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Rattle and Shake
02:30
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Where's the rattle
Where's the clash
Why do we let the sun set on this trash
Where's the rattle
Where's the clash
The world around us
Turning to ash
Why do we let the sun set on this trash
Youth defeated
Or youth distracted
When I was younger
I would've acted
Now to be honest I can't be bothered
I've got my projects and I'm a father
Too much to do everyday
But I support you in my way
Where's the rattle
Where's the shake
Where's the people making noises I won't make
I shared your post
Two times today
I liked your struggle
I might donate
I'm exhausted
Trash on a screen
I would comment
But I don't want to be seen as mean
Youth defeated
Or youth distracted
When I was younger
I would've acted
Now to be honest I can't be bothered
I've got my projects and I'm a father
Too much to do everyday
I'm in the stands doing the wave
There was never anybody else
If you want to change it change yourself
There was never anybody else
Others are waiting for your help
There was never anybody else
To be active, activate yourself.
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2. |
Routine
02:12
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They say waking up in itself is such a blessing
But my tired mind can't help addressing
Hopeless thoughts and thoughtless deeds
I'm giving up before I remember to breathe in the light
That always seems just out of reach
I'm going blind, out of my mind
Out of my mind with anger and I never know why
I'm losing touch with what I once held dear
In my routine there's nothing worth repeating
Repeating the same mistakes
creating the same endings
I'm just trying to learn what I've got to do to get back into no routine
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3. |
It's on You
00:53
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It’s on you
Gotta make me remember
About you
Tell me your story enough
So I start to care how it turns out
I want you
To make yourself matter
To me
So I can plan on making sure
Later on that we’re on the same ride
Do you know what I mean?
Do you know what i mean, yeah!
It’s on you
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4. |
Fireflower
02:20
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Was nearly 20 when I met you
You told me you had daddy issues
We stayed up late with Leonard Cohen
Ain't it strange how such slow songs can get you goin'
I remember you well in your big black van
Tan on the seats with the horns of a ram
Bikes on the back and dogs on the inside
We were running from everything, running to hide
You were eight,
It was AIDS
Your mom died first paying for the mess your father made
There were sisters, there were three
You leaned on each other
like an isosceles
I can't believe Meg died
The short side erased in the blink of an eye
When you collapsed, where was I
I'm sorry that I just sublimed
When I saw you in Chicago
you made me hold her bones
I was surprised to feel how much my muscles groaned
She was heavy, she was ash
She's heavier now all of the years that have passed
I don't know where you find your smile
I don't know where you find your smile
But I know you've found love and I know that its wild
Like the flowers succeeding the fire
Like the flowers that follow the fire
Like the flowers succeeding the fire
LIke the flowers that follow the fire.
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5. |
Fatherloss
02:48
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I want my father back
With flaws and all I’d take him back
I want my father back
I want to hear the sound of his belt crack
I want my father back
I want to see him packing up his bags
I want my father back
I want them to fight till my mom cracks
I want my father back
How did he get fired again I ask
I want my father back
Another night another 12 pack
I want my father back
I want him to tell me what I lack
I want my father back
I want no news of a heart attack
I want my father back
With flaws and all I’d take him back
He didn’t realize what he was doing
But my sister and me, we were ruined
And even after all of that
I’d take him back
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6. |
Ordinary Soul
02:46
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Left my coat in the trunk of your car and I want it back now
There's risky chills down my spine now that autumn is gone
Let's meet and speak in a place with service
Somewhere that's not too loud
Pay attention this time and we'll find out
What went wrong
Remember when we got lost in the dark on the west end of Nashville
You said sad boys with guitars would be our demise
Let's buy nice beers, perch on a wall, and heckle passersby
If that were yesterday we'd be asking
What went wrong
I felt a tug on my collar but what I've found is if you're
Stubborn enough the leash is not so strong
You claim you're the way you are 'cause someone showed you a light
And I'm the way I am because I think I'm always right
I try to tell everyone I know I'm an ordinary soul
I lie to everyone I know
I'm an ordinary soul
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7. |
Golden Twins
01:57
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My heart wakes with you
My heart shakes for you
Are we Gemini
Is it you and I
or am I you
Are we Gemini
You make a me
I make a you
If I'm ever feeling emptied by the universe
And know all hope is lost
I remember we're a double-star
And one of us is Pollux
When you radiate, I radiate
Just the same
And I know we will remain
(loosely)
Together forever
Remain together forever and ever
Remain together in every endeavor
Forever remain together forever
together forever in every endeavor
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8. |
Slammed Doors
02:58
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Siblings scream and yell
There's never a middle ground
He pushed her back into the wall
Dad threw him in the yard and
Shut him out
But slammed doors hang open
For peeking eyes and second tries
Handed over weakly pay
Left toddlers for your resume
We were kids those days
Wrote reports for professors to read
You pushed me out your swinging gait
But slammed doors hang open
Slammed doors don't burn like bridges if
You recross the threshold
Why don't you want to?
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9. |
Econ 101
02:33
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If you get knocked down will you get up at all
If no one is there to help you when you fall
Because the line between with and without is becoming
Increasingly small
It's a crumbled wall
I don’t believe we’ve always needed this
I don’t believe this is the only way to exist
Do we think that we can buy our way out of this
Is the market economy the only thing there is
Or is it built on the backs of those of us who don’t have the means
To shake it off
What’s the cost
I don’t believe we’ve always needed this
I don’t believe this is the only way to exist
I don’t believe that we can just work harder
I don’t believe that we can just work smarter
I don’t believe this is the only way
Money changes everything
And the funny thing is that it’s only in our brains
We’ve turned ephemera into stuff
And convinced you you’ll never have enough
And you’ve embraced your own wage slavery
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10. |
Yesterday
02:22
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Yesterday, the words were all wrong
Testing me. How far gone am I?
Learn that I'm right, from when I've been wrong
Only once the time is gone
Yesterday, I saw what I had done
Broken all my own laws
Learn that I'm right, from when I've been wrong
Only once the time is gone
I've gotta get ahead of me
Say some things I truly mean
Now I see
Now I see
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11. |
Legalize It
01:28
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Legalize it
I mean all of it
We try to lock up our physiology
Legalize it
I mean all of it
We cannot punish chemistry
With a stutter step that would be me
Why do we sick the dogs on our family
Legalize it
I mean all of it
Prohibition never got anyone clean
Even an addict needs a place to be
Big bad mad dad never solved anything
Addiction's not a disease
It's a symptom of a world that otherizes other humans
You continue to refuse to see connections
Between yourself and those pulled in other directions
Don't be surprised when no one is there for you
Do see you through your darkest days
Legalize it
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12. |
Dead Deeds
02:18
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We are losing time
We are going blind
Can't chew no more
Our ears are sore
The things we say
Are muddled refrains
Somewhere beneath what we used to be
Can't you feel me?
I'm burning through
And words grow cold once they're said
And won't resurrect our best
Don't come see me when I'm dead
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13. |
Carpe Diem
01:41
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Carpe diem
I already done them
I fought them and won them
Carpe diem
I already done them
Now all I want is some
Of that hot southern sun
Now my body has been a good friend
But I do not think I will need it in the end (Conscious Cat Stevens Rip)
I have seen galaxies collide in a tiny sky (telescopes)
And I have made a new thing and watched as it came alive (nico)
I have smelled all the roses,
I have drank all the wine. (party time)
In losing it, I felt my youth (I've been lucky enough to feel this)
I have consumed all the content found there is nothing on (themes repeat)
The one desire I cannot seem to shake is your arms (Damn son)
So carpe diem
I already done'em
Fought them and won them
Now I'm on my way
Carpe diem
I already done them
Now all I want is some
Of that hot southern sun.
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14. |
Ghost Ship
02:03
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We're always fighting for a place for us
This whole world is getting swallowed up
So we hide out in basements and warehouses
Places we carve out and hold onto
Not everybody wants to join in the game
Selling smiles and trash and chasing fame
Some of us don't want to be sold or to sell
Some of us just want to hold and be held
Lately I'm thinking about the Ghost Ship
I've got no right to remember it.
Wasn't my people who were lost in there
But that was only due to random chance
I can tell your heart will not ever heal
I can you don't want to believe it's real
That all the beauty and love and the friendship
Just drifts away in the sunset
Not everybody wants to join in the game
Selling smiles and trash and chasing fame
Some of us don't want to be sold or to sell
Some of us just want to mold and to meld
Some of us just want to be and be well
Some of us just want to hold and be held
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15. |
Ana Thema
03:03
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16. |
With Your Chest
02:05
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You never wanna score with someone you can't trust
You must build your world, so roll up your cuffs
Say it with your chest, when you know what's best
Cuz if you don't someone will tell you
Let's get in bed
And flex your head
"We're all winding down to our wretched end.
It's like waking up with your best friend"
"Hey I've seen this before,
It's an open floor
Where I'm not sleeping anymore"
"Yeah, it's like marriage, you wanna?
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17. |
Endurance Challenge
02:33
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I was thinking there was gonna be dancing, but they were tense as a snake
All coiled tight and ready to strike at the show we played at the lake
Then Crystal saved our asses and told us just what to play
A little Landslide soothed the masses and we made it through another day
She said:
Come on! Come on! Come on!
We're gonna play you another song
So get up and sing along
We ain't even close to being done
There was somewhere, it was nowhere, we played to nobody at all
Just the Doorkeys, us, and Justin and an empty VFW hall
It was the best show we ever played and I sang until I was sore
Matt and Daun, they were egging us on. They were shouting out for more and more
They said:
Come on! Come on! Come on!
Play us another song
Play us your only good one
You ain't even close to being done
I hold those memories close
What I remember most
Is heat and crowds
Is "too damn loud"
and sweat
and love
And we never wrote a pop song
Because we don't want to sing along
To a vapid hook and a vacant look
If you ain't got something to say.
Say.
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