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Everybody's working, everybody needs to toil
Oh we're working so much harder than we did the year before.
And we work so goddamn hard for so very little pay.
And we work, and we toil, everyday.
Everyone's unhappy, everybody is upset.
And the days they get away from us, we haven't made it yet.
And we know that there's no end it sight, this is our everyday
And we work, and we toil, and pay .
Slow it down.
Take it slow.
Let's turn on the radio again.
And let's sit and listen to
The song that we love, oh, the songs we sing along to.
Work, it makes us cynical, and bitter angry folk.
This must be some sort of universal cosmic joke.
But we know the bills, they must be paid and so we slave away.
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Let's Start Fires
02:34
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Let's start fires, let's pull the wires, increase the pressure til it blows.
Let's be rebels, drunk and disheveled, let's ride the lightning 'til we glow.
And the stories that they will tell of us will be quite legendary.
And in the fires of furious revelrie, oh, my love, we will be married.
And the chorus of angels, they will sing,
Let's turn it on.
Let's go wild, let's race for miles, til our blisters are no more.
Make love at midnight, under the moonlight, let the crickets play our score
And the tales of you and I, my love, will be told til the death of time.
The stars will be the crown you wear and the moon, I'll make mine.
Can you hear the poets scribbling
Let's turn it on.
So nevermind the 8 to 5.
And nevermind the bottom line.
Just remember you are mine
to the end.
Let's go crazy, let's keep chasing, the sun outta the east
With a hammer, and a mighty clamor, let's unchain the angry beasts
Let's draw down the sun and the moon again,
Let's sleep when we are ancient.
But for you my love, I could wait so long
That eternity would grow impatient.
And the stars will sing their oldest song
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Ready For War
04:03
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If every time you try, oh, they say that you fail.
And when you get some speed, oh, you get derailed
If you stand up . They knock. you. down.
And if you had the fire but the flame burnt out, well
Sugar, don't you know we will never give up
The things that don't kill us only toughen us up. And so you go
Go. Go. And you gird your loins.
Ready the attack, push 'em back . Destroy.
And when they come to defy us
And when they think they can try us
We'll shoot them down. Those bastards, they'll see.
We'll light them up like a Christmas tree.
Let's get ready for war.
Let's go over the top.
Let's get ready for war.
And we're never ever gonna stop.
If everything's a struggle, if everything's a pain
If you're almost always losing so much more than you gain
Then just stop, just stop, looking for an out
And get your self worked up, get ready for a bout, see
Brother, we're not going down without a fight
Even if we have to set the world on fire
Up, up hoist your petards
Let's get ready to sound the charge.
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Somedays
03:57
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Somedays it feels like I'm broken
Like nothing I do is right.
And all of my silly decisions
Seem to unravel and unwind
But I know that's not true
Because I have you
And you are the star
guiding me back to safe harbor
in your heart.
Somedays I feel like a failure,
Like I'll never get quite there.
Like all of the songs that I'm writing
Are so much empty air
But I know that's alright
Because tonight, you are with me.
And that, my love, is reason enough to sing.
So let me sing a song to you.
Let it be simple. Let it be pure.
Let me sing my broken heart.
And let our loving be the cure.
Somedays I feel like I'm stumbling.
Like I can't bare to stand.
Like the wait of all of my trouble
Has me pinned and unmanned.
But I know that's not true, because I have you
And you are my love.
And sweetheart, you give me strength enough.
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Volcanos
03:53
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Surrender your body.
Surrender your body, baby,
Oh, I hope you really wanna.
I will love you, til the death of time.
I wanna make you tremble, love
Set the tips of your body on fire, desire
makes up every molecule of me, my love,
a burning thirst is what I am made of.
I wanna drink you down and eat you up.
And when you come with me
The places, oh, that we will go.
We will venture to the peaks and then
We'll head below.
We will be volcanos of molten, fiery love.
We will be volcanos of molten, fiery love.
And I'm gonna love you
Til the death of time.
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Invisible
03:38
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Let's go invisible.
Let's try to disappear.
Let's hold our breath til we fade away.
We will disappear into a better day.
We'll walk unseen amongst our peers
Singing songs that no one hears.
Let's go intangible.
Let's walk through walls.
And nothing will touch us, we'll float through the air
We'll pass through our troubles like they aren't there
And all of our wounds will be made whole again
And our hearts will never be broken.
Let's never die.
Let's live on.
And we will remember, not be remembered
We will carry on singing the songs that we've heard
And our voices will carry through centuries more
Echoing all of the lives gone before.
Don't you want to live with me
in an extraordinary life?
Let's get outta here.
Let's just go.
If we can't turn invisible, or walk through the walls
And if we must live as puny mortals
And if our only power is just being us
Well, that's enough power, it's power enough.
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Let's Stay Home Tonight
03:28
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Sex is fun,
let's do it again
let's stay home tonight. (2x)
I want you so
So take off your clothes
And come over here and let me
love you, honey.
Sex is fun,
Let's do it again,
Let's stay home tonight. (2x)
Oh, I'm down with romance
But, let's take off our pants
And the rest of it too
I'm gonna love you.
And when we're making love
Oh, we're on fire
Well, not actually on fire.
Being on fire would really suck
I bet it hurts
I bet it really does.
But oh, I'm gonna love you.
And oh, you're gonna love me.
And ten minutes after we'll done we'll fall asleep.
I know that it must sting when I fall asleep
But know that you can always just wake me.
All I ask is that you give me ten minutes...
Maybe 20
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Barfly
04:10
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If all assholes could fly, this place would be an airport.
And I don't know why I haven't made my way out yet.
But I think that I'll have one more drink
and ponder my situation.
So bartender, please, another drink for me.
Won't you get out of my way, you fucking asshole.
Get the fuck out of my way, you fucking asshole.
Oh, I'm an asshole.
Watch me fly.
Pushing my way to the men's room.
Where all the dicks like to hang.
There's some prick in the bathroom stall
Key bumping cocaine.
I think that I'll have one more drink
To combat the consternation
So bartender, please, another drink for me.
Shit, I can't find my phone. Has anybody seen it?
Fuck, there it goes, another phone, gone to shit.
I think I will have one more drink
Out of furious frustration.
So bartender please, another drink for me.
Apparently, this night is done. This shithole is now closing.
I can't find my wallet and can't find my keys, I can't call for a taxi.
I think I will have one more drink
As my evening's consolation.
So bartender please, another drink for me.
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Katy, Oh Katy
04:58
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Katy, oh Katy
It seems impossible to me
That you have slipped
through so many
fingers.
I'll hold on tightly
Like a drowning man
who's lost at sea
and knows that he will
never reach the shore
Yes, I know you're beautiful
You're lovely like a song
I adore the kindness in your eyes.
But I know behind that pale blue
There is hurt and heartache too
So many little wounds that you disguise
So lay your heavy heart near mine.
Let me feel it beating in your breast
Lay your heavy heart near mine
Can you hear it's pounding rythmn in my chest?
Katy, oh Katy
Suddenly the world now seems
smaller than it ever did before.
Locked in the bedroom,
My mind's on fire with thoughts of you
My body aches and gives off electric sparks
You make me quite wondeful
Brimming with wonder
You were not meant for this world.
You are fucking awesome, love
In the most literal sense
You fill me with awe, my girl
So let us love again
Let our love never end.
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Some Things Hurt
04:00
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Some things hurt, and somes thing heal.
You don't wanna get'em confused.
It always feels like a pretty raw deal,
When you learn that you've been used.
I know it feels right,
I know it feels good
As good as anything before.
But sometimes you gotta stop before you've got,
A whole lotta hurt in store.
Some people use while others are used,
L i ke some backwards, broken game.
There's little sense to most everything,
About the way we love and hate.
I don't wanna be against,
I don't wanna beat against the wall.
The friction, the fire, the cheaters, the liars
I don't wanna 'em all.
Some things wound and some things mend.
You don't wanna get them confused.
Some things break and others bend.
The only arbiter is abuse.
I know it feels right, I know it feels good
As good as anything before
But sometimes you gotta stop before you've got
A whole lot worse in store.
Some things build and others destroy.
You don't wanna get them confused.
Some cut quick and others play coy
And some bear flags of truce.
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Bad Boys
04:18
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I've been broken, I've been beat
I've been utterly defeated
My wounds are still bleedin'
But I won't lay down.
I've been tortured, I've been used
I've been blackend, I've been bruised now
I've been abused somehow
But I won't lay down
I'm a fucking force of nature
Nevermind the legislation
Let's get wild
And feel our pounding hearts.
Let's feel the fire and the fury
Nevermind the fucking jury
Let's go wild
And earn some brand new scars.
I'm gonna run with all the bad boys
See those motherfucker run
I'm gonna run with all the bad boys
And all the wickedness they've done.
I'm gonna run with all the bad boys
And I'll never make a sad noise
No, I'll never make a one.
No, I'll never make a one.
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Today is beautiful day.
Let's get out, let's go and play.
I wanna see you in the sun.
Let's go hang with everyone.
Let's drink our fill of beers.
It's the perfect time of year.
Today is beautiful day.
Let's call in sick today.
I wanna get out in the sun.
I wanna hang with everyone.
Come lover let's
Get out in the sun and sweat
Summer is a time for falling in love.
A time for gettin' out of the push and shove
Let's fall in love in the summer.
Today is a beautiful day.
Let's not let it waste way.
Let's go hang with all our friends.
I hope the summer never ends.
Let's go breathe the summer air.
The day has never been so fair.
Summer is a time for singing songs with friends.
A time for making love that never ends.
Let's get out in the summer.
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Watch It Bleed
04:27
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Wake up, honey,
it's a brand new day
a day for you and me
Come on, lover
let us disembowel the day
and watch it bleed.
Let it bleed.
Let it bleed.
Watch it bleed.
Let it bleed all over
me and you
So celebrate the crazy ways
That you and I find joy
And let us sink our teeth into the day
And let's destroy
let's suck the marrow from the very bones
of another lovely day
let's gobble up the heart other vital organs
before it gets away
And I know that sometimes it gets hard
And I know that sometimes you're falling apart
But today our day, so let us make it okay, you're my heart
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When I was a little boy I used to sit and ponder
But now that I'm a full grown, I'm simply left to wonder
Where did all the time go
It's passing with a flash
And soon enough I'll return to ash.
All my life I've wanted nothing more than to make beauty
To conjure from the ether something that was passing through me
Something that is wonderful
And full of joyful song
'Cause sooner than later I'll be gone.
I wanna write, the perfect song
A melody that never goes wrong.
A chorus filled with triumph
And a bridge that fills the heart with longing.
A song that everyone will sing.
So I try, with every song, to write something of wonder.
And even though I've struggled so, I haven't yet gone under.
And every song I put to pen
Just might be that song.
A song to which, you might singalong.
And here's the part
Where I fall apart
I don't know what to do.
Every song, I seem to write
Seems to pass right through you.
I wanna write song that just be ignored
E ver more.
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Throw It To The Wind
03:42
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Let's get drunk tonight, my friends
and break out our guitars.
Let's sing songs til the break of dawn
Let's cancel out the stars.
Let's live like tomorrow is the day after today
Not today, I mean,
I mean, two days from yesterday.
Let's throw it all into the wind
Let it tumble
Let it spin
Neverminding where it all comes down.
Let's throw it all into the wind
Let's light the fuse
And pull the pin
Let's sing the stars, the firmament down.
Let's make love like lions do
Howling d own the walls
And should you draaaw blood, my dear
I won't mind at all.
Let us love til the friction of our bodies
makes a flame
And then let us roast some marshmallows on that very same.
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The sun keeps leaning on me
The sun keeps leaning on me
It's so hot I can hardly breathe
The sun keeps leaning on me.
The sun is a devil in the sky
The sun is a devil in the sky
The heat it burns like the devil's fire
The sun is a devil in the sky.
It's so hot, I wanna strip down
Outta my skin now
And into my bones.
It's so hot, set me aflame now
So I can just cool down.
I need a nice cooling fire.
The sun is a ball of hate
The sun is a ball of hate
And its hate shines down at a 108
The sun is a ball of hate.
The sun keeps leaning on me.
The sun keeps leaning on me.
Nevermind the children, let's everyone flee.
The sun keeps leaning on me.
It's so hot, my cranium's softenin'
Like a ripe avacado
My brain is just mush
It's so hot, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot
Hot, hot, hot. Ow.
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If My Heart Was A Gun
03:17
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If my heart was a gun, you'd be my first victim
Forty-four calibers of furious love.
I'd shoot you in the heart,
So we'd never be apart.
It's a good thing that my heart is not a gun.
If my heart was a missle it'd be aimed at you.
They could launch it from as far away as Katmandu
And though it must fly far
It would always hit its mark.
It's a good thing that the missle's not my heart.
But my heart is a vessel filled with blood.
And that blood is a liquid made of love.
So luckily for you, you're getting love.
If my heart was a deathray, oh, you'd be toast.
The only thing that would be left of would be your ghost.
It'd zap you with a pow!
You wouldn't even utter "ow."
It's a good thing that the deathray's not my heart.
I am obsessed with you
And all the things that you do
The things that you say and are .
I am possessed by you.
I hope you know that it's true
That you truly own my heart.
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Hello Katy
04:04
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I saw her on the streets of Austin
She was standing just there
Talking on the phone
I smiled, and she smiled
I approached her
And she hung up the phone
Saying, "I gotta go."
Hello, Katy. Hello, Katy
For that's your name you say.
But I hope you don't mind
if I call you gorgeous,
'Cause that's what you are to me.
So we hung out all night
Laughing and telling stories
And my heart sorta broke
Cause I had to go
I was leaving in only one week.
Hello, Katy. Hello, Katy.
For that's your name I hear.
But I hope you don't mind
if I call you gorgeous.
'Cause you're very lovely, my dear.
So we spent every day together.
She showed me her town,
We got around, hanging out
With our friends.
And our nights were filled with awesome.
And our days were overflowing
With laughter and with joy.
In the end, I had to go
I was leaving. Heading back to LA,
Where I gotta play in my rock & roll band.
But Katy, oh my dear, don't you fear
I won't be gone for long.
In the not too distant future
I will call Austin my home.
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Gimme Love
04:13
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Love, love, gimme love, it's the only thing I need more of.
I don't need money, don't need fame,
Don't need success, or anything at all.
I just need love.
Love, love, gimme love, it's the only thing I need more of.
I don't need cars or fancy clothes
Or pure cocaine to put up my nose.
The only thing I need is love.
I need your love.
Love, love, give your love, it's the greatest thing that I know of.
It's better than being made the king of the universe
And everything,
You're love. Gimme your love.
Love, love, gimme love, it's the only thing I need more of.
The only thing that I want
Is the very thing that you got
Your love, I want your love.
I need your love.
I guess the Beatles said it, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.
So I'll give you my love.
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Lemme sink my teeth into your peaches
Lemme get my mouth into your ripe honeydew
Lemme get my tongue round the skin of one o' your red cherries
Let me sink my teeth and taste the juice.
Darlin' don't look so alarmed
I'm only singin' 'bout your fruit.
Let me lick the sweat off of your apples
Let me slowly peel your orange too.
Let me bury my face into your guava, honey.
Let me sink my teeth and taste the juice.
Darlin' don't lookso alarmed
I'm only singin' 'bout your fruit.
I'm so hungry, I want nothing
more than to sink my teeth into...
Lemme wrap my lips 'round your fresh mango
Let me suck the sour from your lemons too.
Let me bite the tips from your strawberries, sugar.
Let me sink my teeth and taste the juice.
Let me kiss the sweet from your blueberries.
Let me get hands on your apricots too.
Let me squeeze the pulp from your rasberries, baby.
Let me sink my teeth and taste the juice.
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Thanks For Listening
01:50
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