1. |
You and I
03:53
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There goes you and I
Walking through this world
Side by side
You make me wanna sing
Everywhere and everything
Olive and popeyed
High, high, high
You and I
You and I
High, high, high
You and I
You and I
There goes me and you
Tripping down the lane
One plus one
The sky is cobalt blue
We pitch around the woo
It's all in fun
Our love is everything
Our love it takes to wing
Fly, fly, fly
There goes you and me
Happy as can be
Forever and day
We have all the time
Time enough at last
With nothing in our way
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2. |
Undeserving
05:06
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Why do I feel the way that I feel
I don’t fully comprehend
‘Cause I don’t like to feel the way that I feel
And all that those feelings portend
Part of me thinks I deserve better
But part me thinks I’m just 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, bent, bent
There weren’t no love when I was boy
Just a lotta frustration and rage
It was all I could do save myself
And break out from 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 know that it's pathetic
Wish I could just wish it away
And fill myself with anesthetic
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3. |
Tough Love
04:30
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Nothing I do seems to work with you
No nothing, nothing at all
Every move that I make with you
Well I hit a brick wall
I can spit in your face
I can eat up all of your lunch
I can threaten to rip you a new one
Or tie your pants in a bunch
Tough love
Tough love
I can pin you down on the bed
And tickle you till you pee
I can force you eat your spinach
And I can sting you like a bee
But all I do does nothing
You are one tough case
You stare me down with your baby blues
And that stone cold look on your face
You don't listen to what I say
No you don't follow my advice
Keep going down the path you're on
And one day you'll pay the price
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4. |
Too Thick to Navigate
04:08
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I am waiting for this ship to sail away
And lead me to my next misadventure
When it comes it will sweep me out to sea
And when it ends, it will end with a clincher
Is that me out there on the horizon
I am at the edge and I am waving
Is that a smile I see on my stupid face
Knowing all the travails I am braving
Too thick to navigate, to thin to plough
Too thick to navigate, to thin to plough
Too thick to navigate, to thin to plough
Living in this eternal now
I am sleeping in my bed on Beacon Street
When a ghost puts her cheek up next to mine
She slips a mickey in the cup beside the bed
Her calming presence anodyne
Who am I to you is what you are to me, she says
It is a riddle I know I must unravel
She has the eyes of a secret song
She points the way that I must travel
When I think of all the dumb shit I have done
It drives me mad I 'cause can’t undo it
I took aim at all your vulnerable bits
And I hurt you and I knew it
I gotta live with all the mess that I have made
I gotta get past it to save my soul
What you do is not for me to say
When it comes to the world I have no control
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5. |
This One's for the Baby
05:12
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It was 25 years ago
And I was just itching to move
I knew if I stayed right where I was
I’d never get out of my groove
But then as it happened
The rabbit suddenly died
And instead of feeling blessed
I was horrified
This one’s for the baby
The baby we never had
This one’s for the baby
I’ll never not feel sad
This one’s for the baby
The baby we never made
B-A-B-Y
The memory it won’t fade
I planned to move to Boston
I was desperate to change my life
I’d had about all I could stand
Every day was storm and strife
But then you called me
And I freaked out like a jerk
You cried your holy head off
While I went berserk
You won’t ever forgive me and I won’t ever forgive me
No one gets forgiven, baby, oh baby
It’s been 25 years now
And here we are on the rocks
We can’t move forward
And we can’t turn back the clocks
You have never absolved me
And frankly neither have I
Here we live side by side
And turn a blind eye
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6. |
Our Strange Magic
03:57
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No one can explain it
Certainly not you or me
It happened just the way that it happened
It happened so easily
From the moment I first laid my eyes on you
I felt that peculiar buzz
And if you ask me why that is
I can only say because
Our strange magic
We feel just what we feel
Our strange magic
And what we feel is real
Our strange magic
It is just what it is
Our strange magic
By golly gee whiz
There is something about your gentle hands
Something about the way that you talk
Something about your deep green eyes
That makes it all a cakewalk
I never have to struggle
To get my feelings across
And girl when you’re not around
I really feel at a loss
If this ain’t love
Well what the hell do you name it
If this ain’t love
I would like to proclaim it
It feels so strange and foreign to me
Like a flavor I’ve never tasted
Every time we snuggle up
We fit together cut and pasted
Can’t imagine losing you
The thought of it makes me sick
That we ever found each other at all
It’s our greatest magic trick
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7. |
If It's Real
04:36
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I know that you believe that you love me
And I know that these feelings are real
Ain't gonna take that away from you
Ain't gonna take away from you the way that you feel
You lay your burden upon me
And I absorb it like scorched earth
It fills me up to very top
And I feel deeply your worth
If it's real to you then it's real to you
If it's real to you then it's real to you
If it's real to you then it's real to you
Then it's real to me, real to me
The way that you look out at this old world
It all depends on your point of view
You think you can know all there is to know
Or let it go hitherto
You can say they're all against you
And that no one ever offers support
Or you can let go of what you think you know
And put your feet up on the davenport
Nothing always winds up nothing
Until you say just what nothing means
If you let nothing be nothing
It will wind up a hill of beans
If you believe in what you believe
No one can say if you're wrong
Give yourself over to conviction
It separates the weak from the strong
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8. |
Time Is but a River
04:03
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Where I came from
Don't matter no more
Where I'm going I can't say
I am anxious
And downright distraught
Don't know what's coming my way
Time is but a river flowing, flowing
Time is but a river to the last
Time is but a river flowing, flowing
Time is but a river flowing from our past
What I want now
Is not what I need
What I need is not what I want
I am hurting
And I am broken
I could use a little detente
No one can say
What lies beyond
And me, I haven’t a clue
What will be
Is whatever will be
Trafalgar or Waterloo
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9. |
On My Merry Way
03:41
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I used to suffer from a deep and dark depression
At least that was the general impression
I used to suffer with what they call the blues
My soul the color of a midnight bruise
But I have left that all behind
I got other things on my mind
Now I’m on my merry way
Ha ha ha and hey hey hey
The world ahead is one big cabaret
And me I’m on my merry way
On my merry, merry way
I used to think the world was against me
Every little fucking thing incensed me
I used to feel like I was barely human
As butt ugly as Alfred E. Neuman
But now all that seems a little blurry
And I tell myself, What me worry
I used to think I was inconsequential
Never gonna live up to any sort of potential
To a man I was just that guy over there
That guy who seemed to be elsewhere
But I am trying to turn myself around
Folding up my tent in this campground
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10. |
Hey Marky
03:44
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Marky went mad that summer
It was as if he’d simply had enough
He tried to keep his shit together
But in the end he was just not all that tough
Whenever I think about him
Which is just about all of the time
I think about his mountain of woes
It was a mountain he simply could not climb
Oh hey Marky, oh Marky
I miss you ever since we been apart
Oh hey Marky, sweet sad Marky
You’re right here in my heart
Marky’s shrink said he had BPD
Which made him feel like he had no hope
He was never happy with that diagnosis
It became impossible for him to cope
He felt the burden of the stigma
Like he had an illness no one cared to treat
He would never find the true love that he needed
Yeah it was all just too bittersweet
Miss you Marky, miss you, miss you
Marky moved out to Los Angeles
Lived in a bungalow in Echo Park
He rode the paddle boats around the lake
It was an infamous landmark
Things were getting worse by the day
Under that canopy of pinkish smog
So he sprawled himself out on the chaise
And recited his brief epilogue
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11. |
Got My Picture Taken
04:36
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Everywhere I go and everyone I see
Wants to be famous for the weirdest thing
Like taking their pants off over their heads
Or pretending to be Xi Jinping
Me, I got my picture taken
Me, I got my picture taken
You and me in a pas de deux
Me, I got my picture taken
Me, I got my picture taken
Me and you in a field of view
Everyone I know has got to be a star
With people hanging on their every word
Just wanna famous for being famous
Yeah it's all so completely absurd
Here we are on our very first date
Standing high atop the Empire State
You, you got your brow slightly furled
But me, I'm on top of the world
I don't care for what other people do
It all seems like so much desperation
All I want is to be with you
You're the only one in this whole nation
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12. |
Los Feliz
04:34
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We had a little place on the East Side
We called it our sugar shack
Spent our days baskin' 'long the LA river
Watched the ducks go quack
We were the happy ones
Yippie-ki-yo-ki-yay
We were the happy ones
All the livelong day
We liked to watch all the skaters
And the street artists hard at work
Then the taggers they'd tag every square inch
That guy Manny, what a jerk
Oh the sweet life on Los Feliz
Those were carefree days
Oh the sweet life on Los Feliz
All the usual cliches
Loved our place on the East Side
Though the landlord, he was a dealer
And just for the shortest point in time
I felt like a big wheeler
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