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Eternal Jackpot
02:14
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I got blessed with the Eternal Jackpot
I've been winning so long
I forgot what losing felt like, so I put it in this song
(This won't take long)
Good goddamn this Eternal Jackpot
I win it every night
I put on my fair face, my powdered hairpiece and I watch my river turn to rice
Yeah that's right (you heard me right)
I was born like a sweatshop, baby, 1979
I got tired of looking up, so I fell a little ways behind
But I don't mind
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What Was I Thinking?
03:22
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I just wasn't feeling good
I felt like my my mind was blown
I couldn't get off the couch
Sinking in a twilight zone
Hey, what was I thinking when I tried it all alone?
Hey, what was I thinking living in a stranger's home?
Left the coast and I don't really know what's left to do.
Overboard, miss the shore, thunderstorms, and the fennec fox babies at the Dreher Park Zoo.
I was feeling dim and slow
My friend was on the telephone talking about Northern Soul - a record that I really should have known.
Hey, what was I thinking when I tried it all alone?
Hey, what was I thinking living in a stranger's home?
Left the coast and I don't really know what's left to do.
Overboard, miss the shore, thunderstorms, and the fennec fox babies at the Dreher Park Zoo.
Sometimes you gotta break your own heart
Take a chance / Make a new start
Sometimes you gotta break your own heart
Nothing is forever, no. Except for AM Country Radio...
Del is singing soft and low
I turn him up and let it roll.
Hey, what was I thinking when I tried it all alone?
Hey, what was I thinking living in a stranger's home?
Sometimes you gotta break your own heart
Take a chance / Make a new start
Sometimes you gotta break your own heart
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Dark Bird
03:34
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Chorus Lyrics:
If I could be there for you
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side
Rest of lyrics:
Dark was the bird in the air tonight
Close overhead
Feathers bristling song in flight
If I could be there for you
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side
What kind of world…am I dreaming in real time?
Nightmarish wrongs, so debased and void of life.
If I could be there for you
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side
It's a short-sighted blade where the gravest games are played
And the "why"'s in the shade in a maze of the human heart
We looked on and we prayed / Our appeals to gods were made
And those echoes replayed - the irony played on and on.
If I could be there for you
With or without words
Just someone to be by your side
Talking heads prey on a feast of what's gone wrong
But their broken, off-key song, it just doesn't interest me
Cause there's real people out there meeting the cries for help they hear
And they'll be tuning out the fear
Real people like you and me
Real people like you and me
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Everybody Live Forever
02:17
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Everybody is gonna live forever
Everybody is gonna live forever
What else could there be?
I looked around. I let myself see that everybody is gonna live forever.
Everybody is gonna live forever
Everybody is gonna live forever
Multiple dimensions destroying my conventions
Is this my opinion? Or even my invention?
Maybe, but...oh did I mention that everybody is gonna live forever?
Everybody is gonna live forever
Everybody is gonna live forever
Not trying to be funny
Not trying to be clever, but
Everybody is gonna live forever
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Mountaintop/Riverrun
03:33
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Mountain Top and River Run
Revolver Moon and Yellow Sun
I set out to see it all and paint you a picture
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Dangerous TIme
01:21
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Mom I want a haircut
I know I just had one
But this thing keeps growing back
And no one else has one
I’ll go swimming with the sharks
Just when it gets dark
It’s a dangerous time for a boy with a mind and a hook and a line and a heart
Mom please slow the car down
The pills he gives me make me drown
And I can’t keep my head up
When all the gears get rusted shut
I’ll go swimming with the sharks
Just when it gets dark
It’s a dangerous time for a boy with a mind and a hook and a line and a heart
But if I hide the pills under my tongue
Will you notice then?
I don’t think you will
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John Ralston
“I live my life in ever widening circles, each superseding all the previous ones.” -Rilke
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