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Dropping Like Flies
06:23
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I called your number but it was disconnected
I called again and again hoping I'd been misdirected
Where are you now my old friend
I searched the internet and found you had died
Just a tiny footnote like no one had cried
A sad little end, my friend
They're dropping like flies
All around us
They're dropping like flies
Death surrounds us
Just stand back and watch them fall
I went to see your mother but she moved away
Went to see your best friend Sal and she had this to say
Just one of those things, my friend
I looked through all your letters
I had them lying around
They were smart and witty
And at times profound
Now their every word stings, my friend
I pulled out a bottle and I got smashed
I cried my holy head off unabashed
It's the end of the world, my friend
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2. |
Tomorrow
05:06
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The clock on the wall is spinning around
'Round, 'round and 'round
Like a wheel that's set in perpetual motion
And it yanks us along so cool and so unwittingly
Like the pull of the undertow in the ocean
And then a giant wave crashes in and sweeps us all away
And we sigh dear God
Dear God
To the lonely and invincible of the earth
To endure and then endure
Tomorrow and tomorrow
Dear God
The clock on the wall is spinning around
'Round, 'round and 'round
And the planets all revolve around the sun
And we are merely dust and we are barely dreams
That fade away when the day is done
And we hush with our breath to hear
And we strain with our eyes to see
And if the shores are drawing near
Eternity! Eternity!
And then a giant brush sweeps in and wipes the old slate clean
And we sigh oh my
Oh my
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3. |
Scoundrels
04:31
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There was Dan and there was Daisy
There was Jeff and there was Maisy
Together they were all a little bit crazy
Yeah, oh yeah
They made for a funky quartet
Wanna know how scary they could get
Well you ain't seen nothin' yet
Man, oh man
They were scoundrels, wicked scoundrels
They hurled their sticks and their stones
They were scoundrels, nasty scoundrels
They were bad in their bones
They tore up the whole countryside
In a red Trans Am with some flames on the side
They looked so cool in their hopped-up ride
Yeah, oh yeah
Stole from the poor and gave to the rich
In a rather unorthodox switch
They left my grandma lying in a ditch
Boy, oh boy
Dan dined on human flesh
And Daisy picked the remains
Jeff had a taste for Type O blood
And Maisy sucked on the veins
Dan and Daisy they died pretty young
He ate her liver and she ate his tongue
All that remained was a pile of dung
Yeah, oh yeah
Jeff and Maisy they moved the Valley
They opened up a bowling alley
They had a daughter and they named her Sally
Sweet, real sweet
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I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna talk about it
I don’t wanna talk about these hurtful things
Just wanna keep a civil tongue in my mouth, oh yeah
Don’t get me
Don’t get me started
Don’t get me going on all the ways that I’ve been hurt
I may blow right up in your face
I don’t wanna talk
I don’t wanna talk about it
Don’t wanna talk about nothing at all
Just wanna keep my old mad mouth shut, yeah
I don’t wanna talk
I don’t wanna talk about it
I don’t got nothing I wanna say to you at all
No not at all
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna hear your lies
Don’t wanna hear you twist the truth the sweet way that you do
Don’t say I love you
Don’t say nothing at all
I ain’t gonna
I ain’t gonna let you hurt me
Ain’t gonna let you hurt me no way no how
You don’t get to do that
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5. |
Goodbye Tomorrow
05:20
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Looks like you're standing on solid ground
Kinda strange you're the only one around
Everyone has deserted you
Everyone's gone on to do their own thing
And you wish them well
With how their every endeavor takes to wing
You can believe it's all for the best
You can believe like a man possessed
You can try to hold on to every little thing that you know
But in the end it will slip away
You can believe you can control space and time
Goodbye tomorrow, hope you had a nice day
Looks like you're living at the top of the heap
You can afford to act like a big ol' creep
But everyone is indifferent
Everyone doesn't give a flying toss
Still you don't care as long your gain
Is the their interminable loss
Doesn't it bug you just a jot
You must know that some things can't be bought
Well all these days they go flying by
Gone, gone, gone in the blink of an eye
You can't get them back no matter how hard you try
You think that you are in command
You think that you are the king of the land
Well I guess you don't understand, no
One moment you're here and then gone
Pushing up weeds on your own front lawn
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6. |
Larking About
03:58
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I went out for a walk
Went way past my block
And I kept on going right out of town
Walked unfamiliar streets
In my bare feets
Well I walked up and I walked down
Larking about
Larking about
I found my own way
I found my own way out
Threw away my phone
Got no direction known
Just like that old-time Bobby Dylan song
I would make my home
Wherever I roam
Whatever place that I feel I belong
I carried what I could pack
Just like Jack Kerouac
My life well it had become a long and winding road
Met a lot of different folks
Told a lot of dirty jokes
Learned what they called the road code
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7. |
Napoleon in Rags
03:50
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Here, here I come
Napoleon in rags
And I will conquer you
Here, here I come
Napoleon in rags
And I'll devour you
Don't you dare stand in my way
I will smite you down
With my mighty hand
I am so righteous and so cool
And I will take away all of your land
Don't you dare find fault with me
I will smite you down
With my killer stare
I am a god in my own mind
With my rock star looks
And my perfect hair
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When you have everything
Then you have nothing
When you have nothing, you have it all
Don't try to be big, my love
Be small, be small
When there is Ovna
There is love
You can choose the easy road but you will arrive too fast
So choose the hard road and the journey will last
If you change your perspective
If you take a longer view
The world will open up
In front of you
When you struggle to love, lve does not come
But once you let it all go it's easy as a fall
Don't try to be big, my love
Be small, be small
If you know your own heart and be what you can be
If you do these two things
You will set yourself free
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9. |
Highway 46 Revisited
04:49
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I was going to see my girlfriend
She lived up in Santa Cruz
I was on a midnight drive
Driving like I had nothing to lose
I popped some dexedrine
Just to keep me awake
I guess I took a little too much
'Cause it made me start to shake, shake, shake
Then I saw a big old semi
Coming at me in my lane
He ran me right off the road
For reasons that I still can't explain
It was somewhere in-between
The Lost Hills and Paso Robles
That I did get my final kicks
My old car it spun like a dervish
And wound up deep down in a ditch
Way out on Highway 46
My car, well, it flipped and rolled
And it landed upside-down
It all seemed to happen in slo-mo
In a haze of yellow and brown
I remember I said to myself
Hey, well, this is it
This is how my life will end
Holy shit
But then the dust did settle
And I got myself out
I looked at my mangled car and thought
I should've died in there no doubt
I was lucky I didn't die
I still wonder why, why, why, why didn't I
Since then nothing's been the same
And I gotta wonder
Maybe this is the Twilight Zone
And I'm really six feet under
Well maybe I didn't survive and I'm in hell
Maybe that's why the world's so strange
It's hard to tell
They say that Jimmy Dean
He died here trying to get his kicks
Maybe somewhere he's written a song
About Highway 46
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10. |
All for Nothing
05:20
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We been around
For what seems like a million years
And look at how far we have not come
We love to tell ourselves
We are the smartest creatures of them all
But the facts are we are oh so dumb
Can you hear Him, God is laughing
The world spins round and round and round
And we heed the call of an ancient sound
All for nothing, all for nothing
We build our cities from the sand to the sky
We live out our lives and then we die
All for nothing, all for nothing
We make our plans and we are think we are in control
But they slip away every one
We work our jobs
And we buy ourselves a house in the 'burbs
We think we live the dream but there are none
Can you hear Him, God is weeping
We think we're at our peak
We look at how high we can reach
But like Sisyphus we go a-tumbling down
We go to church and we pray for our souls to be saved
The water's rising and we're scared we'll drown
Can you see Him, God is sleeping
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11. |
End of Days
04:31
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The news came on
A special report
The man looked pretty upset
He cleared his throat and dried his eyes
And said something I won't forget
It's time for you to come on home
Head back without delays
The hour's late, the time is nigh
It's the end of days
The sky was black at high noon
And the air smelled of sulfur and ash
It was as if God himself had swooped on down
And said, time to take out the trash
An earthquake here, a tsunami there
Our world lay in rack and ruin
We cried out to the lord above
Screamin', What the hell are you doin'
Come along now, my little one
Better lock up all our belongings
All I got to protect us is a rake
We will hunker down in our basement
And hope that this is all a bad mistake
We will pray for our salvation
While the rest will rot in hell
We will ride on our chariots, yeah
And we will live where the sanctified dwell
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12. |
Guilty As Charged
05:09
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Here I am guilty as charged
I'm the one
The one you want to hate
Yeah, here I am
Guilty as charged
Lock me away
I stand alone
I stand apart
I am not connected
To your heart
I would like to state
The nature of my case
I would like stare
My accuser in the face
I stand for alone
I stand outside
There is no place
For me to hide
I have my dream
And you are there
And you are my essence
You are my prayer
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