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D4
I’m not crying, not crying,
You can’t make me feel my hope is dying.
I’m not crying, not crying,
You can’t make me feel my hope is gone.
Destined for glory, stay in the story x 4
Where I want to go, where I want to go,
I can see it if I calm my mind. x 2
Destined for glory, stay in the story x 4
Get out and dance! x 2
Get out and dance!
Get out and dance, iconoclast.
Get out and dance!
Get out and dance one last dance.
Bet on your best chances,
Get off of death’s planet,
Stuck in a test pattern, stolen draft,
Do us less static.
Resist the ad panic,
Reel in your own quotient,
Get out and pass your hardest test,
Get out and dance one last dance.
Get out and dance!
Time. Test time.
Where I want to go, where I want to go,
I can see it if I calm my mind.
Test time, test time, test time, test time, test..
Destined for glory, stay in the story x 4
Get out and dance!
Get out and dance one last dance.
Get out and dance, iconoclast,
Get out dance one last dance.
Bet on your best chances,
Get off of death’s planet,
Stuck in a test pattern, stolen draft,
Do us less static.
Resist the ad panic,
Reel in your own quotient,
Get out pass your hardest test,
Get and dance one last dance.
Get out and dance!
Get out and dance, iconoclast.
Get out and dance one last dance.
Get out and dance one last fast dance, iconoclast!
On the ground in a town with no sidewalks,
Rolling around the gravel trying to get up.
Destined for glory, stay in the story x 5
Stay in the story.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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2. |
Pocket Messiah
04:06
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Pocket Messiah
Oh, when you walked into the room,
I saw the light come in with you.
And in the shadows that fled,
I detected a darkness running with you.
And when you get down and pray,
Don't have to lay down for anyone.
You got a pocket messiah,
Rocking and rolling you.
You got a pocket messiah,
Rocking and rolling you.
All my money's gone,
It don't matter none.
My love is so strong for you,
I wrote a song for you.
I'll be the bird in your hand,
Singing a redemption song.
It flies like fire, you know the words,
Sing to glory, you got soul,
And your love is strong.
Oh, to feel that golden day, hear the sound,
Here and now, as a matter of faith.
And I suspect there's no end to doubt,
You're never ready,
But you move ahead anyhow, anyway, yeah yeah yeah..
You got a pocket messiah,
Rocking and rolling you.
You got a pocket messiah,
Rocking and rolling you.
You got a pocket messiah,
A pocket messiah,
A pocket messiah,
Rocking and rolling you.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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3. |
New Ways*
03:31
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New Ways
You’re finding new ways.
Always finding new ways,
Of killing me.
You keep killing me.
Keep killing me.
You keep finding new ways.
Always keep finding new ways.
Killing me,
Keep killing me,
You keep killing me
You keep..
Why?
Why do you keep killing me?
Keep killing me,
Just finding new ways.
Keep killing myself,
While you keep killing me.
I’m killing myself,
Here while you, keep killing me.
Keep killing me.
Is that all you do?
I rest my case.
Oh, Lord.
I rest my case in you.
You keep on killing me.
You got to fend for you.
You got to fend for you.
You keep killing me..
I know what you’re doing tonight.
I know what you’re doing tomorrow,
And the next day,
You keep finding ways,
New ways.
You keep killing me.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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4. |
How Many More Months?*
03:47
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How Many More Months?
How many more months,
’Til she’s a woman?
How many more times will she hear,
“That girl had it coming?”
How many more dreams,
Will have to wait?
Until the lost boy’s cross she bears,
Is her fate?
How many more months?
And when they judge her they don’t cry,
A rain that washes her sins dry.
If she tries to tell them,
They drown her.
How many more rules,
Will they make?
How many more hypocrite hearts,
Will she have to break?
How many more months?
How many more dreams?
’Til she’s a woman?
We put her on the wrong ride,
And where she’s going she don’t decide,
And what she needs, access denied.
That leaves her lying in the lurch,
Between and men’s club and a church,
Stuck with her baby,
She’s crying.
How many more months?
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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5. |
Shadowland
05:09
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Shadowland
She’s looking for,
Girl she don’t own no more,
Can’t afford to lose.
In a shadowland,
Unoffered and unplanned,
What does she do?
Could stay her eye,
What’s real and what’s a lie,
Couldn’t bridge the two.
In a shadowland,
In the shadow of a man,
She didn’t choose.
He’s working for,
Man that expects support,
For his abuse.
His baggage weighs,
What she carries every day,
What does he do?
Could stay her eye,
What’s real and what’s a lie,
She’s human, too.
In a shadowland,
In the shadow of a man,
She didn’t choose.
She’s not in right now.
Please enjoy the silence.
She don’t want to talk about it.
Stop voting for,
Man that expects support,
For his abuse.
Keep fighting for,
Girl he don’t respect no more,
Can’t afford to lose.
Could stay her eye,
What’s real and what’s a lie,
She’s a human too.
In a shadowland,
In the shadow of a man,
She did not choose.
She’s in another world right now.
She don’t want to talk about it.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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6. |
History
04:23
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History
Winter coming,
Autumn turns into ice.
History frozen,
Too late to try and change sides.
Broke down this morning,
Looking for what I can’t find.
Nevermind..
Wondering what I would write.
History never spares.
Doesn’t have time for that.
Understands and doesn’t care.
Read all of the books you read.
Wealthy how the story goes.
Conclude the interview.
The ending I thought I chose,
Already picked out by you.
What would you write?
What would you write?
What would you write?
What you did write.
What would I write?
What I did write.
Write, write, write, write, write.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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7. |
Stranger Life
04:05
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Stranger Life
A good heart from the south side, yeah yeah,
Coming to a desperate patient by air.
You might suffer to see your lover there.
It can go on in another's resurrection,
Love is eternal fire.
'Cause there's a million situations he could choose.
The last thing that he's got to give I'm taking now.
Some people like to sing of soul,
A surgeon brings me to life.
Got a beat for people who need some love,
Talking 'bout stranger life.
Stranger life
Stranger life calling
Stranger life
Stranger life coming
I’m gonna miss you.
Oh! I’m gonna miss you.
Sold us a misguided separation from the start
Hope we both get a second wish this time around.
Mine is that kindness speaks of wisdom
Bathed in a healing light,
And the breath that lives and blesses love
Bringing us all around.
Stranger life
Stranger life calling
Stranger life
Stranger life coming
Stranger lifeStranger life coming
Stranger life
Stranger life calling
I’m gonna miss you.
Oh, I’m gonna miss you.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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8. |
Knocking At The Door
03:51
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Knocking At The Door
I feel so strange, like a stranger knocking at the door.
Politicians' lies,
They always try,
When they cast their eye,
Like dapper John offering apple pie.
Them know none of they cause the rot inside,
While abetting the nation's ritual heist.
It angers me to see,
Such fools to fall for such fools as these,
Who try to rewrite our history.
Now they're pumping their fists in victory,
Engineering economic slavery,
Betting on greed & Jesus.
Heaven help us all.
The fix is in,
Milk-cow begins to bleed.
Lo, as she dies,
Reckoning slowly,
History of flies,
Scene repeats.
And it's enough just once,
To feel sick inside.
Derivative theory,
Plain people trapped,
By a factory farm’s financial arm,
Again and again.
Fattened maggots
Feeding upon hungry men. x 3
Derivative theory (knocking at the door)
Derivative theory, plain people (knocking at the door)..Derivative theory, plain people trapped, (knocking at the door)
Slapped masses knocked on their asses,
Thrown out of houses, and meantime,
Hotshot upper crust doing just fine.
Poor people - poor people
Poor people - poor people
Shut-out people - shut up people
Hurting people - hurting people
Working people - working people
Sold-out soldier - sold-out soldier
Good people - good people
knocking at the door. (x 3)
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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9. |
Have You Noticed?
04:23
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Have You Noticed?
Have you noticed,
There’s a crack in the mirror,
The chandelier fell into it,
No light?
In the fireplace,
Drowned amiss,
Charcoal remnants of dresses.
Water upon what’s been done,
In plain sight.
Clear,
There’s nothing normal here,
Nothing normal here.
Clear,
Don’t be so sincere,
The rules of the game have changed.
Clear,
There’s nothing normal here.
Nothing normal here.
Have you noticed,
Where a hole in the wall lets the government,
Electric eye splat the guy?
And the radio,
In the slave quarters crackles incentive,
Bound up in wire, merinthophiles.
Have you noticed,
That the creep never seems to sleep in the mansion.
Log on the fire,
War’s still on,
Paid in crime?
Clear,
Have no fear.
A drone assassin paid your way.
Clear,
There’s nothing normal here,
The rules of the game have changed.
Clear, oh, clear..
Don’t be so sincere,
Your betrayal paved the way.
And the stars that shine,
Down on your world,
And the things you don’t notice,
This time, your time,
They claim.
Have you noticed?
Clear,
There’s nothing normal here,
Nothing normal here.
Clear,
Have no fear,
A drone assassin paid your way.
Clear, clear..
Nothing normal here,
So don’t be so sincere.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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10. |
Pretty Eyes
04:13
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Pretty Eyes
She greets the stranger and smiles,
A hundred miles.
A cloud of reservoir tears,
Disappears.
Pretty, pretty eyes,
I know you see me.
Pretty, pretty eyes,
Look up to the skies.
Pretty, pretty eyes,
I know you see me.
What do you see,
Pretty eyes?
My heart feels like it just won’t stop.
She says I’m somebody else.
And though we made each others’ history,
She don’t remember who she is to me.
Before the waves lap,
And take away that,
Which can’t be saved of our life,
I know it’s alright.
It’s all made of love,
And love is such fragile stuff.
Pretty, pretty eyes,
I know you see me.
Pretty, pretty eyes,
Look up to the skies.
Pretty, pretty eyes,
I know you see me.
What do you see,
Pretty eyes?
Kick myself after all.
Kick myself to the wall.
She greets the stranger and smiles,
A hundred miles.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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11. |
I'll Get Over You
04:32
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I'll Get Over You
You could strike up the day,
Like it's a band,
Playing your song,
Make it up as you go along.
And you could cast over,
Night with a seine.
You catch the stars,
Before the sun is up,
And eyes are open.
And you waited so long
To say "love was my friend."
I'll get over you,
I'll get over you,
If there's anything
Anything left of me.
I'll get over you,
I'll get over you,
If there's anything,
Anything left.
All along you know,
Stealing of surprise.
Heavy over you,
Getting out so clear,
Clear, hard.
Try again.
Buy, sell,
Touch, use,
Go.
I'll get over you,
I'll get over you,
If there's anything
Anything left of me
I'll get over you,
I'll get over you,
If there's anything,
Anything left.
I'll get over you,
I'll get over you,
If there's anything
Anything left of me
I'll get over you,
I'll get over you,
If there's anything,
Anything left.
I’ll get over you.
©La La Ltd (ASCAP) by Happy Chichester
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Happy Chichester Columbus, Ohio
He’s performed on Fallon & Kimmel, played in bands exhibited in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, & was asked to join Foo
Fighters.
Happy Chichester is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, & producer from Columbus, OH. An original founding member of Royal Crescent Mob & Howlin' Maggie, he has amassed an impressive discography on independent & major labels including Sire, Columbia, & Elektra.
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