1. |
Jesus From 12 to 6
03:54
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Jesus from 12 to 6
Drunken spiel from 6 to midnight
Out back now getting sick
Back for more in the wasted moonlight
I can see the shiny gleam
Of the sweat on your burning forehead
You tell me how i’m living the dream
I tell you buddy boy you’ve been misled
I gotta feeling there’s no more left
Feeling now it’s hanging on like the death
I gotta get away hey hey
I don’t trust a goddamned thing that i say
I really need to get away
Away from me, you,
we two
Jesus from 12 to 6
Beelzebubba from 6 to midnight
Whittling a snake from a stick
Dark circles in the brutal sunshine
The siren seers my ears
Conversations always cut my tongue down
What’s this shit about the gentle year
The time has come to finally put you down
I’ve got a feeling there’s no more left
Feeling that it’s hanging on like the death
I gotta get away hey hey
I don’t trust a goddamned thing that you say
I really need to get away
Away from me, you
We too
Jesus from 12 to 6
Jimmy Rodgers from 6 to midnight
Next up it’s a parlor trick
Dice games in the neon light
This is my one step program
I quit it all today
I start again tomorrow
Or the next time i get paid
I got a feeling that there’s no more left
Feeling now it’s hanging on like the death
I’ve got to get away hey hey
I don’t trust a goddamned thing that we say
Really need to get away
Away from me, you
We two
too
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2. |
Caught the Song
02:29
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Caught the song
So i held it strong
To right the wrong
Of some sadness
That had held me
Felt it right
So i held it tight
To calm the night
Of some violence that befell me
I don’t wanna love and leave you again
I don’t wanna love and leave a friend
I don’t wanna love and leave you again
I don’t wanna love and leave a friend
Now i’ve been down
Down and out before
And i’ve no doubt
I’ve got to be some more
I can’t afford
Can’t afford a therapist
Every single time
I had to get depressed
I don’t wanna love and leave you again
I don’t wanna love and leave a friend
I don’t wanna love and leave you again
I don’t wanna love and leave a friend
Chased a song
On up to Oregon
To right the wrong
Of some sadness
that had held me
Caught the tune
In your living room
It jumped out of the window
It hid behind the moon
It said i don’t wanna love and leave you again
I don’t wanna and leave a friend
I don’t wanna love and leave you again
I don’t wanna love and leave a friend
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The neighborhood is cleaning up
I guess it means the rent is on the rise
Where our apartment used to be
They built a fancy condominium highrise
Which at our lowly income
None of us could ever really quite afford
We’re waiting on the next eviction
Wondering what the future’s got in store
Gotta tell me how it’s been
You see i had not been around here in awhile
The only thing that changes
Is the uniformal regiment of style
The drugs took your desire
And now there ain’t no fire in your eyes
We used to be close friends
But now i don’t even recognize that guy
Just a baby in his mommy’s eyes
He ain’t crazy if he love in the darkness
When the days coming down to die
He ain’t heartless if he drank until he can’t even cry
Better leave before it blinks
I think the sky is a sudden open eye
I’ll buy you half a drink
If you give me back my consolation prize
Gotta message from Melissa telling me
She got a feeling like she’d never had
I knew it’d be the last one
I’d be lying if i said i wasn’t sad
She’s just a baby in her mommy’s eyes
She ain’t crazy if she love in the darkness
When the day coming down to die
She don’t feel it if she drank until she can’t even cry
She’s moaning through her hips now
She grits her teeth through her eyes
Can see it in her lips
how she secretly despises all these guys
These needy leeches drip saliva
From the corners of their mouths
Lost in her fantasy that they’re not lonely
Drunkenly they pull the money out
They’re just babies in their mommy’s eyes
It ain’t crazy if they love in the darkness
When the days coming down to die
It ain’t heartless
if they drink until they can’t even cry
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4. |
# Zero With a Bullet
04:01
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A college degree it don’t mean a thing
If you wanna make a record gotta learn how to sing
Everybody’s making ‘em now
No big deal so anyhow
Got lost on the road
No records got sold
Number zero with a bullet
Think you already know it
Sure hope i don’t blow it
Manager he said it’s all my fault
Point the finger at yourself and then you’ll figure it out
Managed me into poverty
Sitting in his office looking down on me
Got lost on the road
Gotta couple records sold
Number billion with a bullet
Think you already know it
I’ve been known to blow it
I got too far out past jaded
I got under and overrated
Livin’ on the lamb gone livin’ on the limb
Kickin’ at the can now i’m cashing it in’
Tried a trucker’s life
Drove into a twilight
Got eleven hours in
Sleeping eight and start again
Stabbing oblivion
Fakes and cheats and hypocrites
So called friends so full of shit
Tell me how you love me now
It’s no big deal so anyhow
Got lost on the road
Got a billion records sold
Number one with a bullet
Here’s a finger you could pull it
Sure hope i don’t blow it
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5. |
It's Peaceful Here
06:04
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Bumming around the downtown of Laramie
The streets are quiet like all of Wyoming
The trains rumble through breaking the silence
While the rest of the world is chaos and violence
It’s peaceful here most of the year
A man in a cowboy hat selling me beer
He looks like Wyatt Earp out in the courtyard
He’s talking like he won the west
I know he did, well i guess
Ancient steel walking bridge over the railroad track
I fell in love it’s just like a heart attack
I couldn’t breathe, i looked in her eye
It’s in this kind of thing that in death is defied
It’s peaceful here most of the year
The stars are so close and the moon is sincere
I can’t complain about what all had gone
I was just chasing a song
How the hell could that be wrong?
I want to go on the pack trip to Yellowstong
I picked the city of roses alone
It’s one big volcano with plenty of buffalo
A ladybug rock and a late summer snow
It’s peaceful there most of the year
Old Faithful blows and the seniors all stare
Wolves chase the elk on down to the plains
Is Gardner, Montana still the same
Love that place in the rain
We’ll fly through canyons and mountains of glory
I’m a Western Tanager and i know the story
Of the water and the rain, the wind on the plain
And all of the changes will all be the same
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6. |
Carolina Moon
03:22
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She was meaner than an acre full of snakes
Put the root down on you til your earth gonna break
Lightnin’ struck the fire from a tree
It’ll never burn and the blossom won’t be free
Freight train rollin ‘neath a Carolina moon
Carolina moon oh lord i left too soon
Freight train rollin ‘neath a Carolina moon
Carolina moon oh god i left too soon
Appalachia stream feed the Broad River
Feed the Cooper River going down to the sea
Appalachia steam feed the Cape Fear River
Feed the PeeDee River rolling down to me
Lightnin’ struck the fire from a tree
It’ll never burn and the blossom won’t be free
Freight train was rollin’ ‘neath a Carolina moon
Carolina moon oh lord i left too soon
Freight train rollin’ ‘neath a Carolina moon
Carolina moon oh god i left too soon
Lord i wish there was a thunderstorm
Thunderstorm i thought the day’s too warm
Spanish moss in the live oak tree
Beaufort, Frogmore by the sea
Lightning struck the fire from a tree
It’ll never burn and the blossom won’t be free
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7. |
Wherever You Go
05:57
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Whiplash the cowboy monkey
Big belt buckle under a beer belly
Austin, Texas rodeo
Kenny Rogers doing his medley of hits show
A drippity drop alarm clock
From the frozen condensation when the suns coming up
Drippin’ on ye olde forehead
Telling the rounder time to get out of bed
Wherever you go then there you are
Wherever you go you are
A echidna tried to pop my tire
Some bloody sepo tried to put out my fire
Tazzy travelin from Hobart to Launceston
Humming along to the great Darren Hanlon
Wherever you go then there you are
Wherever you go you are
Look into the eye in the sky of Berlin
Affairs of the heart are always caving in
Ramble to the place i know
A place i should be going
So i ramble to the place i go
A place that i’m not knowing going
Like the wind that blowin’ rollin’
Wherever you go then there you are
Wherever you go you are
You are three sheets to the stagnant air
Swear you care you got to swear you care
Three sheets to the stagnant air
Wander out to everywhere
Choke food broke da mouth
Aloha mahalo help me figure it out
Dakine dakine you got to give me that pineapple wine
Throwing out a cast net to get me some shrimp
High up above is the Hitachi blimp
Nothing could be finer
than to be in Carolina by the coastline
The sand in my toes
sippin’ in the cack-a-lackey sunshine
Wherever you go then there you are
Wherever you go you are
The frog on the skull of the wall in Salamanca
Back in San Francisco sippin Fernet Branca
Have you heard the javelinas in the Gila
Have you heard the javelinas in the Gila wilderness
Boy was i impressed
Wherever you go then there you are
Wherever you go you are
You are three sheets to the stagnant air
Swear you care you got to swear you care
Three sheets to the stagnant air
Wander out to everywhere
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Let’s eat a po’boy
on the bank of the Mississippi
Extra hot sauce and please with cheese
and all the dressing
I like the Verti Marte the best,
best fried shrimp po’ boy
They give more shrimp than all the rest,
it’s a damn good po’boy
And i could barely finish half
i save the rest for a midnight snack
And there’s a queen on a bike who delivers what you like
If you don’t feel like walking it back
The Verti Marte
on Royal Street
Verti Marte
is kinda hard to beat
If you like BBQ not fried
go to Liuzza’s
Up Esplanade and take a right
just before Lola’s
Liuzza’s by the track,
the reason i go back
They take the center from the bread
replace with shrimp instead
And then that shrimp in the sauce
gets soaked in the bread
And gets stuck inside of my head
There ain’t no queen on a bike
who delivers what you like
You just gotta go there instead
Liuzza’s by the Track
The reason i keep
crumbling back
St. Charles Trolly some old man’s
got a bag of po’boys
Some gangsta lookin’ gentleman
is eyeballin’ his po’boys
Just then i noticed the bag
That bag was seeping sauce
I’m thinking to myself,
lord that seems quite the loss
And then he said to him
“don’t be eyeballin’
my bag of po’boys, boy!”
And that young gangsta gentleman
he said to him
he said “i wasn’t doing nothing”
“Is that da’ bomb from Guys?”
“What’s it to you?”
he replies
“You know that place
on Magazine?”
Special order
of my dreams
A living ghost
of New Orleans
Crescent city
of my dreams
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9. |
Job Boss
03:27
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Job boss said the job ain’t right
You gotta stay here late tonight
You don’t get no benefits
You don’t like it you can just quit
Job boss job boss
He’s the highest on the site
Beats his kid and he hates his wife
He’s got anxiety
Job boss is living for the money
I don’t know about you
But i think you might agree
Job boss ain’t living too free
He got a big fat loan
Off his home equity
To pay his credit card
Instead he got a jet ski
Job boss has got a Gold’s Gym sweater
Always talking ‘bout his varsity letter
That was thirty fuckin’ years ago
Job boss why can’t you let it go?
Job boss job boss
Said i’d never be rich
Cause i got that travelin itch
Maybe i could get a passport stamp
Never have my own boat at the ramp
Well i don’t know about you
I think you might agree
Job boss ain’t living too free
Got a big fat loan
Off his home equity
To pay his credit card
Instead he got a tv
Plasma tv
After the jet ski
That’s what he told me
Job boss got a pug named Bear
$3000 fence ain’t fair
That dog don’t go outside
One day the pug up and died
Job boss job boss
Mutiny on the crew
Crew do what a crew gotta do
Now the crew coming after you
Job boss hey what you gonna do
I don’t know about you
Think you might agree
Job boss ain’t living to free
Got a big fat loan
Off his home equity
To pay his credit card
He blew it all at Walgreens
And on a jet ski
Plasma tv
That he don’t see
Cause he filed bankruptcy
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10. |
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I want to give
everything away
I don’t believe it,
this property
I can’t own
any kind of thing
It’s just a loan
i could only sing
I could only sing
i’m gonna try to sing
Gonna Sing it to the heavens
Sing it to the cloud
Sing it to the wall
Sing it right out loud
Sing it for the reason
Sing it for the love
Sing away depression
And try to rise above
Try to rise above
Rise above your blues man
and try to find some love
Grizzly bear
Is coming down to feed
Thousands of salmon
Are swimming up a stream
Beautiful kings
Silvers and reds
All these fishies
Swimming through my head
Silvers and reds
Swimming through my head
Snow white fox
Rabbit in its mouth
Runs along a logging road
Just to the south
Northern lights
Bleed across the sky
Tell you how the summer
Time had died
Summer had died
Northern lights
Gonna tell you how it died
Ninilchik
It’s a little Russian town
Built them a chapel
a graveyard surrounds
Marking the lives
Of people that had gone
Those who survive
They sing like a song
Sing like a song
Ghost’s who be living man
They sing like a song
They sing it to the heaven
Sing it to the cloud
Sing it to the wall
Sing it right out loud
Sing it for the reason
Sing it for the love
Sing away depression
And try to rise above
Try to rise above
Rise above your blues
Man and try to find some love
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