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Duck Down For The Torso

by Combat Wounded Veteran

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Limbs long gone and eyes burned out Features sliding to opposite ends Unafraid and unimpressed Corpse A: I have a plan Corpse B: So do I You can't touch us
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* THE CAMPAIGN TO END YOUR SPEAKING PARTS * I can sense this leads to nothing and nowhere good In these days and times, nothing works the way it should There's nothing appealing about this It's the smell of shit and vomit and it makes me sick and no fucking sense I’m fucked, stuck killing everything, everytime It won’t burn out I will throw up to continue dealing with this It’s the smell of shit and vomit I wish you’d stop speaking words because I don’t want to get indignant on your face I wish you’d stop moving around because i have to adjust not to see you I’ve got shit stuck on my shoe and it’s deep in the grooves It won’t burn
3.
Constructing drag strip coffins for unravel civilians Whirling around, acting handless, beating on skulls for abbreviation We are translated from the monaural sounds and turn on in sparks, to build our own lightning and punctuate the old plastic way Complaining heads are shorting out, spilling vomit and stopping reproduction naked fumbling in the dark, painted silver for reflection We are translated into pixels, digitized for champion knitters Fawning fucking idiots over the monaural sound You got your finger in the gushing hole of the bad years It's getting everywhere and you're painting pictures with the blood Gross
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There were giant squid for 27 days in August and September My bathwater multiplied into oceans when I blinked It was always dark, and the moon followed the same pattern as reality I built fear into unknown shapes, several, they worked in unison; coiling around my limbs, ribbon filaments that moved as invertebrates Tendon and muscle, without joints Always night, I step in a puddle It is an ocean The rain starts and floods everything The sinks fill, sea level is mine every night 27 days of it I had these enemies and at the beginning the moon was small, I had no light, treading seas that exploded moments prior I introduced myself to panic, I said hello At this came motion beneath me, and the touch of smooth flesh, wrapping around elements of my body, and they touched my genitals, tightening around abdomen Underwater, gagging and blind REPEAT The time I spent in the agreed upon continuity found me getting dirty, as I had been avoiding liquids, and more irrational I stopped brushing my teeth, no liquid soap No bar soap with liquid catalyst No one came near me, my odor was weaponry Work had no more use for me and soon I slept outside, sprawling in beds of dirt, hugging it to me When the rains came, I was forced to use pills to battle sleep But I could not win, and again I was killed And I struggled on trying not to die, to be drowned, strangled, and chewed, concurrently My only comfort, the patches of dry earth I found to sleep in, feeling strong They killed me anyway, the moon opening now, them becoming visible, only to disappear They had ways of creating their own shadows I saw only the stray pieces that flashed outside the black cloud they projected No weakness, and in their element, I was continually murdered I did not know how many times I could die, the deaths were growing tedious Maddening I tried to kill myself, at first water, as far down as I could go and did not go back up My skull was just beginning to go numb, and it was on me soon eating most of my leg Suicide was failure and I was truly fucked I woke up, walked to street and waited for a car Fifty miles an hour, one was coming I took a step, was off my feet for a few seconds, then face first, onto the road, with my legs coming down over my head, bent backwards, in half I wanted it done, but it wasn't There was no pain, nothing broken, get up, walk back inside I took a knife out of the drawer and into my stomach Nothing My gun tried to put a bullet into my face and failed I appeared doomed only to die with my nightmares, and now I knew I needed as much light and emaciated earth as I could find, my elements and strength The desert and the open skies, the full moon would be my advantage I followed the lunar cycle to the desert near the canyons and rock formations My savior smiled back, parched and beautiful The sun was falling I gathered rocks and laid them out into humans I took position among them No water for miles I closed my eyes The moon was bright overhead when I heard it coming, the first drops of rain beginning It had come in on storm clouds that were fast closing in on the moon and casting great shadows towards me The downpour started, attempting to flood me out I stood and the long dead land resisted, shifting enormous tectonic plates, the water running between them I turned to the stones They formed and rose with me as it fell to the ground gasping and flailing parts We stood over it, a feeble spray of ink marking paths in the defiant soil A pile of pale flesh shivering and caking with dirt I took a rock to one of it's eyes The others torn long appendages from it and threw them to the sky The fear was gone, I beat my fists on it The rain stopped The others backed away, howling and ripping everything from inside it's shell, I was covered in fluid and bits of organs Again I turned to the stone men and we lifted the giant husk We carried it to the rock formations and dropped it The stone men dissolved back into the landscape I climbed onto the shell and smiled I waited for the sun ABORT

about

"Abort the mission!"

"Duck Down For The Torso" is the final recording from Tampa, Florida's COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN. Recorded in 2001, it was initially released in 2002 via 10" and CD formats from No Idea Records. Both formats slipped out of print over the years.

April 7, 2023 will see all "Duck Down For The Torso" songs being formally reissued and made available for streaming and download platforms in an official capacity. This digital release is part of a larger project, wherein Dark Operative will now be administering the band's entire discography in the digital realm and reissuing all of the material in a series of vinyl releases in the months to come.

Additionally, the band will be launching an official merchandise store in collaboration with Midnight Screening.

Finally, the band will be donating their proceeds on all releases and merchandise to various charities on local levels around the planet.

Please stay tuned for more information.

credits

released April 7, 2023

Record No. 7

Recorded at Atomic Studio by M. Nikolich (July/October 2001)
Art: Steak Mtn
2023 lyrical transcriptions: Eyestone

All songs on this record by this band.
Lyrics to 67, 68, and 70 were scrawled in a composition notebook by Ponch. 69 was realized on the back of a receipt for candy by Norris.

Combat is:
PONCH - vocals
RADDE - guitar, vocals
HOWE - bass
HAMACHER - drums
NORRIS - guitar, vocals

Additional vocals by Jimmy Reese on 'Pterodactyl'

© & P 2002 Dark Operative
This is OPS054. Thank you.

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