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Hip Hurray
Hip-hurray
In the christian way
Make me a channel of your peace
Late at night
Twinkle signs of life
Frozen, dying to stay that way
The phones are calling around for a winner
They told me I got all the numbers wrong
When channels open wide
The colors get all beat up
Do blues stay blue?
Spiral matters dizzy us away
You offer your knee
In comic relief
Or was that a fall that you took today?
The phones are tapping along to a big hit song
I figure I've still got the numbers wrong
I figure I've still got pretty people to help me through the day
And a chance at winning the lottery
When channels open wide
The colors get all beat up
And blues stay blue
Rising signs and trouble on my mind

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Your Carnival
I wonder how to look like an ice cream cone?
A pretty little berry on top of the world
Please don't please me
Please don't please me
Death it blooms enough of this river
It boils in a rage unfit for a swimmer
Please don't please me Please don't please me or
Place the flowers in the vase that you bought today
You can throw them all away
Did you ever dream a life less safe?
Less is a kind of full
So I pretend to love
Your carnival
Dancing couples get outta my way
As you dip each other in venom and pain
Please don't leave me
I'll light the fire....
And I would love to love your carnival

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Weather
How's the weather in your guitar?
Has the gutter gotten clogged?
A coat of arms Your charms are drowned and out
You're rusty and old
So now we're wading through highs and lows
You pitch perfection or sides that never show
Look how the beat surrenders; surrender too!
Let me lift your chin up so we have a glimpse of you
I'm okay with what you're going to say
The strings come in when you
Talk to me
This is not the first time
That an old friend told me a lie
(you know that all friends come and go)
(we'll always have this rock and roll)

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Money Trouble
This flavor never pleases
Thunder teases and passes by
This molting with the seasons
Dangling dreams
Oh have you seen us
Making love to drugs?
And making local stops?
Come bang your head
You'll be glad you did
You'll be glad you're dead
This getting through the day is so complicated
I'm trying to try to try harder
But there's too many hands on my pot of gold
I need more and more and more
This kind and mellow blueness
Misconstrued as wretched pain
Makes welcome as it steeps on sturdy pillows, cream and you know....
Where you need to go
To let your sugar show
Come bang your head
You'll be glad you did
You'll be glad you're dead!
This getting through the day is so complicated
I'm trying to try to try harder
But there's too many hands on my pot of gold
I still have Money trouble

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Gray
Saw you looking kind of gray
Snowy shadows in and out of tune
It is a softly glowing face I couldn't tell it was red
Saw you looking kind of gray
All I'm gonna do is stare at you
Why shouldn't lovers be this way?
Is something wrong with you?
I'll see you next time!
Saw you looking kind of gray
Slow, slow on the way to blue
But here you are and can you stay?
See, I am a jewel for you I saw you looking kind of gray
Chasing-color days are through I knew the ending anyway
There's something wrong with you

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Wait for Returns
You sound like you're surrendering
Could this be the end of everything?
A long, lonely cause
This life is almost like a good time
Keep life, keep it off my mind
It's all or none
Accelerate the wait for returns
Sneak up to the front I've never made the most of these days
Heaven down, heaven come down here
Oh you get to me something fierce
It's like a cruel, cruel curse
Loving you and knowing
The world is gonna take you away
I missed the sign for feelin' groovy
I'll have this dance with rabid fury
A long, lonely cause

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Starring in the Movies
I've got the music in me
Tapeworms and other things
I see the way things ought to be
When I'm gazing at the morning
I've got the music in me
If I did then it must have been a dream
People slipped away I didn't see
I was gazing at the morning
Songs to fill the air
Some to pay the fare
Senses so I know that I'm alive
I've got the music in me
It's not enough I should be starring in the movies

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Start a Little Late
Your tongue it flickers with a flair
I'm choking on words that hang in the air
I'm dumb
Better to hold all the summer breezes dear
And not worry about it
I'm getting dizzy from your best rot
Want to escape the magic head lock
And I need to be getting over
Well someday's name's a mouthful
What a game to start a little late
But I know what I know
When things are all wrong
Situations find me
Inclined to be green
So I need to be getting over
In auditorium lies a binder deep and wise
When the words have all gone
The reader finds me
I'm down on my knees
And maybe unlearn what I learned
And I need to be getting over

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Slip is Showing
I wish I had a cubicle
The moderate receptacle
Cuz from you I crave deliverance
Exempt from all reconnaisance
Well I hear what I have come to know
As the song announcing your approach
The trail of high heeled triplets on a spit in my mind
The kinder gentler pedigree well
They don't agree with me
So God grant me serenity
Or a sanctuary with walls around it
While you were out for a cigarette
I hunkered over the letterhead
I've spent the whole day righting this wrong
While you were out for a cigarette
I hunkered over the letterhead
In praise of oldies station in my memo to the nation
(I think my slip is showing/I think my slip is showing/
I've spent the whole day writing)

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Alone
Pink and green and cascade
Swell up
Offender, a shiner, left eye
Swell up
I look at the foliage turn brown
And when I imagine your leaving
Alone
Top-heavy eyelids closing
Alone
I don't know the story of love
Look for your happiness, Bumstead

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Wood and Glue
Live up or lie down
Maybe fall in between
Foreign feeling of grandeur borrowed,
adored, bemoaned and desired
Wood and glue and models of you
Another day another world
Well I don't wanna be that way
But I do wanna be that way
Leaning over, falling down
So that's how it's done
I can't lick a glass-coated string
Wood and glue and models of you
Another kite another day
Well I don't wanna be that way
But I do wanna be that way
I don't wanna be the last one at the bottom of the pit
Will I admit that I'd be grateful
for a custom-concrete table?
Well I don't know what to say other than
Life it's overrated anyway

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Red Lines
Beware of your Spanish side
We're all waiting for a fight
And we lie on Valentine's red lines

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Sign of Your Love
Well if Jeanette hates you for the things you said about her
You refill and run straight to the confession that you owe her
And if you stay wise, pay all the money back
You will still be on the wrong track
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And there's nothing I can offer you
And nothing I could say or do
Maybe the ghost in there
Can tell you how to mend things
Pretend things get better
As a sign of your love
And if I stay dumb it's part of the act
Cuz it would feel too good to yell back
(chorus)
The waiter with patience grew smitten
Oh no
And he wrote seeing stars as she spoke
But her drinks were on me
All over me
Maybe the ghost in there
Can tell you how to mend things
Pretend we'll make each other proud
And that we'll always be around
Go on

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Lovely to See
Kith and kin
Oh you can call again
Mark the marker then be on your way
Kith and kin
Oh you can call again
It's getting darker and you shouldn't stay
Sunflower, witching hour
You're too late, they ask you to leave
chorus:
Lovely to see everyone
But so lonely the sound of your name called softly
Under the breath of despair
Kith and kin
Oh you can call again
Don't say goodbye yet
Under unturned stones gems do sparkle
You either mark the marker
Or you dream about the way it was supposed to be
(chorus)
Under unturned stones gems do sparkle
You eye the marker longer
All the time we wonder why
We couldn't find our way out
From the silly idea we had
Thieves of jewelry maps
Our divinity's lapse