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There’s a song in my heart
Can I sing it for you?
You’ll sing it with me, too
That's bound to cure our blues
There’s a song in my heart
Can’t be bought makes no chart
It keeps me pressing on
when I need a marching song
A switch goes off, a riff turns up
There’s a song in my heart
That’s endured the abuse
It must get a message through
It must find its way to you
There’s a song in my heart
Never far out of reach
Cause you'll never know when you’ll need to sing
Some things we're not meant to speak
This might be my destiny
My wake up call, my eternity
To seek my soul for the proper key
To set the song in my heart free
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Broken down in Scarsdale
Casting out a wide net
Drinking in the parlor with ugly white men
They're glazing all their salmon
They're licking pursed lips
I'm suffocating, I taste the air getting thin
I can't imagine who'd live here their whole life
Some crony and his mistress
They're hovering up behind us
They got wide eyes
We groan and gulp our poison
Throw down the thirty bucks between us
Vacate the premises like a couple of wise guys
Thank goodness there's more than one way to kill time in this town
Where we gonna break down next, Kev?
I bet this world's smaller than we think.
Let's live on the run.
Don't you wanna break down? Oh yeah
Yeah I wanna break down, oh yeah
Don't you wanna break down?
Yeah
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Ol' 'Nolia
03:29
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Of course they’re acting like they know ya
They know ya from back in the day
When you were rolling downhill like a boulder
Rockin every night every day
From Framingham down to Florida
From Middletown to Michigan lakes
Sing a song for the side stage baby
Load the gear with no guarantees
I just wanna dance off the bad bad feelings
Till the cows come home to me
We all need a reason for living
Mine is a song or a record that I can complete
The truth is electric for me
Just turn me up if you wanna see
I’m not a fan of that take let’s try it again with feeling
Oh lookie here
A diamond in the rough
We can clean it up
This is it for us
Let’s call up the label and tell em the future is bright
So bright
There’s not much you can say or do
To change how you’re living overnight
Just sing a song that’s 100 proof
Get everyone wasted
Bring the band back in alright
I guess you could say I’ve changed or something
I’d rather sing you a song of praise than of nothing
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Almost There
03:05
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No feeling to the touch
Who's tied one off who's had enough?
You go down and always out
Do you listen when they shout
that you're almost there?
It's all about the rush
But no one else is having fun
So climb down into your well
they don't speak but you can tell
when they've had enough
Well now you and I and our disappointing lives
playing the same side stage in the same five states
Now look
Nobody speak
Nobody feel nothing
Try to jump but not to fall
Do you listen when they call
that you're almost there?
Now look
Nobody speak
Nobody feel nothing
Try to jump but not to fall
Do you listen when they call?
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Capetown
04:37
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Mike and Taylor, katanas drawn
It ain’t a party till you bloody the lawn
Blunt objects theater
Our porch in the spring
These are just some of my favorite things
A birthday party for Jelly Roll
Letting some lover pierce my hull
I could’ve spent my life in bed
The laundry running by my head
A baphomet mask a burnt cardboard
Seen so much Tom ass that my eyes are sore
The tub of fake wine and the front yard stone
God bless the strangeness for which we’re known
And in that strangeness we’ve built our home
And I can’t live there anymore
Some of the best years of my life were spent there with people I adore
But I can’t live there anymore
Gabe is sleeping on the bathroom floor
We’ll rise tomorrow and drink some more
I’m three years sober but I miss those days
Laughing off hangovers
Smokin all day
James is Russian orthodox
The blood is gushing from his hand as he talks and talks and talks
No one listens
No one ever does
Even if we’ve been him
Swiggin from a gallon jug
Who’d he come with
Why’s he here
I don’t wanna be dramatic
But he’s ruining new years
Had to move out
Cut and run
Too many memories
Too much fun
I need a slow down
And a helping hand
To cork that bottle
And save the band
It’s good to be here
(Even if it’s been a chore)
It took a little time
But I think I found what I’m looking for
I won’t live there anymore
Some of the best years of my life were spent there with people I adore
I can’t live there anymore
My heart rate stuck redlining
Never certain, never sure
I won’t live there anymore
I won’t live there anymore
I won’t live there anymore
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Been in the car for three days
Feel a little bit run down
The band is relieved in a smoky way
Hauling ass homeward bound
We enter the constitution state
Comforted by common sounds
Of interstate traffic
The backseat is cracking
We’re getting hysterical
A few weeks a year we escape on the pilgrimage to Anyplace
Where we can make a buck and some change
Laugh all of the ghosts away
Thank God everywhere that we go we’re haunted by something intangible
To keep the Trooth alight
It keeps us rockin every night
It may sound a little trite
But the struggle makes the music come alive
Autumn breezes, crummy beaches, Aetna co-pay dues
How I love you, Nutmeg state
I can’t complain too much
It’s my home
My crutch
No matter what I do, I’ll come back to you
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You got troubles?
Been wronged?
Turn the amp up to 10
Write a rock n roll song
No heartache’s outlasted
By the break up of the tubes
Play a blue riff with attitude
Put a crash on the 1 and a tantrum on the 2
Then pick up your grievance
Jam it into the refrain
Hit the right notes you might just ease the pain
Grab a deep cut
And cut loose
Get the band plugged in
I need electric truth
“How’s it goin with the band?”
“Are you making money?”
Everything is going great but
no
“How much time you gonna waste?”
I’ve got all day
To live in these lonely tunes
Tell us: can we rock n roll with you?
Whatever it begets is cool
long as it’s blue and loud and
long as we’re hanging out with you
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I'll Give You Three
02:58
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Subtract the Meaning
01:53
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Here I go out sometimes
passing on by
on my way into town
A drive by
There's the turf
that I patched
Flowers in bloom
On the fifth of July
I
Know that you weighed just what Mom would have thought
How kids might have saw
that pain that you once endured
expelled and shot into the sun
Oh I recall a fine man
more brave than I
Try you might to subtract
the meaning
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Queen Moo (the song)
03:00
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Remember the first day I saw your face
Shoulder length curls and a coat with an old military vibe
Didn’t take long to fall into place
Knew it was you when you said something about the long drive
In just a matter of days the songs will all come running along
Wanna be your man
Write a few songs and hand off tapes
Then soon we’re scamming some girls for a ride down to Naugatuck
Start some bands, leave some bands
Long as it’s you by my side, take this world for a ride
Hey J-Man
Wherever you are I wanna be there
More than a friendship
Love is a language we speak fluently
You and me
Making a record
Vibing out strangers
Sleeping in a van
That’s big and green
This is a bridge that’s about Nick
He gives us a ride
Keeps us in time through all of it
More than a friendship
Love is a language we speak fluently
You and me
Making a record
Vibing out strangers
Sleeping in a van
The Odyssey
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Big Man
02:32
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I turn up the Joao
Take another look at the ground
No one wants to feel me right now
Roundabout I convey a concept out loud
Gone on too long but finish anyway
Stuck outside the brutalist post office down the street
Shuffle on, big man
Where else do you have to be?
Take your bicycle, wax rain coat, dwindling memory
On your boring morning routine
The world is yours
No back-in-my-days
You know that you are welcome here
Everyone's welcome here
Remember when you were young
And you wrote a song
About your tepid future?
What good did that do you?
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