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Hobo Jack
10:02
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Living in the rafters of the old school house
Alone save the rats and a couple of mouse...s
Dining on ditchweed and apple wine
He sits in the dust just biding his time"
With his plastic trench coat and his burlap slacks
He's got your back, it's Hobo Jack
Black sheep, scape goat, city bum
Loved and feared by everyone
Hometown hero and your villain too
You always want to talk to him, never want him to talk to you
Six inch long yellow fingernails
Private cell in the county jail
The kiddies call him cool and the squares call him strange
The streets around him change he remains the same
With his broken nose and his smelly beard
He couldn't care less if you jeered or cheered
Black sheep, scape goat, city bum
Loved and feared by everyone
Hometown hero and your villain too
You always want to talk to him, never want him to talk to you
And he sings:
Hey,
Come on child
Don't be afraid
It's just your friendly
Neighborhood
Hobo J.
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Flattery
06:11
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Kill a man, fill a man up with wine,
No matter either way he die
Sure with wine it'll take more time,
But days days of liquor and empty praise and he's a lazy man made
Then you've not even tried and he has died inside
Beware the hand ever giving gifts of praise
The hidden hand may well hold a blade
One hungry, anxious, eager to make its way
Deep inside show you the error of your ways
Let not a love leave you dazed, for if oyu're in that state
Both deprived and depraved, you just may
Fall prey to a cold and lonely heartbreak
Beware the lips ever spewing accolades
Thoses kisses, they'll end all your days
Drip and drop, now there's poison in your veins
Deep inside show you the error of your ways
Flattery
Fflatter me
See the blood come from inside
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Waltz of the Vampire
04:50
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Journey
06:24
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I woke up on the moon today
Reflecting on how she once seemed so far away
And then I flew back to my brightest blue mother Earth
In my home that scraped the sky
I layed and wondered why
Statues built so tall
Should be destined yet to fall
As our steeds with the power of many horses
Taint the purest rian
And as I laid
I closed my eyes
And time rewind
I was in the sky
Thrity stories high
Below sit a tribe
Admiring a treasure
That will change their lives
Forever and ever
It made fire come from the hands
When aimed at another man
Made him fall
Help me I'm on fire
Finally did something right
I went through dreams of desire
Can't control what happens next
And we're starting it all over and over
Pendulums are swinging
Spinning round and round
It's just beggining
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Doctor please
I got a disease
Can't you set me free from it
I can pay
Whatever you need
Money ain't no think
No sense of worry to me
'Cause I climbed the ladder
Up to the top
Yeah, I paved my way
Now I ain't gonna stop
Not for the voices in my head
The ones that are screaming at me:
"Repent! Repent! Repent!"
The nurse she says
You got voices in your head
Well, I think I know the source
I can kill them
For a fee, of course
But I don't want your money
I don't need your dirty dirty gold
If you haven't figured it out yet, sonny Jim
Let me spell it out for you:
I want you mortal fucking soul
Well I'd gladly give my soul
If it kicks my nagging conscience out the door
In fact, I don't consider it a hefty toll
In fact, I think of it as
Two birds with one stone
To kill the voices in my head
The ones that are screaming at me:
"Repent! Repent! Repent!"
And the angels cry
They sing a lullaby
For the poor pencil pushers,
For the broke back-braking laborers
And the angels cry
They sing a sweet little lullaby
For the kind old lady never gets what she's do
And the angels cry
They sing a sweet little lullaby, a lullaby
For the lovers whose heaven's in each other's arms
For me and you
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Sense and Dollar Bills
08:59
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Tell all the construction workers
To block the streets with cones
Tell all the construction workers
To tear it down with stones
Tell all the construction workers
To tear it down, down
Tell all the people the world is there's to fix
Or there's to kick down
Don't tell me the world's goanna be just fine
That's a lie
Don't tell me the world's goanna be all right
That's a lie
Tell all the freaks of nature it's nature's retribution
Tell all the office zombies to crack the company crowns
Tell all the freaks of nature it's their revolution
Tell all the ones and zeros to bring the system down
Can't all the people see all the blood one their hands?
From the sacrificial lamb
Please tell me the world's goanna be just fine
Tell me a lie
If no one is willing to even try
I'd rather die
The truths we held self-evident
Seem rarely to hold precedent
Before the cogs the clockwork aims to kill
The cogs which are the hopefull, or the hopelessly complacent
Unaware that they're adjacent to thr grinding gears of war
The grinding gears which shed their fear to fetch the oil that keeps us here
Slaving beneath our masters evermore
Here our monarchs don not crowns but put on suites for show
They ever wear a mask of care to hide what's our's to know
Here our slavish collars are not steel, nor do chains now keep us down
Instead, with collars white and blue we are to debt and duty bound
And so we strap upon our back the great, faultless hulking machines
That provide provisions and programs telivisions
For it, we are glad to pay a tax
For it is our
American dream
Don't tell me the world's goanna be just fine
That's a lie
If no one is willing to even try
I'd rather die
You can't see solutions
With closed eyes
Please, please try
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7. |
Jiggilypuff
02:54
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Jiggilypuff
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8. |
Dancing Nancies
10:28
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Christof Rochel Minnesota
Writing songs about nothing, nothingness, politics, love, and imaginary friends.
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