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Every so often someone comes along
And restores your faith in mankind
Every so often someone seems so right
And then they rob you blind
Now and then a dream comes true
Makes you want to wish for more
A door opens, a finger beckons
Then you see just what you fell for
The cool wind of hope blows eternal
As if to keep us on our toes
Maybe there'll be a brighter day tomorrow
So pack up all of your woes
Once in a while you catch a break
From all your worries and distress
But just when things start going well
They collapse in a mess
Comes a time you settle down
The clouds part and it's blue sky blue
But just when you stand yourself upright
The rug gets yanked from under you
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The Wrong Man
04:10
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I stand accused of a wrong I did not do
And I sound nervous in my deposition
You see innocence's a trick of paperwork
Whereas guilt is the human condition
So I say, Oh no, that's not me, yeah
You got the wrong man
And I say, Oh no, this cannot be, yeah
You got the wrong man
You got the wrong man
They say I killed a guy
Killed him in cold blood
But I did not know him
No we never met
But when I think of him
When I think about the facts
I feel a sense of deep regret
It may sound crazy that even
I could be convinced
I did a crime I did not do
Just goes to show you
That your innocence or guilt
Well it all depends on point of view
I stand before you and I ask you for your mercy
And I think my case is strong
I have my alibi and I have a strong defense
So why do I feel like I'm in the wrong
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Trading Up
03:36
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Had me a wife but she got pretty old
Started looking around, lo and behold
Found me a girl
Made me wag my tongue
She had firm breasts
Yeah, I like 'em young
So what if we don't relate
She is my new soul mate
I'm trading up
It's only natural
Now this girl she drives me insane
Can't stand the way she talks
She's a real birdbrain
Hate all her music, hate all her culture
Still I prey on her bones just like a famished vulture
I feel like a kid
Not some fart who has hit the skid
Yeah this girl all she does is text
When I try to talk to her
She looks at me perplexed
I hate all her values
Nothing to admire
Still I suck on her essence
Just like a hungry vampire
If she loses that new girl smell
I will trade her up as well
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Ugly Business
05:06
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The seed is in me and it grows and grows
The seed is in me and it knows, it knows
I know I can't kill it no matter what I try
I know I can't kill it, it will only amplify
Oh this ugly business when will it ever go away
Oh this ugly business
Looks like it's gonna be here to stay
The germ is in me and it's a deadly bug
The germ is in me and it's a bad-ass thug
It makes me carry out unconscionable things
It makes me carry out the biddings of the kings
You never want to know
What happens with the stuff you've bought
You toss it in the trash
And never give it a second thought
The worm is in me and I can't root out
The worm is in me and it grows from a tiny spout
I know I can't slay it
It's stronger than kryptonite
I know I can't slay it
So I don't bother to fight
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Remember This House
04:24
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It's all I've ever known
This place that I call home
This place I hang my hat
I know all its smells
I know them all so well
I know where the bodies are at
Remember this house
It's my kin and kith
It's the length and width
My universe in a box
It is my resting place
The place I wash my face
The place I hang my socks
Let me go home
I want to go home
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home
It's my mom and dad
It's my happy and sad
It's the place I've found my peace
It is my tea at noon
It's my fork and spoon
It's where I sign my lease
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The drifts are high as an elephant's eye
And they ain't melting down any time soon
The subway's stuck and they're passing the buck
It's run by some cranky old buffoon
She's says, "This ain't my first rodeo, you know
And it won't likely be last"
But the second that it got a little rock and roll
She got out of there fast
She is leaving before the snow comes
The snow came down on Boston town
With a fury none of us had ever seen
It covered the streets like a dirty white sheet
Like an angry snow-makin' machine
The mayor tell us that this is a crisis
As if we didn't already know
He says, "But it's OK, help is on the way"
Now we wonder where that mayor did go
He is leaving before the snow comes
Well the drifts are piled high right up to the sky
And the weatherman says more is on the way
And all I wanna do is twenty-three skidoo
And do it, do it without delay
Leaving before the snow comes
Leaving before the snow comes
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My Sister
06:23
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My sister she messed with me in an unpleasant way
The things she did, the things she said
Well they hurt me to this day
My sister she thinks well of herself
Like she’s magnanimous
But her high self-regard just raises my animus
I don’t care what happens to her
She shattered my heart
My sister may think that we’re close but we are so far apart
My sister she can jump off a cliff for all that I care
Wherever I been in my life my sister’s been elsewhere
My sister was mad at me
No doubt she is still
My sister she just don’t get it
No doubt she ever will
My sister she got all she wanted
While I got nil
My sister she just don’t get it
No doubt she ever will
My sister she swore she’d give me a whole lotta cash
She made a promised and reneged so fast
It gave me whiplash
My sister is like the character Lucy
And I am Charlie Brown
She sets up that old football
And the I go and break my crown
My sister tells a whole lotta stories and none are ever true
They all say that she means well
But then she goes and turns the screw
I just had to give up on her if only for protection
Whatever we had whatever we were
I severed that connection
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Empty Heart
03:50
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She does not feel too good
She does not feel too bad
She does not feel much of anything at all
And frankly I find that sad
Nothing has ever made her happy
Nothing has ever made her blue
She lives a life with no passion
She lives a life with no desire
She gallumphs along inelegantly
A car with a big flat tire
It is a cup with no bottom
It is a jar with no top
It holds nothing
That's all, Pop
She says that she will never marry
She says that she won't have a kid
She can't explain why she lives this way
One could imagine if she did
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You can say that you're sorry
But it don't mean a goddamn thing
You can say you made the gravest mistake
But that don't take away the sting
Wah-wha-wha
Wah-wha-wha
Wah-wha-wha
All the tears in the world
All the tears in the world
You can say that you me done wrong
As if that'll change what you did
You can say that you messed up
And you're sorry, sorry you flipped your lid
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10. |
Done With You
03:54
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I listened to all you had to say
And I listened to more than enough
If you wanna know what I think
You ain't so smart and you ain't so tough
And if you think that's all there is
Well I'm not even half-through
'Cause I am so done
I am so done
I am so done with you
You've not endeared yourself to me
And you've not got into my good graces
If you wanna know what I think
You've put on one too many faces
And if you think that's all there is
Well I'm about to turn the screw
'Cause I am so done
I am so done
I am so done with you
I hung with you through thin and thick
And I believed you to a point
If you wanna know what I think
You got your brains all out of joint
And if you think that's all there is
Try not to make this stick like glue
'Cause I am so done
I am so done
I am so done with you
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Wolves
05:19
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The wolves dragged me out of my bed
And took me to their hidden den
And they shared their bounty and their blood
And they made me one of their brethren
And they told me stories of their lives
How they hunt their prey and gore their kill
How they mate for life and bear their young
How they never hurt just for the thrill
The wolves opened up their den that day
And we sat around and watched TV
And when it got past 10 they said to stay
And that seemed just quite all right by me
They made me one of their very own
I ran with the pack as a show of might
And I fell in love with the gray-eyed girl
When she slew me with her killer bite
I turned my back on the city life
And I lived among the snakes and trees
And I never spoke a human word
And did just what the hell I please
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Vanishing
06:41
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You came and went so fast
I barely knew you
Like everyone else these days
You are vanishing
You made your peace
And then you went on your way
Like everyone else these days
You are vanishing
How can I hold on to
To someone who is not there
It's like trying to hang on to a vague dream
How can I believe in
What I cannot grab in my own hands
I guess that it's been my lifelong theme
How can I hand over
What little that I have left
To dubious ideas that hold no weight
I think that I'll remain here
Steadfast and a little cocksure
Not plunk myself down in the palms of fate
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