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sunken ships rest
upon the ocean floor where i've made my home to dodge the draft once again there once was a time one could flee to the north but canada's not what she used to be boycott the war when she could not afford to thanks to the new american queen swim with me and we'll escape all the troubles of the present age finally free the mermaids teach us how to breathe beneath the line that now divides action from apathy |
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| 2. |
| 3:04 |
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you're up with the sunrise
and down when the work's been done with excellence industry diligence naturally i would like to be you just for a few habit forming years laziness cuts me like fine cutlery i need a miracle someone to help me myself sweet jesus, i need you forgive me this sin not hookers or heroin, gambling or gin it sounds so ridiculous, but i just can't lick this |
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| 3. |
| 2:33 |
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dad, dad, why did you let that man
push you around like that you should've beat him down down to the ground down to the ground for that he says, "son, you're still young and you always jump the gun" there are real people in the big, big trucks that you flip off when they get in your road. you get so hacked, that you pay no mind to the great big sign that says oversized load. do you really think they can go as fast as you in your 87 trans am. they know you're in a terrible rush but they're going just as fast, as fast as they can dad, dad, i really don't understand what driving big trucks has to do with that man. you should've taught him a lesson about being rud e about talking to you with such an attitude. son you're still young and you always jump the gun you get so hacked, that you pay no mind to the great big sign that says oversized load. do you really think they can go as fast as you in your 87 trans am. they know you're in a terrible rush but they're going just as fast, as fast as they can |
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| 4. |
| 3:57 |
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old friend
your horse is ready to ride when morning comes from this church town where damning rumors drip from holy tongues it won't go away it won't go away it won't go away fever to find the scapegoat fast and fix the blame i know you never meant to leave the way you came looking down from that stain glass steeple they'll never know why you had to run ride as fast as you can they're shooting to kill |
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| 4:02 |
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barely ever fight, she knows that i love her
at first we made it every night, but i don't want to bug her about it she just has a funny way of loving me a pair of ticket stubs in her desk a movie in her desk i've never seen i probably shouldn't ask it sounds so accusing she must have forgotten to mention girl's night out the breakfast cereal talked more than we did all that day i asked her for a walk but she had to be on her way so i told her that i knew she'd been stepping out she swore that she could explain she swore that it would not happen again she swore that she could explain we both knew her words were in vain |
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| 6. |
| 4:13 |
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spring comes slowly
to this old friend still i'm frozen i still live alone in time memories fade senses numb one forgets how it feels to have loved completely love well young man while you still can once your leaves turn you won't love again is it special when your lonely will you spend your whole life in a studio apartment with a cat for a wife the seasons when they call you do you baracade the door are you stubborn to the core is it your way or the highway then the longest winter is on her way you called her without knowing you, but now it's too late |
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| 2:34 |
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what makes you think that it won't grow back in a day or two
husbands in winter, they know the truth but what can they do i don't like girls the way they are so shave their legs, and make them look like movie stars then we can pretend it's natural put on whatever makes you attractive if it's not you, then do it for the sake of fashion your friends like a certain you, that's who you've got to be junior high legs blond hair gone brown from removing it waxing since thirteen, wisdom from a beauty queen her tiara digging deep in her head i'm starting to think that i'm kinda shy or at least i'd like to be winter legs give me heart attacks so take it off with lasers so it never comes back then we can pretend it's natural |
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| 8. |
| 2:48 |
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all the time you were burning my letters
you were only acting the part you think without me you'll get on much better but you dont even know your own heart come home, darling come home quickly come home, darling all is forgiven, so come home quickly i treated you as if you were a princess you treated me like a cop i gave you boundaries to save you from certain death dangling from the end of the rope but your still playing for a love you'll never find outside of these arms of mine the whole town is one step behind you with the hang man on call they've got the judge and your convicted without a plea but darling, they will listen to me |
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| 9. |
| 4:10 |
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hunger drives me
it's got me by the reigns i let it wreck me time and time again i decided to never ride again i don't know what happened dad, i broke my promise to you if your wondering where i've been i thought i knew what i was doing but i was wrong again i understand, son i understand, son i understand the fairer gender they always turn my head from sheer embarrassment i'm nearly dead |
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| 10. |
| 6:42 |
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i could hear the church bells ringing
they peeled aloud your praise the member's faces were smiling with their hands outstretched to shake it's true they did not move me my heart was hard and tired their perfect fire annoyed me i could not find you anywhere could someone please tell me the story of sinners ransomed from the fall i still have never seen you, and somedays i don't love you at all the devoted were wearing bracelets to remind them of why they came some concrete motivation when the abstract could not do the same but if all that's left is duty, i'm falling on my sword at least then, i would not serve an unseen distant lord |
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| 11. |
| 3:31 |
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if you could really see
then you would ask of me she knew the well was far too deep for him to wet his lips but something told her that he spoke of so much more than all of this if you could really see then you would ask of me when he spoke, she wanted to believe the things he said but who could this man be that she might never thirst again her heart raced could he be the one we've waited for the one we've waited for |
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| 12. |
| 2:19 |
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i'll take something to believe
something with long sleeves, cos it's unpredictable now jesus said he'd fill my needs, but my heart still bleeds he's just not physical why can't i see if i look up and the sky's not there, is there any reason i should be scared when a promise, is a promise, i know now we've established a lack of sight maybe vision's the right word for what i need cos i can't see with human eyes lord knows i've tried to follow where he leads me why can't i see from what i've seen so far, i can't believe my eyes and what a nice surprise |
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