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Someday
03:00
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Waking in a dream
Somewhere in between
The one we cannot see
And the one that seems to be
And it’s a long way
And I’m gonna need your help someday
And it’s a long way
And you’re gonna need my help someday, someday
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Born against our will
Trudging up the hill
In the sun and in the rain
I don’t know if it’s in vain
And it’s a long way
And I’m gonna need your help someday
And it’s a long way
And you’re gonna need my help someday, someday
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Long way
And I’m gonna need your help someday
And it’s a long way
And you’re gonna need my help someday, someday
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
Someday, yea
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Land of the Sinking Sun
02:48
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Descending the stone steps into
A city of snakes, you never knew
It’d come to this —black ‘n blue
In the land of the sinking sun
Dice rolling at your feet
The second you step on the street
You don’t matter, you’re just meat
In the land of the sinking sun
Pour yourself a whiskey
Let the neon river run
It is what it is
In the land of the sinking sun
Bessie wanna break my heart
Bessie wanna break my heart, oh, Lord
Bessie wanna break my heart
My heart, my heart, my heart
The law ran off with such and such
Mercy betrayed with a touch
Lean on your gun if you need a crutch
In the land of the sinking sun
And ever which way you choose
The road’s ridden with toxic ooze
Where they sow the seeds of eternal blues
In the land of the sinking sun
Pour yourself a whiskey
Let the neon river run
It is what it is
In the land of the sinking sun
Pour yourself a whiskey
Let the neon river run
It is what it is
In the land of the sinking sun
Bessie wanna break my heart
Bessie wanna break my heart, oh, Lord
Bessie wanna break my heart
My heart, my heart, my heart
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You, you’re my pumpkin (pumpkin)
The Jacquelyn lantern light of my life
You, you’re my pumpkin (pumpkin)
The Jacquelyn lantern light of my life
When the beasts of the night
Feast upon the dying light
When their howls feed the fright
Of hunger’s appetite
When there’s nowhere left to go
And yonder wild waters flow
Suddenly, somehow, someway
You appear and light the way
You light the way
Way, you light the way
You, you’re my pumpkin
The Jacquelyn lantern light of my life
You, you’re my pumpkin (pumpkin)
The Jacquelyn lantern light of my life
When it ain’t looking good
Knocking on the wish-I-would
And could but won’t ‘cause venomous
Serpents could strike the mis-
Calculated steps I’d take
Upon the path toward the lake
Suddenly, somehow, someway
You appear and light the way
You light the way
Way, you light the way
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4. |
She's Got It
02:31
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Have you heard?
She’s got the word
She reconciles the distance between
The tempest in your mind and her voice so serene
She’s out to lunch
She packs a punch
She knocks you out until you’re full
She cuts the melon out of ‘choly for to feed your soul
She’s got it
She’s got it
She’s got it
She’s got it
Question
To your question
In her — your ego turns to dust
In her — the kings of iron rust
She got the…I don’t know
She got the…it’s something though
She stops your watch, heaves it into the sea
And laughs as it sinks eternally
She’s got it
She’s got it
She’s got it
She’s got it
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5. |
Blood Money
02:25
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I’ve seen
Someone searchin’
For a church in
The wild country
I’ve seen
The devil walking
With a briefcase
On the water
Tell me
Tell me, honey
Ain’t it funny
The weight of money?
Tell me
Tell me, will you?
Will you stay true
When he finds you?
Long gone ‘fore the dawn
Long gone, long gone
Long gone ‘fore the dawn
Long gone, long gone
Long gone ‘fore the dawn
Long gone, long gone
Long gone ‘fore the dawn
Long gone, long gone
Long gone
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Honey
02:36
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The birds and bees
Fall from the trees for your
Honey
The grizzly bear
Steps with care towards your
Honey
They can’t resist
Your viscous
Honey
Like a fly
Born to die in your
Honey
You
Knew
You knew I would stick
To you
Honey
I offer up
The tea in my cup to your
Honey
Take my blue
Turn it into
Honey
I can’t resist
Your viscous
Honey
Let me be a bee
Set me free in your
Honey
You
Knew
You knew I would stick
To you
Honey
You
Knew
You knew I would stick
To you
Honey
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The Jackal
02:27
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April’s gone but she’s still in my eyes
Even though May ‘neath the guise
Of sunshine brought the burst of the bloom
So as to shake the dust off of the tomb
The red-eyed dog follows me
"Dr. Jackal, what’s the news?
Is this what they call the blues?
The moon’s gold, but it seems to me
Why, April’s fool played the joke on me"
The red-eyed dog follows me
“I got the cure and it goes like this…”
He said with a bark then hiss
“Take a bite of fruitlessness
And wash it down with some nothingness”
The red-eyed dog follows me
Down the mountain to the sea
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8. |
Green-Eyed Prophet
03:24
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Get lots of money
Money getcha honey
Honey getcha holy
Holy setcha free
Until it don’t and you’re back
Leaning on the stacked
Counterfeit and cracked
Mercy that you lacked
Or so said the thief
Who diagnosed your grief
Who prescribed relief
In the form of a brief
Flick of deja vu
To knock the residue
Off of the you, you knew
Down, down the avenue
Into soul
Profitable
Soul
Profitable
Soul, soul, soul
Profitable
Soul, soul, soul
Profitable
And with your consent
But not what you meant
The vestments you lent
To papa were sent
Instead to the one
Disguised as the son
Who skillfully spun
Your syllables from
Intent with perfume
And blush for the doomed
White lilies of gloom
You thought were entombed
So, there on the street
You bared up from feet
The soles of your feet
To wash in repeat
Soul
Profitable
Soul
Profitable
Soul, soul, soul
Profitable
Soul, soul, soul
Profitable
And just when you thought
The seeking you sought
In the forests fraught
With spirits was caught
It lies as it falls
On a jackal’s calls
It pierces then stalls
It morphs and then crawls
Away in the grass
Smooth as the glass
Reflecting the past
Presently fast
And, man, don’t it suck
The end of your buck
Dropping your lucky
Coin in the muck
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9. |
I Do
02:11
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When the bluebird wakes us
When the wild wind shakes us
When the whole world forsakes us
I do, I do, I do
I do, I do, I
Do, I do, I
Do, I do, I
Do, I do
For worse or for better
Through fair and foul weather
Through thick and thin together
I do, I do, I do
I do, I do, I
Do, I do, I
Do, I do, I
Do, I do, I do
I do, I do, I
Do, I do, I
Do, I do, I
Do, I do, I do
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10. |
The Junkyard King
02:23
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In the ditch, might as well sing
Even if it don’t mean a thing
Steal the honey for to feel the sting
Who am I? I’m the junkyard king
I plucked a bouquet of dead cornflowers
From the ruins beneath the towers
I saw Babushka bumming around
In sheepskin for my plastic crown
All for one
One for no one
Duck, duck, duck, duck, finch
The mayor’s got the doc in the clinch
Jack be nimble, Jack be the quickest
Slipped the hook, struck the solar plexus
La-de-da, it’s a simulation
Fe-fi-fo-fum, me so hungry
Time is money, money is numb
The water’s cold, the peach is a plum
All for one
One for no one
All for one
One for no one
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11. |
Any Day Now
02:39
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On the way, on the way, on the way
Any day now
On the way, on the way, on the way
Any day now
Help is on the way
Help is on the way
Help is on the way
Help is on the way
Help is on the way
On the way, on the way
Any day now
Help is on the way
On the way, on the way
Any day now
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12. |
Bloodshot
03:34
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Hot-blooded, cold-blooded
Fields flooded, roads mudded
Cottonwoods uprooted
Country living looted
There’s a hellhound on my trail
He grows his coat to hide his tail
40 down, 40 to go
Is she real? I don’t know
40 on foot just to see her
Just to see her
See her
Just to see her
See her
A shed up ahead
Where it’s a soul for a bed
40 on foot just to see her
Idles ‘long the way
Burning through their severance pay
40 on foot just to see her
For sweet, saving sake
How much more can I take?
40 on foot just to see her
The creature I created
Left to luck and fated
40 on foot just to see her
Just to see her
See her
Just to see her
See her
Just to see her
See her
Just to see her
See her
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Why, there’s a way in the way she
Gets me
Before I get myself
I drink the potion that she pours me
While she pulls the
Codex off of the shelf
Burning down the cities of old
Returning the city of gold
She got action like a movie
The way she moves me
All across my marble floor
And like a snake I’m a-crawling
Embers falling
All around my door
Burning down the cities of old
Returning the city of gold
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