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Places Now
03:16
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it's been a long time since you
found something better to do with your time
but it's wasting and washing away
spend every hour you have till the end of the day
watching what you've said
it rattles around in your head
yeah, i really gotta go
gotta crawl back home
still wouldn't miss it for the world
when i'm not falling behind
and i'm not wishing to be blind
i won't mind
the creek by my house runs pure red
it runs through the street signs and houses and beds
but that's just the way it is
isn't it worth it enough now to be here for this?
then you say to me
"is this who you wanted to be?"
now i'm standing in the snow,
gotta climb back home
still wouldn't miss it for the world
i won't be so surprised
as long as i haven't died
i won't mind
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Bike Song
00:37
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count to ten and back down, i guess it is luck
give it a month or two, i promise you’ll adjust
write me something on the pieces of the paper i cut
aaaaahhhhhh
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Christmas in the Desert
01:37
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i don't wanna fight today
not because i can't, i can
just don't know what's left to say
gotta find something to blame
gotta speak before i crash
and sleep undoes it the next day
soon the ice is gonna melt
and i can't lie to you
so i'll do it to myself
yeah, i don't mind
i didn't even bother to try
oh no
but i don't know
i didn't even bother to go
so i don't know
at all
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it's sunrise, but the sky has turned grey
pack it up and wait, draw the blinds and close the shades
one foot down, find something to do
take it easy boy, wait to wake up anew
you can't stop it, you can't slow it down
you can't stall it, you can't bring it down
the phone lines competing for space
the highways and street signs, the pathways are paving the lakes
things happened, things happen these days
take it easy boy, but remember to do what i say
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6. |
Commerce City Runoff
01:15
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7. |
By Then
02:41
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i lead a life to which i can't relate
and there's just one thing that i'd like to set straight
to stop being burdened with things i create
well, i'll pick the time if you pick the date
i'll take the train right past junction this time
to california, or stop down the line
time between stops is blurred by design
once i'm not stateside, i think I'll be fine
oh, when the tide rolls in
i'll be long gone by then
and as i wait to be swept out to sea
i think about what i'm doing to me
to stop being shackled with things that i see
now i'm everything that i wanted to be
oh, when the tide rolls in
i'll be long gone by then
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8. |
Fabric
01:41
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another day, another year
a crowded room inside my ear
their voices ring out all the same
waiting their turn to say
"i wish that i saw it,
but i wasn't there that day"
and others will flaunt it
put me back in my place
sheets of fabric line my skull
keeps me warm, so i'm told
it's just another degree of other passing fads
so why does it feel so goddamn bad?
i wish that I knew it
but i won't wish that on you
i think that i blew it
at least i can still think, maybe i'll lose that too
i wish that i saw it
but i wasn't there that day
he said, "the right track, you're on it"
but i don't know which way
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Tiny Colored Flags
02:19
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aka christmas in the desert pt 2
i walk to survey the block every week
i guess to reassure
what it is i think i know
and every week the streetlights change
but i can’t be sure
the tiny colored flags surround me
when i’m falling down
as if i wouldn’t see
as if i wouldn’t try it
as if i wouldn’t know
i watch the leaves cascading down
my back and down my sleeves
to stop me standing in the shade
i think the ice below me will melt
slowly this year
the tiny colored flags surround me
WHEN I’M FALLING DOWN!!
as if i wouldn’t see
as if i wouldn’t try to
as if i couldn’t be
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i think that i've seen nothing yet
the longer i wait, the more i forget
but when i'm with you, it all comes back again
i think sometimes i rack my brain
for some routine, some thoughtless change
cast out to sea, i'll swim right back again
when i'm spinning out
you will keep me in
i think that you mean nothing to me
"is this really who you wanted to be?"
why do you ask? it's supposed to be too late
i think that i've seen nothing yet
but that won't stop me taking what i can get
this time i'll be ready when the ground gives in again
when you're spinning out
i will keep you in
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11. |
Reprise
01:10
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