1. |
ask someone else
02:13
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Random conversations in the other room
Doors slamming louder than they’re supposed to
Corny moneymakers showing on the TV
I wake up in the morning way too early
You’d better ask someone else
You’d better thank the good lord
I got ink on my fingers looking for a new job
You wanna get a pizza, how much cash have you got?
I’m sick of getting transferred to your voice mailbox
If I didn’t have the patience I would miss you a lot
You’re putting words into my mouth
And thoughts in my head
I’ve already got too much in there
To hear what you said
I never knew the answer
but I wish that I had
If you ever have a question
you’ll know who not to ask
Go for a stroll
remote control
Do what I’m told
It’s the way I roll
Plausible goal
Don’t feed the troll
Newspaper soul
In a sixty foot hole
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2. |
desperately hopefully
03:13
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It’s Saturday night in America and I feel like a native son
Stuck on prices, stupid vices, problems you won’t outrun
On Valentine’s Day down south get a flower for a gun
And plant it in the holy ground when the day is done
This body pit called Michigan is croaking out a curse
it gives a final death rattle and waits to hear the worst
if I could find and then divide the things I want and need
I wouldn’t be down on my knees regretting everything
Don’t fall in too deep
Jealousy
Desperately
Hopefully
We’ll be at war the rest of our lives
I found a job and it gets me by
I’m mired in virtual addiction
I’d start over if I wasn’t in debt
God we need some new material
Every day I feel nocturnal
I try to say something rational
it just dissolves into worthless babble
human life is cheap
it shouldn’t be
Desperately
Hopefully
Count your blessings
Let me sleep
Desperately
Hopefully
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3. |
honey (by herself)
03:46
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Can’t believe, can’t stay upset
All the boys that she has met
Save me this, faint music
Sand on toes, raindrop kiss
Falling upward, feeling fine
Lemon bright with summer wine
Laughter in the hammock swing
Petal soft and shy
May you find your way back home
She strides lines in sunshine
Tapestry stitches and seams
fawns over illustrations
celebrates some Bradbury
Muscles sore in this slow ache
Tangled sheets as the storm breaks
She’s alive and she’s awake
She walks by, the whole world shakes
May you find your way back home
In the dark with the curtains drawn
against the light of impending dawn
May you find your way back home
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4. |
a little off
03:17
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He’s looking for a fight
And she feels eyes on her every night
He wrote her a poem
And she made him drive her all the way home
she’s not that kind
and he says honey that’s not right
he wants to get high
but his pockets are running dry
You ain’t my girl
No, you ain’t my girl
Just try walking out the door
And I’m sleeping alone tonight
He still lies awake
Fretting just for fretting’s sake
He won’t say please
When he knows that nothing is for free
how about some advice
when you’re on the rocks
hey, man, how you feeling
Hey man, how about a little off
He won’t be the first to leave
Just ignore the space between
He won’t be the first to leave
Just ignore the space between
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5. |
because i said so
02:09
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None of us is best at this
Spare my ears the sell-out riffs
Don’t care if you don’t like it
Don’t care if it gets heated
Invocation argument
save it, brother, just save it
authority that you dispense
I don’t need no more bullshit
Going to work
Going to work because I said so
Going to war
Going to war because I said so
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6. |
vonnegut
02:49
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divine engineer shrouded in glory
everyone’s the hero of their story
with footprints proclaiming we were here
can’t have any jokes without any fear
Notice your happiness
Say if this isn’t nice then what is
so it goes
go to the city and meet your rival
The human brain’s a poor scheme for survival
You are whatever you pretend to be
Cause everything else is just dead machinery
Time is liquid, cat’s in the cradle
And in the water I am beautiful
So it goes
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7. |
since september
02:50
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Every memory you have is stuck in your head
Different every time you remember them
Looking over the fields and highways atop the nearest hill
See the towers standing tall along the earthen hem
The world you grew in
Oh no no
Not like that
Don’t give me the grief to carry around because
Every time
I come back
My heart is away and my head is down
I’m leaving this town
Spent my time in the highest places facing east and west
Tried a million ways to hold it all
Somewhere on the horizon I saw smoke rising up
Something’s burning down and the world is getting smaller
Smaller and smaller
Smoke rises on the horizon
Since September stole my love
Smoke rises on the horizon
Since September stole my love
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8. |
played i got
02:00
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you treated me badly
you treated me cruel
I wanted to possess you
I was just a fool
One after the other my
Heart’s counting down
It’s the look on her face
It’s the look on his face
When they’re in an embrace
Happiness on display
And I’m wasting away
Brought it on myself I admit
She said she was thinking bout letting me in
Falling for the usual shit
She said she was thinking bout it
I guess not
I guess not
Played I got
Got, got, got, got
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9. |
a word of advice
01:41
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Get ready to have it
Get rid of your habit
Get treated on a park bench
Busking for their change
Trying to make it rain
A word of advice
As you begin your ascent
If nature has been kind to you
Don’t let it go to your head
The majority is not that lucky
We might try but we know
We’re not going anywhere
going anywhere
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10. |
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Out of many comes one
Out of many comes one
Leave the light on when you’re done
Out of many comes one
I appreciate your consultation
I’ll take it as a sign
Forever held to first impressions
I can’t justify
Who I am, who I was, and who I will be
If you ever get back to that place we were at
You know where to find me
Tomorrow takes care of itself
Tomorrow takes care of itself
Take your time, calm your mind
Tomorrow takes care of itself
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