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Dark Spot
05:25
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There's a part of me I've always questioned
A part of me I can't let go
Can't tell no one about it
So I cover it up with a pretty good show
There's a dark spot in my heart
A dark spot black and bleak
There's a dark spot in my soul
Its name I cannot speak
Don't wanna say it
Don't wanna betray it
That dark spot
There's a part of me I've always wondered
Is it the thing that makes me bad
Is it the reason no loves me
Is it the reason I'm like my dad
There's a part of me that's always bugged me
I can't identify what it is
All I know is I don't understand it
And that it defies analysis
There's a part of me that kind of scares me
It makes me act nearly insane
The more I try to rid myself of it
The more it seems to want to remain
There's a part of me that won't let go of me
A part of me that has me stuck
I wish I knew how I could resist it
I wish I knew how I could shuck
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2. |
My God and Me
03:29
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Thought we had some kind of a deal
Thought that we had an arrangement
Thought you’d stick by me through thick and thin
What gives with this estrangement
I can’t tell a lie
There’s a problem with my God and I
Seems we disagree, yeah
There’s a problem with my God and me
Thought that we were all good
Thought you’d leave me well enough alone
Didn’t mean you should abandon me
C’mon God, throw me a bone
You’re a cold, cruel bitch
When you pitch a fit
It’s your world and I just live in it
Thought we had it all worked out
Thought that we had shaken
You are one sneaky ass dude
Didn’t know that I’d get taken
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Better Angel
05:31
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You call me out when I am bad
Good on you, good on you
You say, “you're wrong, you’re wrong dad”
You see right through my stupid shit
Good on you, good on you
You know when I’m a hypocrite
You’re the better angel
Better angel, better angel of my nature
You know when I am way off base
Good on you, good on you
You accept I’m just a hopeless case
Yeah you forgive me all my sins
Good on you, good on you
Don’t have to walk on needles and pins
And I am thankful you’re around
You keep me rooted on solid ground
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4. |
God Made Me Do It
04:58
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God put his little voice inside my head
And I followed every single word that he said
He said to eat my pork and save some room for pie
Why he went and said that
I can't say why
He said if I do good I will be rewarded
With all the good God stuff that can be afforded
And if you want to know why I did what I did
Why I let the Lord thy God run my id
Can't you see that it is out of my control
I leave it to the man who rocked my very soul
God made me do it
God whispered sweet somethings in my ear
He told me that he loved me like a sweet little deer
He asked if I would I like to do his bidding
Sure, I'd do it, who are you kidding
This is God, the big man upstairs
He's the richest of all the trillionaires
God made me love and God made me hate
God gave me religion and God gave me fate
The three big things I treasure the most
Are the Father, the son and the holy ghost
God told me stories to keep me in line
He said, "Follow my words and all will be fine"
So I do what He says even when it seems wrong
And I am at least six billion strong
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5. |
Grun-tu-Molani
05:56
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The sun don’t shine here anymore
As gray as slate
As thick as hate
There ain’t no love outside my door
It’s all broke down
Every street in every town
I can’t stand it
Going out of my mind
Just wanna get back to better days
The world’s gone crazy
No place to run
Just wanna get back to better days
Night has fallen all over the world
As dark as pitch
A hateful bitch
No stars in the heavens above
God is hiding
No hand is guiding
It’s been a long, long time
Been a long, long time
Since I've seen the sun
It’s been a long, long time
Been a long, long time
I got no place to run
The rain is coming down in sheets
The rivers swell
It’s a living hell
People are praying to their god above
But God don’t care
He’s playing solitaire
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6. |
God's Mistake
05:34
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Yeah, that's me, no good for nothing
No good for nothing at all
That's what they say, whoever they are
They know how to make me feel small
I'm a freak, a freak of nature
Down on the bottom I trawl
Yeah, that's me, I'm a loser
I'm not what I used to be
No, not that I was anyone great
Anyone who'd make history
And if I vanished overnight
No one would look for me
I am God's mistake, I am for God's sake
As lowly as a garden snake
God's mistake
Yeah, that's me, I am a dummy
And I do what a dummy does
I do it all backward when I do it at all
Don't know why or because
And in the end no one sees me
No one sees who I was
Yeah, that's me, I am a fool
And people laugh at my folly
They say, What a dope, and then they snicker
Glad I can make them so jolly
But if they saw the real me
They might change betcha by golly
They might say, He's not God's mistake
They might say, He's not God's mistake
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Get out of my way if you value your life
Or at the very least the lives your loved ones
I'm hear to say I'm taking over the world and I plan
To do away with the with the aboved ones
I don't care what you say and I don't care
What you do if it's all the same to me
I'll just do what I need and I will do what I do
And that's what's fair at all for me
And who is gonna stop me anyhow
I got the devil in me, boy
I will say what I say and I will do what I want
As long as you don't catch me in my lie
It's pretty easy to do to do what I do
You see I barely even have to try
I'm a little bit snarky and a little bit sneaky
And I play both ends against the middle
And I keep you guessin' with your head I am messin'
As I slowly unravel my riddle
Such is the very nasty business of my life
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8. |
Sometimes It Rains
05:15
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Lightning arcs out across the sky
Like so many trembling fingers
It strikes in a flash then vanishes
But still something awful still lingers
Sometimes it rains
Sometimes it's a drought
Sometimes it's in-between
The badlands and the wash out
Sometimes it rains
Sometimes it rains
Blood-thirsty soldiers loot a town
Leaving graveyards in their wake
And the refugees stream like a river of heat
These casualties that even God won't forsake
Sometimes the rain can rinse us clean
Sometimes the rain can wash our sins away
Sometimes the rain can give us life
And sometimes the rain only brings decay
There are times when your glass is empty
And you need something to fill it up
The sky darkens and rain starts to pour down
And it runneth over your crummy little cup
Here comes the rain
Gonna wash us down the drain
Here comes the rain
You don't need a weather vane
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Sunday School
04:59
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Learned about God and the Golden Rule
Learned so many things in my Sunday school
Like the blood of Christ and all things divine
And how Jesus turned the water into the wine
Learned about religion and its history
Learned about the supernatural mystery
Learned about the good and learned about the bad
And the way those Catholic schoolgirls wear that plaid
Going back to Sunday school, all right
Going back to Sunday school, uptight
Learned about the difference between them and us
Learned about consequences if I should cuss
Learned about giving up candy for lent
And if I do wrong how should I repent
Learned about the gospels and how they apply
Learned I better not ever tell a lie
'Cause when I die I will go to hell
As sure as the nuns ring the church bell
Learned that God will smite me if I am ever mean
Learned to stay away from thoughts impure and unclean
Learned about abstinence, learned to use rhythm
Learned that jism rhymes with catechism
Learned all of my prayers from that great big holy book
Learned to keep away from priests who get that funny look
Kept a code of silence all about the secret stuff
Learned to be polite and never give off any guff
Ate my fish on Friday's dipped in tartar sauce
Got down on my knees and prayed to Jesus on the cross
Learned that I must not fuss, bitch or complain
And never, ever, ever take the Lord's name in vain
Learned to tell a sinner from a saint
Learned to tell who's righteous from those who ain't
Learned when to sit and when to speak
When to take it on the chin and to turn the other cheek
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I don't trust him and why should you
I mean, look at all the trouble he's caused
We cross ourselves and genuflect
We obey every one of his laws
We get baptized and eat fish on Fridays
We follow all his sacraments
We do his bidding and fight his wars
We rid ourselves of discontents
We live out all of his commandments
We never steal, covet and/or kill
We try not to take his good name in vain
We know he has just so much goodwill
I don't like him, never have
He has made my life a living hell
And those I know who choose to live without him
Their lives seem pretty darn swell
We sacrifice, give up for lent
We tithe, we pray and we confess
And we defend him to the nonbelievers
When they say all he does is repress
We do our best to spread the word
Until every man alive sings his praise
We kiss his ass and shine his shoes
We follow all of his crazy ways
And after our pain and suffering
And after all of our goddamn work
Why oh why is God a goddamn jerk
Such a goddamn jerk
I don't trust him and there's a reason
He cannot seem to make up his mind
Does he want us to forge our own path
Does he want us to follow him blind
We weed out all of the heathen
We cast them down into the fire
We live a life of sacrifice
We rid ourselves of earthly desire
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11. |
High Above Heaven
06:48
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I rise in the morning and the day unravels
Like dust from a old musty rug
I write it all down in my old trusty journal
And it reads just like so much humbug
I don’t think I believe what I’m saying
I don’t know exactly how I feel
And that not knowing it makes me anxious
I can’t tell ya what is real
High above heaven and under your spell
Part of me knows that I’m not a good guy
Especially when I give in to rage
The part of my brain that controls my good sense
Gets sent back to the stone age
Do I have any say-so in how I behave
Or am I ruled by my emotion
The thought that I can not do the wrong thing
It’s such a strange notion
There’s a battle in me for what reigns supreme
Between he ego and id
Who will be the winner and who will lose
It might take me down, God forbid
I wish I were smarter and little bit strong
But I’ve been battered like an old boat
Ain’t no Caribbean wind gonna fill my masts
Barely any life left in this nasty old goat
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12. |
Where Have You Gone?
04:16
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I keep hoping for a sign
Just a card or just a letter
Won’t you please drop me a line
Anything would make me feel better
I keep hoping you’ll return
But days go by and there’s no word
Where have you gone my special one
When will you ever come on back
I been praying all these years
And I’m stuck here in this cul-de-sac
I look out on this old world
And all I see is pain and woe
Thought that you could help us out
But your response has been slow
I am waiting on the stoop
The dream I have has been deferred
Where have you gone
Can’t you give a little hint
Can’t remember your face
Were your eyes brown or blue
I do recall you had a beard
And you knew a little jujitsu
People are starting to suspect
That you may not exist at all
My special one
Where have you gone
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