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on the fire escape
there's a bird eatin trash
and a bloody shirt on coney island
the train out of town
scares all that who ride
as the gangs all show off for their girlfriends
and the gap is slowly being mined
all tracks lookin back intertwine
ill be yours
if you can stay mine
but i know how it goes on til you can't even breathe
she stands lookin out at the sea
for her love to return to her arms
but she kicks the sand, turns and moves on
all the boys want to help her fix her bike
and yeah, half of them are tryin to be nice
but the other half are trying to steal the girl i like
while i'm here by a bloody shirt on coney island
expensive mistakes
i've made more than a few
as the air that i breathe turns to bug spray
and i'll say this chalk it up as a fact
when i'm back i'm gonna be a better man babe
and yeah, you might already be gone
cause what i learned took too fuckin long
love like that knows how to move on cause she knows how it goes
on til you can't even breathe
maybe you'll come see about me
and take the sure bet
my heart made my shirt wet
that was my shirt on coney island
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2. |
Trust No One
02:30
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instead of buying that brand new nice camera for yourself
you should have bought a bunch of disposable ones to hand out to everyone left
hey, look at this shot you're so damn hot
but why you want to change that beautiful face into somethin that it's not?
the book you gave the other day
it opened up there were no pages
just like you it was tryin to hide
that it might only look good from the outside
so, bite your bottom lip
or read it
call me a kid
i'm leavin
trust no one
right there
shoulda known that her heart was the color of her hair
now git gone
bite your bottom lip
or read it
call me a kid
we're even
trust no one
right there
shoulda known that her heart was the color of her hair
i bought you your birthday gifts early and apparently
it's good i saved the receipt cause i could not see that two were three
and when i was your age i thought i was king
but i got knocked down in the first round cause the queen didn't like the ring
and since you can do to me what she could not do it's hard for me
to let you go without lettin it out and takin one last swing
so bite your bottom lip
or read it
call me a kid
we're even
trust no one
right there
shoulda known that her heart was the color of her hair
bite your bottom lip
or read it
call me a kid
i'm leavin
trust no one
right there
shoulda known that her heart was the color of her hair
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3. |
Bad Self
02:33
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it's easy to leave something right where it belongs
cause see if i stay
somethin will turn and go wrong
so i gotta get up and get movin on
you told me straight to my face
that you were already damned in this place
an anchor set deep down in hell
oh girl go on with your bad self
and i will go this way until i die i'm not saying goodbye
from the floor to your face here is mud in your beautiful eyes
and our lighthouse out on 18
you shot the lights out so all the ships crashed on the reef
but there is one that made it
and thank god that ship's carryin me
far away dear cause i can not stay here and watch you sink
pour another drink
hey let's all drink to her health
girl go on with your bad self
i can't believe that i wasted my time
on a girl that don't care if i live or i die
i'm surprised and ashamed let you drag my good name
through the mud and the rain it's insane but i got out alive
and the stars here like your skin never end or begin
it says there on your arm girl permanently written in ink
what all boys can see but all men can read no matter what you think
pour another drink
hey grab it off the top shelf
girl go on with your bad self
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4. |
Ella Belair
03:22
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deep in the swamp there's a circus about to burn down
before they pack it all up and move on to the next willing town
of the two left awake, one's a lion alone in a cage
who stares up at the air at ella belair who's always on stage
practising her perfect routine
for the boys who all work on machines
in every town she spins silk around
trying to trap what she's already found below
in a rat infested cage
lay a lion dismayed
watching love float around
high up off of the ground
one night the lion decided to pick the lock with his paw
he knocked the tamer down and jumped up on a giant see saw
the clown he paid off heard him laugh as he did a cannonball
and he sailed through the air
towards ella belair
the belle of the ball
but the boys in the crowd had guns
and a noise rang forth from one
it knocked the lion around
and he fell down down down below
to the dirt where he lay
a dyin lion dismayed
starin up at the sky
at the big top's biggest lie
so goodbye
goodbye
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5. |
Bookcase
03:17
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i'm bringing back your bookcase so get outta there before you have to see me like this
i barely shave or even comb my hair since you left me there
i looked for your ring behind the sink but it wasn't there you took the good silverware
you made off with more than what i thought and i got robbed and i got rocked
fair's fair
i'm sorry your dad's goat died and i'm sorry your cat's only got one good eye and it's blind
all the change they took we gave and then we broke into bruce lee's grave
i thought we had it made
i brought it back while you were at school and i know that that's not cool it's true
but when it comes to you, i'm a big old fool. i guess it's that love won't lift rule
saw your scarf on the floor as i walked out the door and my heart jumped don't beat a dead mule
it's the letting go and the knowing that nobody no how could ever come close to you
well goddamn i'm not as smart as i used to be if you could see how unhappy i am
well i am
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6. |
$6 Finch
03:30
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two six dollar finches sat side by side
in a pet store on the lower east side of the states
as the boards went up
a sale had begun
two already cheap birds for the price of one
a shark swam in
and put up a fin
and got change back as he split up the pair
the store owner cried knowin one would surely die
but one would live so how could she care?
that makes the three dollar finch at the window
flutter at the sound of those words
as he sings his sweet song of sorrow
it's the most beautiful song that you heard
from the world's most underpriced bird
with every tick of the clock
the bird pecked at the lock
til it fell through the boards at her feet
with tears in her eyes
the owner let the finch fly
who flew further with every heartbeat
well then he flew round the world
til he found the girl
he'd sung so sweet for back in the store
but she was not the same as he cried the name she'd changed
he turned and flew right out the door
that makes the three dollar finch in the window
the lonliest of birds
as he sings his sweet song of sorrow
it's the most beautiful song that you heard yeah
the world's most popular singular verb
the song he just sang
yeah the song you just heard
past history's twice the price bird
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7. |
Disaster
03:56
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right before the hindenberg started to dive
two guys high-fived they said they'd led pretty good lives
one was a scientist, the other a cook
but man's faith in hydrogen was all that it took
to bring em down to the ground
and of the 36 burnt skeletons they found two locked in a high-five
man what a cool way to die
lovin thine two months shy o july
just south of southfork dam
two lovers walked hand in hand
neither one had kissed
and they knew this love was it
the rain as their lips met
was not the wet that brought death
it was the five hundred feet of mud named the Johnstown flood
if you're gonna do it you better get to it before you're through it
you better get good before the goin gets gone
there's no tellin when disaster is comin on
the world's funniest joke was told in 1906
on the California coast before the big one hit
a girl out one night made it up on a date
walking home they saw an open mic, she thought she would try it out on stage
and so she did, to see what it was worth
and as her punchline hit so opened the earth
and the whole room fell down laughing to their graves
see that girl made the impression not some earthquake
so if you're gonna do it you better get to it before you're through it
you better get good before the goin gets gone
there's no tellin when disaster is comin on
the Titanic sank slow he had time to prepare
he made friends with a seagull, attatched a note, it hit the air
it flew back to a girl who thought she'd never been loved
as the ship sank down deep her heart rose way up above
for then she knew that it was real
don't spend your whole life regrettin how you feel
because you are not wrong
just try to be nice
for one day it will be you trapped under the ice
so if you're gonna do it you better get to it before you're through it
you better get good before the goin gets gone
yeah there's no tellin when disaster is comin on and it's comin on
yeah there's no tellin when disaster is comin on on
so do something great before you're gone
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8. |
Star Sematary
01:27
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R5D4 play playstation
games all day for no reason
jawa samalakalamala everybody out there suckin
you cut off my hand
and it gave me the CG jeebies but i know where they're grown
so let's pitch and yaw this bitch through the pleiedes
it's kinda like a housepet brought back to life
there's no sure bet that it won't bite your face off
when you find it in the woods
you brought it home and you wanted to keep it a secret
but you might well have known
that my rabid raccoon bit your golden retriever
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9. |
Jörmungandr
02:29
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if the only way to stay friends
is to believe the lies you tell
i'd rather get shot in the face
and roasted up on a spit down in hell
you'll be high-fivin satan himself
when you see the light in my eyes
by then it's too damn fucking late to say
with a friendly goodbye
so you go that way and i will run this way until we die
i had it bad for a girl with no heart
now she's already with some other guy
and the sad part's that he someday will sing along
all that's left of you now is the end of this song
so live and learn
don't do it again
or in the end it is you with no friends
and how's that for a life?
you end up the carpenter's wife
and as jormungandr's feasting up the seams until it broke
you're too damn much to be believing
so full of yourself that yhey all choke
so you go that way and i will run this way until we die
i had it bad for a girl with no heart
now she's already with some other guy
and the sad part's that he someday will sing along
all that's left of you now is the end of this song
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10. |
The Lion and the Dane
02:02
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a lion met the lips that sink ships one night
on carson street under pittsburgh lights
he asked her to dance
but she said not today
and that is when he should've sailed that way
for 2 years they danced on a mountain of glass
their heads craning forward to forget the past
well they headed down south
but they couldn't climb out
in the race lion came in dead last
run lion you are no monster
focus your pride to the sea
retract your claws
and forego the cause
no you can't make a girl long to be
oh no
no you can't teach a blind dog to see
the vultures swooped in as the lion remained
encircled by sharks he refused to be tamed
as he pawed at the sky
the birds clawed out his eyes
but his heart is what was never the same
the bubbles that formed as he roared in the deep
surrounding the starfish she found at her feet
well he knew she could swim even if without him
so the lion slowly went to sleep
sleep lion king of the jungle
rest easy, she'll do the same
just please let him dream of that ill fated team
a lion fell in love with a great dane
oh yes
yes a lion fell in love with a great dane
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11. |
Ides of March
02:31
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my hands smell like cereberus
as i walk past the graves
where i wish i could bury
a big mistake that i made
i keep on checking my phone
maybe you'll pull up behind
but only one happens as i start the decline
this is the last walk home from mt. o
i'm letting you go
then out come the ghosts
ones who don't know how to haunt
i'll bet they know what it's like
to like a girl who doesn't even know what she wants
and the lion inside
can cut out his roar
and the last thing i see
is that you can't look at me
as you close your screen door
this is the last walk home from mt. o
i'm letting you go
no one's ever gonna love you
the way that i could
and if i could stay friends
well then i would be made out of wood
because his hands on your hips
are stuck on repeat
i see the senate ahead
as i hit the dirt dead
my last thought was why couldn't it be me?
this is the last walk home from mt. o
this is the last walk home from mt. o
this is the last walk home from mt. o
i'm letting you go
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12. |
Astronaut
04:40
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before you go, there's something you ought to know...
when i was younger i wanted to be an astronaut
my dad said "son hey, you're dreaming big. you're better off not"
because he knew that that was not the way the world works, it's all fate
and drawing rockets on graph paper does not a scientist make
they don't make mistakes like i do, so move on to what you can achieve
and hold on to your dreams as a hobby
don't give up on what you want to be
sea level is breached, the water is rising
so i loved and watched everything i love run away, to this day
you were sweet when you took care of me for three months while my body was rotting away
because you knew that that was not the way that love worked, it's all faith
it's not a kite in a tree that just can't be reached when the winds are held at bay
we all make mistakes, so forgive
keep swinging the blood will recede
love is a bomb it's not artillery
and it will not grow if you stomp out the seeds
so laugh it off, or you'll just go crazy
put down the guns and pick up the smoothie
c'mon shorty let's rent a movie
from redbox. its only a dollar
holler back if they got that new batman for a dollar
caller id says the n.u.b. rap it super sweet to the FCC
i got the drop to these beats in the overhead stows
it's the n.u.b. through the pantyhose
suppose i go faster turbulance crashed her i got whack mcs baby eating crow
i'm busting rhymes so smooth even peter pan peanut butter gets wet when he pees his pants
and no pop mc will want want step to me cause im the n.u.b.
c'mon that was a joke
i want to hear your little laugh or i'll choke and i am at the end of my rope
but there's always more rope
there's always more rope
so there's hope that one day you will know love
you will know love
before you go there's something you ought to know
the easier that it gets in time only makes it hard if you don't want it to die
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