1. |
Ruin My Day
03:39
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Hey,
It was mess out there
Say,
And if you were not aware
You were told
You would fold
And getting cold
They don’t have to be here
To ruin your day
Get under your skin
Work themself in
Or get in the way
You don’t have to be there
To get you to brood
You’re aware
They get into your hair
and ruin the mood
They don’t have to be here
To ruin your day;
Sleep,
You only closed your eyes
Deep,
Too deep to want to rise
I just might
Make it right
Out of sight
They don’t have to be here
To ruin my day
Get under my skin
Work themself in
Or get in the way
I don’t have to be there
To get me to brood
I’m aware
They get into my hair
and ruin the mood
They don’t have to be here
To ruin my day
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2. |
Here it goes again
04:49
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I’m in a dream, with clippings of
A story I can’t see above
What once was news
Now flakes away
I sense a shift
Come what may
I am a god of a domain
I call the shots in a brain
I never lose
I only win
And all that’s wrong
Is right again
Ashes, ashes turn to dust
And in the air
It turns to rust
On iron girders over us
weakened ‘til, until they bust
And here it goes again
What you see, is what I get
What I hear is your regret
You always lose
It never fails
I’m becalmed
In a gale
Ashes, ashes turn to dust
And in the air
It turns to rust
On iron girders over us
weakened ‘til, until they bust
And here it goes again
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3. |
Sweeter
04:05
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Ever we run
only apart by degrees
I am no one,
and you are no one like me
I know nothing
And want nothing to know
I want something
A thing to get me to go
Broken glass ground under foot catches light
A mute parade follows you home in the night
Sweeter
To be conscious of every meter
I’m leaving along the road
Feel the weight I towed
See what I have been showed
And let me be
I am standing
Over the blue of a pool
You are laughing
I am blowing my cool
Broken glass ground under foot catches light
Steps behind what quickly fades out of sight
Sweeter
To be conscious of every meter
I’m leaving along the road
Feel the weight I towed
See what I have been showed
And let me be
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4. |
I don't know
03:26
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When that hand came down
On the young and pink
On buster brown
made him think
I don’t know
What I don’t know
God is damned in hell
Sea monkeys in a dish
A boy down a well
A wish for a wish
I don’t know
What I don’t know
There is still a light
Where most have burned away
In the Bakelite
Box that plays
I don’t know
What I don’t know
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5. |
Greta Garbo
04:43
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What once was out
Now wants in
What would never end
now has been
Turn me over
Turn me round
Again
It will never fly
You said to me
You said too much
I said carefully
As I never
Needed gravity
I feel her hand
That ship had sailed
I’m off above
Garbo’s whiskey
and ginger ale
Too lost to love
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6. |
Lost and Found
03:19
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I found I was lost
And lost what I’d found
I’ll afford the cost
If I can stay around
I was bound to be
Tied in knots
And cutting free
Was my only chance I thought
But you know I’m here
Dreams ago
Some could’ve been real
I was sinking slow
And couldn’t feel
I was off the chart
But you know the sea
Once you start
To struggle desperately
The end is near but I’m here
There’s bats in the belfry
And rats in the pantry
Ants where they can’t be
And I need to make it clear
I’m glad youare here
I found I was lost
And lost what I’d found
The bridge was crossed
On solid ground
I was bound to be
In a world of knots
Holding on to me
Was all that I had got
But they got me here
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7. |
WC Fields forever
05:35
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I know it’s late.
The time never can tell
When I’m feeling swell
cause it’s 5 o’clock somewhere
and some snakes will eat whatever’s there
And that’s the tail
I’ve had it good
I made the grade
And I groped the maid
The barkeep shouts last call
Down the hatch boys with it all
And that’s the tale
W.C. Fields forever and ever
Forever and ever Amen
W.C. Fields forever and ever
A party that could never end
I know it’s late
I promised to ring
But it started to swing
But just one more for the road
Old soldiers fade and I implode
And that’s the tale
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8. |
All you need is cash
03:46
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When you need some fun
All you need is…
Or if to get a gun
All you need is…
To bend a couple rules
All you need is…
To get you out of school.
Keep it in your stash
All you need is cash
All you need is…
A way to clean the slate
All you need is…
To see meat on your plate
All you need is…
If you need a loan
All you need is…
To have it in on your phone
They’ll say that you are brash
But all you need is cash
All you need is…
All you need is…
All you need is…
All you need is…
Cash
All you need is…
When you walk the line
All you need is…
To steal the other’s signs
All you need is…
To get a roof above your head
All you need is…
For someone in your bed
It's gone in a flash but
All you need is cash
All you need is…
All you need is…
All you need is…
All you need is…
Cash
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9. |
Nair B
03:02
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10. |
Fly in LA
05:55
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I love you to the sky
I love you and know why
I need you and so deep
From so low to so high
You sing the line
In intervals I’m tied
I know the tune
And in it do abide
I love you to the light
I love you out of sight
I hear the line
In intervals I’ve tried
I look for the tune
And it’s all there inside
I know you’re coming in
Just down the hall
I hear the steps
Bounce off the wall
You know me
I know you
You know what you’re gonna do
I’m tasting steel
I feel the sting
I can’t believe in anything
I hear the steps
Down the hall
I woke up under
What looked like the sun
Florescently shining on me
Lumens like bullets
stuffed into a gun
I looked down the barrel to see
I better pull up my trousers
And look what I done
As all of this is fading away
Oh man, I only started to play
And I already knew what you’d have to say,
But at least I don’t gotta fly in LA
I can’t not remember
What you hated to say
And took what I heard to be true
This stuff could never
Ever fly in LA
And whatever I bothered to do
Then I looked in the mirror
And I said hey
as all this is fading away
Oh man, I only started to play
And I already knew what you’d have to say,
But at least I don’t gotta fly in LA
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11. |
Your mother should go
03:43
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New Mexico,
Hey that’s a place where
Your mother should go
Or
Acapulco
Maybe that’s where
Your mother should go
There’s plenty for her there to do
From Albaquerque to
Elephant butte
Your mother should go
Sarajevo
A perfect place where
Your mother should go
Or
Idaho
Maybe that’s where
Your mother should go
Imagine the things there to see
But neither you there
Nor me
Your mother should go
A feast for the ears and the eyes
We’ll need all of the time
That it buys
Your mother should go
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12. |
Starting again
03:44
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In the beginning was a planet
No-one had planned it
And it was good
God from nothing hovered over
the sea and Jahovah
Who Knew he could
The Nellie swung to anchor
I would have sank her
In a line
O’Hara was no beauty
the Tarletan two pees
Would have shined
And as the words
Filled the air
I wish I heard
What wasn’t there
I’m for starting, starting again
taking now, and leaving then
I’m for starting, starting again
You can call my Izzy
I wasn’t busy
On the shore
I set off on the ocean
I just had a notion
To be whaling more
With decks awash with seamen
Who was dreaming
Who took this stab
Izzy shouldn’t’ve wondered
It would all go under
With Cap Ahab
And as the words
Filled the air
I wish I heard
What wasn’t there
I’m for starting, starting again
taking now, and leaving then
I’m for starting, starting again
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Brian Stevens New Milford, Connecticut
I am an alien that was sent to earth to study humans and report my findings to minister Zolumb on the planet Yat. To fit in with other middle aged men in my area, I took up pretending to make music. Enjoy.
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