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File Under: Easy Listening (1994)
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Gift
I received this gift from you
Pleasantly surprised, I never thought you'd realize that maybe
I have taken this form you
If I was deserving, who am I to disagree
How can I refuse this, even if I don't deserve it
And now, I give this gift to you
Could have got you anything, but this will have to do
It's how I give this gift to you
Doesn't seem like much, but it's the best that I could do
I'm giving everything away before I go for good
And once you give the gift away
There's nothing you can do about it
Nothing that you do or say
Can change the way I feel about it
Try to look inside of me
To find the gift that I am giving
Glad you had a chance to see
The gift that I'm delivering
Company Book
Everyone loves the company man
With his company book in his hand
The songs inside the company book
Do not deserve a look
They are rules in and of themselves
Everyone knows the company man
He lets etiquette play his every hand
Maybe 20 years ago
He didn't show
His love of rules in and of themselves
In the epilogue the company man
Takes his company life with his company hands
In his revelation he decrees
Extinction of faceless robots like himself
Spawned from the company book
Your Favorite Thing
Tell me I'm your favorite thing
You can tell me anything
I wouldn't mind
Dream about you every night
Something tells me that's not right
I wouldn't mind, I wouldn't mind
Not at all
Stuck inside my head again
Hoping that this never ends
I wouldn't mind
It's my existence you ignore
And I can't take you anymore
I wouldn't mind, I wouldn't mind
The wait is killing me
I keep waiting, wait impatiently
What do I need to do?
I'll do anything you want me to
I'll sit on a bookcase in your room
Alone with all your other favorite things
Now that I'm your favorite thing
Let's see what the future brings
I wouldn't mind
And I can't tell you what's been happening
I don't know, I don't know
I wouldn't mind, I wouldn't mind
Not at all
What You Want It To Be
All the stories you read
Don't know what to believe
And everything that you see
Don't you see what you need
It's what you want to believe
As you lie in the weeds
The lies get amplified and
It's what you're saying to me
It's what you want it to be
Take a look at my face
Don't you know I can see
You don't know what you want
I don't know what you need
It may be simple, but me
I don't have to deceive you
I don't have the time to
But what you're saying to me
Is what you want it to be
You've been talking in rhymes
You don't know what you mean
I can see through it all
Through the web that you weave
Gee Angel
Got a set of wings that I couldn't use
Bout them in a store on the avenue
Didn't mean to spend all the cash I had
The second that I saw them, I wanted them bad
When I got home and I tried them on
I noticed that the wingspan was way too long
Couldn't take them back, there was no return
I should have gotten more, I was feeling burned
Gee angel, won't you take these back?
Gee angel, gee angel, I need some slack
There's nothing in this world that I'd rather do
Than buy a wet of wings and fly away with you
Climbed up the mountain, observed the view
But angel wouldn't say what I had to do
Then angel flew away and left me standing there
I knew I couldn't fly, but I didn't care
Panama City Motel
Don't you know I need a place to stay
Only fifteen bucks a day
I didn't want to end up here
But now I guess I need to stay
River red, runs like lead
And the smell of kerosene in my head
Stuck in here in this shithole
Reading foreign magazines instead
"But senor, I only have ten dollars,
Can't you give me a room for the night?"
We argue about currency and then
He says I can stay for the night
In this Panama City motel
I am out on the freeway again
A woman approaches in Barcelona
Walking down the Diagonalia
Spaghetti concrete overpasses
I keep grasping for something familiar
Can't Help You Anymore
I can't help you anymore
You can't hurt me anymore
Don't care how bad I feel
Still holding on the wheel
I've felt like this before
Been sleeping on the floor
You say you've had enough
Don't try to wake me up
I can't help you anymore
You can't hurt me anymore
Don't care if you're upset
I'm trying to forget
I feel like walking out
Don't want to talk it out
You say your life's a mess
I need to get some rest
I've had enough of feeling slighted
I've had enough to last a lifetime
I've had enough, and I've decided
I can't help you anymore
You can't hurt me anymore
Granny Cool
It's such a groovy thing
You're hating everything
I wouldn't want to be
Stuck in a room with you
You with your entourage
And makeup camouflage
You're only hiding time
Why don't you act your age
So concerned with how we see you
It's hard to concentrate
If you fell down could you get up
Or would you have to wait
You've wallowed in yourself so long
And dragged your other friends along
We're feeling bad for you
Granny Cool
You look like such a fool
Hey look it's Granny Cool
It's over it's over it's overexposure
You've been in the light too long
There's no protection now
It's time to say goodnight
We always wanted someone
We could all adore
But now you've got the lock and key
To everybody's door
But your room is empty now
There's no more friends to drag around
We're feeling bad for you
Granny Cool
It all caught up to you
It's coming back to you
I'm waving back at you
Hey look it's Granny Cool
What are you gonna do
When you are 62
We're looking back at you
Hey look it's Granny Cool
And all your jealousy
Believe What You're Saying
This is where the line is
That I've drawn across the sand
And this is where my heart aches
Unaware and in my hand
This is where it's gone
This is where the heartache's going on
I can go it alone
I can't believe what you're saying
I've got to leave for you're sailing on and on
I can't repeat what it's all about is wrong
I can't believe what you're saying
This is how the time goes
In an ordinary town
And this is how it all ends up
When you run the whole thing down
This is how it's gone
This is how it's already gone and I know
You keep going along
Explode And Make Up
Heart holds mouth to words
Said it's gone beyond the line this time
Eyes twitch close
Numb the lights turned out I'm out
The cold is in my bones
Said it's gone beyond the line this time
Shake a little off the deep end
Tell me when it's over now
I hate you
Explode and make up
Threw it in the yard
Burned it in an ashtray
I don't need you
Even though it's all made up
Put it in your box and put it
Show me how you been
Said it's been so long, I don't recall
Used to be this way
That's the way it always seems to go
Tired and walked away
Said it's far when you don't have a place to go
Where'd you go
Tell me where am I supposed to go
Here we go, here we go again
There you go, there you go again
As the years
They go slowly bye and bye goodbye
After you, lead the way
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