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She turned the nightlight on a blew him a kiss.
He stared back through is green crayola eyes. She traced his likeness from off the back of a disc. Next to the boxtop promise of the biggest prize. Joining a fan club with my friends. Filling our bathtubs with tee shirts and 8 x 10's. He looks so dreamy, I'm in love from afar. When I'm picking up a fallen star. Downstairs the late show's blasting 'age of the rock'. The greedy monks playin' last Sunday at the milky way. Mom's writing checks to the minister in the corner singing 'dig down deep'. 'Cause if you wanna go to heaven all you gotta so is pay to pray. Joining a fan club with my pen. Filling my bathtub with Holy water and amens. He looks so dreamy, I'm in love from afar. When I'm picking up a fallen star. Shake that woody. Shake it for me St. Pinocchio. You've paid your money, now watch that money grow. Joining a fan club, best be warned. He turns me on when he wears that lampshade corwn of thorns. We'd be so dreamy, Sharing his black caviar. While I'm picking up a fallen star. Joining a fan club is a big mistake. I still get heartburn when I think about all of the stamps I ate. I wished I'd loved him, Before fate crashed his car. Say a prayer for the fallen star. |
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| 2. |
| 3:46 |
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So this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights The red and greens but mostly reds For you he's stopping In seeing him she knows him less His stick is wet, she's half undressed And all and all they're both obsessed With so much nothing I know it's hard for you to see What lies behind's a mystery If words could speak they'd mean even less When the king is half undressed She dots her "i's" with a smiley face A work of art in all but taste The fool deserves the bed he's made Where idiots slumber Divine she is to aire this fate A crack of smile through all this hate Means nothing more in this nervous state Of so much nothing I know it's hard for you to see The truth behind is misery If words could speak they'd mean even less When the king is half undressed Blue autumns Sunshine kisses Hearts and flowers And broken wishes I know it's hard for you to see What lies behind's a mystery If words could speak they'd mean even less When the king is half undressed I know it's hard for you to see The truth behind is misery If words could speak they'd mean even less When the king is half undressed |
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| 3. |
| 4:02 |
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Curtain opens, spotlights the gentleman
Signing his love letter "Best wishes, Simpleton" Dialog swam from his pen like pollywogs He knew better that perfume was gravity Pulling him closer to what could be tragedy Love is blind, deaf and dumb, but never mind You better catch me when I fall I'm on my roller skates 'Cause any ole way that I fall I land in your arms even though it's wrong 'Cause I love my new mistake Intermission gave way to a miracle The birth of an accident grew to a spectacle That couldn't wait The mother was three weeks late So Father Mason clutching his crucifix Baptized the baby in whiskey and licorice What a lovely way Drowning sins in tooth decay Looks like our hero's gonna fall The bough's about to break 'Cause any ole way that I fall I'll be in your arms as we lie awake With our lovely new mistake You better catch me when I fall My sugar trampoline 'Cause any ole way that I fall I land in your arms even though it's wrong 'Cause I love my new mistake The ending turned tragic when many years later The baby had grown up and married a pop singer I guess it was her turn to make (her first mistake) Any ole time at all Any ole way that I fall Any ole time at all Any ole way that I fall Any ole time at all Any ole way that I fall I just lie awake with my new mistake |
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| 4. |
| 2:34 |
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It's not the same without him here
20 years of him dead and gone This vodka does a memory clear Though it's too hard to imagine what these tears are for A walkin' posterboy for all that's good He got swallowed by the cracks before he understood She likes to think he loved her but it hurts so bad 'Cause now she knows she's wrong It always seemed to strike her strange His working late until the morning spending so much cash And the sweet smell of his angel's hair That seemed to cling to his lips just like a wax mustache A walking monument to DNA Makin' love under the podium at the P.T.A. He's the principal of principles this love gone bad 'Cause now she knows she's wrong It hardly seems worth it baby Too late in asking why He juggled his honesty With 2 balls and an alibi Now she knows that Now she knows that Now she knows she's wrong A walkin' posterboy for all that's good He got swallowed by the cracks before he understood She likes to think he loved her but it hurts so bad 'Cause now she knows she's wrong A walking monument to DNA Makin' love under the podium at the P.T.A. He's the principal of principles this love gone bad 'Cause now she knows she's wrong |
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| 5. |
| 4:01 |
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so there it is
all the truth is on the table nothing to forgive it's ok to start again the wedding cake almost fades into a memory thrown in cupid's face love's just frosting anyway they both think back to long ago when thoughts of them both growing old had given them the grey hair they deserved singing bye bye bye... well i've come to take you home another wife neglected to the end lives her on prison life solitaire's not just a game she called his bluff even thought the token and gold watch were never enough to tell the time and start again it seems all of these tragedies that last and last eternities have broken every bank and every bone singing bye bye bye.. well i've come to take you home |
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| 7. |
| 2:56 |
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I knew that when I saw her
That my life would soon move over from the fast lane Gone would be the days of all my drinkin' and my carrying on But when I settled down The party king uncrowned This stubborn memory hadn't faded Too many dumb mistakes And all the grief it makes Left nothing else to be debated And if you say that you understand then you're lyin' But if you figure that I'm alright now I can't deny it Baby's comin' back Baby's comin' back So I'm on my best behavior I can't take it anymore I just woke up on the floor today I've long run out of my last chances but she's on her way If I had a dollar For every single time I fought her I'd buy a handgun (I'd buy a handgun) But that couldn't shoot away The bullseye that she made on my heart And if I sound like a beaten man well I guess so But on her way is the sweetest prize and I can't let go Baby's comin' back Baby's comin' back So I'm on my best behavior I can't take it anymore I just woke up on the floor today (yeah, yeah) I've long run out of my last chances but she's on her way What I told her on the telephone was that I'd been so bad I wouldn't blame her if she mowed down these wild oats I'd sown But when she said she'd give me one more chance I said knock three times when you arrive Baby's comin' back So I'm on my best behavior I can't take it anymore I just woke up on the floor today (yeah, yeah) Baby's comin' back, my darlin' Baby's comin' back this evenin' I've long run out of my last chances but she's on her way |
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| 8. |
| 3:43 |
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I've known him all my life
It seems so inconceviable At thirteen we shooks hands but we've Been always inseparable He's cinnamon on my toast we're so Close That's not to say we haven't had our Share of arguments He's so unpredictable he winks Acknowledgments When I would rather he closed his eye Than push me aside My hand's a five leaf clover It's palm sunday over and over I never had the luck of swingers Till I was wrapped around your finger He's my best friend He's my best friend He's my best friend I'm his best friend He's my best friend You don't need a brain to have a Stroke of genius Or a beautiful girl to let down Your curls Cause growing up is hard enough When your a powderkeg for Powderpuffs (Whether we're stayin' in or hanging out) I'd never ask another on a date to The ball He doesn't need a rubber sweater or Alcohol Cause he gets tipsy from exchanging looks And a little misty reading sticky Blue dirty books But he's my best friend He's my best friend I'm his best friend He's my best friend My hand's a five leaf clover It's Palm Sunday over and over I never had the luck of swingers Till I was wrapped around your finger He's my best friend (We could hold hands for hours) He's my best friend (In the bedroom or shower) He's my best friend (I pick him up when he's feelin down) He's my best friend (I guess he's always been hangin around) He's my best friend (He gets lonely now and then) He's my best friend (And he gets shy around another men) I'm his best friend (It seems I've reached the end of my best friend) |
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| 3:44 |
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Ever since I was a twinkle in my father's pants
They told me I could have it all and more when given chance "We'll get you anything that you want" A Ferrari on my 16th birthday "We'll get you anything you need" But what I need from you is so much more All I wanna be is wanted All I wanna be is wanted by you All I wanna be is wanted All I want is everything I think I'd like to play guitar and be a Beatle That'd be so swell And every show I would just dedicate this song to you And I would envy all my fans While I bitch about the price of fame To my french maid Lou-Ann She looks so sincere but she don't understand All I wanna be is wanted All I wanna be is wanted by you All I wanna be is wanted All I want is everything All I wanna be is wanted All I want is everything All I wanna be is wanted All I wanna be is wanted by you All I wanna be is wanted All I want is everything All I want is everything All I want is everything.... |
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| 4:56 |
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| 11. |
| 2:50 |
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| 12. |
| 4:10 |
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| 13. |
| 3:36 |
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| 14. |
| 3:16 |
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Say goodnight, your song is through
Faint refrain we hardly knew Comes crashin' against the drunken waters of this wake when I hesitate Because all I can say is "too much, too little, too late" Farewell, you fool Spare me the punch line please, I learned it well at Sunday school Way back when all you loved was the grease paint, not the collection plate So much for the funny face Because all I can say is "too much, too little, too late" Remember when murder was only killing time And an axe to grind (to grind, it was) was a bitter gulp of strychnine? What happened to the musketeers of chesterfields? Tobacco swords behind smoky shields Say goodnight (goodnight) Old song (so long) You're through (set the needle back and hum a new tune) Faint refrain (refrain) Make room (so soon, so soon) For new (until the hook can pull the bridge into view) Spare me the vague, not-so-clever couplets The ones I would have loved when I was you 'Cause now all I can say is "too much, too little ..." And all I can feel, feels like the heaviest weight 'Cause all I can say is "too much, too little, too late" |
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| 15. |
| 4:06 |
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I Wanna Stay Home (A. Sturmer)
When you need someone And there's no one there There is always the nine o'clock train To take you out somewhere I take the train in town Like I did for years There is only seven more blocks I could walk from here I wanna stay home I wanna stay home right here I wanna stay home today I wanna stay It's only six o'clock When my day begins There is always my alarm clock To wake me up again When I realize the weight That's firmly on my shoulders I just try and find the place I can take a walk on my blind side When these memories fade In my ripe old age Please remember my dear... I wanna stay home I wanna stay home right here I wanna stay home today I wanna stay I wanna stay I wanna stay I wanna stay I wanna stay |
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| 3:48 |
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| 17. |
| 4:46 |
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I hope you remember me, I was your daddy once,
Wearing a sailor cap and dirty nails To you I'm just a picture on your mother's mantlepiece who chose to fight the good fight in time to fail into battle and in your shadow your daddy loves you still yes i do I never thought it'd be so hard to see you grow so fast and turn into the man I used to be but I hope you have more sense than I in matters such as these medals don't mean shit when a family is lost at sea I save every moment I've reached out and almost touched you but they all fade away must be a bad memory |
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| 18. |
| 4:00 |
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Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah cause you're the one
I know it sounds unfair, she's like a painting standing there I thank the heavens up above for the one I'm thinking of Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah, cause you're the one Sometimes it's awful hard to take, the way she takes me all the way She's delicious beyond compare I'd love to tell her but instead I stare Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah And when you ask me if I really love you I can't wait to tell you And if you ever feel you don't believe and don't you trust your feeling Cause it'd be so hard to take your away i wouldn't last one day That's why I'm calling sarah crawling back to sarah Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah cause you're the one and when you ask me if i love you i say ye ye ye and when i ask you if you want to you say ye ye ye and when you ask me if i miss you you say ye ye ye and when i ask if i can kiss you you say ye ye ye oh you say and when you ask me if i love you i say ye ye ye oh i say and when i ask you if you want to you say ye ye ye and when you ask me if i miss i miss you i miss you and when i ask if i can kiss you you say ye ye ye Calling Sarah, crawling back to Sarah Calling Sarah, crawling back to, Cause you're the one |
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| 19. |
| 3:58 |
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Wake up!
Miss Toadstool, it is I, your one and only King, Bowser Koopa I'm a turtle as you've seen A little slow and a little green But on the whole I'd say Super duper Princess Toadstool, I know you're frightened 'Cause if you knew just why you're here Your fear would just be heightened So let's just say Ignorance is bliss Oh, well, I hate to be a bummer I've brought you here to bring me plumbers You know those brothers Oh, what's their names? Oh yes, Mario and Luigi Just the sound of them makes me queasy I'd like to take that monkey wrench I'd play my own game Princess Toadstool, you're so misguided I've never been fond of bookworms But then again this one does make good Mario bait I can't wait Ignorance is bliss! With my magic book I'll shower those clumsy lizards with my power Until Dinosaur Land is nothing but fossil fuel My only problem with these spells Is that I know not what they tell So every hex leaves me perplexed And all I want are those plumbing fools Princess Toadstool, you're not so clever All your words are alphabet soup A picture tells it better I'll say it again Ignorance is bliss Haven't you heard? A picture's worth a thousand words. You call yourself a princess but you're a brainiac in a dress I can't believe you waste time with these books You remind me of my kid sister She read so much she got a blister A big one, I mean big, on her brain, what a snook! (I'd like to get my hands on...) (Just one time with a monkey wrench...) (I'd fix their plumbing...) Princess Toadstool, I know you're frightened (You're so misguided) 'Cause if you knew just why you're here Your fear would just be heightened Princess Toadstool, you're not so clever (Pictures say it better) All your words are alphabet soup A picture tells it better For the last time - On second thought, I think I've made my point. |
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| 2:32 |
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Sit beside the breakfast table
Think about your troubles Pour yourself a cup of tea Then think about the bubbles You can take your teardrops And drop 'em in a teacup Take 'em down to the riverside And throw 'em over the side To be swept up by a current Then taken to the ocean To be eaten by some fishes Who were eaten by some fishes And swallowed by a whale Who grew so old he decomposed He died and left his body To the bottom of the ocean Now everybody knows That when a body decompses The basic elements Are given back to the ocean And the sea does what it oughta And soon there's salty water Which is not to good for drinkin' 'Cause it tastes just like a teardrop So we run it through a filter And it comes out from a faucet Where it pours into a teapot Which is just about to bubble Now think about your troubles. |
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