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You Don’t Want To Go To The Dance
You don’t want to go to the dance, to the dance yeah
but you aint got no other plans
You don’t want to leave it up to chance, up to chance
but you better take your chances while you can
Those days are over, put it out of your mind
It’s time to leave romantic notions behind you
Don’t get attached, don’t make no promises you’ll never keep
Those kind of things can make you lose sleep
Or you could tell your better judgement to get lost
You don’t know what your timid nature can cost you
When she’s just standing there, boy
She’s just waiting on you
Yeah, she’s standing there just waiting on you.
But you don’t want to go to the show, to the show now
But you aint got nowhere else to go
Now she said she hopes to see you at the show, at the show, boy
So why you want to keep your sad self at home?
Boy, you can’t tell me you aint lonely
Boy, you can’t tell me you’ve been happy here all on your own
and she’s been waiting there just as lonely as you
Yeah, she’s feeling just as lonely as you
but you don’t want to go
~solo~
Good times aint over, are you out of your mind?
You need to put that made up crisis behind you
Why are you standing there when she’s waiting on you
why are you just standing there, she’s waiting on you.
But you don’t want to go to the dance, to the dance yeah
but you aint got no other plans
You don’t want to leave it up to chance, up to chance
but you better take your chances while you can
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Upstate Girl
02:27
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Upstate Girl
How’s she gonna know that this song’s about her?
Sprinkle in tiny details
that only she would know, only she could follow
your obvious paper trail
Oh Upstate Girl, gotta find yourself an Upstate Girl to love
Oh Upstate Girl, gotta find yourself an Upstate Girl to love
You always saw yourself with a black haired girl
who drove a white Volvo
Running around a sleepy collage town
Never getting any older
Oh riot girl but is she the riot girl for you?
She used to be a riot girl but is she gonna be the riot girl for you?
Did your plan fall apart was it doomed from the start?
Did you know it all along?
Like she knows this song has got to be about her.
No, you never saw your self with an Upstate Girl
Driving a pick-up truck
Running around a metropolitan town
Just like you’re running amok
Oh Upstate Girl, have you found yourself an Upstate Girl to love?
Oh Upstate Girl, have you found yourself an Upstate Girl to love?
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Half Life
03:19
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Half Life
don’t act like half of your life is over
and the other half can never begin
in the morning light you’re sober
and making amends
but in the dark of night there’s a white hot light
shinning on an empty stage
it’s making you feel like a songbird
in an open cage.
and you could fly away like all those other songs say
just fly away, fly away
yeah you could make your break, make your daring escape
right away, right away.
but you think half of your life belongs to
forces that you don’t understand
ushered around by the touch of invisible hands
Out in the light you’re blinded
and flatted by the crush of the crowd
It’s making you long for quiet
in the midst of the loud.
and you might get your way one of these long and lonely days
you’ll fly away, just fly away.
and you might catch a break even if its by mistake
you’ll take it anyway….and fly away…
(solo/instrumental break)
You know you can’t escape it
you’re not the exception
you know the sun sets on us all
There’s no need to explain it
all your deeper understanding
will not change a bit of what’s to come
and you can’t fly away….
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Idle Hands
03:56
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Idle Hands
These idle hands are looking for the devil’s playground
This idle mind is tired of sleeping
While wandering eyes are out looking for trouble
Lifetimes slip by before you even know
This heavy heart needs to lose some baggage
But it keeps holding on when it ought to let go
Dressed up in art to disguise the sadness
Those idle minds can’t tell the difference
This silent cry rises over the rooftops
But it falls back down on deafened ears
My blind faith crashes headlong into reason
All those good reasons the i let you go.
Nothing about love is sane
It cries in the moonlight, It calls out your name
It stands out in the pouring rain
Or it waits at the window the music crescendos, all alone
All that love in vain.
While these idle hands go looking for the devil’s playground
This restless heart needs somewhere to go
While wandering eyes are out looking for trouble
Lifetimes slip by before you even know.
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Signs and Omens
03:46
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Signs and Omens
Noah saw the rainbow sign, Ezekiel saw the wheel
Noah saw the rainbow sign, Ezekiel saw the wheel
Signs and omens, Sign and omens are nipping at my heels
Just like Noah saw the rainbow sign and Ezekiel saw the wheel
Theseus killed the Minotaur, St George slew the dragon beast
Theseus killed the Minotaur and the Hydra was slain by Hercules
Monsters! monsters! So many Monster!
They just won’t let me sleep
But Theseus killed the Minotaur and St George Slew the dragon beast
In days of yore there were heres by the score
But not anymore
There’s no help on the way
These days the monsters they seem to hold sway
Unless you fight them, you’ve got to fight them
You’ve got to drive them away
~solo~
In olden times the god’s demanded sacrifice
And that’s not very nice
because there aint no hell to pay
You know they’re powerless anyway
When you fight them
So get up and fight them
And watch them all run away.
Because Noah saw the rainbow sign and Ezekiel saw the wheel
Noah saw the rainbow sign and Ezekiel saw the wheel
Signs and omens, these signs and omens
I don’t know if they’re real
But Noah saw the rainbow sign and Ezekiel saw the wheel
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Keep It To Yourself
04:49
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Keep It To Yourself
From the first time you laid eyes on her
She seemed so far away
Your knew you couldn’t hope to get close to her
But you tried anyway
And i tell you falling in love is such a flimsy excuse
For acting a fool and self abuse
And i know the mind of love don’t care for reason or rhyme
Or taking some good advice
But if you really love her
Keep it to yourself
If you really love her
Keep it to yourself
And from the moment i introduced her
You knew she was with me
But you had stars in your eyes for her
That blinded you to everything
And i know you think you’re in love
But you don’t know what that means
It so much more than your childish fantasies
And i know a man in love just wants to tell the world
But, boy, you’re talking about my girl
So if you really love her
Keep it to yourself
If you really love her
Keep it to yourself
~solo~
You haven’t fallen in love
You don’t even know her at all
You don’t have what it takes to win her heart
I know what a man in love is truly capable of
Now would you like me to show you too?
So if you really love her
Keep it to yourself
If you really love her
Keep it to yourself
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Under The Spell
04:58
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Under The Spell
Is there a right time for dong wrong?
Is there a dark tide beneath the golden dawn?
I’ve seen the silver lining cut like a rusty tool
I know those blue skies seem to go on forever but don’t be fooled
Staring out into the distance from your lonely room
Looking for your key to all existence by the light of the moon
And you fell under that spell
you fell under that spell
There’s not a right time for doing wrong
It’s not the dark that makes the morning come
Get out from under that spell
Just like like a drunk who stumbles through a maze of streets in a haze of fog
With unintelligible mumbles, a blind oracle just babbles on
The sky says the reckoning’s coming
The stars say the time is neigh
I say the heavens have been moving like that forever
Its no mystery why.
We’re looking out into the distance from our living rooms
Still trying to eek out some existence from our granite tombs
And we fell under our own spell
We fell under our own spell
If there’s magic hiding in the night why can’t it come out in the daylight?
We’re trapped down under
We’re buried under
Get out from under that spell.
Get out from under, get out from under that spell.
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Everything’s a Joke To You
Honey honey honey, I don’t think it’s funny at all
Honey honey honey, I can hear you laughing when i fall
Why is everything a joke to you?
Is that just a way to cope for you?
Is that the way you dress up the truth
and make it ok?
Is everything a joke to you?
do you really see it that way too?
If everything’s a joke then who is laughing with you?
Honey honey honey, Wont you even answer my calls?
Oh my bitter honey, it feels just like i’m talking to the walls
It’s like everything’s a joke to you
is that all i’m gonna get from you?
could you let me in on it too?
would that be ok?
If everything’s a joke to you
is that really just the ghosts of who
have let you down and left you blue
do you hear what i say?
It’s not that funny when i want to love you honey
but the laughs are always on me.
I’m not your clown just for kicking around
so what’s so funny? What’s so funny?
Why is everything a joke to you?
Is that just a way to cope for you?
Is that the way you dress up the truth
and make it ok.
Is everything a joke to you
is that really how you see it too?
If everything’s a joke then who is laughing with you?
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Don't Get Carried Away
03:02
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Don’t Get Carried Away
Don’t get carried away you said
You only love me with your heart and not your head
You only take me for a fool
Who want’s to get inside your dreams
And fit into whatever that’s supposed to be
Don’t get lost on the sea of love
You’re only sailing towards an empty horizon
You’re only drinking salty water
That could never quench your thirst
And the more you drink it only makes it worse
People can get infatuated with some big idea
It isn’t really love
No, it’s just a child imagining
Yeah, pretending they’re grown up
And they just got carried away
Don’t go falling apart you said
You’re model year’s too old
to find new parts to make repairs
And if you break down in the night
And nothing’s working right
And no one’s coming ‘round to take you home
People can’t infatuated with their own ideas
You aint thought up something new
No, it only just occurred to you like a million more before
And you just got carried away.
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Hesitation
03:58
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Hesitation
You’ve got a light that shines from your eyes
but there’s a hesitation
Even in the sweetest surprises
there’s a hesitation
there’s a hesitation, why the hesitation?
You’ve got a song that comes from your heart
but it’s sung with reservation
You’ve been longing to teach us all the parts
but your procrastinating
Why do you keep us waiting with all your hesitating?
It’s been a long time inside a dark and lonely mind
But now you find you want to let a little light in
There’s been a cold rain on your big parade
But now the sun’s coming out, the band starts to play
They’re playing the song you’ve heard all along
we all sing along, we all sing along, we all sing along, we all sing along with you.
….you’ve got a light that shines from your eyes.
You’ve got a light that shines from your eyes
but there’s a hesitation
I see it though you try to disguise it
behind past tribulations
No, don’t stop the celebrations
with all your hesitations
No, don’t stop the celebrations
Just stop your hesitation.
And show us the light that shines from your eyes.
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Seth Timbs Nashville, Tennessee
It is fortunate for musicians like Seth Timbs, that a life free of any real tragedy, drug addiction or disability does not preclude him from writing songs that are worth listening to. At the end of the day, no matter what the back story is, everybody wants to know “so, is he any good?” that’s what we’re here to find out. ... more
