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Dear readers
You don't really pay attention at all
Watch out kids, you have a hand in
the writing on the wall
Pay attention
You should know that we are all at war
Pay attention
You should know that we are all at war
Yeah the government that we all know
yeah they're infiltratin all of your homes
yeah when you're talking on your cellphones
yeah they're listening and they know
Dear readers
You just sit there, writhin in your homes
You go out there, you go see it
you got to get involved
I can handle
more than nothin
but not what I can't solve
Dear readers
You should know that we are all at war
Yeah the government that we all know
yeah they're infiltratin all of your homes
yeah when you're talking on your cellphones
yeah they're listening and they know
Yeah the government that we all know
yeah they're infiltratin all of your homes
yeah when you're talking on your cellphones
yeah they're listening and they know
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2. |
Figure It Out
02:49
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How about
Before I go
We go round
On call
In the car
I can hardly figure it
out
Have some
It's yours
Not mine
Before
I go
We try
and hold what's ours
I can hardly figure it
out
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Trucks in the Rain
02:55
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Not to say that I was making plans
Just another day into quicksand
Where it goes I don't understand
Lost the day and then I found it again
What if I got out of bed
And found another different place instead
Like your head everything's a mess
Nothing much to get done anyway
We move slow too
Oh, you
We move like trucks in the rain
Real slow with some fucked up brakes
We move like trucks in the rain
Real slow with some fucked up brakes
We move like trucks in the rain
Real slow with some fucked up brakes
We move like trucks in the rain
Real slow with some fucked up brakes
We move like trucks in the rain
Real slow with some fucked up brakes
We move like trucks in the rain
Real slow with some fucked up brakes
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Westonaria
01:44
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a big spade and a bag of dirt
a quick ticket to much of nothing
hard hands built from honest work
deep burns from ropes that are pulling
and i remember what was said to me
it never mattered to you or me
fat diamonds and a golden spree
never mattered to you or me
another lift going underground
to a place where light is fading
i would still never wish it on
all those men that are made of steel
i wonder what they had fallen for
a wristwatch and a rich man's cufflink
and i remember what was said to me
it never mattered to you or me
fat diamonds and a golden spree
it never mattered to you or me
his lungs turned to the blackest sea
it never mattered to you or me
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5. |
It's Easy
02:51
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Try to reel it in
Before its too far
that's a planet
or a star
Steady we go
just the start
It's easy
I get fucking torn
Deceive me
I just might go off
Shame
and everything else
we turn around
looking for help
carry a torch
keep it alight
now we all
let it fly
It's easy
I get fucking torn
Deceive me
I just might go off
Leave it
i am almost done
Reach in
and take what is yours
My, my goals
you'll find sorrow
before joy or peace
and i still stir
It's easy
I get fucking torn
Deceive me
I just might go off
Leave it
i am almost done
Reach in
and take what is yours
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Standing in this world
just wondering what's open
not thinking to look for myself
when it's chosen
now it's gonna take a while
to explain what i mean when
I'm proven
at least, i totally tried
i told you the first time
you're golden
i wouldn't mind,
i wouldn't mind
just as long as your heart stays open
and i wouldn't mind,
i wouldn't mind
just as long as your heart stays open
standing back here
with only an opinion
but i only speak for myself
so it's not so hard to say
i'm mistaken
alright, so you've seen it before
gotta try make the call that
it's stolen
if you can't speak your thoughts
and try do what you ought to
it's hopeless
i wouldn't mind,
i wouldn't mind
just as long as your heart stays open
and i
i wouldn't mind,
i wouldn't mind
just as long as your heart stays open
and i
i wouldn't mind,
i wouldn't mind
just as long as your heart stays open
and i
i wouldn't mind,
mind it all
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Alive 'n Kickin'
02:32
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i know, well not very much at all
for sure, i'm pretty much a fraud
chill out, just a little bit left to go
Recount all the stories that you told
i'm alive n kickin
they say i'm falling apart
shoulda guessed it all from the start
let loose like a stuttering car
i'm running on some old fumes
get kicked, in the face and left for dead
new tricks, gotta learn 'em before you're read
i heard, theres a trip that you have to take
to relax, and a get a fix of what you crave
man if, the world is not so nice
what else, is there for us to try
a cold life, put your hand up and repent
an old guy, with a fistful of common sense
i'm alive n kickin
they say i'm falling apart
shoulda guessed it all from the start
let loose like a stuttering car
i'm running on some old fumes
just chasing after a better view
i'm running on some old fumes
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8. |
John Wayne
03:02
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One look
Whose down
I'm looking
Around
Come find me
I'm here
Got nothing
But fear now
John Wayne
I wonder if all those
bullets went stray
I think of the mothers and children
One crook
Got out
They're looking
around
Gotta find him
Not here
Got nothing
But fear now
John Wayne
I wonder if all those
bullets ever went stray
I think of the mothers and children
John Wayne
You took their fathers away
And it led them astray
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9. |
Hit The Road
01:56
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I wanna live for free
Do nothing except for me
I don't wanna go to school
I just wanna lie in bed
I wanna scrounge off the government
I wanna scrounge off the government
For now it's all they say they'll do
I guess I'll have to go and hit the road
Man it's cool
I wanna live for free
Do nothing except for me
Just hang and do what I like
Not asking for much am I
I wanna scrounge off the government
I wanna scrounge off the government
I wanna scrounge off the government
I wanna scrounge off the government
For now it's all they say they'll do
I guess I'll have to go and hit the road
Man it's cool
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Arm's Length
03:22
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Can I make the call
Let's put him in
our garden
Or some place where nature calls
he'd appreciate the quiet
And then it all blurs
But I remember him well
I can hold
all of you
at arms length
So is he
a ghost
I wonder who he'd follow
We'd catch up on so much time
I'd appreciate his candour
And then it all blurs
But I remember him well
I can hold
all of you
at arms length
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Bad Memory
02:41
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I remember a different time when I was 10
I tried watch that godzilla movie
my brother looked
through the curtains
and turned to me
he said you gotta check this shit
I've forgotten how to rise to the occassion
would i even try that right now
and I'm sure you're sick to death of me by now
I was born to be a downer
Fuck it all let's go and smoke a cigarette
man my dad would be so pissed
he'd say,
son
they might hold back, wondering why
you can't lift up your own eyes
you feel them sink your disguise
you can't feel but you can try
you had hope, then it died
you can live and you will find
a different will to survive
You've forgotten how to relate to all your friends
and you don't have that many left
And I'm sorry all these words end in self-reflection
It's pitfall when you describe your woes
You ask do I have any regrets
oh man, tell me when i can stop counting them
Fuck it all let's go and smoke a cigarette
man my dad would be so pissed
he'd say,
son
they might hold back, wondering why
you can't lift up your own eyes
you feel them sink your disguise
you can't feel but you can try
you had hope, then it died
you can live and you will find
a different will to survive
what's it all to a broken mind
you lost it all, but you found it fine
you gotta get on with your own life
you do it for him
at least you try
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I could light up a cigarette
even though I don't smoke
Just to say I'm doing something
And I can get up real close
Right to your pretty face
If only my eyes were soft enough to see it
Broken cynic
God have mercy on those
On those who touch you
I remember when I felt that for myself
i could pick out a cloud in space
out of the corner of my eye
just to say i'm doing something
and i could get up real close
right to your pretty face
if only my eyes were soft enough to see it
Broken cynic
God have mercy on those
On those who touch you
I remember when I felt that for myself
Pluto, you are home
Pluto, you are mine
Broken cynic
God have mercy on those
On those who touch you
I remember when I felt that for myself
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i met you when i was kid
i surely remember the face
i met you outside again
and you were lit up in flames
we remind me of those black and white films
of people saying goodbye to the titanic
caus we're perfectly content walking away
from a ship that hasn't even sunk yet
i met you when i was kid
i surely remember the face
i met you outside again
and you were lit up in flames
gotta to try slow it down
a rescue what could remain
we are all liable
for what we've made
we remind me of those black and white films
of people saying goodbye to the titanic
caus we're perfectly content walking away
from a ship that hasn't even sunk yet
so wave goodbye to the forests and the animals you dreamed
of you touching when you were a child
they might be back one day but only
after we've been dead for a little while
*woof*
we remind me of those black and white films
of people saying goodbye to the titanic
caus we're perfectly content walking away
from a ship that hasn't even sunk yet
so wave goodbye to the forests and the animals you dreamed
of you touching when you were a child
they might be back one day but only
after we've been dead for a little while
fuck i don't know what else i can say to make it easier for us to stand it
i guess this is just my ode to our dying planet
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I wanna understand
The place I find myself
I just wanna hold your hand
There's no one else
And the sun still shines
when you're inside
yeah the sun still shines
We were never bored
But we've felt the cold
Let's try leave this world
And try to make our own
And the sun still shines
when you're inside
yeah the sun still shines
when you're inside
And the sun still shines
when you're inside
yeah the sun still shines
when you're inside
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