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ALL: Allroy Saves

EDUCATED IDIOT
Alvarez

I recognize the pieces but I don't know where they fit.
I know exactly just enough to analyze the universe to bits.

I know all there is to know about nothing at all.
I'm all messed up, nowhere to go.
Ask me my address, I can't recall.
It's my fault.

I'm an educated idiot,
I'm smart enough to know
I don't know.

"We interrupt this song to bring you a special newsbullshittin' -
Everything you know is wrong."

"I think, therefore I think I am. I think."

I know how an engine works, I don't know how to drive.

I know where Old Zealand is, but barely know my left foott from my right.

I recognize the species but I'm not sure if I fit.
We know exactly just enough to analyze the universe to bits.
I quit (me too).

I'm an educated idiot,
I'm smart enough to know.
An educated idiot.
It sure is good to know I'm not alone.

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JUST LIKE THEM
Aukerman

Father's a lonely man in a crowded room
He keeps to himself and he never lets anyone know
It's a part of his heritage; his father was that way too
And mother can't understand why he died so soon
But he's still alive, he's still got his mind
And that's all he needs to get by

Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them
Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them

A boy I knew was too low to tie his own shoes
We couldn't tell what was dirt and what was a bruise
He's got a gun now, he's got nothing to lose
You live without love for too long it might happen to you

But now he's got a home where he's not alone
And people care; he knows they do
He seen his picture on the evening news
Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them
Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them
You're gonna be just like them

Take a look at yourself, do you like what you see?
The things that you feel aren't the things you were taught to believe
You had your inoculations as a child
So you won't go crazy
But you'll never go wild
Isn't that what you want? You want to go wild
Wild...Wild.

Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them
Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them

Now you feel like a lonely man in a crowded room
You tell me nobody really cares; well, how 'bout you?
See there's a man with his hand on the button out there
He's saying in his life, nobody ever cared
So why should he care?
Why?

Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them
Don't wonder why, don't wonder why, don't wonder why
You're gonna be just like them
You're gonna be just like them
I'll never be just like them

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PRISON
Reynolds

Mommy and daddy had a lock and key.
So she went over the wall and she was finally free.
She wants to know "why did the TV tell those lies it lied to me?".
It said "I know, I know, I know.
You've earned your right to breathe.
Don't give it up; that's why you have to leave.
You know your number's up."

Emptied her pockets on an ugly road.
Why did nothing grow when the seeds were sown?
And why did the water turn the soil into mud?
Big plans, fat chance, small minds.
They took it all away, and won't give it back.
"Now you have to stay."
I-told-you-so's-attack.

Was it fate or dumb mistakes that made things like they are?
And did she have a choice.
Ragged shoes on wet cement, she's talking to the king.

Only the peasant hears her voice.
It's just noise.

And when she hides her eyes (when she hides her eyes),
She's sure that no one sees her standing by the garbage cans finally alone.
And when she shuts her mouth (when she shuts her mouth),
She's sure that no one hears her screaming
At all of those who say she can't go back to prison.

Can't see his face, only yellow teeth.
Chewing on his tongue splitting easy money.
Oh what an ugly man, he thinks she's beautiful.
What next, who knows, who cares?
Is it an even trade, her time, his cash?
Decisions being made while treasures turn to trash.

And what is the value of a fine young mind
When you just can't see what you left behind?
And why did her parents lie?
They lied and lied and lied and lied!
They said "you'll see what's right, you'll see."
But you can only see what's wrong from below what's right.
Will she be there for long? not without a fight.

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JUST LIVING
Stevenson, Reynolds, Egerton

The phone is ringing as I dig for a pen.
I change my face and answer and then,
Grope and sputter for the right thing to say.
To earn another week, "see given time I can pay."

What about the bills, what about the rent?
What about the days in the park you never spent?
I wonder what's the use, I need time to have a purpose.

My treasure map's been on the shelf for so long.
It's not my choice and that's what's so wrong.
Our time together a receipt in her purse,
One makes up the other and that makes it worse.

What about the streets, what about the crowds?
What about the simple existence you avowed?
What about the words written on her face.
What about your promise to leave this place?
Not alive, just living; not alive, just living
I wonder what's the use, I need time to have a purpose.
Not alive, just living

When we're done packing and I crawl in the van,
I'll smash the phone just as fast as I can.
I can't remember when I didn't know
About loans and touch-tone phones, it wasn't that long ago.

What about those feelings, what about that touch?
What about the little things that used to mean so much?
What about my hopes, what about my fears?
What about my heart that won't produce tears anymore?
Not alive, just living; not alive, just living
I wonder what's the use, I need time to have a purpose.
Not alive, just living
Not alive, just living; not alive, just living
Living, living, living, living

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FREAKY
Snow, ALL

Freaky...I wanna be your sex machine.
You freaky thing, you freaky thing. Get up!

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FROG
Reynolds

I've got a frog in my pocket.
It's not a big frog. I like it anyway.
One time I tried to hock it.
You can't get much for that kind of frog these days.

But you can have fun with an amphibian.
Just put him back when you're done, back in your pocket, pocket.
Or else he'll jump away.
I know it's only a frog; it's not a cat or a dog, it's not a prize-winning hog,
But don't you knock it, knock it.

Just the other day I heard this old man say,
"I had a frog just like that when I was much, much younger.
One day I let ol' Oscar get away.
One night he lost himself in the fog. and I raised
Oscar from a pollywog.
I swear to God I do miss that frog, that frog."

"I had a frog just like that when I was much, much younger.
One day I let ol' Oscar get away.
The other night we had a similar fog, I thought I saw him in a hollow log.
I swear to god I do miss that frog."
That frog, that frog, that frog.frog

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SIMPLE THINGS
Stevenson

Father left home when you turned 14.
Took the best, left the rest for the simple things.
(The simple things come easy when you've been used).
Tried every drug in the neighborhood.
But nothing can change your mind about the simple things.
(The simple things come easy when you've been abused).

Life is cheap, money's free.
These are what we call the simple things.

Desperate now, gun to your mouth.
Is death worse than life when you live for the simple things?
(The simple things come easy when you've no choice).
'Cause it smells outside from atomic tide
And you have no money and nowhere to hide.
(The simple things come easy when you've no voice).

I will try to protect you from within myself.
Let the simple things run their course.
The simple things come easy, when the good things in life aren't free.
The simple things come easy, when the good things in life aren't free.

I can't trust my family and friends.
It's all around, they all want the simple things.
(The simple things come easy, if you believe).
I'll draw my lines, choose my defense.
When it all comes down they'll kill for the simple things.
(The simple things come easy if you concede).

Life is cheap, money's free.
These are what we call the simple things.
The simple things come easy, when the good things in life aren't free.
The simple things come easy, when the good things in life aren't free.
The simple things come easy, when the good things in life aren't free.
The simple things come easy, when the good things in life aren't free.

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CYCLOPS
Reynolds

Save your mundane platitudes for those who give a shit.
I'll burn in hell and be through with it.
I've got a life; it ain't big, but it's a life.

And I've got clothes and heaven knows that I've still got my health.
I look good if I do say so myself.
I've got a soul; it ain't yours but it's a soul.
Chalk up my lack of fire to self-control.

All the dicks with night sticks, poison boys in blue.
All the dumb and uglies in your wrecking crew,
They make me bleed, nothing I can do.
I wouldn't be so sure if I were you.

Weren't you the guys with get-lost eyes who made my high school great?
You found me again, but this time you're here too late.
I paid my dues when I wore corrective shoes,
When I earned the right to ignore you.

Toughest kid in gym class, terror in the hall.
Necking with the prom queen, captain every fall.
You can't cut me now because your knife's gone dull.
It must piss you off to know it all.

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RATCHET
Reynolds, Egerton

"I do! I swear I like your hair. It goes good with your snake.
And that tattoo is really you. So how long did it take?
No, I didn't know you were a dancer.
I think dance is underrated."

He says she could be a model, says he knows she could.

"The money is good."
She says she's heard that before.
She tried it out, but she's just too small.
"Five feet three inches tall."

It's the thrill of the chase, they're playing hawk and dove.
He thinks he's falling in love.
She thinks Polanski's a fool. He thinks Fellini's a ghoul. I think zucchini is cool.

She came from Ohio and believed for a time she was on fire; was brighter, was hot.

Spinning his wheels, he's losing ground,
Frustration grows; he feels like picking his nose.
He says "Do you know who I met at the Hard Rock
Saturday?
And did you know he was gay?"
She's duly impressed; she French inhales as a slick reply.
"He's a really great guy."

She had a problem with snow.
He had his bout with blow.
The stylish way to go.

What do you know? This is the best one yet.
Far and away since the day he left Connecticut.
His secret agent suit finally paid off.

It's real good, it's Hollywood, it's clear.
And the sun is high. I can see the sign from here.
Take the 101 to the 405 to the beach.
Where they put their strings and things just out of reach.

Maybe you could come with me; we'll see the sea, just you and me.

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SUM
Alvarez

Long time no see.
So tell me, how are things?
Just 'cause I was wondering - what ever became of you?

You don't look well; can't hide it, I can tell.
I know you love to hurt yourself.
There's some things about you I wish I never knew.
And I wish that I could say that we're happier today.
Sometimes there's just some things I don't want to have to know.

Don't you know me? Has it been too long a time?
Weren't you once a friend of mine? It gets so hard to tell.
Hoping gets lonely, I'm lonely all the time.
But time and circumstance combined
And every other someone else just helped you kill the pain you felt.

And I wish that I could say that we're happier today.
Sometimes there's just some things I don't want to know.
Sometimes some friends I don't want to know.
Sometimes some things I don't want to have to know.

The real truth is it brings no peace to swallow lies that let me sleep.
There's some things about you I wish it wasn't true.
There's some things about you
Sometimes I wish I never knew you, never knew you at all.

I stayed a stranger ever since
I learned I can't depend on friends - if ignorance is innocence.
There's some things about you I wish I never knew.
And I wish that I could say that we're happier today.
Sometimes there's just some things I don't want to know.
Sometimes some things I don't want to know.
Sometimes some things I don't want to have to know.

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CRAWDAD
Reynolds

Gonna run until I run, until I run right out of gas, man.
Gonna spit on everything until my mouth's as dry as sand.
I know exactly what you know about all the reasons.
You know, I know the answers.
I just don't know what to do, what to do.

So I do most anything to avoid a head-on confrontation

With the guy who looks at me and points out all I haven't done.
I say "fuck you, you don't have to tell me exactly where I'm at.
You know, I know the answer.
But that don't help me know what to do, what to do."

Maybe I'll shave my head, and hang out in the airport till I drop dead.
Or be a social butterfly and find fame,
Know all the fat cats by their first name.
Gotta do it now; I need a brainstorm.
Gotta be the early bird and get that stinking worm.
But who wants a worm? Who needs a worm?
I don't eat worms. I hate worms!

I need somebody who can find a way out of a sticky situation.
Someone who can take a piece of me and turn it into gold.
Could that someone be you, and does that even matter?
Maybe I don't know the answers.
I sure as shit don't know what to do, what to do.

And so I'm gonna run until I run, until I run right out of gas.

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EXPLORADOR
Stevenson

Cigarettes
Beyond black shades
Seen him yet?
You'll never see his face

We used to joke about foggy mornings
When no one's around I start talking
I guess you wanted it to be this way
And I can't say I didn't see it coming

If anyone ever died with a drink in his hand I know you did.
If anyone ever died with a smile on his face I guess you did.

You always had the ends to my means.
I'd drive when you had too much drugs.
I guess life doesn't mean that much when you already know it all.

If anyone ever died with a smile on his face I know you did.
If anyone ever died with a drink in his hand I know you did.

But there was alcohol on your last breath,
And I don't need you anymore.
If your life meant nothing to you,
Your death means nothing to me.
Dead hero, sleep.
You were, but now you're not.

There's something romantic about the man who went down with his ship.
And I can tell all my friends about the hero who died at sea.
Everybody humors, everybody laughs when I tell about the things that you've done.
But there's nothing romantic about the empty shoreline where I wait.

If anyone ever died with a smile on his face I know you did.
If anyone ever died with a drink in his hand I know you did.

But there was poison in your frozen blood.
And I don't need you anymore.
If your life meant nothing to you,
Then your death means nothing to me.
Dead hero, sleep.
You were, but now you're not.

I go to the shore and wait.
I see the power of nature.
I understand the nature of power.
But I do not accept this loss of you.
Dead hero, sleep.
You live.

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TonyALL: New Girl, Old Story

SON-O-THEME
Lombardo

(instrumental)

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TELLTALE SIGNS
Lombardo
Vocals: Scott

Tell me if this sounds familiar to you
The girl you know is not the girl you knew
She doesn't say the things she used to say
And the things she does she does a brand new way

She says I'm just living in the past
And our love will never last
With all this pressure
That you are under
From me and your peers

Telltale signs
She don't love you anymore

We've been through this scenario before
And the pain is more than I can endure
Where is the romance that got us to here?
Because you know my heart needs you to be near

You say I'm just living in the past
And our love will never last
With all this pressure
That you are under
From me and your peers

Telltale signs
She don't love you anymore

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THIS IS NOT A DREAM
Lombardo
Vocals: Scott

This is not a dream
I am not sleeping
Here is a sad scene
No time for weeping

Pain, yes it doubles me over
Again and again, it's the same
And no matter what I do
I can't change you
I can't keep you all to myself

This is not a dream
I am not sleeping
Here is a sad scene
No time for weeping

I want to do something different
Before I die, I know you
Want to keep me from leaving
And I don't want to hurt you
Because this is our life
And not wishes come true

This is not a dream
I am not sleeping
Here is a sad scene
No time for weeping

We had a conversation
And I could see in your eyes
All the hurt that you're feeling
And I don't blame you
Because this is our life
And not wishes come true

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U R SUPER
Lombardo
Vocals: Tony

You are super
You are super
You are superficial

Well you're aggressive alright
Always ready to fight
But underneath it all
You're just a hollow ball

You are pretty
You are pretty
You are pretty stupid

You've got a million friends
Waiting around the bend
But underneath it all
You're just a hollow ball

Forgive this oxymoron
But if the shoe fits wear it out
Must I really go on with
One more round of this bout?

You've got everything
You've got everything
You've got everything backwards

You think that you're so cool
Everybody's your fool
But underneath it all
You're just a hollow ball

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KEEP IT
Lombardo
Vocals: Tony

You can keep everything
That I gave to you
I don't want it anymore
And if you want everything
That you gave to me
You can back up the truck
And fill it on up
With the broken pieces of my life

You hurt me all you could
Then you thought that I should
Come crawling back on bended knees
Just because your body's fine
You think I've lost my mind
You'd better think again if you expect
Me to put my heart in hiding
Every time that you walk out on me

You better keep it
Keep it
So you remember
Remember
The love we had
A love so sad

(repeat song)

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CASUAL GIRL
Lombardo
Vocals: Scott

Casual girl
Everything is matter of fact to you
Casual girl
I know it's after the fact for me

I don't know where you've been
But you give in too easily
And it hurts me so to know
You're a casual girl

I thought that you were trying to please me
Now I know that you were just easy
What am I supposed to do?
I'm already in love with you
And it's too late to put you down

Casual girl
Everything is matter of fact to you
Casual girl
I know it's after the fact for me

I don't know what you've done
Don't think that I'm just out for fun
Because I don't feel that way about you
Casual girl I really love you

Usual, casual, typical, actual girl

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NEW GIRL, OLD STORY
Lombardo
Vocals: Scott

She's a new girl
But it's the same old story
I lose again, and again, and again

How could I know
How it would be?
How can love start
With a broken heart?

She's a new girl
Just like every other girl I've known
Something always comes between
Can't these things be foreseen?
So my new girl
Will be a true girl
Once upon a time
That little girl was mine

She's a new girl
But it's the same old story
I lose again, and again, and again

What can I do?
How can I know?
Are all girls just the same,
Just a body with a name?

She's a new girl
Just like every other girl I've known
Something always comes between
Can't these things be foreseen?
So my new girl
Will be a true girl
Once upon a time
That little girl was mine

She's a new girl
But it's the same old story
I lose again, and again, and again

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FACE 2 FACE
Lombardo
Vocals: Tony

I have been in love before
Have you?
We stand now before a door of love

Hand in hand, face to face
Lips to lips, in warm embrace

Hand in hand, face to face
Lips to lips, in warm embrace
Should we go in?
And throw caution to the wind
Is it love or lust?
Need we be concerned with trusting each other
If we are only to be lovers?

I have heard a thing or two
About you
And I feel that we should wait a while

Hand in hand, face to face
Lips to lips, in warm embrace

Hand in hand, face to face
Lips to lips, in warm embrace
We can't base love
On what we feel tonight
It wouldn't be right
To carry on this way would guarantee
That we would not survive

I have been in love before
Have you?
We stand now before a door of love

Hand in hand, face to face
Lips to lips, in warm embrace

Hand in hand, face to face
Lips to lips, in warm embrace
Should we go in?
And throw caution to the wind
Is it love or lust?
Need we be concerned with trusting each other
If we are only to be lovers?

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LAST REFUGE
Lombardo
Vocals: Tony

Is there nothing sacred in this world
To believe in
Only God knows how I've tried to find
What is real
Is my heart the last refuge of love?

Every time that I close my eyes, I wonder
At the people and the fixations they're under
Is there no one who can see the good in me?

Even I get caught inside
And it's hard to fight
The passing of time (etched upon my face)
I don't want to die just to get away
I don't wan to cry just to get my way

Every time that I close my eyes I dream
Of what life would be like if you were not shallow

Is my heart the last refuge of love?

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AT THE PARTY
Lombardo
Vocals: Scott

We didn't have enough time
Not enough time
To do what we wanted
Do what we started
Before we got parted
At the party

All my friends were there and you were too
You could see that I could see through you
Was I so boring?
I started you snoring
Why did you sleep
In the corner like a heap
Of clothes?
Who knows?

I was gonna call you up
I'm not gonna
Got your number but I don't know where
I don't care

Don't tell me you had too much to drink
I was standing with you by the sink
Was I so boring?
I started you snoring
Why did you sleep
In the corner like a heap
Of clothes?
Who knows?

I was gonna call you up
I'm not gonna
Got your number but I don't know where
I don't care

We didn't have enough time
Not enough time
To do what we wanted
To do what we started
Before we got parted
At the party

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GUITAR CASE
Lombardo
Vocals: Karl

I've got your picture in my guitar case
I guess that I am just a hopeless case
But just in case

You can call me on the telephone
You know that I will always be at home
All alone

Ever since we first met
Don't you know I've been
Waiting, for you to call me up
Thinking, that you might stand me up
Hoping, that you would look me up

I know that you have things to do
And so do I, a girl like you
Is a breath of fresh air
In a smoke filled room
Like when we met two weeks ago

Lucky for me
That you had your picture with you
Or I might never have seen you again

You're a diamond in the rough
Lilies from the mud
Needle in the haystack
One in a million

And that is good enough

(repeat song)

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SPECIAL TO ME
Lombardo
Vocals: Tony

Special to me
You will always be
The one that I think of
When I look back upon my life
You love me
Fantastic as it may be
Even though we both know
That it should never be

And I love you
Even though I know too
That our love is taboo

We'll have this time
For all time
And no one
Can take it away

(repeat song)

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ALL: PERCOLATER

CHARLIGAN
Reynolds

ALL? Or none? Let's take a closer look.

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NOTHIN'
Alvarez

When it adds up to nothin'
It makes you wonder why you try.
Stunned and numb left wondering
Why when the truth is cruel, the lies turn white.

I called and couldn't reach you,
I got too hung up.
I'm a phase that you've outgrown,
Lying in the darkness all alone.

You got a fake I.D. and somewhere else to be
With someone who isn't me.

Tell yourself it meant something,
Used to mean a lot to me.
Something died, just the pain survived.
When i got tired of crying i dried my eyes.
Burn the bridges that you must,
Past to ashes, trust to dust,
Empty loneliness and lust.

Love wasn't enough, trust wasn't enough.
I believed what you said was true,
Ever always only you.
Just another broken trust,
Nothing's forever.

I believe what you said was true.
It wasn't enough.
I believe that you meant it too.
It wasn't enough

'Cause your promise means nothin'
Much less than nothing',
'Cause you left me with nothing now.

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DOT
Reynolds

It's not my fault,
It wasn't up to you.
Christmas eve comes once a year and that will never do.
Your image started fading,
I closed my eyes to see.
Tell me do you close your eyes for me?

Now your door seems half a world away,
The price of gasoline is more than I can pay.
Plus I don't have a car I can call my very own,
I guess I'll spend another night alone.

If I could say I'm sorry, who would I say it to?
Besides apologies mean less than dirt to folks like me and you.
You know it's true.

Should I say too bad, or so what?
What's appropriate?

Should I show it?
Call you on the phone and let you know it?

Back at my house there's nothing on TV,
The bathroom mirror casts confusing looks from me to me.

I watched you from a distance,
For too briefly held you close,
I guess that's just the way this story goes.

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NOBODY'S
Alvarez

Bathing in the blue light nightmare of the t.v. war.
It's too late, I'm tired, but Ican't see sleeping.
Simple central fact I can't ignore-nobody's hands are clean.

Watch close, history shows
The one familiar hell we know.
Birthright violence, cemetery silence,
Makes me sick and sorry for us all.

Poison sky and poison sea.
Too bad we can't say we don't know better.
Both hands are tied by need and greed
Nobody's hands are clean.

Watch close, history shows
The one familiar hell we know.
Birthright violence, cemetery silence,
Endless marching armies.
Ancient rages, sacred pages,
Makes me sick and sorry for us all.

Nobody's hands are clean, it's true and it's obscene.

The whole god damned human race and me.
Born through love and blood,
Alone and naked.
Condemned forever to be free,
Nobody's hands are clean.

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WONDER
Reynolds

She spent the money on a loaf of Wonder bread,
And a can of Beefaroni
Italian food today,
What does he think
When he pours himself a drink
And he looks at me that way?

He spent a fortune on the labor and the parts,
Got to keep it running another year or two.
What does she say every time i drive away in her dad's old Subaru?

Household appliances, all rent to own,
No telephone.

Debts unpaid left up to fate are heavy on the head,
Can't let each other know, and so nothing's said.

But that's a cop out when you break it all apart and analyze the pieces,
The bottom line is truth,
What in the world makes a happy boy and girl
Buy their old age with their youth?
Harsh words from relatives,
They won't leave us alone.
Why pay the telephone?

At any rate there is no fate,
Except someday they'll be dead,
And who will tell them each what was never said?

And now she's nervous as he's coming up the drive,
He's afraid to tell her how short their money goes these days.
Who gives a damn about a woman and a man
Who are sure that neither understands
W hy they look and act that way?

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MINUTE
Stevenson

I thought you could take me away for a minute,
But now I know it was just that way for a minute.

I told no lies, no alibis,
Our little love was real for a minute.

Good thing I can only stay for a minute,
I've never felt that way, even for a minute.

For a minute, I believed in you,
There was nothing I wouldn't do.
For a minute with you, I gave up everything I had.

Now it's over and I feel relief for a minute.
I criticize trouble and end up being the one who's in it.

My shame grows strong,
I'm know I've done wrong,
But our little love was real for a minute.

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BIRDS
Egerton

It's good, and it's great.
But what's more, it's right.

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EMPTY
Alvarez

Jesus H. Christ sang a song about love
But nobody buys is.
The law's laid down at the borrom line,
And nobody defies it.
It's a heavy rotation,
That tell's you what you need.
Stay tuned to this stagnation,
Satisfaction guaranteed by

Video and radio - They sold it to you.
Cashbox, jukebox, brain control.
Every song is perfect,
And every face is perfect, oh yeah.

Plastic heavy metal, artificial soul.
Sanitized and glamourized
Synthetic lies are bought and sold.
Independent underdog fights to survive,
It's so much cooler underground,
Classified and buried alive by

Video and radio - They sold it to you.
Cashbox, jukebox, brain control.
Every song is perfect,
And every face is perfect
Impersonal and perfect

Jesus H. Christ take a look at us,
The sum of all we've seen
Cold consumer zombies,
With empty eyes and MTV.

Perfect...

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MO. 63
Reynolds

Both of my hands, they got the white knuckles
From being in the dash.
What if we get into an accident,
And i don't have no cash,
There's always whiplash.
Fat farting guernseys,
Chew their cuds at me,

Missouri 63.

Big Buford lawman ten miles from Moberly,
He says "you got a taillight on the right side that don't work properly".

Missouri 63.

I still got twenty-five miles to go
'Till I get to Macon
Then I got to get on 36

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EGG TIMER
Stevenson

Two generation gaps between us,
Two parents in one,
I know you did your best,
You and the egg timer.

You are my father,
Yyou were my mom and dad,
I know you did your best
You and the egg timer.

She took all your money,
She left a note on the door.
We had TV dinners,
And we called her a whore.
I hope you're as proud of me
Like I am of you.

Egg timer, you and the egg timer.

Two hours of sleep at night,
Two full time jobs,
I know you did your best,
You and the egg timer.
We didn't go go fishing,
And we didn't play ball,
I know you did your best,
You and the egg timer.

Ssixty minutes is as far as it goes,
The egg timer.
If I want to take an hour to remember you in the past,
I have the egg timer.
I hope I never have to use it the way you did.

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HOT PLATE
Stevenson

Flames burning, steam rising,
My appetite grows hot.
And she know i'm itching' to see
What's inside those pots.

We come around 'bout a quarter to three,
Can't keep a good man from his afternoon feed.
Best bring your manners or you won't get served.
"What's cooking?" it's up to her!

Hotplate-served with a smile.
Hotplate, she likes it all the while.

Soup's on,
There's no denial in the oven of my desire.
What's on the table is what i need,
But it's still on the fire.

We come around 'bout a quarter to five,
We've come to satisfy our appetites.
Best bring your manners or you won't get served.
"What about desert?"
It's up to her!

When we need a hotplate,
Here's where we go,
Twenty four hours she's never closed.

Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Thaiwanese;
She found the way to bring me down to my knees,
Mexican, Italian, Mexican, Cajun;
Better say thank you, and always say please.

Hotplate-served with a smile.
Hotplate, she likes it all the while.
Hotplate-served with a smile.
Hotplate, down home style.

They say the pretty girls can't make no eats- well look at mine,
She can't be beat.
Everybody tries to tear us apart
'Cause she knows a man's stomach is the way to his heart.

Don't come around 'bout a quarter to nine,
'Cause when the food's all gone,
The girl's still mine.
Don't come around a quarter to ten,
Cause when the party's over, the fun begins!

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HEY BUG
ALL

Hey Bug are you tryin' to go to sleep?
Windows slam up, people slam up, radio slam up,
Are you tryin' to go to sleep?

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BREATHE
Alvarez

You can go kill yourself
Don't matter to me
Since I've finally put you out of my misery.
I don't love you either,
It only hurts when I breathe.

I always knew you'd leave me,
Let you string me along.
I pretended to believe you so that I could write this song
I'll get along, you'll see
It only hurts when I breathe.

And if I said forever,
I stand corrected,
Disappointment is the price I paid for hope.
Love's a bloody wreck,
Just like I expected.
I won't hold my breath
Waiting for you to come home.

I'm happy alone,
I like these four walls
I'll sit by the phone, making sure that you don't call.
I don't care at all,
It only hurts when I breathe.

And if I ever said forever
I stand corrected...and alone

Love's a bloody wreck,
Just like I expected
I won't hold my breath
Waiting for you to come home

I'm doing o.k.,
Got no complaints,
I know you're no angel,
God knows that I ain't no saint
I'm feeling no pain, not me.
It only hurts when I breathe.

Believe what you want to believe,
I'm finally, actually, totally agony free,

Except......

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