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| 1. |
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The old bastard left his ties and his suit
A brown box, mothballs and bowling shoes and his opinion so you'd never have to choose Pretty soon, you'll be an old bastard too You get smaller while the world gets big The more you know you know you don't know shit The whiz man'll never fit you like the whiz kid did So why you gotta act like you know when you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything Close your eyes close your ears young man You've seen and heard all an old man can Spread the facts on the floor like a fan throw away the ones that make you feel bad Kids today gettin' old too fast they can't wait to grow up so they can get some ass They get nostalgic about the last ten years before the last ten years have passed why you gotta act like you know when you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything Tears land on a hand on the chest The old bastard had a paradigm arrest You got smaller and the world got big The more you knew we knew we didn't know shit The whiz man never fit him the whiz kid did Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know? cause It's okay if you don't know everything Why you gotta act like you know when you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything |
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| 2. |
| 3:36 |
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By the time the buzz was wearing off
we were standing out on the sidewalk with our tattoos that looked like rings in the hot Nevada sun Kids piled high, our moms and dads shook hands in a party of Polaroid friends rented a pool and hired a band Maybe they knew more then we knew cause they danced and drank while we jumped off the deep end Oh I've got you to thank for this Christmas came around yeah and everything was going to crap and our moms and dads not a clue to be had Yeah we put on a pretty good act and they seemed to all need to believe it so we danced and smiled and paddled hard beneath it Oh I've got you to thank for this You can't say you've never had a doubt and smoked it down but really wanted out By the time the buzz was wearing off we were standing out on the sidewalk with our tattoos that looked like rings in the hot Nevada sun and they won't fade I've got you to thank |
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| 3. |
| 4:31 |
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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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| 4. |
| 4:29 |
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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 We'd 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 I had to leave myself behind And 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 it right She liked to push me And talk me back down 'Till i believed I was the crazy one And in a way I guess I was 'Till I opened my eyes and walked out the door And the clouds came tumbling down And it's bye-bye goodbye I tried Treading the sea of a troubled mind I had to leave myself behind Singin' bye-bye goodbye I tried If you wrote me off I'd understand it 'Cause 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 along It's over And I opened my eyes and walked out the door And the clouds came tumbling down And it's bye-bye goodbye I tried Down comes the reign of the telephone czar It's okay to call And I will answer for myself Come pick me up... (Ba ba's) Come pick me up... Ba ba's.. I've landed. |
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| 5. |
| 2:40 |
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You can't fool me, I saw you when you came out
You got your momma's taste but you got my mouth And you will always have a part of me Nobody else is ever going to see Gracie girl With your cards to your chest walking on your toes What you got in the box only Gracie knows And I would never try to make you be Anything you didn't really want to be Gracie girl Life flies by in seconds You're not a baby Gracie, you're my friend You'll be a lady soon but until then You gotta do what I say You nodded off in my arms watching TV I won't move you an inch even thought my arm's asleep One day you're gonna want to go I hope we taught you everything you need to know Gracie girl And there will always be a part of me Nobody else is ever gonna see but you and me My little girl My Gracie girl |
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| 6. |
| 4:09 |
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It's funny I know
But I'm disappointed in you I thought you could read my mind But I came home early And saw that a drawer'd been opened Looks like you've been reading my diary instead How does it feel to realize You're all alone behind your eyes? It seems to me if you can't trust You can't be trusted Caught in a dream Picking up astral signals Some of them psychic, you better watch what you think Happens to be that everybody else's dreams are Freudian clues You better watch what you dream You wanna see the other side What's going on behind the eyes Still it seems if you can't trust You can't be trusted Didn't you know we're as close as we can be? The sun's coming up She's pulled all the blankets over Curled in a ball Like she's hiding from me and That's when I know She's gonna be pissed when she wakes up For terrible things I did to her in her dreams You wanna see the other side What's going on behind the eyes Still it seems if you can't trust You can't be trusted Didn't you know we're as close as we can be? Hello. |
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| 7. |
| 3:37 |
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Judy
Could anyone be loved anymore than I love you does it hurt you too? But Judy I've been feeling small too long I love you so but something's wrong and I come running when you want me here and when you want me to, I disappear Give Judy my notice I knew if I made it easy for you you'd settle for me, yeah eventually but Judy I won't be your bitch anymore and follow you 'round and hold the door and I can't do this any longer the vacuum left is so much stronger Give Judy my notice Give Judy my notice Judy you know I'm not mad anymore at least most of the time but that could take a while I've been living just to see you smile every once in a while Tears fall but that don't mean nothing at all It's just cause I said it first yeah, that's why it hurts And I'm not sorry if you're not sorry And you're not sorry until I make you Give Judy my notice Give Judy my notice Give Judy my notice Give Judy my notice My notice |
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| 8. |
| 3:58 |
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Under some dirty words on a dirty wall
Eating takeout by myself I played the shows Got back in the van and put the Walkman on And you were playing In some other dive a thousand miles away I played a thousand times before And like pathetic stars, the truck stops and the rock club walls I always knew You saw them too But you never will again It's too late Don't you know It's been too late For a long time Elliott, man, you played a fine guitar And some dirty basketball The songs you wrote Got me through a lot Just wanna tell you that But it's too late It's too late No, don't you know it's been too late for a long time Oh no Things were looking up Least that's what I heard Oh no Someone came and washed away your hard-earned Peace of mind When desperate static beats the silence up A quiet truth to calm you down The songs you wrote Got me through a lot Just wanna tell you that But it's too late It's too late No, don't you know It's been too late For a long time It's too late It's too late No, don't you know It's been too late For a long time |
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| 9. |
| 3:04 |
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There's a moment in my mind
I scribbled and erased a thousand times Like a letter never written or sent These conversations with the dead I used to be a sentimental guy Now I'm haunted by the left unsaid I never thought so much could change Little things you said or did are part of me, come out from time to time Probably no one I know now would notice But I never thought so much could change You drifted far away Far away it seems Time has stopped, the clock keeps going People talkin' and I'm watching As flashes of their faces go black and white And fade to yellow in a box in an attic But I never thought so much Could change, now I don't miss anyone I don't miss anything What a shame cause I used to be a sentimental guy |
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| 10. |
| 4:30 |
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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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| 11. |
| 4:15 |
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You walked the earth
Talked and never spoke a word She wonders who'll be the first to go I said you know, the biggest things we gotta face alone Don't wanna waste time and go Alone Alone again Alone Alone again A trace of me, it floats in my periphery And every time I turn to see it goes Alone Alone again Alone Alone again Alone Alone again Floating by like a satellite To pass the time, you'll float by again And I can tell you about the little things So you don't think about the big things for a while You walked the earth Talked and never spoke a word She wonder who will be the first to go Alone Alone again Alone Alone again Alone Alone again Alone Alone again Alone |
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