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Anymore
05:30
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I’ve been over and over it over again in my head
It’s hard to imagine some of the things that you’ve said to me
And while it’s unspoken
This is broken
You’re trying to act like it’s not when you know that it is
And I know that we still have some unfinished business here
Still I think it’d be best if we put this to rest
We got an F on that last test
So take your parting shot and say goodbye
It’s what you’ve always done best anyway
There may have been a time this was worth another try
But not today
You say to be authentic but every time I do
It’s a knee in the gut or a thumb in the eye that I get from you
And while you’ve been a friend to me
Your truest tendency is to bend for nobody
So take your parting shot and say goodbye
It’s what you’ve always done best anyway
There may have been a time this was worth another try
But not today
Too much stuff in the show that I can no longer ignore
I know you well enough to know
That I don’t want to know you anymore
Time it was spoken
This is broken
And I know you weren’t joking
So take your parting shot and say goodbye
It’s what you’ve always done best anyway
There may have been a time this was worth another try
But not today
Too much stuff in the show that I can no longer ignore
I know you well enough to know
That I don’t want to know you
No I don’t want to know you
I don’t want to know you anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
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Beautiful?
03:16
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It's over I know that
I knew that before it even was
I know dead love doesn't grow back
But my naive advisors swear it does
I'm not the only fool around
Who's been a slave to a hint of meaning
Once you start to fool around
I have direction I have desperate leaning
Oh oh
I behave like an obscene thing
It's not my fault I love you so
It wasn't my wish you let me go
I promise I'll try to keep my cool
Tell me though must you be so beautiful?
Your lover how is he?
Does he do it just the way you want to?
What happens when he's busy?
Do you get lonely when he doesn't want you?
It drives me crazy when you say
That you really want to be just my chum
I've got this bottle full of healthy dripping love
And you won't even try some
Oh oh
Quick! Ring the asylum!
It's not my fault I love you so
It wasn't my wish you let me go
I promise I'll try to keep my cool
Tell me though must you be so
Tell me though must you be so
Tell me though must you be so beautiful?
Oh oh oh oh
Beautiful
Oh oh oh oh
Beautiful
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Beautiful
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3. |
Boy
04:27
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So you’re in California now
And the sun is shining down
Like the sun of all those summers that we shared
And you’re partying each night
It’s raining here but that’s alright
It’s just a little strange that I can’t call ‘cause you’re not there
I never wanted you the way you wanted me
It drove you crazy
We got real close
A boy who doesn’t want you is the one you want the most
A boy who doesn’t want you is the one you want
So every guy who now discovers you and I are no longer lovers
Chases you around with a flower and a hungry look in his eye
But information unrevealed to all the players in the field
Is that in order to get to hello with you
They better start with goodbye
I never wanted you the way you wanted me
It drove you crazy
We got real close
A boy who doesn’t want you is the one you want the most
A boy who doesn’t want you is the one you want
The one you want the most
So you’re in California now
And the sun is shining down
Like the sun of all those summers that we shared
And you’re partying each night
Looking out for Mr. Right
Who might just show up if he’s smart enough to say as if he cared
He’ll act as if you don’t exist and there will go my hopes
I’ll take my place along the list with all the other dopes
He’ll blow you off just like I did when the night is growing dim
And so you’ll chase him up and down the coast
A boy who doesn’t want you is the one you want the most
A boy who doesn’t want you is the one you want
The one you want the most
The one you want
The one you want
The one you want
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4. |
Guy
04:15
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Another morning over there at Jake's coffee shop
Early rose girl taking time to stop
Looks like she's smiling and laughing a lot through the blind
It's pretty clear now that I've lost my mind
Rearranging the alarm
Hardly sleeping at all
So I can follow her down to the Salvation Hall
Hiding in the car how could she possibly see
What's good about a guy like me?
What's good about a guy like me?
I wake up and it's Tuesday
Her visiting day
She brings a batch of toys around and watches them play
Looks like she's hugging and kissing them all through the shade
Now I'm three behind her at the gay rights parade
Rearranging the alarm
Hardly sleeping at all
So I can follow her down to the Salvation Hall
Hiding in the car how could she possibly see
What's good about a guy like me?
And if there's any good here it remains to be seen
Too busy with the mouse and all these chicks on the screen
Lying in a bar how could she possibly see
What's good about a guy like me?
What's good about a guy like
Wednesday night she runs NA
The heroine to all who stay
Thursday mornings at the Y
She drains the river Jordan dry
Weekends if she's on some date
I sit at home and mastur...video games
Video games!
Another morning over there at Jake's coffee shop
I'm looking for the angel but she doesn't show up
Nobody seems to be smiling at all through the blind
It's pretty clear now that I've lost my mind
Rearranging the alarm
Hardly sleeping at all
So I can follow her down to the Salvation Hall
Hiding in the car how could she possibly see
What's good about a guy like me?
And if there's any good here it remains to be seen
Too busy with the mouse and all these chicks on the screen
Lying in a bar how could she possibly see
What's good about a guy like me?
What's good about a guy like me?
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5. |
Irony
02:58
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Make no mistake
You and I will sleep together again
And I probably won’t even want to when it happens
You’ll see me in some café on W. 4th St.
Under the overpass where the lonely meet
And you’ll realize that I’m all you’ve ever wanted
And without me you just won’t be complete
I’ll hear your revelation and I’ll shudder
I won’t recognize who I see
Through all the irony
Want to go swimming?
The weather’s finally fine
The pool’s in need of trimming but the water tastes like wine
My love for you is dimming and you finally want to be mine
I should have known
If I stopped loving you
Irony would bring you home
You said it was over and you set out on your own attack
But on your own really meant on your back
And the man who became your lover was the letter that you used to send
While the man who was your cover
Discovered he was left to be just your friend
And now he doesn’t even want you anymore
This promise of excitement that you left me for
Can’t you hear it laughing at us just outside the door
That has no key…
Irony
Want to go swimming?
The weather’s finally fine
The pool’s in need of trimming but the water tastes like wine
My love for you is dimming and you finally want to be mine
I should have known
If I stopped loving you
Irony would bring you home
Irony would bring you home
Home
Irony would bring you home
Irony would bring you home
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6. |
Mind
03:13
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Kings and queens surf the screens
Drunk inside the net
Brave new world boys and girls
Sun will never set
Don’t believe Big Brother’s true
Only means he’s gotten you
Joke is that he leaves a clue
Take a look around you now
Type in what you think
Cast of sheep fast asleep
Passed out on the brink
Those who sit up there too long
Absolutely wear it wrong
Makes you want to write a song
How much do you spill to find your soul?
Call it what you will it’s mind control
And every one of us is the front line
Gaze into the teller’s face
Finger in a dam
Swear to God it’s not the case
They know where I am
Not so secret quarantine
Dreaming up the new regime
Orwell’s ghost in the machine
One for one and none for all
However it appears
Propaganda on the wall
Used to be a Sears
Ministers at the door
Just like 1984
Waging a new kind of war
How much do you spill to find your soul?
Call it what you will it’s mind control
What’s that up the hill behind the goal?
Call it what you will it’s mind control
And every one of us is the front line
Every one of us is the front line
Every one of us is the front line
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7. |
Never
02:47
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In the morning the sun creeps up
Our charity pledge is still stoned
Drinking turpentine from a wooden cup
Smoking fraternity bone
You never change
You always say you will but you never change
You never change
I always think you will
In the evening the sun sinks low
And damn it you’re still on my mind
You promise no more trouble at the rodeo
But then high up on the horsey you climb
You never change
You always say you will but you never change
You never change
You must think I’m a fool
And everybody knows in the neighborhood
And it’s cruel
But I wish I never met you, you do me no good
I really would forget you if I only could
I love you so I let you
You do me no good
You never change
You always say you will but you never change
You never change
You always say you will but you never change
You never change
I always think you will
I always think you will
I always think you will
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8. |
Reason
03:16
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I love you as I've always loved you
The pain is a 9 on a scale from 1 to 10
I see no reason to ever see your face again
We stuck together
All kinds of weather
Many a night my heart drifts back to then
I see no reason to ever see your face again
Except to hurt myself
When the urge presents itself
Why would I do that?
Why would I do that to myself?
And I love you as I've always loved you
What's the point in trying to pretend?
I see no reason to ever see your face again
Except to hurt myself
When the urge presents itself
Why would I do that?
Why would I do that?
When there's always something else?
And I love you as I've always loved you
What's the point in trying to pretend?
I see no reason to ever see your face again
I see no reason to ever see your face again
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9. |
Superman
03:28
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The world is coming to an end
Lazy and fat for far too long
You are the superman
You ought to act like one
The spring could surge through rusty pipes
The multitudes will sing along
You are the superman
Why don't you act like one?
The world is rusting on your laurels
Laurels make for drooping shoulders
Everything is in the posture
Atlas smile for the camera
Smile for the camera
Water's leaking out somewhere
Birds are nesting in your head
You are the superman
You ought to act like one
Deliverance the body screams
Save it for the living dead
You are the superman
You ought to act like one
You are the superman
Why don’t you act like one?
The world is rusting on your laurels
Laurels make for drooping shoulders
Everything is in the posture
Atlas smile for the camera
Irony's a good career choice
How can you think with everything rhyming?
Are you sure you want the attention?
Well then smile for the camera
Smile for the camera
Everyone loves you
Smile for the camera
The world is coming to an end
Won't be long before it's done
You are the superman
You ought to act like one
You are the superman
You ought to act like one
You are the superman
You are the superman
You are the superman
You are the superman
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10. |
There
03:53
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I'm alone here again
And I'm damned if I trust you
Damned if I don't
Just you wait
You'll wait for me to come and I won't
There will be a time when I won't
I'm the fool here again
And I'm damned if I'll stay here
Damned if I won't
Every day here
I wait for you to change and you don't
There will be a time when I won't
You tell me that you love me
You're always thinking of me
And somewhere in your heart you mean it too
But I can see it in your face
You're fond of your space
Who wouldn't want to have their cake and eat it too?
There will be a time when I won’t
You tell me that you love me
You're always thinking of me
And somewhere in your heart you mean it too
But I can see it in your face
You're fond of your space
Who wouldn't want to have their cake and eat it too?
I'm alone here again
And I'm damned if I trust you
Damned if I don't
Just you wait
You'll wait for me to come and I won't
There will be a time
Yes there will be a time
There will be a
There will be a time when I won’t
When I won’t
When I won’t
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