Stand awake and unglued / we've
got critical plans / what an incredible view / why don't you soak it all
in? / i've been given the option to live into the new year / i've been
stuck between a rock and a vinyl interior / and i've got just enough to
share / i've got enough to pass it along / and i m just so damn glad i'm
here / isn't everyone? / borateen, tell me what's it all mean / it's bad
enough that i'm having to figure it out / borateen, i'm the king of my
castle / when i drown it down / you spin me around / not a boy / not a
man / innocence dissolved in your hands / it's a crutch / it's a crush
/ it's a sudden rush and it's unplanned / it's a ball / it's a chain /
it's a crying shame that it's a gas / understand it's the only urge anyone
has / not just anyone / bold as i've become / bite your lazy tongue / it's
a sin to me / all your flattery is just sympathy / it's just sympathy
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Sophomore Jinx
Give them what they want / when
they want / when they know what they want / i'm sick of thinking for myself
so i'll play along / stick me in a room full of books, suits, and record
deals / be sure to make some coffee with your Cream and ask me how i feel
/ it's been a long, lonely wait / oh. we can hardly wait to hear the tunes
you have made / i'll bet their really great / there's something to the
way you find time to create / the second album is late / where is it anyway?
/ here i am / believe the sound you breathe / i'm in up to my knees / disregard
everything because now i'm over my sophomore jinx / you're crowding my
dollar signs (make everyone sing) / your little songs i'll call mine (my
sophomore jinx) / get to the back of the line (love turns to hate) / when
i stand a million to one (to one) / x amount of dollars for my head / should
i say 'commodity' / help me get madonna off my bed / she's just too drunk
to sing / management's explaining. entertaining to the industry / they've
heard the some spiel a million times / maybe two or three / the illusion
is sealed / the band's all wrapped in chains / wish their vibe was still
real / now it all sounds the same / and all the grooves that they steal
/ all the blues down on beale / prolific wisdom english poets often write
/ here i am / believe the sound you breed / i'm in up to my knees / disregard
everything because now i'm over my sophomore jinx / you're crowding my
dollar signs (make everyone sing) / your little words. they don t rhyme
(my sophomore jinx) / you've wasted all of my precious time (love turns
to hate) / when i stand a million to one / long. lonely Wait / instant
replay
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Stewardess
north eastern southwest mississippi
/ I'm going to reach my destination alone / north eastern southwest Mississippi
/ i'm going to reach my home / i'll wave to the river as i m flying over
/ north eastern southwest Mississippian / never mind the times / and as
a matter of fact your just the kind - alone and temperamental / so rewind
the clock. the machine and your one wheeled unicycle / and as a matter
of fact. you re underpaid for all that you can offer / so tell the boys
that they can fight over your one starred uniform
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So Low
Hello / meet my problems / i only
miss you when i m with you / i gotta fly car to jet around town / gone
sour to the bone / gone bad to the morrow / financial situation's depleted
/ guess a slap in the face is what i really needed from a strong hand to
make me a man / what more could i ask? / what more could i stand? / i'm
so low that i wish i was dead with a knife in my chest and a bullet through
my head / i'm so low that i wish i was dead / must i go on? / sold all
my friends today / i'm so low that i wish i was dead / gave everything
away / now i'm bound only by twine and thread / just give me time / don
t give me time to miss you / just give me time / don't give me time to
miss you / on a short leash yet she was earthbound / so i threw her in
the lost and found / now she's scaring me / a fine charity with a pink
trombone and a tuning key / so just ignore my footprints and just ignore
the sand / my epitaph stands before me / so wear your ego to the funeral
of a frightened man / saw her standing in the doorway / fade away and i
believe in it / if i were dead / if i were dead/ if i were dead she wouldn't
love me anymore
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Marathon Shirt
Tell me who's to blame for this
ink spot? blood-stained sleeves in the parking lot / I've had it since
i was twelve and i wear it like hell / wash it when it gets worn. dirty.
tattered. torn / fell in love with me and wears me with pride / we bathe
in ultra tide when i start to feel guilty / and everyone's jealous cause
they wish they had it / i'm half a man without it / i'm the king of style
/ and i'll keep on wearing my marathon shirt / and l'll wear it everyday
till it hurts / and i got no lady over her / confidence aplenty in my marathon
shirt / once loaned her to a friend for a party and i worried all night
like a mother does / and when she returned. all wrinkled and helpless.
she smelled of cheap cigarettes and other drugs / it'd Wear her in any
season / i'd wear her for any reason / the only promise in my life's that
shirt of mine / and day after day as her colors fade away. it'll remember
what she felt like the first time / now I've come to lay you down / you
con soak into the sound and i'm so elated / she can't be recreated and
the water is turning brown / my baby she's no hand-me-down
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Lucid Anne
And in the simplest of words, she
knew about forgiveness / and in passing. something true cried out / as
the wheels began to turn, there it loomed and burned / in the awkwardness
at hand. i don't understand / lucid Anne, lucid Anne / lucid Anne, lucid
anne / and when she woke up from the day before / no recollection of events
which took place somewhere / laughing only at the lines that now traced
her eyes / looking backwards through the glass, i think i missed the point
/ and in the simplest of words. she spoke the only answer / and in passing.
something new cried out / as the wheels began to turn. there it loomed
and burned / in the awkwardness at hand. now i understand
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Cannon
Cannon - are you unnecessary noise?
/ cannon - firing on all of your toys / cannon - thinks we're the same.
but we are / cannon - destiny's towing your car / when fire meets powder.
you take your cover / i fly over and when fire drowns water. it spreads
it farther out of my hands / asking advice from all the clowns / Cannon
- take your frustrations to the ground / cannon - they wait in the wings
for you to fall / cannon - can't you make dust of them all / when fire
meets powder, you run for cover / i fly under and when fire drowns waiter.
don't even bother / out of my hands / in some untimely way, the world asks
us to leave / suddenly. we're afraid / no longer can we stay / the thread
of life was strung to each and everyone / i knew it all along / your call
to arms was wrong / cannon - are you just unwanted noise? / loose Cannon
- remember all those you destroy / when fire meets powder. the strongest
cower. half heart, underhand / when fire drowns water. it spreads it further
out of my hands
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Missed The Friction
Unwrapped and bitten / an invitation
to your side / i missed the friction / if it's in my head. it's in your
size / you are. you're making me mad / afraid you've been had again / you
are. you re singing so bad / you're singing so sad again / scratch the
hideous melody / scrap all the harmonies in 'e' / can't help but spell
it out / if it's in my head. it's in your mouth / hang up the phone jaded
hand / take a piece of everyone / the day is done / the bread is stale
and silence suits me that well / i'm a bitter scale with a broken trust
/ found the list in all of us / cause you're better off / you re better
off when no one's starving for your Company / i think a sour note is luxury
/ crass information / spread it / infect somebody else / inspire a nation
/ if it's in your head it's in yourself
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Super *
Cement hands - she comes alive on
my poster / cement band - and i'm in love / i know the things you must
think and feel / you've been left out in the cold / she's a superstar /
she'll never see me in the crowd / no matter who you are. you can't forget
a face you know / plastic friends / subliminal plastic motives / have you
reached the end? / or just tied in knots to your rope / and from day to
day. the actors and scenes change / and when you re a memory, the greedy
ones remain / i know the pain you've been subject to / you've been left
out in the rain / she s a Superstar / you can find me at her feet / she's
still a superstar / while i m alone at home / what is a super star? / can
you count them on your hands? / does it affect who you are and what everybody
says and does or thinks about you anyway? / does she smoke crack. burn
buildings. or just plain strange? / Caught in the public eye. we get paid
to cry / i know the things that you must think and feel / you ve been left
out in the cold / i'm a superstar / i can't see you in the crowd / no matter
who you are. you can t forget a face you know
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Mother Nature's Fault!
The master of deception woke the
devil and then set him free / she turned from an Ocean to an ogre and selected
me / i can't help but stay away when you re so damn evil / i don't care
at all assuming that it's mother nature's fault / it's funny how a part
of me Ceases to be / i waited all summer just to see her leave / mother
nature / she hated all my lyrics. so i lied and said i threw them out /
the only one who knows this is me, but now the record's out / i Can't help
but point a perfect picture with a double 'a' rhyme scheme / i don't care
at all. assuming that it s mother nature s fault / a sentimental part of
me that Ceases to be / i waited all winter just to see her breathe / show
me your best kept secrets and I'll never ever tell all your friends that
you know well / you let me down. down / i'll never listen to another heartfelt
love song cause this time of month. it's a drag / you know they re dead
wrong / i can only comprehend the half of what i hear cause you know we're
all doomed
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Big Important Nothing!
You've got alot to lie about / all
the angles you covered up / we've got plenty to talk about because some
of them you just can't block / pretend you're the daughter of elvis and
you re married to the king of pop / without worldwide belief. you step
up to the mic and blow it off / you re in over your head / this time you're
in over your heard / you're in over your head / this time you're in over
your head / if it's any indication of what it's really like to be you /
if it's any Consolation. i guess i wouldn't want to be you / Can't say
that i'm crazy about anything that you do / without concrete belief. you
step up to the edge and follow through / you're in over your head / this
time you're in over your heard / just when you thought it was safe. you
got raped / a fickle incision from the hand that fed you in the first place
/ ten million opinions in your skin color face / Contrary to popular belief,
this time you Caught your foot in the grave
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Lost My Senses
All of my senses are turning away
and all that i touch is turning to waste / i mark indifference in various
ways. but all of my senses have gone out to play / my tongue tied and twisted
/ my eyes wouldn't blink / decisions were made for me / i couldn't think
/ tattered old heroes where saving my grace but i lost my senses / but
i don't wanna touch. taste. feel / i don't wanna touch, taste. feel / i
don't wanna touch. taste. feel / i don't wanna touch. taste, feel / all
gone to waste / a stranger in my hat or under my skin / my hair is a welcome
mat / now it begins / it splits and divides and feeds on itself and i lost
my senses / i don't want your help / all my pretenses Collectively face
/ the left hand of decency patiently waits through an unbearable show of
restraint / my ears won t play / my eyes couldn't paint / my tongue tied
and twisted / my eye couldn't blink / decisions were made for me / i couldn't
think / i thought my friends were just saving my place / but i lost my
sense and i lost my friends
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