You're a Rival

from Take Me to Your Leader If You Know What I Mean by Surprise Flapjacks

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A singer may require a device
If you don't have a ringer
with a voice of Olympian nectar on ice
then a dose from our stinger in the throat should suffice
to entice and inspire
new admirers with soaring, Gregorian pipes
Make Beatlemania seem like
a zany appendix to one of your nights
for an "Is this erroneous?",
frankly felonious price!

A bassist may require a pulse
If you buy her in stasis,
just supply her or him the appropriate volts!
A drummer may have need of a brain,
or perhaps one that's dumber
with our methalyn-opiates it's all the same
No need for wires or emulsifiers
just turn our adjustable dial
according to preference
and deference to genre or style!

You will find that the future will converge like a scythe
and unbind all the sutures
all the seams that confine, until, slender and lithe,
a resplendent new creature will emerge from the pile
and ascend to the bleachers
all rippling tendons and aquiline features, and smile.
Swallow your manhood and call, and our band could
most definitely be your life
All for a feasible, totally reasonable $6,666.95!
Though foes would delay you with libelous prose
and the blades of their knives
Your rivals will tremble and dive
as the thing you resemble arrives.

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from Take Me to Your Leader If You Know What I Mean, released October 17, 2015

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Surprise Flapjacks Durham, North Carolina

Surprise Flapjacks makes music about communists, existential crises, zombies, and lovesickness (and, of course, zombie lovesickness). The Carrboro and Durham-based five-piece creates melodic, energetic pop awash in sugary hooks and group harmonies, shot through with nervous surrealism, and tempered with submerged melancholy. ... more

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