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The Inverted Bell
05:04
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I heard that you were hurting
And your outlook was pretty grim
I felt that I should call you
Jump back into the swim
Things with us are always cloudy
You are like a phantom limb
I can't ring but I can catch you
You said that you were hurting
You have some kind of rare disease
In a few years you'll be immobile
Won't feel nothing below your arms and knees
You can't even pick up your old guitar
It just sits there like a tease
Now both of us are hurting
Not a lot we can do
Somehow time got away from us
I should've been there for you
I can't go back and change it
Hopefully now I can come through
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Hesitation
04:33
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It's us versus them, he says
And if we don't kill them
They are gonna kill us doncha know
We have gotta take 'em all down
Do it right quick
Do it right now not a second ago
Doncha ya give in to hesitation
It's your one and only sacred nation
Doncha ya give in, no, no
Doncha ya give in
'Cause if you do those bastards win
They are coming for your wives, he says
They're coming for your daughters
And they are gonna rape 'em one, two three
Gotta build us a great big wall
Keep those bastards down
Kick out every single refugee
They are coming for your jobs, he says
They'll buy up all your houses
And you will be left out in the street
Pick up your sticks and stones
Track 'em with your cell phones
Or you will find yourself in defeat
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Don't Get Me Started
05:12
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Hate ya, hate ya guts
Hate ya guts down to the bone
Hope your death is swift and sure
Hope you drop just like a stone
You’re gonna get it
Yeah you’re gonna get it
Don’t even bother to atone
Hateful, loathsome and vile
Nasty, wicked and crass
Evil, ugly and foul
Wanna kick your ass
Squish ya, squish ya head
Squish ya head just like a grape
Wanna see you burst wide open
Wanna hear you cry rape
You’re gonna get it
Yeah you’re gonna get it
You hideous fucking ape
Don’t get me started
Smack ya, smack ya face
Smack ya face till it’s black and blue
Wanna make you feel the pain
That you’ve put everyone through
You’re gonna get it
Yeah you’re gonna get it
Your comeuppance is overdue
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4. |
A Life Misremembered
05:13
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Got on the phone with my old friend Mark
We hadn’t talked in 50 years
His voice was familiar as that old offshore wind
Words fell into place like meshing gears
Then we spoke about how we fell out
About that girl who tore us apart
He said he didn’t recall what I was on about
“Who’s this girl who broke your heart”
Got on the phone with my old friend Dave
We hadn’t talked in 50 years
He still liked to spiel the same old line of bull
His object much closer than it appears
Then we spoke about how we fell out
That time I gave him a loan
He said he didn’t recall what I was on about
Then he abruptly hung up the phone
It’s a life misremembered
Got on the phone with my old friend Bill
We hadn’t talked in 50 years
I almost forgot just how funny he was
His jokes brought me down to tears
Then we spoke about how we fell out
He said I once didn’t have his back in a crunch
I thought it strange that he brought that up
Because I was the one who took the punch
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5. |
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What do I do
What do I do
Now that the past is lost
Where can I live
What can I live with
Can’t afford the cost
What can I know
When I can’t know
Don’t know nothing no more
This is not my life
This is not my town
This is not a world that I know
It’s turned upside down
For the last of the true believers
The last of the true believers
What can I say
Why I can’t say it
You see I’ve lost my voice
Try to make it up
But I can’t make it up
I seem to have no choice
What can I feel
When I can’t feel
Can’t feel nothing no more
What can I dream
When I can’t dream
They’ve all been blown apart
I write a song
I bare soul
I open wide my heart
What can I hope
When I can’t hope
Can’t hope nothing no more
No more life
No more dreams
No hope for nothing no more
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6. |
Old Friend
04:31
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Who am I to you
And who are you to me
I don't remember
You don't remember
It was a different time
And a different place
It was a lifetime ago
You say I am your oldest friend
But it's all pretend
It's all pretend in the end
My old friend
The way I see it
And the way you see it
We see it so differently
It's like separate worlds
That never meet
That never touch
A different life
You have your life
And I have mine
Your kids don’t know me
And mine don’t know yours
We send each other Christmas cards
That’s as deep as it goes
If you think there’s still time
Think again
You are wrong
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7. |
O What a World
05:07
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So how in hell did we get here
Well who fucking knows
A perfect storm of insanity
Through which ill wind blows and blows
Our precious leader hides down in the basement
Says he’s in, says he’s in dispose
O what a world
O what a world
How can we find an answer
When the question remains unknown
So how in hell did this happen
What brought this on
Were we so short-sighted
We couldn’t see the new dawn
There’s a man upstairs pulling on the strings
And we are just, we are just his pawn
What the world means to you
What the world means to me
So how in hell did we blow this
Well who the fuck can say
We held the hope for the future
And we squandered it away
We march through the streets in protest
And the bullets ricochet
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Palimpest
04:27
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I'm a page out of your history
I'm erased again and again
Keep me close at hand
You might need me now and then
I remind you of where you been
I'm a signpost of what is to come
Pay attention you feeble fool
Don't you act so dumb
Over and over
We write over
I'm the news you refuse to see
The file you delete
I'm the story that you won't read
I don't fit with your conceit
I look straight in your eyes
When you just won't see
I whisper in your ears
And make my tiny plea
I'm the back sheep of your family
The dark spot in your guts
I am the God's honest truth
The very thing that drives you nuts
I am never gonna go away
No matter how you try
Turn your back to me if you dare
I am the evil eye
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9. |
Honeymoon on Venus
04:28
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Hi, hello
What a wonderful way to go
Strap myself in
Strap myself in
I'm listening to a song
I feel like Neil Armstrong
Or maybe Neil Young
Maybe Neil Young
Down by the river
There's a cowboy in the sand
And everybody knows this is nowhere
This is nowhere
Horray, hooray
I am on my way
Looking out my window
Looking out my window
My hair in the breeze
Speed on up if you please
Can't wait till we get there
Can't wait till we get there
Huzzah, huzzah
I am leaving Arkansas
For a honeymoon on Venus
A honeymoon on Venus
I'll be dressed in a tux
Floating in a magnetic flux
I'm a shooting star
I'm a shooting star
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10. |
Secret Song
04:54
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Every night I say a prayer
I say a prayer for a dream come true
And every night I get down on my knees
I get down and I pray for you
I pray that you will hear me
I pray that you will find a way
This is my dream
My dream is love
This is my dream
My dream is love
It is my secret song
It is my secret song
Every night I say a prayer
I say a prayer that you will love me
And every night I get down on my knees
But I don’t see you above me
Still I pray that you will rescue me
I pray you will be the one
I pray to you and you alone
I pray that you will save my soul
I pray that you will find me
I pray that you will make me whole
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I feel it in my toes
I feel it in my hair
Up, down, all around, yeah
I feel it everywhere
I feel it in my spine
An ache that’s off the chart
And what is worst of all
I feel it in my heart
It’s the pain that keeps on giving
Yeah it’s the pain that keeps on giving
No it won’t go away
I feel it from above
I feel it down below
I feel today
And I will feel it tomorrow
I feel it constantly
It is out of my control
And what is worst of all
I feel it in my soul
I feel it when I wake
I feel it when I sleep
I feel it in-between
I feel it down deep
I feel it when I’m happy
I feel it when I’m blue
And what is worst of all
I feel it from you
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12. |
Lonesome Farewell
04:08
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As it always was and always will be
It’s down to me, yeah, down to me
I am my staunch defender
I got my own back
I stand up for me when I’m under attack
No one really wants me
That much is clear
But that’s OK
I’m about outta here
This is my lonesome farewell
See me fly
This is my lonesome farewell
Bye-bye
I tried to move a mountain
But I got crushed in a landslide
I tried to race around the world
But it was a long and bumpy ride
My family deserted me
They left me for dead
Never once showed compassion
Or give me a crumb of bread
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The Revenants Boston, Massachusetts
"It was hell," recalls former child.
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