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Alcoholidays!
01:13
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I’m gonna get away
On an alcoholiday
Drinking in the sun
Belittling everyone
There’s nothing that I like more
Than a trip to the liquor store
Spending all your hard earned pay
On my alcoholiday
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The Reluctant Messiah
04:02
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Jesus quit,
Sick of the bullshit,
But you don’t know the half of it.
He came down
From the hills that surround
And laid his thorny crown on the ground.
Somehow it spread
He was the saviour of men
And they came so his shadow might fall on them.
“We know that you are
A superstar.” He said
“Well, how did I ever let it go this far?”
If it is thy will
Let this cup pass from me.
I cannot live for one other soul
But ten thousand cry for me.
I am going to go
And leave you alone
To save your own lives and walk on your own.
With that he turned
His back on his herd and
Went back up the hill, up to god for a word.
If it is thy will
Let this cup pass from me.
I cannot live for one other soul
But ten thousand cry for me.
It is not my will.
But let thine be
For, if it is thy will,
It will be mine for thee.
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I have been straight
For several days
I am not an alcoholic.
I was gay.
But now I’m straight.
Right in the middle
Of everything
She started to sing:
“I’m not saying anything,
I’m just saying!”
In a world that’s so bad
It’s not hard to feel good
You do what you have to
Not as much as you should
You have to look to your right
To see what is left
Not as much as you thought possible
But less than you’d expect
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Frnds
02:11
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With the infectious laughs
And the eyes at half-mast
And the incredible times
I’ve spent with them
I know I deserve my enemies
But do I deserve my friends
Whether friendships last
Or are roadway-side cast
There is something to be said for amity
Where love is blind
You’ll find every time
That friendship it tries not to see
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It’s an emergency
We’re all gonna die you see
We’re all gonna die on New Years Eve
It’s an imagined being
Is it even real to me
But what is reality but what I make it out to be
Lower your expectations and rise above them
It’s an emerging scene
You can blame it on the fashion industry
A trend a fad a lie that feeds the perpetual motion machine
It’s an emergency
It’s an emerging scene
It is an imagined being
Is it everything you think you thought it’d be
Lower your expectations and rise above ‘em
Because less is, more or less, more
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Bon Rond
02:13
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I can see the ocean baby in your eyes
Your seaweed hair and your coral smile
I want to drown around down there for a while
Someone stole the stars and put ‘em in your eyes
Your milky ways and your stellar designs
I want to get lost in your space for a while
I would give you an eleven
On a scale of one to ten
Do you believe in love at first sight or
Should I walk by again
I can see the future baby in your eyes
Through your crystal balls into your lifeline
I can see us together in time for a while
Do you believe in love at first sight or
Should I walk by again
I would give you a thirteen baby
On a scale of one to ten
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Fastback Afternoon
02:47
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It’s a fastback afternoon
And we won’t be doing anything soon
We have to cure what ails
Beer what else
We’re the showroom souvenirs
What the hell are we doing here
We have to cure what ails
Beer what else
And it happens every morning
After every time that I get paid
And I firmly believe it’s killing me
I have to be careful
Because I am no longer immortal
And I have to cure what ails
Beer what else
I’m so horny every morning
After every time that I get laid
I find it so hard to believe it’s killing me
And it happens every morning
After every time that I get paid
And I firmly believe it’s killing me
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Foam Mesh
02:16
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Foam in the front
Stays the UV rays
And keeps the shade on my face
On a sunny day
Mesh in the back
Allows my head to breathe
The function over fashion
Epitome
Foam and the mesh
Combines what’s good for me
In a useful but less than beautiful
Accessory
Metonymy
As it has come to be
Foam and mesh as a simile
For everything
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Package West
03:09
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I got a package forwarded to me
From a previous address
I’ve changed locations many times recently
Under an alias
And so the question begs to be asked
“How did they find me?”
Was it through a government agency
Or a search party
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NeverOddOrEven
04:04
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You say you’d never do
The things you say have all been done
Where does that leave you
With your all talk and your no action
Not to decide
Is of itself a decision
This much is true
The things you don’t do won’t come back to you
Freedom isn’t free anymore
Never odd or even or
Never odd or even backwards
You are not saying
Anything you’re just saying
L’histoire de weaker than
And giving in has been no problem
Unresolved
Is of itself a decision
But why get involved
When the things you don’t do won’t come back to you
Freedom isn’t free anymore
Never odd or even or
Never odd or even backwards
Ultra lackluster
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