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NOT ANOTHER
03:18
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write what you know
that's what they say
but when it comes to writing me
it doesn't really work that way
i'm never sure just where to start
always shooting from the hip
but never through the heart
I have known joy
i have known doubt
i have known many kinds of love
and I have gone without
and when I find I'm on the brink
of saying how I really feel
I end up saying what I think
but we don't need another love song
so I'm not gonna make it
we don't need another heartfelt serenade
I can feel it but I just won't fake it
we don't need another love song
broken hearts and relationships
we don't need to hear about your ups and downs
when the world is going to bits
please don't be discouraged
I'm merely a tourist
I wouldn't know a story if it hit me in the face
so you can skip to the chorus
you can keep all your ballads
belt them out in the shower
I keep my love between me and my love
and hey - that's what gives it its power
but we don't need another love song
so I'm not gonna make it
we don't need another heartfelt serenade
I can feel it but I just won't fake it
we don't need another love song
broken hearts and relationships
we don't need to hear about your ups and downs
when the world is going to bits
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HOLD ON TO EVERYTHING
03:37
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hey - it's never too late
to shed a little weight
to put a new spring
back into your gait
gain a new strength
add a little length
and loosen some restraints
ooh if your heart's about to burst
it might not be the worst
if wasting all your time
is what puts you in a hearse
so filter out the sounds
that weigh your mojo down
then breathing in and out won't feel like a curse
lately I've been holding onto everything
don't you flog a dying horse
or poke its open sores
treat it to a four course meal then
offer it some more
then watch it come alive
big and getting bigger
full to the brim with vim and vigour
lately I've been holding onto everything
I've been mining
all my crying
but I'm not dying
anytime soon
I've been sifting
thoughts are shifting
might be lifting
out of this gloom
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RODEO
03:44
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it was the longest of cons
somehow it's still going on
but it's so hard to see straight
when your pupils dilate
at the sight of it
ooh the miracle cure
ooh the water so pure
see your fortunes explode
just enter the code
I don't wanna go where the winners are losers
I don't wanna go there at all
walking on a tightrope of cons and connections
bros lining up for the fall
but then it all disappeared
for paupers and for emirs
nobody knows where it went
because how can you spend
what was never there
ooh the miracle cure
ooh the water so pure
ooh nefarious trends
how did you think it would end
I don't wanna go where the winners are losers
I don't wanna go there at all
walking on a tightrope of cons and connections
bros lining up for the fall
quarterback comedian actors
armchair financial advisors
douchebags and walking disasters
lining up for the fall
I'm gonna get me to the rodeo
let all the bulls out of their pens
block all the exits
and send them into the crowd
give 'em a taste of sweet revenge
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UNLIFE PRESERVER
03:17
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so hip so rude
give good attitude
real work for suckers
let ‘em all quake
in the wake of your hip huggers
(those lucky fuckers)
everybody’s tuning in
to the smug mug
in perpetual ruin
frozen tableau
hemorrhoid pillow
beautiful now frozen forever
frozen in time unlife preserver
fill every seam year after year
somewhere between
a pout and a sneer
can’t sing can’t dance
can’t paint a fucking fence
what do you do
to make them follow you
(what do you do)
can’t lift a brow
can’t smile can’t frown
foreskin fibroblasts
how long can this last
sleepwalking through
all time and space
when you awake
you’ll be afraid of your own face
beautiful now frozen forever
frozen in time unlife preserver
fill every seam year after year
somewhere between
a pout and a sneer
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TINHORN
02:56
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I came to this party as a dilettante
they gave me a table at their restaurant
I said a couple things that gave them pause
and now I can say whatever I want
a handful of hangers-on and confidantes
I rouse all the rabble while I stir the pot
I rise above the chattle and above the law
taking them for everything they've got
it doesn't matter just what I say
as long as somebody hears it
it doesn't matter just what I say
as long as somebody fears it
it can be about anything
as long as somebody believes it
I can sell them anything
as long as they think that they need it
I could be a judge high on his perch
I could be the minister in your church
I could be giving you a cavity search
but I'm always gonna leave you in the lurch
you didn't see it coming 'til it's too late
you didn't check the waybill before you opened the crate
and now every thought I have seems to penetrate
into your fucking mind - and now you're mine
mine - oh my
it doesn't matter just what I say
as long as somebody hears it
it doesn't matter just what I say
as long as somebody fears it
it can be about anything
as long as somebody believes it
I can sell them anything
as long as they think that they need it
once I fail I'm vilified
only then will you care I wasn't qualified
reviled by all on every side
with issues that'll never be rectified
well good fuckin' luck sorting out your lives
good fuckin' luck without me at your side
good fuckin' luck once you've got me hog-tied
with no one else
to save your shrivelled hides
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DRONE
05:34
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alone - unafraid
flying straight and true
release - detonate
as it is meant to do
and on and on
we drone
no human hand
ever takes control
a home decimated
never part of the toll
and on and on
to the untrained eye
a speck on the horizon
then the silent flight
takes the ground below
hard to avoid
what you can't detect
hard to define
moral deficit
and on and on we drone
in the name of god
in the name of freedom
wipe it all away
to the untrained eye
a speck on the horizon
then the silent flight
takes the ground below
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Jon Epworth
i read books and walk/bike around and then sometimes a song happens
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