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Roses And Rain
02:50
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Rain, roses and rain
Rain rain rain roses
Roses love rain
Roses love rain
It’s raining again
Roses love rain
Do you think it’s gonna last
The sky’s all overcast
They say November to June
You’ll rarely see the moon
The moon oh the moon
Cause it’s here and then
it’s Oregon
Rain, roses and rain
Rain rain rain roses
Well you look up to the sky
As it starts to cry
Don’t you ever be sad
Roses will be glad
Glad oh so glad
Cause it’s here and then
it’s Oregon
It’s raining again
Roses love rain
It’s raining again
Roses love rain
But it’s here and then
it’s Oregon
Yeah, it’s here and then
It’s Oregon
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2. |
Boxer's Fracture
05:15
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I travel light
But i gotta whole lotta baggage
Hey it’s alright
If your drain is full of bammage
How do you sleep
With a razorblade on your pillow?
The hanging tree
Is mocking the weeping willow
I’ve been punching against the gun
But my hands are flesh and bone
And i am alone
I broke my hand
Somehow my eyes got full of cryin’
Do you understand?
All this contemplating dying
If you could see
Inside a boxer’s fracture
How could it be
For i am not a boxer
I just been punching against the gun
But my hands are flesh and bone
And i am alone
Where is the band
That’ll set my heart to loving?
Where is the song
That’ll sing me back to living?
Where is the love?
Where is the audience to listen?
Hey up above
Could you sign my last petition?
I’ve been punching against the gun
But my hands are flesh and bone
And i am alone
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3. |
This Guitar
03:36
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This guitar took me ‘round the world
Got me money and it got me loose women
And it left me empty handed at the end of the line
Stranded alone, broke and out of my mind
This guitar it always makes me drink
Never listens to the things i think
It just goes off and does what it wants to do
I sit back and wait and let it whine ‘til it’s through
Just to play
Just to play
‘Til i slip away
I slip away
This guitar fuckin’ ruined my life
Lost me jobs and it lost me wives
And i swear i’m gonna strangle its skinny neck
For turning my sweet life into a wreck
This guitar taunts me from the case
Swear to god i’ll put it back in its place
But then it sweet talks its way back into my life
But every goddamned time i’ve got to pay the price
Just to play
Just to play
‘Til i slip away
‘Til i slip away
Rich people out on Lakeway way
Lazy money ain’t got nothing to say
They talkin’ down to me like i’ve got no education
They’re the ones who are obsessed with their sprinkler systems
Every evening when the sun’s going down
I get the guitar and i walk downtown
And i drink with my grandma for the happy hour
Yes we drink, we drink until we find the power
Just to play
Just to play
‘Til we slip away
‘Til we slip away
Gotta slip away
Slip away
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Samantha’s got a bag of coal
Mighty soul but i couldn’t find an ego
Dressing up like Santa Claus
She gave it to the bankers
and the others that were evil
Like the cops in this town
Disturbing all the peace
Always bringing everybody down
Why you gotta spoil the fun?
Creating problems
where there are none
I’m singin’ ho ho ho
here’s a chunk of coal
For the overzealous cop
Acting like he’s the gestapo
Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal
For the hypocrite
who’s preaching in the church
under the steeple
Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal
For the money driven bastards
Putting profits over people
Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal
For the rich white frat boy
yelling crap out of car windows
For the overzealous copper
acting like he’s the gestapo
Samantha use to be called Sam
Samantha was a woman
who used to be a man
Trying to find a place
in this world
It’s kinda hard when
the boy becomes the girl
She took it to the west coast side
She got pushed off a bridge
She nearly died
A victim of a hateful crime
The sadness crept in
Samantha took her own life
I’m singing ho ho ho
here’s a chunk of coal
For the overzealous cop
acting like he’s the gestapo
Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal
For the hypocrites preaching
in the church under the steeple
Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal
For the bankers and the brokers
Ripping off all of the people
Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal
For the rich white frat boy
yelling crap out of car windows
For the overzealous cop
Acting like he’s the gestapo
For the greedy bastards
Putting profits over people
Homophobic bigots
Spreading violence on the people
Hoes
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Take a left turn in Boise
Roll on down to Reno
Got three nights in a hotel for free
So i bought an air mattress
And i floated down the Truckee
To the center of the littlest big city
I watched as the leaves twisted green into silver
In the breeze on the bank of the old Truckee River
At nighttime the sunburn
Will give me a shiver
I play my last soaking wet twenty dollars
On a Wheel of Fortune machine
For all my spun out dreams
Love was a whirlwind
Clouded our vision
Cotton clouds of heaven on the earth
Twas a pinball decision and a snapshot division
Why’d you have to tell me what it’s worth
Cause i’d rather by blinded by cotton and clouds
And i’d rather hear symphonies playing too loud
I’d rather have sweetness and love in this life
Than be bitter alone and all drunk every night
Playing Wheel of Fortune machines
Spinning out my dreams
Dream dream and you dream
I’ve jumped to conclusion
Mostly delusion
All the things i cooked up in my head
I thought you were against me
But you backed me up instead
All the things i made up in my head
But the future is beaming bright on the coast
And the oysters are ripe and ready for the roast
And all of the chances that could have been lost
If you never gamble it’ll never pay off
On the Wheel of Fortune machine
You’ve gotta spin it for your dream
Dream dream and you dream
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Wrap your laughing gear round this one
Aleuitious and the typewriter keys
Sixteen sisters, oh the summer breeze
Graybee baby and gobbler too
Kack-a-doo BBQ the kangaroo
Where’s the platypus of Yungaburra?
Down under the murky water
See him, there he is, look for the bubbles
Oh the dreadful Irukandji
I don’t to get them on me
They can even penetrate the safety net
Swimming in there could be a risky bet
Get stung once and you’d rather be dead
Let’s swim in the pool instead
A Custard apple and a Brazil cherry
Oh the vicious Southern Cassowary
Is it the world's most dangerous bird?
Go try to pet it if you think that’s absurd
It’s got a pretty cool looking blue neck and head
But you wouldn’t wanna have that thing in your bed trust me
They’re burning off a sugar cane field
All those deadly brown snakes are gonna get revealed
I saw one slither right across the road
Fires and floods will get ‘em out on the go
Most of them are really pretty shy
So why not let them just slither by?
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7. |
Don't You Feel
02:45
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Don’t you feel
Like you could feel
Don’t you feel
like you could love
Don’t you feel
Like you’re not a zombie
Inside your heart
There was blood
You’re not a vampire
You’re not a demon
You don’t live in a video game
Looking for something
That’s good to believe in
You tripped on the cracked walk of fame
Don’t you feel
That true love was only
Only for the lucky one
Don’t you feel
Your life would be lonely
Forever you’ll be on the fun
Overnight lows
And cold misty mornings
Will greet you to start the new day
Old aged whoas will come without warning
Your mouth will not know what to say
And you love
And you love
But you’ve got no follow through
You love
Yeah you love
You don’t know what to do
Don’t you feel
Like you could feel
Don’t you feel like you could love
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8. |
Alcohol
04:22
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Alca-alcohol
Alca-alca-hello
Alca-alca-hole
I got no control
I like to drink
Been in the program
A friend of John
A friend of George
Maybe Bob & Alice
Do you wanna hear my life story?
Don’t wanna hear your drunk story
Cause all your drunken stories
Just make me wanna drink more now
I wanna drink more now
I wanna drink more now and more
Your drunken story’s a bore
Just makes me wanna drink more
So c’mon c’mon let’s drink more
Your dear old ma’ma
Told ya, i was trouble
Told you , i’d always be poor
And that you’d best
get out on the double
What does she know?
She don’t even know me
But maybe she’s right
Maybe she’s wrong
Don’t you think she’d like this song
Don’t you think she’d hum along
You told me she married for money
And she didn’t think it was worth it
But at the time she wanted stability
To raise up a family
So she took the money over love
She took the money over the love
She took the money over love
And you wonder why people drink
Alca-alcohol
Alca-alca-hell
Alca-alca-holy
Holy holy camoly
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I can’t believe my eyes
I’m a barfly just like in the movie
A Blissful morning drunk
Clinging to my chair
Squinting my eyes as the sun bleeds through
The crack under the doorway of Anchorage
Somewhere in Talkeetna there’s an on your honor store
There’s a radio station playing all my favorite songs
It’s cause i know the DJ
She knows just what to play
She plays it for today
Cause she knows there’s no tomorrow
There’s no tomorrow in this song
I knew there wasn’t all along
I’m not planning out my future
In my future i’m gonna be dead and gone
Just like there’s no forgiveness hone
There’s no tomorrow in this song
Grady bought a rifle
Jacky bought a forty four
They’re calling it survival
They are ancient as the Vietnam war
You got such a lovely scar
Hold it dear your precious wound
Hold it up like a trophy
Take it through your life in to the tomb
It’s 1 a.m.
you’ve got to tell me why the sun’s still shining
I crossed the arctic circle
Skidded into Dead Horse today
Went past the last tree standing
Over the Brooks Range
But you gotta pay a toll
or you might even get arrested
If you try to dip your feet
Into the Prudhoe Bay
Met a bush pilot
A bush pilot brave and strong
Next thing you know it
You know my pilot friend is gone
See he went to close the base camp
On the glacier in Denali
The weather closed out
In the morning all they found
Was a cracked up plane
And three casualties
There’s no tomorrow in this song
I knew there wasn’t all along
I’m not planning out my future
In the future i’m gonna be
Dead and gone
Just like there’s no forgiveness honey
There’s no tomorrow in this song
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10. |
New Berlin Wall
05:44
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They’re building the new Berlin wall
California to Texas so tall
But you know that you can’t catch ‘em all
Yet your building the new Berlin wall
I’ve seen Mexican men rounded up in Juarez
Women and children behind a razor wire fence
Herded like cattle to some government bus
I don’t know where they got sent
I tried to look closer some cop he suggested
I keep my eyes to myself
Pointed his gun and said “move along son
Unless you want trouble yourself”
Cause they’re building the new Berlin wall
San Diego to Brownsville so tall
If ‘n’ yer a Mexican
You’re a criminal ‘til they prove you’re a citizen
Check the Itlalians and check the Chinese
Check the Scandinavians and your Portugues
Better ID the Irish, question the British
Check them out now could you please?
Check the Czechs while your at it
Check you Germans for your citizenship
Check out the Polish and check out the Jews
Are they kosher, hey are they legit?
Cause they’re building the new Berlin wall
Then they’re trapping you all in
so you can’t leave at all
And if you get rich you can shop in their stores
But if you’re poor, you gotta serve them
and find the back door
I don’t see freedom with a twenty foot fence
Beefing up borders with rich arrogance
Has the statue of liberty
Staggered drunkenly into the sea
They’re building the new Berlin wall
You say you can’t let ‘em all in
Because your economy will fall
Well it already did and your greed caused it all
Yet your building the new Berlin wall
Send off your battalions of gun toting thugs
End this unwinnable war against drugs
Legalize all of it, stop the cartels
Crack the black market and tax that as well
And take all that money for rehab and schools
Break this unbreakable circle of fools
Tear down the border fence open the door
Send us your hungry, your sick and your poor
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