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| 1. |
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She's not a flower
she isn't growing in your garden today you couldn't cultivate her anyway you're not a king bee you like honey and you're packing a sting but there really isn't such a thing you're in flight, and she smells all right but she's not a flower She's not an ocean that you're an island in the middle of and there isn't any prison of love you're not a freebird hey you, up on that mountain peak can't you hear what's coming out of your beak? you can say you'll fly away but you're not a freebird Love's not a poison you better find a better reason why you feel like you want to die a broke heart won't kill you you might suffer till the end of your days but that was gonna happen anyways and even if the love you mourn is equal to the love you scorn and fortune mocks the love you gave and someone lays her on your grave she's not a flower |
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| 2. |
| 4:16 |
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I don't have many friends
just some pretty loose and dead ends even one can be a bit much for me and they call me but I never end up calling them back they lose patience as I lose track I don't care anymore if I ever did before but I'm not really paying attention people say what reflects well on them and everyone's lying like rugs and everyone thinks I'm on drugs but I'm just fucked up on life cause it doesn't add up and I never know what should be done I know I'm far from the only one I stay out of the fray I figure I do less damage that way I'm outstanding in my field and all I ever want to do is just get plowed I always feel outnumbered in a crowd and if the truth be known I feel outnumbered when I'm all alone if you're wondering why there's no affect when I speak, when you look in my eyes I couldn't begin to explain I'm almost perfectly sane but I'm just fucked up on life I'm just fucked up, fucked up on life oo oo oo ah na na na na dum dum day I never know what I should do or say when words fail me I react reciprocally I'm just fucked up on life I'm just fucked up, fucked up on life |
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| 3. |
| 2:54 |
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You didn't make my crucifixion
I know you had a lot on your plate but from what I read and what everyone said I handled it just great I'm even kind of disappointed cause I really couldn't feel it at all well I'll come down to you when I get around to you all you gotta do is crawl oh, just have some faith in me smart things come in stupid packages when all you hear is the crying you read a lot into each other's sobs we're going through a spell but we're aging well even if we don't have jobs and we can't even leave the apartment cause we live on such a scary street but I don't mind I'll risk my life just to try to get you something to eat oh, just have some faith in me pure love gets sent in mixed messages oh, just have some faith in me smart things come in stupid packages so come on bop bop bop... oh, just have some faith in me I'll guide you through the obscure passages oh, just have some faith in me smart things come in stupid packages |
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| 4. |
| 3:17 |
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Discretion is a must, rising from the dust,
on your feet but just a bit unsteady you want to close your eyes, be taken by surprise but not before you're absolutely ready so lay low, as time permits and you'll know it when it hits: it's gonna sound like a big it's coming down like a big it's gonna pound like a big, strange, beautiful hammer You're feeling like a saint, powerful but faint like you want to call for an attendant heavy in your hand, courage on demand you feel safe, and strangely independent once baptized in pain and light you'd be advised to hold on tight when you collide with a big you coincide with a big filled inside with a big, strange, beautiful hammer it's coming down on you it's gonna drive you home hammer, hammer, big hammer, strange hammer Discretion is a waste, now you've had a taste you see yourself as well-maintained and polished existence is a test, we try to do our best but we're on a quest to be demolished it's your right, so don't be shy day and night you're smitten by the might of a big the blinding light of a big in the night of the big, strange, beautiful hammer hammer, hammer, big hammer, strange hammer |
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| 3:43 | 
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| 6. |
| 2:42 |
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How many times can you read that letter
And what do you need it for? Can't you see that the salutation Has no meaning anymore? And you can't resurrect the body And the closing's out of date And if you stumble upon an answer It will always be too late You better take that letter Put it in the boyfriend box Are you still staring at that picture Of someone who doesn't care? Just like you're looking through a window At a world that isn't there? If you're trying to reconstruct it It will only fall apart 'Cause there's really nothing in it But your late, great, heart You better take that picture Put it in the boyfriend box Ooh la la, ooh la la, ooh la la There's something dark and dead Buried in your head and underneath your bed You're still tempted to believe the world is true You even almost do Your little world is a little empty But the memories never stop Organizing themselves in layers The most recent at the top If you need to go any deeper You can dig them out again Just in case you need to be reminded Of what a fool you've been You're gonna take those memories Put them in the boyfriend box Ooh la la, ooh la la, ooh la la Take those letters Put them in the boyfriend box The boyfriend box The boyfriend box |
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| 3:53 |
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You have to hate the world
it's required by your clothes consistency is everything as everybody knows it's so cold, baby you're losing your hold, baby and you're gonna fold, baby before too long but don't tell me your secret lies in London I already know I can see your secret lies in London everywhere I go There is a sun somewhere extremely far away your tired eyes, reflecting the sky, a drizzly steel grey there's no light in there and there's no sight in there I get right in there, and it's all dark but don't deny your secret lies in London it's not worth your while you can lie back and think of England and miss it by a mile ya na na na na you can't conceal your secret lies in London obvi ous ly not I can feel your secret lies in London deeper than you thought ya na na na na |
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| 8. |
| 2:08 |
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Elizabeth,
don't look to me you can be yourself or find some other way to be but time won't wait and even if it does it's unlikely to go back to how it was so my advice is to not think twice: Elizabethorfight stick to your guns it won't be long before surrendering won't be an option anymore so in the end I recommend: Elizabethorfight peace whenever justice will allow peace forever Elizabeth for now if that means eternally fighting for Elizabeth and Liberty or the reverse you could do much worse: Elizabethorfight. |
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| 9. |
| 3:36 |
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Everybody says you shouldn't cry
everybody's standing by and everybody's gonna roll their eyes if you ever do everybody says it's not too late and you can still participate you take everybody's bait and everybody laughs at you they'll leave you crying all alone they'll say they wouldn't have if they had only known but you see the reality behind their indulgent stares-- everybody knows you're crying no one ever really cares everybody thinks you're a little slow everyone wants you to know they went through the same thing long ago and it wasn't that hard to do everybody says they sympathize you stand by while they describe someone you don't even recognize that's supposed to look like you but they never can explain how to live with such spectacular pain and when you're at your weakest they advise you to be strong everybody says they've been there everybody must be wrong ooh ooh ooh ooh everybody knows you're crying they send their love and love is loud they feel it's greatly to their credit and they're proud of their compassion, and it's true but it doesn't have a lot to do with you and you can't escape the conclusion though you don't like what it was: everybody says they love you, no one ever really does. ooh ooh ooh ooh everybody knows you're crying everybody knows you're crying everybody knows you're crying |
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| 2:14 |
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I was here when the call came through, Jill
and I screened it like I always do, Jill and they hung up on the machine just like you, Jill well, that sounds like one of your stunts, Jill and I'm only gonna say this once, Jill you haven't left a message for me in a couple of months, Jill I'm not blaming you, Jill this is hard to do, Jill but I still don't know why I always feel like crying, crying, crying I'm still having some trouble tying up your loose ends, Jill and I still see life through the same distorted lens, Jill and I think I may have said some things about you in front of some of your friends, Jill well, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, Jill but these are not normally people with whom I have dealings, Jill I still spend most of my time in silence alone staring at ceilings, Jill but you know all that, Jill what I'm getting at, Jill is I can't stop not knowing why I never don't feel like crying, crying, crying |
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| 2:33 |
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She, shining like a star, like a sun, like a moon
and all that other stuff you know I wanted everything, she gave me everything but everything is never enough what I mean is, she, my kind of fluff. Like a star or a sun or a moon like the surface of a still lagoon like a stainless steel spoon she's shining reach out to turn her on she fills the room and hijinks ensue in dark nights of the soul I don't mind saying that I think I've had one or two tried to tell her, she already knew like an incandescent wish like a silverplate chaffing dish like a Siamese fighting fish she's shining like a blinding brilliant thing like a turned on electric ring like a novel by Stephen King she's shining ooh ah, ooh ooh ooh ah glowing in her jar just like a little piece of star ooh ooh ooh ooh ah like a blue electric shock like a radioactive rock like the hands of a digital clock she's shining like the Thames or the Rhine or the Nile like a luminescent radio dial like a brand new ceramic tile she's shining ooh she's shining, ooh she's shining in this endless night she's my little misguiding light |
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| 12. |
| 3:12 |
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I'm not complaining, I'm just figuring out
how everything left us behind I got my problems, I'm aware of them I'll take care of them, never you mind you're still repeating pre-recorded things they used to say in universities and books on left wing politics and law about underlying structures that so far as they mean anything still won't support the personal connections that you draw Institutionalized misogyny that's all that stands between my baby and me now science tells us I'm hard-wired to, I'm required to do it with you 'cause I'm a man, and you're a woman and that's what those kind of people do I stole that line from Woody Allen isn't it amusing I wish I could make you understand what Woody Allen meant. If there's no such thing as objective reality why can't we quit our jobs and just imagine we won't have to pay the rent? Institutionalized misogyny that's why they're charging rent to my baby and me Michelle, ma belle: ton beau, Michel Foucault a Foucault dependent is always ready to go I think we're alone I might have known she's got Chomsky on the phone Institutionalized misogyny that's all that stands between my baby and me my baby and me my baby and me |
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| 13. |
| 3:34 |
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If you had wanted to see me today
I assume you could have found a way But that's not how today went God only knows what today meant Take all the time you need I'm not going anywhere We're unsafe at any speed Take all the time you need If I had the chance to say how I feel I would Even though it wouldn't make me look good That's ammunition you lost While you were trying to exhaust Each possibility Until you've exhausted me The last of a dying breed Take all the time you need And I will love you still But you're hardly even needed now As a lesson to us all And I want you back again But I don't know what I'd do then Take all the time you need I haven't prepared my case I wouldn't know how to plead So take all the time you need Take all the time you need Take all the time you need And I'll follow your lead |
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