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You, you try, you try to get by,
you're never going to pull it off,
you shouldn't even try.
You're a wet cigarette,
you're always second best,
they're never going to give a shit about anybody but themselves.
So you fight for them to realize,
there's more to life,

So she wakes up
In time to brake down
She left a note up on the dresser
And she's right on time
You don't know anything, right or wrong

I said I know-ow-ow-ow, and she said so-o-o-o
I want to panic but I've had it so I go-o-o-o

She was diagnosed on a Friday,
The kids were almost home,
The kids were on their way back home from school,
Lying face down in the gutter,
Of unaccomplished dreams,
And broken memories of things to come.
"Sorry ma'am, I really am. I had to break the news.

I left my country when I was nineteen
1925
And drifted to a town on the Cuban coast
Met a woman who became my life

And oh when I saw her
The darkness fled from me
And flew like a blackbird into the sun

i've got a gun in my hand but that gun won't cock
my finger's on the trigger but that trigger seems locked
i can't stop staring the tick tock clock
and even if i could i would never give up
with a vest on my chest and bullet my lung
i can't believe i'm dying with my song unsung
if and when i die won't you bury me alone?
cause i'll never get to heaven if i'm singing this song

I don't want to barge in on your secrecy (see)
Dependency (see)
It means nothing to me;
I don't want to hear about your problems.

And I don't want to listen to your apathy (see)
You're not like me (see)
You mean nothing to me;

If I were you, I would take this as a sign
Believe it's true, we were never meant to fly
And I owe you, I know you more than anyone alive
And I will not let go
They will not remember this song
No matter what we do we'll be wrong
They will not remember this song

And the story goes like this: everything went numb for the money and the guns
and everytime he'd think it out: "there's nothing to worry about
get in the van, don't deviate from the plan
if everything goes smooth then you'll walk away a rich man"
so it begins, everybody walks in
could this be the way or the day that the underdog wins?
i think not, so i bet on the feds because the black hat men never win in the end

You say you've got the cure
But i don't have a disease
And you say you've got the answers
But i've made no inquiries
And you're failing, you're bailing
Good god motherfucker now i hear you flailing
I see you flailing
That's right i think i do I see you flailing away, away

And it's been forty days
I've tried forty ways
You will never quite leave your sins behind
They'll haunt you, taunt you until the day you die
You will never really go
You'll just think about it much but you'll need to know how the story ends,
so you'll sit around, even though you should just go
Tell your friends what you have heard, show them all the lies unlearned

Originally by Squirrel Nut Zippers

In the afterlife
You could be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay

In the afterlife

How did Camus really die that night?
were they right when he died was it really his time?
or was it suicide?
and Holden Caufield is a friend of mine
we go drinking from time to time
and I find: it gets harder every time

Three went down

How did Camus really die that night?
Were they right?
When he died was it really his time?
Or was it suicide?
And Holden Caulfield is a friend of mine
We go drinking from time to time
and I find, it gets harder every time

don't you come to me with all your color-coded quotes
everybody's laughing but they never ever get my jokes
fool, you're a tool, a sheep
and it's obvious to everyone but company you keep
and don't you squint at me because your childhood was the pits
every single one of us have trodden through our shit
oh, and i know you're shrewd
because i smell it on your clothes

When you were born you were not alone
Nothing was carved into the stone quite yet
But don't forget you heard someone say it won't get better than this
That was the sound of your father
As he held you up to your mother
No one will ever know a love as pure as the one that you felt right then

They held you up

It was the summer of 95 (so what!)
In the backyard, shaving the old plies
Feeling so strong (strong!), something went wrong (wrong!)
Straight into my finger, what a stinger, it was so long
I still remember that day, like the day that I said that I swear
"I'll never hurt myself again", but it seems that I'm deemed to be wrong
To be wrong, to be wrong
Gotta keep holding on...they always played a slow song.

Not long ago in my high school days,
I watched a girl from far so away,
But every time she passed me by,
I turned my head away and quietly sighed.
And when she walked by her hair would dance,
A secret tango that only I could understand,
And when she'd ask me for the time of day,
I'd look her in the eyes and quietly say.

Not long ago in my high school days,
I watched a girl from far so away,
But every time she passed me by,
I turned my head away and quietly sighed.
And when she walked by her hair would dance,
A secret tango that only I could understand,
And when she'd ask me for the time of day,
I'd look her in the eyes and quietly say.

Possesions never meant anything to me
I'm not crazy
Well that's not true, I've got a bed, and a guitar
And a dog named Bob who pisses on my floor
That's right, I've got a floor
So what, so what, so what?
I've got pockets full of kleenex and lint and holes
Where everything important to me

The mama pajama rolled out of bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation

It's against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw

Woe is me
I swear that we had it but everyone wouldn't agree
That we never had a thing
Our dying words will be exaggerations
Of what we said and what we did

The ticking of the clock
Eventually it stops

I still remember that night it was the 4th of July,
Still engraved in my mind and I'm not surprised,
There was no guns, hand to hand,
Their black, their white, their purple,
But they still down understand,
I'm gonna be alright, I'm gonna be okay, everything is gonna be fi-i-i-i-ine,
Back off, I wanna be alone, I wanna think it out and I'm thinking I want to go home,

It's in the air you breathe and it's also in the water
It's something you can't see, you've been warned of by your mothers
You've had enough deceit, you know enough to see
Join the others
When you could hardly breathe, you were wondering why you bothered

And they gave us seven days to renounce our wicked ways
Too late to make amends because we both know how this ends

One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead
I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead
Punk rock girl, please look at me
Punk rock girl, what do you see?
Let's travel round the world
Just you and me punk rock girl

I should have known you'd bid me farewell
There's a lesson to be learned from this and I learned it very well
Now, I know you're not the only starfish in the sea
If I never hear your name again, it's all the same to me

And I think it's gonna be alright
Yeah, the worst is over now
The morning sun is shining like a red rubber ball

I am thinking it's a sign
that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes
like puzzle pieces from the clay

True, it may seem like a stretch,

He wakes up sad again and he wonders when the rain will end,
She acts like she don’t care cause to her it’s just a game, that he plays,
I’m a super, I’m a nothing, I’m a no one, goin’ nowhere fast,
But I don’t care, but I don’t care,
I’m a super, I’m a nothing, I’m a no one, goin’ nowhere fast,
But I don’t care, but I don’t care.

All the times he said he would she never really understood,

"The Big Sleep"

Why do you cry when you know how the story ends?
How can you laugh when you know that it hurts your friends?
We've all been there once, but you never left
This is me coming back to get you out to say goodbye, to make amends
I'm not leaving this place
Unless I'm leaving with you

The blonde lead the blind, but now I begin to see
All the things you missed when you were dismissed
Because learning always ended at three
And time after time, you pass along liability
And all the things you say, they only give you away
Because you're on the same level that you were that day
Oh! Friend! You look too deep at the cover of the magazine
But the words inside they come across deprived

I felt no guilt till I was caught
And I was told that I was guilty
And even then I wasn't really sure (yeah yeah)
The thing I felt was guilt itself
Or maybe it was something else
Frustration at the fact that I was ever caught at all
I told a lie I multiplied it
By the time I realized it

The first time that it came to me,
I was a young boy, little did I not believe.
I had a hole in my heart and I was looking for a piece that fit.

The next time I was privvy to,
the dirty secrets, all the little hidden clues.
But when I added it up, I knew a little but a little won’t do.

So Marigold, my love, you've had too much to drink
And I need not remind you, our discount tickets for this sinking ship
Take-backs and sweet regrets, that's all that we have left
No one is looking out for anyone but number one
One to one, two to dance, we all get our sweet romance
Though sour grapes will turn to wine its all just vinegar with time
And oh, I want to know, we all want to know
How can anybody treat somebody so?

It doesn't really matter if you lead or follow
Everybody's laughing like there's no tomorrow and even if there was,
Would you still go following your friends?
I don't know where we went wrong, we're still singing those same sad songs
"It's my life, not your life, I'll end it when I want"

And now I'm off to save the world once again
But I don't know how I'll pull it off this time

I will never defend a man who makes amends with an enemy as friends, I will never pretend

There we were the three of us, the thief the king, and I
And finally we were forced to see we were equals in the night
Starry starry night
Looking down between the trees, at the time we knew we had to leave
For what it’s worth we will walk the Earth to find the things we seek
And the king said,

Did I mention we were dreaming
When the devil came to town?
I was awoken by the screaming,
But nobody heard a sound.
And the lies we told at breakfast
Won't match the lies we had for lunch
And the lies we said for dinner (for dinner), for dinner (for dinner)

Staring out the window in somebody’s pick up truck,
Well I never mind the boredom cause I use I for a crutch,
Just to get me to that plane it’s a different state of sane,
And every time I try to change I always end out quite the same,
Thinking back to happier days everyone was ignorant and all the kids behaved,
But me, my friends, and the ice cream man,
That was our existence,
That was our clan,

Some day you will grow up and learn to lie.
Just like your daddy did when he told you no one ever really dies.
I hope I'm not there when you realize,
those with their nose in the air will never look you in the eye.

And you will go toe to toe,
like David and Goliath.

[00:00.00]"Walking Away"
[00:00.01]*
[00:56.23]Well, hello, how are you, won't you pull the chair?
[00:57.59]Won't you tell me story because I really do care
[00:59.39]About talking, talking, talking away
[01:02.55]*
[01:03.23]Here's to me, to you, to us
[01:04.86]To everything, hope it never falls apart

Last night I woke alone with a whisper in my ear (whisper in my ear )
Recanting all my aspirations and my fears
And when the sun came up that voice had disappeared
But it would linger on for years

It said "We can't just blame it on our mothers
Claim everything they did was always wrong"

Hey!
Dear Mr. Gepetto: I hope this finds you well
I wrote you this letter
Because we miss you here in hell

Well now I know it's hard when you don't know what to think
And every single smile is a thorn when you're waking up
You might try but you won't get by until you're crucified for all the things you try to do

When I look back,
that's when I see everything was wrong,
And you looked sad, that's when I said I'd write you a song

Everybody's got their reasons; everybody's got their ghosts to fear
When I look back all I see is I've done something wrong.
Wrong, Wrong!
Wrong, all I see is I've done something wrong.

When I look back, that's when I see everything was wrong
And you looked sad, that's when I said I'd write you a song
Everybody's got their reasons
Everybody's got their ghosts to fear
When I look back all I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)
All I see is I've done something wrong (Wrong!)
Wrong! (Wrong!)

You don't know where the sun goes every night, every night.
Or where the moon goes, when it's bright, when it's bright.
I won't mind, as long as it's there in time.
Oh, as long as they're there in time,
I won't mind, I won't mind, I won't mind.

If I go blind, tell me, will you be my eyes?

Would you be upset if I told you we were dying?
And every cure they gave us was a lie?
Oh! They mean it when they say we're dead and doomed
And every single symptom brings us closer to the tomb
And who will take the credit for our swift impending fall
Because it's not my fault

Would you be impressed if I said that the dead would help us counting

A young lady leaves her mother,
with no one to love her, to protect from the world.
And I have seen the monsters,
that will haunt her, that'll tear her all apart.

And on her gravestone,
we will remember, just where we were when we knew she would go.