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Breathless from the coffee I drop my newspaper down
And left my eyeballs to read about some other town Your blueberry flu and message at breakfast was nice But when you shoot your mouth off expect to pay the price She's a tangerine Made in California She's a soul fillet Just a little haiku To say how much I like you And sap your sex away Your tarpaper skin and visible beating heart Your words on the paper sure gave me a start Your huckleberry flu and one plus one is you So if I can't be me, well I might as well be with you She's a tangerine Made in California Need a soul fillet Baby cry your eyes out Baby dry your eyes out Burn your life away When the day came to an end you bounced right back again Watch an evening news show the L.A. blues again Your California sunshine sure gives me a sweat And your tangerine nectar's a taste I won't forget She's a tangerine Made in California She's a soul fillet ??? cry your eyes out Sister dry your eyes out Burn your life away It's just a little Haiku To say how much I like you It's just a little Haiku To say how much I like you It's just a little Haiku |
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Sight unseen, sadder seas
Summer song sung all along Dragged across the seven seas To the beach come follow me Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Cellophane, a grandma's town Summer's letters on the ground Seven pins, the fall begins When the leaves burn, summer ends Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands Write it in the sand, in the sand Where've my heroes gone today? Mick and Keith and Willie Mays Broken windows trails outside I can take you for a ride Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands Write it in the sand, in the sand In the sand Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands Write it in the sand, in the sand In the sand In the sand In the sand In the sand |
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I scratched my finger
On the door in front of you You scratched your finger At the girl outside That's a bigger Responsibility When All My Children Is an endless bore I'm the number on your kitchen door I'm the gifted son who cannot score I'm the number on your kitchen door Please remember just to keep the score I scratched my finger On the door in front of you Please remember That I'll always care That's a harbor That you can sail to When all your ocean Is a mindless chore I'm the number on your kitchen door I'm the gifted son you can not scorn I'm the number on your kitchen door Please remember just to keep the score Well that's our number on our kitchen door But it's more than numbers that I adore I adore I'm the number on your kitchen door I'm the baseball team from Baltimore I'm the number on your kitchen door Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor |
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Everyone has their own myths
If not their father's troubles It's the mother's kiss But me would you save my life Or take it away from me - stab me with a knife Hey you could find it in yourself, I know To fly across the cobalt sky And leave me down below, I know To bend my neck and wave goodbye You pictured in black and white - clouds stay 'til night Don't make the day look right You in a beatnick black beret - out on a sunny day Make the crows fly away Hey you could find it in yourself, I know To fly across the cobalt sky And leave me down below, I know To bend my neck and wave goodbye Hey you could find it in yourself, I know To fly across the cobalt sky And leave me down below, I know To bend my neck and wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye |
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Come back when you are done
Looking down on everyone Ain't it hard when you discover that you're dumb Open up your sleepy eyes Cut off all your family ties Ain't it hard when you realize you're young All these noises in your head Last time I saw you You were dead Roll your eyes back in your head Mark the words that I have said Come back when you realize you're dead All these noises in your head Last time I saw you You were dead Roll your eyes back in your head But mark the words that I have said And come back when you realize you're dead Ain't it hard when you discover that you're dead |
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Sunday night and now I know
How the night can pass slow All kinds of ugly outside that's right And I'm all alone tonight Distant highway din Leaky roof my doubt drips in And as the street lights and my prospects dim She turns in bed and thinks of him Where's the solace you can find At the bottom of your mind? Friends pushed me from behind And I feel so empty I could die A ladder to the edge Hangover throbs inside my head And all the stupid things I've ever said Now make me wish that I was dead It's night time, Greenwich mean time A man puts on a detour sign And the waterfalls of regret Unleash in a torrent of cold sweat Where's the solace you can find At the bottom of your mind? Friends pushed me from behind And I feel so empty I could die Sunday night Sunday night Where's the solace you can find At the bottom of your mind? Friends pushed me from behind And I feel so empty I could die Die, oh die |
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It was a time so full
And as rich as me and you In a case of deja vu I forgot that I knew you Every day was like a grape Or as rich as a chocolate cake And I took all I could take And laid claim to what I'd could stake Oh I loved you in your stripes Oh you looked so good in stripes But they never stay the same They just change from day to day But they never look the same They just change from day to day And I'm truly scarred for life We glow like fireflies Lost in the lows of nights and Forgetting family fights And at night the starlight gleams This pillow's made for dreams You drift away it seems Into soft flannel dreams Oh I loved you in your stripes Oh you looked so good in stripes But they never look the same They just change from day to day But they never look the same They just change from day to day They all look the same They all look the same Oh I loved you in your stripes Oh you looked so good in stripes But they never look the same They just change from day to day But they never look the same They just change from day to day They never look the same They just change from day to day They never look the same They just change from day to day |
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In the colored light stands you
The end is in sight - no need to fight anymore They're hot in pursuit and they're pursuing you All the way home and now you're finally alone All the way back home Now you're catching dust like desire Stockpiling stars collecting their wildfire Fireworks outside - its the fourth of July Now I see you - you're in a different light You're in a different light Like the rain when you're conscious of it She was sparkles Like a drug on the tip of your tongue She gives sparkles She was sparklers They gunned him down outside How long does it take? Shots echos across the lake And there he stood in a puddle of his own blood Slighter than snowflakes earth began to quake All the way back home Like the rain when you're conscious of it She was sparkles Like a drug on the tip of your tongue She gives sparkles She was sparklers Like the rain when you're conscious of it She was sparkles Like a drug on the tip of your tongue She gives sparkles She was sparklers She was sparklers |
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I wanna hear your sad sad voice come to me loud and clear
I wanna hear your lips and tongue form the words no ears should hear And I wanna watch you while your face reddens with fear And watch your eyes get all clouded up with tears This thing is such a stupid mess So nuts you never would have guessed You better watch yourself Your words just tell Watching your sundress just blowing in the breeze This time of year I want to breathe but I just sneeze And the sunshine is just killing me my degrees I go to smell the roses just to get stung by the bees Your words just free me day by day You better watch the things you say Button your lip Your tongue just slips I don't need to read about myself in other towns I don't want to hear all you have seen or what you've found And when you turn for the second go around Just keep your mouth shut and your ear down to the ground Your words just free me day by day You better watch the things you say Button your lip Your tongue just slips |
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I thought of you, did you think of me
I guess we'll wind up running down your street Twenty points for me I see that bandage lying under your sheets I see that blood, it's running down your cheek Twenty points for me Twenty points on top of me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Well I hurt you, so you hurt me I count them up, all you were plain to see It's twenty more for me I take from you, you take from me You plant that garden and you toss that seed It's twenty points for me Twenty points on top of me Twenty points, why can't you see If you can't take them honestly Then take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me |
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You're a blue ribbon surprise
A hot mold plastic dinosaur You're a starfish from Florida Give the machine another quarter Watch it appear Oooh you souvenir Take yourself a handful of sand And put it in your hat for awhile Or how about this rubber band You could be my good luck charm When you appear Oooh souvenir Souvenir I waited for you all year Souvenir I waited for you all year I am so evil in the morning But now that we have come this far Don't say I gave you no warning And don't make me stop this car When you appear Oooh souvenir Souvenir I waited for you all year Souvenir I waited for you all year Souvenir Souvenir I waited for you all year |
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It's so mean
It's crueler than your dreams And it's worse than it seems Add it up Stick it in your cup You're sure to get enough It runneth over now You can't complain no more Your bones are cracking now You'd better knuckle down Life's so cheap It's cheaper than it looks You can't learn that from books Stay in the house Stay clear of what you fear And you're old beyond your years It runneth over now You can't complain no more Your bones are cracking now You'd better knuckle down You're leaving your long shadows Leaning into space And your hardscrabble life Is written all over your face Counterfeit The bankroll that was his Fist of change that was yours A life so cheap It was cheaper than it looked You can learn that from books It runneth over now You can't complain no more Your bones are cracking now You'd better knuckle down They'll leave you with a prayer book And a pocket full of grace And your hardscrabbled life Is written all over your face Life's so cheap Life's so cheap It's so mean It's crueler than your dreams And it's worse than it seems It's so mean It's so mean Whisper in my ear Whisper in my ear Whisper in the night Whisper all the time Life's so cheap |
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