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House party in Little Rock
All the kids is chewing paper
There’s oranges in the kitchen
They really like the flavor
I’m twisted on cough syrup
I’m doing it again
Over and over
On that you can depend
Chorus:
Don’t touch me
Please don’t touch me
I can’t control my general condition
Gutter punks in the bathroom
Drinking beer
I’m in the bathtub
Motive unclear
Three girls burning incense
In the living room
They’re dancing all over
They just keep on dancing
Chorus
Bare shoulders and overalls
She liked my tie
She didn’t really say it
But I saw it in her eye
It’s three o’clock in the morning
I can smell your hair
Like warm flowers in India
I wish you were here
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Irene
02:25
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Just like a leaf
I float down a stream
If I can’t see you now
Well I’ll see you in my dreams
Irene don’t go
Back to the rodeo
Irene don’t go
Back on the road
Sleeping all day
Under a sad willow tree
If you’re not by my side
It’s not as sad as me
Irene don’t go
Back to the rodeo
Irene don’t go
Back on the road
Everybody’s searching
For fortune and fame
If you can’t find love
It’s no longer a game
Irene don’t go
Back to the rodeo
Irene don’t go
Back on the road
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14 Days
02:03
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Love is strange
I don’t believe in it
14 days and that’s the end of it
It’s all the rage
We’re just pretending it
Break of day
I’m ignoring it
Humboldt Bay
There was a secret
I don’t care you can keep it
It was quiet
We were muddy
It was pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty
It was pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty
The sound of word paints language into tree
Into love
Into me
Word says I hate you
Word says I give to you
Rain splatters on an arm tattoo
Fuck the world
I was born to lose
I was born to lose
I was born to lose
Just like you
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Garden of Paradise
02:56
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If this were the beginning
Two children in the trees
They’re out there learning
Got scrapes on their knees
Clouds over the water as if the sky were erased
No business or pressure
Crawdads make good bait
In the garden
In the garden
In the garden of paradise
I bought an almanac
It’s a present for you
We could read it together
Learn the phases of the moon
It doesn’t take a genius
To stick a seed in a hole
You got to be a farmer
If you want love to grow
In the garden
In the garden
In the garden of paradise
Hey all you people leave me alone
Don’t bother me
If I want if I want a friend
I’ll steal a TV
I’ve seen your pictures in the shopping malls
You can see my face on a post office wall
Or you can meet me where the fruit is sweet
Where there are paths but never streets
Bring some china we’ll brew some tea
We might never want to leave
In the garden
In the garden
In the garden of paradise
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It's in The Sauce
03:06
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Fish Breathing
02:41
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I was crazy down the freeway
Hunkered hard in your arms
Two thousand miles past an airport
Two thousand backyards
If I’m lying on my blanket
Book folded next to me
Are there a thousand fish breathing
Little breathes in the sea
And I want to know
What you really need
And what it takes
To miss a guy like me
I brought a new record
I already wore it out
Wish I were some toothpaste
Smiling in your mouth
And I want to know
What you really need
And what it takes
To miss a guy like me
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7. |
Rocket to The Moon
03:29
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Rocket to the moon
Hope we get there soon
Four days in space
Such a lovely place
Take her round the globe
When are we going home?
Oceans blue
Jenny’s coming too
I walk away
Swimming pools on mars
It’s not very far
Tree-lined boulevards
We’ll be lonely
Cloud cover in the sky
Only stars passing by
It’s quiet in the rain
Everyday feels the same
They feel the same
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Valentina
03:29
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It’s a beautiful city
The stars are out tonight
Russian girls are so pretty
In the pale moonlight
I don’t know where you are right now
I’m just a man standing on the ground
Valentina—hope you’re safe tonight
Valentina worked in a tire factory
But that is not where she wanted to be
I want to walk you home from cosmonaut school
We could talk about the moon we could talk about you
I wonder where you are tonight
Hope you’re having a wonderful flight
Valentina—come back to me
Come back baby
Outside my window in the sky a blinking light
Close my eyes I’ll close my eyes
All my life my dreams have been too high
And now it’s you passing by
A smile on a pretty face
Taking hearts into outer space
Valentina I’m counting the stars
Wondering where you are
Valentina
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9. |
What Should I Have Done?
00:42
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What should I have done?
Should I have held her heart
Bloody and soft in my hands
Should I have given her words
Rock scissors and glue
Words that became my own
My own grief
The perfect color
The perfect language
Of my own lies
Which I believe
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Tennessee
02:06
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It’s for certain the sky is falling
The wind is blowing
The leaves are calling
If we go we’ll be gone for years
I remember stuck in the desert
Me in a tie you in a mini skirt
Our only friends
Lesbians and queers
I don’t know what’s wrong or right
I just don’t need much sleep tonight
Two sleeping bags up on a roof
And if the stars weren’t enough
She’s talking whispering in my ear
Her voice is like a canyon
Like a diamond mind that’s been abandoned
A resting spot for possum and bear
All my secrets keep falling out
Every time I open my mouth
Let’s go back to Tennessee
Let’s go back to Tennessee
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Birds
01:53
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Dressed like a clown
Hanging upside down
It’s her dream to feel free
Sitting all alone
Hair nicely combed
Her eyes the color of the sea
With all her things
Shoes and diamond rings
Love is where it’s really at
She doesn’t want a man or a woman can’t you see
She wants the sparrows in the trees
Who can be a sparrow in a tree
Who can make her dance and sing
Who can be a sparrow in a tree
All I know it isn’t me
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Kiss Goodbye
02:24
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I’d row a boat across the sand
I’d cross the dessert on my hands
I’d pull the moon from the sky
If only a kiss didn’t mean goodbye
A willow bends in the wind
A comet comes back again
And I will always wonder why
Every time a kiss means goodbye
Love is just like modern art
You can’t understand it unless you’re smart
I hope the day will come again
When a smile doesn’t mean the end
A train whistle doesn’t mean a lie
And a kiss doesn’t mean goodbye
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13. |
Violent Girl
04:17
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Here comes the mailman letters in his hand
There’s postage due but you know he understands
Leave ‘em on the porch go to the next house
‘Cuz pretty soon he knows she’s coming out and
She’s a violent girl
She’s a violent girl
She’s a violent girl
She’s a violent girl
Take her to a show she’s the first to start the pit
You can go in but you’ll probably get hit
There she is dancing with a smile on her face
Where there once was a tooth, now there is a space
She’s a violent girl
I met her I fell in love
I met her I fell in love
I met her
She found a railroad spike and just for fun
Now she’s going to pierce her tongue
Doesn’t care if it grates on her teeth
She thinks expression is more important than speech
She’s a violent girl
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14. |
Silhouette in Tibet
02:53
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Here it is a piece of string
Mark it well and keep it clean
Walk me down the boulevard
Stray cats are singing
In the yard
They sing for you
They sing for me
And they make me wonder
How pleasant life could be
Colored moon against the day
I want to walk you around the bay
The floorboards croak
The floorboards fuss
I as I watch the stars spin quietly under us
In my dreams you are arched over me
Silhouette in Tibet
Could that be you
Could that be you
I hear a sound mighty strange
It surrounds my room
My dreams drifting away
Drifting away
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