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"Counting the Days" (MP3)
Counting the days (Yeah)
Until some feral cat screams my name
Counting the days (Yeah)
Until some freedom can scream my name
"Crown"
Well, I hope I'm not lost, but I think that hope is a desperate thing.
Well, I hope I'm not lost, but I think that hope is now distracting.
"Crown"
Who's gonna wear my crown?
Who's gonna wear my crown?
I don't know. I just might allow.
Who's gonna wear my crown?
Who's gonna wear my crown?
I don't know. I just might alone.
Ed Roland has a really weird way of pronouncing "alone" in the chorus, like "uaaaalooowwwn".
I'm sorry, but the volleyball's all mine.
I'm sorry, but the folly was all mine.
Boris Yeltsin cannot see
Ambiance and vanity
Burn yo' head now baby and stick me out.
Turn yo' head now baby just spit me out.
Dance in the walls and dance in the streets
December promise you gave unto me
December prom, and she came unto me.
December promise she gave unto me.
December wall as she prayed unto me
December woods was a treachery
December clouds now I cry bury me
December songs no longer I see
December promise you gave unto me
December whispers of treachery
December clouds are now covering me
December songs no longer I sing
December whispers of tragedy
December whispers of treachery
Don't dream about,
Don't think about it,
Turn your head, now, baby,
Just spin me around
Don't scream about,
Don't think aloud,
Turn your head, now, baby,
Just spit me out
Don't speak about
Don't speak of doubt
Don't speak of towns
Don't speak of doubt
Don't think about drying your head now baby just get me out
Don't think aloud. Turn your head now baby just spit me out.
Don't think about
Don't speak of doubt
Don't throw away your base at me
Don't throw away your basic needs
Don't throw away your blessed needs
Don't throw away your basic needs
Don't throw away your vest at me.
Don't throw away your basic needs.
Help me up to vanity
Ambiance and vanity
Help me, it's a manatee
Ambiance and vanity
How dangerous do you think I am?
Contagious as you think I am.
I just took my son on a trip to Maine.
Just tilt the sun toward a new domain.
I'm your red dog baby just spit me out
Turn your head now baby just spit me out
Just took my son on a trip to Maine
You cab run him over again
Just tilt my sun towards your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.
Just took my son on a trip to Maine.
Your cat runneth over again.
Just tilt my sun toward your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.
Just took my son on a trip to Maine.
Your cup runneth over again.
Just tilt my sun towards your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.
Just took my son on a trip to Maine.
Just tilt my sun towards your domain.
Just took my son some to a trip domain
or
Just took my son some cryptogram
Just tilt your son toward your domain.
Just took my son to a drug domain
Just tilt your sun towards your domain
Just took my son to a drugged up man.
Just tilt your sun towards your domain.
Just took my son to a trip to Maine, your cat running from her again
Just tilt your sun towards my domain, your cup runneth over again
Just took my son to a trip to Maine.
Just tilt the sun toward a new domain.
Just took my son to a trip to Maine
Just tilt your sun towards your domain
Just took my son to a tripped-up man
Just tilt my sun towards your domain
Pea's porridge hot, pea's porridge cold
Pea's porridge in the pot, nine days old
December promise you gave unto me
December whispers of treachery
Pigs in the barn, and pigs in the mud
December promise you gave unto me
These are the songs I no longer sing
December Songs I no longer sing
Try my hand and baby, just let me out.
Turn your head now baby, just spit me out.
Turn your head now baby just say 'meow!'
Turn your head now baby just spit me out
Turn your head now, baby
Just let me out.
Turn your head now, baby
Just spit me out.
Turn your head, my baby just flipped me off!
Turn your head now, baby just spit me out.
Why drink the water from my veins
Why drink the water from my hand
Your cat runnin' from her again.
Your cup runneth over again.
It used to be all I want
Was tuna, but now I'm all up for steak
It used to be all I'd want
To learn was wisdom, trust and truth
"Gel"
(Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)
(Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh)
"Gel"
Speak to me and talk to Cher
Speak to me in tongues and share
I'm detained by the silence that you created by noise.
I entertain by the silence that you created by noise.
"Heaven's Already Here" (MP3)
I won't give to new morning
I won't yield to new warnings
"Heaven's Already Here" (MP3)
Woke up to Monday morning
Woke up to a new morning
"Heaven's Already Here" (MP3)
You could bring me heaven
Who's gonna bring me heaven
"Heavy"
It breaks it down
It brings me down
"Heavy"
Lick balls on me, lick balls on me!
It falls on me. It falls on me.
"Needs"
Now I slumber to awaken my days.
I find convenience in this savior I save.
Am I a prison?
Am I a source of bad news?
Now I slumber to awaken my daze.
I find convenience in this savior I save.
Am I a prison?
Am I a source of dire news?
"Run"
And I'll go to Norway to run?
Have I got a long way to run?
"Run"
I'm going to find good memories
To waken some old policy.
I'm going to buy back memories
To awaken some old qualities.
"Run"
I'm gonna fight back mammories
To weaken some old quality.
I'm going to buy back memories
To awaken some old qualities.
"Run"
Is there a cure of mono?
Is there a cure among us?
"Run"
Is there a killer among us?
Is there a cure among us?
"Run"
Marty Stein's contagious
Are these times contagious
"Run"
We've all got a long way to run.
Have I got a long way to run?
"She Said"
Like shrimp fried wild rice
Life's rivers shall rise.
"She Said"
Like shrimp on shallow rice
Life's rivers shall rise
"She Said"
Like shrimp, I shall rise
Life's rivers shall rise
"She Said"
Will you come to bed and forgive me?
Will you comfort and forgive me?
Baby, let your light shine down.
Heaven, let your light shine down.
Come on and let it shine.
I'm gonna let it shine.
Come on and s**te!
Come on and shine!
Grandma's little light gonna shine on me.
Heaven's little light gonna shine on me.
Had to let ya let ya know.
Heaven let your light shine down.
Halo let your light shine down
or
Angel let your light shine down
Heaven let your light shine down
Haven’t let your light shine down
Heaven let your light shine down
Havin' legislation, yeah!
Heaven, let your light shine down.
Having a 'Leger-lection now'.
Heaven, let your light shine down.
Helen Keller's lights shine bad.
Heaven, let your light shine down.
Helen Keller’s lights shine bad.
Heaven, let your light shine down.
Helen let your lampshade down
Heaven let your light shine down.
Hitler, let your light shine down.
or
Stalin, let your light shine down.
Heaven, let your light shine down.
I’m gonna weigh Earl. Weigh Earl.
Hey yeah. Hey yeah.
Kevin, let your light shine down.
Heaven let your light shine down.
Lemon lem yer lem jem dem
Heaven let your light shine down
Livin' in the light-shot top
or
Never let your light shine down
Heaven let your light shine down
Never liked the light showdown.
Heaven let your light shine down.
Nothin' like your lights shot down.
Heaven, let your light shine down.
Teach me how to stink and teach me how to share
Teach me how to speak and teach me how to share
Tell him that you like John Doe
Heaven let your light shine down
Tell him that you like Shawn Brown
Heaven let your light shine down
Tell me, will love beat it?
Tell me, will love be there?
Tell them that you like Shawn Doe
Heaven let your light shine down
Tell them that you like shan-dam.
Heaven, let your light shine down.
Whoa! Haven't let your light shined out.
Woah, Heaven, let your light shine down.
You haven't let your light shined out
Heaven let your light shine down
Simple little dain-dee-hum-dum
Simple little dain-dee-rain
Simple little thing to run to
Simple littlg thing to hide
With a simple little thing to push your feet now
With a simple little thing to shove your feet now
With a simple little thing to touch your feet now
With a simple little thing to love your feet now
Not a simple little thing to push on me now
Not a simple little thing to shove on me now
Not a simple little thing to touch on me now
Not a simple little thing to love on me now
"Slow"
Glimpses of beef-butchery, all that you never could show.
Glimpses of peace portray all that you never could show.
"Smashing Young Man" (MP3)
But I'm so impressed
With the kindness,
one two one two two
But I'm so impressed
With the kindness
in your attitude
"Smashing Young Man" (MP3)
Flashing red lights
Smashing young man
"Smashing Young Man" (MP3)
You're wearing nothing, you smashing young man.
You're wearing thin, you smashing young man.
'Cause it's the one-eyed boy, and it's the one-eyed girl.
'Cause it's the world I know, yeah it's the world I know.
'Cause, it's the world I have found
The world I have found
'Cause, it's the world I know
Yeah it's the world I know
'cause it's one-eyed Gnome
'cause it's the world I know
'cause it's the one I love
'cause it's the world I know
'cause it's the road I go
'cause it's the world I know
'cause it's the woman I know
'cause it's the world I know
'cause it's the woman I love
'cause it's the world I know
'cause it's the world of gnomes
'cause it's the world I know
All the words that I've been reading,
Now I've started to be out to leading
Enter one.
All the words that I've been reading,
Have now started the act of bleeding,
Into one.
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
'Cause if the world had won
What if the world had won?
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
'Cause it's the world I know
It's the world I know.
As the tears for all to tell.
As the tears roll down.
Cuz it's the world I love
Cause it's the world I know
Has the sweet greens grown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
How's the sweepings blow?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
I dream myself a newfound deity.
Say hello to New York City and I don't know what.
I drink myself of newfound pity.
Sittin' alone in New York City and I don't know why.
I dream myself a nude down titty
I drink myself of newfound pity
I just got to the ocean.
And I step to the edge.
So I walk upon time
And I step to the edge.
So I walk upon high
And I step to the edge.
So I'm walking the line
And I step to the edge.
So I walk upon high
And I step to the edge.
To see my world collide
To see my world below
Watch out for fleas then (watch out for fleas) . .
I don't believe in (I dont believe) . . .
Watch out for leaves
Searching for the creature
Watch out for leaves in you.
Watch out for leaves
Scouring the horizon
Watch out for leaves in you.
I don't believe in
The sorcerers or the preachers
I just believe in you.
I don't believe in
The scholars or the wisemen.
I just believe in you.
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
Find yourself another soul to bore
Find yourself another soul to hold
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
Give me a woman
Give me a moment
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
Pain is a poison on my chest
Pain is a poison I digest
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
To wear the rebel clothes
To where the river flows
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
Walk the cragged mire journey, I must go.
Off upon my journey, I must go.
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
Walk upon my Johnny Imus flow
Off upon my journey I must go
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
Walk upon my Johnny, I must go
Off upon my journey I must go
"Where The River Flows" (MP3)
Whoever wear the clothes
To where the river flows
"Where the River Flows" (MP3)
By yourself you’re…
Buy yourself a…
Forgive me dear for my missed erection.
Forgive me dear for my misdirection.
I fall face to face with nice guys you ignored.
I fall face to face with my scars you've ignored.