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New day rising
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There's a girl who lives on Heaven Hill
I go up to her cabin still She keeps a lantern lit for me And a bottle up on her mantelpiece She's the girl who lives on Heaven Hill She's got a big room and it's always a mess Worn out shoes and a worn out dress A worn out smile that she'll wear some more And a worn out welcome mat by her door I'd trade big mountains and rooms full of gold For just one look at the beauty of this woman's soul Up on Heaven Hill is where I wanna be That girl, that bottle, that mattress, and me |
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Looking outside my window
And all I see is grey I'm watching the clouds roll by every day And we make a reservation You say you'll be on time I say, "I might be a little late" Well, I pull it together and brush my teeth And comb my hair I stop to think and I can see you there I think of the times you've waited Just for me to care I care about you Checking the clock inside The room we call our own I see that I'm late, I should be going Hop on a local transit Spending all my change And I can still hear the telephone I wanna go back, but I'm halfway to The place where we will meet And I'm half dead on my feet And once I get there, I see Everything's the same Here comes the rain You left me standing I should have guessed that you'd stand me up Why did I even go, now And I guess it goes to show The snow may well thaw out But it goes right down the drain You left me You left me You left me You left me You left me standing in the rain |
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Now, you look like you just got back from somewhere
Somewhere, yeah, you know that it's true Together we went nearly to nowhere Nowhere really worth going to Standing at the City Center In the middle of the winter I was waiting for you And you were due When I got back, you said you were leaving Leaving, you said right away And coming back for the sake of retrieving Things you'd forgotten on that day Still now my eyes are burning With the sight of your returning Everywhere I look, I'm finding you I remember you Familiar places that we turned into gardens Somewhere, yeah, you know that it's true I'm begging you now a thousand pardons For all of the wastelands we've been through I remember asking whether Or where we could be together You smiled at me, and you said "Soon" |
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Barren lands and barren minds
In another place and time I feel I've never known myself Frozen in the sand again See the blank expressions waiting for progression They're standing still in place and time And no one's moving, they're only Standing still in ice cold ice cold ice All machines and all are one Catching up on what's been done Stealing glimpses from the past These impressions always last Never penetrating, always contemplating We sit and count the blessings but we're blessed by icons No one else could Trust in ice cold ice cold ice We'll stay together till the end Thinking you might be a friend We sit and pray together that they might change the weather My love for you will never die If I sound distant, that's because You shouldn't see me crying ice cold ice |
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I can hear the treetops in the distance
I can see your hollowed eyes What have you done to yourself in this instance? I guess it comes as no surprise I can see the billboards in the distance Writing is on every wall I don't wanna know about your business Sooner or later, friend, you've got to fall Every night it's gotta be adventure The way you live your life's a crime And if you're guilty, will you serve the sentence? You're already doing time There's nothing wrong with having aspirations Nothing wrong with walking tall But if misfortune deals the consequences Sooner or later, friend, you've got to fall I know the difference, you keep your distance I don't wanna know what you've got Is it pathetic to be sympathetic? Maybe you don't wanna get caught Caught up in something that's real That could last for a lifetime Nothing like the disease Disease that's in your mind There's nothing wrong with having aspirations Nothing wrong with walking tall But if misfortune deals the consequences Sooner or later, friend, you've got to fall I can see your life disintegrating Into ashes in your hand And I know you wouldn't want to tell me What is wrong 'cause you're a man I can see the billboards in the distance Writing is on every wall I don't wanna know about your business Sooner or later, friend, you've got to fall |
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With her grandmother's face and her father's brown eyes
Her own force of will to her mother's surprise A whole look about her that says that she may She lifted her arms and she floated away She floated away, she floated away She lifted her arms and she floated away She don't give a damn what the other girls say She lifted her arms and she floated away "Let me talk to you Mother," she tried to confess "Go ahead, honey, and wear the white dress Don't let traditions go stand in your way" She lifted her arms and she floated away She floated away, she floated away She lifted her arms and she floated away She don't give a damn what the other girls say She lifted her arms and she floated away Well, a man has two reasons for things that he does The first one is pride and the second one is love All understandings must come by this way She lifted her arms and she floated away She floated away, she floated away She lifted her arms and she floated away She don't give a damn what the other girls say She lifted her arms and she floated away |
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The gut From the gut
It hurts Hurts so much The same Quite the same You know Know too much It's yours Yours no more It's mine For the time That I'm Without you |
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You've seen it all before
You think it's passe But you listen to the same fucking records Every single day You don't like the people who caught on late If they're having fun, Don't participate, be lethargic You're a hypocrite, you're the target |
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You can do what you want to do
You can say what you want to say You can think what you think you want It doesn't matter anyway It's not funny anymore Play what you want to play Hear what you want to hear Don't worry about the result Or the effect it has on your career Act like you want to act Be what you want to be Find out who you really are And don't pay any attention to me |
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Twenty years ago, saw a friend was walking by
And I stopped him on the street to ask him how it went, and all he did was cry I looked him in the face, but I couldn't see past his eyes Asked him what the problem was, he says "here is your disguise" Now he's hardly getting over it Hardly getting used to getting by Now he's hardly getting over it Hardly getting used to getting by Old man lays down by the railroad tracks Got no paper in his pocket, got no paper on his back I asked him what the time was, he says "to hit the road now, Jack" Went back to see him next week, he died of a heart attack and died away Now he's hardly getting over it He's hardly getting used to getting by Now he's hardly getting over it He's hardly getting used to getting by Grandma, she got sick, she is going to die And Grandpa had a seizure, moved into a hotel cell and died away My parents, they just wonder when they both are going to die And what do I do when they die? Now I'm hardly getting over it Hardly getting used to getting by Hardly getting over it Hardly getting used to getting by |
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Well, I see you walking down the road
And the thoughts within my mind explode But having to hold back taught me a lot about control And letting all loose at once when it was time to let you know You occupied my space and you occupied your mind By jumping off the roof to the first conclusion you can find Now all the silver you can steal Can't buy a piece of what I feel It's sad, but the means, they just don't justify the ends To be forever haunted by the ghosts of all your friends Painful, yeah, that's the way you've chosen it to be C'mon, babe, can't you think of anyone besides me? These are the terms! Now don't think you're the only who has harboured a self-hate I'm just as guilty of selling what my own sweet soul creates And don't feel bad the next time my memory comes creepin' You've got your own bed now, I suggest that's the one you sleep in |
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What's this humming in my head
Was it something that someone said It's connecting us with them Electric wires turned on again It aggravates, and it pacifies Hear the power in the lines Strung high on every pole How can this power be bought and sold? Trying to harness solar rays Making minutes seem like days It captivates, and it hypnotize Hear the power in the lines Powerline |
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Well, they divided up all the land
We've got states and cities Cities have their neighborhoods And more subdivisions There's countries divided by walls Oceans and latitude And longitude, longing to find out Just what they're missing There's lots of area codes And nine digit zip codes Secret decoder ring codes Arteries, shopping nodes We'll invent some new computers Link up the global village And get AP, UPI, Reuters To tell everybody the news We'll be one happy neighborhood Spread out across the world Who's going to stop that burglar From breaking into my house If he lives that far away We'll be just like old friends No means to your ends The police state is too busy And the neighborhood's getting out of hand Big Brother on every wall Muzak plays in all the halls Empires see the rise and fall They divide, conquer It's not about my politics Something happened way too quick Bunch of men who played it sick They divide, conquer It's all here before your eyes Safety is a big disguise That hides among the other lies They divide, conquer Well, I expect I won't be heard 'Cause my silence is assured Never a discouraging word They divide and conquer They divide and conquer |
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Only angels have wings, girl
And poets have all the words The earth belongs to the two of us And the sky belongs to the birds You've given me so much happiness That I'll wrap up and give you this song You gotta grab it with both hands You gotta keep hanging on... The cat walks to the window And I hear the key turn in the door Know one knows and anything goes And everything falls on the floor The apartment starts shaking And the roof opens up to the sun The crows flying in parallel lines And golly, isn't this great fun? Laying in each other's arms We're sleepy, begin to nod And we start to dream of grandiose things Oh god, oh god, oh god You gotta keep hanging on |
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Love and hate was in the air, like pollen from a flower
Somewhere in April time, they add another hour I guess I better think up a way to spend my time Just when I'm ready to sit inside, it's summertime Should I go swimming or get a friend to hang around It's back to summer, it's back to basics, hang around Getting drunk out on the beach, or playing in a band And getting out of school meant getting out of hand Was this your celebrated summer? Was that your celebrated summer? Then the sun disintegrates between a wall of clouds I summer where I winter at, and no one is allowed there Do you remember when the first snowfall fell? When summer barely had a snowball's chance in hell? |
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I was talking
When I should have been listening I didn't hear a word that anyone said It must not have been so very important 'Cause I was concerned about instead What's going on What's going on What's going on inside my head |
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A nine digit number
For every living soul That is all they talk about At Data Control They know everything about you Keeping secrets is too hard Your life is all recorded for you In holes punched in computer cards Data Control (digital readout) Data Control (perforated feedout) Data Control (microfilm files) Data Control (1984 style) A multinational corporation A stockholder's dream A nightmare of diversity A defense system so supreme Too technical to talk about Too complex for layman's brains It's enough to make you paranoid Or drive you crazy losers sane |
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Government authorize education
[Don't mean a thing] They'll teach you what they want you to think [Don't mean a thing] Saturation of stars and stripes [Don't mean a thing] The only freedom worth fighting for is for what you think Why bother spending time Reading up on things Everybody's an authority In a free land |
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Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
They're ready to go now They got their surfboards And they're going to the Discotheque Du Go Go But Sheena just couldn't stay She had to break away Well New York City really has it all Oh ya, oh ya. Sheena is a punk rocker Sheena is a punk rocker Sheena is a punk rocker now. She's a punk punk, a punk rocker Punk punk, a punk rocker Punk punk, a punk rocker. |
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