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He's a stranger to authority, welcome to the minority.
It's not someplace you have to go, it's not something you have to know. Don't do this, don't touch that. Hey, draw the line I'll speak my mind, maybe I'll wait for another time. Sometimes you get close to those who wait, Sometimes it makes you hesitate. Some folks find more humanity, some folks find more than sanity. Don't do this, don't do that, don't try this, don't do that, Don't try this, don't touch that. Hey, do it for the last time. By the weight of the world coming down, down on, down on up to me. Down on up to me, wait for another time. When you look down on me, I get so uppity, Starting my own army, just me and my friends, said you better get ready. Hahaha. Coming down, down on, down on up to me, down on up to me. Coming down, down on, down on up to me, down on up to Though it might just come down to trust, It sometimes just comes down to lust, that's just one person's point of view. |
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Thought I heard you screaming
And pulling out your hair Furious and steaming, a state upon your stare Don't you know dirt will find you and Dirt reminds you that Dirt will always be there, it's only Dirt around you and dirt surrounds you and Follows you everywhere Here's a dirty joke, man, filled with filth and smut The heart of it, it sparkles, the more it can corrupt Don't you know, dirt can't hurt you I'm truly certain, usually washes out Don't you know, rain will wash out the Stain and all of your, pain will work itself out Work it out, 'fraid you've lost your innocence To some-odd social scene, you're right on top But you've been replaced, by a shiny new machine And dirt keeps following you, and you don't know what it means You're a little too clean, a little too clean, a little too clean One day dirt will bury you and you will understand There is nothing much more than the ground on which you stand Don't you know dirt will find you and Dirt reminds you that dirt will always be there It's only dirt around you and Dirt surrounds you and follows you everywhere 'Fraid you've lost your innocence, to some-odd social scene You're right on top, but you've been replaced By a shiny new machine and dirt keeps following you And you don't know what it means, you're a little too clean A little too clean, a little too clean |
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I ran away I walked a fine line wasting time only to find
You were callin' I think finally to remind me I am fine What you are is what you see and you see me and we can be Something you can call real we are, we are, we are Doing the best we can, working without a plan I'm beginning to understand, its getting out of hand I have seen these closing doors, I've woke up on this floor before Picked it apart for hours and hours and hours Of turning, tossing and looking and listening To you and all the f~~ked up things you do But you're doing the best you can, with every grain of sand Its trickling through your hand, sayin'catch me if you can If someday comes early, comes whipping comes whirling To take you for all you have learned The tables are turning, the bridges are burning My destination sometime to return Throw away your calender and saddle up your salamander Get up and get down ride in to town and look around Get up and do something, no time to choose it, do it, do it, do it, do it Doing the best I can, with or without a plan, I'm taking what I can get, I haven't seen nothing yet. If one day you wake up and find what you make up, Come and get me, come and take me there. Into your illusion,I'll make my intrusion - anytime, anyplace, anywhere. The hour glass is draining fast, it knows no future holds no past, and all this to wil lcome to pass - never, forever, whenever. |
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Now everybody’s looking after me,
if I’m dragging by some coat tail, I can’t see it’s too dark, but I’ve got to know what’s got the best of me. When the circus that you left goes on parade, and those things you see seem so far in your charade, too far, but I’m feeling like I don’t dare look away, Don’t look away. Did it almost make you feel, that something’s got to happen soon, when you wake up feeling lost in your own room. If you’re crying and you fear you’re gonna drown, if you think we’ll rise above, you’d better look around, you’ll see. It’s a mountain made of sand crumbling under me. Maybe I’m chasing shadows on your wall, they loom so large, but make me feel so small somehow, when you’re chasing your own tail spinning your own wheels. .. And a time to leave, and a time to stay, I guess the things I look away... Did it almost make you feel that somethings gotta happen soon. You’re in the movies now that I’m in your cartoon. There’s a ringing in my ears that’s heaven sent. There’s a beast out on the ruins, some broken down lover’s lament. It goes on and on but it won’t go away. |
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Right before the aftermath, I saw where it would end.
They said it was an accident, I guess that all depends on who you talk to and who you know, and where you come from and where - where you go. In your crowd of pushers and users, takers and loosers, beggars and beggars and beggars and choosers. Your childhood days are over as you stuff your shirt and say made a choice it's wrong or right, it's this way I will stay. You'll sell it to your children, you'll sell it to your wife. Buying is your business, and selling is your life, It's your life. The vultures are all circling around your ????. Scavengers, evangalists will get to you some how. Your mother and your ex-best friend, letters that you never send. Your illegitamate children are coming for you now. They're always dragging you down, it's looking like a showdown, between revenge and in the end you can't defend. Can you try to imagine, a story that has no end? I think you better steal it while you still understand it, and sell it to one of your friends. |
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Rise and shine it's you're razor sharp.
Size up yourself in the mirror, a slice of life, To last through all the years, because sooner or later it all comes back to you, And we will remember, the fine things you can do. I'm giving back all the things that you gave to me. I'm saving up the price to pay to be free. Remember the first time you saw the rising sun. You may be done but I've just begun. The leaves are burning and the ashes have flown away. I'm turning over new leaves almost every day. You let him think you just as soon stay - you let him think you had nothing to say. Just let you go away, to find some mangled security, some strangled form of purity, To restore your faith and all the things you've come to hate. You give and you take and you leave, leave it alone. What i want so badly for this to be a place you can call home, and I haven't felt this Way since yesterday, but I don't remeber when. What I want so badly to be someone you can call a friend, till we meet again. Endless Farewell. Hello, Hello, Hello again. Endless Farewell. |
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Standing in the doorway
Wondering if it's safe to go outside Wondering if I'll come back Wondering if I might just drift out with the rising tide Sitting and waiting and hoping to find Something you're good at to use up your time To crawl from the ocean and lie on the shore A moonbeam the rests on the dust on your floor I'm not going out there Don't try to tell me I'm paranoid Wouldn't say I'm not scared Though it may be safe to say that I am annoyed In the intersection traffic lights are red in all directions Everyone breaks the law sometimes We all break down have foolish pride and Beg for some affection I can't say I know how you feel everyone seems to know Are you sure I would if I could help you remember What it's like to feel good Chitter and chatter and everything matters I ask how you're feeling And you just act shattered Asleep on the couch with your eyes open wide Standing in the doorway Waiting as you come and as you leave You say get out of my way Won't you stop and talk about the hectic life you lead They're all going somewhere They all have some place they have to be Maybe I should join them I wish I could I think I have to stay here with me It brings a tear to your eye to get out into the open I can't believe I see myself Coming into focus |
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Marionette I haven't met you yet
I hear you're good I hear you're made out of wood Not quite as blind as you might think she'd be And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings Now the strings attach to everything It's twisted and tangled and troubled with anger But somehow you still swing Tried all my tricks I tried to steal a kiss Splinters and slivers stuck all over my lips She thinks she must be doing something wrong They pull the strings and then they string you along And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings Now the strings attach to everything It's twisted and tangled but I've got an angle On just what makes you swing Hanging by a string Know the boss he makes her do things his way So why do you think she's so scared of you What do you think makes her that way When push comes to shove she'll push and shove It doesn't always have to be this way She's saving up for a vacation somewhere Why do you think she's so scared of you What do you think makes her that way When push comes to shove she'll push and shove It's very hard work when you don't get paid And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings |
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Well my friend Jud he was a fuddy-dud
Chewed his cud, was a stick in the mud I swear he hated everyone And he's bumming nickels and bumming dimes But most of all you know he's just bumming time And every day was a bad day They walked out and on and over him, he was turning gray Never knew love he gave up on hope Stayed in bed and he stopped using soap was a dirty old man But he never said poor little old me, poor poor Now one fine day he won the lottery Instant millionaire without a care it didn't change a thing Drove up to Reno he lost everything at a roadside casino You know he never made it into town Where the bright lights trickle down, he was a casualty And all he got was more lewd and crude, he was very rude The only thing he hated worse than the city Was charity and self pity he'd been around I talked to him that's what I found, he was a casualty Poor little old me, poor poor casualty |
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If I could be anything I wanted, I don't know
I'd be stuck here with myself, be an Average Joe But if I could be like a Jack of all trades, yes I'd have it made Glass blower, flamethrower, grass mower, firefighter I'm tryin' to loose it up, or make it tighter But a Jack of all trades master, I'm not dead, you're tired in bed But a Jack of all trades, there's stuff that gets made, wait for your lucky day See my train and now it's gone Rings the damned, threw the phone He's studdering, he stalls He hit the bottle of call Ching chase and rat race, and laid down and out of place, and down the hall Problem called (na, na) Problem called (na, na, na) Yes I'll try anything sometimes I just can't say no And I'm learnin' to dig with my hands I've learned to work with my mind So much to lose, and so much left to find So much to take, so much to leave behind Yeah, I walked down, your thoughts are free, don't think of the dead but think of dignity Picked you up by the side of your head, you were half dead Say your prayers, and put you to to bed At the end of the day stands a Jack of all trades, and the fool he has made It's a Jack of all trades and the fool he has made of himself and his friend But he'd do it again, yes he'd do it again He's a Jack |
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Order in this court you call my own
Confusion is the order I have shown Some things don't come easy Some things got to give You just might have to waste your life just to live Now did you think that I was somebody? And did you think this was somewhere? I will still be there So watch out Well, I got the right to free myself of fear Stand over me and watch me disappear You're sent to the death to be in another mess To keep your mind, to keep them in I don't know where they're meeting to pretend Well, I am the one that soaks it up Well, I am the one that takes a punch And I am, I am, I am the human sponge Could I be so serious, or am I just too curious? Just afraid to look away for missing something you might say 'Cause you've got so much I can't follow One more debt I can't repay Tomorrow brings just one more chance to throw it all away I'm just trying to live with today And I'm just trying to live with the way The way I am? I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am |
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Order in this court you call my own
Confusion is the order I have shown Some things don't come easy Some things got to give You just might have to waste your life just to live Now did you think that I was somebody? And did you think this was somewhere? I will still be there So watch out Well, I got the right to free myself of fear Stand over me and watch me disappear You're sent to the death to be in another mess To keep your mind, to keep them in I don't know where they're meeting to pretend Well, I am the one that soaks it up Well, I am the one that takes a punch And I am, I am, I am the human sponge Could I be so serious, or am I just too curious? Just afraid to look away for missing something you might say 'Cause you've got so much I can't follow One more debt I can't repay Tomorrow brings just one more chance to throw it all away I'm just trying to live with today And I'm just trying to live with the way The way I am? I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am |
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Put the bone in
She yelled at the store 'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car And I do want to bring him home something Put the bone in She yelled out once more Because the meat from the pork is so sweet And the bone from the pork give to me Put the bone in she begged him As she paced across the floor Put the bone in she yelled out once more Put the bone in She yelled at the store Cause my doggie's been hit by a car And I do want to bring him home something Put the bone in She yelled out once more ... |
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You sold your soul for a lump of coal
She's blacker than the night Didn't think you'd be needing it But you thought But you never know who you might meet On the street where the church bells ring to a different beat Is it joy, is it pain? Is it rustin' in the rain? Do you really think I need it? Is it just plain evil? Heard of a man who had a plan To save the wretched world Nationwide genocide, like one-eyed jacks And suicide queens Look out for if you know what I mean Is it good, is it bad? Is it bitter, is it sad? Is it inside all these people? Is it just plain evil? You've got a lot to learn You've got a lot to change, you've got nothing to lose But a ball and chain Is it good, is it bad?Is it bitter, is it sad? Do you really think I need it? Is it just plain evil? |
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Follows me wherever we go
Undermining all that we know Suddenly starts thinkin' been fooled from the beginnin' When the cause is lost you find there is no point in winnin' Then it's hard to think straight when your head it keeps on spinnin' If I lost my mind, would you help me find it? Maybe it's you, maybe it's me Things aren't quite the way they should be And now it seems my peace of mind has come up for the biddin' All those I respect and trust I guess they were just kiddin' And they will say it's me who's lost, and as you sit there grinnin' My little world has lost control but still it keeps on spinnin' If I lost my mind, would you help me find it? If I lost my mind, I wouldn't have to be reminded If I lost my mind I'm not sure I would mind Would you help me find it? |
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At the end of the track is a shack
When you die, that's where you go Down the lines, up from this pit at the end of your rainbow That's one too many flights of stairs One more stair and almost there One more dose close Keep coming back to haunt you, Got no place left to go And they'll strip your car to the bone We did a scene, checked out a gown The Justice started laughing I guess that's what you get for laughing One last laugh and lived to tell One more pomp and circumstance One more fool to follow Another finger down my throat It's a bitter pill to swallow It's moving much too slow Who it is asleep at the wheel I don't want to know Just around the corner there's Somebody there to take you there Don't worry child you're sure to be scared One more drink before I go One last good luck kiss One less thing to call my own That's one more thing I miss Took the world by storm Most of 'em either in a dark jail Or wishing they had never been born Just around the corner there's One more pomp and circumstance One more fool to follow Another finger down my throat That's a bitter pill to swallow |
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Well, a fascinating sensation, no I can't even feel it
I just had to let you know I can't conceal it I was recently considering taking the pain with the pleasure Just to find my way to the bottom of this, I'll have to dig forever And it's no small measure Lift up your veil of tears Don't be disappointed child, if your prayers go unanswered We are not responsible for these sad circumstances Secret agents and freedom fighters on those impossible missions Better put your toys and games away, maybe take the kids out fishing For a family treasure In your early years Behind your veil of tears So frustrated Get up anyway So complicated Changes every day So the darkness fades And the light will come shining through I heard the eyes that look to a better world always hide beneath the veil of tears And you hide no more Lift up your veil of tears Hide no more Behind your veil of tears Now the executioner must be executed No I think we'll set him free instead, watch him run And you hide no more Lift up your veil of tears You hide no more |
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Well they packed up their violin cases ??
Hopped in a big black Studebaker, they were acting pretty scary No one talked as they synchronized their watches And they drove past a train station The train rolled out with a passenger car Filled with retired millionaires and movie stars ?? coats ?? and that would be all she wrote And the gangsters, cowboys, gypsies, and freewheelers Sold out their trades to become drug dealers There ain't no money in doing things straight Your community thanks you, business is good, and nice guys don't get paid Outside the train window fast as he could ride Was a kid on a horse with a head full of lies And the tears of excitement couldn't put out the fire in his eyes For the house he was riding to burglarize All through the house they were dancing and singing An extended family with fiddlers and magicians A juggler and a chemist who'd invent potion to pacify all the killers and rapist The chemist died in the burglary and they sold the prescription For a case of cheap red wine to a traveling salesman In a three-wheeled jalopy; he bought and sold potions To the city that looked over the ocean And he sold the last drop, it was big with the rich kids And soon the city would be crawling with addicts And back rooms, dark allies, basements and attics (When?) a fly is trapped in a spider's web (but a bat's got the spider?) And no one knows what's going on But you've gotta show up for yourself at the end of the day And nice guys don't get paid Nice guys don't get paid Now all the hopeless romantics are wearing white collars (Upstanding assassins?) cleaning filthy dollars Car-jacking fanatic |
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Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away Trying to make something out of nothing Leaning hard on yet another drug All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch It's not supposed to make you feel so Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness I miss your kiss, impossible to resist Find some budget to support my habit Suffering an under-dose of love All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing Wishing for some shelter from within There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back Trying to make something out of nothing I can't live without Wanting nothing Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing Wishing for some shelter from within It's not supposed to make you feel this way |
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I got something special to show you
But I suppose you've seen it all before There's one thing I'm trying to tell you But then again, you've heard it all before I survived another week just like the one before, When everything you wanted somehow leaves you wanting more And I looked beneath the carpet behind each and every door, Trying to find you something like you've never had before And it seems we're just beginners No previous experience at all Just the last original sinners And if you need me just be sure to call And they tell you which way not to go and so you go that way One child plays with another throws it away Like a kite without string do anything I'm trying to take you someplace you've never been before I see something new in each and every moon From your old, old hat to your blown-out shoes It's tried and true, and it's all I do And I hope it's not all the same to you The old and new, they get mistaken all the time Is there something I've never seen before No, just a brand new shine Now they're cranking 'em out by the millions They look and act exactly just the same And each one's one in a million And each has got its own elusive game It's the same old dusty atmosphere just like the other place I see something familiar in each and every face Seems to me I've seen you, been here, said this once before I'm trying to take you someplace you've never been before I see something new in each and every moon From your old, old hat to When I dropped it and broke it, I thought of you And I hope it's not all the same to you And the old and new, they get mistaken all the time Is there something I've never seen before |
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Did you hear the one about the friend of a a friend who tried to end it all
At the last moment he picked up the phone and gave you a call You thought about letting it ring, but you answered after all And there you were, put on the spot at the end of the other line For questions that you never thought you'd ever have to answer to Who do you turn to when the ones you always turn to go and turn on you It leaves you in the dark, feeling for a switch to turn it on again There are no easy answers, the questions remain tough There's no shortcuts to easy street, no corners you can cut Can you cut this diamond in the rough And it's good to see you alive Sign your will to survive A look into your heart before it sees its final hour Lived each day like there is no tomorrow Beyond this mess ahead there is a street so very hard to find Though I have got to lay my head down at this dead end so many times And if we ever get to easy street, you can say with a smile I came just for the ride |
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When aid turned sideways
And It'd head on down the highway Say this is my way, disappearing forever But there ain't just one way So you choose the fun way Slide down the runway On a ticket that goes two ways And by the way that it sounded You thought that you'd be astounded But you left it like you found it Cause it wasn't yours to take What once seemed like dying Soon turned into flying So you settle for trying And you wish you were grounded No you cannot get much higher Than your utmost desire So you bring it down to size and Now it seems that you are grounded By the way that it sounded You thought that you'd be astounded But you left it like you found it Now you find that you are grounded |
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Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you And whatever you do, when everything still seems new It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life A chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep Pacing circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep No sense of direction, no sense at all No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you I never quite got that through; I know what waits for you I know for something to do with the rest of your life Stop looking over my shoulder, it was a little bolder You're going somewhere I might be on your way This time I don't mean maybe Nowhere I'd rather be If you're coming with me I might be on your way I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you I was trying to get your attention, it's all I ever wanted from you Who will be the victim, who will be the host Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most For you, I'm coming to terms with you And you can pull me through, I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life Something to do with the rest of my life I need something to fear the rest of my life's not in vain |
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I was tapping my foot on a Friday night
To my favorite band I was pushed aside I said "hey don't push me no one pushes me" When I was face to face with the woman I admired And she gave me this look I could not believe And the cold stare remained; I wanted to leave See, I do believe anger is offset by sorrow But you destroy today you might regret tomorrow When you're young and defensive it comes off offensive And it's hard to repay the tolerance that you borrowed The lasting relationship sinks right off the pier Who wears the pants; it's faded but clear She's your girlfriend, seems she ain't too fond of me I guess if that's the way it was meant to be There we were, just we three You, your girlfriend, and me I've known you forever, you two just met So easily amused; how fast we forget In my jealously, my self-righteous greed She's a bit like a book I'm too far sighted to read And I wish you the best, I sometimes feel the need To say remember me She's your girlfriend, as far as we can see Does she look at you the way she looks at me And here we are, just we three You, your girlfriend, and me She's your girlfriend, it's getting harder to see Better just take her home, better just let her be When she walks out that door, you'll come looking for me |
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The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead Is to be on our own But people, they do the strangest things You never know what they might do When they are left alone There's men without gods and gods without men And a spirit of which none of them can transcend But something peculiar is happening We should just be happy with just what we've got And the problems should be too few to mention But they're not Where can I go for some information? So tired of the big sensation I need to know what's going on Oh well you're the well-informed Into your world which I was born My friend, here's to you How would I know if there was something wrong When the weak of heart out-survive the strong The truth is almost always confidential You never know just what you've got until it's gone And your friends have never seemed so essential When you're wrong Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable I know this might sound strange, don't ever change Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place Don't try to save face my friend There was a time and there was a place For your face and for your race but it's been swept away |
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Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away Trying to make something out of nothing Leaning hard on yet another drug All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch It's not supposed to make you feel so Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness I miss your kiss, impossible to resist Find some budget to support my habit Suffering an under-dose of love All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing Wishing for some shelter from within There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back Trying to make something out of nothing I can't live without Wanting nothing Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing Wishing for some shelter from within It's not supposed to make you feel this way |
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People say I'm the life of the party
'Cause I laugh or tell a joke or two Though I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You know my smile looks out of place If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears I need you If you see me with another guy Looking like I'm having fun May be cute, she's just a substitute 'Cause you're the permanent one So take a good look at my face You know my smile looks out of place If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears Outside I'm masquerading Inside my hope is fading I'm just a clown since you put me down My smile is my makeup I'm absent since my break-up with you Baby, take a good look at my face You know my smile looks out of place If you look closer it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears |
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Well if there's one thing that I know, it's easy to kill what's hard to grow
One thing I might say, no one's gotta know about running away Trying to make something out of nothing Leaning hard on yet another drug All of these temptations keep me wanting to feel your touch It's not supposed to make you feel so Helpless, selfless, crying for some tenderness I miss your kiss, impossible to resist Find some budget to support my habit Suffering an under-dose of love All of these temptations keep wanting the sky above Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching, keeps me wishing Wishing for some shelter from within There ain't nothing I can't live with nothing I can't live without I want this, I want that; I wanted just a little slack It's like an itch that I can't scratch, could you get this monkey off my back Trying to make something out of nothing I can't live without Wanting nothing Oh my desperate disposition keeps me bitching keeps me wishing Wishing for some shelter from within It's not supposed to make you feel this way |
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Make ure chillin
guts start spillin its piece of a puzzle piece of a trouble is it somethin else? ure sellin yourself Im so wanting without a clue gotta find something better something better to do something so exciting Im into something new you piece together the whole thing gives u something to use maybe I should practice it one more time maybe Im afraid what it might do maybe it might upset someone maybe that's what its supposed to do pull it from the bottom it begins to change find another existance thats what ure trying to say? Im not pushin u out Im not pushin u off Im not pushin u out Im not pushin u All of the lands are terribly restless with tellin u what to do but u go bak to the land where ure defensless they act just like me and u look what u've dont to me look what I've done to u look what they've done to us now were like noone else theyre laughin at u talkin about u all these new things all these new things I found in use and Im workin so hard when I think it is real everybody does once just to see how it feels its not a sensation and its not for sale so what can u call it now? keep em gotten theyll spoil u rotten keep em gotten keep em gotten just another freak be another freak be a freak |
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Now everybody’s looking after me,
if I’m dragging by some coat tail, I can’t see it’s too dark, but I’ve got to know what’s got the best of me. When the circus that you left goes on parade, and those things you see seem so far in your charade, too far, but I’m feeling like I don’t dare look away, Don’t look away. Did it almost make you feel, that something’s got to happen soon, when you wake up feeling lost in your own room. If you’re crying and you fear you’re gonna drown, if you think we’ll rise above, you’d better look around, you’ll see. It’s a mountain made of sand crumbling under me. Maybe I’m chasing shadows on your wall, they loom so large, but make me feel so small somehow, when you’re chasing your own tail spinning your own wheels. .. And a time to leave, and a time to stay, I guess the things I look away... Did it almost make you feel that somethings gotta happen soon. You’re in the movies now that I’m in your cartoon. There’s a ringing in my ears that’s heaven sent. There’s a beast out on the ruins, some broken down lover’s lament. It goes on and on but it won’t go away. |
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Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you And whatever you do, when everything still seems new It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life A chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep Pacing circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep No sense of direction, no sense at all No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you I never quite got that through; I know what waits for you I know for something to do with the rest of your life Stop looking over my shoulder, it was a little bolder You're going somewhere I might be on your way This time I don't mean maybe Nowhere I'd rather be If you're coming with me I might be on your way I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you I was trying to get your attention, it's all I ever wanted from you Who will be the victim, who will be the host Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most For you, I'm coming to terms with you And you can pull me through, I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life Something to do with the rest of my life I need something to fear the rest of my life's not in vain |
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Caterpillar crawling up the big phone pole
Is there somebody that you want to talk to? You know that pretty soon you’ll be able to fly How is this going to affect you? Do you think it might wreck you? Your friends might reject you Say you took it too far You said you want to be want to be want to be want to be Hooked on glossy pictures and drugs I’ve never seen We’ll treat you with advice from a fashion magazine One day she just walked into that magazine I wonder if she’ll ever come back And they all said she would crack They said her mind was one track, Said she took it too far You said you want to be want to be want to be want to be Closer to the stars ... Every time you move your lips Let me give you a few tips Yesterday you were too young Tomorrow you will be too old To regret all the things you’ve done who’re you trying to hustle ? Somebody you wanna show your muscle? Second hand excuses never went too far What’s this scene you’re making? Your ideas have been taken We’ll seek when you awaken alone in someone’s car You just stood there shaking, stood there shaking They said you were faking You said you want to be want to be want to be want to be Closer to the stars... Closer to the stars |
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Marionette I haven't met you yet
I hear you're good I hear you're made out of wood Not quite as blind as you might think she'd be And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings Now the strings attach to everything It's twisted and tangled and troubled with anger But somehow you still swing Tried all my tricks I tried to steal a kiss Splinters and slivers stuck all over my lips She thinks she must be doing something wrong They pull the strings and then they string you along And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings Now the strings attach to everything It's twisted and tangled but I've got an angle On just what makes you swing Hanging by a string Know the boss he makes her do things his way So why do you think she's so scared of you What do you think makes her that way When push comes to shove she'll push and shove It doesn't always have to be this way She's saving up for a vacation somewhere Why do you think she's so scared of you What do you think makes her that way When push comes to shove she'll push and shove It's very hard work when you don't get paid And they cut off your wings and replaced them with strings |
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The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead Is to be on our own But people, they do the strangest things You never know what they might do When they are left alone There's men without gods and gods without men And a spirit of which none of them can transcend But something peculiar is happening We should just be happy with just what we've got And the problems should be too few to mention But they're not Where can I go for some information? So tired of the big sensation I need to know what's going on Oh well you're the well-informed Into your world which I was born My friend, here's to you How would I know if there was something wrong When the weak of heart out-survive the strong The truth is almost always confidential You never know just what you've got until it's gone And your friends have never seemed so essential When you're wrong Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable I know this might sound strange, don't ever change Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place Don't try to save face my friend There was a time and there was a place For your face and for your race but it's been swept away |
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Guess I'll be leaving in the morning
By the chill that you gave me I will ride I will tear out my insides just to find a place to hide And I don't want to hurt you anymore You got the dagger but I got the revolver As we rolled and we tumbled to the floor I been ?? is it just these drugs I'm feelin'? And I don't want to lie to you no more ?? ?? till the end A guitar's a man's best friend But these rules were meant to be broken ?? make myself uneasy And I haven't got the guts to make you cry ?? to one thing ?? do something And I don't want to hurt you anymore Now with this advice I will end ?? Some things are meant to be spoken And these rules are meant to be broken |
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Thought I heard you screaming
And pulling out your hair Furious and steaming, a state upon your stare Don't you know dirt will find you and Dirt reminds you that Dirt will always be there, it's only Dirt around you and dirt surrounds you and Follows you everywhere Here's a dirty joke, man, filled with filth and smut The heart of it, it sparkles, the more it can corrupt Don't you know, dirt can't hurt you I'm truly certain, usually washes out Don't you know, rain will wash out the Stain and all of your, pain will work itself out Work it out, 'fraid you've lost your innocence To some-odd social scene, you're right on top But you've been replaced, by a shiny new machine And dirt keeps following you, and you don't know what it means You're a little too clean, a little too clean, a little too clean One day dirt will bury you and you will understand There is nothing much more than the ground on which you stand Don't you know dirt will find you and Dirt reminds you that dirt will always be there It's only dirt around you and Dirt surrounds you and follows you everywhere 'Fraid you've lost your innocence, to some-odd social scene You're right on top, but you've been replaced By a shiny new machine and dirt keeps following you And you don't know what it means, you're a little too clean A little too clean, a little too clean |
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Well they packed up their violin cases ??
Hopped in a big black Studebaker, they were acting pretty scary No one talked as they synchronized their watches And they drove past a train station The train rolled out with a passenger car Filled with retired millionaires and movie stars ?? coats ?? and that would be all she wrote And the gangsters, cowboys, gypsies, and freewheelers Sold out their trades to become drug dealers There ain't no money in doing things straight Your community thanks you, business is good, and nice guys don't get paid Outside the train window fast as he could ride Was a kid on a horse with a head full of lies And the tears of excitement couldn't put out the fire in his eyes For the house he was riding to burglarize All through the house they were dancing and singing An extended family with fiddlers and magicians A juggler and a chemist who'd invent potion to pacify all the killers and rapist The chemist died in the burglary and they sold the prescription For a case of cheap red wine to a traveling salesman In a three-wheeled jalopy; he bought and sold potions To the city that looked over the ocean And he sold the last drop, it was big with the rich kids And soon the city would be crawling with addicts And back rooms, dark allies, basements and attics (When?) a fly is trapped in a spider's web (but a bat's got the spider?) And no one knows what's going on But you've gotta show up for yourself at the end of the day And nice guys don't get paid Nice guys don't get paid Now all the hopeless romantics are wearing white collars (Upstanding assassins?) cleaning filthy dollars Car-jacking fanatic |
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Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind I know they will still live on and on But how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume? It isn't easy but I'll try If you wanted the sky I would write across the sky in letters That would soar a thousand feet high To Sir, with love The time has come for closing books and long last looks must end And as I leave I know that I am leaving my best friend A friend who taught me right from wrong And weak from strong that's a lot to learn What, what can I give you in return If you wanted the moon I would try to make a start But I would rather you let me give my heart To Sir, with love Those awkward years have hurried by, why do they fly away? Why is it Sir, children grow up to be people some day? What takes the place of climbing trees and dirty knees in the world outside? If you wanted the world I'd surround it with a wall I'd scrawl these words with letters ten feet tall To Sir, with love |
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