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next door neighbor
03:57
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There's a light on in the cellar
Of the neighbor's house next door
And I should mind my own business
But I can't help it anymore
You never know what they're doing
when you go to sleep at night
How much you really know about
your next door neighbor?
What evil things they do
twelve feet away from you
On the south side there's a loner
and he doesn't have a dog
But I swear I've heard him barking
when the full moon comes along
He's never hurt anybody
who lived to talk about it
How much you really know about
your next door neighbor?
What evil things they do
twelve feet away from you
Who is that staring at you now?
It's your next door neighbor
Do unto others before it's done to you
BRIDGE
I believe what I read or see on TV where anything goes
And I'd be a fool to think I was safe In a world full of people just like me
SOLO VERSE
You might as well go to prison
it's a cheaper way to live
How much you really know about
your next door neighbor?
What evil things they do
twelve feet away from you
Who is that staring at you now?
It's your next door neighbor
Do unto others before it's done to you
Do unto others before it's done to you
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2. |
astronomy
04:36
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I don’t know what I keep lookin’ for
Maybe you, maybe something I can’t have anymore
The only thing I know for sure is I’ve been wrong before
I don’t wanna count the stars in the sky
And every single teardrop you can cry
And every ounce of blood inside my veins
But I’d do it all to have you back again
I don’t know why it hurts me so bad
Maybe then, maybe now, maybe I don’t know what I had
But staring at the sky tonite just might drive me mad
I don’t wanna count the stars in the sky
Looking like the one you left behind
I was head and you were heart and soul
Now I get what’s left inside this big black hole
The man in the moon tonite gives me
nothing but grief
He’s staring down at me in his
cosmic relief
SOLO VERSE
The only thing I know for sure is not anything at all
I don’t wanna count the stars in the sky
And every single teardrop you can cry
And every ounce of blood inside my veins
But I’d do it all to have you back again
But I’d do it all to have you back again….
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3. |
aftercrash (5 seconds)
03:53
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I pushed on the brakes and started skidding
There's nothing to stop me now
I think I can make it but who am I kidding?
It's too late to scream anyhow
5 seconds No time to lie 5 seconds just regret and goodbye A life isn't measured by calendar years
But by the love you leave behind
Like pieces of glass I shattered on impact
and fell to the Earth below
It happened so fast and left nothing intact
And I wasn't ready to go
5 seconds No time to lie 5 seconds just regret and goodbye A life isn't measured by calendar years
But by the love you leave behind....
BRIDGE
....every door that closes
there's another one that opens
Is anyone ready to go?
5 seconds No time to lie 5 seconds just regret and goodbye A life isn't measured by calendar years
But by the love you leave behind
But by the love you leave behind
But by the love you leave
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4. |
rocky's butcher shop
03:58
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Rocky has a butcher shop
On seventeenth and Main
And every single customer
They visit every day
Just to find some piece of mind
at Rocky’s butcher shop
Sixteen foot by thirty two
Linoleum and wood
Glass and metal display cases
Where you can view the goods
What you need is what you get
At Rocky’s butcher shop
BRIDGE
White apron paper hat
Smile on his face
Red blood in fresh sawdust
Come take your place
SOLO VERSE
Visitors had best beware
Rocky’s shiny cleaver
Folks who come a-vistin’
Just might never leave here
They become pieces of
Rocky’s butcher shop
Rocky’s butcher shop
Rocky’s butcher shop shop (chop?) shop shop
Rocky’s butcher shop
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5. |
genius suicide
02:51
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I've been contemplating my own tragic demise
I'd be emulating the brilliant shortened lives
Of poets and actors
and singers and playwrights
I'll be in good company a genius suicide
Hemingway and Thompson came as no surprise
And there was Tchaikovsky
couldn't live with compromise
Hendrix and Joplin and Morrison combined
Like a Holy Trinity of genius suicides
BRIDGE If the drugs won't do it and the gun won't do it and the noose won't do it I won't be denied
Poets and actors and singers and playwrights
I'll be in good company a genius suicide
I'll be in good company a genius suicide
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6. |
einstein's marriage
04:41
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What if I was Albert Einstein?
Married to math and geometry
And nothing mattered more to me than
Changing the face of history
Do you think you’d be content with
Just a part of me?
Chorus
Einstein’s Marriage as futile as your tears
Einstein’s Marriage there’s no one living here
Maybe you were my obsession
My Theory of Relativity
A shiny trophy on the mantle
Stuck up there for all to see
You should get the Nobel Peace Prize
for putting up with me
Repeat Chorus
BRIDGE
One hundred therapists
Can say I’m wrong
But if am then all it
takes is...one
SOLO VERSE
Something’s wrong with this equation
I guess it must be me
I guess it must be me
Einstein’s Marriage as futile as your tears
Einstein’s Marriage there’s no one living here
Einstein’s Marriage I watched you disappear
Einstein’s Marriage into the atmosphere
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7. |
can't fix it
04:38
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Woke up today / My head in a vice / From some voodoo dream
The TV was blarin’ / The baby was cryin’ / When the newspaper hit the screen
The headlines read / In bold type / War is over
You can’t fix it with bombs / Can’t fix it with guns / Can’t fix it alone
Have Mercy Have Mercy
I ran out the door / looking for signs / of some civility
Out on the streets / What did I find? / A lack of decency
The billboards read / in ten foot words / Life is over
You can’t fix it with bombs / Can’t fix it with guns / Can’t fix it alone
Have Mercy Have Mercy
BRIDGE
This world’s not going to hell
It’s already there
Solo Verse & Chorus
Now I’d be the last / to say something’s wrong / but I can’t let it be
Down in the streets / of our little world / there’s people dying needlessly
You can’t fix it with bombs / Can’t fix it with guns / Can’t fix it alone
You can’t fix it with bombs / Can’t fix it with guns / Can’t fix it alone
Have Mercy Have Mercy
Have Mercy Have Mercy
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8. |
give me back my life
04:56
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Staring at the scale I’m weighing three pounds less
same
But looking at the mirror I see an ugly mess
I’m terrified of dyin’ But I’m more afraid of gaining
The weight I work so hard to shed...everyday
Give me back my life
Never did belong to you
Please let go of me
So I can be free of you forever Give me back my life
You moved into the open spaces in my head
And filled them all with images I’ve come to dread
A physical possession of an emotional obsession
With each and every calorie…I turn away
Give me back my life
Never did belong to you
Please let go of me
So I can be free of you forever
BRIDGE
If I stop right now and listen
To my heart I hear it missing
Every other beat Cause it’s just too weak
The day has come to choose between you and me
And I pray it’s not too late to fight for liberty
A body so forsaken It struggles to awaken
And smash the fears and hopelessness in my way
Give me back my life
Never did belong to you
Please let go of me
So I can be free of you forever
Give me back my life
Give me back my life
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9. |
since you've been gone
03:40
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All those songs I didn't know before you
From Johnny Cash, Buck Owens and George Jones
Every one's a haunted dream recurring
And I'm so scared of singing them alone
Since you’ve been gone
It's all the same
Living in the lies of shame
Since you’ve been gone
There's nothing new
I should've gone with you
There's a stack of records to torment me
Songs and artists screaming to be heard
Underneath the silence that surrounds me
I can hear you singing without words
Since you’ve been gone
It's all the same
Living in the lies of shame
Since you’ve been gone
There's nothing new
I should've gone with you
BRIDGE
It doesn't matter what you do
You just can't run away from you
Since you’ve been gone
It's all the same
Living in the lies of shame
Since you’ve been gone
These empty eyes
Badly need a new disguise
Since you’ve been gone
There's nothing new
I should've gone with you with you
with you
with you
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10. |
almost ready
04:42
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Just outside of Marshall
on the road to Granite Falls
Lives a lonely farmer
moved here from St. Paul
He's been here since the '50's
with his blushing bride
She was diagnosed with cancer
and he just can't watch her die
He's almost ready to change his life
Hands on the cross, the good book by his side
A glass full of whiskey eyes on the clock
He's almost ready to say goodbye
Ever since the surgery
she can't get out of bed
So he prays to God to spare her
and take his life instead
He's almost ready to change his life
Hands on the cross, the good book by his side
A glass full of whiskey eyes on the clock
He's almost ready to say goodbye
BRIDGE
He thinks about what's fair,
what's true, what's right
The only thing that matters
is how she feels tonite
A glass full of whiskey eyes on the clock
He's almost ready to say goodbye
He's almost ready to say goodbye
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11. |
gonna start a war
04:20
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I'm gonna start a war to end all wars
I'm gonna show you what's worth dying
I'm gonna light a flame and nothing will remain
I'm gonna start a war -- yeah !!!
I'm gonna love the man who can't be loved
I'm gonna rid the world of hawks and doves
I'm gonna see the truth and nothing but the truth
I'm gonna love the man -- yeah !!!
I'm gonna throw away the bombs and guns
I'm gonna burn your ammunition
I'm gonna plant the seeds that cure up this disease
I'm gonna start a war -- yeah !!!
BRIDGE
All my enemies Are going underground
So I'll be forced to use ultrasound When they've had enough and I'm elected king
then a war won't mean anything
SOLO VERSE
I'm gonna lay me down for my last breath
I'm gonna see the other side of death
And just because I can I'll start a war again
I'm gonna start a war -- yeah !!!
I'm gonna start a war -- yeah !!!
I'm gonna start a war -- yeah !!!
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12. |
8 mg
05:39
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Kevin keeps his secrets to himself uh-huh
Always has a smile for everybody else
Doesn't lose his temper or raise an angry voice uh-huh
Kevin keeps his secrets
he doesn't have a choice
CHORUS
Plus or minus 8 milligrams of morphine
Higher than anybody's high
Letting down way below the normal
Gotta get ready for the next time
People call it habit this abuse uh-huh
When someone hits a child there's never an excuse
Kevin spent his childhood hiding from his fears uh-huh
He doesn't even know that
he's been hiding all these years
Plus or minus 8 milligrams of morphine
Higher than anybody's high
Letting down way below the normal
Gotta get ready for the next time
Gotta get ready for the next time
BRIDGE
Someday There will be no next time
Someday There may be a lifetime of
Somedays
Someday
Someday
Someday / 8 milligrams
Someday / 8 milligrams
Someday / 8 milligrams
Gotta get ready for the next time
Someday / 8 milligrams
Gotta get ready for the next time
Someday / 8 milligrams
Gotta get ready for the next time
Someday
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13. |
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Dawn breaks overhead
What I see from my bed I can’t believe
White doves everywhere
Songs of love in the air for you and me
CHORUS
If I was a carpenter
I’d build for peace
If I was a skypilot
I’d fly for peace
Neighbors come to greet
flowers bloom in the street it’s wonderful
CHORUS 2
If I drove a taxicab
I’d drive for peace
If I was a judge of men
I’d rule for peace
If I could give anything
I’d give you peace
BRIDGE
How long did it last?
It happened so fast
When I woke from my dream
I could not stop crying
CHORUS 3
If I was a holy man
I’d pray for peace
If I was a raging man
I’d ask for peace
If I was a dying man
I’d die for peace
If I was an angel boy
I’d live in peace
I’d live in peace
I’d live in peace
I’d live in peace
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