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Season of My Unhappiness
05:07
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It started for me when I saw my mother cry
"Why are you crying"
She couldn't say why
"Please understand that it's always been this way
It's what I go through each and every day
It's been hell I must confess
Living in the season of my unhappiness"
"What's wrong now," my father would demand
"Why are you crying"
"You just don't understand
When God made me he felt a little sad
Or in a past life I was pretty bad
It's been hell I must confess
Living in the season of my unhappiness
This will be as good as it gets
Nothing, nothing
Dust"
Now I'm a man with a kid of my own
"Why are you crying"
"Just leave me alone
I have a sickness the color of blue
And I worry that you might catch it too
It's been hell I must confess
Living in the season of my unhappiness
This will be as good as it gets
Nothing, nothing, dust"
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2. |
After Ever After
05:31
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Everyone has read a love story
About two people falling in love
They go through hell to get to heaven
Or other parts thereof
But what happens after ever after
Gotta know by hook or crook
What happens after ever after
Can't tell ya 'cause it's not in the book
Everyone has read a love story
About meeting that one special one
But what goes on when the bloom starts fading
What goes on after the set of the sun
Would be nice to live in a fairy tale
Where everything works out of the best
Would be nice to live happily ever after
To feel like your whole life's blessed
Everyone has read love story
Where the bride and the groom ride off on a steed
And no one ever feels hurt or sorrow
And no one ever seems to bleed
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3. |
Are You Going My Way?
04:38
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I see you struttin' your stuff down the street
Toss a twisted smile at everyone that you meet
You don't feel the need to act discreet
You got bells on your feet
Are you going my way
'Cause if you are then let's stick together
Are you going my way
We could be just like two birds of a feather
I like the way you do your thing
A-shing-aling, a-shing-aling
Can't count up all the trouble you bring
You got a certain sting
Let's go out and have a drink
Let's go out and raise a stink
Let's go out and stay out all night
Make a little love
Have a big fight
Such a good match, can't you tell
A slice of heaven with a dash of hell
A je ne sais quoi that nothing can quell
We say hello and then we say farewell
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4. |
Beautiful
05:16
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Come to me
You know you want to
Come to me
And be like me
You say you love me
I know you do
You say you want me
That much is true
Don’t be a fool
And turn your back
I am the world
I am the world
I am beautiful
No you can’t deny it
No you can’t deny it
I am beautiful
Come to me
Come to me now
Dream of me
You know you want to
Dream of me
My perfect hair
You say you’re jealous
I don’t blame you
You’re full of envy
It overcame you
Look at me
Look at my girlfriend
We got it all
We got it all
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5. |
Letting Go
04:11
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I held on the best I could
Even though I knew it wasn't doing you any good
I was not ready to cut you loose
And I guess me holding on is a form of abuse
The pros and cons I was debating
But in the end my love was suffocating
No, no, no
Don't wanna be letting go of you
No, no
Don't wanna be letting go adieu
I tried to justify these primal actions
But they were all based on primal abstractions
One wants to care just not too much
One wants to hold on but not clutch
I should've considered the long-term effects
But for me that way of thinking was much too complex
Last week I went to see the life you built
Part of me was proud but part felt guilt
You seemed OK but a little lonely
And I worried about my one and only
How much more might you have done
If you just had been someone else's son
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Thirty years ago
We thought the days passed slow
I know, I know
We didn't have a care
And now that seems quite unfair
We weren't unaware
Is time not the sharpest stake in the heart
It creeps on up and does us in
Is time not the sharpest stake in the heart
It's all lose and no win
Thirty years ago
We sat around and drank our joe
Sipped it slow
We laughed at all the fat old men
There was no future there was no then
Won't be like that again
Time will get you
Time will have its way
Time will track you down
Time will make you its prey
Thirty years ago
We were all aglow
I know, I know
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7. |
She Got What She Wanted
05:21
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She yearned to be something more
Something better
Have some kind of king-sized score
She wanted fame
Wanted to be cool
She had desires
Unfulfilled in Catholic school
She wanted the spotlight
A big fat car
Lots of fine clothes
Wanted to be a movie star
Be in the papers
All over the internet
Be a contender
Be a terrible threat
She got what she wanted
But she lost what she had
She got what she wanted
And it didn't turn out so bad
She wasn't the smartest
But she did have streetwise sense
Still some folks thought
That she was kind of dense
She used her looks
She used her will
To take her from that dirty old town
To that mansion on the hill
When she got there she abandoned all her roots
Traded in her grubby old shoes
For a brand new pair of boots
She lost weight
Bobbed her nose
Colored her hair
Painted her toes
I want to be something
Be someone great
I want to be something
Before it's too late
I want to be something
Show 'em what I can do
I want to be something
Want to break on through
You know all about her
Everyone does
Wherever she goes there's a great big buzz
Whatever she says gets in the news
Folks want to know
All about her religious views
She makes it look easy
So well controlled
She struck while the iron was hot
But soon it'll turn freezing cold
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8. |
Song for a Blue Girl
05:44
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Nothing goes right
Never has, never will
Won't ever be happy
Can't feel the thrill
Nothing will change her
Lord knows I've tried
Used my best jokes
And she merely sighed
This is a song for a blue girl
This is a song for a blue girl
I tried to impress her
Even wrote her this song
But nothing could move her
All had gone wrong
Mixed her a cocktail
Bought her a dress
How did this happen
It's anyone's guess
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9. |
The New Colossus
04:21
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From where I stand I can see mountains
I can see mountains coming up to meet me
Coming up to meet me
They say hello
Yes they are speaking but what are they saying
And what is the language
First there is a mountain and then there is no mountain
And then there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain and then there is
From where I stand I can see the ocean
I can see the ocean coming up to meet me
Coming up to meet me
It drags me down like the hand of a serpent
It pulls me under and leaves me to drown
First there is an ocean and then there is no ocean
And then there is a ocean
Then there is no ocean and then there is
From where I stand I can see the people
I can see the people coming up to meet me
Coming up to meet me
Yes they are speaking but what are they saying
And what is the language
First there are the people and then there are no people
And then there are the people
Then there are no people and then there is
A caterpillar sheds its skin
To find the butterfly within
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Lots going on on the down low
In places from which you've never heard
You might like to drop down one night
Just to get your fix of the absurd
They got a guy down here who likes to pick apart
The lazy lofts of your mind
Well Jack be nimble and Jack be quick
You'll be surprised at what he might find
Then you might want to run away
Because you'll be exposed
You might see yourself in a way you never have
Your face decomposed
Well the truth is ugly, the guy says
And it's always hidden behind the eyes
Don't you think you can escape it
In your clever, clever disguise
It will bite you on the ass
And rip you up to smithereens
It will tear your house down to the ground
And all your ways and means
Things be pretty spooky down here
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11. |
Where I Am
03:53
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Where I am ...
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12. |
A Poison Tree
05:16
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I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end
I was angry with my foe
I told it not, my wrath did grow
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears
And I sunnèd it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles
And it grew both day and night
Till it bore an apple bright
And my foe beheld it shine
And he knew that it was mine
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree
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The Revenants Boston, Massachusetts
"It was hell," recalls former child.
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