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Mighty Time
03:17
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You stopped by for breakfast
And I offered you some wine
Wasn’t that a mighty time
Fresh-faced narcoleptics
Collapsed in sixty-nine
Wasn’t that a mighty time
I’m getting my head together now
Doing it against your will
I’m getting my head together now
Delusions make me wanna kill
As does hierarchy of any kind
Wasn’t that a mighty time
We had all the babies
Our modesty’d allow
Where do we go now
Contraceptive landlord
You were holier than thou
But where do we go now
I’m getting my head together girl
Though you find it hard to bear
I’m getting my head together girl
I’ll see you when you get there
Just bring all the blow that you can find
Gonna be a mighty time
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Celebrity Wedding
03:48
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Sedition’s easy baby
Like the forefathers who discovered America
Just like any man who ever made you hysterical
Just like any books you read
You talk in secrets girl
But I think that you can see right through me
Must be the sycophantic way you do me
So far from what I need
I thought cuz of who I was that I would never have to say I’m sorry
Cuz of who I was that I would never have to say I’m wrong
But from the first time that I saw you working down by the quarry
I felt stunted; now I know that I was outclassed all along
Baby what happened to the girl I married
What happened to the girl I love
I’m all alone
Who are you thinking of
It’s not tawdry to say
That the market dictates emotion
When you got to re-multiply the quotient
By the dividends
Still I was willing to pay
For a vanity on the hour
Only hoping to retain the power
Of the one who spends
Credit that you leverage against the whole future failing
Credit that you leverage against your divorcée
Moving to New York and leaving California wailing
Nursing all the old wounds of a Hollywood attaché
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Loving Strokes
03:44
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Loving strokes for what they are
Talking in a bar to a girl about strokes
Still talking to a girl in a bar
They say strokes means selling out
I don’t know what they’re talking about
Maybe they’re too fine to be true
But I do believe in stars
I do
Loving strokes for making time
Killing time reading all about strokes
Different from just killing time
Never wanna leave well enough alone
Still want something to call my own
When it comes to ass I wanna get my fill
But if I have to share with strokes
I will
We’re working hard we should all lay down
Telling me one thing turning it around
Heaven help me if I get wet
Walking through the city in a beautiful sunset
Girls pass and I love your way
You look at me back and I’ll talk to you someday
Sometimes I forget to get things done
But I never skipped school and I never killed no one
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Cool Month Of June
03:01
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In the cool month of June I let you down
Sera, sera
In the cool month of June I let you down
Now you’re all alone
You had the warmest mouth I’d ever known
Always soft but always strong
Left alone you up and passed the whole spring away
Electronics make their lazy drone
Always soft but always on
They roughed you up just the way I did that cloud-shattering day
And what could we have done
Summer is what it is
No one could ever mistake it for much of a heart
What could we have done
Summer is what it is
No one could ever mistake it for playing a part
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5. |
End Of Actress
03:45
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Walking down the coast of Arizona
Catching a dirty fish or two
You always said I’d never be a loner
Just goes to show what belief will do
I took the chance at believing you
I’m never going back to California
I don’t wanna party with you no more
I don’t wanna party with anyone
I don’t want their pity when the night is done
I don’t want them saying that they were right
I don’t wanna go back home tonight
I’ll just walk right here along the border
Rage against the never-ending light
Your acting has made my stomach weary
I can’t even taste the foods I like
I don’t even know what you are like
I’m out here cuz I know you can’t hear me
Even if you could you’d never shut me up
Even if we partied with everyone
Even if nobody never had more fun
Even if that ass was made of solid gold
Government-insured against growing old
I’d still walk right here along the border
Rage against the never-ending light
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6. |
Big Trucks
01:04
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Big trucks
Down by the docks tonight
Play it subtle boy you might just play it right
Big trucks
Loaded with a heavy sack
Take it slow you might not make it back
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7. |
The Three Sisters
03:39
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Lyrics withheld at artist's request. Too personal.
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8. |
Butter X
03:58
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I was walking you home one day
Asked your name along the way
And how long you could tell when someone’s lying to you
Always told me it was hard to tell
In fact you do it just as well
As I would find out in a month or two
You accused me of playing the wall
Playing mister know-it-all
Playing like I had somewhere to be
So you were sad and that’s unfortunate
But it was only proportionate
To my heartbreak delivered C.O.D.
Butter X melted away from me
I got dry bedding
Butter X is somewhere now you see
I bet she’s spreading
Needed something that I hadn’t got
Hoped that I could crush a lot
Hoping that the lining would not show
Was a sin of inexperience
That could not be erased by stints
Of furtive copulation on the go
So as they tell you to enjoy yourself
Check their eyes for proper health
Check their teeth for vigor and for shine
Cuz anyone who’s guilty of the thread
Of following what Lisa said
Is gonna say his is bigger than mine
But don’t you let it bother you
It doesn’t bother me
There’s no accountability
No leadership in wartime or in bed
Soldiers fire recklessly
With their errant guns
And look ahead for future sons
But you are gone that’s all I’ve ever said
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9. |
Dream
03:37
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Dream forever baby
You’re on my mind
When better days are hard to find
Just dream
Sleep when you want to baby
But sleeping isn’t quite my style
I’ll join you for a little while
So sleep
The broken bread
The things we said
I’m not surprised you surmised
Put me to sleep
When I came to
What could I do
But pester you, undressing you
Walking down the avenue
Of consciousness for something to
Keep close beside me baby
So much more to you than we know
Don’t fall asleep before I go
Just keep
I’m leaving tomorrow baby
You know I gotta hit the road
My fingertips are gonna explode
So I’m leaving
The dynamite
Of deeper sight
It’s true enough the road is rough
But it’s worth the steam
It’s harder here
To say it clear
But listen dear don’t ever fear
The atmosphere that’s over here
Channels will open when you
Dream
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Mandy
01:10
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Mandy
Make me feel like a dandy
Mind is rapid and randy
This just can’t be wrong
Mandy
Breathing hard from the brandy
Sticky pink like the candy
I’ve waited for too long
Waited far too long
To lose again
Now it won’t be too long
We’ll live again
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11. |
Rock The Boat
06:11
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I want you to rock the boat
Though I’d never tell you so
I want you to rock the boat
And if it don’t happen now
Fun for later
We will sink our boat somehow
I only fight girls I like
And if I like you
I will fight you now
Over coffee we agree
Work out problems rationally
Over tea we agree
And if we don’t quite agree
You cave and capsize
You are pleasant company
But if it cut deep enough
I’d see no starlight
Be no night for me
I want you to rock the boat
It’s not in you to rock it so
But I want you to rock the boat
See how the band plays slow
From quick to mellow
It’s in you it is I know
I greeted you in short pants
A restless vapor
Vapor you can’t dance
Congratulations
Lifestyles of the young and self-defeating
Ministrations
Mistakes we’ve made before but which bear repeating now
Just rock the boat
Sometimes it’s better than working your problems out slow
Always fantastic
Always the last to know
Making up is nothing new
Comes so naturally to you
But shaking up is hard to do
Harder than making toast
Or conversations
About whom we love the most
The timing is always wrong
A test is frightful
Best to get along
I want rock to come to you
By the time I count to two
Good rocks will have come to you
Grabbing your boyfriend’s shoe
Say you’ll give it back when
He brings harder rocks to you
Playing down in the park
Bring your Wire
Quote it til it’s dark
A toast to silence
Years of doubt without any inflammation
Artistic license
Too much static and you tune out the station
Just rock the boat
I need to feel the weight of the crosses you bear
The night is windy
Lightning in the air
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12. |
Dynamite Explodes
01:57
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All roads lead to Rome
All songs lead to this song
I just must be out of my mind
Seems like it’s a waste of time
It probably is
Working out the prints
Working out the numbers
Wonder how the currents have changed
Does it pay to rearrange
And how are the kids
Dynamite explodes in your hand
You can’t explode until you’re one of them
Oh well oh well
We paid for it
With all the junk we could find
Still left us underpaid and ill-resigned
To push the pen
And make it fit
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Baby Teeth Chicago, Illinois
Purveyors of fine Chicago pop, on the bleeding edge of good taste since 2003. Raised by Todd Rundgren, ELO, Hall & Oates,
and Queen.
"Integration of FM-era pop, from glam to power pop, bandannaed cock-rock and New Romanticism, shouldn't come this easy, or sound this good." -- Pitchfork
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