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Ordinary
04:15
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Everybody’s in the park for fun
Everybody is dancing in the sun
Nobody feels they’re ordinary
Look through the window and you’ll see the clouds
See the stars and begin to wonder how
Anybody thinks they’re ordinary
You think you’re ordinary
Just a spot in the sun
But when you look in my eyes
You’re the only one
Cause you
You have the most lovely stare
And you seem happy in the dream you’re in
Holding poppies, stare into oblivion
No one like you is ordinary
So kiss me when we’re riding bikes tonight
We can do it if we give it our best try
This whole life’s extraordinary
You turn my world inside out
You break the heart of stone
Cause you got that something
That’s all your own
And you
You have the most lovely stare
And when I look in your eyes I feel home
Yeah you
Yeah and I feel home
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2. |
Spectacled Caiman
05:30
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I turned off the car and I locked up all the doors
and then I tucked my shirt in - don't know what for.
Then I sat in a room where the ceiling was off-white.
How did I let this become the sky?
I sat on my bed and I looked at my guitar and said 'man these work days are tearing us apart.'
I turned on my TV and they were talking about the war and how it would kill me,
but not what for.
But they were sure.
I woke up the next day, and said 'I'm not doing this again,'
then went to the office and filled them in.
My boss, she looked at me and said 'that guitar won't pay the bills,
it won't make you happy like money will.'
I said, 'I disagree, go take all your favorite songs -
but you can't just listen, you gotta sing along.
You'll see your wrong.
You gotta know what for,
Or walk out the door.
Once you got that urge to leave, man it's useless to ignore.
If something kills you, you better know what for.
Or walk out the door.
"X-Ray Machine"
Tell me what else is new -
you're an x-ray machine and the grass is green and
at night you can see the moon.
I left some words for you.
You gave them all the care of a grizzly bear and
I'm sending you to the zoo.
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, Tonight...
Show your insides.
What's in the light is not enough
x2
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3. |
While You Feel It
04:30
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Hold me while you feel it
Cause you’ll forget it when I’m away
I can barely see it
But I’m looking anyways
Flying high as a kite in the midnight hour
Scraping up my knees for whiskey
I move on, yeah and I feel right as rain
Far from home, yeah and no one knows my name
And I feel like I’m lost in nowhere
Feel like, I’m finally free
So light up the stage above me
Let me show you what I got
Well this world can make you crazy
When you don’t know what you’re not
Driving all through the night for a place to sleep
Just to make some noise in this God damn city
I move on, yeah and I feel right as rain
Far from home, yeah and no one knows my name
And I feel like I’m lost in nowhere
Feel like, I’m finally free
So I’ll learn how to crawl
So I can learn how to walk
And I’ll climb up this hill
So I can stand at the top
I’ll walk another mile
To get some dirt in my veins
Cause it’s impossible to change
When everything around you stays the same
So hold me while you feel it
Cause you’ll forget it when I’m away
I move on, yeah and I feel right as rain
Far from home, yeah and no one knows my name
And I feel like I’m lost in nowhere
Feel like, I’m finally free
Yeah I’m finally free…
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4. |
A Drum To Pound
05:14
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5. |
The Badge On Your Sleeve
03:42
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I’ll never say goodbye
To what I left behind
I want more than I need
23 wishing I was 17
and I’ll never lose my mind
cause I never found it
it’s out where forever ends
El Salvador where the answer is in the wind
And maybe I like it,
When I start what I can’t even begin
When it gets sunny in the dark
I’ll ask myself
Who am I?
I don’t know
If we’re made to save the world
Make the internet work hard for you
Play with real electric girls
Get your kicks on the highway built for two
If time is on our side
Why does it keep us from staying alive?
Make children into men?
Make reverie into stand up citizens?
And maybe I like it,
When I start what I can’t even begin
When it gets sunny in the dark
I’ll ask myself
Who am I?
Who cares?
If it takes you cocaine
To find the holy in everything
Or a badge on your sleeve
To be all, all that you can be
And maybe I like it,
When I start what I can’t even begin
When it gets sunny in the dark
I’ll ask myself
Who am I?
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6. |
Clean Bones
05:04
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Take me to the river on the mountain
Clean my bones
Wash me with the soft hands of the angels
Make me whole
We’re dying for salvation
On our knees for brave new skin
In a dream I saw your face
Stretched out on the landscape
You held my hand and sighed
We all die, but some stay alive
So hold me deep in your arms
The night is coming to shine its light on me
And carry me to the river
Until the heavens are all I see
In a dream I saw your face
Stretched out on the landscape
You held my hand and sighed
We all die, but some stay alive
I’m alive
So take me to the river…
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