Rockin Chair

And now’s the part where they will say

Well that will learn ya

In between the words there’s a knife

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I got rocks and poison in my head

But the best zeppelin that ever did fly was Led

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They’re gonna tell you that life is a rocking chair

So they can leave you chained up

At the bottom of the stairs

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At the bottom…

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Well I ain’t gonna listen to you liars

But I am gonna start a thousand thousand fires

I’ll burn your chains, I’ll burn your stairs

I’ll burn your rocking chair

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Ain’t Mama....

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Is there a warning sign in the sky overhead?

Well the politicians think we’d rather be fed

Some folks say come 2012 we’ll all be dead

Psychologists say that its all in my head

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And ain’t  Mama Proud…

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United Nations say that we should be ashamed

But the corporations keep on just the same

I got my little white headphones plugged into my brain

Telling me that I should be confused

Man that’s so lame

Cause me and them we’re just the same

But they got me dancin like a pawn in their game

Singin if I only had a brain

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And ain’t Mama proud

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They kill our prophets one by one

We go to ..Cancun.. and play in the sun

That is just what we Romans do

We build an overpass and drive straight through

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And ain’t Mama proud

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Sweet Words....

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So you say

You gotta go

But you don’t wanna lose what we got

Well baby don’t worry

Just go ahead now

And try to lose love

You’ll find that you cannot

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It don’t matter ‘bout the sweet words you say

When its time to move on

Don’t spend your time missing me

Because I’ll never be gone

Long as you sing this song

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So lets say so long

And seal the deal together

For forevever

When I sing a song

I’ll be with you no matter where whatever

And its better than a telephone

So just sing a song

Sing it like

Ding dang dong

And I’ll be with you

And I’ll be with you

Before long

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Don’t matter how many tears

It won’t drown

Or with how ever many other boys you lie down

It don’t matter ‘bout the ring that is on your finger

Or about your kids

Love will always linger

Fact I can’t lose

Don’t you know I put a spell on you

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So it don’t matter ‘bout the hateful words you say

When you hear the tune of this song you’ll know that

Your heart belongs to me even though I’m long gone

Don’t spend your time missing me because I’ll never be gone

Don’t matter ‘bout the sweet words you say

When its time to move on

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But as long as you sing this song

Lets say so long

And seal the deal together

For forever

When I sing a song I’ll be with you no matter where whatever

And its better than a telephone

So just sing a song

Sing it like

Ding dang dong

And I’ll be with you

And I’ll be with you,

Before long....

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Bicycles....

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Do you ride bicycles?

Is what I wanna say

Get a creamsicle or fudgesicle

And lets be on our way

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I like the way you jump the curb

I like the way you lean into a turn

Almost crashing into you

Cause that’s exactly what I wanna do

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Pedal and a chain are God’s miracles

Cruising down the street is my sacred sacred ritual

Do you ride bicycles?

Do you ride bicycles?

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Don’t Look Down....

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Make my living planting trees

Rather sweat like a dog than live on my knees

I got a navy blue british army sweater

Gets me through most any kind of weather

Say there’s chemicals all over my hands

Say I’m foolin’ myself

That I’m workin’ for the man

Say my girlfriend’s at home makin a fool out of me

When the contract’s done boy you are gonna see

She’s gonna break your heart

She gonna ruin your soul

You’re 25 going on 90 years old

You’re just a little man, or did you forget?

You gotta settle for less and take what you can get

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Well I say

Whatever you do don’t look down

Whatever you do don’t look down

Whatever you do don’t look down, don’t look down, don’t look down, hey

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I’m going in debt to buy a bottle of wine

Don’t tell me how to have a good time

Paper’s due first thing in the morning

I’ll write it when I’m stoned it’ll be less boring

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Said son you’d better get your act together

You wanna have your cake and eat it you’re never

Gonna make it in this world unless you stop trying to dress like a peacock you’d best

Start making careful trips to the grocery store

No nachos and beer at the pub no more

Sleeping with the wrong kind of women

Ignoring the dishes in your filthy little kitchen

Gonna kill yourself with diabetes

Gonna feel the gout in your ankles and knees

You ain’t got no retirement strategy

You’re gonna die poor and alone poor and alone poor and alone

With herpes

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Well I say

Whatever you do don’t look down ....

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Fistfull of Sand....

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By the time you get this letter

Well I guess that I’ll be gone

But believe me from what I know of me

You’ll be better off with this song

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I don’t know where I’m going

And I don’t know what I’ll do

But no matter what, no matter where I  know I’ll think of you

Cause I’m a fool

Yea

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I’ll be walkin down a dead end street with a bottle in my hand

I’ll be up on a soapbox shooting my mouth off cause that just who I am

I’ll be telling my whole life story to some poor girl that I just met

Trying to turn her into you my love,

And whining to my friends

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I don’t know where I’m going but I sure know what I’ll do

I’m gonna drink and smoke and drink and smoke and drink and think of you

Cause I’m a fool

Yea

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I’m just scared that the spell will wear off, just the way it always seems to

When you hold me close it feels like my heart wants to slip through

My heart is just a fistful of sand

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Well I know I’m leaving but it don’t feel like we’re through

It don’t matter who is in my bed, my heart belongs to you

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I know just where I’m going

And I know just what I’ll do

I ‘m gonna drink and smoke and drink and smoke and drink and think of you

Cause I’m a fool

Yea

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I’m just scared that the spell will wear off the way it always seems to

When you hold me close it feels like my heart wants to slip through

My heart is just a fistful of sand…

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That’s what I am

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The River....

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Libraries burst will books full of statements of people

Never a week or a day go by without another

Printed and perused

So many statements of import

But on the subject of my desire

There ain’t nothing of the sort

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Who was the first man to say

Honey do not drink the water again?

What did he think as he said?

What was going through his head?

I live by a river large as the ....Mississippi....

But careful not to fall in everybody knows its toxic, baby

When will this tragedy end;

when will we be able to drink the water again?

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Precious few houses line the waterfront

We must overlook this bald truth

Running so wide

And so brown

And so blunt

There ain’t no place for this sort of talk in this town

Its not just the smell of money

Its poisonous water, honey

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Who was the first man to say

Honey do not drink the water again ?

What did he think as he said ?

What was going through his head?

I live by a river large as the ....Mississippi....

But careful not to fall in everybody knows its toxic, baby

When will this tragedy end;

When will we be able to drink the water again?

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If the shit’s good for business

Then that business has got to end

Cause I do not want a protest

I do not want a letter to send

I just wanna know wanna know

I just wanna know when can we drink the water again?

The water again

The water the water the water

The Fraser

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When will we be able to drink the water again?

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Foolish Fucker/Rich Boy

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Take all, take all, take all my things away

Take all the words I say

Take all my all my all my dreams

Take my body, everything

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I wanna sit cross-legged and float away

I want me to vanish and go away

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Cause I am such a foolish fucker

Baby boy, a stupid sucker

My whole life a worn out junker

Drew my sails too wide and sunk her

I am such a foolish fucker

Such a stupid silly fucker

I am such a foolish fucker, yea

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Take all my, all my, all my friends away

No one understands me anyway

All ears and eyes are deaf to my screams

Peace and love are stupid dreams

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I wanna sit cross legged and float away

I want me to vanish and go away

The music sounds all wrong today

I want all you phoneys to fade away

The music sounds all wrong today

I want all you phoneys to fage away…

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Rich boy, why are your songs all so sad?

Why is your joy so fleeting?

Why must it seems you’re life’s hardly worth leading?

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Ordinary Man....

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I am a horrible man

Yes, I’ll drown you all

With the sound of my voice if I can

But what’s likely,

What will more probably come to pass

Is I’ll continue to sit

 In a basement and let it all pass me by

Cause I’m in need of someone

To come and set me on fire

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So it appears that I’m an ordinary man

And I fear its maybe what I truly am

A dreamer who scoffed at your plan

Boy-king too late to grow sick of Neverland

So despite all my dreams

And my grandiose schemes

I am an ordinary man

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So what then is the matter?

What is the import?

Why should one suffer from lack of celebration?

To humility, I paid my lip service

But the beast tore out my innards

And scratched up my glasses

The idols of industry

Own a part of me

It’s the part that decides what should become of me,

Woah, all thanks to my T.V.

I wished upon a star

And I dreamed upon a dream

But the age of dreamers is only legend now, it seems

Oh the straws were drawn

And mine was the shortest

So now fairy dust I shall plant

And moonbeams will harvest

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Despite all my dreams and my grandiose schemes 

I am an …ordinary

I’m an …ordinary

I’m an …ordinary man.

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Dance Like a Devil....

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There is a well

Inside of me

That will never be full

That will never be empty

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Sometimes I give away

My very soul

Sometimes my greed

Get out of control

I can’t get enough in me

I can’t get it all out

That’s when I gotta dance like a devil

So baby get on up or get out

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I don’t wanna do no talkin’ no more

I just wanna put my shoes straight through this floor

Oh, I wanna dance like a devil

Oh, I wanna dance like a devil

I’m gonna exercise the demons tonight

Exercise the demons tonight

Exercise the demons tonight

Exercise the demons, alright.

Child don’t stand, don’t stand so, don’t stand so,

Don’t stand so close to me

I’ll eat you up

I’ll crush you like a flea

I’ll use your love

I’ll use your body

Child, don’tchaknow that’s the way that  its ever been

And ever shall be?

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I don’t wanna do no talking no more

I just wanna put my boots straight through this floor

Woah, I wanna dance like a devil

Woah, I wanna dance like a devil

I’m gonna exercise the demons tonight

Exercise the demons tonight

Exercise the demons tonight

Exercise the demons, alright.....