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8. zeitgeist 9. build a fire 11. they go giddy 12. the other half |
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4. necessary |
8. zeitgeist 9. build a fire 11. they go giddy 12. the other half |
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all songs written by Alan Andrews ©1999 |
| common people i want to join with the common people i no longer want to rule the roost i’d like to do all those common things i wish i needed no excuse get off of the cross no matter the cost by fortune by torture or by noose now i’d eat crow any way you serve it i’d even learn to lick my plate i’ll be a i’d be your faithful servant i’ll sign for the package delivered by the hand of fate at six i’ll have drinks in a bar that stinks with the people who keep people like me in their place i want to join with the common people i want to join with the common people i want to join with the calm get off of the cross no matter the cost by fortune by torture or by noose it’s time i learned that there’s a beauty in dying but this is not a time to make a stand it’s time i changed all the cd’s i’m buying maybe it’s time for this is your land give everything back and leave the pack the lions laying down with the lambs i want to join with the common people
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| in the meantime in the meantime you should be taking pictures you should be making sketches of everything that you done
in the meantime
in the meantime
in the meantime
in the meantime
in the meantime
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| highway 61 re-revisited issac’s burning rubber down the road looking nervous he’s got the pedal floored abraham’s behind him in a rented ford with a loaded forty-five and a message from the lord they see a sign for desolation row isaac clicks his heels and say’s there’s no direction home the commander and chief’s carving a new tombstone he swaggers over puts out his thumb and hands them a bone they get off of route sixty-six to get their kicks on highway sixty-one abe’s incognito no shoes a bald-wig on he meets a circus geek by the name of mr. jones he say’s something’s happening here what is the sword swallower moans the strong man laughs abe you’re dumb that chicken’s not yellow it’s your son they get off of route sixty-six to get their kicks on highway sixty-one now abe’s old and sick a complete unknown when the king of the philistines offers him his thrown he say’s the city fathers would reward you for everything you’ve done abe say’s get my son on vh-1 they get off of route sixty-six to get their kicks on highway sixty-one
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| necessary when i’ve washed up like a stone and you find me on the shore won’t you take me home to a place i don’t belong let me rest and grow strong let me perform all the things that you deem necessary won’t you trust me like a safe you keep in that guarded place with no key or lock just some numbers even you forgot let me watch over you keep you safe the whole night through let me prove i can be necessary twisted and tangled jingled or jangled i’m like money in the bank use me abuse me look right through me i’m just a guppy in your tank you can read me like a book or catch me like a crook who got caught with the loot after a hot pursuit please send me to my room for at least a hundred junes come one may i be necessary twisted and tangled jingled or jangled i’m like money in the bank buy me try me lie to me i’m just a tiger in your tank and when you cast me away with my last splash i’ll say thanks for letting me be listed amongst your casualties and as i’m going down i am finally homeward bound at least the sea let’s me be necessary
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| blushing bride it will never be me by your side blushing bride dressed in white wedding night when the big day comes it will be someone else by your side blushing bride i’ll be all alone in my one room home plastic forks and t.v. dinners and my tuxedo on when he walks you down the aisle warring a pregnant smile i’ll be drying my eyes blushing bride when he gets you alone after all the guests have gone and he takes off his carnation your bouquets already tossed it will never be me by your side blushing bride when he moves you away out of mind and out of state i will finally learn to drive blushing bride
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| etch-a-sketch etch-a-sketch draw a straight line that isn’t very hard wake me when the fun’s about to start some get lucky on the first try they call that that beginners luck others are to blind to see until they’re thunder struck clue me in on the rules of the game alan-malan-foe-falan-me-my-mo-malan is that how i should say my name some take their chances they always pick the right card others never find their way even with the flood lights on and if this song does not move you just put your helmet on and plow right through some people they walk under ladders rob banks with guns that don’t shoot others still feel naked home alone in their birthday suit etch-a-sketch draw a straight line etch-a-sketch that isn’t very hard etch-a-sketch draw a straight line
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| once upon a time in westchester while they were digging in white plains they came across some human remains all bones no brains there was a watch on the stiffs wrist it said from chubby checker let’s twist but you twisted your life away you probably had a lot of muscle wore a leisure suit and you did the latin hustle but you ain’t dancing any more these days in your pocket they found a receipt from a little café on carmine street you had an espresso and a canoli at least your last meal was short and sweet i’m sure you must’ve seen all it coming by the looks of your shoes you did a whole lot of running but now you’re running in a different race you probably had a lot of connections maybe you got caught skimming off the collections but now you’re only taking up space while they where digging in white plains they came across some human remains
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| zeitgeist i have known you forever well at least for a hundred lives and though i do not believe in reincarnation For you an exception applies i see us as a zeitgeist as a spark as a ghost and when this whole world starts sinking grab my hand and we’ll float to our place in the heavens where we got the cutest little cloud you’re in the kitchen pouring stardust i’m playing my harp obnoxiously loud i need you like a gambler needs a mudder in the rain like a junkie needs a needle like a masochist need pain you get me thirsty as a vampire you get hungry as the wolf i’m just lurking in the shadows waiting to sink my teeth in you they got a room for us in hades the only one left with crushed ice the only film they show is the towering inferno but the night clerk gives good love advice i have loved you forever well at least for a thousand lives although i absolutely positively do not believe in reincarnation for you a special dispensation applies
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| build a fire to whom it may concern i’ve got no idea what it takes it just seemed to go just seemed to snake down the hole down the shaft a lifetime of work turned into a hail mary pass dear sir i haven’t got a handle on what’s occurred the truck that hit me must have left my judgement blurred it gets a bit convoluted but i swear it’s sincere somewhere between lethal injection and a reclining chair i can’t stop the world from turning ‘round and ‘round and ‘round the sun but i can build a fire for you right now that’s all i can do i can build a fire for you i can build a fire for your information they just changed the rules of the game i found out the rain in spain falls mainly in spain now that might seem capricious but it actually sets things right you see were all getting pissed on from a considerable height i can’t stop the world from turning ‘round and ‘round and ‘round the sun but i can build a fire for you right now that’s all i can do i can build a fire for you i can build a fire but everybody knows, everybody knows this is how it goes i can’t stop the world from turning ‘round and ‘round and ‘round the sun but i can build a fire for you right now that’s all i can do i can build a fire for you i can build a fire
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| cleaned and pressed when the card say’s go to jail you cannot collect the rent but you can go around again after you settle the debt and when you’re walking by that vacant lot count the blessings that you have amongst the have’s most of us have not even arthur screwed up camelot you are not a legend or a mirage on the bottom of the pool you’re in if you swim every lap you might grow a fin you’ll make up for what you lack and before you leave the nest wear a sportcoat or a button vest quartered cuffs or your sunday best let them see that you’re clean and pressed when you find yourself on a fallen knee remember to keep your crown on straight why scream father why have you forsaken me after all you’re his hand picked candidate you are not a soldier or a saviour or a martyr in this war on yourself learn to face the truth lay your burden down say no to the troops and before you leave the nest wear a sportcoat or a button vest quartered cuffs or your sunday best let them see that you’re clean and pressed let them see that your clean
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| they go giddy i know this girl named j.j. she lives o the lower eastside she can’t sing or dance but she’s got a nice ass and she gets a good gig every night all the bar owners love j.j. her talents they cannot resist they don’t concentrate on the notes she breaks they just like to look at her tits they go wild for pretty women they go nuts for the handsome young men they go giddy in new york city if your friends have money to spend now steve books the bands at the café he’s got a tin ear but if you fill twenty seats and he counts twenty receipts you’re a real big star there he goes wild for the mundane they go nuts for the bland they go giddy in new york city if there’s ten bucks in your hand i had a dream that george gershwin came back and did an open mike his first song ran too long and everyone heard half of rhapsody in blue that night they go wild for pretty women they go nuts for the handsome young men they go giddy in new york city if your friends bring money to spend they go wild for the mundane they go nuts for the bland i wish you all the best but me i’d invest in that girls j.j.’s band
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| the other half what we’ve got here is a peppermint stick anyone who wants can take a lick if you want it here it is come and get it better hurry because it may not last what we got here is a shiny little boat gonna paint it black with twenty shiny coats the nineteenth made me nervous so why don’t you do the last i’ll walk you run why don’t you stand while i sit it’ll do you good to see how the other half it’ll do you good to see how the other half it’ll do you good to see how the other half lives gonna light myself a big fat cigar don’t get to close you might get burned by fire the smell repels you but you keep leaning on for a whiff and you talk talk talk about your influential friends your boon companions till the bitter end but underneath your christmas tree i don’t see a single gift i’ll throw you fetch go and get it you sonofabitch it’ll do you good to see how the other half it’ll do you good to see how the other half it’ll do you good to see how the other half lives i only count on what’s right in front of me and on the subject of my future i rely on my own manifest destiny you starve i’ll eat how do you like the way that shoe fits it’ll do you good to see how the other half it’ll do you good to see how the other half it’ll do you good to see how the other half lives what we got here is a rocket ship anyone who wants can take the trip people all over the world join hands because it’s going fast
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jesus christ what an undiscovered life for such a robust man of the
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