Bulimic rainbows vomit what? Burn Piano Island Burn! Coconut pupils never shut? Burn Piano Island Burn! Jigsaw babies and their bamboo stilts? Burn Piano Island Burn! Charred toucans weaving their black sky quilt? Burn Piano Island Burn! The sea shells scream out celestial code. Melting on the shore inside a flame sno globe. Burn Burn So burn Piano island! Torch the treasure! Torch the shovels! Torch these hands dipped in gold lacquer, Torch the finger-prints painting a violence portrait on spinal wings. I buried my bride of eight inch fingers neck deep in the hungry quicksand. I buried out children of pineapple skin where the generic sunsets sparkle so bland. I split my grandmother like a rotten papaya... our fright to pollenate the flowers of fire. I vomited my skeleton and donated it to the war mausoleum... I cut my will and testament along the scar tissue seam. I packaged my heart and fed-ex'd it to the octopus queen. Burn Piano Island Burn! Soured Palm trees sputter waxy wax stink. Burn Piano Island Burn! Boiling lagoons chewing bubble gum pink? Burn Piano Island Burn! The vikatin volcano spews and salivates? It's belly bloated like a pre-teen pregnancy? I fed its limp indifferent walls tales of an ark haunted with the five howls, I tied a nervous noose of piano wire and wrapped it around the mocking throat of the past. It's head erupted like a rabid roman candle as I kicked the stamp from underneath. Burn Piano Island Burn and drown all your fucking riddles down the throat of the sea. This one man raft won't be coming back so don't talk out of tune to me. From a distance the fornication of fear and flames twindles so pretty.


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    GREAT SONG. oh man blood brothers <333

    fakeliarcheaton June 22, 2003   Link
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    ::faints with joy::

    thisadultryisripeon July 02, 2003   Link
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    this is the first blood brothers song i've heard and it's terrific.

    I packaged my heart and fed-ex'd it to the octopus queen!

    onthestereoon July 06, 2003   Link
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    Man...this song is so deep and meaningful. Hahaha. Nah but Blood Brothers rock.

    Cumhal Macarton April 12, 2004   Link
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    BULIMIC RAINBOWS VOMIT WHAT?!

    DawnOfReckoningon April 17, 2004   Link
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    I split my grandmother like a rotten papaya...

    emoxon April 21, 2004   Link
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    looove.

    badsrx7on June 08, 2004   Link
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    generic sunsets sparkle so bland...

    FiveStoriesFallingon June 10, 2004   Link
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    belly bloated like a pre-teen pregnancy

    badsrx7on June 19, 2004   Link
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    this song is the final part of the 'piano island' story that blood brothers have had going through all their albums.

    the guy ends up going mad, killing his wife, killing his kids, his grandma, setting the island on fire, and then fucking off on a 'one man raft'.

    i love the way they sing it.. it's almost scary

    shfifty_fiveon October 09, 2004   Link

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