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Velocity Beach
04:57
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I left my weekend solace that they couldn't wait to leave
It was an empty promise
What they were after they said soon would be gone
And so I floated backward and waded the lake to see
Where they would be hereafter
And all along you know I said it was wrong
Velocity Beach you never dropped your anchor
It wasn't even water
A life supply of faster
All and along they said it was wrong
Just barely in reach you never thought beyond it
You made it supersonic
And now you race upon it
And all along I said it was wrong
I had a senseless direction until it was facing me
Nobody had to tell me when one leg is stuck you should chew it 'til it's not
And so I waited faster the days laying waste to me
Another undisaster
Broke and alone at least I still was at home
Velocity Beach you never dropped your anchor
It wasn't even water
A life supply of faster
All and along they said it was wrong
Just barely in reach you never thought beyond it
You made it supersonic
And now you race upon it
And all along I said it was wrong
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My Exotic Headdress
04:43
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They caught me wearing flowers and now they know my power
But my exotic headdress will put them all at rest
They wait around my building I think they're trying to scare me
But my exotic headdress will make all of them run
And where did all the birds go that were singing at my window
I put them in my headdress where they sing under duress
This is my exotic headdress
My recipe for success
Although you think you may be ready
I've got to disagree with that
You know it's hard to have this power
Being enamored every hour
They always say I'm overzealous but I know that they're really jealous
Would you believe it when you'd seen it if you had seen anything less
And when I put myself to bed nightingale landing on my head
In daylight I put sugar on it to get a bee into my bonnet
This is my exotic headdress
My recipe for success
Although you think you may be ready
I've got to disagree with that
Look at my exotic headdress
It's my measure of the best
Although you're thinking you may want one
I doubt that you could handle it
It makes me semi-catatonic
But it's completely ergonomic
Someday I'll be at a point in my life when I could hang it up
Then you could work it out for yourself
Or you could fight among yourselves to decide
Who'd get the hat in the event I should die could you divide it up
But then you forgot did you not that you'll definitely never really get it
'Cause when they put me in the ground
Through all the dirt raining down you'll see that it's still on me
My sensational finale
This is my exotic headdress
My recipe for success
Although you think you may be ready
I've got to disagree with that
Look at my exotic headdress
It's my measure of the best
Although you're thinking you may want one
I doubt that you could handle it
If you had my exotic headdress
My exotic headdress
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Don't say hello, say Jambo
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Thirty seconds prior to Fred Frazier's death
He hadn't begun to tire when he drew in a breath
The final breath that would blow the famous masterful notes
And an unexpected embolism straight to his head
Twenty seconds prior to Fred Frazier's death
He was about to retire but they'd never forget
He put a hush to the crowd Who had been talking aloud
It threw an unexpected embolism straight to his head
Ten seconds prior to Fred Frazier's death
He was just smoking like on fire from his musical depth
His former bandmates had stopped their jaws all totally dropped
It threw an unexpected embolism straight to his head
Thirty seconds prior to Fred Frazier's death
Who would have known he'd expire before ending the set
But now his song had arrived at what he couldn't survive
It threw an unexpected embolism straight to his head
Half a second prior to Fred Frazier's death
He was a half a second higher than his musical best
That solo totally fried and he was ready to die
From an unexpected embolism straight to his head
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Djibouti
00:57
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Hey, what's the capital of Djibouti?
Djibouti.
Where are the people in Djibouti?
In Djibouti.
Djibouti, Djibouti.
What's the size? What's the shape?
It's relatively small and relatively round.
That's what I like about Djibouti.
Shake that landscape.
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Unfancy Bill
04:31
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It's Bill, plain Bill
Fixing things around the house when he can
Leaving them broken when he can't
It's Bill, unfancy Bill
Going to work bright and early
He eats corn beef hash in the evening
It's Bill, family man Bill
He plays Santa Claus at Christmas time
Most of the kids seem to like him
It's Bill, high fidelity Bill
He stayed true to his wife for just as long as he could
Lasted over a month and no one thought that he would
It's Bill, Dead drunk Bill
Stumbling home on the sidewalk
Watch him fall to the ground when he can't walk.
But then, fate twisted in
He found a local policeman now he's
Spending the night in the drink tank
But that said don't be misled
He's as straight as can be
He's a picture of civility
He can still blame his tourette's
It's Bill, quick to rage Bill
He shot the dog across the street when she barked
He said he put her out of his misery
It's Bill, Dead Beat Bill
He gambled away his daughter's college account
Now she refuses to call him
And look at all the stuff he took
From his elderly neighbor who lives alone
She'd call the police but he took her phone
That said don't be misled
He's as great as can be
He's who he wants to be
And you still may be sad when he's dead
With a night of drinking over
He heard a neighborhood kid call him William
"Don't call me William!"
Call me Bill
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Incubate
02:13
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8. |
She Liked Other Girls
03:30
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Day one I was about to turn and run
Why didn't she hold my hand
I thought that she had found a femme fatale approach to life
But then I noticed it happening again
She snuck a desirous look
At someone walking by who batted an eye
Right back at her
I can't take it too hard cause her train's from another station
But I wish I had known things that I know now
It's much too late to start to try to change her orientation
But how was I to know then that she didn't go the way I go
She liked other girls
Go and mull it around until you know
I said as I left alone
But there was no defense for me to bring her senses back again
And though it wasn't as if there weren't hope
Maybe she went both ways
But it was hard enough competing with half of humanity
I can't take it too hard cause her train's from another station
But I wish I had known things that I know now
It's much too late to start to try to change her orientation
But how was I to know then that she didn't go the way I go
She liked other girls
I can't take it too hard cause her train's from another station
But I wish I had known things that I know now
It's much too late to start to try to prod her imagination
But how was I to know then that she didn't go the way I go
She liked other girls
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Hip Hop
01:32
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Hip hop it's the music I was born to love
Hip hop it's what everybody's dreamin' of
When I play my hip hop the amusement never stops
'Til I drop yo ass flat with my bullet single shot
Hip hop it's the music I was born to love
Hip hop it be fittin' on me like a glove
When I'm bustin' out a rap
All the women in my lap
They all listen to my rhyme
Look at me I'm good at dat
Hip hop it's the music I was born to love
Hip hop it's what everybody's dreamin' of
You don't have to be black
Look at me I'm tenure track
Though I'm white as I can be
Country's never coming back
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When They Came
01:04
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When they came to check my sole effects
All they found were voided starter checks
In my pocket only pocket lint
Leaving all my trust in the government
When they came, when they came
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Trouble
03:17
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Trouble I never knew enough to look back
I played the part of myself in the parade of my silent thoughts
But now I'm nervous there won't be any room to react
I laid the foundation plot in the delight of my favorite parts
Officer Goodman had a part for me
And it's too bad you're telling me but he ain't the director
Trouble he never read the right to rehearse
So much for my second sight
I was born to direct and to bask in all the glory
This is my apocrypha it's what I couldn't do what they didn't like
My surprise anathema for what I choose to do when I'm out on my bike
Trouble I noted he was pallid and fat
I chose a stark backlit drop waving his stick in looming silhouette
He had emotion but can he shoot any better than that
I rode away to my house calling a wrap through my megaphone
All those nuts wish they had another tree
But you can tell those nuts to listen up
I'll see you on the big screen
Trouble I never knew enough to look back
I played the part of myself in the parade of my silent thoughts
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12. |
When The Newness Is Gone
04:25
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Are you missing the feeling
From the next generation they stopped with the mosh pit
You feel so important still but you're not, you're not
When the newness is gone pack it up and split
The moment you can 'cause it won't get any better
While you're ahead do us all a favor and turn your insight off
When the music is gone don't get all upset
And act like you would if you never had suspected
Battle ahead they've taken all the mics away but dance while you still can
When the newness is gone you should take the straight shot out
You found the answer now but turned it inside out
You've got the bucket brigade together bailing you out
It's a shame but they ain't got long
When the melody howls in a sufficient attempt
To turn a woeful go to a resentful went
Is it a holy disaster your direction is spent is it pain to be lost and gone
When the newness is gone how can you placate
The masses of unsuspecting people you've been calling
Reticent now they won't be so complacent when you belt the first note out
With the mystery gone can you keep afloat
In the wake of a hope that you knew to be in passing
Be glad what you had
The shining light around you has a switch to turn it off
When the newness is gone you say later could be better but I'd hate to wait that long
When the newness is gone you should take the straight shot out
You found the answer now but turned it inside out
You've got the bucket brigade together bailing you out
It's a shame but they ain't got long
When the melody howls in a sufficient attempt
To turn a woeful go to a resentful went
Is it a holy disaster your direction is spent is it pain to be lost and gone
When the newness is gone
You say later could be better but I'd hate to wait that long
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Down With the Fascist Bastards
No went the hollow distractors
On went the marching yellow ribbon flashers
No went the falling police
On with the headstrong and hollow
The folks in the back they just follow
To an eminent disaster
Why couldn't we have just stayed home
Down with the martial artists
I doubt they could even perform well
Will they forget their martial power
If someone told them to stop
Do we get extra credit
If we claim to regret it
But no one will know who said it
In the directors edit
Down with the metric opponents
I was just getting used to English
But I'm sick of converting distances to football fields
When it's the worst it gets
They drag us before the supreme tort
Down With the Fascist Bastards
No said the hollow distractors
On went the marching information stashers
No went the falling regime
On with the headstrong and hollow
The folks in the back they just follow
To an eminent disaster
Why couldn't we have just stayed home
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