1. |
As Near As Now
02:09
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take that prize just like the walls you climbed
hard brick and power softly growing old and growing old
it's like when shining night
gives way without a fight
gives way to golden light morn
take that size
you've got to ring your eyes
you got to read what's softly growing old if i've been told
it's like a supermarket
grab your car and park it
in your lemon sock that you could hold
my waste's been
waiting
takin all that's stopped you
caught you in town
when you're as near as now
she may be slow
she might deny
we'll try
oh you got a loan a major loan
i got to read my rights beyond the power lines and seek what's missing
nowhere times will keep you filled with lies
and makin every ties
with those you know
they got you when they told you
in the room they sold you
ask for more
when you're had
waiting
takin all that's stopped you
caught you in town
when you're as near as now
she may be slow
she might deny
it's why you stand that sound: as near as now
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2. |
Under the Overpass
03:11
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i read it i get it
you're on him selected
you're honest depressing & in league with the weather
i tried it you got it
for always i need you to hold me
don't love just put up with my leave you aloneness
i need to be free to write new tunes about you
i miss you
you miss me
we don't have a family so leave me
and if it's natural
screaming at me
oh if it's actually gone
wouldn't it feel natural
with nothing to pour away?
and what could tell
what could tell you about my heart?
if better days will want you here
to get it and hold me and hold me
with a golden yell
gold and singing through the years
better days will have you here
to keep you and hold you and hold me
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3. |
Chinese Highway
02:47
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there's a point
point to it all
you think about me
gotta reach you
gotta seek the tall glass in the night
sip red wine and kill time and shiver mine away
stats and prizes and big times we're ridin away
i've been on it
lookin back
i kinda like it so whiny excited
and if i crawl through the lines of this song
will you still think i'm adequate?
cuz your voice is coasting
so long
skip that town a big crown and middle it away
hit that sound a big crowd and fiddle all day
i've been honest
looking back
i kinda like it so whiny excited
she says "after all we never know" and fills her head with rock & roll
fills her pockets on the floor and fixes all her radios
never could get better only 17 and letting go
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4. |
Ever Say Ever
01:54
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Can't do it forever can't move alone got a seatbelt in summer got a statue of stone that's how I knew you need my wall
Don't ever say ever don't come undone got enough done letters one love for love
gotta see you
i need all i see a neon light
i want you to waste my time
Don't rhyme for rhymes Better days will haunt you I got a couple more it's why I knew you I know I want you to waste my time
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5. |
Lost Polaroids
03:11
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you said my eyes are the eyes of the world in my eyes
i said to meet you
said gimme sweater september is better when i...
you gotta lotta what hurts you inside on the outside
said nothing's better than sound and december when i...
don't stay in tonight
saddle up in the morning
and i could sleep all night alive in your eyes
when memory's bursting alive in your mind you tell me 'i gotta see you'
a lotta summers still sway in the past
you'll lose my picture in time but it's fine
cuz your eyes are the eyes of the world in your eyes
don't stay in tonight
saddle up in the morning
and i could sleep all night alive in your eyes
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6. |
Come Back 2 Me
02:27
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another wallet (which memory holds)
you can't not ride above it
a slut can grow up and show what she's really made of
if ever I'm told you gotta lotta
you gotta follow that around
and memory holds
once a winter meats and Richter
wiser's weed and pick your father's nose
lies and beats and mirth and magic
callin up to see your daughter oh
mind on me and me I know
wherever you go wherever you go wherever you go
come back 2 me
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7. |
Shop Around
01:42
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Ryan: "i can't prolly get you a crash, man."
I've been laughing all my life driving all my nights I've been trying out the lights I shop around I've been banking getting high like the keys to some sunshine I got a piece of summertime I shop around I've been riding all the while driving all the miles I glide across the aisles I shop around said you better shop around
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8. |
Mazes
01:15
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will you race with me to the broken pay phones? I've been patient with the pace of my dreams will you wait for me in the halls and basements? I've been patient
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9. |
Useless Spirits
02:06
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i go to bed when i get up and i got a line to cross my mind i got a lotta needless nada i got a hand to tell the time i put it down to relative age i put it down to upset lives i got a girl to keep me up now i saw the world to change my mind i think of leaving her with parents i think of drinking all the time i put it down to threatening age i put it down to silly lives
don't beat the road don't beat the time na na na na help me out now
i got a lotta mouthless merit i got a way to be inside i never thought of leaving love out i never caught a sleepy smile i gotta see what doing's done me i gotta need to feel my prime
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10. |
Hot Dog Man
01:41
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hot dog man feel the presence on command i know i never can deny take my hand we're going to the corner shopsy's stand oh it's a grill you can rely i know i never can deny ohohoh no man can meat gets branded if yer stranded alone on hockey nights you gotta make a plan to dine forget the footsteps that stalk you and talk of foreign tans oh it's a grill you can rely
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11. |
Miss Me Baby
02:03
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kiss me baby it's a quarter to eight i'm gettin ready for a friday night
goin steady it's a matter of taste so c'mon and kiss me hold me tight /all the time
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12. |
Money Matters
02:28
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i gotta get in a line
i gotta get it to go
i gotta stand thru the seasons
i'm comin up from below
there's something there that i need here
there's something i wanna show
it's not a call for the mall now
it's not a reason to loan
i got money on my mind
(to) be at something (ya) gotta make a-money
(to) be at something (that's) never gonna leave you behind
i never hear about patience
i never wait cuz it's slow
i want my fun and my money
i wanna get it to go
she's got me thinking of something
she's got my wine and my smokes
i never followed the fashions
i never got to the boat but i got money on my mind
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13. |
Fools Make the Rules
02:47
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we got bryans and ryans in line
there's a sarah and sandra
and i'm tired of whining "i'm behind on my courses of course."
cuz it's not for rebels
and fools make the rules
married to the moments of life
scared of what i'm missing
there's a desk across the lawn a lot of kids'll tell you
so the system can carry on
no it's not for rebels
fools make the rules
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14. |
Like A Lifetime
03:50
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you can take out all your dreaming you can take out all your feelings you can take out all the demons you can take out all the meaning tonight, a lifetime meaning slips down from the ceiling you can take out all the reasons you can't take out what i'm dreaming you can't take out what i'm feeling tonight, a lifetime
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15. |
Heart Still Sings
02:24
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i'd like to leave the city for a month of sundays burn the town where i was born gimme a light gimme a reason not to hide keep me in line keep me in sweaters warm inside i beat the quiet rythms of my heart it still sings ring the crowd ring the crowd and face the boards i sleep in private prisons the sky the size of christmas bleed the crown when i was bored
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16. |
My M.O.
01:09
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you'll know it when you get and you get it up high
taken with the pictures that you giggle at night
you wonder why i wonder and you wake up on time
to keep you in the kingdom that we huddle inside
that my uh my M.O.
well you're not the kind of person to be talkin 'bout Chist
you think I'm goin with you but you think about the light
you said you saw it in the morning and you saw it at night
I'm gonna die beside myself I'm gonna die alright
that's why uh why i'm old
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17. |
Oscillation Drills
02:03
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anything is watchful
anything is a drill
scaring up the pricing
like mike or little tyson
turn around sound out my waistline crimes still wait to take
all i found out is racetime love lights
i'm away from you tonight
know i got a clockful
carrying the rock roll
anything is awful when everything is marbles
in line guys ride south freight trains all night why? away from you
nice guys hung guys roll down tunes all pay it's alright
i sound out my waistline crimes still wait to take
all i found out is racetime love lights
i'm away from you tonight
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18. |
Hell Song
02:37
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the speaker in the house
is looking down my nose
i hear it when im out i watch it go
if yr ever riding low
i got a table of time to grab on
he speaks of love and nothing is forever i watch it go
i live at the bottom of hell
music
yeah i got music
i use it
don't wanna lose
the speaker in the shed
he's got the low down high
i knew it when he said "i feel it all my life"
music
yeah i got music
i use it
don't wanna lose
i'm outside
and i look upside
realize
i'll make it through
i live at the bottom of hell
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19. |
Only Laughter
01:11
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anytime is right to trip thru ladder rungs and halls
this time at night slips like dragon balls in river mouths
but this time sounds like laughter to me
well i beat that word around
we all feel like
we got a list that fills our lives
sound it out
it sounds like saturdays
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20. |
Never Heard Your Band
02:41
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the singer with raccoon eyes giving you the green light and telling you it's alright
i've had enough
the colour of the beer sign is giving me a real high i gotta get the scene right cuz i've had enough
and the boys on the stage will come off and they'll say "I've never heard your band. I've got tickets in my hand but I've never heard your band
the colour of the midnight keeping me so uptight sick of being under the light i've had enough
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21. |
Billions
03:56
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no no no no your boat's an illusion
nothing you want could improve them
nothing you own nothing now
go go go go away from the numbers
that keep you in rent keep you under the weight of the crowd
a race for the times out at the dump feeling tired
and nothing you and me found could we admire
well i mostly keep it a secret you owe me capable love and I know me
(I) follow the dimes with my eyes
and oh me don't take my hand I control me knowing that under is only a song and a raise for your life
roll roll roll roll away from the hunger that keeps you in bed keeps you under the gray of the clouds
and soul soul soul by the bowlful I love her but something I did makes me wonder if she's underground
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22. |
Grandpa Bizness
02:30
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people you know they like the sweetest things it's the life i know you are the brightest thing funny boys they like to kill your dreams in the nights of old everyone i know sez it's hard it's the kinda moan that kills your meat it's the sound i show it to the greater breeze funny girls they like to tell you things as they rock n roll it's the life i know it's so hard
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23. |
New Nouns
02:13
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they never got me down the spaces in the town that let me slip inside to hide and die a while and find things on the ground and stack them in a pile if i could hang around i'd show you where i lived once and take you to the places i've forgotten how to get you like i could when fall was still a noun
i never meant to mean a thing to you i got a feeling that you mean a thing to me so die right if i don't see you
heaviness arounds i'll take you where i lived once i'll take you to the places i've forgotten now and notice what we were where malls spring from the ground
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24. |
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i live my life for the light
i dont go out to the fights
i think it's a waste of time
and i need some time for the race
i need some time for you
i got a lot in store a lifetime more
i need some time for the race
i take a ride round the place
i live in my little place
and go away to find her in a locked dark place at night
i need some time for the race
i need some time for you
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25. |
Former Building
02:49
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feeling tired feelin fine
in my mind
i gotta know if i believe it
in my mind
for your life for your love
cuz i need it
i keep it tight
i keep it all in my head
i gotta know if i can reach it the right way
for tonight for what comes
will i see it?
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26. |
Welland Nights
01:38
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a stitch in time saves nine
we'll be gone when it's over
welland nights gotta go
bulge your eyes and go home
keep me in mind when I'm sober
friend to me in the summer
kitchen time when it's over
reach inside where the cold burns
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27. |
Barses Larded!
02:09
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stick around town and we'll figure it out and then will stick around town and we'll figure it out I got a bigger mind now and I'll figure it out you got a bigger mind too now figure it out
if I lost you (I'd) need to need you again
it's the murder event
it's the murder of love
stick around town and we'll figure it out and then will stick around town and we'll figure it out I got a bigger mind now and I'll figure it out you got a bigger mind too now figure it out
if I want to see through be through the end
it's the murder event
it's the murder of love
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28. |
Goin Outside
03:54
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i’ll be goin outside with her
advertise your delight in dirt
take it like a landslide of gold
everytime the right side of road
take it like a landslide of words
advertise the downside of a skirt
i’ll be going out to buy cologne
leave me where you left me at home
i know i’ll find myself alone
goin back to dig for bones
goin out to greet the lonely sound
out in town
don’t we waste it on the good times?
catch me on the landline inside
honest when i lost you i died
i’ll be goin out pines of home
step around the landmines and bones
i know i’ll find my way back home
goin back to dig for bones
goin back to greet the lonely sound
back in town
could we waste it on the porch light?
i’ll be going outside with her
advertise my delight in dirt
take it like a landslide of hurt
i’ll be goin down riding first
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29. |
Don't Hang Me
03:14
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i got a little less i know
don't hang me
i'm going with the rodeo
don't hang me
i'm hanging with the friends i know
don't hang me
air playing to the radio
do re mi
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30. |
Gotta Radio
02:00
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sometimes ya gotta radio
we'll find
no matter where it go
gotta figure it out
find the true face
we're fine
no matter where it go
king size in Ontario
sometimes ya gotta radio
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31. |
Chicken Bones
03:16
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it’s a chicken world
now that you feed it
all of it whirls
taking observed to see unknown
feed it the dirt
now that you need her all unearthed
like a birth
woke me in delight
when you need me I’ll be grown
something bleeds when I’m alone
in the blue night
when you need me I’ll be home
calling years across the phone
stuck in July
better a girl
now that you need it
give her a whirl
taking her world out where they go
give her the worm
taken what’s needed
show her concern
give it deserved
tell her it’s alright
when you need me I’ll be grown
I can feel it alone
holding her tight
with the pieces I don’t know
she can spin through the unknown
living daylight
what’s with the world?
Now that you need it
has unfurled
chicken girl showed you a green light
cover the curls
bury the feeling
of the world
coming concerned
shuddering delight
when you need me I’ll be grown
in a park under the dome
stuck in July
hack a hint of old cologne
in my basement with the bones
in the blue night
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32. |
Return If Smashed
02:06
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I got a right to hide
I got two lips and thighs
no matter where I am
no matter with what band
And this is what I’ll bring to you
cold connections with bold choices
no matter where I am
no matter with what band
I got a right to hide
I got two lips and thighs
no matter where I am
no matter with what band
And this is what I’ll bring to you
cold connections with bold choices
From morning to midnight
can’t control your life
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