1. |
Strange
03:50
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like overnight i turned into somebody
neither one would recognize
don't know how it happened
who what when or why i was set free
to be trapped up inside
for the rest of my days i'm going to love you
i'm sorry i'm so strange
for the rest of my days i will be thinking of you
funny how nothing has changed
how i wish i could replace
these black thorns with red roses
and give them to you as i smile and cry
but as this life has it i'll leave a scratch mark
and smell much prettier as i die
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2. |
Funky Bombastes
04:28
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i took for granted what was made so obvious to me
i could never fathom the transience of our intimacy
i'd like to imagine that there is peace on earth
and between you and me
but the way it's going you keep on waging war
what's it gonna be?
one day you'll come back down to earth just to find
there ain't no one around who will swallow this anguish
maybe things will work themselves out in time
baby please
you took advantage and threw in my face all of the honesty
i listened carefully to everything that you were saying
manipulation may work with other girls
but it won't work with me
why don't you take a week off and get to know yourself
because you don't know me
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3. |
3 Notes
05:07
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you must think this is easy for me
to get up here with every ounce of fear
like vulnerability ain't a part of me
i bet your thinking i have it made
with a guitar filling up a tip jar
as if it's going to be enough to feed my rent
now you're thinking i'm out getting laid
by that hippy and smoking up his crippy
as if the free love won't cost a feeling in the end
haven't you thought about the empty spaces
in my closet as a home to your skeletons?
i'll drink with those i meet as strangers and those you see as friends... there are those you see as friends.
you won't think about what this means
cuz it's safer, or maybe cuz it's easier
than having to relate, but you're being taken as bait
and i'm reeling you in, slowly.
ask me where i'm headed and i'll say
"you're thinking over to your place"
today, i'm actually going no where
after the moment is over
and you won't see the sweat on me
cuz i'm cleaner than a'whistling dixie
it ain't insecurity, i'm just anxious to see
if you've thought about the empty spaces
in my closet as a home to your skeletons.
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4. |
Spoil the Ending
03:34
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scraping change to buy another reason to starve myself
and capitalize on all the letters in my name
a writer dies just to give us a story
and as the story goes spoil the ending
once upon a time there was a magical jelly bean
that grew up into the sky with a promise of everything
what a big surprise when you finally climb to the top
just to realize no one wants to spoil the ending
the only thing that puts life into me
is going to suck the life out of me
and spoil the ending
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5. |
Hasta el Agua
04:13
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lo que paso
atrasado la sanacion
una herida mental puesto en su lugar
aqui estoy
entre ayer y hoy
veo libertad entrancada por donde estoy
rara intimidad
mirando hasta el agua
las olas gritan nada
y suspiro con razon
fui andando con cuidado
fui cargando algo pesado
y ya me di cuenta que no fue necesario
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6. |
Quidam
03:47
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it kills to wait for a day in between now and right away
if i don't open my mouth then you can never come into me
look at you... i know i'm empty when i look at you
i am pathetically human
swallowing a moment flavored by everything
rolled into a cigarette and spearmint gum,
leave the summer murdered by the winter.
there's a lump in my throat
there's a hole in my coat
there's a hole when i look at you
i am pathetically human
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7. |
A drinking song.
04:25
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i drink when i'm bored and lazy
and on days when i've worked to hard
i drink when i'm having a good time
and then cuz the good times are gone
you bought me a 40, you shared your last bottle,
we raise up a glass of some 5 dollar wine
but it's tasting better as we hit the bottom,
bottoms-up with a good friend of mine
yo bebo y lloro, yo bebo y me rio
en rios tan frios de estranar
y busco una cara que no se encuentra
entre ciudades debajo del mar
mi copa esta llena de historias y canto
cual quiera que sepas cantar
compartiendo sonrisas sincera le brindo
salud a mi buena amistad
y ya nos vamos y ya me fui con dolor de cabeza
despierta y muy feliz
now we gotta get going, cuz we gotta move on
with a big hangover still hanging on
we're still hanging on
i'm drinking to a reunion after we've all grown apart
now i'm trying to think of the last time i thunk
i got drunk witcha straight from the heart...
we were up all night stumbling and dancing
and in a 24 hour trance
i couldn't drive cuz it would have been my last time
la sangre de Cristo en mi vaso de vino
cheers to you, la chiam
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8. |
STOP
04:45
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know when to start and when to stop
why keep on going till it's dark
until you're tired from the pull and the push of decay
with the scratching and the nails that you've bitten away
is your skin a little thin
where notes have been pushed in with a pin
displaying all the phrases under your breath
and waiting for a message to mean what it says
what is the reason you beat yourself unnoticed?
why the questions you ask always forgotton?
i am seeing spots out of line
flashing signal, a warning sign
maybe i should stop and take time
hands are turning into fists
they either rise up or they hit
with an energy they hate by holding inside
it all explodes into the pieces stuck to the sides of tomorrow in a box
out the window, like a broken clock
what is the reason to throw away your moments?
why are memories you make always forgotton?
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9. |
Stare at Water
04:12
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long overdue and slow to heal
a wounded mind, a cut was made to feel
here i am caught before the trap
where i was made into the lure
there is something rare
in the way we stare at water
the waves don't want us talking
as they are beating on our breath
i was thinking, i was careful
i was carrying a thickness
so unnecessary
so i didn't notice
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