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The Ballad of T. E. Gribble

by Cadaver Cable

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1.
Over Arrival 00:30
2.
Love, the way-weary, groped to your body, Our brief wage Ours for the moment Before Earth's soft hand explored your shape And the blind Worms grew fat upon Your substance Men prayed me that I set our work, The inviolate house, As a memory of you But for fit monument I shattered it, Unfinished: and now The little things creep out to patch Themselves hovels In the marred shadow Of your gift.
3.
Exterminator 02:34
I live in a house full of ants, rats, roaches, and flies I can’t see any of them even with my glasses on But I can feel them in my veins and in the skies There’s always more bugs and more bids to take on But the poisons and the toxins and the toll of the day Will kill me before I get a chance to breathe And I’ll never quit my job even with my life at stake Because surely a man has got to breathe I’ll never go home because I’ll never find what I want You’ll go home at the end of the day You’ll go home when you get paid But I’ll come back There are rats in the offices here and my town Needs an exterminator... That’s me
4.
Sorry 03:15
They say you are an unlovable wretch Maybe that’s so, but surely there’s a catch You said that nothing’s even written into fate Maybe that’s so, for somebody so great I bet we both hate the government And I don’t even know what you mean I carry sand in my pant's pockets And you think that the desert is clean I’m sorry about your nightmarish trips And your match-burned little finger tips If I bring the cigarette, will you bring the lighter? If you start the flame, then will it burn brighter? I’ve listened to you avoiding all my questions I’m sorry about the way you don’t mind pain I’ve read about your sorry imperfections And I’m sorry it seems that we might be the same I’ll drink beer or lemonade or anything to wash my mouth And I never know what to do with my hands Watch out for the security, cameras around my house But I sure hope that my bedroom beats the sands Well, sir, I don’t know if you’re enjoying Texas But I welcome you here to my home and land
5.
Love Me 01:28
Have you ever considered marriage? Have you considered someone’s hand? Have you ever longed for someone to hold you? As you cross the barren lands? Why would you follow the whims of men? When men live on the whims of gold? Will you be my shade in the summer heat? And be my blanket in the winter cold? I heard what you found in the city You know what I’ve found in my house But I just want someone to love me As much as this country allows
6.
Hell 01:25
I’ll stand there while you try to shoot me No bullet can kill a mortal man They said I’d be dead by fifty But they don’t understand Put a copy of Morte d’Arthur in my coffin Promise me, that you’ll think about me often I really don’t care what kills me I’ve already had my tail to tell When I die don’t look at me Do you think they'll have cigarettes in hell?
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I think T. E. Lawrence and Dale Gribble would make very good friends.

This album incorporates quotes, trivia, and themes from the film Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence's book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," and the show King of the Hill. Disclaimer: this is a parody of sorts and I am not an expert in any of those pieces of media. If you want to be an academic about what the hell this album is, I suppose you could call it a commentary on non conventional masculinity, homophobia, and dysfunction surrounding the ability to form emotionally intimate relationships. If you don't want to be an academic, well, this was basically a bad idea I took way too far. This is a love song about loneliness.

The first and last tracks use melodies from the Lawrence of Arabia and King of the Hill themes. They are not exact copies of the melodies, but I do not claim them as my own original compositions either.

If you have no clue who T. E. Lawrence and Dale Gribble are, and don't know what on earth is going on here, here's an annotated version of the lyrics where I explain them: docs.google.com/document/d/1nCjB1wfeUl6ZpAndSoMF98RtqJTmWoujbn546MOy2vc/edit?usp=sharing

Instruments and personnel involved: just me and my synth, recorded (very roughly and impatiently) in my little room.

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released September 15, 2020

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Cadaver Cable Florida

Formed in 2019, Cadaver Cable is the passion project of a Florida goth, and, sometimes, his friends. It's made up of 2am compositions, phone voice memo recordings, twenty-dollar keyboards, sore hands, and desperation.

A friend of the band jokingly referred to its genre as "corpse-core." Another said "it has a very deranged haunted quality." The genres of the albums are not consistent at all.
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