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I wish you weren't a liar with standards growing higher
This dawn is acting natural with a flair for going home
It seems to me forever is too long a time to weather
And I'm running out of patience to appeal to the unknown
Least on my own, the last thing you'll ever hear
This Kodachrome, the flash blinds
When you carry yourself upwards
Now these thoughts hang down on wires
The land I knew expires
I'm waiting for the meaning to play catch up with my bones
This dawn is young and faithful to appeal to the ungrateful
And it's starting to look better to spend my hours alone
Least on my own, the last thing you'll ever hear
This monotone will slip deeper into the quiet, quiet
These rights and wrong of sighs and songs
Will blast you every day
The red balloons and cheap cartoons
Won't make them go away
But if you can just lighten up and take a modest tone
Then all you fear will end right here
The negative forever overthrown
Least on my own, the last thing you'll ever hear
This megaphone will deliver unto everybody
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2. |
I'll Be On Break
03:45
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Cut to out to make you bleed
They're taking more than they could need
A cheated death the last defense
The mind, it breaks before it bends
When the time comes to think, the choice is to make
I'll be on break
Trophy lives, they die of thirst
For all the best to turn to worst
And if this falls too short to fly
It's still a better plan than I
The thief has gathered 'round the back
To slip into the hole of sedimentary rock
That seems to be the case
The tired children's eyes that bask around their heads
Of lying, righteous thoughts that shine back on my faith
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3. |
Uh-Oh
03:38
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I dreamt of a ride on a roller coaster
It made my insides mixed up, uh huh
I fear that it might get to me when I'm older
Another problem to fix up, uh huh
I've got a glitch that I need to work on
But then again so does everyone that I know
So if I'll be the one that only I can depend on
Then uh oh, oh no, uh oh, oh no, uh oh
I broke down and bought an encyclopedia
A simple entry to look up, uh huh
I lack the experience that I need to
Find something worthwhile to hook up, uh huh
I shouldn't have put myself in park
I should have just circled around the block
And I'm the only one who can break my stride
I shouldn't have tried 'cause then I'd have my pride
I wept openly at a wedding party
When they decided to make up, uh huh
I wish that type of thing would happen to me
But then I'd have to wake up, uh huh
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4. |
Ends Of The Earth
03:58
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I'd make you smile but it would
Be a bitter feeling all the while
Could have been a better trial
With no hard feelings to put into my file
Line up your criteria and one by one I'll knock them down
But back up now
'Cause somebody's gonna get hurt
The pressure is more than it's worth
When you're digging around in the dirt
I don't really care 'cause I won't be there
To go to the ends of the earth
I took a bullet for your chemistry and it only shattered me
Ever since then, honestly
I've been messing with it, testing one, two, three
Line up all your demons and one by one I'll sort them out
But back up now
You could rent a double wide
And I'd never get inside, but I'd never try
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Our life is in the corner and I like kissing the corner
Of your face, so much is moving on
We'll stay until we're overdrawn, until we're rallied out
Before the day is over, before the war is over
Before my life is over, I'll be yours
Bang, bang upon the chestnut door
We'll hang around the kitchen floor
How sweet to feel like Satan's spawn
We'll stay until we're overdrawn, until we're turned away
Skewered in the back of a caravan
I don't know how it fits into their plan
But if we're happy in the meantime
We can flee to something far better to this
Until I'm seasoned over all of the open flames
I don't think that I'll ever be the same
But if we're happy in the meantime
Then just think of the great memories we'll miss
God speed as I confront the masses' greed
The rocks have charged the glass
Hold me while they prepare the bomb
We'll stay until we're overdrawn, until we're buried down
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6. |
Personal Business
03:35
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Put your hand on your mouth whenever you speak
I will manage to find a method to peek
You've got me interested in your personal business
What's the use of it?
My psyche won't resist all your personal business
So you'd better quit
Hold your ground, fight me off, and maybe I'll stop
Turn the corner and even then I'll eavesdrop
I'm asking you to give me your personal business
You know I'll never budge and I'm not one to judge
I only hope to see if anyone out there is talking about me
Open wide, say your peace, but I might stare
I'm just waiting to see if my name's in there
I won't leave you alone, I'll make my presence known
Look past the confidence and put away your intolerance
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7. |
Zilch
03:18
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Jump up, get down, drive fast, leave town
Watch out, step back, ten hut, attack
Quick change, no fear, join insincere
I'm tired of regulating, I think I'll turn to hating
I got nothing, I got nada, I got no one to turn to
From the sweet insincerity of each pass in time
I got zip, I got zero, I got zilch
But I'm hoping that one day I'll be fine
I don't know what I'm looking for
I don't know if it exists anymore
Leave your hands to the floor
The great the body count, the greater the score
Fly right, drive wrong, new day, new song
Glass house, throw stone, go big, go home
Run out of luck, guess what, we're fucked
The silence is alarming, I think it's kind of charming
I've got a bone to pick with those bone-pickers everywhere
I've got a throne to sit but it feels like an easy chair
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8. |
Saturday The 14th
02:37
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Saturday and all my friends are waiting for me to come out
But I'm afraid that things won't be the same
Yesterday was nothing but a living hell
And I can't deal with twenty-four more hours filled with pain
The ladder's calling me, the black cat's clawing me
It's the day after, filled with remnants of disaster
Saturday the fourteenth, I'll stay inside
Saturday the fourteenth, I've got to hide
Saturday, I'm curled up in the living room, I'm shaking
Staring at the clock waiting for it to end
Sitting still 'cause I can't touch a single thing
Or else it might just break in half and I'll be screwed again
I've tried knocking wood, it won't do any good
It's the day after and my heart keeps beating faster
Saturday and kids are playing, how can they?
It's like a war zone, everything is rubble and debris
I can deal with superstition, it's my life
That's how I'll live it, dreading what bad luck will come to me
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9. |
Homonym
03:48
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This conversation's more than I can
Bear left the cave behind
I watch in horror as sharpen up your
Clause that had to be signed
First you say that I need to make a turn to the
Left me with little hope
Now you're telling me I've gotta veer to the
Right at the end of my rope
I can't think of a better way to say this to you
There's nothing that could easily convey this to you
Maybe what you said just isn't what I heard
Or maybe you should stop mincing your words
You used to always find yourself
Wired electricity through my home
But that all went down the
Drain me of all the respect I own
Your accusations are starting to become a
Bore into my head
You're taking off like a speeding
Tire of everything I've said
I've never been made of
Steal my heart before you go
I think we need to bring it back to
Bass guitar on my stereo
I know you think of us as being
Cool night with a chill in the air
But you can take your stone and your
Stick it up your you-know-where
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10. |
Big Cans
03:06
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I'm making my way through all your tangled heartstrings
The tracking collar stings, decided to want you
I'm slowing it up and speeding it all downhill
Come in my room and chill, it's not like I'd haunt you
I'm tired of waiting for your signature stamp on my paper
I'll pack up my big cans and meet up with you later
I'm blowing on your house as if it might just fall down
Bad advice from the king of town, he's prone to desert you
I'm watching my steps through all of the egg shells you've kept
Although I feel inept, I never could hurt you
I'm such a mess but only a long time will tell
If you'll start feeling well then I could contort you
I'm buried alive to watch the figures gathering
I wish they'd come up with something that they could resort to
I'm tired of waiting for the message from your respirator
I'll pack up my big cans and meet up with you later on
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11. |
5 More Minutes
03:54
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Why did you wake me? I had been sleeping for so long
And I am stuck in this fog of awakened nonsense
Again I ask, why did you wake me when I was sleeping?
I am waiting for an answer, almost anything will do
I feel as though I am talking to myself
My words echoing in my head
You again fail to answer me, you can be honest with me now
If you will spare my heart, if you will spare my heart
While I am sleeping, I am void of all pain
Only the joys of my inner world
This couldn't be more than a test of my mind
And you a figment of my imagination
Vividly, you play a role in this lucid dream
And sadly I have to channel to receive your energy
Other than this jolt that woke me so
Abruptly from my heavenly slumber
Since before I can remember you have let me sleep
And then, now you come alive
No more fantasy, no more wonder, no more dream
Just consciousness without reason
There will be a day that I awake to your calling
But for today, just five more minutes
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12. |
Get Outta Dodge
02:54
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I called your number up, you said you weren't around
I hope you found a way back to a simpler town
Somewhere that you and your lover can get along
Move along
You had to face the truth, you sounded so ashamed
You had a lot to prove so you took all the blame
I guess it's time that you closed the office down
You better get outta dodge
You covered up your past, the memories you had
For every single one, you've just been feeling bad
It must be hard to imagine there's nothing wrong
Something's wrong
Your eyes are narrowing, full of malevolence
Toward our relationship and what it represents
You might be better off loading up the truck
So you can get outta dodge
It's kind of funny when you're barking up a tree for no reason
And everybody's waiting on your symphony of the season
But sometimes it helps
To imagine yourself heading somewhere else
So when it's five o'clock and when the whistle blows
You'll slink off by yourself to somewhere no one knows
Smiling so full, you remember no regrets
For when you get outta dodge
You ought to get outta dodge
Yeah, you should get outta dodge
You better get outta dodge
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13. |
Orange
02:27
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Look at yourself, you're insane
Can't you think of a better epigraph?
Ideas don't come cheap and words
Are best when you just make them up
I won't kill your degree if you think that it's worth saving
When you fall down the well you've built
Regret's the last thing that you think of
Careful now, I need a little break
This sort of thing isn't up my alley
Quickly making my escape
I break into the Wayback Machine
Following a trail of jelly beans
That I left the previous morning
A loose cannon is the only thing awaiting my arrival
Pardon me, I didn't mean
To treat you like a piece of furniture
That was then, and this is slightly later
But I still haven't found my keys
I was asked what I would call it
And I believe I said "diamondesque"
Guess that wasn't what I was supposed to say
Now was it?
For the past few years all I really learned was loudness kills
And it's really difficult to find a word to rhyme with orange
A word to rhyme with orange
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14. |
A Waltz For The Kids
05:00
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I'm older right now than I've ever been
By tomorrow, I promise I'll be older still
And sometimes I wonder for when the day comes
When somebody has my shoes to fill
The hours tick by and we look at the blueprints
Of every last option that we've strategized
Hesitation mounting as I clear my throat to say
We've got the rest of our lives
Time won't be caring if I'm always staring
At all the kids marrying and I feel so alone
But if I am too wary without enough daring
Then I won't be carrying my own
No, I won't be carrying my own, no
Maybe one day we can circumvent tension
Or pressured perfection from out of the blue
But if that's the way that it's going to be
Then I hope it'll be there with you
Don't you procrastinate, she said
Don't you wait until it's too late
When you gonna give me a child, she said
When you gonna give me a child?
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