hardly Half a Man

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Horse Bones and Callused Toes

I’m sick of words to sing
in dylan cryptology
I’m sick of clever themes
like aethestic balladry
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just one sentence written in stone
I got something meaning to say
But I lost it under the pressure that came

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the house that’s not home
oh how that gets old
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