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Real Life
00:41
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Life:
Surreal, in retrospect, a dream
Easy times feel less than serene
In the moment, it's hard
To count your blessings
So we long for days gone past us
Grief and strife
Buddy, that's real life!
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River of Ocean
04:05
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River of Ocean
Lead me around the world sometime
All we can do now is
Floating around in
Thought clouds bigger than we once thought
Round like circles in our eyes
See not to believe
On to yon side of Earth
You show me certainty
River of Ocean
Show them how wrong they all are Lord
All we can see now is
False information
Lead us all around in circles
All I can do is know best
Feel no need to read
Anything, tails for show
Fiction, slander, and prose
This is fine
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Donny Sees a Bluebird
01:32
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Donny Sees a Bluebird
His feathers matching
His size 5 sharkskin
He stretches his arms out
And pretends to fly
So beautiful, little friend
Together they bask in the afternoon sunlight
Peacefully competing for an infinite bliss
"I can fly too... I can fly just like you
Someday, I'll fly even higher than you"
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4. |
Mercy Be
03:58
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Fallen leaves too late this year I'm thinking
Different life in all respects now
People fight party lines and random numbers
Leaves you feeling so dejected
How about some water?
Swim in cash, Mercy Be to everyone else
Drowning in their everyday lives
Existing just to waste another day
One day passing onto nothing
Why then even bother?
No change in sight
Tangled up in otherworldly plight
It seems unending
Eyes look down at the dirt longingly so
Thinking always of their dumb lies
All have gold and champagne smiles while we have nothing
Distant silence, then say something
Wry and condescending
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5. |
Dark Space
02:37
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No one wants to die like this, I promise you
So promise me to roll your eyes
And fight the ones who say
"We'll just live through this"
Many of us wont
It's a Dark Space we're living in
My life is worth much more than a bull market
Is this news to you?
Where's your decency?
I hope every bad thing in the world happens to you
It's a Dark Space we're living in
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Driving through the mountains
Brooks is half asleep
Racing out to Heartland
Like it's Need for Speed
And when we get there
It's still daytime
A few more moments in the sun
I pick up Luke's guitar backstage
And we all like the sound
We're just Waiting For the Band to Play
They'll take us out of here
When the show starts
The people rejoice in a song
From another world, another time, another place
We're just Waiting For the Band to Play
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7. |
Cry Like a Baby
02:42
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How good would it feel to Cry Like a Baby?
Uninhibited by shame or embarrassment
I'd cry until I couldnt breathe
'Til no more sound came out of me
Until I finally gasped for air
And let out another wail
How I'd love to be completely unconsolable
Free of any sense of judgement on me
Free to feel the things we hide
Deep down and put away
To be felt at a later date
As we drink ourselves to sleep
Today, I am a prisoner of masculinity
Taught to hide my feelings and bottle up my tears
I only cried twice when my momma died
Before I turned to drinking
'Cuz it was easier than crying
So I put it all away
How good would it feel to Cry Like a Baby?
Uninhibited by shame or embarrassment
I'd cry until I couldnt breathe
'Til no more sound came out of me
Until I finally gasped for air
And let out another wail
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8. |
Sahara Lounge
04:18
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I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge
Got so many feelings that I just can't figure out
Listening to KUT, burning up my car battery
As I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge
Everything is changing quickly in our little town
Overgrown and gentrified but trying to play it down
Families on the pavement looking up at new apartments
Standing where their old home used to stand in their little town
I know that my home is alright
But for others, it is hard to sleep at night
They say you should just pitch a tent
Next to the highway because you can't pay your rent
I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge
Everywhere I look, eyes seem to shoot me down
Nervous and unsure, uninterested at worst
But I guess I gotta go inside and play my set now
People do love visiting
Between "i love you so much" and "Hi, How Are You," there's so much to see
Buy a t-shirt while you're in
So all your friends back home will know where you have been
I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge
Maybe we're in this as long as we'll be around
High as I can see, they have no empathy
So I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge
Yeah, I'm watching the planes fly south over Sahara Lounge
Yeah, I'm watching the planes fly south
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9. |
What's Missin'
04:06
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On a hill, but I don't want it
Looking from on high, open eyes
Everything should be so different
Complicity's a choice, relentless ploy
Onslaught of nationalistic shit
We're not waiting 'til next time we see you
To set it ablaze, to give birth to a new day
You'll find
The great divide gets even greater
Which one do I mean? All it seems
They take and make it harder to get
Everything we need from water to money
But we've got too much and them not enough
At least that's the way those monsters see things
Let's take it all, CEOs backs to the wall
They'll find
They will find out what's been missing
Burn it all down and rebuild it all
A world where no one's neighbors are suffering
Back to the wind, we will find you
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Betty
02:39
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Betty, the precious diamond, she's so wonderful
Clearly a gift from on
Baby, love the way you're kneadin' in my chest in the night
And you never need to worry, never wake up in fright
Betty, it's okay
Freely wandering around a lucid dream
Genie, she gets what she wants daily, or so it seems
Yeah, she knows just how to get it with the wink of an eye
No, she never wastes a second of her life away cryin'
Betty, It's okay
She gets so bored so easily
She's not for me
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Jessie's Electric Dream
04:10
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Everybody loves me
I'm the life of their party Sunday night
Staying over, never overstay my welcome
Get a load of me!
Will someone load my drums off stage for me?
I don't have one second to spare
On picking up my snare or throne
Holy water, bubble tea
I'm so free
I go to church when they ask me
To keep the clergy on their toes
I don't watch the sermons, I'm simply here to guard the door
Bishop left a 12 pack in his office
How lucky for me! Backpack it goes
Nothing to see, I need ID
Let me see yours!
Holy water, holy me
Can't you see?
Way to prosper foolishly
Following
Only faulter, always free
Follow me
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Grady Philip Drugg Springfield, Missouri
music is the only thing in life that i like.
originally from canyon lake, tx. now i live in springfield, mo.
photo by henry hank
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