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You may think it's all a game
But you're wrong, you're wrong
We're all connected just the same
One big ol' throng
You may think you'll get away
With telling all your lies
Well you are in for one big surprise
You may think you are a god but you're not
You may think you are a have not some have-not
While the rest of us fools are chasing a buck
You look down your nose and say, "You suck"
Don't fool yourself, bucko
Don't live a lie
Don't fool yourself, bucko
Your time is nigh
When you get dealt a hand
It's always a full house, full house
You trip the light fantastique
While the rest of us grouse
You may think you are above the lowly scum
But don't you worry about a thing
Your time will come
Hey buddy, better listen to what I say
The clock is ticking on your perfect day
You may think that you're right
But what if your not
Take away your bravado and what have you got
You may think that you're so smart
And we're all a bunch of fools
But in the end you may find
The world will break your rules
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Undeserving
05:00
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Why do I feel the way that I feel
I don’t fully comprehend
‘Cause I don’t like to feel the way that I feel
And all that those feelings portend
Part of me thinks that I deserve better
But part me thinks I’m just bad
And the part me that is the latter
Just drives me mad, mad, mad
Undeserving, undeserving
Undeserving of all I got
Undeserving, undeserving, undeserving
That’s my lot
Whatever good has ever come my way
I’ve made sure to screw with it
‘Cause whatever good has ever come my way
I could never have anything to do with it
Never got no love when I was a kid
Never knew just what that meant
Tried so hard to get myself straight
But I always wound up bent, bent, bent
There weren’t no love when I was boy
There was only frustration and rage
It was all I could do save myself
And break out of that rotten cage
I bet I seem kind of ridiculous
Like a Nancy boy always complaining
I spend too much time thinking about it
And even more explaining
But this is what it is to be who I am
And I understand that I’m pathetic
Wish I could just wish it away
And fill myself with anesthetic
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High Above Heaven
06:29
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I rise in the morning and the day unravels
Like dust from a old musty rug
I write it all down in my old trusty journal
And it reads just like so much humbug
I don’t think I believe what I’m saying
I don’t know exactly how I feel
And that not knowing it makes me anxious
I can’t tell ya what is real
High above heaven and under your spell
Part of me knows that I’m not a good person
Especially when I give in to rage
The part of my brain that controls my good sense
Get sent back to the stone age
Do I have any say-so in how I behave
Or am I ruled by my emotion
The thought that I can not do the wrong thing
It’s such a strange notion
There’s a battle in me for what reigns supreme
Between he ego and id
Who will be the winner and who will lose
It might take me down, God forbid
I wish I were smarter and little bit strong
But I’ve been battered like an old boat
Ain’t no Caribbean wind gonna fill my masts
Barely any life left in this nasty old goat
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Leviathan
05:08
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It shimmies like a worm
Ripples like a breeze
Swallows its prey
Does what it please
It’s eyes are yellow
This ornery fellow
It roams these streets
This big fat thing
It lives in my sheets
This fat thing
Leviathan, leviathan
Some call it the devil
Some call it sir
Changes its shape
The pot it does stir
It digs in deep
When you fall asleep
It shows its fangs
Extends its claws
Does what it wants
Obeys no laws
Don’t be taken in
This purveyor of sin
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Whatever Moves You
03:44
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Sometimes you get the feeling
That the world is out of control
And there ain’t nothing you can do about it
So you flail around for answers
But you know it ain't gonna change
No matter how you scream and shout it
Whatever moves you
Whatever moves you through this world
Grab on with all you got
Whatever moves you
Whatever moves you through this world
That’s all you get and it ain’t a lot
Sometimes you get the sense
That’s something’s rotten on the inside
Even though you can’t really see it
Yeah sometimes you just know
What you know, you know
And when you know what you know
You know what it is to be it
Just grab on and don’t let go
Where you’ll wind up who’s to know
You don't know what you don't know
Sometimes you get the feeling
Deep down in your guts
That the world has done gotten off its axis
There are times you can see it
But more times when you don’t
It’s like a moon that wanes and waxes
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Be Small
06:14
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This old world is a big old world
With big old people running ‘round
They got their big ideas
Hey, what’s the big idea
They make a big old, a big old sound
Tear it down, tear it down, tear it down
Tear down that big old wall
Tear it down, tear it down, tear it down
Be small
There are monsters
That just want to swallow you up
And spit you out into a void
Beware, beware
They are everywhere
Don’t you be destroyed
Be humble, be gracious
Only say what you know is true
Be deferential and be selfless
And the world will come right to you
Sometimes it better to shut and listen
And really hear what people have to say
Just let go
Of what you think you know
You don’t always have to get your way
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Where No Storms Come
04:00
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Oh the mind
The mind it has mountains
These jagged cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed
These mountains tall
Dead awake or wide asleep
On the edge I take a leap
I awoke to feel the fell
Of dark not day
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come
Where no storms come
Full fathom five
My father lies
Of his bones are coral made
Those are pearls that were once his eyes
Nothing of him does fade
Here are clothes he wore
Still stuffed inside his drawer
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
No storms come
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come
Where the green fields swell
Is in the havens dumb
I have desire to go
To fields where few lilies blow
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Only Girl
04:05
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I think about you all the time
Like a song on an endless loop
You’re there when I eat
There when I dream
Spinning ‘round me like a hula-hoop
You’re the only girl in the world
The only girl meant for me
The only girl I’ve ever loved
Even though I know
Even though I know
Even though I know you don’t love me
I’m trying to shut this down
Trying to find a way to get this reconciled
But I can’t let you go
I can’t make it stop
In so many ways I am beguiled
You don’t love me
And you never will
At least not in the way I need it
You don’t love me
And you never will
Somehow, somehow I have to concede it
Summer has come and gone
And now is the winter of my discontent
Going into hibernation
For what could be one last time
And I’m singing this sad lament
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What can you say, what can you do
What can you make of all this
It’s insanity
Nothing more and nothing less
What in the world is this world
It don’t make no sense to me
Up is down and down is up
The end of history
It’s the times we are living in
Nowhere to run
It’s the times we are living in
Day is done, day is done
How can you know what you know
When the truth no longer is true
It’s been co-opted
Lost in a big old hullaballoo
Holy Christ and holy shit
This is not my country
Right is wrong and wrong is right
The end of history
Try as I might and try as I may
I can’t change a single thing
It’s quite surreal
The gods we’re worshipping
What in the world is this world
It don’t make no sense to me
Up is down and down is up
The end of history
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I Will Never Forgive You
05:35
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Come over here you son of a bitch
I got something to tell to you
You done me wrong so many times
My bad, I fell for you
Looking back what was I thinking
Must have been out of my mind
I mistook you for a gentle soul
Someone loving and kind
For this and that and so much other stuff
I will never forgive you
I will never forgive you
Just want you to know that I've had enough
And I will never forgive you
I will never forgive you
Come over here and look me in the face
Tell me it wasn't all a lie
I want to hear you didn't cheat on me
Tell me you weren't with some other guy
Tell me you did it at your office
And the back seat of his car
Did you do it the other night
When I was waiting for you at the bar
After all that we've been through
It breaks my heart
How could you do it
How could you tear us apart
I know you're selfish
I know what you did
There are some things
That you just can't keep hid
See you later
Maybe in another life
I'm sure you'll happy
Being someone else's wife
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Great Wide Open
04:36
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They came from all over
Every woman, child and man
They all had their reasons
That only they could understand
They dreamed of tomorrow
They were fairly pure of heart
They had popular opinion
And their songs burned up the chart
They all went into the great wide open
We saw them all disappear
They all went into the great wide open
A million miles away from here
They held up their banners
Each and every single one
They built up a contingent
To the bang of a gatling gun
They tore down all the fences
And they built up new monuments
They weeded out the losers
All the misfits and the malcontents
They all went into the great wide open
We saw them all disappear
They all went into the great wide open
A million miles away from here
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What I've Become
06:12
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I come alive every time I see you
See you coming in my thoughts
Oh baby come, come and save me
'Cause I don't know what I've become
I am nothing if i'm not with you
With you now and for all time
Oh baby come, come and save me please
'Cause I don't know what I've become
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