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The Bit

Release date: 10th December 2008

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‘The Bit’ by Mastodon is a 2008 track with lyrics that take a bizarre, animal-minded direction, moving through images of cows, a mouth, and bodily threat before settling into a defiant insistence that the speaker is alive. The lines are aggressive and tactile, punctuated by numbered detail and commands, then end on a wary challenge: ‘What will you follow?’ The overall effect is theatrical and confrontational, like a rant built out of surreal instructions and hard physical urgency.

"The Bit" is a track by Mastodon, released 10th December 2008. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Mastodon.

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Lyrics

The Bit

This is for cows

It's not for the size of me

Into my mouth

Nine-hundred and fourteen

Try some force

Try to lead

The foundling die is close determinate

Raise head and stomp the blood

I'm not even sound raide

I'm alive

I got the silver

And I wonder

What will you follow?

When your head is not in order

And I'm stomping your little

How can you laugh

How can you lie awake

Making me drive

Making my heart a

Not too fat

Not to lean /

The foundling die, is close excitedly

Raise head and stomp the blood

I'm not even soundly

I'm alive

I got the silver

And I wonder

What will you follow?

When your head is not in order

And I'm stomping your little

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The Bit

2008
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