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where'd ya go
does your phone
let you know
that i'm still out here
no i don't have time to explain it
lucky you i just updated
it's all on my facebook page
it's over on my facebook page
what about
what i said
in the dark
that was just between us
that's so antique and humorous
you still believe in private moments
(chorus)
can we talk
work it out
find a way
through conversation
there's someone else you can find a description
he's loaded up and his picture is bitchin'
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i, i was the wandering clown
too smart to be tied down
too free to ever change my ways
and then i felt the gravity
and it's growing tug on me
as my tramp days ended
'cause every little thing that missy does
only makes me fall deeper in love
only makes it harder to break the chains
like i would anyway
i no longer travel to galaxies far
i am caught in orbit around her star
and in the circle i'll remain as long as she says
baby, come on
once i was the happy thief
the world laid out for me
i'd take what i want
then steal away
and then i had cuffs around my hands
in the back of a van as my free days ended
(chorus)
there that's me in that photograph
looking like i might laugh
where in the hell did that grin come from
i guess it's time that i confessed
and admit that its best
my dog days have ended
(chorus)
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i heard elton john
04:55
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there once was paint on this barn
and it's all but gone
i should get to it someday
and the tractor keys are as rusty as they can be
sleeping on the window pane
but the fire is fine
for these idle feet
waiting for a chance to dream
and this old house is seeing more of me now
as i write myself to sleep
1979
i was standing in the center of center field
a car pulled up with it's radio on
and i heard elton john
the michelob sign
the last bar chair
you know there are some old boys waiting there
should i stop by and kill me another night
in the nicotene light
'cause past 11 o'clock
when the regulars have gone
i slip my dollar in
and search the list
for the captain and the kid
to save my life again
(chorus)
the geese in the sky
up so, so high
leave us earthbound souls
to gather wood and close the shutters good
and dream by the crimson coals
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face to face at a long white table
backed up by our spies and generals
a new peace treaty all set for writing
who is is going to be the first to sign it
both of us happy just to sit all day
nobody gonna give an inch away
hold the ground till somebody walks out
why is it so hard
to give it up
to just admit what we really want
why is it so hard
to take down the walls
instead of putting more barbed wire on
and you would think with time
we'd see the truth
that there ain't no win, there ain't no lose
why is it so hard
to tell someone
you just love someone
i see you standing on your black square
i stay on the white and wouldn't dare
wave the flag for the sake of reason
my pride would have me shot for treason
there i see you digging new trenches
and rolling up cannons behind new fences
rifles and flak jackets on your queen
(chorus)
do you reckognize the moments in your life
a split in the road and you gotta choose left or right
could it be the time to raise our white flags in the sky
don't send out signals that your lines are breaking
don't give no quarter to the ones you've taken
don't let me see your weary soldiers
don't you shiver as it gets colder
don't let slip the real emotion
regroup and drive my armies in the ocean
but we cannot plant flags in common ground
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the only rational act
03:11
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the morning sun came up and it lit me
my 4 year old came in and he kissed me
almost like he was trying to show me
the only rational act is love
when we come out we are so helpless
we don't know how to be cruel or selfish
and the only thought that we are all born with
is the only rational act is love
and the great minds are still trying
to find the answer to why
while all the time
your grandmother knew it,...yes she did
and philosophers are still trying
to find the answer to why
while all the time
your grandmother knew it
you find yourself in the fall season
you look between the stars for a reason
and in the black it's always been written
the only rational act is love
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the band plays tonight
03:29
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pull back the velvet rope, let the people in
clear the stage, down slowly with the lights
hit the kick drum once let 'em know it's time
the band plays tonight
draw the curtain back, not too fast take your time
let the stagelight sparkle in their eyes
they open with a song you've sung a thousand times
the band plays tonight
do you remember back when we first saw van halen
eddie played the riff to start unchained
david lifted off of alex's stage
adrenaline ran through our veins
and the whole place went insane
do you remember back when we played lp records
tickets to rush in my hand on the train
grand central never looked so great
a short ride through the city till you get yo the garden
take my hand and dust off that old smile for me
and let me remember how much i love this life
look up in the front, i think i see two empty seats
the band plays tonight!
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7. |
AM
04:09
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70's, breezy
play me anything from tapestry
all those songs i used to know
j.t., joni, how come you've gone and left me
standing on a silent road
oh, AM radio it echoes in my soul
from all of those years ago
you see the thing is i just miss the wings
or the way that carly sings
it was perfect back then
on AM
i may be crazy
but what i here today don't make me
want to get in my car and drive
september (EWF), denver(john)
which ones do you remember
what was number 4 in '75
oh, AM radio still echoes in my soul
from all of those years ago
you see i can find my steely dan
it was left in a veedub van
with the button set
on AM
i can still here my sister singing songs
laying with papa's big headphones on
the Carpenters built every sound
that echoed through my mama's house
oh, AM radio still echoes in my soul
from all of those years ago
lord knows i could stand to hear sister rose
but she's gone away i suppose
and wont be back again
on AM
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roger miller
03:49
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i reckognize these old brick buildings
melting, in the rain
i feel in my feet the slow of the engine
big wheels breaking
i see the station
so where now my traveling friend?
now that we've lapped the circle again
i think i'll take the long way home
and sing a roger miller song
it sure has been a hell of a party
i sure am sorry
it has to end
i can see the doors starting to open
people are flowing out in the open
(chorus)
about big chimes ringing
rosie-cheeked children
and old tramps shuffling...down the line
and when you get to where you're going
take a little moment
and think about me
i hear the speaker say 17 minutes
till she leave for memphis
how come we're still sitting
(chorus)
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life begins at the top
03:37
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a pocket book full of medicine
head turned down as she exits
and who would read this footnote inked in lower case
she sees his face
he doesn't turn away
and life begins at the top
a roadsign for the lost
life begins at the top
God damn the clock
like a diamond laying there waiting
they're too backward to just bend down and take it
so what good is the simple life if you're lonely
so he takes her hand so slowly
(chorus)
they take their steps on the new road
they don't know why or where to go
and the world that pushed them
like sawdust into nowhere land
resets the hands
and lets them in again
(chorus)
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we are original
owe allegiance to no one
fly a flag of our own
full of bullet holes and tattered
the deck is bloodstained and splintered
with ropes around the main
we are the ministers
of the innocent prisoners
leaving fools in our wake
and all the ones who knew better
and all the ones who withered
and faded away
the captains of the black horizon
lean into the wind and lightning
on the stormy seas to someday
the ports of the helpless
light their fires for us
and we roll into the bay
shooting off cannons and laughing
the crew pumping fists for their captains
crows atop the main
(chorus)
do what you will boys
take what you want boys
leave nothing my boys
but the cold bare bones
and the rising sun
and the laughter when we run
we are original
owe allegiance to no one
dance on the edge of the sword
walking above the fire
'cause daredevils will inspire
those holding to the main
(chorus)
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i saw the question mark above your head
you were surprised at something that i said
before the echo had a chance to fade
you ran away in the blue
i ask the lady in the flower shop
the taxi driver and i asked the cop
had they seen the way that you had gone
i searched the world for you
everywhere but behind the moon
you're up there on the dark side admit it
you stole my heart and took it there and hid it
yes you did
and one day you'll be back on earth and then
i'll never let you get away again
and now there's nothing left that i can try
i searched the ocean bottoms and the sky
i searched the basement and the laundry room
i searched the world for you
everywhere but behind the moon
you're up there on the dark side admit it
you stole my heart and took it there and hid it
yes you did
and one day you'll be back on earth and then
i'll never let you get away again
and now there's nothing left that i can try
i searched the ocean bottom and the sky
i searched the basement and the laundry room
i searched the world for you
everywhere but behind the moon
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12. |
valentine's day
03:05
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back then
you moved so fast you were a blur
cupid never got an arrow in you
and if he had tried you'd have beat him black and blue
you used to laugh at the fools in town holding hands
delusional you'd say to yourself
now here you are with no one else on
valentine's day
valentine's day
and everyhting was different when this one came
little amy would have done anything for you
(any little thing you asked her to)
but you made her feel like she was no one
she had no choice she had to run
(she was gone)
here you are a stranger in your home town
(does anybody know you're still around)
move like a ghost through your empty house
what would you pay to have her back here now on
(chorus)
you try not to let the word "help"
escape from your mouth
(but it wants to come out)
stare out of your empty room
can't recall what you used to do on
(chorus)
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