1. |
Surfin Yucatan
03:28
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Turn off your inhibitions
go for the ride
Direct me where
where does it feel good
Don't believe everything you see on TV
(eyes closed verbal instructions)
Turn off your inhibitions
go for the ride
(direct me where
where does it feel good?)
Roy Lichtenstein
Yellow gelatin sky
The moon I thought I saw
was Mars filling my
(eye) I'm surfin Yucatan
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2. |
Filling the Void
04:11
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How many years
how many rings did it take
the great tree to stand so tall?
Laying there 'cross the yard
after withstanding many storms
Ice, droughts, wind, insects
Cradling birds in its multiple limbs
It wasn't even a strong storm
that took the weary tree down
Sunlight lingers on a once
shady garden filling the void
Many years beyond
Times, times, times looking up, looking up
'til they found, 'til they found
God, God
was a manifestation
of man
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3. |
Tom's Car
01:15
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Remember driving your car
Long Beach Road, Oceanside-walk girls
The epitome of not scoring
Didn't expect to get laid
But didn't expect to be so ignored
Hollywood overplayed our expectations
You summed it up in one line
delivered for no reply
"Hey.....Remember dat!"
Concluded our high school years
Summer cruising in Tom's car
"Hey..... Remember dat!"
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4. |
Sunlight Satellite
03:32
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Bring your face into the sunlight
Come out from where ever you've been
It's not like you left us an option
Look up for your satellite snapshot
Living ain't easy
for anybody alive
It's better to shit in a porcelain commode
than to shit by a cave in the mountain side
You don't have to tell me again
I've heard it three times tonight
You don't have to tell me again
I get it, I get it alright
That image again and again
Do you mean it to incite?
That image again and again
I know you mean it to incite
Stand in the shade
Sit in the shade
Sin in the shade
Sun in the shade
Stand in the shade
Stand in the shade
Sin in the shade
Sin in the shade
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5. |
The Gray of Night
03:59
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Christmas tree is charcoal gray
Glass of coke is also charcoal gray
Green plants vibrant by day
Night has rendered you gray
The gray, the gray of night
Bill's red guitar with rosewood neck
Marker dots every other fret
Bill's red guitar with rosewood neck
Is gray, the gray of night
When the light of day is too bright
When the sound around too loud
The gray, gray of night
It takes the edge off
It takes the edge off
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6. |
Oh My Liddie
04:16
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Last night in my dream the horse bit my fingers
His head reached impossibly far....
Oh my Liddie such energy
Pulling a leash like a fish from the sea
Struggling to get free
My oniferous Liddie lived by a nose
Help me find it
Help me find it
Help me find it
Help me find it
The horse bit my fingers last night in my dreams
His head reached impossibly far
Tried to pull away, could feel his teeth scrape
But my fingers will still play guitar
But my fingers will still play guitar
But my fingers will still play guitar
But my fingers will still play guitar
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Show Them (Mark Twain)
03:28
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They can take your life, nothing more
You can, can rest assured
Hemingway said
That American literature
didn't begin
until Mark Twain wrote "Huckleberry Finn"
Where to begin?
What struck me most
was the humanity
of helping a man escape
slavery
The slave was a man
with a family
Slave was a man with a family
Show them (Mark Twain)
Show them (Mark Twain)
Show them (Mark Twain)
Show them (Mark Twain)
They can take your life, nothing more
You can, can rest assured
Showed them all to see
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Fluid
01:59
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The tears they fall like sweet sweet rain
They pour like blood from an open vein
And every time we re-occur it
ends in pain
Tomorrow beckons with broken hands
Someone dying tells you that you're a man
Eat your dinner then make amends
Cuz you know that fluid is the weight of sin
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9. |
Silver Metallic Beetle
04:08
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Think in retrospect
Jump to tomorrow
Now look back, the kid's grown up
Do you know what he's at?
It's just a nightmare
Shake it off
The kid's a kid
Kids don't care what it costs
It's economic
Tentacles Onomatopoeia
Jesus was an Arab
Blasphemy
Continue, time's a commodity
Cuz we are living with
Muhammad in 900 A.D.
Absence of humor
Silver metallic beetle
Silver metallic beetle
Silver metallic beetle
Silver metallic beetle
Still on the gravel camouflaged
Still on the gravel camouflaged
Still on the gravel camouflaged
Still on the gravel camouflaged
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Ri'h New Hampshire
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