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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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baskin in the loud humans on the porch
jackie says the crowd is pixilated cream
see it come and feel it arriving like a ball
wacking off the proud peeling on the wall
round & around
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strange experiences
stranger residences
take your vitamins and shake them in a tin
and got a little child inside a shining tide
another rhyming guide
to what is
to wet arms and scars the light will prevail
well i've been out here maybe never goin away
that's what I say
I'm out watching the waves
that's what I say
you know it
I'm not goin away
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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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my god don't look
he's got a reaction time like a boy who doesn't keep up lists
or resist in your womb or snarling mind so revise this piece of joy
solving the trick takes a mind that wonders why
oh why i ask the question of
i take a lick hanging on to my old mind
cuz it would hardly harm me
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go tell it on the mountain the angry baldwin he's like a freight train - eyeless
go yell it on the mountain to hell with thousands of pale and patient irish
low beads and carbon meat stains fighting with the june rain for a book of perfect quiet
those streets agree with seat belts chiming in the church bells on a sunday easter island
i think god is on the mountain telling thousands that proof of him is silence
thank god he's on the mountain telling thousands that proof of him is silence
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why don't you make up your mind
cuz i feel like makin love
sometimes i feel like makin love
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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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in the rain or shine on your new shoes
try on your new shoes spill the day on your face
show me the place where the amber girls pour beer
and i got a lot of it and a lot of kids waiting for paradise or something nice or twice as nice as beer or here
so come on and show me santa claus or kitten paws in the snow
or where you go where you're not with me
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pick out this place
i see you're peeking at tall oceans of sky
seek out of the way
i got you leavin and coming around
with a mic for the day
wracking around the wreck you call your living
lost oceans of wine
ha i could confuse running in your ocean with
lost oceans of brine
looked how out and bowed out the living room
called even in mind
pick up all the pieces of living room
corrode me in time
with a mic for the day
and life in the way
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i read it i get it
you're on him selected
i'm honest depressing & in league with all 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
if i knew why i'd be an astronaut
should see us tattered on the floor
know i got another phone
reach down on me
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summer's calling minions out to the park
summer's built a little town in my heart
some have got a sickle shine in their minds and a reaper running behind
some have got a million some are lying
a locker in the middle part of my heart
talking through the simple cause from the start
i like it getting syrupy sticky missus and mickey's
and a box of wine
if all is getting white than i can tell i'm back in my old cell
miles of hell
running back to my old cell
working while we whittle lines in our time
coughing up the riddles winding alive
someone's got a little _____ and i'll show just why they've been waiting
some have got a million some are alive
and i'm starting back to my old cell
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my god don't look
he's got a reaction time like a boy who doesn't keep up lists
or resist in your womb or snarling mind so revise this piece of joy
solving the trick takes a mind that wonders why
oh why i ask the question of
i take a lick hanging on to my old mind
cuz it would hardly harm me
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i lucked out i make mistakes i play to win the game
and it bleeds my heart to know you look out for me
i got lost and lost a couple years along the way babe
and it pains my pride to say don't laugh at me
oh to be so young
call it like it is
sore back and mind i know you look out for me
oh it need be sung
i dropped out and down and in
according to whim
and it makes it hard to ask you hang out with me
i got metal it lasted so long under the days
now i aim to say: don't laugh at me
oh to be so young
call it like it is
sore back and mind i know you look out for me
oh it need be sung
that we got the same things that we got same feet
don't laugh at me
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grow some woes at the show when i'm out with the vine
while Gord says superfarmer's bent on the cover of TIME
shake me awake by the lake and i'll steal it from here
a lung full of butter and your mother and your bread disappear
yankee snooze and the blues and a bottle of wine
til next year you're hoping to find anywhere else
count these pills in the till til they're stuck in mind
the sign of the nighttime shines thought the white of your eyes
what are your eyes?
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released October 19, 2010