GLEN PHILLIPS Lyrics
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EVERYTHING BUT YOU on Mr. Lemons



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BLINDSIGHT on Mr. Lemons



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THANK YOU on Mr. Lemons



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I STILL LOVE YOU on Mr. Lemons



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LAST SUNSET  on Mr. Lemons



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I WANT A NEW DRUG  on Mr. Lemons



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MARIGOLDS on Mr. Lemons



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WAITING on Mr. Lemons



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DIDN'T THINK YOU CARED on Mr. Lemons



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NEXT DAY  on Mr. Lemons



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JOYFUL NOISE on Mr. Lemons



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DUCK AND COVER on Winter Pays for Summer 

One way or another, we'll all need each other
Nothing's gonna turn out the way you thought it would
But friends and lovers, don't you duck and cover
Cause everything comes out the way it should

Someone's in the back yard, banging on the door
Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more
His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor
Mama's thinking family dinners weren't too much to ask for

Everybody here's got a story to tell
Everybody's been through their own hell
There's nothing too special about getting hurt
Getting over it, that takes the work

Cause one way or another, we'll all need each other
Nothing's gonna turn out the way you thought it would
But friends and lovers, don't you duck and cover
Cause everything comes out the way it should

Blessed are the hungry, blessed are the week
Blessed are the humble, blessed are the meek
Blessed are the ones on the other side
Blessed are we for just being alive

One day I stopped wanting anything at all
The heavens opened up like a waterfall
No use in worrying about when it ends
Just for now be thankful for what i get

Cause one way or another, a man's gonna suffer
It makes no difference the way you wanted it
But friends and lovers, don't you duck and cover
Cause everything comes out the way it should in the end

Seems like life is a palindrome
You cry when you die, you cry when you're born
In between it's all about the ups and downs
Add 'em all together, they cancel each other out

Cause one way or another
One way or another
You won't get what you wanted
You'll get enough, for sure
One way or another
Winter pays for the summer
Won't get what you wanted
What you got'll be good

Someone's in the back yard, banging on the door
Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more
His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor
Mama's thinking happy endings weren't too much to ask for

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THANKFUL on Winter Pays for Summer 

Forgive me this sin
I'm falling over
And flashing tin grins
And rolling in clover
So ready to get out
And eager to please
Well it's late in the day in the middle of a life
But it's early in the century

I never got it
I never got it before
Hey, hello
How do you get on so much undone
It's like it was before

chorus:
We both got a lot to be thankful for
We both got a lot to be thankful for

Forgive me my tongue
It doesn't know what it's doing
It used to get washed out
Now it's undisciplined and crude
I'm losing my language
And calling a truce
And the shape of the thoughts in my head
Aren't right for the words I've got to use

I got 'em never
Never got 'em before
Hey, hello
How do you get on
So much undone
And still you shine like the sun

We both got a lot to be thankful for
We both got a lot to be thankful for

White dwarf, red giant
It's empty in space
And where there's matter there's violence

I never got it
I never got it before
Hey, hello
How do you get on
So much undone
And still you shine like the sun

We've got a lot to be thankful for
We've both got a lot to be thankful for
We've both got a lot to be thankful for
We've both got a lot to be thankful for


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COURAGE on Winter Pays for Summer 

At the start of the conversation
I didn't have much to say
I was looking for some inspiration
You just got in my way
Took a shot at an easy target
You were too stunned to say anything
You were the unsuspecting martyr
You were not the most dangerous game

Bring my courage back now
Bring it back to me
Tired of being afraid of what I can't change
And I want to be living free

I don't want to be a prisoner
I want to live free

Well it could be I was mistaken
Could be that I deceived myself
But it's hard to understand somebody
Who doesn't want to understand himself
There's an ocean of unlatched windows
And a world of unlocked homes
The only reason anybody still feels safe
Is most people still knock on the door

Bring my courage back now
Bring it back to me
Tired of being afraid of what I can't change
And I want to be living free

I don't want to be a prisoner (x3)
bound in these chains
a slave to my fears
Just want to be living free

Though we all return to dust
There's a lot of us
In an awful rush to
(then as before)

By the end of the inquisition
I was brought back from the brink
Torquemada and a couple of friends got together
All went out for drinks
Left me here in this empty dungeon
While they're living it up downtown
As if they never even existed
Doesn't make much difference now

Bring my courage back now
Bring it back to me
Tired of being afraid of what I can't change
And I want to be living free

I don't want to be a prisoner (x3)
(afraid of these chains)
(slave to my fears)
Just want to be living free

Well some take the road to Damascus
Some take the road to hell
I'll take highway 1 to the evergreens
And everything will turn out well


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RELEASED on Winter Pays for Summer 

Clouds rumble, earth will shift
Walls tumble, hearts will skip
Things changing
Everywhere but here

Small window, tiny room
Sun hits in the afternoon
For one minute fills this space
Beautiful, illuminated

When I am released
And the gates fly open before me
When I am released
Will you still be waiting for me?

Some look and all they find
Are problems and alibis
But my cup is one sixteenth full
I'm getting there, but the getting's slow

When I am released
And the gates fly open before me
When I am released
Will you still be waiting for me?

When I walk outside I will see the sky
I will leave all this behind
When I walk outside
Sun to warm my skin, friends to take me in
When I walk outside

When I am released
And the gates fly open before me
When I am released
Will you still be waiting for me?


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CLEAREYED on Winter Pays for Summer 

Ever since I was a kid
I've been cleareyed
Cleareyed
I can't forget but I forgive
Did you notice
Are you all right

Beyond the edge of memories
The shapes take form and call to me

There's some things I wish I'd never seen
And never been
But so it is
So it is
If all I know is what I see
Then certainty
Is what you are to me

Cleareyed
Cleareyed
Someone came and changed the words
Left me tongue tied
Tongue tied

It's not a sky without the clouds
There is no blue sky
Blue sky

Beyond the past beyond the fear
The simple act of being here

There's some things I wish I'd never seen
And never been
But so it is
So it is

If all I know is what I see
Then certainty
Is what you are to me

Cleareyed
Cleareyed
Cleareyed
Cleareyed

Blind me with love
Make me blind
Blind me with love
Make me blind

Cause I've seen too much
Too much of this life

I have seen too much
Too much of this life

I have seen too much
Too much of this life

I have seen too much
Too much of this life

Now I only see you
Only see you
Cleareyed
Cleareyed
Cleareyed
Cleareyed


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FALLING on Winter Pays for Summer 

Oh my enigma, I'll never forgive ya
You have confirmed my suspicions as if they had mattered
You're so removed, I can't approach, with an attitude beyond reproach
The constitution of a roach, with skin of satin

Oh you tease, you taunt,
You don't you know what you want
You're too cool, too hot, I'm wishing I forgotten
But there is no bottom, oh there is no bottom
And I just keep on falling

Oh my nemesis, I always knew you were the best
The high priestess of bitterness, queen of the morning
You fight me 'til the bitter end,
And I have passed the chance to make amends
With enemies like you, well, who needs friends?
They all just seem boring

Oh you tease, you taunt,
You don't you know what you want
You're too cool, too hot, I'm wishing I forgotten
But there is no bottom, oh there is no bottom
I just keep on falling
Oh, I just keep on falling

Are we alright, are we still here?
Are we alive, does anybody still care?

You tease, you taunt, you're everything I want
You're too cool, too hot, I'm wishing I forgotten
But there is no bottom, oh there is no bottom
And I just keep on falling
Oh, I just keep on falling
Oh, I just keep on falling
Oh, I just keep on falling
Keep on, keep on
I'll keep on falling


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HALF LIFE on Winter Pays for Summer 

Count down the rings, pick up the phone
But she's sure to know, you're not alone
More on the side, less at the home
Dust and dry earth, where a garden should grow

It's your decision now, give love or just get out
Don't bring another half life to this house

so why did you come here, what did you want
you did something right, just look what you've got
you can fake it at work, you fake it for friends
but not for the children or the woman you wed

It's your decision now, give love or just get out
Don't be another half-life in this house
You'll be another half-life in this house

And I know you've got it in you to
Let it go, just let her into you
There's dirt on your nails and blood on the floor
You play for the angles, you play what you know

It's your decision now, dig in or get the hell out
Don't be another half-life to this house
You'll be another half-life in this house
Don't bring another half-life in this house

But I know you've got it in you
Just let 'em into you
Just let 'em into you


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TRUE on Winter Pays for Summer 

So how, how did I lose the thread?
When you reeled it in again
I could be caught on that line
Spending my time swimming with you
Your love is often unkind, bitter and blind
Sometimes casually cruel

Chorus:
but it's true
but it's true

Verse:
You give more than you would ever take
Forgive the mess I leave in my wake
I'm inconsistent at best
Never at rest, ever the fool
I'm always stumbling around knocking things down
But whatever else I do

I'll be true
I'll be true
I'll be true

You're in and out of my hands
Slipping like sand, passing like time
Your love is brutally bold, careless and cold
But it's mine, mine
I won't tell you a lie, so be careful what you ask me
I don't care, I don't mind if you never understand me
Every day, every night I can promise you
I can promise you

I'll be true
I'll be true
True


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EASIER on Winter Pays for Summer 

I was eighteen, so were you
I was that birkenstock geek rock dude
You were the back-flip, doe-eyed
Tree-climbing earth mama
Beautiful evergreen girl

I never thought that I could be
Getting my grey hairs with you beside me
And there's something I'm blind to
But you still see

And it couldn't be better, I know
And it shouldn't be easier, oh
I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall

I want to be the toy in your cereal box
I want to be carter at your peace talks
I want to get almost too familiar
But still notice the way that you walk

And if you said you were going away
I'd run on the tarmac
And I would lay down in front of the plane
Just to get you to stay

'Cause it couldn't be better, I know
And it shouldn't be easier, oh
I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall

Got everything i'd ever wanted here
Everything and then this constant fear
Sure I'm gonna lose it all
Just waiting for the other boot to fall

And if you thought I could be replaced
I wouldn't just stop with an ear
I would cut off my whole fucking face
Just to make my point clear

That it couldn't be better, I know
It shouldn't be easier, oh
I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall
Waiting for the other boot to fall


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FINALLY FADING on Winter Pays for Summer 

You opened the door and in came the night
Curled ‘round a woman and turned out the light
And finally got it figured out
But it’s too late to go back now

Proud as a lion of you new obsession
Tongue of a liar, little recollection
And there’s no use in keeping score
Cause no one plays fair anymore

And the voices trailing doubt
Are finally fading out
Finally fading

Gave all the right answers to all the wrong questions
And you burned a few bridges when the raised objections
And I probably shouldn’t think out loud
But it’s too late to take it back now

And the voices trailing doubt
Are finally fading out
Finally fading

Whatever they said
Just have to swallow it
Whatever you did
No use in bothering
Get out of my head
Out of my head

And the voices trailing doubt
Are finally fading out
The voices trailing doubt
Are finally fading out
Finally fading
Finally fading out

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SIMPLE on Winter Pays for Summer 

I'm complication
Live wire down
I'm agitation
distorted sound

You're celebration
Girl on a swing
Passion and patience
Unbroken ring
You're simple, simple
You're simple,
Simply all I need

I'm jagged rock
You, waterfall
Your gentle touch
You wear me down
Till I am smooth
Till I allow
Till I can bend
Till I can bow

You're simple, simple
You're simple
Simply all I need

Twilight sleep
I want to forget
Everything these last few years
Take them from me
Drive them away
I want to be simple again

'Cause I'm complications
Live wire down
I'm agitation
Distorted sound

You're simple, simple
You're simple
Simply all I need


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GATHER on Winter Pays for Summer 

Let us be humbled tonight
End these doubts, show us the light
Give us peace, lay down the mighty
In these doubts show us the light

Oh God, I pray to thee
I don't want to die before I'm free
Dive down inside the sea
Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key

Let us be humbled tonight
End these doubts show us the light
Give us strength, lay down the mighty
In these doubts show us the light I pray

Oh God, I pray to thee
I don't want to die before we are free
Dive down inside this sea,
Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key

Oh God, will you hear my cry
I don't want to see another innocent die
I'll dive down inside these depths,
Keep my faith and hold my breath

We fight to hard and this won't bend
Lay down your arms and gather your friends
Strenghten your heart and this will end
Lay down your arms, gather your friends
Lay down your arms, gather your friends
Lay down your arms, gather your friends
Lay down your arms, gather your friends
Gather your friends

Oh God, will you hear me cry
I don't want to see another innocent die
Dive down inside this see
Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key
Oh God, will you hear me cry
I don't want to see another innocent die
Dive down inside these depths
I'll keep my faith and hold my breath


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DON'T NEED ANYTHING on Winter Pays for Summer 

I've got gardens growing, got quiet days
clothes on my back, food on my plate
got friends to help me if I call for them
don't need anything I don't have

got eyes to see this beautiful land
feet to take me where I want to stand
if there's work to be done, I've got these two strong hands
I don't need anything I don't have
I don't need anything I don't have

some years the rains don't come
some years floods clear out the plains
but if those waters wash this town away
I would still have enough if she was with me

I've got a roof overhead, stars if I choose
but I've no need to fly, I've got no itch to move
got almost nothing, but I understand
that I don't need anything that I don't have
I don't need anything that I don't have


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COMES A TIME on Mutual Admiration Society



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SAKE OF THE WORLD on Mutual Admiration Society



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WINDMILLS on Mutual Admiration Society



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BE CAREFUL on Mutual Admiration Society



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RUNNING OUT on Mutual Admiration Society



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SOMEWHERE OUT THERE on Mutual Admiration Society



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FRANCESCA on Mutual Admiration Society



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TROUBLE on Mutual Admiration Society



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LA LUNE on Mutual Admiration Society



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REPRISE on Mutual Admiration Society



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THINK ABOUT YOUR TROUBLES on Mutual Admiration Society



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INTRO on Live At Largo



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SLEEP OF THE BLESSED on Live At Largo

I've done it again
Made spectacular claims
And have lied in the name
Of a good love
And I think I recall
Someone brought me here
The memory's not clear
Just what it was
A good love, a good love

You define yourself by your company
And by the promises you make
And the ones that you keep
Sleep the sleep of the blessed
Dream the dreams of the whole
Forget when you wake how far you've fallen
Down below

You could blow me a kiss
If you think it brings love
It's the faith that makes it work
So what the hell
Why not

Sleep the sleep of the blessed
Dream the dreams of the whole
Forget when you wake
How far we've fallen
Down below
Down from a good love
We had a good, good love


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CROWING on Live At Largo

Been waiting
To find
You could've been happier
Given the time
If he'd make up his mind
You'd give yourself to anybody
Who would cross that line

chorus:
And it was never question
He was crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
But you couldn't keep him there

Get over regrets
While you were sleeping with the angels
He was under the bed
And the more skin
That you shed
The more that the air in your throat will linger
When you call him your friend

chorus

Staring at a cold little hand
Reading fault lines
Of a shell of a man
You were waiting for a word from above
Wouldn't you know it
No answer ever did come

And it was never question
You were crowing for repair
You'd give him love and affection
But you couldn't keep him there


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THANKFUL on Live At Largo

Forgive me this sin
I'm falling over
And flashing tin grins
And rolling in clover
So ready to get out
And eager to please
Well it's late in the day in the middle of a life
But it's early in the century

I never got it
I never got it before
Hey, hello
How do you get on so much undone
It's like it was before

chorus:
We both got a lot to be thankful for
We both got a lot to be thankful for

Forgive me my tongue
It doesn't know what it's doing
It used to get washed out
Now it's undisciplined and crude
I'm losing my language
And calling a truce
And the shape of the thoughts in my head
Aren't right for the words I've got to use

I got 'em never
Never got 'em before
Hey, hello
How do you get on
So much undone
And still you shine like the sun

We both got a lot to be thankful for
We both got a lot to be thankful for

White dwarf, red giant
It's empty in space
And where there's matter there's violence

I never got it
I never got it before
Hey, hello
How do you get on
So much undone
And still you shine like the sun

We've got a lot to be thankful for
We've both got a lot to be thankful for
We've both got a lot to be thankful for
We've both got a lot to be thankful for


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TRAIN WRECK on Live At Largo

She looked just like a train wreck
That could've been avoided
In a third world country
By a long stretch of farmland
Where the waters had run high
And the topsoil down the river
So that next year there would be no crops. . .
She was as desperate as a salesman
At a company that's folding
But they haven't told the staff yet
That they're bankrupt and backordered
And they're funneling the pensions
To the CEO's back pocket
So in one week they'll have nothing

I miss you girl. I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She's the girl from central casting
Always played the sweet young orphan
Or the hooker with the heart of gold
But she got her SAG card pulled
And turns tricks now on Cahuenga
She tells herself it's research
For her next and greatest role

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She'll call you up just to hear you say she's fine
Then she's gone away
And you know there's only one more time
You'll hear about her again

Well it's life informing art informing life again
Like every stupid kid
That thinks that they're the first in pain
The first to rip themselves apart
The first to try and live without a heart

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye
I want to see your face, even hear your lies
Good luck, girl
Or goodbye
Goodbye


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FRED MEYERS on Live At Largo

I want to see you sometime
Come find me I'll be home
Just between the Costco
And the Barnes and Noble
Behind the mom and pop grocery
That shut down in the nineties
Like all the other locals
They smashed the dreams of the hopeful

I'm getting off track, sorry
So like I said right in there
It was the Frederick Meyers
Sold everything from fruit to tires
Check in with the doorman
An old biker named Slim
Just say you're here to see me
And don't forget to tip him

One hand must wash the other
Each man must be a brother
Band up and take cover
We'll go dancing, set fires
Tag buildings and slash tires
Drive go-carts like Shriners
Or just hang out at Fred Meyers

Bring a lantern with you
It gets dark in places
Walk up the escalator
To the section that was kidswear
I'm at the back wall, left side
Under a sign says Levi's
Top bunk second row
If I'm not in right then
Ask around, somebody'll know
'Cause everybody knows me here

One hand must wash the other
Each man must be a brother
Band up and take cover
We'll go dancing, set fires
Tag buildings and slash tires
Drive go-carts like Shriners
Or just hang out at Fred Meyers

We'll go out babe, skateboarding
Go looting, food hoarding
Whatever you desire
We could just stay in my bed at Fred Meyers

One hand must wash the other
Each man must be a brother
Band up and take cover
We'll go dancing, set fires
Tag buildings and slash tires
Drive go-carts like Shriners
Or just hang out at Fred Meyers

We'll go out babe, drink moonshine
Or tip rubble on the east side
Dig deep holes to China
Or we could just stay in my bed at Fred Meyers
Why don't we just stay in my bed at Fred Meyers


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COMES A TIME on Live At Largo

There comes a time in life
To pull on your coat and go outside
To taste the vinegar of life, bitter life
To taste a second time, its sweet surprise
Sweet surprise

It's not that hard to figure it out
When there's no question, there's no doubt
I burned an effigy to time, senseless time
To view the miracle, but the wine still was wine
And that was my crime

There is a face in the stone
We let it out to find its form
To shape the testament of will, strongest will
Pride, humility, a bitter pill
Bitter pill

Sweet surrender, oh my Lord
I never thought I'd see
Not surprising, still I find
I'm shaking, crying
But I'm laughing, softly

There comes a time in the life
To pull on your coat and go outside



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DAM WOULD BREAK on Live At Largo

It this place that makes me fall from you
Forget the words that once rang so true
Did we expect that life was ever fair, my god...
I sowed a field of rose and reaped a whipping rod
And everything I've held too tight inside
Could make a part of me die
And if my lips could only speak the name
The dam would break

What is this ice that gathers round my heart
To stop the flood of warmth before it even starts
It would make me blind to what I thought would always be
The only constant in the world for me
And every hours of every day
I need to fight from pulling away
And if my mind could only loose the chain
The dam would break

For all the things I hid away
And all the words I could not say
The dam would break


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DRIVE BY on Live At Largo

I was the driver for the drive-by of the neighbor's dog
Dad had always hated him so he said "Come on son,
"Get into the Vega now and I'll go get my shotgun"
It was a military holiday and kids were everywhere
I hid behind the steering wheel and tried to disappear
I tried to speak but couldn't, Dad was whistling and drinking beer

And I prayed "Dear God, if You save this dog
"I will never get high, I will never jack off
"I will be all the things that I should but have not
"I'll be a good boy from now on"

We turned around the corner soon and saw the neighbor's yard
Dad lit up a cigarette and rolled his window down
And grinning like an idiot he stuck his head and body out

And I prayed "Dear God, if You save this dog
"I will never get high, I will never jack off
"I will be all the things that I should but have not
"I'll be a good boy from now on"

Well he popped in a shell and took aim with the gun
Then a flash and a bang and the dog it was gone
Jumped up and he ran away
Dad had shot right through his chain

Dad said "Take me to the Dairy Freeze, I want to have a shake"
We sipped them on the benches there and stared out on the lake
And Dad has never said another word about that day

And I hope you're not disappointed, God
'Cause I still get high and I still jack off
And you knew I was lying but you still saved that dog
You're such a good God
Such a good, good God
And I'll be a good boy from now on


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SOMETHING TO SAY on Live At Largo

He's got a thing about losing control
Carries it a mile just to see how far he'll go
And he brushes up his chops as he tries to fake a smile
A friend indeed but what I need's someone who'll stay a while
Someone to stay a while

You can bend my ear
We can talk all day
Just make sure that I'm near
When you've really got something to say

He drops hints but he won't tell you what's really on his mind
But I know if I look that it's easy to find
And he's got a way with his anger and the way he lets it show
Like the smoldering smoke when the fire's left the coals
When the fire has left the coals

You can take me down
To show me your home
Not the place where you live
But the place where you belong
You can bend my ear
We can talk all day
Just make sure I'm (you're) around
When you've finally got something to say

And what are you meaning by
"I don't deserve this life?"

His door is always open and he's always got the time
To give a little something even though he gets behind
And your trips become his and your lives are entwined
But like the horse with the junkie it's all in your mind
It's all in your mind

You can take me down
To show me your home
Not the place where you live
But the place where you belong
You can bend my ear
We can talk all day
Just make sure I'm (you're) around
When you've finally got something to say


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EASIER on Live At Largo

I was eighteen, so were you
I was that birkenstock geek rock dude
You were the back-flip, doe-eyed
Tree-climbing earth mama
Beautiful evergreen girl

I never thought that I could be
Getting my grey hairs with you beside me
And there's something I'm blind to
But you still see

And it couldn't be better, I know
And it shouldn't be easier, oh
I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall

I want to be the toy in your cereal box
I want to be carter at your peace talks
I want to get almost too familiar
But still notice the way that you walk

And if you said you were going away
I'd run on the tarmac
And I would lay down in front of the plane
Just to get you to stay

'Cause it couldn't be better, I know
And it shouldn't be easier, oh
I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall

Got everything i'd ever wanted here
Everything and then this constant fear
Sure I'm gonna lose it all
Just waiting for the other boot to fall

And if you thought I could be replaced
I wouldn't just stop with an ear
I would cut off my whole fucking face
Just to make my point clear

That it couldn't be better, I know
It shouldn't be easier, oh
I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall
Waiting for the other boot to fall

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DARKEST HOUR on Live At Largo

If I lose my faith
Just remind me, just remind me
When my shadow's longer
Stay beside me till it's brighter
How easy I forget
How beautiful to see you once again

In my darkest hour I will be freed

When I close my eyes
I hope to find you, I hope to find you
When I leave my body
I want to be ready, willing like you were
I sat beside you then
I felt the warmth as it left your hands

In my darkest hour I will be freed

I've been waiting so long
That waiting was the end
Let this sleeper awaken again

In my darkest hour I will be freed


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BACK ON MY FEET on Live At Largo

I've been angry
And I have strayed
I've said words I never thought
That I could say
And you were sad and sweet
Like an old folk song
But I'll be back up on my feet
Before too long

You could say you wanted me
If I said it first
The words rang hollow
And the emptiness became a thirst
Now I could drink those words
They would make me strong
And I'd be back up on my feet
Before too long

If you'd met me now
You never would have stuck around
No, you never would have stuck around

So I will lay me down
By the salty sea
And let the water pull the sand
Over my body
To wash me clean
Like a river stone
And I'll be back up on my feet
Before you know it
I'll be back up on my feet
Before too long


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WHATEVER I FEAR on Live At Largo

There's almost nothing left
You eat my kind for breakfast
What did I expect
To come here and find anyone?
Find open arms to feed me
I sicken myself so much
And you eat my kind for breakfast
You eat my kind

Whatever I fear the most is whatever I see before me
Whenever I fear I let my guard down, whatever I was ignoring
Whatever I fear the most is whatever I see before me
Whatever I have been given, whatever I have been

Seeing myself this way
I am a monster I believe
And seeing is believing
Is there no doubt left?
When I wake up I poison myself
And poison gives no appetite
I sicken myself so much
I sicken myself so

Whatever I fear the most is whatever I see before me
Whenever I fear I let my guard down, whatever I was ignoring
Whatever I fear the most is whatever I see before me
Whatever I have been given, whatever I have been

Did we expect these things to change
By waking up and suddenly there they are
And all I need's a starting place
And nothing ever seemed so hard...

Whatever I fear the most is whatever I see before me
Whenever I fear I let my guard down, whatever I was ignoring
Whatever I fear the most is whatever I see before me
Whatever I have been given, whatever I have been


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DON'T NEED ANYTHING on Live At Largo

I've got gardens growing, got quiet days
clothes on my back, food on my plate
got friends to help me if I call for them
don't need anything I don't have

got eyes to see this beautiful land
feet to take me where I want to stand
if there's work to be done, I've got these two strong hands
I don't need anything I don't have
I don't need anything I don't have

some years the rains don't come
some years floods clear out the plains
but if those waters wash this town away
I would still have enough if she was with me

I've got a roof overhead, stars if I choose
but I've no need to fly, I've got no itch to move
got almost nothing, but I understand
that I don't need anything that I don't have
I don't need anything that I don't have


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POLITICAL SCIENCE on Live At Largo

No one likes us-I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens

We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us-so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us

We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too

Boom goes London and boom Paree
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono
And there'll be Italian shoes for me

They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now


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GREER ZOLLER on Live At Largo

Greer zoller you make me holler
Blew me a kiss and I threw you a doller
But you had eyes like deep cool water

Greer zoller from the minute I saw her
I knew I had to have her , couldn't help but want her
I fell in love and I never once faultered

Greer zoller

But greer zoller had an angry father
He said "you keep away from my daughter"
And he made her sell the ring that I bought her

So greer zoller, well she said "tomorrow will you meet me
At midnight at old man potters's, and we'll run away and we'll marry each other"

Greer zoller

Oh, greer zoller, I can't wait any longer
I wanna get married, move out to the water
Have a house and a family and no more sorrow

Greer zoller

But greer zoller's jealous father
Well, he heard her moving out in the night and he caught her
Said "ungreatful girl forget what I taught her,
Well, you don't deserve to be my daughter
I brought you into the world, well, I'll take you out"
And he took her to the wild wood and he shot her

Greer zoller

Oh greer zoller, you mad me holler
Blew me a kiss and I made you a martyr
But you had eyes like pools of deep cold water

Greer zoller


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SMALL DARK MOVIES on Live At Largo

How are things going in the small dark movie of your life
Late at night you call your girlfriend in the morning you call your wife
In the morning you go for coffee leave town by the underpass
Leave whatever happened last night cigarette in a champagne glass

The road used to go someplace you never been before
Now it's just a race track and the only prize is more
The only off-ramp is up ahead and just where ain't too clear
And change is a semi with smoking wheels filling the rear view mirror

You could really use a rain coat and a pair of cool shoes
You could really use some idea of what you're gonna do
But the road keeps coming at you and you find no place to rest
And in these small dark movies no-one knows what's best

So how are things going in the small dark movie of your life
Late at night you call your girlfriend in the morning you call your wife
In the morning you go for coffee leave town by the underpass
Leave whatever happened last night cigarette in the champagne glass

How are things going
How are things going
How are things going


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CARELESS on Abulum

You grew up alone in a big empty house
With a pool and a maid, Mom and Dad always out
And I always thought that you had it so good
Just imagine my surprise when they blew off the roof

I couldn't be more careless
You're probably dead and I'm just embarrassed

From out of the fire and into a flame
When you got too skinny you moved to L.A.
Just a regular city dropped from a great height
With the millions inside just along for the ride

And I couldn't be more careless
You're probably dead and I'm just embarrassed

To be the one who always had it nice
With not a clue and too much advice

I'll let you live your life like you let me live mine
So whatever you need it's just fine, it's just fine
You've been here before, you'll probably be back again
'Till the hair of that dog is too frayed at both ends

And I couldn't be more careless
You're probably dead and I'm just embarrassed

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MEN JUST LEAVE on Abulum

She came from Austin, Texas, she liked his custom van
And his pit bull Francis
Even when he took a chunk out of her hand
They liked to dance in the desert and screw in the sand
He said they'd always be together
But when her belly got big she never saw him again

One and one ends up to be three
Don't need to have love don't need to be sweet
But when the air gets heavy and it's hard to breathe
The women get stuck, the men just leave

They were high school sweetharts from Portland, Maine
He was a writer's block poet
And though she'd never read a line she still had faith
They ended up in La Jolla, she sold Mary Kay
He dreamed about getting published
And when her belly got big he ran away

I've seen that one and one ends up to be three
Don't need to have love don't need to be sweet
And when the air gets heavy and it's hard to breathe
The women get stuck, the men just leave

There's a place in the desert where the men all meet
They park their vans in the shade
Talk about Kerouac and the works of the Beats
Let their dogs play together, drink beer and they sing
They've all got a secret treasure
The wallet picture in their pocket
Of the kids they never see

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BACK ON MY FEET on Abulum

I've been angry
And I have strayed
I've said words I never thought
That I could say
And you were sad and sweet
Like A Wilco song
But I'll be back up on my feet
Before too long

You could say you wanted me
If I said it first
The word rang hollow
And the emptiness became a thirst
Now I could drink those words
They would make me strong
And I'd be back up on my feet
Before too long

If you'd met me now
You never would have stuck around
You never would have stuck around

So I will lay me down
By the salty sea
And let the water pull the sand
Over my body
To wash me clean
Like a river stone
And I'll be back up on my feet
Before you know it
I'll be back up on my feet
Before too long

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FRED MEYERS on Abulum

I want to see you sometime
Come find me I'll be home
I'm just between the Costco
And the Barnes and Noble
Behind the mom and pop grocery
That shut down in the nineties
Like all the other locals
They smashed the dreams of the hopeful

I'm getting off track, sorry
So like I said right in there
It was the Frederick Meyers
Sold everything from fruit to tires
Check in with the doorman
An old biker named Slim
Just say you're here to see me
And don't forget to tip him

One hand must wash the other
Each man must be a brother
Band up and take cover
We'll go dancing, set fires
Tag buildings and slash tires
Drive go-carts like Shriners
Or just hang out at Fred Meyers

Bring a lantern with you
It gets dark in places
Walk up the escalator
To the section that was kidswear
I'm at the back wall, left side
Under a sign that says Levis
Top bunk second row
If I'm not in right then
Ask around, somebody'll know
'Cause everybody knows me here

One hand must wash the other
Each man must be a brother
Band up and take cover
We'll go out babe, skateboarding
Go looting for food hoarding
Whatever you desire
We could just stay in my bed at Fred Meyers

We'll go out, babe, drink moonshine
Or tip rubble on the East Side
Dig deep holes to China
Or we could just stay in my bed at Fred Meyers
Why don't we just stay in my bed at Fred Meyers

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MY OWN TOWN on Abulum

You all went away and left me alone
And now there's nodody around any more
Just a big empty house on a big empty street
In a big empty town in a big empty state

The radio's dead and the streets are blocked off
I'm through smashing windows and trying to get lost
I read a few books but it just made me sad
Nobody to talk to about what I read

Heaven knows why I'm around
Heaven knows what keeps me here
There is nothing that can keep me down
There is nothing left for to fear

It's my town now, my own town
It's my town now, but I wish you were here

I'm wondering if I should learn how to fly
A police helicopter would be a good way to die
I'd be a fireball come crashing, leaving nothing but ashes
A bald spot on the globe like nothing ever had happened here

Heaven knows why I'm alive
But heaven it can't keep me here
There is nothing that can bring me down
There's nothing left to fear

It's my town now, my own town
It's my town now, but I wish you were here
I wish you were here

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IT TAKES TIME on Abulum

The water's getting deeper and I can't feel my feet
I keep on bailing buckets but it flows right back to me
And everything is put away, the children are asleep
But the water's getting deeper
And I can't feel my feet

How am I gonna make time
This is gonna take time

Everything looks different, colors all seem strange
Light comes down in shafts here underneath the waves
Everything is in its place and the children are asleep
But the water's getting deeper
And I can't feel my feet

How am I gonna make time
This is gonna take time

I am provider, but providence has been swayed
And by design nothing is ever the same
I thought that time had only one way to go
I learned how to swim, but not to breathe underwater

How am I gonna make time
Oh, this is gonna take time
How am I gonna make time

I can't feel my feet

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DRIVE BY on Abulum

I was the driver for the drive-by of the neighbor's dog
Dad had always hated him so he said "Come on son,
"Get into the Vega now and I'll go get my shotgun"
It was a military holiday and kids were everywhere
I hid behind the steering wheel and tried to disappear
I tried to speak but couldn't, Dad was whistling and drinking beer

And I prayed "Dear God, if You save this dog
"I will never get high, I will never jack off
"I will be all the things that I should but have not
"I'll be a good boy from now on"

We turned around the corner soon and saw the neighbor's yard
Dad lit up a cigarette and rolled his window down
And grinning like an idiot he stuck his head and body out

And I prayed "Dear God, if You save this dog
"I will never get high, I will never jack off
"I will be all the things that I should but have not
"I'll be a good boy from now on"

Well he popped in a shell and took aim with the gun
Then a flash and a bang and the dog it was gone
Jumped up and he ran away
Dad had shot right through his chain

Dad said "Take me to the Dairy Freeze, I want to have a shake"
We sipped them on the benches there and stared out on the lake
And Dad has never said another word about that day

And I hope you're not disappointed, God
'Cause I still get high and I still jack off
And you knew I was lying but you still saved that dog
You're such a good God
Such a good, good God
And I'll be a good boy from now on

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DARKEST HOUR on Abulum

If I lose my faith
Just remind me, just remind me
When my shadow's longer
Stay beside me 'till it's brighter
How easily I forget
How beautiful to see it once again

In my darkest hour I will be freed

When I close my eyes
I hope to find you, hope to find you
When I leave my body
I want to be ready, willing like you were
I sat beside you then
I felt the warmth as it left your hands

In my darkest hour I will be freed

I've been waiting so long
That waiting was the end
Let this sleeper awaken again

In my darkest hour I will be freed

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PROFESSIONAL VICTIM on Abulum

Well it took five neighbors
To get him in the hall
And down the three flights of stairs
Out the building's door
I know that it's easy to say
That it couldn't be worse
But now she's in her apartment
Alone for the first time since the last jerk

And once you let them get to you
It never washes off
'Cause they can smell the weak ones
And just pick you off like a pigeon
And each one is worse than the last one
Until you're a professional victim

You get everything backwards
Learning to survive
You treat the little wounds first
Let the big ones fester for life
You've done it enough
You would think that you know what you need
But it doesn't get any better
When you've got such an eye for the bad seed

And once you let it get to you
It never washes off
'Cause they can smell the weak ones
And just pick you off like a pigeon
And each one is worse than the last one
Until you're a professional victim

And if you take a look you can see the cracks
In the story told where the logic lacks
All the pretty girls and the stupid boys
Make the same mistakes until they've got no choice

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TRAIN WRECK on Abulum

She looked just like a train wreck
That could've been avoided
In a third world country
By a long stretch of farmland
Where the waters had run high
And washed the topsoil down the river
So that next year there would be no crops
She was as desperate as a salesman
At a company that's folding
But they haven't told the staff yet
That they're bankrupt and backordered
And they're funneling pensions
To the CEO's back pocket
So in one week they'll have nothing

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She's the girl from central casting 
Always played the sweet young orphan
Or the hooker with the heart of gold
But she got her SAG card pulled
And turns tricks now on Cahuenga
She tells herself it's research
For her next and greatest role

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She'll call you up just to hear you say she's fine
Then she's gone away
And you know there's only one more time
You'll hear from her again

Well it's life informing art informing life again
Like every stupid kid
That thinks that they're the first in pain
The first to rip themselves apart
The first to try and live without a heart

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

I want to see your face, even hear your lies

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye



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MAYA on Abulum

I want the woman who want me
Velvet temple of her body
Seeing lovers crushed together
Doesn't make it any better

Maya, maya
Kiss me through the veil
I won't be ungrateful

I see angels gathered 'round me
Lips of raspberry, breasts of honey
Tear me open, sanctify me
Find the beauty that's dying inside of me

Maya, maya
Kiss me through the veil
I won't be ungrateful
I won't be ungrateful

Oh the hunter of this body
Is insatiable, ever wanting
Tear me open, take it from me
Fill me up again or give me nothing

Maya, maya
Kiss me through the veil
I won't be ungrateful
I won't be ungrateful

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SLEEP OF THE BLESSED (BONUS TRACK) on Abulum



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