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O My Soul

by Eliot Wilder

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What I Want 04:48
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Whatever I want I don’t got it Whatever I need no I don’t own Whatever I wish for it don’t come true Wherever I am, I’m alone Yeah that’s how it’s always been Much to my eternal chagrin What I want for I can’t touch Am I really asking way too much I’d rather fill my bag with all I can stuff Even though I know it’s never enough Whatever I desire I can’t have it Whatever I love it slips away Whatever I dream up is never made real Much to my eternal dismay Yeah I guess I seem pretty pathetic Don’t expect you'll be sympathetic I am trying to be realistic I keep my expectations low, low But is it too much to want anything at all I wish someone would let me know Whatever this is It sucks to the letter Whatever’s to come Ain’t gonna be much better Don’t see how I'll get satisfaction I’m in sore need of affirmative action
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The Great Crash of '85 04:27
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Took a drive out To the middle of nowhere Got into a terrible accident A truck ran me off the road He never looked back at where I went I spun out and my car It flipped and rolled And I wound up in a ditch And as it was happening I thought This is how I fucking die Son of a bitch Something happened that day And I can’t say what But it was something That changed me overnight It seems I skidded Into a different dimension Where nothing works quite right Can you take me back To where I came from Can you take me there Can you take me back To where I came from In the middle of nowhere The next thing I recall I was upside down And a brown dust was blowing in the air I crawled out and touched myself Just to make sure that I was still all there I walked back up to the road And a truck of farmworkers came to my aid We drove on into that hot summer night And I thought about my escapade It was somewhere in-between The Lost Hills and Paso Robles That I did get my final kicks My old car it spun like a dervish And wound up deep down in a ditch Way out on Highway 46
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Just Passin' Through 04:42
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I used to think The world belonged to me I was wrong I did not see The world just doesn’t care It is too damn vast And nothing we do will ever last, oh yeah Here I come and there I go I’m just passin' through See me now and I’ll be gone I’m just passin’ through I used to think I was at the center But I don’t own I’m just a renter Everything is temporary Even this love I share with you Hang on, hang on It's the best you can do I used to think that I was at the top But I've fallen down And it won't stop, oh yeah
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The World Says 03:41
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Well I got no place to go, go, go And I got no boat to row, row, row Don't got nothing, no nothing to call my own I am out here, out here completely alone The world says Get out, get out, get out Well I got no house To call my home, home, home Yeah I wander 'round Yeah I roam, roam, roam I would settle for a tiny crust of bread I would love, love me a comfy bed The world says Get out, get out, get out Well I got no one to hold, hold hold Don't look at me I'm old, old, old All my dreams are down, down in the dirt I live in a world, a world of hurt The world says Get out, get out, get out
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Do I Know You? 03:39
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You say that you know me But I'm not so certain Take off your hat and coat And peel back the curtain We were once friendly A long time ago In a place I barely recall Where the Santa Ana blow You say that I was funny Always made you laugh I stuck my neck out Just like a giraffe It's all coming back to me now Kind of You say that I have brown eyes And I was a poet How come if I was I don't know it You say we used to hang out And smoke a lot of weed I liked to shoot bunnies Just to see them bleed I must've been a dick From the picture you paint 'Cause of that was me I wish it ain't It's all coming back to me now Do I know you and do you know me If you say so then it's got to be Did I know you and you know me You say that I was trouble I liked to mix it up Whenever you spoke I would interrupt You say that I was selfish Only cared about me Whenever you were hurting I would turn and flee
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Losing Ground 06:21
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Trying to move ahead But I don’t get nowhere Trying to move on up, up, up Up and outta here Been on the lower end Even since I could recall Wanted to be big But I wound up small I’m losing ground And I can't make it up Help me, why won't you help me Trying to get some traction But I am losing my grip Trying to get some satisfaction But I’m on a bum trip Don’t mean to complain But I gotta let it out Been pent up so long Just gotta shout Let's do this thing Why can't we work together And live as one in peace No I can't make it alone My pain it just won't cease I bet you could learn to love me If you opened up your eyes I ain't so bad look at Surprise, surprise
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Checking Out 03:59
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My time is used up Got no reason to stay There ain’t nothing to hold me down No, nothing in my way If you’ll just undo these straps I’ll split tout suite If you’ll just open up this cage I’ll beat my retreat Checking out Baby, checking out Checking out Baby, checking out My deal is done here Got nothing more to say The clock keeps right on a-ticking Yeah, time is having its way Won’t you unlock the locks I know you got the key Won’t you please open up the door And set me free My essence is gone Ain’t got a single drop Feeling more and more like a eunuch An old dude in a tank top Let me out of here Won’t you open the lid I been trying to set myself free I am off the grid
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Falling/Fading 06:18
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Fat Man With Hands in His Pockets Waiting 'Round to Die 05:19
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Here is my job Here is what I do Here is the life I live It ain’t much But it makes a hell of a racket No shits do I give Who will remember me When I’m gone Who will mourn and cry I’m a fat man With my hands in my pockets Waiting ‘round till I die Aye aye aye I drive big trucks I tear shit down I back up with my backhoe I can do nothing All day long The status of the status quo I'm like a like a boy A boy with a loud toy Smash, bang, boom I talk trash To all the ladies traipsing by The world is my locker room
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Buzzkill 03:47
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Whatever is good You make it bad Whatever is happy You make it sad If there is joy You will surely dash it If there is hope You will smash it You are a buzzkill You are a buzzkill Buzzzzzz If something is sweet You’ll make it stink You always bring me down When I’m in the pink If I want ice cream You’ll give me liver You just take, take, take Never a giver When I’m feeling strong You say I’m a lightweight When I’m feeling love You turn it into hate When I lose weight You say I’m looking fat You don’t let go of nothing It’s always tit-for-tat
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Angel of Death 05:40
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Looks like I’m in the final length Of the latter part of my of life And when I look back my feelings are mixed There’s things I’ve done And things I wished done did Most of my shit is broke and can’t be fixed As I limp to the end of the road In this finale episode The angel of death is covering me As the sky above turns black I feel its breath on my back The angel of death is covering me Got more memories than I can use Wish I could unload 'em But there seems to be No way I can let them go There’s the shit with All the women I married And the shit with my family And all the other shit I did for no reason I know There’s nothing I can do about it There’s nothing I can change And the world I'm living in Has gone from weird to downright strange I know you’ve heard this story before From every complaining old codger But we all share one common fate When it comes to time You know there’s never enough But most of us just don’t know it Until it's way too late
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O My Soul 05:23
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This is it This is the end And for those who don’t think so More’s the pity Just wanna scream Just wanna cry Just wanna say something witty O my soul This broken old world This broken old world Out of control This broken old world This broken old world We done did it It’s our own damn fault We brought it on And now comes the final curtain Nowhere to run And nowhere to hide It is the end Yeah that’s for certain We’ve been selfish We’ve been dumb Poisoned our planet with our junk We had no worries We had no qualms Acted just like an arrogant punk

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"I can't get a license
To drive in my car
But I don't really need it
If I'm a big star"
—Alex Chilton

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released December 10, 2025

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