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you took a trip
and climbed a tree at Robert Sledge's party and there you stayed 'til morning came you were not the same after that you gave your life to Jesus Christ and after all your friends went home you came down, you looked around and you were not the same after that you were not the same after that you were not the same after that you've seen them drop like flies from the bright sunny skies they come knocking at your door with this look in their eyes you've got one good trick and you're hanging on, you're hanging on to... you took the word and made it heard and eased the people's pain and for that you were idolized, immortalized you were not the same after that walking tall, you'd bought it all you were not the same after that 'til someone died on the water slide and you were not the same after that you've seen them drop like flies from the bright sunny skies they come knocking at your door with this look in their eyes you've got one good trick and you're hanging on, you're hanging on to... you see them drop like flies from the bright sunny skies (dropping form the bright sunny skies) they come knocking at your door (yep) with this look in their eyes (knocking with this look in their eyes) you've got one good trick (yep) and you're hanging on, you're hanging on... (you see them drop like flies) you're hanging on, you're hanging on, you're hanging on... |
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| 2. |
| 4:18 |
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Take a walk
out the gate you go and never stop past all the stores and wig shops quarter in a cup for every block and watch the buildings grow smaller as you go Down the tracks beautiful McMansions on a hill that overlook a highway with riverboat casinos and you still have yet to see a soul Jesusland Jesusland Town to town broadcast to each house, they drop your name but no one knows your face Billboards quoting things you'd never say you hang your head and pray for Jesusland Jesusland Miles and miles and the sun goin' down Pulses glow from their homes You're not alone Lights come on as you lay your weary head on their lawn Parking lots cracked and growing grass you see it all from offices to farms crosses flying high above the malls A longer walk through Jesusland Jesusland |
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| 3. |
| 4:00 |
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Brick
by Ben Folds Five 6am, day after Christmas I pull some clothes on in the dark The smell of cold Car seat is freezing The world is sleeping I am numb Up the stairs, to her apartment She is balled up on the couch Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte They're not home to find us out And we drive Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before She's a brick and I'm drowing slowly Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere She's a brick and I'm drowing slowly They call her name at 7.30 I pace around the parking lot Then I walk down, to buy her flowers And sell some gifts that I got Can't you see It's not me you're dying for Now she's feeling more alone Than she ever has before She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly As weeks went by It showed that she was not fine They told me 'Son, it's time To tell the truth' She broke down And I broke down Cause I was tired of lying Driving home, to her apartment For the moment we're alone She's alone I'm alone Now I know it |
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| 3:05 |
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I want to ask you
Do you ever sit and wonder? It's so strange That we could be together for so long And never know, never care What goes on in the other one's head Things I've felt but I never said You said things that I never said So I'll say something that I should have said long ago You don't know me You don't know me at all You don't know me You don't know me at all You could have just propped me up on the table like a mannequin Or a cardboard standup and paint me (Paint me anything) Any face that you wanted me to be See, we're damned by the existential moment When we saw the couple in the coma And it was we who were the cliche But we carried on anyway So sure I can just close my eyes Yeah, sure, trace and memorize But can you go back once you know? You don't know me You don't know me at all You don't know me You don't know me at all You don't know me You don't know me at all You don't know me If I'm the person that you think I am Clueless chump you seem to think I am So easily led astray An errant dog who occasionally escapes And needs a shorter leash Then why the fuck would you want me back? Maybe it's because You don't know me at all Ah, ah You don't know me, you don't know me Ah, ah So what I'm trying to say is What I'm trying to tell you is Not gonna come out like I want to say it 'Cause I know you'll only change it Say it You don't know me You don't know me at all You don't know me You don't know me at all You don't know me You don't know me at all You don't know me You don't know me at all What? |
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| 5. |
| 4:30 |
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Good morning, son.
I am a bird Wearing a brown polyester shirt You want a coke? Maybe some fries? The roast beef combo’s only $9.95 It’s okay, you don’t have to pay I’ve got all the change Everybody knows It hurts to grow up And everybody does It’s so weird to be back here Let me tell you what The years go on and We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it And you’re so much like me I’m sorry Good morning, son In twenty years from now Maybe we’ll both sit down and have a few beers And I can tell you ‘bout today And how I picked you up and everything changed It was pain Sunny days and rain I knew you’d feel the same things Everybody knows It sucks to grow up And everybody does It’s so weird to be back here. Let me tell you what The years go on and We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it You’ll try and try and one day you’ll fly Away from me Good morning, son I am a bird It was pain Sunny days and rain I knew you’d feel the same things Everybody knows It hurts to grow up And everybody does It’s so weird to be back here. Let me tell you what The years go on and We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it Oh, we’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it And you’re so much like me I’m sorry |
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| 4:22 |
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Howard the strangest things have happened lately.
When I take a good swing at all my dreams, they pivo and slip, I drop my fists and they're back laughing. Howard, my intention's become not to lose What I've won, ambition has given way To desperation and I lost the fight for my eyes -Chorous- Boxing's been good to me, Howard Now I'm told, You're growing old The whole time he knew, a couple of years I'd be through, hs boxing been good to you Howard, now I confess, I'm scared and lonely and tired They seem to think I'm made of clay, another day I'm not cut out for this, I just know what to say, I say. -Chorus- Well, sometimes I punch myself hard as I can Yelling, Nobody cares, hoping someone Will tell me how wrong I am Howard -Chorus- |
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| 7. |
| 6:24 |
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I said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say So I will take it back Are all the dishes intact? Let them be broken, broken [Chorus] It's easy to be Easy and free When it doesn't mean anything You remain selfless, cold and Composed You've done me no favor To call and be nice Telling me I Can take anything I like You don't owe me to be so Polite You've done no wrong You've done no wrong Get out of my sight [Chorus] Come on baby now throw me A right to the chin Don't just stare like You never cared I know you did But you just smile Like a bank teller Blankly telling me Have a nice life Come on baby now Throw me a right To the chin Just one sign that could Show me that you give a Shit But you just smile politely And I grow weaker and I Said what you wanted to hear And what I wanted to say So I will take it back [Chorus] |
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| 5:08 |
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From the back of your big brown eyes
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could And I hoped you would We could see that you weren't yourself And the lines on your face did tell It's just as well You'd never be yourself again Saw you last night Dance by the light of the moon Stars in your eyes Free from the life that you knew You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground You're the breath that blows these cool winds 'round Trading places with an angel now Saw you last night Dance by the light of the moon Stars in your eyes Free from the life that you knew Saw you last night Stars in your eyes Smiled in my room |
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| 9. |
| 4:10 |
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We'd hit the bottom,
I thought it was my fault And in a way I guess it was I'm just now finding out What it was all about Moved to the west coast away from everyone She never told me that you called Back when I was still, I was still in love Till I opened my eyes and walked out the door And the clouds came tumbling down And it's bye-bye, goodbye, I tried And I twisted it wrong just to make it right Had to leave myself behind I've been flying high all night So come pick me up...I've landed The daily dramas she made from nothing So nothing ever made them right She liked to push me and talk me back down Until I believed I was the crazy one, and in a way I guess I was... But I opened my eyes and walked out the door And the clouds came tumbling down And it's bye-bye, goodbye I tried Treading a sea of a troubled mind Had to leave myself behind Singing bye-bye, goodbye I tried If you wrote me off I'd understand it Because I've been on some other planet So come pick me up... I've landed And you will be so happy to know I've come alone, it's over But I opened my eyes and walked out the door And the clouds came tumbling down And it's by my goodbye I tried Down comes the reign of the telephone czar It's OK to call Now I'll answer for myself Come pick me up, ...I've landed |
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| 4:00 |
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tomoonn6pence fromshootingstar
Think of me Anyway you want I can be The problem if that's easier In your head Move the pieces around Things I've said Turn the memory upside down And it makes it better I know But sometimes it's hard to swallow In time I will fade away In time I won't hear what you say In time, but time takes time you know Tell your friends The things they wanna hear and see Start the drums Band against the enemy And in time I will fade away In time I won't care what you say In time, but time takes time you know In your head Move the pieces round Things I've said Turn the memory upside down It might make it better, I know But sometimes it's hard to swallow In time I will fade away In time I won't care what you say In time, but time takes time you know Time takes time you know |
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| 3:25 |
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If there's a God, he's laughing at us
And our football team Effington could be a wonderful effing place I can see it from the highway And I'm wondering Are they effing in their yards, effing in their cars Effing in their trailers in the back roads And the parking lots Of Effington Making my way to Normal, Illinois Maybe I should ditch this little white rental On the interstate And start a new effing life In Effington I could change my name, grow a beard, start a family Or I could just keep on movin' on, movin' on, movin' on, movin' on Not stop 'til I get to Normal I want to live in Effington I want to die there too Please bury me in Effington In Effington, in Effington, oh I've got this movie in my mind of Effington And the soundtrack to it sounds like this: (Dah dah dah, dah dah dah, dah dah daaaah) I want to live in Effington I want to die there too Please bury me in Effington In Effington, in Effington, oh If there's a God, he's laughing at us And our football team And then the people who live in Normal Can buy the movies that I'll make in Effington That's what normal people do Do normal people do it too, normal people do it too, Normal people do it, people do it, people do it . . . Hey, hey Yee haw! I want to live in Effington I want to die there too Please bury me in Effington In Effington, in Effington In Effington, in Effington . . . |
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| 5:25 |
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What I've kept with me and what I've thrown away
Know where the hell I've ended up on this glary random day Where the things I really cared about, just left along the way For being to pent up and proud Woke up way too late feeling hung over and old And the sun was shining bright, I walked barefoot down the road Started thinking about my old man, it seems that all men Wanna get into a car and go anywhere Here I stand, sad and free And I can't cry, I can't see What I've done? No, God, what have I done? Don't you know I'm numb, man? No I can't feel a thing at all 'Cause it's all smiles and business these days and I'm indifferent to the loss And I've faith that there is a soul somewhere that's leading me around I wonder if she knows which way is down Here I stand, sad and free And I can't cry and I can't see What I've done? No, God, what have I done? And I poured my heart out And I poured my heart out It evaporated, see Blind man on a canyon's edge of a panoramic scene Or maybe I'm a kite that's flying high and random dangling a string Or slumped over in a vacant room, head on a stranger's knee I'm sure back home they think I've lost my mind Here I stand, sad and free I can't cry and I can't see What I've done? No, God, what have I done? |
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| 3:43 |
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Fred sits alone
at his desk in the dark there's an awkward young ahdow that waits in the hall he has cleared all his things and he's put them in boxes things that remind him that life has been good twenty five years he's worked at the paper a man's here to take him downstairs and 'I'm sorry, Mr. Jones, it's time' there was no party and there were no songs cause today's just a day like the day that he started and no one is left here that knows his first name yeah and life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change they don't change anything you get off someone else can get on and 'I'm sorry, Mr. Jones, it's time' the streetlight it shnes through the shades casting lines on the floor and lines on his face he reflects on the day Red gets his paints out and goes to the basement projecting some slides onto a plain white canvas and traces it, fills in the spaces he turns off the slides and it doesn't look right yeah, and all of these bastards have taken his place he's forgotten, but not yet gone and 'I'm sorry,Mr. Jones' and 'I'm sorry,Mr. Jones' and 'I'm sorry,Mr. Jones, it's time' John Macrea of Cake y'all (intro to Brick) People have asked me what this song is about before - I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's not cool to stop in the middle of a song, but I was just goning to tell you, uh, yeah, I was asked about it a lot, and I did'nt want to make a big hairy deal out of it cause I just waned the song, to speak for itself, but the song was about when I was in high school, uh, me and my girlfriend had to get an abortion, and, uh, it was a very sad thing, and um, I didn't really want to write this song from any kind of political standpoint, or make a statement, I just wasnted to reflect, uh, what it feels like, so if anyone, uh, has gone through it before, then yeah |
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| 14. |
| 3:11 |
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Army
by Ben Folds Well I thought about the army Dad said, Son you`re f~~king high And I thought, yeah there`s a first for everything So I took my old man`s advice Three sad semesters It was only 15 grand spent in bed I thought about the army I dropped out and joined a band instead instrumental break Grew a moustache and a mullet Got a job at Chickfila Citing artistic differences The band broke up in May And in June reformed without me And they`d got a different name I nuked another grandma`s apple pie And hung my head in shame oh no Been thinking a lot today Been thinking a lot today Oh, I think I`ll write a screenplay Oh, I think I`ll take it to LA Oh, I think I`ll get it done yesterday instrumental break all right here we go 1 2 ,1 2 3 musical interlude In this time of introspection On the eve of my election I say to my reflection God please spare me more rejection `Cause my peers they criticize me And my ex wives all despise me Try to put it all behind me But my redneck past is nipping at my heels I`ve been thinking a lot today I`ve been thinking a lot today I`ve been thinking a lot today I thought about the army |
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| 4:20 |
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He shouted out his last word
And he stumbled through the yard And she shattered her last china plate And spun off in the car When he lunged onto the hood She stopped to tell him she'd been wrong He was thrown head over heels Into the traffic coming on But then All is fair in love Did you get my other letters Sometimes I think I oughta call Cause you know I often Wonder if you open them at all Every couple nights or so You know you pop into my dreams I just can't get rid of you Like you got rid of me Oh but I send my best Cause God knows you've seen my worst But then all is fair in love All this breathing in never breathing out I guess she made her way Through the mob too late to hear him say That he'd gotten all he'd wanted A crowd to watch him bear the pain He'd been keeping in So what All is fair in love |
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| 4:49 |
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I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot Now I know all the wrong turns The stumbles and falls brought me here And where was I before the day That I first saw your lovely face? Now I see it every day And I know That I am I am I am The luckiest What if I'd been born 50 years before you In a house on the street where you live? Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike Would I know? And in a wide sea of eyes I see one pair that I recognize And I know That I am I am I am The luckiest I love you more than I have Ever found a way to say to you Next door there's an old man who lived to his 90s And one day passed away in his sleep And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days And passed away I'm sorry, I know that's A strange way to tell you That I know we belong That I know That I am I am I am The luckiest |
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