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Day off
Gimme a
Day off
I'll go
'N get lost
Free time, oh free time
Nothing spent from nothing
Better off on house arrest
Somewhere in Spain
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Metronome
Would you be my metronome
Keep me in time when I feel alone
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Catherine
Catherine was a friend of mine
There was a light in her eyes
Enough light to fill the dark space
In my heart it is so dark
Catherine
I’ll sing
Catherine
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Summer gone
Summer gone
Winter, so long
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I'm gonna follow the liquid
Watch myself being led away from myself
Down some ancient stairway
Under everything
Watch myself being eaten by the distance
'Hahaha,' bellows the joker
'No, no, no,' replies the victim
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Undone I (1909)
03:32
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Sometimes you lose someone
Love comes undone
When you hide behind
No one left inside
Sometimes you are someone
Mama came undone
When she lost her son
No one left, left to love
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It's hard (it's easy)
02:42
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It’s hard
It's hard to know
These things out there
It’s hard to watch
You, himself and god
It’s hard
It's easy
Die-a-beat-us-up
Be strong, knots loose
It's easy pre-fall
Gods god-self, the fall
It's easy
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Welcome (to heaven)
02:46
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Out here
in the scorching desert
the heat gets to your head
without water way out here
without water
blood gets thick, eyes get red
sand once so soft
like a bed of grass
not any longer
now a rough rock eats into my back
the only
break in the scorching blue sky
is a lone vulture
some friend, the vulture
it circles
vulture it says:
'Welcome, to heaven'
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Never again
Will I love you
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To be a man (bw attacks)
05:24
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To be a man
It's quite a task
To be a man
Be a man
The city cajole
It's all lit up beneath
An apartment rooftop
It's an uphill drop
To be a man
You have to jump
Fall into the arms
Of the Earth
As it rushes to meet you
Headfirst
What could be worse than
To be a man?
To be a man
Could use a hand
To be a man
It's quite a task
To be a man
Be a man
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Birch tree (why o' why)
02:25
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Birch tree, birch tree, birch tree
Birch tree
Why me, why me, why o’ why me
Why me
At the end of time
It is written
A birch tree will
Topple
And all your aches and pains
It is written
Will too, will too
Topple
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Won't find me at the shopping mall
won't find me at the restaurant
won't find me at the concert hall
won't find me at the voting stall
won't find me at the protest or rally
won't find me with the minimum wage job
neither the maximum wage or medium
won't find me at the drinks counter
won't find me at the birthday party
won't find me on halloween or christmas
won't find me walking on any pavement
won't find me in conversation
won't find me in any station of life neither in any station of death or death
won't find me awake or asleep
but if 'n you must, you can find me
far, far away from it all
all alone in the deep blue ocean blue
where there's no one and nothing
no one and nothing to ruin
ruin what is good, and true, and beautiful
good and true and beautiful…
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How many hours in a day
how many dreams in a night
how many trees lost in a forest
how many cities in a country lane
don't dance that day
pretty Jane
pretty Jane
dance away
how many mountains in a rock
how many industries does it take
how many dollars in a disaster
how many rides in a railway
don't dance that day
lovely Jane
lovely Jane
dance away
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A star (go out)
02:49
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I bet you've never seen
a star go out
I bet you've never seen
a mouse eat a mouse
I bet you've never seen
a man without money
I bet you've never seen a star go out
well you're in for a treat
sit back, relax, enjoy the show
there's nothing you need to know
you can say saw a star go, go, go
you can say you saw quite a show
a star never knows
a star only goes
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another day inside
another day closed blinds
another day wonder why
another day half a mind
some other day outside
some other day open shutters
some other day without why
some other day in the right mind
another day without you
another day rainy clothes on
another day hard to believe
another day fish on a hook
some other day with you
some other day sunny warm and dry
some other day second nature faith
some other day a fisherman's fortune
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Every now and then
I find you
walking alone as the snow sinks down
I find you
you were around for me
you found me
you were around when I drowned
you found me
we won't go away, will we?
every now and then
I lose you
out among the metal and the screen
I lose you
you were away for a while
you lost me
you were away while I whittled
you lost me
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Don't lose (faith or)
01:43
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When my faith failed
god grated his nails onto his plate
'o, my son, don't lose faith
or I'll serve you my nails on your dinner plate'
now I plead,
'o, my god,
have mercy on me and help my unbelief
come quickly'
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Won't leave (you behind)
03:18
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Won’t leave you behind
Won’t leave you behind
I’m not mine, not mine
Won't leave you behind
Won’t see you not mine
Won't put you on the line
Won't waste your time
Wont pick your mind
Won't walk on a dime
Won't talk over your lines
Won't leave you behind
Won't leave you behind
I’m not mine, not mine
Won't you be mine so I
Won't have to leave you behind
Won't have to leave you behind
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Sometimes you lose someone
Love comes undone
When you hide behind
No one left inside
Sometimes you are someone
Mama came undone
When she lost her son
No one left, left to love
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Greenville’s very own Zachary Lansdowne
He was brought down in Noble County
On the morning of September 3rd, 1925
Down came the Daughter of the Stars
USS Shenandoah
Ohio became a thermal updraft
1,000-plus feet per minute
The Empress of the Clouds split apart
The control car lost control in the merciless sky
USS Shenandoah
All for publicity
Midwestern politicians sacrificed the crew
Zachary tried to postpone it
But Eberle and Moffat preferred profit
USS Shenandoah
40 cities and towns were not enough
To satisfy our political interests
Lansdowne was among the 14 killed
Politics is the line-squall that did it
USS Shenandoah
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All these Christmas lights
Twinkle dimly in the snowy white
And the mist of our breath are all that’s left
Of the sadness that these lights embody
Christmas lights
Shine so bright
All these Christmas lights
Let me feel you’re here tonight
And the cold snowflakes are all that’s left
Of the girl that these lights embody
Christmas lights
Shine so bright
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