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Quark Park
03:03
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i don't care about any of you
and i don't care about what you're going through
and you don't have to tell me what you're gonna do
cuz i never met a person who could help me through
yeah [get off my back]
alright [hit the road jack]
you should stay [but anyhow]
outside [dead and gone now]
take me for granted, it's a beautiful day
and i don't care about what you have to say
cuz it's best when we shut up, it's the natural way
i don't care if you go, but you're welcome to stay
alright [bought the farm out]
me and mine [and shot me down]
you can come [broken back bends]
inside [towards a dead end]
my past is dead, yeah my past is gone
and the wind in my hair at the crack of dawn
and i shouldn't say much, and i can't stay long
because after you're hurt you should be moving on
oh i [ain't that right friend]
gave it a try [no you didn't]
you can live [you can try to]
you can die [that's also true]
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2. |
Gun's Blues
02:53
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put a mask on it, baby
if you think that they can tell
put the fix on it, honey
if the thing ain't working well
when they lay me in my grave
with a smile on my face
cuz i found it sorta funny that i died while saying grace
stick a knife in it, darling
if you think it's gonna live
tie a noose round it, sugar
while it's squealing like a pig
when they wake me up the day
that they're gonna put me down
i'll be thankful for the fact that i can stop hanging around
i'll tell you a joke
johnny was having a smoke
it was a beautiful day
the rain was going away, my baby
there in the sun
i watched him cleaning his gun
and when i got back in bed
he shot himself in the head, my baby
i'll sing you a song
this life's a little too long
it was a real drag to clean
on easter 1916, my baby
what a surprise, then
when he opened his eyes
and can you say sister sue
what peter cottontail knew
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3. |
Penny Stock
02:22
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i'll be there when the drugs are gone
i'll be there when they're gone as hell
i'm around but it's not like that [yes it is]
yeah alright well i guess you'd know
dollar bill buys a penny stock
rise and fall on a cold grey wind
waited years just to rip you off [yes i did]
you'd best believe that it's happening
money changes at the standard faire
brought our hammers and we broke the bank
under cover of a cold grey rain [loss and gain]
rode into town on a paper tank
had a headache so i bought a gun
cuz the store was out of medicine
left a note that said i hate you still [gone and died]
they buried me inside an ATM
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4. |
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doing better than i
thought i would be right now
someone hurt me so much
but i'm coming around
i found you before i
lost what's left of my mind
lead a bird to the sky, but
you can't make it fly
whether you lose or win
you will start losing friends
i'm a jerk til the last
that’s a means to an end
so before we begin
i will fool you again
but it never looked right there
in my collection
writing you a love song
and it's coming along
i fly low to the ground
god, its good to be wrong
good for all aches and pains
good for collapsing veins
good for you you’re a star
at the end of my days
the next album or two
i will write em for you
he knows not what he does
he knows just what to do
when you're finally through
and he moves to undo
half the things that were right
and all the things that were true
bound to lose and to win
and to rise and to fall
good king arthur is dead
who was handsome and tall
bound to stand and to sing
before the lord of song
take me home country roads
to the place i belong
into the flood again
same trip it was back then
nothing breaks like a heart
nothing dies like a friend
in the church of good cross
in the bank of fair lend
an angel gets its wings
for each dollar i spend
doing better but don’t
it always seem to go
the profit and the loss
and it was all yellow
doing better but now
world is turned upside down
jimmy finn took a swim in
his bathtub and drowned
for the bold and the true
themselves the traitor crew
oh, what must be at last
it had better be soon
how the west wasn’t won
having way too much fun
and the first shall be last
kill two birds with one gun
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5. |
Book of Daniel
02:54
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daniel might be the one for me
i don't know i'll just wait and see
i saw him suffer and i knew he would
he looks exactly like a dead man should
daniel in the lions' den
dead trees where his house had been
when i beheld the son of man
in the image of the burning hand
dull ash on the burning throne
daniel in his car alone
he saw me walking and i knew he saw
judgment written in the book of law
dead weight of the broken crown
dead leaves on the dying ground
i saw him suffer and i saw him healed
in the image of the broken shield
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6. |
Cold World
02:13
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thinking about my best friend
wondering what happened to him
moving back and forward
baby boys got money to spend
and its a hard rain
i'm falling out of my own brain
but i think i like it
and i can't tell the future
but 10 bucks says i won't be around
flying south for the winter
i'm moving fast and low to the ground
xxxxxx
and it's a phone call
and like jay said, you watch me fall
it ain't gonna save me
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think i'm going to powhatan
cuz i lied to my therapist
knew my idea was trash right from the jump but
that don't mean i won't finish it
think i'm going to virginia
night that they drove old dixie down
friday night and the band is playing
have me another night on the town
give that man a fake cigarette
watch him talking all by himself
forgive him, lord, for he knows not what he does and
forgive me too i'm not feeling well
think i'm going to charlottesville
dreamt that i dwelt in marble halls
vassals and serfs and my high school sweetheart
all who assembled within those walls
sing a song of the commonwealth
i saw nixon in gethsemane
tricky dick in the county lockup
you'll never guess what he said to me
not a girl and not yet a crook
looking for drugs in a southern town
so could you not watch with me one hour
matthew said to young goodman brown
tell a tale of old dominion
in the winter of '65
to tell the secrets of my prison house
taint not thy mind nor let soul contrive
sing a song of I-64
of my dead friends and the fall of rome
this is the day that the lord has made us
remember me when i go back home
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8. |
Ubi Sunt?
01:52
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where are they now
who were my friends
on our way out something happened
but you know it never really does any good
got a nagging feeling that it probably should
ubi sunt
i have a question
those i love what happened to them
probably got tired of your tiresome ways
the sword is hanging high above the end of your days
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9. |
DEFCON 5 (Fade Out)
02:04
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if there's one thing i know
it's where the sound comes from
and goes
if i go in and i win again
someone should say that i didn't really win
never change [so slow]
never say things that you don't already know
if i fade out or i die on you
1492, he sailed the ocean blue
never change [so far]
saw with my own eyes the prophet in the jar
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10. |
Potemkin Village
02:51
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get out of this sad quiet town
i am standing in line
i am wandering around
and you've got drugs
and i've got a friend
with a car and a place
we can stay there with him
for the night
the rain falls
and steams on the street
i am riding the bus
i am falling asleep
and we look good
for a couple of ghosts
i am 10 bucks
and a brain and some bones
and that's all i am
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