How I Loved My Cat, by Adam Neely X Ben Levin

How I Loved My Cat

by Adam Neely X Ben Levin

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1.	Pond 00:50	buy track
2.	Beanis Salad 03:26	buy track
3.	Pool of Pudding 02:01	buy track
4.	Know About Me 03:41	buy track
5.	Apockalypse Steel 03:43	buy track
6.	Jello Pit 02:56	buy track
7.	Meow 02:36	buy track
8.	How I Loved my Cat 02:54	buy track
9.	Giraffes 03:38	buy track

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Lyrics:
Lyrics

POND

It’s a garden burger story where
Something looks so unnecessary
I was not kidding when I jumped into the freezing pond
And clawed at you and asked you to join me
So you could feel something exciting
And something delightful that also hurts
Cause that is real. That, that is real.

BEANIS SALAD

Unhinge my jaw and eat the sun
One thousand sins swallowed whole
I can taste them all
And I will never die

God yeah wait no way uh
Yeah wait no way oh yeah

Let me get the cream from the middle
Scrapin with my teeth show you I can eat
Put a bottle down for my dinner
I’ll be ready soon as I roll up my sleeves
In a cottage of cheese
In a pool of pudding
Crawling with disease

God yeah wait no way uh
Yeah wait no way oh yeah

The woman in red is the killer
I can always tell by the second scene
Meant to meet my friends out for dinner
I press the pizza button and exhale out
This isn’t the proudest me
I smell like my couch
And start a new season

God yea wait no way
Yeah wait no way
Yeah no no yeah

KNOW ABOUT ME

Soon you will know about me
In a new way
You’ll see me topple tooth to foot and foolishly flailing
Oowee I was dancing in the zone
feeling so free
and urgently bailing
Cut my hand and neck from me

Moo cow and let me drink
I’m a pacifist now
I’ll crush your neck and arteries
Oo
Oowee I was dancing is all
Being so free
And taking taking everything
Taking taking everything

You yeah you yeah kissing on the mirror
Oh no oh no hating what I see
You yeah You yeah kissing on the mirror
Oh no oh no running from my teenage dreams

Soon you will know about me
In a new way
You’ll eat my muscles while you watch
Glowing boxes on and off
Oowee I was dancing in the zone
Being so free
And kissing all my relatives like they were glad to see me

You yeah you yeah kissing on the mirror
Oh no oh no hating what I see
You yeah You yeah kissing on the mirror
Oh no oh no running from my teenage dreams

Phone tag with the only child
I ever understood
I’ll call you in a year when I
Place your last trace
At the bottom of the sea

APOCKALYPSE STEEL

Drinking big enough
I trade the taste for the tide
Drop me off on another plane
I want another try
The pilot asks me what it’ll be
And being takes too much
I’m spiraling the glass
And drinking from the tits of a thousand deaths
I’ve dreamed up here before
Up here
Before the skyline split me in half
The patio was painting me
And I was forgetting to laugh
I cannot imagine anything when I’m watching you above me
When I’m watching you
Above me

I cannot laugh or tell secrets in bed
Or on a train
Get on the bus
I’ll pretend to see things your way
Out of touch me in a public rest stop
Feeling it out in space
We were the clouds in phase
2 into 3 counting the grain
Filmic inflamed I cannot laugh
Burning your face
Kissing your braces
I’m away further than a piece of the plane
Blowing off of me phasing out phasing out
I cannot laugh

JELLO PIT

Got the jello in my bag
Hey ya ya ya
A taste I missed so much
It makes the photo stick together
And I am left without my lunch
I pour the gelatin powder pacing
Waiting for the gunk to rust
And my dinner was so last Wednesday
Cause I’m aiming for the crush
And my dinner was so last Wednesday
Cause I’m living further up

And finally we’ll be living in the future
We’ll be living in the day to day
Jello pit of the year two thousand
The year two thousand and one

In the jello I am god
Bow and kiss my ring
You can fornicate at once
Once the time is right
We unload the jello from the trunk erupting
And the booty is a fist of flour on the floor
and the gymnast is flexible and hot now
See them pick me up and put me right back down
I like to sit on Mommy's lap eating yummy snacks
derived from the feet of pigs finally

And finally we’ll be living in the future
We’ll be living in the day to day
Jello pit of the year two thousand
The year two thousand and one

MEOW

When we pay you grow up
I'm afraid of your lumps
and the tales we are crumbling for

Wiped away with a gush
Flowing seeds from your brush
Painter wild revealing a door

In the waste of your blood
On my lips when you cough
I will miss you and not know for what

And the questions I caught
When you payed me up front
You grew up cause I painted a brush

When we pay you go on
To exclaim in the yard
that the fire is taking us all

And we all sing along
To the same fucking song
As we table our guilt for the fun

**
Off the cuff
you know enough
I'm sorry if I tried to hard
And take a look
you know enough
You're sorry cuz we tried to hard

I'll be late I'll be lost
like the blood on my floss
And no one can cry anymore

When I spill on the sleave
of the god that can't eat
I will sauder my hair to the cross

Off the cuff
you know enough
I'm sorry if I tried to hard
And take a look
you know enough
You're sorry cuz we tried to hard

HOW I LOVED MY CAT

I said that I’d find you there
For once I was lost but now I’m found

And I never loved you the way I loved my cat
But who could blame me for trying

I can run into a wall and bump my head a thousand times
and never forget the sound of you in the morning
saying get up get up get up
I need you up

And getting up is wasteful
when the day is just a handful of food and spit falling out
and pushing through
and shoving down
and writing down
BUt you get me on my feet
it's time for me to feed you
bumping against the walls
somehow
somehow
bumping against the walls
somehow living on
thank you

GIRAFFES

Birthday Cake
Eating the Candles I'm awful
At making up and making out
When I'm tired
You and I
Always excited for playtime
We build a house out of the garbage we find
Cutie pie I am a brick in the oven light
I am a chicken that's got to bite
Making the whole house shake
Baseball game
Watching the gloves and the bases
Getting hard
Harder with every strike
You're Batman and I am Robin elated
At the sight of your new armored van
Off we go
Smothering boyfriends and buttering toast
Clinging to our pants and telling jokes
About the first kiss between two giraffes
What you want? You can have it
Just kiss my arm
And I will grab you and hold you close
And never leave you again
Cutie pie
I am a handle when you can't climb
I am a scapegoat when you can't lie
I am the twist in the plan
Come on now
Nanananananananan

credits

released May 31, 2021

Music composed and recorded by Adam Neely and Ben Levin in 24 hours while livestreaming on Twitch on March 23, 2021

Mixed by Angel Marcloid

Mastered by Randy Roos

Justice Cow sang on Pond, Pool of Pudding, Apockalypse Steel, Meow, How I Loved my Cat, and wrote the lyrics for Pond

Josh Bailey played all the drums

Josh Plotner played all the winds and wrote the soli in Apockalypse Steel

Nick Krueger sang and wrote the lyrics on Beanis Salad

Aaron Emmanuel sang harmony vocals on Know About Me

Trust Fund Ozu made the synths and beats/produced the track for Jello Pit

Fire-Toolz played synths and guitars on Giraffes.

Choir on Giraffes:
alambradasmusic
alovabread
alrightalrightalrightalright
arty sleeps
basilmusic
Beanis Salad
Ben McKinlay
BigSoup
cam
capp
CatmanKSP
Deadprevist
DTuner
eedefeed
em-strem
Fire Toolz
FlowerShower
fowent
hk
Hockey4747
I3ird
iodeslykos
isurehopenot
Jaden
Javy
Juhosev
juli
juuulian
kekorebeko
KingKongAndHisKoiPond
kleines filmrÃ¶llchen
latinoarteiro
Loestus
lousk
LucriN
MapleFire
maybekaitlin
Mr. Margozza
Murrky Waters
Nabo
Partymaaarv
Paterson (the alien)
Pedro Alves
pedrohht
RuthyToothy
sheldontheword
Strawfish
StuffSlacker
syrinx
sytsew
Thelonelysoundboard
TheMidst
ThirdBeat
Thoronfain
Tomasves02
TrashBoat
treskblesk
Trig Jegman
Underwaterness
UnknownSpiral
uuiioo2
Voemi
Warkgnall
wizardfrog
XBagon
zilveren zitmeubel

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