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Down the Road
05:46
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It was a time and oh what a time
What a time, what a time it was
We lived the dream, the dream lived us
We dreamed ourselves into the light
We stood so tall above the sea and land
We spread ourselves out into the wind
The wave rushed at us and we shot the curl
We shot the curl from within
Come along with us, come along with us
Come along with us
We marched in parades with banners held high
We gave ‘em a wave from atop our float
We got on the TV and we got in your food
You swallowed us whole with no distress
Come along with us, come along with us
Come along with us, my old friend
Come along with us, come along with us
And we will take you down the road
We will take you, we will take you
We will take you down the road
Into the blue horizon, into the blue horizon
You just gotta love us
You got no choice
Don’t wanna be the odd man out
We know only pretty girls and the latest slang
How can you refuse such a classy deal
And we will never come back
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2. |
The Good Face
05:42
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The world is full of bullies
They are out to steal your lunch
They live to piss you off
But you can beat them to the punch
Just get out in front of him
Look him in the eye
Find the scared child that's underneath
Find what makes him cry
Once you touch his tender heart
Kiss the bully goodbye
Look deep into his heart
Until you find the good face
The good face
Before you know it
Boom
You will find the good face
The good face
The world is full of troublemakers
Making trouble for you
When you try to resist them
They laugh and say whoop-de-do
But you can conquer them
It's not so hard if you try
Just be patient and don't cave
And you will see him cry
Once you touch his tender heart
Kiss the bully goodbye
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Clarity
04:47
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When I clear out all them cobwebs
I can see from here to the edge of the earth
And when I pull back the musty old curtains
I can draw a line from death to birth
Oh, oh with clarity
When I give up all my notions
I can look straight into the heart of the sun
And when I let go of my ego
I can see there are no battles won
Oh, oh with clarity
I can see me now
As clear as day
I can see me now
Make way, make way
When I can slip beyond these mortal things
Into a skin that feels right to me
When I can release myself from these lies
Then my soul will take flight to me
Oh, oh with clarity
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4. |
Liar
03:20
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5. |
To the Brutal End
04:16
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Where you lead I will follow I will follow you down
And I will stick right by your side
Here, there and all around
I will never let you go, I will never let you drown
When I mate I mate for life just like an albatross
And when you walk your final road
I will carry your cross
I will love you like no one loves you
I will love you, my friend
I will love you like no one loves you
To the brutal end
When you think you are alone
I'll be holding your hand
And when you think nobody gets you
I'll be there to understand
When you think you ain't gettin' no lovin'
Well I will be your biggest fan
When I love I love real hard
I get you in my grip
I don't take no for an answer
No I don't take no lip
I will be your lovin' man
I will hold you to my man breast
I will be your lovin' man
I know how to love you the best
When you feel so down and out
When no one sees your face
I will look you square in the eye
I will see your grace
So just look up, don't you miss it
I am on the case
When I say I will do it
You know you can believe in me
When I say that I will love you
I mean that for eternity
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I guess I'm retarded for being so guarded
But if I don't protect myself then who will
The whole world has changed
Everyone is acting strange
And I expect it to be the way it was still
I just don't get it, do I
I just don't get it, do I
What the hell is wrong with me
I just don't get it, do I
I just don't get it, do I
That's something on which we can all agree
Is it some disease, I am nervous and ill at ease
Folks I thought I knew I really do not
From the doctors to the dispatchers
It's invasion of the body snatchers
How long will it be before I get caught
We were gonna to get together at Christmas
But then you never showed
And when I had a problem with that you started talking in code
"I tried calling you, I tried emailing you
I tried a whole lot of things
But I couldn't get through"
I guess I'm just paranoid
A little bit crazy and a must to avoid
No one really wants to hear from me
Folks say I'm nutty
As silly as silly putty
But what if it turns out be a conspiracy
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7. |
For the Rest of My Days
05:04
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And I looked her in the eye and I began to cry
Please leave me alone
She just laughed and said
When you are gone and when you're dead
And as cold as a bone
This is how it's always been, inside each other's skin
And it's how that it will be
Don't matter how I resist it, don't matter how I twist it
From her I can't break free
She threw her head back and her eyes turned ablaze
She said, I will love you for the rest of my days
And I believed her even though I knew her ways
I believed she'd love me for the rest of my days
And I held her by the hand
As we walked this ancient land
To build new from old
We tried to make it work
Lift each other one clean jerk
A sight to behold
This is how we always were
Ask her and she will concur
This is how we'll always be
Two peas inside a pod
One is even, one is odd
But neither one can break free
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High All the Time
03:36
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Whenever I chafe against this wicked world
Which is usually always all the time
I find solace in the one thing I know
Whose effects are immediate and sublime
I want to be high all the time
Whenever my friends they start to get me down
Which happens each and every day
I turn to the thing that always gets me through
And all those bad things slip away
I want to be high all the time
Everyone's got their crutch
Everyone's got their deal and being high is the one thing
That helps me out with what I feel
You can judge me
Say I'm weak
You can judge me and say that I'm on a losing streak
You can judge me
But it makes my world less bleak
Whenever I feel like I am going to hell
And no one around me seems to care
I take a dose of the herbal remedy
And then I feel light as the air
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9. |
C'mon and Tell the Truth
05:13
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No sense in lying
I see right through you
Your eyes are a window
Into the true you
You think you're pretty clever
Johnny on the spot
But you are pretty damn dumb
Believe it or not
C'mon and tell the truth
You big old liar
Tell me the truth
Your pants are on fire
You got your life sorted
You've checked every box
You know what you're doing
You've set all the clocks
Your story sounds good
If you don't listen too hard
You got it going on
Keeping what's real under guard
I used to believe you
But then I got screwed
You treated me just like
You treated every other dude
You made me your lackey
You got me where I live
I put all this faith in you
But you had nothing to give
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You are living in such desperate days
With crazy people acting out their crazy ways
They want you to believe the way they believe
When you remove your body from your soul
When you rip out your heart it takes a toll
And in the end what does that leave
What does that leave
Finding, feeling, fucking and forgetting
It's the worst that it's been since the Great Depression
People out of work, work in recession
Just want to jump out of that thin skin you're in
Take to the streets with your symbols and your signs
Make new plans with your own designs
Come back you freakin' hippies, where have you been
What do you do when you don't know what else to do
What do you do
Feeling both uptight and unwound
What do you do when you don't know what else to do
What can you do
Do you burn your house down to the ground
Well no one's gonna give you any kind of good reason
And those who do will be accused of high treason
While the rest of the world just sits on its idle hands
So you just fall back on your primal urges
Move through the world in fits and surges
And wind up on the fundament of the shadowlands
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11. |
Indian Summer
06:17
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Sometimes we fall but then we stand
Somebody helps us
Someone lends us a hand
Dust ourselves off and start again
But every so often the bastards win
It's a hurtful world
People are cruel
You have a good heart and you're a fool
Friends will trick you
Tell you they're good
And when they're not it's you who misunderstood
An Indian summer came and went
All of my money somehow got spent
An Indian summer blew through this town
Now all of the leaves are turning brown
It's a fateful time
Events will unfold
Fortunes to be made
The future foretold
I have retired or so it would seem
It's not by design
Can't build a head of steam
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12. |
Bad Actor
04:20
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All these things I feel
Do I really feel 'em
Do I really feel 'em for real
Or do I just say I feel 'em
When in fact I don't know what I feel
I'm a bad actor
A wannabe
I'm a bad actor, that's me
All these things I say
Do I really mean 'em
Or is it all a pose
All these things I do
Why do I do 'em
Why do I do 'em
Who knows
Don't mean to trick ya
But I trick ya
With my wily ways
I lure you in
And you get hooked
By my fancy turn of phrase
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