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| (I hope u) don't survive I saw a woman on my TV
I realized she was crazy
I hope whatever got to her
Don’t crawl its way over to me
She was saying that there’s no hope
But times are good out past her nose
The rest of us are living the life
Poised on a juggernaut of jokes
I love you means, "I hope you don’t survive the night"
There are kike jokes and then the street mimes
In times like these no one seems to mind
But just you wait ‘til the pendulum swings
Toward the inevitable decline
Crossed-eye talk and a halting walk
Blind Willie is down the block
He will never see again
The cruelty got him in the end
I love you means, "I hope you don’t survive the night"
We love you means, "We hope you don’t survive the night"
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| The third If you play the third
Is it minor or is it kind of a big deal?
Submerged in hot water
Seasons that never change
Sometime you'll meet your match
Pretty good catch with an overwhelming appetite
Bleed me white
Weekend ride of a weekend rider
Neon lights
Seem so bright when I'm this much higher
Come on kind of close to me now
If you play the third
Is it funny or is it kind of a disgrace?
Do you just observe somebody?
Run just to run the race
If you wanna be heard on the horizon
A comet that can never come
If you play the third
Is it dirty or is it kind of divine?
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| The old you Did you ever have a friend
Who did much better than you had planned?
Returning to work, back out on the doze
At a factory job making garden hose
Saw the guy Grieg in the High Tetons
The Summer sun had burned his nose
Listen to Van at the swimming hole
"you'll never match him, so give up the ghost".
He was the gladdest man I had ever seen
And he looked it too
What's your name? Respond to your name
Is You, Is it You, You were world-proof
Last year went to the Outer Banks
Planned to fish But the weather stank
It's been a while since we played our game
But I knew you when you weren't so tame
Anwar came out to drink in town
All the way down from his mountain hideout
No hardship here for him to endure
Not what he's used to, he'll get by I'm sure
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| Is she a sign Have you known a man to fall into a room
And have no idea why he's there
I think you have seen that familiar sight
I think it happens twice a day and every other night
How many times was he sure he was right
He says he's cured of his taste for other women
You say you're sure
I know that means you don't know anything
I know that means that I'm in the running
Have you ever stopped talking for a while
Kept a running monologue up in your head
It means you're dead to everybody else
It means you're trying to justify just breaking a rule somehow
Is she a sign
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| The brain Wild mice run around inside
Tails are white yeah
That's the mist
The mystery of the brain
What do I want now
Flash on something somehow
That's the mist
The mystery of the brain
A little dribble
A little shock goes ooh ooh
A little wander
A little walk
Pretend that I don't need it
I like the things you do
When I wake up
I know I thought I tried to think
But that's amiss
A mystery of the brain
A failure to click
Something unfortunate sticks
That's a miss
A mystery of the brain
Pretend that I don't need it now
Pretend that I do not need it
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| Bourbon beard It’s sweeter than I drink easily
I don’t even like the taste of my bourbon beard
But I’d rather feel sleazy than desperate and crazed
My bourbon beard
Holds my head up for a while
Helps me feel like I’m not shot
They say that we’re just a couple of drunks whose pants are way too tight
My bourbon beard
It’s hard to admit the truth
So I creep into the night
My bourbon beard
I’ve got a reason to smile
Stay with me for a little while
Nothing but money in my jeans
I’m still sorta young and I’m free and white
My bourbon beard
The kids, well, I’m still one of them
It’s working out all right
My bourbon beard
Don’t count it against me
At least I made it this far
I came in through the front door
I’m open to you now
I’m willing to advance
Oh I think they’re coming to get me
Yeah I think I’m going insane
Isn’t everybody strange?
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| LR72 I've come for good reason
Because you and I were friends
Went everywhere without trouble
But it was God's will
This morning people should
Say that you were dead
But we were famous and used to walk together
And all men knew it
Then God came to take you.
So I said to myself
I would bring that glass of beer.
Thus we used to do
For everyone to see.
So I brought along this beer to give you, to drink
Have a good journey
And may nothing trouble you.
And this clock, Take it
If you want to go anywhere,
The clock always rings at dawn,
And you will get up too
Every man who sets off takes a clock with him.
And when you reach your house,
Greet all your people warmly.
Go ahead strong now
And I will follow you
Whether somebody killed you
Because you and I were friends
That made people angry; I will never understand
And these twenty dollars
I throw to the fish
So you can cross the River
Take this arrow and shoot the witch.
Take it along with you
For defense or revenge
And as for the beer, And the clock,
If there is anyone
Who will be to me as near
Let him take the clock, the arrow and the beer
But if there's no one,
Let me drink and weep,
And see that a friendship was here
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| White lightning It's free when it's offered
Down at Antlers Lake
But I've seen him before and I know he just takes
In the chit chat
We all see the cracks
You've got a new friend, I like it like that
His name is Lightning
He acts like your stooge
But in no time, he'll make you a fool
He knows every road
They all lead to town
It's just too bad here, no roads are around
There are angels and arcs
In a beautiful blue
Watch the lightning
For all your cues
Don't spill the jar
In front of you
The White Lightning
Will scorch your shoes
Get out of the pool
You're going to drown
Because the lightning made you fall down
Another night in your world
To score with lightning
Instead of girls
Don't spill the jar
In front of you
The White Lightning
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| Dirty air Dirty air
It's in my lungs
Gun metal blue
Scrapes the lining
Oh I swear
I never knew
It was so bad for me
I can feel it inside me
Dirty air
It's never enough
I need a dose right now
Of some bad lighting
I declare
It's a perfect thing
Rose petal red mixed with pop bottle green
And it pours down on me
Stains my skin
Ruins my clothing
I will breathe that dirty air until I die
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| Young Everybody talks so much
You don't ever say a thing
But I like to hear the sound of your voice
I rarely find it irritating
If the cosmos has a plan
I hope it tells you what you want to hear
Maybe later on
When everyone's just standing around
You can be in the clear
If you want to become a bum
Find someone who adores you in every way
If you want to jump off a big tall bridge
Find someone who might talk you out of it
When a hurdle pops up in the road
You got to take a pretty good run
You might keep me young
I've been working nine to five
Give or take an hour maybe two
Leaves eight hours every night
To do what I want to do
Short days hot nights
That's the way it really ought to be
Everybody wants someone exotic
Who is in love with the ordinary
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| Moving I never thought I'd leave this place
It has all kinds of storage space
But now I'm headed out of town
And in my mind I'm already gone
I know you thought we'd have to wait
But there's no need to hesitate
I'll correspond a couple times a year
But you will have to concentrate
When I load up that moving truck
Will you drop by and wish me luck
When the sadness finally subsides
Will you go back to staying inside
I won't leave you now
I rarely saw you anyhow
Why not pick up the telephone
And call me when I'm never home
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| The ram Slap that meat out of your mouth
The Ram wouldn't like it in his house
Object of worship, And of torture
He is the system and the winning mystic
The Gates of Wine
I'll meet you to pay the fine
Where in Heaven, the Ram takes his share
Keep on through the forest if you want to see the glory
Once as a lark
We picked up the Ram on radar
He was laughing, As he was crashing
Oh so festive, his attitude was impressive
We ran from him then
Hoping to get beyond his ken
From Israel on to Rome
The Ram is beamed into every home
If you're feeling faint
Take up the glass and drink
The mystery has been replaced
And when our time was up
We forgot how to stop
Even how to reject
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| A cockfight of feelings Only a fool gives up sex for lent
When we were alive, before the eagle was spread
It fell out of the sky and into the bed
And you painted it true blue
Now the eagle it hunts and you are its prey
In old fashioned clothes and Nottingham lace
Go ask Mrs. Johnson and she will say
What a person you were back when
Softly Now, Softly Now, Try it, you won't die
Tobacco's a help because it clears the mind
But like all your friends it is vilified
They always say, the right amount's fine
Even lazy people know the rules
But you spoke a language that I knew too
Innate understanding because I was a fool
We all learn to listen after years at school
Speaking of rules the book is in Port of Spain
The worst work on Earth is on the turkey farm
When those birds get excited, sound the alarm
Where you took yourself and booked yourself
And no one else wants to know
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