1. |
Asbestos Julie
02:02
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So he sits and waits
tells his friends he's doing great
stares at the phone
from his oxygen tank throne
his wife she hangs her head
keeps busy hanging on a thread
and the kids they make no noise
they keep away, just because...
she waits
Julie’s got new clothes
and a brand new mobile phone
Cartier, BMW
and a front row seaside home
and now she sits and smiles
from her corporate throne
and the sympathy in her head
eyes turn black and totally dead
because she waits...
wait Julie, wait Julie, wait...
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2. |
(Hate to) Twist Your Arm
01:49
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Over the hills we go
with others we never know
they look like they cause no harm
and they would hate to twist your arm
hate to twist your arm
you got the blacks and reds (debit,credit)
problems back at home
I don’t wish you any harm
and I'd hate to twist your arm
hate to twist your arm
standing on a street
that someone else has paved
yeah, your views don't really come
and I'd hate to twist your arm
hate to twist your arm
so if we can't be real friends
while we all get to the very end
at least take two steps far and wide
as you wallow in your white pride
I’m not talking about me
I’m talking about you
don’t give me any harm
I'd hate to twist your arm
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3. |
Orphan
02:41
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If there's one thing that only others can bring
to be told you’re not home
to be left on your own
let ‘em in
let ‘em sing
now there's all this talk
about parking space
for your heart, your rules
your love of first and last
let ‘em in
let ‘em sing
what’s this thing in our heads
that leaves others dead
what’s this thing in our heads
that makes others dead?
LET ‘EM IN
LET ‘EM SING
ORPHAN!
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4. |
Too Tired To Fight
01:28
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Now I’m in my home
standing in the living room
with a hung head
I just want a bed
please don’t do this now
I can’t do this now
I just want a night
Too tired to fight
Now I’m so cold
laying in another room
tension
tension
tension
please don’t do this now
I can’t do this now
I just want one night
Too tired to fight
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5. |
Change
02:24
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Taking care of business
business takes care of itself
finding things to care about
caring about finding things out
knowing that you’re not always wrong
but no one telling you that you’re right
and so it begins, until the end
there's nothing that you can't change
wishing to find love
and finding out that love is just a wish
saying hey I drink to forget
but forget that you (I) drink everyday
but its nothing you cant handle
It’s nothing that you can’t change
change...
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6. |
Never Seen Again
03:40
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So I just heard the news
that I’ve heard again and again
seems like I’ve lost a friend
and never be seen again
never be seen again
and I can see their faces
and I can see their smiles
they will always be called my friends
never be seen again
never be seen again
so it can suddenly happen
and can happen again and again
remember to love your friends
might never be seen again
never be seen again
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7. |
The Bridge
03:58
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Was on a sunny day when her daddy went away
with the others lined in robes
in khaki sacrifice robes
fall back, fall out
the small girl began to shout
come back
come home
don’t cross
this bridge
and now on another day
commuters cross in the hazy day
the knife he holds to warp the truth
grips tight on a religious noose
fallback, fallout
the small boy began to shout
don’t go
don’t cross
this bridge
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8. |
Like Sand
05:47
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The here and now don't relate to anything that came before
but boy did I get that wrong
I’m a nobody outside a door
the past is here in the gears that grind and grind it all
and all these truths
and all regrets all return to the shore
the crushed up beauty of shiny shells
of people who aren't for evermore
and beliefs are grief that come to greet
when we open the door
and it all seems so important
the heads that talk and talk
but in the end, all they bring
are mouths filled with sand
words and words send coverups
disappear, vanish under a slow moving sand
turn on a tap and drink for the soul
and words fly out but there's nothing left
nothing left but sand
like doctrine
like politics
like the owning of others like property
like desert sand
and endless fields of nothing
Like sand...
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9. |
Until You're Mad
05:14
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They will talk and talk before you walk
they will open a floodgate in your head children
then they begin to push and probe
and one day
charge you to be dead
they will ask you to sign on all their dotted lines
they will pull you about
until you crack
and throw you out the second you’re behind...
until you’re mad
they will stone the woman with a million words
break a man if he's too slow
they show you a world where nothing is real
and make you stare at a man on a cross
they will demand that you put your loves aside
friends and nature and night skies
they will make the poison wonderful to drink
until you hate what you think
Until you’re mad...
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