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Barberic Poem
04:54
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I am crude
I am grotesque
My words skid along, long, long
In a clumsy arabesque
I'm a bull in a China shop
My muscles slither out my tank top
Hey diddle, diddle
The dog and the piddle
I am boom, boom, boom
I am hunger
I am appetite
I am hot, hot, hot as burning anthracite
I am desire, I am rage
C'mon and bust that lock
Lemme out of my cage
Hey diddle, diddle
The dog and the piddle
I am desire
I am lust
I leave my enemies nonplussed
I am avarice
I am intoxication
I am the trend that sweeps the nation
Hey diddle, diddle
The dog and the piddle
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2. |
Not So Funny Now
04:37
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We had a ball, we had a blast
We had the time of our lives
We kicked some teeth
We kicked some ass
We traded all of our wives
We acted badly, we acted madly
We were hell on wheels
We made mayhem, we mixed it up
We went head over heels
Ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ho
And a couple of la-di-das
Remember when we had a cow
Ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ho
And a couple of tra-la-las
It's not so funny now
We wrote some songs
We made a band
We went out rocking the town
We worked so hard
We worked so rough
Nothing would keep us down
Who'd a thunk we'd never make it
Never get a record deal
There's no way we'd believe it
The thought was simply surreal
What's that, are you crying
Are those tears in your eyes
I don't get it, I don't get what went wrong
It came as a great big surprise
We screwed up
We burned out
We never broke on through
You got a life, I got a life
No big whoop-de-do
I got old, you got old
You were the first to pass
When I look back, just gotta laugh
Gotta say that it's a gas
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3. |
All Join In
03:07
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When you can't get nothing done
And you think you got no chance to win
Just get yourself in sync
We can work it out if we all join in
If you always tell the truth
And are faithful as Rin Tin Tin
You can save the world
We can work it out if we all join in
You can live out all your dreams
And solve all your woes
You can laugh and be happy
From your head down to your toes
It's as a simple as can be
Just love all your kith and kin
That's all you need to do
We can work it out if we all join in
When you're feeling down and blue
Less mighty than the Mighty Quinn
Put a smile on your face
We can work it out if we all join in
When you think you've lost all hope
And no ones cares just where you've been
Don't let it get you down
We can work it out if we all join in
If you do a do-si-do
Or a simple pirouette
You'll wind up on your feet
That's as certain as the surest bets
Raise yourself a toast
With the slowest of the slowest gin
It's gonna be alright
We can work it out if we all join in
Hit it!
When you don't know where you're going
And you don't know where you been
Just take a look around
We can work it out if we all join in
When you think you've hit the bottom
The has-est of all has-beens
Just take a tiny step
We can work it out if we all join in
When you think you've lost your way
And the road ahead is dark
Take a leap outside yourself
Do it on a lark
Don't be so afraid
Your skin really ain't all that thin
As long as we're alive
We can work it out if we all join in
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Something to Hold On To
04:51
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From where I sit at my tiny desk
From where I sit I see too much
And if it looks like I am hiding out
It's only 'cause it hurts
It hurts to touch
But you can help me
If you have the strength
If you go that extra length
Here is my plea
Take all of me
Give me something to hold on to
Is it really so hard
For you to drop your guard
Give me something to hold on to
You seem to think I sit
I sit above
I somehow sit above the fray
But you got it wrong
I'm so deep down in it
It's written in my DNA
But you can save me
Save me from this hell
Drag from the bottom of this well
I'm not looking for trouble
Just looking for love
Just a little help from above
From where I sit in this big old world
From where I sit it hurts in my bone
Let me tell you how much I feel it
It don't ever leave me alone
But you can lift me
You can lift me high
We can make love in the sky
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5. |
Our Dance
05:18
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This is our dance
It once served us well
Now it's a weak old move
It feels like hell
Who is leading
Can't tell no more
Wanna wrench myself away
And get down on the floor
This is our dance
Got a tired old groove
This is our dance
Time to move, time to move
This is our dance
I swear, I swear
Wanna find another partner
And start a whole new affair
We must love it
We do it every day
But we're not in sync no more
As we sashay down old Broadway
I feel a yearning
Don't you feel that way too
Don't you feel trapped
Don't you long for something new
Could do a rumba
Could do some jerkin'
Could do a merengue
Could do some twerkin'
Could do a quickstep
Could do a quadrille
Could do a polka
Could do a reel
Do you see me
Do I see you
We're standing side by side
But we are slightly skew
Can't feel my body
Can't catch my breath
But we keep on keeping on
In a slow dance to our death
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6. |
Siren
04:09
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There is a sound coming in
On a strange frequency
I hear it screaming
It is screaming to me
It says, Who in hell do you think you are
What’s that sound vibrating from that whammy bar
It’s scrapes and squeals
It ravages and peals
It is ringing
It is roaring
I is hissing
It is buzzing
Like a siren wails
Like a siren wails
There is a sound coming in
On a strange frequency
It cuts right through my skull
Like a machete
And lightning shoots out of my eyes
Tossing diamonds across the skies
It roars and screeches
It stings and bleaches
It is ringing
It is roaring
I is hissing
It is buzzing
Like a siren wails
Like a siren wails
There is a sound coming in
On a strange frequency
It is static
But it lights up like a marquee
It shouts, You will never turn this down
This will be the only sound
It burns and screams
It haunts all your dreams
It is ringing
It is roaring
I is hissing
It is buzzing
Like a siren wails
Like a siren wails
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7. |
Not Much Fun No More
04:08
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I was having me a good time
Yeah things were pretty good
I was writing for a sitcom
I was living in Hollywood
I hung out with Jeff Goldblum
We played pool in his den
I practiced meditation
I was feeling pretty zen
But it’s not much fun no more
It’s not much fun no more
I was having me a good time
My portfolio was expanding
I was looking smoking hot
Some would say outstanding
You could see me at the Grammys
Had a bash with Kyle Jenner
She kicked me in the balls
And I screamed like a tenor
I was having me a good time
Yeah I was really kicking ass
I was jumpin’ jack flash
It was a gas, gas, gas
I’d struck out on a vision quest
I was never looking back
The whole wide world opened up
And I rode it like a maniac
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Hilarious
03:51
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I'm a funny kind of guy
That you must admit
I have always made you laugh, laugh, laugh
I am a silly sort of man
I'm sure you would concur
About as goofy as a gaberdine giraffe
I am hilarious
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Hilarious
I am hilarious
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Hilarious
I'm a wacky sort of dude
I do wacky stuff
People say I have a certain savior faire
I am a dopey kind of dick
I do dopey things
Yeah I'm dumb as a sack of hair
I'm a zany type of boy
Boy am I zany
My vision of the world is cockeyed
I'm a dirty old man
I tell a dirty tale
My tongue as poisonous as cyanide
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9. |
Ideanu Slept
04:41
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This is the story of Ideanu
Who slept through an atomic bomb
Her brother and sister tried to wake her
So did her dad and her mom
But she was too busy dreaming
While the rest of the world wept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu dreamt about chocolate mountains
And rivers made of classic Coke
No one could disturb her
Not even with a great big poke
The rest of the world suffered losses
Losses she could accept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu dreamt she was a tiger
Running through the jungle wild
She attacked everything that moved
Even ate a child
The waking world had no place for her
So away from it she kept
Ideanu slept
Ideanu slept
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10. |
From That Moment On
03:50
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You turned on a light
And suddenly I could see
All the love I'd been missing
The love denied to me
It was then I came alive
It was then you opened the door
It was then I breathed my first breath
From that moment on
And forever more
Woke me up from my slumber
Wiped the sleep from my eyes
Said, It's time to go my love
Just a word to the wise
I had lived so stupidly
I had hurt and I had been cruel
I had lived so thoughtlessly
I had lived like a fool
But then you came along
And you sent me back to school
Love to watch your hands
Love how they swim in the air
Love the sound of your voice
Lifts me from my despair
You turned on a light
And suddenly I was wide awake
You showed me my heart
And how easily it could break
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11. |
Danger, Will Robinson
04:37
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Wish I had my own robot
He could be my trusted friend
He could keep me out of trouble
He could warn me what's around the bend
He could offer me protection
From all the monsters and the aliens
He could ward me off the Doctor Smiths
'Cause he can see through their phony grins
He could be my mentor
The dad I never had
Read me stories until late in the night
I would never be so sad, no
Danger, Will Robinson!
Wish I had my own robot
With a beat-box voice and some blinking lights
He'd shoot lasers out of his arms
He could intercede in all my fights
He could cook me my breakfast
Sort my laundry and drive my van
He could wait on me hand and claw
He could be my very own mechanical man
He could make me laugh when I am down
I could have total control
He could love me as a I am
And I could love him down in his robot soul
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12. |
Happy Trails
04:09
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I don't know who I am anymore
I spill in all directions at once
Crying out in a shrill latticework of wired notes
Wishing to possess something beyond myself
Something beyond my power to imagine
To live among obscured erasures
The unsaid word
The thought uncompleted
The murmur lost
The letters that fly away like small birds
Happy trails to you
"How are you?" she asks
"There's something in the air
That makes everything seem exaggerated," I say
I appear slightly bloated
As if I was allergic to life itself
"I've got a present for you," she says, taking out a compass
"Now you can never get lost"
The two of us stare at it while the needle spins around
and around, before finally coming to rest
"Look," she says, "true north"
Happy trails to you
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