MAX BRIGHTNESS

By high bugs

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Released on July 10, 2025

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[Intro]

(“Out of nowhere, out of the total musical vacuum, out of total darkness, comes one - ONE, ONE, ONE! One ray of light… and it’s fucking [high bugs]”)


Whoop whoop whoop! Whoop! Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba!


(“You’re trying to get off, and you realize that these bands just don’t get you off…”)


Skrrrr! Skrrr!


[Part I: Dual Effect]


[Verse]

I get bored with a character creator if I can't wear pink eyeshadow

I think the PSP was ahead of its time

I got gables greener than Anne's

I wanna record an EP on PEI


What the fuck do you take me for?

I'd rather eat sand than wear a hat

I think they should have called it the DualShock 5

If you heat a Teflon pan too hot it'll kill birds


No keyhole in the ignition

But I gotta use the key to pop the airbag

How am I supposed to drive with the airbag out?

I wanna play two player Ghosts ‘n Goblins

I wanna play Four Swords with three other people

I wanna beat Mad Trax by myself

Anyway back to the car talk

I just replaced my brake with a second gas pedal


I use a plasma ball as a GPS

I don't care if I say the same thing twice

Nintendo 64 RAM expander

I'll carve a frog out of a big mushroom


I'll whittle a Sega Saturn out of petrified wood

I'll make a functioning fish out of bronze

I'll stay an extra night at Hackett’s Quarry

I gotta wear shades to look at the moon


(high bugs)


I can eat corn on the cob without fuckin’ up my teeth

I like corn on the cob without any butter

I eat corn on the cob raw off the stalk

Sometimes I suspect I can walk through mirrors


Sometimes I feel like I'm in a Dual Effect game

Sometimes I feel like an orchid mantis

Sometimes I'm really proud of my songs

Sometimes I write one like this


[Part II: Even Dracula]


[Interlude]

(It’s a crab thing, baby)


(I am impervious to propaganda)


[Verse]

I know what I'm doin’, I'm into it, I'm emerging from the water now

I know what I grew and we can light it now and smoke you out

I know what I threw right at the wall and I know some will stick

I know when I'm through and I'm not through, or over, or done yet


I know what I'm doin’, I'm into it, I’m - (Dracula will be there!)

I know what I grew and we can light it now and smoke you out

I know what I threw right at the wall and I know some will fall

But some will stick


[Interlude]

(Vegetable soup

野菜のスープ

Banana

Banana)


(Until I saw a dracula, I wasn’t superstitious)


[Part III: Hotels]


[Verse]

I’ve forgotten more than half the times I’ve stayed in a hotel

But I could name a few that I remember very well

Sometimes I admit that I do more than I should

Try to ignore the whispers while we're running through the woods


…Running through the woods…


I’m glad we took the fireworks that we found in the safe

You act like a taser and I act like a can of mace

Small price we pay to feel like for the moment we are safe

We couldn’t help but laugh as we check back into our place


Different kinds of branches tangled in our hair

Convincing argument to not go back out there

I can’t recall a time I’ve had so damn much fun

Pour myself and you another shot of rum


[Interlude]

(The higher the higher bug bug the high the buggier the bug bug the bug high the buggy bug bug High D buggy floor bug buggy higher the buggy the bug man)


(“And it’s fucking- [high bugs]”)


[Part IV: Geeb Lord]


[Intro]

Okay, everybody with me now

On the count of three

One, two, three

Let's fucking go


[Verse]

Sparkles on my fucking face

Did you say that blunt was laced?

Must be why I’m all askew

Shit, I'm boutta dip it too


Ship a gasket bent in half

Dwell in elevator shaft

Gnawing on a lemon rind

Steal my flow from Feelin’ Fine


The geeb is fucking dirty bro

You could make a new one you know

I guess it's not my problem

But I don't think that it's that hard though


Okay, so the concept is:

We're gonna have to make a list

Write every idea you have down

And then we’re gonna live it out!


[Part V: The Gym]


[Verse]

I climbed the wall at the gym using two ice picks

They tried to make me leave because of lack of membership

I told the guy I'm sorry, but you're too nice kid

If I was you I woulda shot me like immediate


Because now I'm in the rafters with my fishing line

And I'm stealing the barbells one at a time

And I reeled them all in and now they're all mine

And I'm gonna fuckin’ sell ‘em, use the money to buy wine


Then I trade the wine to this guy I know

He pours it on his plants, he thinks it makes them grow

It doesn't help but I say nothing because in exchange

He gives me plenty of herbs like dill and sage


But I don't really care at all about either of those

I'm mostly concerned with the peyote he grows

Which I hoard up to the ceiling and eat by the crate

So I can think up schemes to help me steal more weights! Ahh!


Woo!


Just kidding

“[Interlude] (Vegetable soup 野菜のスープ Banana Banana)”
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This is sampled from Listen & Learn Japanese
by Paul D. Holtzman, Miwa Kai, and Hidejiro Kotani.

The track is called Food List.

It’s a callback to the 2024 high bugs track, Without Ice.