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29
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You're turning 29 but you're not dead yet
You're turning 29 but you're not dead yet
You're turning 29 but you're not dead yet
Not for another year
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30
00:38
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Oh no, it's been another year, and you're dead
your body fell apart and you're rotting in your bed
nobody will attend your funeral
they're all too busy being alive to bother with you
you're dead now, you're time has come
you're dead now, you're time has come
30 years!
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32
00:31
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2-4-6-8
what do we appreciate?
more than 16 out of 32 years
of being friend with you
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38
01:36
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on the day you turned 19, a child born
for a years now, that child's been voting and buying porn
you are two 19-year-olds on each other's shoulders
you are two 19-year-olds in one giant trenchcoat
one giant trenchoat
you are two 19-year-olds
two 19-year-olds
on each other's shoulders
in one giant trenchcoat
on each other's shoulders
in one giant trenchcoat
oh yeah
oh yeah etc
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You can google this one.
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your honor i was pushing
myself to the brink
jacked up on a steady diet of nothing
the long division
was taking its toll
and i kept pushing pushing pushing
i was out of control
those muppet movies
were on my mind
this nice little outfit
well it coulda been mine
so i stole the riff
and i changed the key
i lost the words
but i kept the feel
if it pleases the court
and all the stuck-up kids
you don't need a baseball bat
or a rolling pin
well i get your catchy
belle and sebastian point
i start playing my saw
underneath a mountain of debt
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Back out to the woods
Everything is good in the woods
You see the birds
You see the rocks
You see the turtles
But do you see the moss?
Do you see the moss?
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Eat the Rich
01:17
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The world is fucked
the workers are screwed
more and more we can't afford
to buy actual food
what'll we do
when the crops run dry
when the price of clean water
skyrockets sky high?
well, there's a plan
can't say it's mine
but i think with just one caveat
it should just work just fine:
eat the rich
but don't eat me
i don't control the means of production
i just own property
when you eat the rich
leave me alone
i'm not gonna do anybody harm
just lock the door to my home
when you eat the rich
don't come by
blah blah something blah
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Gimme Gimme Gimme
02:10
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Gimme gimme gimme
a socialist government
take my private wealth
and spread it around
cause I do not need
so much luxury
as I need to get free
Gimme gimme gimme
a social safety net
so if I someday fall,
I'll know that I'm caught
and please structure for me
economic equity
so we all can get free
and if you let me love you
we can live here on earth as brothers
and if we all could give to each other, then...
Gimme gimme gimme
a socialist government
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It Is Like
01:00
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When we fall in love it's like:
a baby coming out of the womb
or a mummy rising up from its tomb
or a snake bursting out of its skin
or the universe starting all over again
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My First Novel
01:05
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My First Novel
C
I finished my first novel
F
I poured my heart and soul out
A-
The corrupt regime that holds us down:
F
Well, I spoke my truth to power
C
And the critics called trite and cliche and
F
now i see they’re right
A-
But the men still came, they burned my house,
F
and broke me down last night
C G A- F
And now i’m sharing a call with my hero, the literary conscience of our land
E- A-
I know he hasn’t read my book. It’s ok; i understand
D- G E- A-
Tomorrow in the morning, he and i will both hang
D- G
Leaving behind the world that will never forget his
F C
And never knew my name
F G
La la la la la la la la
F
La-la-la la la --
Did I write these lyrics?! I guess there was going to be more...
He signs autographs for the guard
We both decried the tsar,
At the peak of our respective arts,
But his novel has already been translated seven times
And mine is mostly stacked in my mom’s garage
It turns out that treason
Is not a popularity contest
And so tomorrow we both hang
I’ll die at the popular dissident’s hanging
He’ll live on
I’ll just die
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No Doubt
01:35
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With this one I had faith;
for this one I had hope;
from this one I learned
romantic feelings a very long time ago.
With you I have all this,
and something more, or less,
whose presence in my mind
is best articulated as an absence:
With you, I have no doubt!
With you, I have no doubt!
Now people say:
How can you know this?
It has not been so long.
And what will you do with yourself
when things start to go wrong?
When I am with them
their thoughts carry weight,
but when i'm in your presence, dear,
their words just dissipate.
With you, I have no doubt!
With you, I have no doubt!
With you, I have no doubt!
Now the self that I am
loves the self that you are
and your say your self loves me.
What will occur when the selves we are change?
Will we persist through contingency?
With you, I have no doubt!
With you, I have no doubt!
With you, I have no doubt!
With you, I have no doubt!
NO DOUBT!
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once
once twice
[??]
nothing but nothing
is gonna make this thing go
once
five times
one hundred i know
nothing but nothing
is gonna make this thing go
[pretentious mumbling]
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Perfect Numbers
02:55
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there is a song as yet unwritten
that will clear my clouded mind
like a dominant chord, turning around
i am starting to feel the changes
i am starting to feel the change
"There is an unknown sequence of numbers
that spell out the name of god."
"But you tried them all!"
"Well, if we tried them all,
then we have spoken the name of god,
we have spoken the name of god."
There was a day, I must have missed it:
the only perfect one we had.
We drank in the park and went to the zoo,
but who was with you
oh I wasn't with you
Oh, who was with you?
I wasn't with you.
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Recreational Dread
02:25
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Recreational Dread
v1
i could spend my days and nights inside
the new season of twin peaks
it's a beautiful sort of forboding
all the silence that overtakes speech
and i could talk about talk
about the haunting portrayal
of grief in the babadook
but the fact is that i felt real fear
and that's access to a kind of truth
CHORUS
well i'm free to live my life inside my head
but it gets kind of quiet in here
so i need some recreational dread
v2
i've ridden in so many airplanes
i forgotten all about the view
so now i jump out
like a heroic soldier
looking for something to do
i've been to so many check-ups
i'm sick of my clean bill of health
so i'll take a daytime drive a food desert
and eat everything on the shelf
CHORUS
well i'm free to live my life inside my head
but it gets kind of quiet in here
so i need some recreational dread
v3
when i want a simple palette cleanser
i'll crack open the mid-century
vault of existential plays, novels
and philosophy
when i want a dose of the hard stuff
i scroll through the left-wing news
it's a shame what all those other white folks are doing
giving everyone else the blues
CHORUS
well i'm free to live my life inside my head
but it gets kind of quiet in here
so i need some recreational dread
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Construct a box
hinge for the lid
insert rocks
insert twig
Screw it shut
bury it behind
do not mark the spot
Make a baby
pumpkin head
feet of leaves, ears of corn
heart of lead
fly a kite
eyes on fire
don't let it roam don't let it go
into the wild
shuffle home
light the lights inside
broken locks, piles of boxes
keeping things inside
rocks and twigs
heart and soul
record player
static crackle
rock and roll
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Rock + Roll
03:16
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i live in a city
but i’m from a town
sometimes i go back to the woods
and i walk around
i take a breath of fresh air
think about manufactured things
i see a fallen tree
and i count the rings
i don’t want any more from this world
no rock and roll, nor naked girls
i used to see a river
now i see a road
i see it when i’m driving
which i do a lot
it’s paved with good intentions
it’s paved with asphalts
tragedies and travesties
they say are no one’s fault
i don’t want any more from this world
no rock and roll, nor naked girls
i can’t countenance being part of this
the stench of death that still persists
got romantic notions
of a simple life
like you used to see on the tv
a family and a wife
i also lived as a farmer
but it wasn’t for real
once i tried to meditate
once tried to feel
i don’t want any more from this world
no rock and roll, nor naked girls
i can’t countenance being part of this
the stench of death that still persists
i don’t want any more from this world
no rock and roll, nor naked girls
i wish i could believe a word i speak
and close my eyes and fall asleep
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Summer love
Summer love
Gone in the autumn
Gone in the fall
Summer love
Summer love
It meant nothing
It meant nothing
at all
Summer love
Summer love
The breeze in your t-shirt
The sweat on your skin
Your tease me and we flirt
You fell asleep
You fell asleep on me
Please don't wake
'Cause when you wake you'll leave
When you wake you'll leave
Summer love
Summer love
Gone in the autumn
Gone in the fall
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Tandem Bicycle
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Riding alone
on a tandem bicycle
wondering why i can't keep t
the back seat full
i said i bought it for you
but i told that to the one before
i've been through so many now
i don't know who i got it for
but it wasn't for me, that's sure
unrecorded lyrics:
riding up and down
the lake shore path of my heart
however far i might go,
i end up back where i start-
ed
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Tenderly
02:11
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Tender
Tenderly
Please
Bring your self a little closer here to me.
Don't touch me, not yet.
Let the air
have its fill
of crackling.
Teasing
Teasingly
Please
Bring your lips about an inch away from mine.
Don't kiss me, not yet.
Let us both
have our fill
of wanting
this.
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None! It's an instrumental!
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Go ahead and google them, and then listen to everything Portishead has done.
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Hey! Will I marry you? Yes!
Will I love you my whole life?
Will I be unafraid? Yes!
Oh!
Oh to have a clear mind!
I never knew I could have one,
until I turned it to you.
There is something right in devotion:
to know I give myself to you.
We don't know what we're getting into,
but please let me do this with you.
Please let me do this with you.
"We" is a word I can use now.
You are my first person.
You are the subject with me (that's us!).
And we, we are a family now.
We are a family!
We are a family now, dear!
There is something right in devotion:
to know I give myself to you.
We don't know what we're getting into,
but please let me do this with you.
Please let me do this with you.
I know you like I couldn't before
I see you're beautiful like I could not before
Everything I learn about you, I adore.
I want to know you, know you more.
I want to know you, know you more.
So, hey! Will I marry you? Yes!
Will I love you my whole life?
Will I have a clear mind? Yes!
Oh, we, we are a family now,
and I will love you my whole life.
Oh will I marry you? Yes!
Yes!
There is something right in devotion:
to know I give myself to you.
We don't know what we're getting into,
but please let me do this with you.
Please let me do this with you.
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24. |
4'33" (punk cover)
01:03
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[sound of me sitting in front of my computer on a hot July evening]
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Please don't need these lyrics.
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Benjamin Morse Colorado Springs, Colorado
Benjamin Morse is a singer-songwriter from the East living in the Mountain West. He wrote these songs for you.
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