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Julie's New Windowpane
04:20
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Julie’s got a brand new window pane
Hanging out with me at the end of the lane
And I got a brand new set of strings
A couple new songs I’ve been trying to sing
And she says, “Could you sing that song for me?
The only someone else wrote ‘If It Makes You Happy?’”
She says, “But if you’re too tired then it ain’t no thing.”
She says, “It ain’t no thing at all.”
And all my friends were talking about places they were staying
And I was in the kitchen when the band had started playing
I maybe should’ve listened to all that you were saying when you said it
Maybe nobody means to be a heavier stone
We just get all caught up in these weights of our own
And if I’d spent last time digging up crushed bones
Maybe I could belay it
But still you said, “Hey girlfriend, put your dancing boots on
We’ve got another five minutes before they shut it down
And if you ask the band real nice if they know our song maybe they could play it.”
That’s when the band started playing
Alright so Jim’s got the same bad habits as me
That’s how we all ended up here on Christmas Eve
He even introduces me to his family
And his kid says she’s gonna give a gift to me
So she gives me this crystal hanging from a string
To be honest I don’t really believe in that sort of thing
But I’m never as right as I’d like to be
No, sometimes I’m not write at all
So when she took that necklace and she placed it ‘round my collar
It was all that I could do not to lose my shit and holler
When really I know I should just say “Hey thanks for the offer”
I still have that necklace somewhere
That’s when you said “Hey girlfriend, don’t you know you’re not special
At least no more and no less than anyone else is anyone else is special
So stop trying to make yourself some kind of exception and maybe start living your life for once.”
So I went to to the gazebo for the last time that night
And I stayed up way too late and I almost missed my flight
It’s Nick says, “Don’t you know you can be just as strange as you like
But don’t be a stranger.”
No, I don’t want to be a stranger.
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2. |
Wet Dog
02:55
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wet dog
wet wet river
its sure been a long long winter
its sure been a long year
so meet me at the avenue
You'll walk with me, I'll walk with you
who is the third that walks with you?
that shines like a wide open sky.
like a wide open sky
wet dog
wet wet river
I know I'll always be a sinner
I know that I am what I am
so if you see old Mister Wallace
sayin' you're so great, and you're so boss
get yourself down off that cross, my eyes
you can't look me in the eyes
you can't look me in the eyes
wet dog
wet wet river
you can't make me eat my dinner
you can't make me do anything
so if you see my friend theophilus
heard he came right back, he's a bit pissed of
we got that portrait of him all wrong, not right
we did our best at the time
it was our best at the time
I was a sailor
and you were my captain
and you went down with the ship
and I am a failure
yeah I'm a proud failure
proud to fail at everything
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3. |
My Boy
02:56
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My boy is like fire
burning on his own
I want to be his desire
I want to be there when he comes home
And I never meant to love a man
I never mean to love no one
but then he pushed down on my hand
and he burned me like the sun
I was making noise in the backroom with that boy
and a whole lot of trouble on my mind
He might be the one, I don't think about it much
I really don't have the time
My boy is like water
flowing from the cup
I might ask for a bit longer
I might ask him to tie me up
and he might be the mystery
of the fruitless fig tree,
and I know he ain't no religion
but I still get down on my knees
I was making noise in the backroom with that boy
and a whole lot of trouble on my mind
He might be the one, I don't think about it much
I really don't have the time
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4. |
Someone Else's Eden
04:52
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In a past life we had all that we needed
that's not our paradise, that's someone else's eden
and i keep my hands tied to work on my breathing
i walk to the store, i walk home
now we're on guilford and east 23rd
i do not mean to argue but are you so sure?
between hell in my handbag and the gun in your purse
and always and everywhere the word
always and every the word
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i heard he was a sailor before he went gray
but the tides do not shine like they did in his day
and before there were mirrors a smooth glass display
in the water caught the look on his face
and he kept a guitar 'round for when the house croaked
and he'd sing all the old songs that his old friends wrote
he says "alright, maybe it's true and the center can't hold
what would it mean if we even could know?
what would it mean if we even could know?"
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and in a past life you had got the right treatment
that's not what it's like and this sure ain't no eden
still i marvel at the strength that you found in believing
that all that might rise might converge
now i still have dreams of a hospital room
where you're talking to me and i'm talking to you
and the whole thing's so lifelike it's hard to know what's true
i leave a note for myself in the morning
that's just something that i carve in the door
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5. |
Steamroller
02:33
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Steamroller steamroller
would you roll over me
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6. |
Down the Canal
01:38
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Pretty Ty, he says to me
that down here in DC
we only smoke these
it was PCP
but he did not tell me
i got lost on Potomac St.
in what he said to me
i'm going down
i'm going down
i'm going down down down to the canal.
so you can stop and stare
i don't really care
i'm not really there
just some bones in some clothes i wear
so when you stop and stare
i would shoot Voltaire
if i even cared
i'm going down
i'm going down
i'm going down down down to the canal.
what was that thing
what was that thing
that we used to have?
if i could remember
i'm singin', if only i could remember
i think i could get it back.
but i'm going down.
i'm going down.
i'm going down down to the canal.
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7. |
Song for O+J
05:02
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the weight it is staggering and the cost of the whole thing's astonishing
i've become a stranger who brings bad news to your family
and i know you're pissed off but you should probably know people care
you say, "i know that that's true but there's no one who can keep me anywhere."
the last time i saw you
you hit the trailway
the last time i saw you-oo-oo-oou
was the driveway
i saw you in the driveway
and it's ugly and repulsive. the disease is comes in a full swing
the glossier the eyes, the louder the songs that we used to sing
saying, "i know you're fucked off but you got options besides staying out there."
you say, "i know that that's true, good insurance it will take me anywhere."
the last time i saw you
you were getting in the backseat
after a hospital room where you were little more than a bedsheet
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