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Elephant Seal

by Otto Rocket & The Proamates

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1.
just when i thought I was never gonna skate again i get back on my wheels......... Go!! this song goes out to anybody whose ever had to cross the street alone just so you kno you're street wandering days are over you friendless fuck!! Yea!!!! out their in the ocean out their in the swell me and my friends are surfing and we're surfing well yea we're in the water we ain't in no snow we aren't on the boardwalk that's not the place to go when the sun is beating down on us we are in the waves we are looking trust trust trust!!!! that's all i do with my friends we got each other's backs til the end so who's eyes are those looking down from the heavens? that's me in the swell that's me and my surfboard we're here just for you i'm here with my surfboard out on the beach i'm looking for a whale but I can't seem to find one cuz i'm already here out in the water up their on the waves riding like a captain i'll be riding their for days when i'm looking for a place looking for a place to eat i ain't even hungry i just wanna skate in the water with my friends i'm surfing every day surfing up a storm the weatherman can't evade so what am I looking to do? surfs up!!! that's me in the swell that's me and my surfboard we're here just for you i'm here with my surfboard Go!!! i surf every night and every day on every street i never stop never stop surfing when i'm tired and need to sleep?? out to the sea i go because I never stop surfing no its never time to stop surfing!!!!
2.
hey who's that man out there standing out there in the rain? standing out there in the streets like you got nothing better to do huh you wanna' say something to me? or should I say it for you?? go!!! 2 3 4 go!!! out on the corner where everything looks black & white i'm here to tell you it's not no friend sometimes you gotta' put up a fight when a homeless man comes to you with a gun in his hand you gotta say hey man this ain't no time for me to defend!!! i got my new, white shirt and i'm looking great raking leaves with a party rake i got a whole bowl full of hoodsie cups and christmas cookies -try the christmas cookies because their great i made them last night at my grandma's house -my grandma's house but we tired to get a different formula because the other one was just a little too expensive for us Down at the mart looking for a new fan because the one i had doesn't rotate effectively anymore i have it in my window.. but its blowing hot air in my general direction i don't remember who got it for me, but they obviously don't have very good taste in medium-sized electronic appliances........ so don't expect me to get one for you i got my new, white shirt and i'm looking great raking leaves with a party rake i got a whole bowl full of hoodsie cups and christmas cookies -try the christmas cookies because their great i made them last night at my grandma's house -my grandma's house but we tired to get a different formula because the other one was just a little too expensive for us i'm at the driving range with my elderly grandfather i'm about to t-off so you better get out of my way!!!!!!! i got my new, white shirt and i'm looking great raking leaves with a party rake i got a whole bowl full of hoodsie cups and christmas cookies -try the christmas cookies because their great i made them last night at my grandma's house -my grandma's house but we tired to get a different formula because the other one was just a little too expensive for us 2.99 for a box of cookie mix? what do you think i'm stupid?? that's borderline highway robbery man
3.
Trashsack 04:31
forgive me father theres no time for you to be peddling your merch around here i'm not interested in what you're selling i met a guy his name was donatello he tried to sell me a brand new cello but i wouldn't have it no the thing was cracked...... and i don't know how to play as a matter of a fact i try to keep it simple but every time you come around you got me jumping out the window cuz i'm running from the cops running from the pope running from the people trying to slit my throat and you kno this ain't no time for a charity case.. this ain't the time for you to be here so gather your things and put them in this trash bag go out on the curb where the trash goes you kno you shouldn't be here...... you better get gone two days ago i was sitting in my room listening to music with my headphones on when my dad he yelled for me upstairs he said your gonna be late for class and i made you waffles... this ain't the time for a charity case....... this ain't the time for you to be here.... so gather your things and put them in this trash bag go out on the curb where the trash goes you know you shouldn't be here.... you better get gone you better get gone do you knowthe truth? this ain't no time for no charity case this ain't no time for you're trash sack this ain't no time for no charity case this ain't no time for you're trash sack!! i'll clean my room after i'm finished with you get all your things and get out the door it's trash time and the recycling-man is on his way and if you're not careful...... you'll find yourself in a body bag!!!!!!! in a body bag!!!! all of them are trying to tell me what to do you don't like me and i don't like you so put our heads together and go for drive in my dad's vehicle
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Road Soda 03:05
go!!!! gotta go fast if you wanna catch me any officer of the law who thinks he can stop me when i'm driving my dad's car has got another thing coming!!!! i'm driving on my way to the university all i got in the back is a 6pack and I'm feeling really thirsty so I grab myself one pop the cap drinking it quick making sure no officers are on my tale because i'm driving ten miles over the speed limit and just when i though i was in the clear? i've got one of the pigs riding on my exhaust pipe..... i pull over and he asks for my licence so I give it to him as well as my registration he says what do you have in the back?? none of your business i put my coat over it and then he tells me to get out of the car so i floor it and I get myself another road soda swag i swerve into the other lane all the coppers better get out of my way yea i'm driving in my dad's suv red & blue lights are looking for me but they can't catch me cuz my road sodas are like jetfuel for my stomach i'm driving in my dad's suv red & blue lights are looking for me but they're never gonna' catch me because i know what i'm doing its not the first time and it's the not the last!! yea put your hands 2gether with a beer in each hand i am kicking up sand i am driving through puddles ruining my dad's suv i need another road soda i need another road soda
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yea you know what the say everybody has a dark side well ima show you mine -my dark side do you ever feel like a moray eel? like eyeballs are looking for you and you don't have anywhere go so you just keep on walking talking stalking hawking locking doors torgive me father.... my dark side and I'm not afraid of who i am inside not afraid to show my dark side it just so happens when I'm all alone i think about the people who left me i think about the reasons i'm alone i say whose gonna stab me? whose gonna shoot me? whose gonna hit me in the face with a rock? whose gonna take a marble and sling-shot me? whose gonna slit my throat?? whose gonna light me on fire?? whose gonna push me off the dock??? whose gonna lock me in a car with the windows rolled up In a confined space with the engine on???? who........
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2 3 4!!! a thousand reasons to fail 1 reason to survive do you want success or do you wanna sink into the quicksand? looking down at my brand-new pants i see theres blood on them and its not my blood... it must be my enemies blood..... i went down to the hardware store and i know i've seen this hammer before but its not my hammer..... it must be enemies hammer another time another place you and i we will enter a race i know i'm faster than you especially on my skateboard and you will go and get your blood on me but i will say i have had a scraped knee before and it really stings especially when you put peroxide on it through the field i see you coming towards me and we can't be friends anymore your my enemy you're blood is on me but mine is not on you.... through the trees across the lake were looking for a place where all kids can skate up in the heaven or down in the earth get out of your wheelchair and skate skate skate!! go!!! this song goes out to any laundromat out there that has ever cleaned the blood off my pants i kno sometimes it can seem a little nerve racking when you see that rusty,brown stain all over somebody's scraped knees but just kno you've got a special place in my heart in a land so far away a place like america, where you can pay someone to clean the blood off of you're pants just understand...... that other countries aren't that fortunate....... sometimes when you fall down you gotta pick yourself up!!!! through the field i see you coming towards me and we can't be friends anymore your my enemy you're blood is on me but mine is not on you.... through the trees across the lake were looking for a place where all kids can skate up in the heaven or down in the earth get out of your wheelchair and skate skate skate!!
7.
Bronami 03:27
yo just when you think its over me and my bros we start rolling in like a hurricane like a tsunami... like a bronami........ Go!! there's a bronami incoming!!!!!! do you ever think about you and you're bros?? wondering if there's a place to go? would you all start thinking of great ideas?? all the sudden people try to tell you what to do i'm in the bathroom get out of my face!!!! i'm looking for a place where I can skate but you don't know me but you pretend to act like you are my friend you're not naw i don't kno you so you and your friends look for a place were you can skate but their are water balloons all over the place and they're not even the good kind... they're the kind that hits you really hard just when you think there gonna explode they don't...... and that's not the kind of water balloon i am interested for my water balloon fight water balloon fight water balloon fight there's a bronami coming in from the west so i pack my bags and leave i had to get it off of my chest there's a bronami bronami we ain't talking origami its a bronami me and my friends go!!!! there's a little bit of turbulence in the stratosphere in the stratosphere....... ;) woah bronami woah!!!!!!!!!!!! where will you go? where will you sleep?? cuz you kno the bronamis will creep in your bed when you are sleeping we never stop...... -bever stop creeping bronami on the horizon bro
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sometimes i like to think that i deserve my own lane when i'm knifing my way through traffic let's go whose ready to ball!?? making my way through the traffic lines everybody's trying to get in my way but i don't have time for that got places to go and people to see but if you try to tell me that I'm in your way, i'll push you aside with my monster truck lane their is no place for you to go no place to call your home when i'm in my monster truck lane driving fast my tires are reaching the sky i don't kno where i'm going but i just wanna fly there was a time when i was just like you............ driving in my car thinking about school but everybody told me the same thing and then they saw me in my monster truck lane and i used to be like you...... but that day is threw!! their is no place for you to go no place to call your home when i'm in my monster truck lane driving fast my tires are reaching the sky i don't kno where i'm going but i just wanna fly go!!! in my monster truck lane i'm the monster truck man let's go there let's go!!! their is no place for you to go no place to call your home when i'm in my monster truck lane driving fast my tires are reaching the sky i don't kno where i'm going but i just wanna fly monstermonster truck monstermonster truck monster truck monster trucks

about

this album is are second album. we have all been sober for a whole year, so we wanted to see what our minds could power up. it was recorded, mixed, and produced by our good friend lars. i guess we just wanted to do something different than all the mainstream bullshit out their and we wanted to make a difference in the world with our music and just make music with my friends because i have the best friends in the whole world!! thanks for all you're support!!

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released March 25, 2016

vocals - otto rocket
guitars - squid
bass - reggie
drums - twister

recorded mixed and mastered by lars rodiguez @dirtylars_studios (tm)

album art by squid

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