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another day
watching the clock
preach to the flock, stockpiled
guns and tv dinners
and i thought i’d call you up
(it’s been a bit)
i almost got my wish
it really wasn’t quite like this
i should have been specific
next time i’ll be specific
say, “i wanna know
when you can bring it home to me
i’m begging you, baby, please”
you want to know
if you can count on me
honey, i wish i knew
how to leave
there but for the grace of god
goes every girl i’ve ever loved
dancing in the summer sun
all saint john’s wort and opium
but i try not to judge, between
canned goods and water jugs
security’s a commodity
that we’re all buying up
i want to know
when you can bring it home to me
i’m begging you, baby, please
you want to know if you can
up and count on me
honey, i wish
i knew how to leave
the desert is a nice escape
you want to know if you can always count on me
i wish i knew how to leave
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Candy Bars & Men
03:09
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an endless string of motel lobby
family waiting rooms
where everybody’s restless
wanting’s gone by afternoon
and I’ll admit, I’ve walked those halls
now and again go out for nourishment
find candy bars and men
ain’t it nice, ain’t it nice, to rest your head
ain’t it nice to pretend
park the beds outside the doors
and keep your eyes on them
a threadbare mattress shows
discretion like nobody can
and just this once,
boy, I don’t mind
being your secret
never liked sugar much
but now and then I need it
ain’t it nice to rest your head
ain’t it nice to pretend
a dwindling relic trying
to give ‘em hell on her way out
one day the nationals will
elbow their way into town
and like a traveling band
I think I’ve paid my dues
running from state to state
but all I found was you
oh,
ain’t it nice to rest
ain’t it nice to rest your head
ain’t it nice to pretend instead
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going forwards is a climb going back’s too far behind i’ve been there too
i’ve been there too
too many times
can’t move an inch but you can’t stay and getting tired of running away
stuck in one place wherever you wake i wanted to say:
everybody loves you everybody loves you everybody loves you everybody loves you
everyone adores you everyone’s sure of you everybody loves you everybody loves you but you
you’ve had it bad,
you’ve had it rough chipped up your shoulders and filled em with rocks
and you never forgot
every hand that stretched out and then let you down
life can be hard
life can be cruel
even when it’s good
it don’t feel like it’s true
i know it too
how to dress up my blues parade ‘em around
but everybody loves you everyone adores you everyone’s sure of you everybody loves you, but you
but i know you know it somewhere
you know, everybody loves you feels the way that i do everybody loves you
always thinking of you everyone adores you
everyone supports you everybody loves you everybody loves you
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Anybody Else
03:22
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on the morning you came to me
said, loving me made you feel weak didn’t know you meant it like you did
by the afternoon you’d made your move took every little piece of you
took your space and your love
and you left
was it hard when it was said and done was it a metaphor? it was a lazy one: how could you let the flame go out?
or was it easy and dangerous
like your shotgun
mouth and your cigarettes
you keep shooting me up, smoking me out
now i’m just like anybody else now i’m just like anybody else but i’m still myself
is it true hypocrisy
it ain’t half as fun as it used to be more like breaking a promise
to yourself
while i’m holed up alone again in a hotel in los angeles wishing i was anybody else
i wish that i was anybody else but i’m still myself
there’s a girl now in my hotel sheets i’m watching her consider me
watching her sleep
and when she dreams
she’s full of grace, i feel so bad
can’t get you out of my head maybe you finally found your way
and you could be like anybody else
but you’re still yourself we’re still ourselves
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Hollywood
03:24
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i woke up today in a house
i did not
pay for
with money
remind me:
what did you like about me before?
everyone is so hollywood here i’m a lemon tree sprouting in the dust
remind me:
what did i like about me before? or
tell me
what do you like about me now?
did you know
a shark can grow
up to eight feet
living in the ocean
remind me:
what did i think was holding me back
before? or
tell me what do you like about me tell me what do you like about me tell me what do you like about me tell me what do you like about me now, now
tell me what do you like about me tell me what do you like about me tell me what do you like about me tell me what do you like about me
everyone is so hollywood here, i’m a lemon tree sprouting in the yard
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6. |
The Road
02:55
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rom the white sands of new mexico to the california coast
the places i have loved the most that keep me on the road
your hair blowing in the wind on the off ramp and on again to everywhere i’ve ever been that keeps me on the road
you keep me on the road you keep me on the road
from the flat lands to the mountain tops to all the rest stop parking lots
to everywhere that i forgot
that keeps me on the road
to the beds where i have laid awake thinking about other fates
but there’s never been
no other way for me
than keeping on the road
you keep me on the road you keep me on the road you keep me on the road you keep me on the road
until i make home
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