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Signifiers
03:37
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Learn well the lessons of the Rolling Stones
Not just Bill Wyman, but also Brian Jones
There's more than one way out but there's no escape
There's signifiers along the path leading you astray
I woke up in the middle of the night to the strangest sound
I dreamed all through the morning, I couldn't find the ground
I have a wish inside my darkest heart
To speak it would release it and break the lights apart
I'll drive until I'm lost in some horseshit gravel town
Everyone who's expecting me, I'm gonna let you down
Sunk and ashen faces, and I won't even care
I'm flying free with an empty mind in negative space somewhere
Learn well the lessons of the Rolling Stones
Not just Bill Wyman, but also Brian Jones
Tattooed on your skin, what you don't want to be true
You lose what you create, the world was never new
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I'm telling the truth in a diner booth
I'll say a few things that I hope you won't repeat
From this Formica fort, it's an indoor sport
I'm holding court in this Kitchen of Pete
The air is too thin and the sky is too dry
And the ball carries too far
Is there powder on the slopes? Is the ice killing your hopes?
Do you need a hand pushing out your car?
But wait, just wait
It's all been a terrible mistake
I found something strange at Jerry's Record Exchange
Between the Righteous Brothers and the Strolling Bones
Through the window I seen I just missed the 15
So I went out on the pavement on my own
Mile High this and Mile High that
An avenue of bad puns
As to the length of old Colfax, it is according to cold facts
The longest but for all the longer ones
We all know of course about the snorting horse
Who's got the city's heart locked in a football hold
But you should keep in mind that old rainbow skyline
And the pick axe always digging for gold
To coin a riff, that guy's a stiff
He's slower than most men
He's what we got, let's lace 'em up, it's long past time to face 'em up
And make those miracles happen once again
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Shake It and Break It
03:48
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Your Sister's Man
03:47
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I'm taller than your sister's man
He wants to take her to the clouds but
I don't think he can
You're as tall as him
He's looking up at my chin
It's a race to the top and he can never win
It's not the captain or the boat
It's not the motion or the ocean
It's not the pencil or the note
It's not the
How do I prove?
I mean, what do I have to do?
Every time you get it down
Then they change it so it's new
This game is rigged
To make you stupid and sick
You try to stand so strong and then they snap you like a twig
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Nuclear Fountain Pen
02:38
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I come to you tonight with my secrets open wide
and a broken match
we're gonna make it catch
There's a conspiracy it seems
to set a bomb off in your dreams
and send you home
to nurse your broken bones
And it's happening again
just a handful of old men
will write it off
with a nuclear fountain pen
As the smoke is pluming upwards
and the sirens drill our eardrums
I can finally see what's happened to me
I let the best part of my soul
go wandering off all on its own
and leave me here
slogans ringing in my ears
You know the devil don't need to chase
he's standing right there in front of your face
he doesn't care if you run
he thinks he's already won
and this has all happened before
but something feels different about this war
like there's no way back
as though the heavens have cracked
And I don't know what we should do
but I put all my money down on you
here I am standing by your side
with my secrets open wide
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