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Cut the Deck
03:17
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It's a week old now and it hasn't aged well
We're back inside the den
We’re getting crazy stirred and days are getting blurry
Until we start it back up again
Do you ever wish the sun would hurry rise
Do you feel a chaffing in your eyes
Will it be Hearts or Rummy Gin
We’ve got to shuffle it up again
You gotta cut the deck
These last two years they took my tongue
All my language words are gone
I can't diagram or lay it down at the slam
I'm all tangled up and woebegone
Do you ever wish the sun would hurry rise
Do you feel a knocking in your eyes
Will it be Hearts or Rummy Gin
We gotta shuffle it up again
Shuffle it up again
Shuffle it up again
You gotta cut the deck
That's how the calendar crumbled
And your cookies all got burned
It's been a bad baking fumble it's the jive in your jungle
But all the same it's now your turn
Do you ever wish the sun would never rise
Do you feel like you’ve been dancing in disguise
Will it be Hearts or Rummy Gin
We gotta shuffle it up again
You got to cut the deck
You better to cut the deck
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2. |
Albion
04:13
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Sitting on the porch up in Albion
Kicking back with the music on
There was a storm brew-hooing
Coffee cup with the tea a' stewing
But the moment was only skin deep
Relentless tug of the office creep
Pulling the balance off
She couldn't feel the rain fall
Sometimes I'm lifting off and
Sometimes the bell starts ringing on
Sometimes I miss you when you're gone
Sometimes the air is too thin
Sometimes the static gets so deep
Sometimes I hurt you when it's wrong
When it's wrong
Got to get back from the missing
Back to all the weights in need of lifting
A big figure eight we keep slogging
Every day we're back again groundhogging
The water looks bluer than blue
Listen to the workplace ballyhoo
It only hurts when you hit landfall
Sometimes she couldn't even feel the rain at all
Sometimes I'm lifting off and
Sometimes the bell starts ringing on
I always I miss you when you're gone
Sometimes the air is too thin
Sometimes the static gets so deep
Sometimes I hurt you when it's wrong
When it's wrong
It's like breathing out
(Sometimes I'm breathing in)
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3. |
Bird Telephone
02:22
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Bird telephone
Bird telephone
If you hear somebody go chuffing
And you're tired of the old up and down
Maybe make them old feathers go fluffing
It's the only game in town
Only game in town
Only game in town now
Bird telephone
Got to make all my friends aware
Bird Telephone
Lots of tweets going wrong around here
If you've lost somebody you love
Look around
If you've lost somebody you love
Look around
Lots of love to be found
Bird telephone
Bird teleph one
If you find that you wire's too tight
Because your sweet little friend is gone
You better slacken that pitch just a slight
You're the only game in town
Only game in town
Only game in town now
Bird telephone
So much garbage going on around here
Bird telephone
How I miss my little nesting dear
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4. |
The Walls
04:22
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No one expected the Spanish Inquisition
But that was not what was happening here
A woman inflamed with pure determination
Set sail toward the enemy the stakes were never clearer
Three ships abreast
With modest stores and sailing west
Named Certainty, Confidence and Doubt
Under the RADAR of the state
Nobody was sure if it was possibly too late
Beatrice had abandoned
A box of fear she'd left behind
And those who understood the power of her mission
Hoisted sails and ran the rigging, pushed her right up to the line
Could three ships abreast
Be enough to sail the crest?
Would the old men she confronted be smart enough to heed her
Or would they just pretend to listen and watch everybody bleed
Stand by and watch them bleed
We build walls to make us stronger
But these walls will make us weak
If we can't see the fires coming for us now
It won't matter to the forest if we can't see for the trees
Well there's been a change in the weather
There's been a change to the seas
Turns out that every year or so
Is the hottest year ever to be broadcast on TV
Three ships have gone
You can still like them on your phone
The last ones to survive
Do you think it will be you or me
How long should we even dare to stay alive
We scan the ocean's edge at nighttime for the lights of passing ships
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5. |
Ticket to Wait
02:35
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Walking down the road of life
That funky messed up little road
That we call our lives
Tripping over yesterdays
And stumbling on the maybes
Calculating miles and the moments of delight
I add one moment here
Where the stars are shining brighter
because my love is near
For right now I've got a ticket to wait
Going to sit on the bench for awhile
I’ve got a ticket to wait
Take the temperature of any given day
And I know it isn't always right
Summer brings the winter
But let's not skip over fall cause when I met you and found I had it all
Time to take a break
Here's a message from our sponsors
To keep you all awake
Hold me now I've got a ticket to wait
Going to flop on a cloud for awhile
Got a ticket to wait
I've got a ticket to wait
I lost my transit card
Got a ticket to wait
Day after day
Loving all this rain
The jungle here's insane
For right now I've got a ticket to wait
Going to sit on the bench for awhile
Got a ticket to wait
I've got a ticket to wait
Going to rest on the cloud for awhile
Got a ticket to wait
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6. |
Bombardier of Love
02:45
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Well it seems like that thug has showed up at your party
Yeah you know the one I mean, the one who wasn't invited
You turned him away but he's so damn persistent
He keeps coming back dinosaur of insistence
All this time he keeps chipping away
Got to stand up and make him pay
All this time keeps dragging on
He’s used to getting his way but this time he’s bombed
The Bombardier of Love
She's raining red hearts down from up above
The Bombardier of Love
You got to put the dog down
When push comes to shovin'-o
Seems like everybody here is sniffing the same glue
But you took to the sky to get to doing what you gotta do
Flying through the air in an old Mig-29
You didn't want to have to do it but now you do it all the time
All this time that keeps slipping away
Push him back and make him pay
Every day it keeps dragging on
Got to get in his face to teach him this song
The Bombardier of Love
She's raining red hearts down from up above
The Bombardier of Love
You got to put the dog down
When push comes to shovin'-o
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7. |
Yacht Rock Day
03:16
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Ryznar's big idea
Set loose upon the streaming
Inspired everyone who heard
About the boomer's escaping
The captain took the wheel
Thinking he was so groovy
It was a Yacht Rock Day
With Saint Christoper's Cross
Glistening across the water
Telling the same old jokes again
Just like our fathers
We all played our parts
He chose Bertie Higgins
I grabbed another cooler
Because I sure could use one
It was a Yacht Rock Day
The captain spinning the wheel
We thought he was pretty groovy
But he was numb to the world
Reprising his own movie
It was a Yacht Rock Day
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8. |
Firewood
01:56
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That's an interesting phrase
That you used to describe my past
It throws a bit of shade on the truth
Because it misses almost all the facts
Did this have to be a campfire conversation
Yeah, I thought it would
All this time I've been thinking it's true
That your face looks like firewood
It seems a little strange
You chose to put on that dress
You're suited for a prom, maybe worse
Because you seem out of breath
Did you have to start a vampire conversation
Or are you misunderstood
Let's think awhile and chew on that
While I light up some firewood
Time wont give me time
Like my friend George told me when I was 17
But you and me you know we've got nothing but time
So pack the car and let's leave Dodge
Grab the garlic, grab the cross
You made the map, we can't get lost
With a trunk full of firewood
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Yesterday my sister called
And she asked if I heard the news
She had found another match and apparently
This time she had lit the fuse
While we wait for the bomb like nothing’s wrong
Tell me where you got those shoes
Wake me up when the movie stops
Because I can't stand watching yet another flop
We've been here before and we've seen the hack
When you chop off the head another one grows back
Yes it always grows back
Always grows back
Every film I've ever seen
Pales to the world that's inside of me
Seems like I'm always daydreaming of another time
Black and white grainy celluloid dream
I’ve come back to report that nothing has changed
History always backs up downstream
Wake me up when the movie stops
Because I can't stand watching yet another flop
We've been here before and we've seen the hack
When you chop off the head another one grows back
Yes it always grows back
Yes it always grows back
Every film that I’ve ever seen
Every film I’ve ever seen
Every film that I’ve ever seen
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10. |
Steel Away
01:38
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Meet me by the car
We can get out of here
Wear that old tee shirt
With Johnny Rotten's vicious face
We can drive to Montreal or farther if we can
Maybe buy a pack of cigarettes
Pretend we're living in Japan
Pretty Girls can Handle it
Potato Gravy Hands
Polly Got a Hacker in the iron land
Penguins Getting Hat tricks
Pickles Going Hard
Possibly Go Hungry eating from our tiny back yard
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Scotty Houston Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“In the dark times. Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.”
- Bertolt Brecht
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