1. |
Nonosabasut Rock
04:33
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2. |
Popism
03:37
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you're on fire - you're a legend tonight
you're a supernova burning bright
attracting cheers and attracting shouts
attracting stares from detracting louts
at the all night parties with the all night boys
and the all night players with business ploys
some shining brightly but mostly just burning
and some turning on but most are just turning
under the lights and under the weather
you know how it will be and you should know better
but everyone wants to see and be seen
though no one gets more than a piece of the dream
oh everyone wants to be your friend
'til the evening fades and the bulbs all dim
where waiting patiently out of view
the morning is always ever true
oh everyone wants to go out with you
but no one wants to go home with you
oh everyone wants to go out with you
but no one wants to go home with you tonight
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3. |
How Awful About Allan
02:41
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so now we're just a whispered rumour
a thought you have to think away
we're filed away in a closed cupboard
we're locked inside the room that you left today
you walk into the dreams of others
never mind that you can't even sleep
but no one is coming back to save you
and no one to judge the secrets that you keep
time will say nothing but i told you so
time will say nothing but i told you so
time will say nothing but i told you so
time will say nothing but i told you so
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4. |
Oh Mary, Don't Ask
05:35
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6. |
Home is Where You Are
05:32
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Are you soundly sleeping tonight, oh John?
Since you have gone
you know that you can't ever come home -
no not again -
so make it where you are, oh John.
On the streets unseen for so long
you know that they still speak your name
but no, it's not like before -
you were a winner, but they evened the score.
Are you soundly sleeping tonight, oh John?
Be glad that you've gone.
You know that you can't ever come home -
no not again.
Please don't dream tonight of the ones
who depended upon
the boy so handsome, so winsome and strong.
You know that they live in the past
and oh John, that's where they belong.
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7. |
Paranormal Bouquet
04:46
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they flock to the mirror
like he invented suicide
entranced by the glimmer
that they see inside
they automatic write
the unfinished songs
i suppose it's their right
but it seems so wrong
the glass spells out the words
to the disillusioned herd
and on t-shirts in the square
you can see it everywhere
all in all (alone) is all we are (together!)
the universal individual
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8. |
Willoughby
05:20
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9. |
Pray the Gay Away
03:24
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Indoctrinated at a tender age,
taken under wing of the brethren's sage,
sheltered and shown how to behave,
shown how to recruit and how to save...
All the promises made really got you hooked,
but all that's really written in those books is
you've gotta get 'em while they're young -
yeah you've gotta get 'em while they're young.
And now you've got an ex-wife in the 'burbs
and a new child bride from the local church
and someday the Lord will take your troubles away
(well I've got bad news, honey, they're here to stay).
When you reach your holy hands out to tithe
you hear all the girls in the pews all sigh
and your parents they couldn't be more proud -
well, you're living the dream - or as close as allowed -
but you're still the same scared little, little boy
as you parade about your new decoy.
Oh, tell me, honey, now what would they say
if they knew the fellowship that you really crave?
No one knows the real you.
No one knows what's really true.
Oh, tell me how it feels to never feel whole?
And just how black is the dark night of the soul
as you pray the gay away?
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10. |
Sects
04:21
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the streets are full of sects and i've lost my way
a flash of a smile leads me astray
i forget who i am when i see your face
but you drift by just to drift away
and you're the tenth today
you're not alone in leaving me alone
but i'm alone in every way
i need something new today
a laying-on of hands or just a lay
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11. |
Mirrors
03:41
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your guard is up when the sun is low
i only called to let you know
if you say please i couldn't say no
so just believe and make it so
let me see your face
let me see your face
the street is dead but i'm alive
and laid out like a map for you
maybe someday you'll move to my town
and maybe someday i'll move you
can i see your face?
can i see your face?
my hands are your hands
oh i feel for you
do you feel anything?
fear anything you want to
i won't judge or laugh
just give it time to pass
i'll go if you say so
but i want you to know
i can see your face
i can see your face
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12. |
Knives is Not Right
03:05
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13. |
Marry Me, John Slattery!
03:46
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I have the same dreams as any man -
from the Dutchman to the bayman,
from the bushman to the shaman,
to the churchman to the Klansman -
a car, a job, a solid home,
a silverfox of my very own -
and this is all I hope:
John Slattery, marry me!
Oh marry me, John Slattery!
It may not seem à propos,
but I'm not so strange, I'll have you know,
and this remains ever so:
when you're disheveled, i'm unleveled
when you're unshaven, i am raving
and rabid and depraved...
John Slattery, marry me!
Oh marry me, John Slattery!
I will drink the dregs of the day -
I will chase those cameras away.
Let's just shut the world out.
Let me pull the shades around -
I will keep you safe and sound...
Please just hear me out:
Anderson Cooper, marry me!
Victor Garber, marry me!
Oh marry me, George Clooney!
Henry Czerny, marry me!
Daniel MacIvor, marry me!
Oh marry me, John Slattery!
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14. |
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Dansez! Dansez! C'est cool.
Bon vivant! Bon vivant! C'est cool
Carte blanche! Carte blanche! C'est cool.
Vis-à-vis! Vis-à-vis! C'est cool.
Dos-à-dos! Dos-à-dos! C'est cool.
TV discotheque international.
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15. |
Kill Oscar
02:15
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16. |
Notes For Tomorrow
04:00
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I'd been wanting you to come
and you just went off on a tangent.
I'd been wanting moments to go
so years down the road along comes a memory
and you go along to help it along -
you build the memories and make them strong.
Oh I'll dream that you speak of me -
I'll imagine that you can speak kindly
(and you'll imagine that it's you that I imagine).
Oh I'll suck down your poison for years
for you've drained the years for your poison.
Oh I'll suck down your poison for years
for you've drained the years for your poison.
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17. |
Quakers
06:06
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I don't mean to be impolite,
but darling please put out the light
and lie still - so still that we feel
the tremor of traffic a mile outside this town;
so still, each breath's an aftershock
from the faults we've found within -
deep down, deep seated -
on this two-seater journey
I usually ride alone.
Turn on automatic pilot -
it will guide us home.
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18. |
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19. |
Steuerpimpel
03:47
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You could pull yourself together,
but admit it - you like feeling bad.
You wanted too long, too hard,
too obviously for anyone to bear,
and now you stumble along dim streets
doubled-over with an ache
you just can't put into words.
Rejection's your predilection -
desperation, your preoccupation -
you're damaged.
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20. |
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21. |
Bromantic Traffic
04:44
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22. |
The Bigger Person
04:10
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I could be the bigger person,
but i'm not.
I don't wish you well.
I just wish you hell.
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23. |
All Better
04:08
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This may sound kind of heartless -
this may seem without tact,
but this is a point of interest.
This is in point of fact.
I say this without malice.
I say this without spite.
Life is better without you in it.
Life gets better every night.
I'm doing fine without you -
what else can I say?
Life gets better every minute.
Life is better in every way.
However I try to spin it
it comes out the same way:
life is better without your bullshit.
Life gets better every day.
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24. |
Leroy Fuckin' Rulez
02:46
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25. |
Strangers
03:16
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Helping helpless hours to help themselves -
I'm poured over 6 cylinders;
given to skeletons of sour milk bodies
who'll go home on that someday ever-coming.
You will be lonely again.
I won't mind if you find me.
I'm a stranger here, myself.
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26. |
Idiophone
03:18
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Idiophone:
cabasa, celesta, cowbell, güiro,
handbells, hi-hat, marimba, vibraphone.
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27. |
Liebe Zeit
05:58
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28. |
21st Century Gore Vidal
03:27
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You believe everything I say
and it should be no other way.
You'll believe anything, it's true -
that's why I talk to you.
Every day I say something new
(some days - even about you)
and your eyes - oh how they glow! -
as you begin to know.
Nothing else could ever be
as nice as another me
and what have you got to lose
when you've nothing else to choose?
So keep your slate clean
and I'll fill it with reams
of anecdotes and memories -
it's all you'll ever need.
All I've got to give
is all you've ever live,
but I only share, I swear,
to show how much I care.
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29. |
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You're just another sad old man
sinking in a wrinkled suit.
Oh look - you've got your knees wet.
Oh look - you forgot your hat.
You lose your head, you said,
when you're at my place,
and you've lost the race -
but you're the same as anyone
and not some hopeless case.
Well we're wasting time
with all this talk -
would another smoke
help this to go down?
Or perhaps a drink?
Don't think - just act -
but don't play roles with me.
Don't play roles with me.
Time is almost up -
you've drained the cup
leaving rings as round
as those circling your eyes.
I hate good-byes.
Shall I see you tonight
just after eight?
This is what comes
with forty years of self-hatred:
deep in the dark you lay...
deep in the dark you lay...
garnering the courage to face
forty minutes of freedom a day.
Such a cliché...forty minutes a day.
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30. |
Glioma (Broadly)
09:57
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31. |
Seven Minutes in Heaven
05:38
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I'm in the pictures they'll never show -
creased into corners of bottom drawers -
in the house I burn today
with seven minutes in heaven with you
after eons there alone.
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32. |
Newsreel Feeling
04:27
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your curtains open & i hang bare
i will be a bore for you
for a lifetime of xmas and morning fucks
i want you to have everything you've got
with me
here you are my friend
& just for me again
that newsreel feeling
i pushed away a lifetime ago
i don't want my life in order
i only understand disorder
i didn't see your point
but your words still stick in my side
forgetting's not something you do
it's just something that happens to you
oh no
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33. |
Preface to Now
03:24
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Words come quickly - a beautiful roar -
like a loaded gun in the house next door.
"A tattered blue blazer and battered old ring -
surely you can't care for these things?"
As your cigarette curls around my head
I'm taking in air, but can't catch my breath.
I don't remember anything before -
all my life was just a preface to Now.
Alive and awake and aware and free
and shining as bright as bright can be -
we glow!
If we go down, we go full of stars full-on!
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34. |
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35. |
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I can no longer keep it up
and so you push me under.
All the good times shamed away -
you're the only one laughing today.
You don't want me to live -
you don't care what it means
to have you accept what you'll never
see as right or as clean.
I'm still the same boy
and.....a whole new person.
If all it takes is all we had,
well now, then it's worth it
to look in the mirror
and not look away -
to look in the mirror
and not feel that way -
and not feel sorry.
And so it's come down to this:
there's too many stories between us
'cause you need something over your head,
but I need something to stand on.
You don't want me around -
you just put me down.
You don't care what it means to have you
accept what you'll never see as me.
Well, boy, I've just gotta say
that all things change in little ways,
but you're the same, the same, the same -
a lifetime of yesterdays...
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36. |
A Bourgeois Scam
04:13
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The Linger Effect St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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