Open Up

they were looking for me when I came tothey were looking for me when I came backsaid hey you, you’re looking very suspiciousI said relax man get off my backI said relax man get off my back I, I, I ain’t opposed to seeking justicebut you’re going about it all […]


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Prince of Spades

coming back coming home the queen of love enters the roomsilence ensues… to the king what have you done to my lifedid you take me for a fool or for a wife and the king is in his courtcounting all his diamondsone by one they do fall says the queen […]


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Just Like Larry

I’d like to jettison your medicineback to where you came fromyou keep your bell and edisonaway from my grandsonstand son on your own bonedon’t forget the home that you come fromdon’t let them say your name wrong just like larry I’ll take it to the hoopmake one false move in […]


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Even

come now to the edge of the roomyou can see them all crowdin’ aroundsoon they’ll come in and come up here let them find an effigybut they’ll never find mehead man I live to see you roll away they’ll never ever ever find methey’ll never ever ever find me head […]


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Carry You

green river flowslike grass meltinglater it will run blackdown its trackinto an oceanshe stans on the bridgedimlight on her back somedayI will carry you… I want to float higherabove waves of electric wiresstare down onto the streetsee a drunk with kiln-glazed eyestell me about the girl I should meet somedayI […]


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Passerby

I’m not crazy like my brotherbut it’s the way I chooseI don’t hang around with a six pencewhen I got everything to lose would you bring me my moneyand take from me all that I was worthcause I wasn’t worth nothingand I wasn’t yours oh don’t you be a passerbyoh […]


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Headlights

headlightshighwaysyour life collides with mine leavin’ our shoes behindwe cross the waterour words flowfrom mouth to mouthlike fish seeking dark placesthe mist covers our traces covers our faces headlightshighwaysyour life collides with mine we’re stepping into sheltermovin out of shadowwe made some wrong movesalong the wayoh we might have strayedwill […]


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Lightning

we hear the dealers with their wordsthat ride the tailsof their cigarette smokesliding through the tunnels of our ears those greasy marionettes ofreal bone and bloodstand on the corner of washington square vision stingingeyes blurring elevators got your rising so high17 floors you want so much moreelevators got you rising […]


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