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Five lovely lessons learned today
Coating my throat with the dust of a new day As the saints pray their lonely way And their deadweight lays the passion to waste Maybe if I sew my heart on my sleeve They'll drop the bomb on me and I'll wake up I can only fix so much in my sleep I can only drink so much from this empty cup I know I must not think bad thoughts I'm always beaten to the punch I'm holding aces high and low And in between I'm trying to break my fall Give me a piece of what you've got I'll make it new with much less thought it's symbolic and full of trash Lofty endearments whispered under your breath Five lessons remembered from yesterday Easing my mind and seizing each new day Beyond and back I??짝??????짝 still the same Kicked over some old trash but I still waste |
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| 2:10 |
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My life's a mystery
I just cant figure it out It's strange to me That the visions I see Seduce me but for now I try to focus But I can only do a little at one time Everyone keeps telling me Everything's going to be all right Just sit right down And we'll tell you lies I'm at a junction But I just don't know which path I'm proud of all the work I??짝??????쨀e done But it never seems to last It's not for money it's for love And it just might break my back Sometimes it seems as though Something might go my way I'll never give it up Too many things I??짝??????쨀e yet to say I've done it by myself And I can do it all again |
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| 3. |
| 2:08 |
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One I was younger than
The youngest of fragile minds I ate the day with bad manners Then spit out the rind And mother told me As I looked to the sky Yes my mother told me "My dear son, You're not the one" I flew from home when I was just twenty-one Young enough to be the feather of someone I've got a conch pissed with conch republic rum My father by my side, teary-eyed, he said: "Son, by god what I could have done, And you're just like me, You can really put 'em down oh if I was in your place I'd stay, have fun But I??짝??????짝 not the one" Now I'm sitting here Haggling over sums Of money made by someone else To me it don't belong I toss a smile to the mighty boss He's my God But I'm a bit backwards And I know he's just a fucking dog. |
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| 4. |
| 3:27 |
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I've kept it in my heart
for over twenty fucking years And all that time washing away With the stench of my spilt tears I've lingered on the amorous Transformed into something hideous With the love of life felt to new extents And reaching new heights of ugliness The Stooge Stool pigeon of idiots King of jesters, pawn of comediennes A pillar that supports my own demise Believing all that??짝??????짱 seen Throughout my vacant eyes I'm rewriting paragraphs In my life that don't read well Once opposed to editing my regrets I've grown sick of this denial Tempted every hour By the benefits of being a liar Turning my back at what's at hand And writing stupid verse to make it all seem grand Some say there's something to strife That serves those grieving spineless artists Transforms shit into a masterpiece And makes their vain attempt at pain So fucking romantic And I'm certain that someday my time will come I'll crash and burn like everyone |
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| 5. |
| 2:37 |
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I write alone now that you're gone
And it's nothing I studied all you've said and done and it's nothing The pictures perfect There's no time It's nothing Resolutions made What's yours is mine and it's nothing Through all the years There's been a feeling Of forsaken That's lost my mind and now I know I've been a fool And you showed up But it's the last time That this place will know Its self or the people that we once knew I walk the streets now Dusk till dawn and it's nothing I never cared to see you Gone and that's nothing These years have lasted far too Long and I'm stuck here with this song And all the problems I've Endured are nothing The picture's perfect And it's nothing |
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| 6. |
| 3:06 |
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Why can't I beat the bankers
Deal then find a home to rob Why can't I lie and cheat and steal Who wants an honest job And if I curse you night and day My integrities been tried While I waste a life away Why don't you try and hide The end has just begun The end has just begun Your life's been run My bastard son Why can't I turn on the light And see I'm all alone Why can't I change my liars Life and find myself a home And if I did where would I be Lost in my due misery So if there's truth you'd Better keep it away from me It away from me So why can't I shut the Window tight and keep the Wind outside And with no friends in sight To help me fight the tides My own rests in a hotel room And on a switchblades knife Why must I find the truth so Soon and end this bastards life The end has just begun The end has just begun Your life's been run My bastard son |
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| 7. |
| 2:44 |
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A train sounds off with whistle blowing
Lighthouse horn sounds early warning Clean cool air with stars out shining Overcoat and whiskey drinking Hands locked tight and close together These nights are bliss in drunken leisure Spitting air in gusts as it gets cooler Spase clouds try to come together You can feel the chill and bid farewell As you start leaving Sounds like an evening The cars thin out on empty streets no traffic jams to make you weak Shopkeepers leave, at home they speak Of good patrons and of cash and thieves The wind is gaining ground on you The air turns damp with seaside dew But it don't lie, it tells the truth And all is well and all is new Your west side is a teenage waiting Los Angeles a childhood haze Like steps to nowhere you sit there gazing At friends you've lost through years of forgetting time sells you short of all you're wanting Though you don't know just what you're seeking Except winter nights and cigarettes And boozing with the best of them |
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| 8. |
| 3:27 |
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10 AM yeah I just woke up
I can't clear my head Drank too much last night again I might as well be dead Well I'm just fuckin' lazy My whole life's makin' me crazy But I wouldn't give any of it Up even if you paid me We all get in my car turn up The stereo Gotta goto the Trocadero see Another fuckin' show Well I'm just fuckin' lazy My whole life's making me crazy But I wouldn't give any of it Up even if you paid me 'Cause all I want is feedback Yeah all I need is feedback All my time is poorly spent But it's all I can do To make it through I guess it's all right Staying at home Being with my friends But the only time I feel all right Is when I??짝??????짝 on stage again 'Cause I'm so fucking lazy And everybody's makin' me crazy And I should've givin it all up 'Cause they're never gonna pay me So all I want is feedback Yeah all I need is feedback All my time is so well spent And it's all I can do Yeah it's all I ever do To make it through |
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| 9. |
| 2:19 |
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Did you ask that man
On the corner for the time of day Did he shrug and glance at his wrist and say "Dunno, here you go" And hand you a fool's gold watch I should tell you some sacred stories Secret and confound But by God you tell me That's the point Go on and get your fortune told Give away your fortune You're fortunate enough to have one You're morally disconnected You seem to be a mistress or some forgotten wallflower The clich?of an old man's dreams The storybook disease In a rush to get out and leave Mister good for nothing Miss disease In need of heartache Beg now and then For a sin to appease Beg now and then for a sin to appease |
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| 10. |
| 2:01 |
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Well we're all gone good-bye see you so long
And you're so young and glad to see us move on When the day's long and the moon just stares you down notice your shoes are dirty when your heart's on the ground As sure as I'm down With my knees to the ground As sure as forgotten and never been found Never been so bored Brickwalled on a bank holiday And not looking forward Tomorrow's dour as a petty wage Line up those whiskeys while rotting on remand It's like me to drown my sorrows Sitting here I'm taking a stand As sure as I'm down With my knees to the ground And sure as forgotten and never been found I'm down |
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| 11. |
| 2:37 |
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I guess it's all right
That we never know Just what it all means And if there are ways Of making a change Please show them to me So if I could stop time Then I would stay 21 Cause everyday since that time I wished I was young I'm so paranoid Of failing in life I can't even think And I'm so tired of worrying That I can't even sleep I'm so lost in my mind That I can't touch the ground And I've drank so much cheap wine That I feel I might drown Life's been so low That I got so high I can't even stand I'm down on my knees I'm begging you please Lend me a hand |
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| 12. |
| 3:16 |
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It's been a prosperous four years
Many have come and staked their claim But now it's over and the halls are cleared And you're unpopular again It takes so little time at all To see who can really play the game And before the winters fall We won't be seeing you the same And when I'm lost in all my thoughts While I'm driving 'round the Bay As the foundation slowly rots Won't we ever find our way Of all the ones who've come and gone It never matters all the same And as the day's so very long It's all right to miss the train |
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| 1:50 |
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I was only laughing out loud I say
"When anybody else would've done the same" I could always shut my mouth again But it'd still come out that way again and again Well I'm going to the hills now baby Goin' out to the city building Gonna sleep in the dirty alleys Where the air is fresh With the new day rising You keep knocking on the door But they don't answer anymore Oh you know it aint your fault my dear it's just that bad luck time of year There's no use talking about the weather And since that's all that's on my mind Well then whatever I don't have the time to waste my energy on lying So babe I??짝??????짙l see you later "I'd die with one less cocktail babe It keeps me from feeling naked and ashamed Oh I'd love to tell you stories old and new True and false but I??짝??????쩍 best be on my way" |
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| 1:43 |
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This journey started slow and free
And ended wrapped around a tree Just like my self pity tangled in the willow weeds As high as right up to my knees While scratching at the fleas She is handsome she is pretty She's the queen and I'm two jacks shitty With our way the less traveled roads And filthy ferry boats and filthy overcoat Counted on the fields to be far away from home and close to me And the castles and sea You can bet the city wind is going to sting your eyes When you forget to use the telephone And the sleet the snow the rain and clich?long good-byes When you got to leave her all alone I'm not sure how well I am I know exactly where I stand with you hand in hand Place your head on the pillow please There's one of our two hearts diseased That one belongs to me She is handsome she is pretty She's the queen and I'm two jacks shitty |
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| 2:53 |
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The fascists and their many guises
Anarchists and their fantasizing It seems sometimes they're sailing the same boat Politicians mesmerizing throngs of automated souls As some similar psycho's screwing on the scope I'm leaving town To join sophisticates in my head We'll have our fun playing the hypocrite critic And when all the creatures in their palaces are crushed I can safely say "I'm coming home" Fairy tales and fruitless fortunes Acquired from some sad story teller Can sometimes be enough to keep me mum in my keep Organ grinders orating overtures of madness As the heinous hipster's spending his unearned currency There may be many ways of reaching the same plateau I'll take the road less traveled If it looks like it ain't been sold The chains around my neck won't break But at least they're made of solid |
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