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National Sunday Law
02:59
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Betcha someone told you you're a tad unreasonable
Round about the time you had your rivals shot
Petra always said I bring out the worst in people
But you know sometimes the worst is what they want
I recall national Sunday law
I'm appalled - national Sunday indifference
Michael had a come on like a good time Charlie
But it was never clear if he would follow through
There are certain times you gotta say you're sorry
Even if we all know that it isn't true
And that's called national Sunday law
I recall national Sunday law
I recall national Sunday law
I'm appalled - national Sunday indifference
Kelsey had a healthy interest in prosthetics
You certainly couldn't say that she was ever bored
She wasn't much to look at but she was so athletic
And the bird couldn't sing, but man did she perform
And that's all national Sunday law
I recall national Sunday law
I'm at fault national Sunday law
I'm appalled - national Sunday indifference
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New Age Tricks
03:37
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Oh consensus, publicists and your mother
The explorers got it wrong, there ain't nothing to discover
You can show me the door but I ain't leaving
I got new age tricks just beyond conceiving
Everybody's got a past, you wanna share it like a present
Don't think you're in a caste but you're nothing but a peasant
No pointless digressions, no deathbed confessions
Just new age tricks and old time obsessions
Lizzy'd seen a lot, but she didn't know what she was in for
'Cuz the last rodeo didn't go like all the others before
And she wished that she would disappear, and she wished the she would go
But there were certain new age tricks even she didn't know
So defenseless in the arms of a new mistress
He could scarcely make the gesture, he could hardly protect the witness
Say he went crazy or absent without leave
Or pulled some new age trick he had hidden in his sleeve
No one even asked so why are you testifying?
No one's hiring, so why are you even applying?
Had to go all the way downtown just to bail you out
Those new age tricks couldn't even save you now
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Bound To Be Vacant
01:53
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Resting with your feet up on the cusp of millions
Excited for the meet up with the will o' the Williams
Is there ever going to be enough to go around
And baby, it's all gone now
When the pills are running low and the money's coming slow, maybe throw yourself another banquet
The clients come and then the clients go, but soon you're bound to be vacant
And baby, it's all gone now
Drinking it all in, 'cuz the future is back then
You committed yourself to the original sin
You act the fool, but don't know you're funny
Whatever's eating you is also making us hungry
I'll never forget the last day that we met
You gave me a blindfold and a cigarette
Screw up at the free clinic, cheap pop and an epidemic, and there's no conscience round in this Russian roulette
But don't think twice - it's all over now
You had the privilege, you had the pride
You sat self-satisfied while friends of mine died
You couldn't see the trees, you couldn't see the forest
You thought you saw the poor, you were a poverty tourist
Every single lie you tell in this stupor
You think you're being wry, music's got no future
And baby, it's all gone now (no future)
And baby, it's all gone now (no future)
And baby, it's all over now (no future for you)
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You said before you knew what it was like to be poor - or maybe just poorly dressed
I was always trying to make a good time out of life, with the empress
But now I've been asleep at the switch, oh honey, somehow I got marooned
I recognized that somebody had to do something soon
I was a rock and an island, somewhere near the Cote D'Ivoire
I could not deny the crabs, but baby, they ain't here no more
So many tricks that you trade on, so much makeup to cover the pall
I gather you were here and gone, but rock and roll just can't recall
You said that she was someone that you used to know, or maybe someone you used
I was down on my knees at the crossroads so I suppose I got no excuse
The scales have fallen from my eyes dear - now I think I understand
So you can fuck on water - that don't make you a miracle man
I was a double agent on a submarine down on the Isle of Wight
I had the intelligence but I never really was all that bright
So many tricks that you turn on
You gotta walk before you can crawl
You might've been my Vietnam
But rock and roll just can't recall
Now these days I shiver shake when I walk, and you can't bear to see me dance
My life's an outtake of an experiment and I blew the advance
But what do we do with Rod the mod? You don't look so good yourself
Maybe you've still got the moves and the hooks but you ain't got the health
I raided and pillaged down on Sunset and I woke up on the beach
I was a cocaine rhythm machine, now the good life was in reach
So many tricks that you take on, and you're left against the wall
Drop the needle and ramble on
'Cuz rock and roll just can't recall
Rock and roll just can't recall....
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Master Jack
03:26
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It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I'll never look back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack
You took a colored ribbon from out of the sky
And taught me how to use it as the years went by
To tie up all your problems and make them look neat
And then to sell them to the people in the street
It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I'll never look back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack
I saw right through the way you started teachin' me now
So some day soon you could get to use me somehow
I thank you very much and though you've been very kind
But I'd better move along before you change my mind
It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You know how I feel as if I'll never come back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack
You taught me all the things the way you'd like them to be
But I'd like to see if other people agree
It's all very int'resting the way you disguise
But I'd like to see the world through my own eyes
It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
No hard feelins if I never come back
You're a very strange man and I thank you, Master Jack
You're a very strange man and I thank you, Master Jack
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Always Say Never Again
02:57
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Grover was the kind of guy who never really washed up well
Always caught up in a bind, always playing some kind of show and tell
Are we not men? Are we mere clients?
Not even a single act of non-compliance
Count backwards from ten and then always say never again
Paul tried to know me but there was just way too many cooks
Told me it’d trickle down but then that trick never really took
I was tested in Durham, I was printed in Raleigh
By the time that I stopped driving I was somewhere in Missouri
I wasn’t raised in a pen and I always say never again
Inside and outside are much the same places, provided you know your way through the door
The black hats, the white hats, the heels and the faces
The center of a city with no center core, go go!
I took a meeting I was talking means and ways
Someone told me that the chair was unconscious for days
Down and distance, time and score
I tried fighting McClellan’s war
Now I’m thinking like Sherman and I always say never again
Outside and inside are much the same places
Provided you know your way through the biz
I searched the room and I went through the paces
I still don’t know where Lola is
Barry was the kind of bloke who always left his blinkers on
I believe that he’d turn any way as soon as he felt drawn
I knew Rodrigo and Rodrigo knew Mike and Mike assured me that Barry’s doing alright
And they say the house always wins and I always say never again
Always say never baby, always say never baby, always say never again
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A long night of the shakes
All fits and starts and turkey vultures
What a difference a year and seven seconds makes in the last days of the monoculture
Extended Stay America Durham
I panicked in the cereal aisle
I bought the pitch and I took the serum
I implicated myself at trial
I busted that fat righteous fucker
You know what they say – bustin’ makes me feel good
He was eating off my page, he was copying off my plate
I lost my bearings but I gained a conscience
I finally knew the con games from the content
I finally knew the face of the comptroller
On these last worst days of the monoculture
Now it’s policy shocks and tinfoil hats
And a Picasso on eBay that has to be a counterfeit
A stranger once told me that when life hands you lemons, you should probably quit
He swept the nation like a dance sensation
While we watched the dead drop at the metro station
You can’t be too strong and you can’t be too sure
On these last waning days of the monoculture
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8. |
Slush Fund City
03:52
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Grandpa was a trainwreck
Daddy had it rough
Don’t you think three generations of imbeciles is enough?
In the twilight of the tsars no one gets nostalgia right anymore
It took a sixty-pound sack of colonial gems
And a two-pound purse of mescaline
Born and raised by way of committee
Made a prince in slush fund city
Won’t be happy until everything’s his
Welcome to the slush fund kids
Before another second passes
Before we go a minute further
I’ll need to see your corporate badges
And your donation numbers
Ulysses stranded in the bitter night spend the whole past decade freezing
Penelope said, “At least you’ve got a purpose in life – buddy, I just sit here weaving”
Free from guilt, inured of pity
The little boy king of slush fund city
When there’s not enough to eat
Keep ‘em away from slush fund street
At daybreak I take to a solitary place and I cross out the night before
I spent time by the Michigan lake
I spent time by the Michigan shore
Someone gave a word of advice – put it out to deep water and then wait for the catch
If you’re gonna do it once, then you’re gonna do it twice
That’s what the experts all suggest
Burned and razed and scorned and pitied
Bring ‘em all here to slush fund city
No satisfaction until they’re deceased
Drag ‘em all down to the slush fund street
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The Paranoid Style Washington, D.C.
The Paranoid Style was a special committee convened in 2012 in order to address our country's many pressing problems.
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