1. |
Intro II
02:01
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2. |
Flatlander Blues
03:07
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Show me the man
Who knows where the east ends
Where is the man
Content with the plain
Sunrise sitting
Ain’t doin’ nothing
Unconditionally
Something to see
Pieces of me
Fading away dissolving
Into steam
Steam and speed and seams
And songs sung mean
I mean it hun
Blonde and dark under the sun
I should’ve told you that
You can’t look at it
But I know you will
You can’t look at it
Doggerel shit
But better still to loose the noose
Dejected and misused are you
Hey boy they’re coming for you
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3. |
The Down Low
02:39
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Well what’s that you say?
They’re gonna give it away
Hey hey hey
We’re living day to day
I receive no sympathy
It’s just here to ease your grief
Diluted vice
You’re not as nice
As the screen you don wants me to believe
Think we made a mistake
We’re back in the same place
Well let’s just do it again
We’ve got this far on faith that
You will find something like a child
Who will not go softly
Without a fight
Just one more night
Whatcha gonna do with sober mourning
Gonna up and up end
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4. |
Queen
02:12
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I’m slithering in the country
I’ve got my eyes on a queen
Yeah, I’ve got my eyes on a queen
I’m gonna give her a treat
Take a bite of something sweet
And then give it to me
Now I’m walking in the big city
There goes my queen
She took a bite of something
Took a bite of something sweet
Now she’s nothing to me
There goes my queen
There goes the scene
There goes my queen
There goes the dream
There goes my queen
She’s nothing to me
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5. |
Man Ray
02:50
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Mickey said that it had gone to his head
He better try it again
Pa looked it up and down all over again
Your odds are dismal at best
Ain’t got no mess to impress today
But I couldn’t give it away
So then he took to the way
That led on over to Jane’s
He wouldn’t make that mistake
When shooting fast and dealing
Bailing on hay
The discourse never do fade
Her face she knew those games
And said I could not find a thing
Janie was dead
The bullet came from some friends
Favored in tall square back dread
Come on man bring it on over again
Mickey boy gonna descend
Into that black hole head
And then I couldn’t even try to make sense of it
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6. |
Chopsticks Alarmclock
03:44
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Sitting in the old neighborhood
For the first time in a while since you felt understood
You had to run away from all of that baggage
You had to run to the hills to get your head straight
You said
Now you’re sitting on the stoop
Feeling the ID of it
The little pebbles that make up the big concrete strip
You’re tied to it whether you like it or not
What you can’t climb ain’t what you should be wasting your time with
I could sing all about it
From my one inch stage
I could rhapsodize and harmonize
About days calling out from the grave
Songs like whorls in the grain
Crashing chord curve of the wave
The forever rise and fall of distant unheard melodies
The jagged peaks sing their crooked lines
Why can’t I find the time to carve some of mine
But I’ll sing all around it
Shouting out from beyond the grave
We could talk talk about it
Until I’m up on my self-made one inch stage
I can’t find it
So wrapped up in all the tools you used
I’m stuck in between
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7. |
Repose
03:03
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I can’t say I know so I guess I’ll ask you why
So adamant was the American
Who wanted to move to Rhode Island soon
And when he did he forgot all his things
Now the Atlantic is home
It’s cold but don’t you know that it’s incomplete
And that’s the price of being intact
So what are you supposed to do?
Find another half?
No create man
Make a flesh cast
And once filled share that
What’re we working for?
Where is our repose?
I wanted it to change me
Now I wouldn’t use it
I’m too lazy
So I’ll go along nameless
The party’s the day’s end
It used to mean we’d done something
Now it’s all that we do
Versatile in a liquid state
You could have carved that pool out of concrete
You can stand there and look at the abyss forever
The genius of the shore
Standing on the pier
Just wishing for a bridge
The beams and trusses are right there
But you don’t know how to use them
Do you
Go back and learn for a while
But you better come back
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8. |
BDTH
02:47
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Watch out
You might get what you’re after
Boom babies
Strange but not a stranger
I’m an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
Hold tight
Wait til the party’s over
Hold tight
We’re in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house
Here’s your ticket pack your bag
Time for jumping overboard
Transportation is here
Close enough but not too far
Maybe you know where you are
Fighting fire with fire
All wet
Hey you might need a raincoat
Shakedown
Dreams walking in broad daylight
Three hundred sixty five degrees
Our house
Is out of the ordinary
That’s right
Don’t wanna hurt nobody
Some things sure sweep me off of my feet
Burning down the house
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9. |
Metal Mouth
03:10
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I am starting from under
I have been slummin like a dog in the rain
What you call charisma
What they call enigma
I just call it aftershave
Steel box stomper
Steel wire chompin’
Punk with a face and a name
Stupid mister know-it-all
Chew ya, metal mouth
Hey you in the back
You get off your ass, and come down here
Put your head against the bass amplifier
Don’t mind if we turn it louder
‘Cause we’re turning it louder
And louder
Gonna serve ya some punk with a face and a name
There’s a billboard with a simple phrase
A gospel for your novocain
Alcohol you got the job
Now solve all my problems
What you got against me?
Do I detect some envy?
Sorry if I shred and you don’t
But man I ain’t no window shopper
You got it and I want it
Please oh please don’t make me ask it again
Hey you with the face
You get off your ass, and come down here
Put your head against the bass amplifier
Don’t mind if we turn it louder
‘Cause we’re turning it louder
And louder
This is punk with a face and a name
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10. |
(To You) Goodbye Blues
05:09
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What did you see?
Did you see me
Lying faceless in the cold?
What could you have said?
My good friend
I’ll see you before long
You might not think it’s worth it
Until it’s gone away
You might not think you earned it
Take it day to day
Where did you go?
I oughta show
The bitter roll they’re calling for
How are you
My little blue
Through and through
You might not think it’s perfect
See you on the other side
But if it’s really worth it
You’ll find another place
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