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1. |
Jazz Chords
03:10
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Down narrow streets
Jumping from your seats
On foggy nights
Just to get a glimpse
Inside the halls
Where jazz chords fall
And music lays to rest
You get your fix
On a Juno-6
Set to oscillate
With your dinner plates
Your roommates thought
You should have bought
A bass to be in the band
But wait
Just check out this lick I know
See? I really make it go
Sounds like Depeche Mode
Drums like The Next Episode
With guitar solo
We'll play that club
And blast the sub
So loud no one can think
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2. |
Perfect Exception
03:10
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There's still a lot I need to figure out
But if your hearts want to fight you better let them
And if you just want to drift about
You can be flotsam you can be jetsam
Tell me lies
More lies
We could be perfect
We could be perfect
Except for that
I don't know if it's worth it
I don't know if it's worth it
As a matter of fact
Tell me lies
More lies
If it isn't time to take a bow
Why you got to act so stern?
It might improve if we could study how
But there's nothing that we would learn
Tell me lies
More lies
We could be perfect
We could be perfect
Except for that
I don't know if it's worth it
I don't know if it's worth it
As a matter of fact
Tell me lies
More lies
I might never get it figured out
But the sun still comes up anyway
I might never get to drift about
For each tomorrow there's a yesterday
Tell me lies
More lies
We could be perfect
We could be perfect
Except for that
I don't know if it's worth it
I don't know if it's worth it
As a matter of fact
We could be perfect
We could be perfect
Except for that
I don't know if it's worth it
I don't know if it's worth it
As a matter of fact
Tell me lies
More lies
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3. |
Hey Tatiana
05:03
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Class of 3022
I'm alright and how 'bout you?
I don't know why you dropped off the face of the earth
I only listen to power metal
Indie kids with flower petals
Like the ones we'd listen to, for what it's worth
Hey Tatiana
Hope you're doing okay, Tatiana
Is there something I could say, Tatiana?
Or did I scare you away?
You know I'd give you a strong 10
For being such a good friend
If i'd had good faith, maybe, we'd still be close today
It's not hard for me to remember
What it was like in those hard Decembers
When all our friends would meet each other half way
Hey Tatiana
Hope you're doing okay, Tatiana
Is there something I could say, Tatiana?
Or did I scare you away?
I listened to what Noah told me
All those years ago
When that girl bought and sold me
And I'd trust as far as I could throw
Class of 3022
I'm alright and how 'bout you?
I don't know why you dropped off the face of the earth
I only listen to power metal
Indie kids with flower petals
Like the ones we would listen to, for what it's worth
Hey Tatiana
Hope you're doing okay, Tatiana
Is there something I could say, Tatiana?
Or did I scare you away?
Hey Tatiana
Did I scare you away?
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4. |
Beware of Dog
02:10
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Hey
There's your sign
To motivate away
There's nothing left to say
Whoa
Oh my god
It's sinking in this time
It's sticking in my mind
Beware of dog
You should've listened when I said
That I would rather see you dead
What's going on inside your head?
Beware of dog
Beware of dog
Oh
What went wrong
With our little plan
to head out on the lamb?
Cry
While you sleep
To fortify my point
You go and blow another joint
Beware of dog
You should've listened when I said
That I would rather see you dead
What's going on inside your head?
Beware of dog
Beware of dog
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5. |
Meaning There Before
04:48
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I saw your photograph when I was just fifteen
When my world was a different shade of green
In your pallor I saw promise and potential
The way our stars aligned was not so consequential
There was a meaning there before
But what once was is now no more
Adopting narratives
So that I could say I was just a kid and it didn't matter anyway
Having thought it through I would have done it different
I thought myself so smart but my heart was illiterate
I wouldn't change it though as it brought me to this
Can you imagine that was really my first kiss?
There was a meaning there before
But what once was is now no more
Adopting narratives
So that I could say I was just a kid and it didn't matter anyway
I don't think about it
I used to drink about it
I was younger than the lines beneath your eyes
Spent so long sinking in tears
I got through the frost years
Now I choose to smile instead of
Cry
Would you laugh at me if I told you I miss you?
Or would you cry and I could offer you a tissue?
Maybe then, as friends, we'd stumble to our fates
Replacing bitterness with something less than hate
There was a meaning there before
But what once was is now no more
Adopting narratives
So that you can say you were just a kid and I didn't matter anyway
There was a meaning there before
But what once was is now no more
Adopting narratives
So that we can say we were just kids and it didn't matter anyway
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6. |
Sworn by the Sword
03:51
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Ride with me on stolen horses
To the shores of Tripoli
Tonight we'll dine on seven courses
As they sing of our victory
Bodies rotting in the sun
Don't you know this is how war is won?
We must advance
We must attack them
We must be proactive
For any traction
We must advance
We must attack them
(Sworn by the Sword)
We must be proactive
For any traction
(Sworn by the Sword)
No shelter from the storm of shrapnel
falling down like sleet
No general, corporal, commander, or admiral
Of any standing fleet
Bodies rotting in the sun
Don't you know this is how war is won?
We must advance
We must attack them
We must be proactive
For any traction
We must advance
We must attack them
(Sworn by the Sword)
We must be proactive
For any traction
(Sworn by the Sword)
Let me tell you
Oh, let me tell you
Let me tell you
Oh, let me tell you
Let me tell you
Let me tell you
Let me tell you
Let me tell you
Bodies rotting in the sun
Don't you know this is how war is won?
We must advance
We must attack them
We must be proactive
For any traction
We must advance
We must attack them
(Sworn by the Sword)
We must be proactive
For any traction
(Sworn by the Sword)
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7. |
Chest
04:55
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I never forget the wrong I do
I've made more mistakes than you ever knew
There's a card in the spokes of my bicycle mind
To pretend that my thoughts are still motorized
But, if I can get
Something off my chest
I don't just poison myself
I poison the rest
And deteriorate our health
Plastered against the wall
My posters begin to fall
Hurting like it's a way of life
Doubling the pain and hurting twice
But, if I can get
Something off my chest
I don't just poison myself
I poison the rest
To deteriorate our health
Streaks of auburn down my sides
Opening wide while my cells divide
As the dagger scrapes my ribs
Splitting into tiny bits
But, if I can get
Something off my chest
I don't just poison myself
I poison the rest
To deteriorate our health
Our health
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8. |
Firewood
03:19
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I got a little project in the back
A dilapidated shack
Rotten to the core
With a creaky wooden door
It's home to ants and termites now
I'm gonna fix it up and how
It's never gonna be the same
Once we tear down the frame
There's no oxygen in here
Wind don't bend like it should
What a lousy atmosphere
Might still be good for firewood
I couldn't hear you shout
Until I took my earplugs out
I've been slaving away all day
So much hotter than the month of May
I tore all the insulation down
And I hauled it back to town
I've got fiberglass in my hands
But boy won't this cabin be grand
There's no oxygen in here
The wind don't bend like it should
What a lousy atmosphere
Might still be good for firewood
For firewood
For firewood
For firewood
For firewood
For firewood
For firewood
For firewood
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9. |
Key to the City
04:56
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Caught on celluloid
You know you're not the only one
And I've news from Dr. Freud
When you underestimate you get caught in the sun
You can have your eyes so pretty back
And you can have your looks of pity back
You can have your whole committee back
You can have your key to the city back
You can buy your own damn Cadillac
Try giving someone else a heart attack
You can have your key to the city
Key to the city
Key to the city back
All that boyish charm
That you thought would save your neck
Without a shot in the arm
And no solution that involves cutting a check
You can have your eyes so pretty back
And you can have your looks of pity back
You can have your whole committee back
You can have your key to the city back
You can buy your own damn Cadillac
Try giving someone else a heart attack
You can have your key to the city
Key to the city
Key to the city
If you should win
We all shall lose
But now is my
Turn to choose
If I should turn
Away from you
Oh
Whatever shall I do?
You can have your eyes so pretty back
And you can have your looks of pity back
You can have your whole committee back
You can have your key to the city back
You can buy your own damn Cadillac
Try giving someone else a heart attack
You can have your key to the city
Key to the city
Key to the city back
You can have your eyes so pretty back
And you can have your looks of pity back
You can have your whole committee back
You can have your key to the city back
You can buy your own damn Cadillac
Try giving someone else a heart attack
You can have your key to the city
Key to the city
Key to the city back
You can have your eyes so pretty back
And you can have your looks of pity back
You can have your whole committee back
You can have your key to the city back
You can buy your own damn Cadillac
Try giving someone else a heart attack
You can have your key to the city
Key to the city
Key to the city back
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10. |
Fishers of Men
03:27
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What's the thrill of it all
When you're three feet small
and daylight never seems to break?
So the days get long
And your friends are gone
By the time you realize your mistake
No one's trying to keep me down
But I still never see you around
The world gets wider and emptier too
But if we're not fishers of men
We ought not to pretend
What y'all thought was the end
Exists only to begin again
But I take comfort still
Like I hope I will
That they're out there living something new
But if we're not fishers of men
We ought not to pretend
What y'all thought was the end
Exists only to begin again
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