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I started on this journey
A long, long time ago
Way back before I was even born
And now I’m swept along
A feather in the wind
Slipping in and out like a shoehorn
I did some shitass things
Gotta sack-full of regrets
But what does that matter now
The road up ahead
Is coming to an end
And I just gotta say holy fucking cow
Ninety-six million can’t be wrong
Ninety-six million they say can’t be wrong
Ninety-six million they’re singing my song
I don’t got any answers
So don’t look to me
I’m not the Oracle at Delphi
I'm the only one I trust
The only one I know
It's just me, myself, and I
I’ve made lots of bad choices
I’ve fucked some shit up
You could say I’ve goofed the floof
But you can resurrect yourself
You can come back from the dead
Look at me I am the living proof
The world is full of frauds
Full of know-it-alls
And phony freakin’ dilettantes
I hate their sticking guts
Every single one
And I know all about their haunts
I don’t care to ever go there
I'm going my own way
Just like the way Frank Sinatra did
I’m flying off to the moon
Don’t plan on coming back
I'm officially off the grid
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It Is Your World
03:42
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This was my home for 20 long years
Some might say a tenement
But then you came and you pushed me out
Now I can’t pay my rent
It is your world, we just live in it
It is your world all right
The rich always do just what they please
While the rest of us beg on our hands and knees
You built it up an you gentrified
You made it all brand spanking new
But a guy like me now I ain’t got no home
What’s a poor boy to do
We bow on down and we kiss your feet
As you sleep in your silken threads
But just like Marie Antoinette
I say, Off with their heads
I have a wife and I have a kid
And we have a faithful little cat
We eat the scraps off of your table
While you sit around growing fat
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Thick As Thieves
03:52
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Let me tell you all
Just what I’ve seen
What I been witness to unwittingly
It ain’t pretty
It is downright base
But it all happened unremittingly
I wish I did not see
But I can’t change reality
Here they come
Like a juggernaut
They are blowing around like autumn leaves
They’ll eat you out
Of your house and home
Watch them close they are as thick as thieves
Say what you will
But you can’t know
What it’s like to live among this tribe
They stew in their filth
They are not contrite
As for the rest I’m at pains to describe
Suffice to say they're vile
And they’re here to stay for long, long while
Don't you equivocate
Better do something before it's too late
Don’t turn a blind eye
Don’t let these sleeping dogs lie
You can judge me
Call me scum
But you’ve got no idea where I’m coming from
I have lived it
I’ve seen it all first hand
They play the game of zero sum
I’m soon to be replaced
Thrown out like toxic waste
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Big in China
04:17
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Write my tunes
Toss 'em up on the web
And no one ever bothers to stream it
Well that don't bug me
I do it for love
That anyone cares well I don't dream it
But then one day
It all blew up
And something happened to sorta redeem it
I'm big in China
I'm numero one
And billions all bow down before me
I'm big in China
Xiè xie
Now give me all the cash that you owe me
I was a nobody
Till you all found me
Now you've turned me into a superstar
Don't got a mansion
Don't got no groupies
Don't got no Lamborghini car
Got a tiny apartment
In a four floor walk-up
While someone somewhere lives like a czar
You don't got no conscience
You don't got no ethics
Everything's just a product to be sold
I am a pawn
I get shoved around
While you fill up on your crock of gold
This is the world
The world that we live in
Some of us make while some of us take
Some look for truth
Some look for beauty
While some slither 'round like a rattlesnake
It ain't for the meek
It ain't for the mild
They all get flattened just like a pancake
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You Took It All Away
04:46
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Had the world
In the palm of hands
And I thought it would remain there forever
I felt lucky
I felt blessed
In my every endeavor
Then you swooped in
Out of nowhere
Just like a great bird of prey
You didn’t take a little
Yeah you took it all
You took it all away
I was foolish
I was callow
Thought I really knew what I was doing
Felt entitled
Felt immune
Didn’t see there was big trouble brewing
You were hungry
You were greedy
Didn’t care what anyone was going through
You were starved
You were needy
You shoved yourself in like a corkscrew
Had a room
All to myself
With my books and my records on a shelf
You were spiteful
And you were mean
You could help but help yourself
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6. |
One Art
04:36
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The art of losing isn't hard to master
So many things seem filled with the intent
To be lost that their loss is no disaster
Lose something every day
Accept the fluster of lost door keys
The hour badly spent
The art of losing isn't hard to master
Isn't hard to master
Then practice losing farther, losing faster
Places, and names
And where it was you meant to travel
None of these will bring disaster
I lost my mother’s watch
And look my last or next-to-last
Of three loved houses went
The art of losing isn’t hard to master
Isn’t hard to master
I lost two cities, lovely ones
And, vaster
Some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love)
I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
The art of losing’s not too hard to master
Though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster
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7. |
Our Own Myth
04:18
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Who would ever think it
Who would ever imagine
Who would ever dream up this big old dream
Who would ever want so bad
Ever strive so hard
Just to wind up at the bottom of a stream
Who is this fool
We wanna believe what we wanna believe
What we wanna believe what we want
And we never know the breadth or width
Is it junk or is it great
Will we know before it’s too late
Or will we believe in our own myth
Who knows, who knows
Who would ever live it
Who would ever keep on going
Who would ever risk being made an ass
Who would ever kill for it
Who would ever die for it
When anyone else would just let it pass
Who is this fool
Who knows
Who can say
Who can say what is what
Who knows
Who can say
Better run quick before the door is shut
Who would ever want it
Who would ever need it
Who would ever think, hey this is right
Who would ever do this
Who would ever live with this
Who would ever sleep well at night
Who is this fool
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Inspired Fake
05:10
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How can I tell what's true
Leave it up to experts like you
You know what is real
Tell me what's the real deal
It's an inspired fake
For goodness sake
Make no mistake
It's an inspired fake
I can count on you
You always come through
Teach me 'bout the finer stuff
Like what is substance and what is fluff
And when I want to know the answer
You're my very own internet
You tell my what's a long shot
And what is my best bet
One day I was stumped
Like the whole world had got me trumped
I turned to my personal god
Found out you were a fraud
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Light It Up
04:08
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Everything is moving
Nothing is standing still
And if you don’t hang on for dear life
You'll be dumped in a landfill
Put on your running shoes
Hit the road with a shot
Run, run, run away
Give it everything you got
Na-na-na-na-na-na hey
Na-na-na-na-na-na hey
Light it up like dynamite
The wheels are set in motion
Nothing gonna stop it
It's as big as a juggernaut
No way to just drop it
You can be carried along
Or you can be left behind
Living out in nowheresville
With the dregs of mankind
You can feel the attraction
It’s almost like gravity
Give on in, give on it
Don’t be a separate entity
Once you get the hang of it
You will find your own peace
So don’t you hesitate
Let yourself release
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10. |
I Won't Forget You
04:34
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Found a picture of you
At the bottom of my drawer
You were smiling a brandy smile
The world was new
And there were good times ahead
You were gonna spin it freestyle
I reached out my hand
And you held it tight
You said you liked the way my mind worked
Still can’t believe
How you loved me so
It’s like the universe had suddenly jerked
I won’t forget you
I won’t forget you
I won’t forget you
No not a chance
I won’t forget you
I won’t forget you
Across the great expanse
You colored your hair
Green, orange and blue
Yeah you changed it to suit your mood
I recall the time
You sprouted angel wings
And you took off for a higher altitude
Those were the days
Of miracles and wonder
It was a time that'll never recur
Glad I knew then
What I know now
‘Cause it all flew by in a blur
I have measured out my life
In coffee spoons
And it barely amounted to a hill of beans
Whatever way see it
Whatever way it was
I have no idea what any of it means
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My Greatest Hate of All
05:17
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I can recall the first time I saw you
And I knew it then that you'd be big trouble
I told myself that I could look past it
But I guess that I could just not look past it
You stand so straight and so tall
You are my greatest hate of all
I knew that you were pretty damn tricky
You kept friends close and your enemies closer
People said I should be ready for the worst
And I guess that I should've kept that in mind
And I will hate you
Till the end of days
And I will hate you
And your hateful ways
You make it seem like nothing is different
None of it happened at least in your mind
But I beg to differ and I'm not forgetting
One day I'll tell you just how I feel
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12. |
Gone Forever
04:33
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All that I want, gone forever
All that I wish for that’s gone too
All of my hopes don’t get me much
And all my plans have fallen right through
Wanted to be someone
Who does something great
But none of that happened, no
Now it’s too late
All that I think, just a bunch of hooey
All that I dream is fairly mediocre
All that I imagine is pretty banal
Thought I was funny but I’m just a joker
Wanted to be someone
Held in high esteem
But that didn't happened, no
Didn’t live out my dream
All that I want, gone forever
All that I need I never got
No place to run, no place to return
Stuck right here confronting my lot
Wanted to be someone
Who takes the prize
But none of that happened, no
To my surprise
All that I want, gone forever
All that I need that's gone too
All that I want gone forever
All of my plans have fallen through
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