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Reading Chuck In The Burbs

from Giallo Argento by Extra Kool

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I had fun with this one. To fully understand this song you'll have to read the first chapter in a book called "The Haunted" written by Chuck Palahniuk & watch the classic film, "The Burbs" from 1989 staring Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher.

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READING CHUCK IN THE BURBS.


Anybody here have a read a story called “The Haunted?” Chuck wrote it.


(Hook)

I want to kill everyone. Satan is good, Satan is our pal. (2x)


(V.1)

EXTRA KOOL IS DEAD Y’ALL!

I died last year. I was lamping under water, simply grinning ear to ear. It was a beautiful suicide,

A WONDERFUL DECAY.

I was swimming in my own pearls, dodging judgment day.

SO WHERE YOU LOOKING FOR A DIRT NAP?

Naw, I was swimming laps. Paying attention to my manhood strokes, and all of that. I was sitting at the bottom, letting the drain pump please me, till things went sideways, and I started to feel queasy.

SO WHAT DID YOU DO?

All I could when you’re floating in your entrails, tug once, bite twice, I’d rather die from chemtrails.

BORN AGAIN?

From my very own teeth, my very own second chance, I am Jack’s disbelief.

So now I’m walking all alone, a second new to each his own. A second breath in my bones, taking shots of Adrenochrome.

AH CONSPIRACY THEORIES!

Yeah, and they’re trapped in my teeth. It’s only right for the name change, you can call me Gut Free.


(V.2)

So now when I blink, you see a second set of eyelids. Forked tongue behind teeth, fire in the iris.

Silence, I can’t afford to wake the neighbors. Reading Chuck on the porch in the burbs, it’s the greatest.

I say hey Dukes, why don’t we talk in strange truths. Or better yet Vamonos and keep these angles obtuse.

Poof! Now, leave me be, so I can continue to burn these pages. Yo the book is called “The Haunted” and the story’s outrageous.

Nameless, like a phantom’s candelabra. Feeling safe in suburban homes, just me and my DeVotchKa.

Gotcha, a simple life spent in denial. But the story’s in the words in the beauty’s behind the smile. Say.

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from Giallo Argento, released February 24, 2023

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Extra Kool Denver, Colorado

An archly fearless live performer, Extra Kool challenges his audiences with an unwavering stare and a direct and hauntingly intense vocal delivery. Part modern-day Dadaist, part hip-hop art terrorist, Extra Kool is the essence of truth in advertising.
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