1. |
Checkin' Out
02:37
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Battling the rattling of your cage
Your skill set skews to staring off into space
And the rain sways to a grey place where it stays
Gotta get out, gotta check out, gotta break
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Hey buddy, Rome wasn’t built in a day
It was brick by brick, persevere, that’s the way
They get anxious when they’re all alone, people say
Need a remedy to that prophecy but they don’t pray
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
In the humming of an unknown frequency
In the milky eyes of a blind man falling to his knees
There's a sound out there ringing out just for me
That familiar, friendly, painful melody
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
Ohhhh checkin’ out
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2. |
Types of People
03:00
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Two people in the world
One who is decisive, divisive, derisive
Won't hesitate to make the call
And this person will go far
She will be the maker, mover, shaker
Back never up against the wall
As for the other, well, she will follow
Life will be more monophonic, dull
But don't feel sorry for the girl
She feels safe in the warmth at the back of the herd
I'm leaning to the former (if I get to make it on my own)
Wait a minute! There's a third one
Who's awake in the dark and feels nothing at all
I'm scared, unprepared
Every day becomes a waterfall
So turn your back
Get on the road
Put your head down and explode
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three people in the world
One who is unbalanced
Full of talent
One who is afraid to fall
And one of 'em who just don't care
She will never lighten, brighten, frighten
No, she don't feel much at all
I'm leaning to the latter (if I get to make it on my own)
Wait a minute! There's a fourth one
Who is full of a madness and malice for all
I'm scared, unprepared
Every day becomes a waterfall
So turn your back
Get on the road
Put your head down and explode
Bang! Bang! Bang!
I guess you got it all wrong
You played it too safe
But those days are gone
So turn your back
Get on the road
Put your head down and explode
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Looks like you were lost in thought
Got in your head and then you woke up
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3. |
Heat Wave
04:32
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Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
You can’t go on getting stuck in your head
You’re king of none
Yeah it sucks, you’re annoyed
You’re just a violin in a void
It’s a heat wave
Keep waving, rolling on
Through the heat wave
Keep waving, roll along, roll along
Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
Shoo shoo, shoo shoo
Your kingdom’s gone
It was built in the mud
It rained ’til dawn, but the rain brings you joy
You’re just a violin in a void
Keep on
Through the heat wave
Keep waving, rolling on
Through the heat wave
Keep waving, roll along
Like a heat wave
Keeps waving, rolls along
Through the heat wave
Keep waving, rolling on, rolling on
Through the heat wave
Keep waving, rolling on
Like a heat wave
Keeps waving, rolls along
Through the heat wave
Keep waving, roll along
Like a heat wave
Keeps waving, rolls along, roll along
Through the heat wave
Keep waving, roll along
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4. |
Beyond the Lightning
03:43
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Be my guide, the light is blinding
Take my sight, what are you finding
On your side, I’m always fighting
Open wide, beyond the lightning
Etiquette, protocol, and propriety
These are things you must uphold in totality
Oh but you’re all alone, in the woods, digging in a hole
Oh but you won’t do it all alone
No you, no you won’t, no, you won’t
Be my guide, the light is blinding
Take my sight, what are you finding
On your side, I’m always fighting
Open wide, beyond the lightning
Like an animal in the woods, you have found a way
But an animal in the woods has rules it must obey
Oh but you’re all alone, in the woods, digging in a hole
Oh but you won’t do it all alone
No you, no you won’t
Be my guide, the light is blinding
Take my sight, what are you finding
On your side, I’m always fighting
Open wide, beyond the lightning
Beyond the lightning
Beyond the lightning
Beyond the lightning
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5. |
Ring Finger
03:05
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She would think, she would hope
If she knocked on his door, he'd open up
And he would wink, she would smile
And they'd sit and talk for a little while
People will say the strangest things
To get you to put a diamond ring
Upon that little finger
Beside the one they use to tell you
They don't want no one
No one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
He'd drink tea and ask for more
And she'd think that his heart had been restored
But the truth would not come out
See, that boy didn't know what love was about
And people will say the strangest things
To get you to put a diamond ring
Upon that little finger
Beside the one they use to tell you
They don't want no one
No one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
People will say the strangest things
To get you to put a diamond ring
Upon that little finger
Beside the one they use to tell you
They don't want no one, no one
No one, no one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
No one, no one, no one
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6. |
Husha
04:31
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Lay low and they'll forget about it
You won't, I know
You got that sorta polka-dotted rhythm
How you come and you go
And if I could have your face in my two hands
I'd feel it out, figure it out
Why you would not recognize a love so obvious
It'd put a ring around your rosy, pocketful of posies
Husha, husha
I said husha, husha
Say it's so and don't forget about us
You won't, I know
Something in the way, you got a rhythm
How you come and you go
And if I could have your face in my two hands
I'd feel it out, figure it out
Why you would not recognize a love so obvious
It'd put a ring around your rosy, pocketful of posies
Husha, husha
I said husha, husha
I pine for you
Did you even know I was there last night?
I ordered two beers and drank 'em both
I can make it right
I know I text too much
And you don't ever write me back
You got a rhythm like a heart attack
I said husha, husha
I said husha, husha
I said husha, husha
I said husha, husha
Sometimes we all fall down
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7. |
Happy Parasites
03:18
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Snap! I got it
Everything in frame
It’s a little out of focus but hey, that’s okay
Everything’s a learning curve and I am on that bend
All my youthful problems are starting to rescind
Walk away from the light
Little happy parasite
Ah crap! I had it
Happy parasite
I wasn’t ready to go into the light
It’s bumper to bumper now and I am on the mend
Life as a highway is reaching an end
Walk away from the light
Little happy parasite
You are a little miracle, I looked it up today
A little miracle born 4.3 times every second, every day
And every day is a miracle
This is what they say
Life experience is subjective in every mind
And no two are the same
From personal hygiene to planets and stars
To mining for minerals, driving a car
To communication to making up games
To safe copulation to minimum wage
To burying bodies to coughing up blood
Artificial appendages, fires and floods
To radio, tv to censoring poems
To choke masturbation
To submission holds
To care about animals, care about boats
To navigate cities
To navigate love
Every day, anything, nothing, and everything
Every day, anything, nothing, and everything
Walk away from the light
Little happy parasite
Walk away from the light
Little happy parasite
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