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The world hung cold in decaying stars
when she kissed you behind parked cars
Your black-eyed souls it had emptied into dreams
Grandpa died when you were five
But words come late or don't arrive
For a minute weren't you 17?
In debt to stitched men dressed like phonies
Grandpa died betting on the ponies
and nothing ever turns out like you thought
Like when planes had bombed the towers
you sat there for an aweing hour
I know-- pictures of a parking lot!
Sometimes you're sad and sometimes you're 20
Your mom works hard and you take her money
Shadows dance with strangers in the dark
Nothing changes when you're 10 but
You looked it up and it changed again
You didn't think the truth would leave a mark
And it's not love but we'll pretend
cause don't you know the truth can bend
but in her eyes you see that it hurts a lot
We'll pack it in a plastic bag
Just don't look inside it'll make you sad
I know-- pictures of a parking lot!
It's nothing like what they wanted for you
but none of that matters, they should have told you in school
Children eat the roses at the park
And now your locks get funny and they eat your keys
cause nobody likes you when you're 23
Doesn't this place just break your heart?
Your heroes are dead and your daddy's a lair
This city's not shinning, your city's on fire
I know-- pictures of a parking lot!
What were you hoping for?
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Have Fun Everyday
03:36
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Moses can't make rent tomorrow
and she don't care
Adam says that Eve's got a broken dream
Let's go outside
Ruby says my hair’s too long
My dad said that I live life wrong
Shouldn't I trade my soul for an alarm and a leg?
We just have fun, have fun everyday
Have fun, have fun, jump in the bay
Have fun, have fun everyday
Jesus leaves for France tomorrow
and she don't care
Alice says she kissed him in a dream
Hey! That's not fair
Thomas says that she's no nun
but I love her like I love the sun
And not a person laughed when Daryl said that life was a joke
We just Have fun, have fun everyday
Have fun, have fun jump in the bay
Have fun, have fun everyday
Now take my life
Don't you be too long
cause she love you
I heard it in a song
Sorry she can't meet
cause she says that she's busy today
She'll meet tomorrow
I hope she's the one
she'll meet tomorrow
I hope she's the one
show me tomorrow
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Great Big Kiss
02:29
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Here comes my guy walking down the street
Look how he walks with a dancing beat
Thick wavy black hair, just a little too long
On and on he's singing his song
when I see him in the street
My heart takes a leap and skips a beat
Gonna walk right up to him
Give him a great big kiss
Tell him that I love him
Tell him that I care
Tell him that I'll always be there
Big bulky sweaters to match his eyes
Dirty fingernails
Oh boy what a prize
Tight khaki pants, high button shoes
People always tell me
When I see him in the street
My heart takes a leap and skips a beat
Gonna walk right up to him
Give him a great big kiss
Tell him that I love him
Tell him that I care
Tell him that I'll always be there
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Duller than Death
02:09
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Well, she met him at the candy store
like that's ever happened before
but he's already seeing this girl
he's already seeing this girl
he's already seeing this girl
he's already seeing this girl
(you see)
So, she's walking alone in the sand
listening to this demo of his band
So tell me what is it for?
(Tell me)
So who knows what a heart's for?
(not me)
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Baby, what you doing to me?
Oh, I was sleeping
caught you sawing the tree
oh no
She called me up in the day
told me words I should say
But won't protect me now
Bill Nye, Nye, Nye,
She loves a hole with a knife
She loves me everyday girl
Love's a hole with a knife
Makes boys her filet
started back in college
I'm her's now
she told me don't forget it
She cut me up to the bone
she loves it when I'm alone
She goes here won't you sharpen this
Whoa hey hey hey hey
She loves a hole with a knife
She loves me every day girl
Love's a hole with a knife
One, two, go, five
oh don't wake me
don't wake me
leave me alone
Chuck Norris
Goodnight Irene
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Joan's Already Dead
03:35
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I got tired of writing couplets
so I just wrote fuck it
like an iron brand no more abetting
It's so boring boring, boring boring
So I'll write something that doesn't
make a lick of sense:
Determined still to mistake a life for a living
nonsense makes the world go round
nonsense makes the world go round
Drip drop the rain won't stop
Joan's so sad she needs a mop
oh please! Lop off her head
God, Joan's already dead!
She's dead so dead
Dribbling disease of a man,
understand that it is make no sense
and no sense it taste
and feels it sense no
and sense begs no it
begets Joan's sense and it
Drip drop the rain won't stop
Joan's so sad she needs a mop
oh please lop off her head
God, Joan's already dead
She's dead so dead
Take me out to the planks, ma
I'm going home
to Joan Joan, Joan Joan
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Summer's Calling Sue
03:24
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Summer calls sue
But she don't want to go
She's been burnt before
By the sun happy people
For too long
But i don't want to go
Without clothes
So i'm staying enclosed till next month
Someones calling sue
What will you do sue
We don't have to go
Down to the shore
We can talk on the boardwalk till dawn
No i'm staying home
It's still too warm
Snug in my seclusion for years
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Losers For Free
04:26
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My life's an armada 1555
Add Jesus sorry, oh now
More more more dead than alive
Tolstoy-Antietam, Defenestration of Prague
I can tell you all about it but I still can't find a job
Great college degrees
Venereal disease
I'm down on my knees
Di-Diogenes
The printing press was invented in 1453
I can look up how but I don't know what's wrong down inside me
It's a phalanx swing and youre down
a raven's wing and youre down, you're down
Losers for free
We could have been losers for free
Losers for free
We should have been losers for free
Free we should have been free
Free we could have been free
So what's a broken promise?
I come from the USA
The children cry about it
and at night dreams just slip away
Frege-Adonis, postulation of Hobbs
Bismark- Athena, yeah right Boolean Logic of God
Great college degrees
Venereal disease
I'm down on my knees
Di-Diogenes
The printing press was invented in 1453
I can look up how but I don't know what's wrong down inside me
It's a phalanx swing and youre down
a raven's wing and youre down, you're down
Losers for free
We could have been losers for free
Losers for free
We should have been losers for free
Free we should have been free
Free we could have been free
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Save Me From My Twenties
04:25
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What did i do so bad to give me the life i have
Tell me who did i harm to have things end up so wrong
Somebody save me from my twenties
Tell me who did i slight make it up with most my might
What sun did i set with what you did i'd take it all back
Somebody save me from my twenties
Take the hate and wrap it up with jealousy white irritate so you see it Meant that much to me
It was all i had
Take the hate and ponder the coddling you made the mistake and yet Still i'm following
It was all i had
Her black book's a county mile i wonder who's in style
Envied O' freedom possessed bound to this colossal test
Because I know too much
Because I feel too much
Because I love too much
Because i loath so much
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Everything For the Girl
01:57
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Everyday I breath the same
I'm sleeping in rust but I'm always picking up the dust
everyday
Everything for the girl
(But she'll never)
Everything for the girl
(But you'll never)
Everything
Everyday I breed dismay
I'm sleeping in rust but I'm always picking up the dust
everyday
He hears the gavel fall
she hears the criminal call
he hears the gavel fall
I can hear them call
Everything for the girl
(But she'll never)
Everything for the girl
(But you'll never)
Everything
Everyday
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Ashtray baby wants to make out save me
I'm a frown, I'm a down, now get out or get drowned!
Well it's not my concern or career I default
You don't get it man!
Gonna leave this town, move to France, pick up life on the couch
Get what I need!
1,2,3,4 pick up the door
You want to knock, knock, knock it
but you need it more
Oh yeah, there's lots of people around No, no
Wanna leave this town, move to France, pick up life on the couch
Get what I need!
Whoa, fake it man!
I just want to fu- fu- fu-fu-fu-fu-fu fun
Lots of people around
Leave this town, move to France, pick up life on the couch
Get what I need!
Whoa, dash stand fever she asks what you've done!
Last night dreamer she says fun, fun, fun!
You won't need to pack for your going home!
You're not going home!
You're gonna leave this town, go to France, pick up life on the couch
Get what you need!
I just want to fu- fu- fu-fu-fu-fu-fu fun
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Rum Dumb Diddely Doo
01:22
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Well, ups and downs, they got a saddle on you
oh now, rum dumb diddly doo
You can't sit up cause you sat on their glue
now now, rum dumb diddly doo
You're no good, they probably knew that you would
huh now, rum dumb diddly doo
Diamond's stone, honey it's harder than you
oh now, rum dumb diddly doo
All fun's had, you've laughed so long
Hey, they say, you're body's gone
That may be, lashed on your side
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Oh ra la la
Rum dumb diddly doo
Ew, Ew, Ew
Rum dumb diddly doo
Ew, Ew, Ew,
Rum dumb diddly doo
Ew, Ew, Ew,
Rum dumb diddly doo
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Ecstatic Tumescence
04:06
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Friday night and I've got no date
Gonna go to Del Taco, gonna masticate
See my life's been simply Kafkaesque
Got no job and I got no phone
and I can't pay off my student loans
See my hearts been crushed with this hopelessness
Gruesome phallometry
Four AM and my hope's out late
The world says "no" but my heart says wait
I'm just wondering where all my friends went
Every time I just think of you
You hate me and I hate me too
I just want you to know I don't care 'bout descendants
Gruesome phallometry
Can't you see it in my face?
A generation lost in haste
Caught in the embrace of autophilia
Take away my conceptions
Amputate my proprioceptions
I'm just busy talking about my ge- ge- ge- ge-
"Oh my God, man have I been blue--
Nothing works tell me what to do"
I read that in the halls of your tenements
All my time is just lost alone
and some sad life is all I own
See my heart's just burst static tumescence
Gruesome phallometry
Jack Kerouac it down the ole highway
Just gonna Jack Kerouac it down the ole highway
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Bleed Me
01:54
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Dead pan and the pick up lucks
Damned girls got my heads mixed up
Both stands in the ocean most-a everyday
Bad sun bores a hole like time
She's absinthe and she loots my mind
brought her my love but she just gave it away
And like some we just can't rhyme
And these feelings they're not yours they're mine
bought her my love but she just-a gave it away
Just don't bleed me like you do
Oh honey, don't bleed me like you do
B-baby, don't bleed me like you do
Bleed me bleed me bleed me
It's alright, It's okay, alright, okay, just don't give it away
Dead pan and the pick up lucks
Damned girls got my heads mixed up
Boats stands in the ocean most-a everyday
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Never after, we've been after
in the parking lots we'd haunt
Did we ever? I can't remember,
in some other life you'd want?
not so young anymore
no we're not so young anymore
Would you rather? What's the matter?
I've been up all night so talk
What's it matter? How's the weather?
oh our wicked hearts to worked, to worked to want
We're just--
Don't you be naive, it's not up my sleeves
All the precious words that you've held, that you've held so long
Don't you be naive, it's not stuffed up my sleeve
You're not gonna find it in a song, not one I've heard
We're just not that young anymore
At the shows off third and main
I caught you smiling in the rain
And though somethings don't ever change
They're still somehow just aren't the same
We're just not so young anymore
All our lives are walked away
All our dreams are walked away
All our love is walked away
Tomorrow's just another day
All our lives are walked away
All our dreams are walked away
When's it start and what's it pay?
Tomorrow's just another day
It's just a
It's just a
It's just a
It's just a
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