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    Includes two bonus tracks with download!
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  • Tough (limited edition cassette version)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Released in 2015, Tough is a compilation album covering the first ten years of Bubblegum Octopus, entirely comprised of brand new material, old unreleased songs, rarities, remixes, and new arrangements of oldies.

    After two years of requests, this release has been brought to cassette format, for an incredibly limited edition release of only 100 copies, courtesy of neetspeak recordings (neetspeak.bandcamp.com).

    However! This is more than just a rerelease. The cassette version of Tough trades a few tracks in for new material, including an unreleased song from the 2005 8LDM era (with new vocals and production), two tape exclusive arrangements of Tough songs, a new final track soundscape, and of course more adorable artwork from Christine April.

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1.
[tacit]
2.
Every face you see is hollow Everyone who looks back at you Just a husk with no real feelings Just a place holder to make life full No one here could care about you No one here could ever hurt you All alone when you're surrounded All alone forever, but without peace Everything is fake Every face is painted on an empty skull Everything is fake Every mind is empty (stop, no control) Every piece of cake Every breath of air is just imaginary Gulp down dreamt up drinks Talk to your non-player family How can I talk to anyone Knowing that they will not not hear me Shout into a blackened cavern Reverberant discordance, bounce back to me Shaking bewildered unnerving Wondering why I complained before about being lonely Overwhelm, placatory dreaming Curious if there is anyone like me! Everything is fake Every friend you have is just a damn illusion Everything is fake No one here is real, it's just us Humans: simply dolls Crafted out of pieces of organic matter Gods are scientists Simply programmers making large computations
3.
I'm filled with feelings, feelings of happiness It was encroaching, now the mist feels welcoming A smile on my face, pasted there quite randomly Obscuring nightmares, replace them with dreams I look up and they're smiling down at me Angels in lab coats with bone and teeth jewelry I tell them nonsense in exchange for stories Ones I will hear before I go to sleep Oh, oh, this mist is joyous joyous Oh, oh, this mist fills up my brain Oh, oh, this mist cleans out our bad thoughts Oh, oh, sublimate me It takes my hand, running away from shit life and related feelings like sadness Parting ways with my surroundings, bedim the offensive, fly away with me All of time stops and I am breathing heaven My life nods off before it goes to sleep Tame my thoughts they let me focus feelings Sad dudes are nothing but the past Oh, oh, this mist is joyous joyous Oh, oh, this mist fills up my brain Oh, oh, this mist cleans out our bad thoughts Oh, oh, sublimate me
4.
Flurries '08 02:23
[tacit]
5.
This is not dead time, throw me out of line, this is not dead t- Fuck, yeah, dead time This is not dead time This is, this is, this is, this is Fuck, yeah, dead time Flopping on my door step This is not dead time Get back to water please H2O right now!
6.
[tacit]
7.
-Tough- 01:39
Feel tough, be curious
8.
Sharing special moments with all of your friend(s)
9.
Here it comes, gonna die. where's your god now? Look out fool, time is now: failure to comply? NO Please don't cry, I will laugh; way too funny Close your eyes, sleep real tight: this is your end! Imma roll ya up (an beat the shit outcha!) Imma roll ya up (an beat the shit outcha bitch!) Imma roll ya up (an beat the shit outcha!) Imma roll ya up (gonna beatcho ass with a muthafuckin pimp cayne!) Pillow fights, always through the night we do it Stars and moons, baby (holding hands in sex positions) Childhood memories feed my brain images Happy thoughts, my dear (killing house pets for sadist pleasure) Pillow fights, always through the night we do it Stars and moons, baby (keep those hands in those positions) Childhood memories feed my brain images Happy thoughts my dear (now take it down a couple half steps)
10.
Soft sun spots Things above are helping me by staying cool Don't melt me, I don't want to be the same as some damn ice cube She used to have such clean white teeth, what exactly happened? I sit alone, I'm doing nothing Talking to my friends, telling them that I've just been so god damn busy I haven't been free. No. Not. Never. But in truth I have just been sitting, locked up in my room, staying awake Asking the scientists, programmers, please just spare my life, I'm a copy Will you wait? I'll show you Just you wait. I'll feel you. Drink coffee Yes, I think I'm normal now Play baseball Yes, I think, I'm good enough I'd take a break from watching people, never saying a thing What you do now is as weak as lying I know in fact that I'm not above crying I sit alone, I'm doing nothing Talking to my friends, telling them that I've just been so god damn busy I haven't been free. No. Not. Never. I'm not alone, I'm never alone. I'm not alone, I'm never alone.
11.
I'm Fractal 03:05
I'm a pattern, twisting infinitely I'm repeating, revealed in the spiral's melting Dripping into technicolor lightning I'm a fragment of something that I know is greater I'm fractal, don't despair Dying just couldn't compare I'm fractal don't despair When the sun blows up I'm bound to remain here Days are so fast, spinning planet blasting Through the cosmos, faster than the greatest rocket Grab a comet, break it with your fingers Be delighted by the sounds below our human hearing I'm fractal, don't despair I'm but an endemic atom in a camera flash I'm fractal don't despair I feel beautiful with all of you in this infinite blip So know us now, as we forge our own path embracing everything that we choose not to ignore And it means much more than nothing, that we're all untitled somethings, and yet we all take it to heart to name ourselves Don't get stuck in yourself, and don't serve only you Build up from all the bleak Take root where you believe And spread the good word as we burst from the film The soft light does burn things Fret not friend, hold on to here
12.
[tacit]

about

Last year was a... how do you say... a bad one. It was real... oh, what's the word... difficult! I really had to get... strong. I had to really *something* it out... I had to... WORK it out, yeah! That's what I meant. Life threw crap at me and I had to chew the fat, no matter how... hmm... not tender it was. I got beat up and beat down and life said "...no luck!" and threw more at me.

Point is, it's April of 2015 already and I still don't have any new music released except a few random songs. That's something I need to change.
And it's more than that. There's a LOT I need to change, and chances are, you do too. Not because you're not having a great life, but just because everyone needs change.
Problem is, change in a situation isn't always an option. Sometimes the only change you can make is in yourself. Sometimes, life stinks, and you just gotta get... TOUGH

Tough enough to be okay with feeling like butts about whatever is going wrong, Tough enough to get over that stupid stupid thing that's been bugging you for weeks even though IT DOES NOT MATTER, Tough enough to endure true hardship for the sake of those you love, and Tough enough to say "Hey, I have this art/talent/skill and I think it has enough value to be presented to the rest of the world"
I believe in you.

credits

released April 4, 2015

Music: Matthew "m@ the c@" Morden
www.bubblegum-octopus.com

Art: Christine April
christineapril.com

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