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Point of reference
03:10
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When I lose the point of reference
there's no good or bad, its all OK
a faded blueprint, a little magic that I saved
from younger days
is not enough to find me
convince me why
I should join your side
prescribed convictions keep us dilated and fixed
to conquer and divide
inclined to pass the time alone
get so drained talkin' bout what's goin' on
When headlines are the scripts of nightmares
expanding void takes the words away
for idle chatter bout the horrors of the day
wish I felt to pray
inclined to pass the time alone
feel so strange talkin' bout what's goin' on
ahh ahh ahh
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Dust cloud in central
03:24
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dust cloud in central
my eyes are stingin'
blind to the flatbeds
which offer me invitations
to a most unattractive death
these factories brought us
confections for pleasure
now the candy's so bitter
prescribed for the pain
all of the symptoms
of tiny problems you can't see
the disease there is no solving
can't close the door its revolving
first day of spring the spittle's melting
but the hardhats and junkies seem not to care
cause they know life's not fair
above its only squares and lines
slip in to the brine
where trash tornados roam
a strange place to call home
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3. |
Early Choir
00:38
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Squander
03:24
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would you squander your health
what would you do with yourself
if you severed all the strings
no patterns to re-trace
a bit more time to waste
why wake early, there's no need
to get up make decisions
without the tele you'd have no vision
what to pick up what to put down
with no straw man around
moving you right along
be wide open like the fields
of wyoming or sealed
in the cage you know so well
no difference
don't know where
you're going you might not get there
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If they'd
02:54
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if they'd only let me
i'd blow off with the breeze
leave this trapeze far behind
nothing to catch me
from breaking like a twig
twitchy check the rig-gin' one more time
my loyal handler
is a drinkin' man
and when he's lucid
he helps me if he can
bad luck follows him
his dream shattered wanted to fly
shot from a cannon
a meter shy of the landing mark
lost his spark
now he's shaky all the time
it's not below me
clinging to a tree
when the circus leaves
I'll come down
if they'd only let me
i'd blow off with the breeze
leave this trapeze to walk the ground
feeling the years
bruises and pain
tired of the traveling
sleepin on a train
but I still remain
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All too easy
02:47
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its all too easy
faking, taking as you please
hear those strings I didn't play them
if someone did i'll never pay them
cry it's not the real thing
shameless repackaging they’d say
the bones of artisans would rise to strike me down
if the purists had their way
far too pain free
pushing buttons turning dials
only listening to reason
or perhaps committing treason
baby what's that ring tone
sparing me from deeper thought
a catchy number one from old ludwig
the new accessory you bought
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In spite of everything
02:51
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in spite of everything
you bore the suffering
trial after trial
you unglue us
all the while resting assured of your place
in the universe
and what for gratitude
you get the third degree
from the sheep who can't bare a truth
that's cold and ugly
within the larger dream
the domination scheme
impersonal, mechanized
casually you decide
who lives or dies without need
to equivocate
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Gateway drug
03:27
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well that old lock was broken
the gate was open wide
he heard the banjo pickin'
went in for a ride
when he hits rock bottom in the ditch that he dug
love is the gateway drug
she was a footloose fireball
and he just couldn't miss
didn't see the pistol as he went in for a kiss
when he hits rock bottom in the ditch that he dug
love is the gateway drug
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Do the opposite
02:28
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She's ready to push another
from the slow moving freight train
in a fit of regret forgot to remind herself
to read the note she wrote it says
always do the opposite of your first instinct
She knows she knows, its counterintuitive
but in observing trends in film and TV
all the predictive studies agree
always do the opposite of your gut feeling
always do the opposite
always do the opposite
always do
He's so blind he thinks every thing's fine
as the axe is descending
an old familiar tune - not you its me
now he'll remember to be a pretender
and always do the opposite of his first instinct
always do the opposite
always do the opposite
always do
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So you think
02:41
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So you think your cool I do
So you think your smart I do
So you think your the one
So you think your interesting
well you're not
no you're not
So you think your hot, I do
So you think your someone
So you think your cool I do
So you think your interesting
well you're not
So you think he's the one, I do
So you like my song I do
So you like your mirror
So you think your interesting
well you're not
no you're not
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11. |
Forest green
01:48
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lost in forest green
we'd run to escape the mean
it's all changed somehow
the games are different now
sheltered life, brick red
can't remember what you said
left a mark so deep, it all adds up to me
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