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You may think it's all a game
But you're wrong, you're wrong
We're all connected just the same
One big ol' throng
You may think you'll get away with telling all your lies
Well you are in, I bet, for one big surprise
You may think you are a god but you're not, you're not
You may think you are a have not some have-not
While the rest of us fools are chasing a buck
You look down your nose and say, "You suck"
Don't fool yourself, bucko
Don't live a lie
Don't fool yourself, bucko
Your time is nigh
When you get dealt a hand
It's always a full house, full house
You trip the light fantastique while the rest of us grouse
You may think you are above the lowly scum
But don't you worry about a thing
Your time will come
Hey buddy, better listen to what I say
The clock is ticking on your perfect day
You may think that you're right but what if your not
Take away your bravado and what have you got
You may think that you're so smart
And we're all a bunch of fools
But in the end you may find
The world will break your rules
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Undeserving
05:06
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Why do I feel the way that I feel
I don’t fully comprehend
I don’t like to feel the way that I feel
And all that those feelings portend
Part of me thinks that I deserve better
But part me thinks I’m bad
And the part me that is the latter
Just drives me mad, mad, mad
Undeserving, undeserving
Undeserving of all I got
Undeserving, undeserving, undeserving
That’s my lot
Whatever good has ever come my way
I’ve made sure to screw with it
‘Cause whatever good has ever come my way
I could never have anything to do with it
Never got no love when I was a kid
Never knew just what that meant
Tried so hard to get myself straight
But I always wound up bent
There weren’t no love when I was boy
There was only frustration and rage
It was all I could do to save myself
And break out of that cage
I bet I seem kind of silly
Like a Nancy boy always complaining
I spend too much time thinking about it
And even more explaining
But this is what it is to be who I am
And I understand that I’m pathetic
Wish I could just wish it away
And fill myself with anesthetic
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What can you say, what can you do
What can you make of all this
It’s insanity
Nothing more and nothing less
What in the world is this world
It don’t make no sense to me
Up is down and down is up
The end of history
It’s the times we are living in
Nowhere to run
It’s the times we are living in
Day is done, day is done
How can you know what you know
When the truth no longer is true
It’s been co-opted
Lost in a big old hullaballoo
Holy Christ and holy shit
This is not my country
Right is wrong and wrong is right
The end of history
Try as I might and try as I may
I can’t change a single thing
It’s quite surreal
The gods we’re worshipping
What in the world is this world
It don’t make no sense to me
Up is down and down is up
The end of history
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When I was young
All I wanted was what I wanted
Didn't care about no one but me
But as I grew up
I got a clearer picture
That the world wasn't just what I could see
No it wasn't just about me
When I was young
I was a greedy little prick
Looking only to fill my needs
Didn't matter
What other people went through
Didn't care if they were stuck out in the weeds
Didn't care how anyone bleeds
Young man's desires, old man's needs
Never the twain, never the twain
Young man's desires, old man's needs
Links in the chain
When I was young
I was a hothead
Thought I deserved all I could get
But as I grew older
I saw just who I was
And I didn't deserve shit
No matter how I threw a fit
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Whatever Moves You
03:48
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Sometimes you get the feeling
That the world is out of control
And there ain’t nothing you can do about it
So you flail around for answers
But you know it ain't gonna change
No matter how you scream and shout it
Whatever moves you
Whatever moves you through this world
Grab on with all you got
Whatever moves you
Whatever moves you through this world
That’s all you get and it ain’t a lot
Sometimes you get the sense
That’s something’s rotten on the inside
Even though you can’t really see it
Yeah sometimes you just know
What you know, you know
And when you know what you know you know what it is to be it
Just grab on and don’t let go
Where you’ll wind up who’s to know
You don't know what you don't know
Sometimes you get the feeling
Deep down in your guts
That the world has done gotten off its axis
There are times you can see it
But more times when you don’t
It’s like a moon that wanes and waxes
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Under the Bed
04:07
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There’s a breach deep in my psyche
And it wakes me, wakes me from my sleep
It clouds my mind with a sinister feeling
Like I’m being stalked by some sort of creep
What is hiding under the bed
What kind of monster needs to be fed
What kind of name does it go by
It don't sing you no lullaby
There’s a terror that comes in the middle of the night
It comes to me from the great beyond
I jerk and writhe and scream out your name
But you do not respond
There’s an ugly mug staring back from the mirror
It looks at me, looks me straight in the eye
It don’t say nothing but it don’t need to
But I let out a hue and cry
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The Longest Dream
05:07
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It is down here in a dark place
Behind the closed door
There is movement
Protoplasm
Bursting open like a spore
The stair is twisting like an Escher
Up and back and through
All these pictures collecting dust
Hence and hitherto
It is the longest dream
And it will never end
It is the longest dream
A lost world of pretend
There is laughter and there is rage
And there is illness all around
It’s in this building
It’s on these streets
It’s all over this seasick town
I see fat faces, I hear odd voices
They bubble up through the cracks
I look for clues
I parse the logic
I study the syntax
There is weeping
In cathedrals
There are virgins sacrificed
All these rituals
They come to naught
In the name of Jesus Christ
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You can see me
But you don't know me
Do I exist to you at all
Am I a figment
Or a bit player
Waiting for your casting call
What can I do
To make you see me
What does it take to break on through
I could love you
Like no one loves you
If I could only get through to you
Help me, honey
C'mon and help me
Help me get on through to you
Help me, honey
C'mon and help me
What more can I do
I turn left
And you turn right
But we can never get in sync
Do what I do
Then I do more
Even through in the kitchen sink
I am no one
A speck of dust
That you can sweep away
If I could ask you
What is my name
I doubt that's something you could say
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Leviathan
05:08
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It shimmies like a worm
Ripples like a breeze
Swallows its prey
Does what it please
It’s eyes are yellow
This ornery fellow
It roams these streets
This big fat thing
It lives in my sheets
This fat thing
Leviathan, leviathan
Some call it the devil
Some call it sir
Changes its shape
The pot it does stir
It digs in deep
When you fall asleep
It shows its fangs
Extends its claws
Does what it wants
Obeys no laws
Don’t be taken in
This purveyor of sin
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Be Small
06:14
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This old world is a big old world
With big old people running ‘round
They got their big ideas
Hey, what’s the big idea
They make a big old, a big old sound
Tear it down, tear it down, tear it down
Tear down that big old wall
Tear it down, tear it down, tear it down
Be small
There are monsters that just want to swallow you up
And spit you out into a void
Beware, beware
They are everywhere
Don’t you be destroyed
Be humble, be gracious
Only say what you know is true
Be deferential and be selfless
And the world will come right to you
Sometimes it better to shut and listen
And really hear what people have to say
Just let go
Of what you think you know
You don’t always have to get your way
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Great Wide Open
05:06
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They came from all over
Every woman, child and man
They all had their reasons
That only they could understand
They dreamed of tomorrow
They were fairly pure of heart
They had popular opinion
And their songs burned up the chart
They all went into the great wide open
We saw them all disappear
They all went into the great wide open
A million miles away from here
They held up their banners
Each and every single one
They built up a contingent
To the bang of a gatling gun
They tore down all the fences
And they built up new monuments
They weeded out the losers
All the misfits and the malcontents
They all went into the great wide open
We saw them all disappear
They all went into the great wide open
A million miles away from here
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I Will Never Forgive You
05:35
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Come over here you son of a bitch
I got something to tell to you
You done me wrong so many times
My bad, I fell for you
Looking back what was I thinking
Must have been out of my mind
I mistook you for a gentle soul
Someone loving and kind
For this and that and so much other stuff
I will never forgive you
I will never forgive you
Just want you to know that I've had enough
And I will never forgive you
I will never forgive you
Come over here and look me in the face
Tell me it wasn't all a lie
I want to hear you didn't cheat on me
Tell me you weren't with some other guy
Tell me you did it at your office
And the back seat of his car
Did you do it the other night
When I was waiting for you at the bar
After all that we've been through
It breaks my heart
How could you do it
How could you tear us apart
I know you're selfish
I know what you did
There are some things
That you just can't keep hid
See you later
Maybe in another life
I'm sure you'll happy
Being someone else's wife
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"It was hell," recalls former child.
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