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What They Know
04:06
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What are we really living for?
Who can tell you the meaning now?
Half forgotten and ignored
torn from pages that were long written down
What they know
is just a distant shell of the past
heading nowhere
on a bullet and we're getting there fast
Go and tell me the story now
and I'll send you on your way
if your secret's written down
fall down on your knees...
echoes from the radio
who can sell you forgiveness now?
take the pill and wash it down
hold my hand and I will even show you how
What we sow
was reaped long before we were born
what they know
can't fill a jar, a mind or a soul
Go and tell me the story now
and I'll send you on your way
If the secret's written down
fall down on your knees and pray
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2. |
Houston, TX
04:51
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Well the lights went down in Houston
The bars are all closed
There’s locks on the doors
And bars on the windows
So no one creeps in on you
Late at night
Fucking your flatscreen
Or watching your wife
The faint smell of piss as I
Walk down the street
The homeless man muttering
Through 3 crooked teeth
And the frat boys and rednecks
And gaybashin’ goons
The methheads and junkies
With crusted up spoons
(But there’s no place that I’d rather be
Lovin’ in the land of the free
Texas, Oh babe can’t you please
Wrap your big dumb arms ’round me?)
From the wannabe gangsters
To the broken down whores
To the grocery store clerk
With a face full of sores
From goofy Joel Osteen
And his bible totin’ friends
To surburbanite housewives
With cellulite bends
To the Pageant Queen Angels
I never did bed
And their CEO husbands
that give real lousy head
All the closet-case preachers
And Aliens too
And the beer chugging racists
From the klans of the ku
(chorus)
It’s teen mother central
And the home of the brave
Where no buffalo roam
But the Rockets still play
And the cops’ll all greet you
With their pistols and sticks
It’s just highway graffitti saying
“Come suck our dicks!”
Houston’s a husband
That you can’t ever leave
Cause he'll black both your eyes
And knock out your teeth
It’s cowboy hats and hoodies
Bibles and beer
It’s rebel flag stickers
And xenophobic fear
It’s bigass beer and whiskey
Titty dancers too
It’s Saturday nights
With nothing to do
It’s gangfights at nightclubs
It’s a thousand degrees
It’s hell or highwater
It’s roaches and bees
It's boarded up houses
and boarded up stores
it's dead-malls and crack-dens
if you're lookin' to score
She's a lover and fighter
that's armed to the teeth
with a novelty pair of
truck nuts underneath
From Grandmas in fastlanes
To assholes in trucks
With union-made stickers
Saying “Socialists Suck”
It’s prayer in the classroom
It’s peace and it’s war
It’s parking enforcement
It’s less and it’s more
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3. |
Around Here
03:06
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"I hear the world's on fire
and I don't even smoke"
the flight attendant failed to laugh
at my off-color joke
Now I'm grounded in Atlanta
without my carry-on
I guess Ohio's got my suitcase
my one-way ticket's gone
I understand it now ma'am,
you've made it loud and clear,
there's no one I can count on
to have a sense of humor 'round here.
This quarantine-age-riot
is enough to drive me mad,
I'm sending ransom letters
back home to mom and dad
I'm under so much pressure
I think I'm gonna pop
My best friend got arrested
for selling flour to a cop
he didn't have much sense
now it's 90 days of fear
I'm pretty sure it's not against the law
to bake a cake around...
Here I go again playing myself
laughing at nothing as I'm spinning around
I'm shaking and cursing at nothing at all
I may lose my marbles but I'm having a ball
I wish I were Madonna
then I could express myself
Gotta make the message clearer
if not for my mental health
It's lonely out here waiting
for the world to fix its ways
I'm out here counting sheep
like an inmate counting days
It's better just to get sloshed
and watch Hulu on the couch
order in from Taco Bell
start your foaming from the mouth
I could drive my ass to Texas
I hear it's warmer in the South
I think I'll just sit here
crack a beer and lay about 'round here
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4. |
Jumpstart My Heart
05:18
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Life gives you nothing
And you give it all
There’s blood on the ceiling,
Blood on the walls
Don’t know how it got there
Or just who to call
Set yourself up
Just to watch yourself fall
You’ve been broken,
Beat down,
Lost and alone
You’ve been helpless
afraid of it all
So take my hand
And I’ll jumpstart your heart
Baby,
I’ll jumpstart your heart
I wandered forever
In search of myself
I found lots of answers
That weren’t any help
But I’ll never know
Just quite how you felt
When the ground opened up
And brought nothing but hell
But I was broken
Beat down,
Lost and alone
I was helpless
Afraid of my heart
So grab those cables
And switch me on babe,
And jumpstart my heart
Baby,
You jumpstart my heart.
Bridge:
So take all the pain
And kiss it goodbye
With quick, careful aim,
Right between the eyes
And let it lay there
And never arise
Cause you know
And I know
And you know
That I know
Well, You know how it ends
When you can’t let it die
The ghosts of the past
Still haunt you inside
So just grab those cables
And give it a spark
Send thousands of volts
Straight to my heart
And let go…
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5. |
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It’s kinda crazy how this played out,
Another night on the floor
Not sure how it got this way
And can’t take much more
There’s a monster in your closet
He stole your socks and your soul
No telling where he went
But I know somebody knows
It must not be much fun
Fighting with yourself,
You pulled me into this one
So I guess I might as well,
Ask that you do me a favor, friend
Wake me up and tell me how it ends
This back and forth drives me crazy,
And tell your friends not to call,
They always bark like a pack of dogs
And they drive me up a wall.
It’s the same fight, different day
I wear my heart on my sleeve
But you packed my shirt right up,
And you told me I had to leave.
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6. |
A Little More Over Time
04:28
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Funny how we do things
As lost as we are
And it’s funny how we move things
But we don’t know how far
My life and my shelter
ain’t quite what they seem
But I love the rain here
And these late night schemes
But I can’t lay here just because you want to
I can’t shake you off of my mind
And I can’t go back to all those years
I just move on and love you more
Over time.
Funny how we say things
Just because we can
All the times I should have said this
Or held on to your hand
I can’t tell you the future
And I can’t relish the past
we just held on to nothing
and let go way too fast
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7. |
Clever You (Satisfied)
05:09
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I could take the long way home
Even though I promised you
That I would be waiting
When you got back
Fancy this and fancy that
I never gave much thought to what
Could Turn back on me
Or turned you on.
But all my ghosts will be satisfied
Need something to forget sometimes
I think I need a new way to get by
Why can’t you be satisfied?
A rumble and a broken mirror
The luck will find you no matter where
You choose to sweep the glass
Or the truth.
Truth is that I never dared
To ask the why, the how, the where
It never meant that much
to be that clever anyhow.
And all my ghosts will be satisfied
Need something to forget sometimes
I think I need a new way to get high
Why can’t you be satisfied?
I don’t
Mind if
I'm not
Clever like you
You don’t
Mind if
I exist
at all
As lost
As you
Are I
Do pity you
But words
And ghosts
You know
Won’t save you
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8. |
The Nest
04:03
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I wont walk
Away from you
Just tell me how it is
That these broken parts fit
After all these years?
Just tell me why it is
That we always seem
To keep on walking
Away from who we are
And responsibilities
All fall around our feet
As we walk across the shards?
You wont see any scars.
You wont see any scars.
I was separated at birth from you
A pair, completely lost
We were umbilical, chemical
Something like a bomb
Just waiting to go off
A blasted home
That fucking roof torn off
The people blown to bits
And now I know
After all these years
The parts no longer fit
The parts no longer fit
The parts no longer fit
Like the bird
That fell down from the tree
I still watch you move
You twitch
And crumble
I fell
I tumbled
Straight toward the earth
I was as sick as you were
And as lost as you were too
But I love you
Yes I love you
Ever since I fell down from the tree
Ever since I fell down from the tree
This nest you built wasn’t big enough for me
Ever since I fell down from the tree
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9. |
Secrets
03:18
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It's not a big thing,
just a favor
I'm so sorry
I'm embarrassed and afraid to ask
We need a little time
To get right to the bottom
and explore each other's
hidden pasts
You know we can take this one at a time
You don't need to hurry, we've got all night
Stop me if you think you've heard this before
Love is built on trust, and I'll trust you much more...
Why don't you tell me all your secrets?
Don't you think that I would understand?
Tell me all your secrets,
I know what you know all of mine
Why don't you tell me all your secrets?
Don't you think that I would want to know?
Tell me all your secrets,
I know what you know all of mine
It's such a shame
that we waited so long
To discuss the things
we fear the most
I swear to Jesus
That your secret's safe with me
on my mother
and the Holy Ghost
Even if you think I already know
It's not just what you hide it's in what you show
Even if you think I already know
It's not just what you say, it's in what you don't
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10. |
Angels Don't Fly Tonight
02:42
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Good girls go to Heaven,
Bad girls stay right here
Blinking neon halos
The smell of week-old beer
Angels Don't Fly Tonight
I can speak your language
Come on babe, take a seat
What is it you do again?
Oh yeah, that's really neat
Come with me, I'll let you take control
I know just what you are
You're a star
You won't leave disappointed
You won't be quite the same
If you don't act like an asshole
I'll tell you my real name.
Come with me, you know I'm in control
You know just what we are
I'm a star
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11. |
The Dance
06:47
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"Normal's" a dance
We do with ourselves
But we can't tow the line anymore
An ass-shakin' jive
But your rhythm's all wrong
And this dance has become such a chore
You've waltzed past the grave
In search of yourself
And you found lots of answers
That weren't any help
The judges have scored
And the game has been played
And you've got no more soul left to sell.
We're all just searching for
Rhythm and Rhyme
And the means to sell off the game
But the crowd's all gone home
And the dancin' is done
And all you have left is your name
A partner can save you
Yeah, that's what they said
Another to catch if you fall
But you gave up on us
Just as soon as you saw
We were tied to a train going nowhere at all
Now we all just fight through
the static and hum
And reach for a place to call "whole"
We once danced for two
Now we're dancing for none
With no one to care for your soul.
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The Port of Dream Columbus, Ohio
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