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Boxcar Reel
02:06
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It's just a bar it's just about
Time to call it a falling out
The sound the sound is selling me out
And it's all mine
But in a boxcar real
Where we never have a good time
In a boxcar real
We can make it on our own time
The sound downtown is selling me out
And the rough spots never get ironed out
Till you kick the clown out to the curb
Then it's alright
But in a boxcar real
Where we never have a good time
In a boxcar real
Can be happy on our own time
In a boxcar real
In a boxcar real
In a boxcar real
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Let You Down
02:39
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Who left the stereo on
Who kept the curtains drawn
‘Til the flowers died and the money was gone
See nothing funny about leaving details out
When you’re telling your story
And I don’t want to see it through to the end
Let me know when it’s time for goodbye
I don’t want to let you down
I know what’s inside inside
So you go all in on a dying genre
Where beautiful boys turn into regular men
And you won’t back down
No compromise
No big surprise
When you all end up short back and sides
And I don’t want to see it through to the end
Let me know when it’s time for goodbye
I don’t want to let you down
But I know what’s inside inside
Who left it laying around
Who let the label down
Who forgot how to try when the money was gone
See nothing funny about leaving details out
When you’re telling your story
And I don’t want to see it through to the end
Let me know when it’s time for goodbye
I don’t want to let you down
But I know what’s inside inside
I don’t want to let you down
I don’t want to let you down
Let you down
I don’t want to let you down
Let you down
I don’t want to let you down
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Candy Jones
03:45
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On the Rack
03:25
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On the rack with the wind at my back
It’s the same way each day forever
And I don’t know why
In the grave with the money we saved
For a slow day, we'll stay together
Can you remember why?
The rage, the stage
The children and the strays
Dumb enough to wanna know
Old enough to let it go
Please proceed, take whatever you need
Snuggle up under a stone
In the ground and all alone
Zelda can you help me break up the band
Get a straight job we'll stop pretending
The long and lonely lie
We can run but we’ll never be done
Getting beat down by the big town together
And would I could I’d fly
But we remain pretty pictures in a frame
I’ll never tell nobody
No baby not even me
Art and song
Pretending we belong
Dumb enough to never know
Old enough to let it go
I can’t demand you take me by the hand
Tell me it’ll be alright
That you’ve got a plan
I can’t remember what I am
Old enough to let it go
Dumb enough to wanna go back
On the rack with the wind at my back it’s same way each day forever
On the rack with the wind at my back it’s the same line each time
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Remember a Girl
03:57
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Sitting in a four star room in the new new south
Seven days straight without a word coming out of my mouth
What goes on on the other side of the world
I remember a girl
Close your eyes
Compromised
You're nothing at all
You're dancing at the Ritz I’m suspended over the Zambezi
Singing a song I wrote called you're not gonna get off that easy
Nights are long on the other side of the world
I remember a girl
Cauterized
Resupplied
With nothing at all
Don't look at the people you meet on your way down
You don't think of me till syncope has you on the ground
Bolting out of the blues I'm
Waiting for you now
What if I'm never going
Going back again
I’ll say a prayer and pretend
That I could be a SIM card
You could be a satellite
With a pocketful of copper bullets and no way to say goodnight
Something's wrong on the other side of the world
I remember a girl
I remember a girl
I remember a girl
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Hantuchova
03:03
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TV on and nothing’s shaking
Paint is drying teeth are breaking
And it was coming down hard in Queens
And they cut away
And then it was over
Look what's lighting
Lighting up the cable and satellite
Don’t say no way
Don’t say no way
She’s got a light
I was 21 and I was done
And I’m sorry now
Moving on
So you take yours
And I’ll take Hantuchova
There’s so many ways this could go
Keep the laws of gravity
And death and decay
Away from this one for a day
There’s so many ways this could go
Keep the laws of gravity
And death and decay
Away from this one for a day
Don’t say no way
Don’t say no way
Don’t say no way
Don’t say no way
No don’t say no way
Don’t say no way
Don’t say no way
Don’t say no way
Keep the laws of gravity
And death and decay
Away from this one for a day
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The Other Part Is Me
04:20
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Change your mind
I’ll be with you every time you turn away
And live to fight another day
Save it up and tell you after
Stay divine
It’ll save you every time you lose your way
And live to fight another day
The lies that hide behind the laughter
Any time you wanna go
Is fine with me cause now I know
Stay awake
Stay away from men who take you on for free
Recall the other part is me
Alone I can’t sustain the laughter
And when I yell
When I damn you straight to hell why can’t you see
That the other part is me
The one no one wants to look after
Any time you wanna go
Is fine with me cause now I know
They installed an aftermarket heart
So I could feel something
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8. |
Girls Not Talking
03:29
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She’s not talking the girl’s not talking today
She’s not talking the girl’s not talking to me
She’s looking out the window and laughing at the greenery
But she’s not talking the girl’s not talking to me
The rock star poses the rhymes and the roses aren’t working today
Gotta get back to my stocking and let her keep walking away
If you can stand up she’ll race you to the end of the world
The sound she’s hearing the one I’ve been fearing it’s on
Maybe I was waiting on a song
Maybe I was sleeping through the summer
Maybe I was wanting to die young
I just don’t remember now
Maybe I was climbing up the walls
Storming out and waiting to blow over
Now the night has just begun and she’s all gone
The drop dead daughter she wants it in the water you’re done
Just say something tell me I’m the only one
And when she dances she knows her demands will be met
A mind on a platter I’m sorry but a promise was made
Maybe I was wandering too long
Maybe I was creeping on some number
Maybe I was wanting to die young
I just don’t remember now
Maybe I was climbing up the walls
Storming out and waiting to blow over
Another night has just begun and she’s all gone
She’s not talking the girl’s not talking today
She’s not talking the girl’s not talking to me
Sneaking out the window to see what she can get into
At least she’s not talking the girl’s not talking to you
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It’s Our Life
03:52
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When did you try it on
Playing the prodigal son
And when are you going home to your life
Lying there thinking of everything in a timeline
Running away from me to 1993
You come along
And you forget
It’s our life
No the car isn’t mine
That’s a story for another time
We’ll drive till we see a sign for Saturday
No more waiting to arrive
Just happy we’re still alive
And don’t gotta shuck and jive for anyone
So come along come along
And you forget
It’s our life
You can do it with anyone
In the car or the street or the lawn
Plug it in or strap it on
Just don’t say you’re gonna be gone
Gone in the morning
Let’s say I found the keys
Stuck way up in the trees
Why don’t you get in please
It’s fine
It’s our life
And you forget
It’s our life
And you forget
It’s our life
And you forget
It’s our life
And you forget
It’s our life
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There’s a System
03:39
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There's a system
I don't know it
What's the question
I'm gonna blow it
But I don't want to dream of a motherland
I don’t want to talk about the other hand
I want a reprieve can you cover me
I don't want to leave is there another way
Could not take the lies
In this broken enterprise
You got a way with words
Got away with everything
In the substrate
The water the waves move through
But I don't want to dream of a motherland
I don’t want to talk about the other hand
I want a reprieve can you cover me
I don't want to leave is there another way
Maybe it’s time to go home
Where it’s all been said before
And we been hit by the same star
Don’t want it anymore
We’ve all been here before
Same shit from the same store
Don’t need it anymore
I don’t know it
There’s a system
I don’t know it
There's a system
I don't know it
There's a system
I don't know it
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Surrender Human Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Surrender Human is a rock machine from Chapel Hill, NC.
Matt McMichaels (guitar)
Robert Sledge (bass)
Tony Stiglitz (drums)
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