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Make It Alright
03:52
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Make it alright
Get while you can
Do it all night
Stick it to the man
Make a big splash
Everybody wet
On the front page of every gazette
Make it alright
Make it alright while you can
I ain’t gung ho legalistically
Got my mind closed
There’s no confusing me
Things are nailed shut
Prying will not help
And I’ll say what the hell I wanna tell
Make it alright
Do it all night
Sing it alright
Sing it alright while you can
Sitting with your legs over the ledge
Jumping isn’t something you should dread
To end it all is one way to confess
Gotta go now
Gotta get undressed
Gotta look like someone that confessed
Cuz it was me
Everything I did
It was nailed shut
I tightened down the lid
Make it alright
Make it all night
Sing it alright
Make it alright while you can
Mingling with the crazies at the edge
The free fall isn’t something you should dread
It’s not as if you never took a pledge
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Haven’t got the time or the state of mind
To watch the clock tick off another day
And if it’s up to me I’m gonna let it be
Gonna watch the time just slip away
You haven’t touched your supper yet my dear
And I don’t have a clue of what I gotta do
To stop the clock and make it go away
You haven’t washed your windows yet my dear
And if it’s up to me I’m gonna get some sleep
Get rested up to sleep another day
Your look a little tired there my dear
Your sleeping’s getting sounder every year
And since it’s up to me I’m going back to sleep
And dream as if there’s nothing left to do
I’ll walk among the clouds just like the picture sounds
And waft a bit as if there was a breeze
You haven’t touched your supper yet my dear
Your dinner’s getting colder every year
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Swathcutter
04:28
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Hey you with that strong air about you
Hey you always uppin’ the down
Hey you with your balls and your valium
Hey you all over the town
Hey you and your turtleneck spandex
Hey you a little long in the neck
Hey you just a-sportin the brand X
Hey you with all hands on the deck
Hey you with your peaches and cream dolls
All over the shirt on your back
Hey you with your government free fall
Down under your size 15 tracks
Hey you with your hardcore hair style
Hey you with your second to none
Hey you with your dim bulb wild eye
Hey no one else is havin’ your fun
Hey you with your blade swinging way wide
Hey you cuttin’ hither and yon
Hey you takin’ out all the small fries
Hey you wastin’ all that you’re on
Hey you with your well-worn neck tie
Hey you with your over the top
Hey you with your air-cooled white lie
Hey you gettin’ down when you’re up
Hey you little big for your britches
Hey you floatin up yer big boat
Hey you scratchin’ all of your itches
That you’re gettin’ from the rub on the rope
Hey you with your tight fist hand job
Hey you just can’t let go of that
Hey you with your porn star hob knob
Giving nothing and then giving it back
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4. |
Just A Little Stranger
03:17
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What you don’t know you don’t know
What you don’t see you don’t see
You say you’re free to be just how you wanna be
If you don’t know you don’t know
Can anybody be absolutely free
To align yourself
To define yourself that way
So you go on with your best behavior
The crowds are gone and so is the flavor
An open road mostly way behind you
Don’t look back They will never find you
Does anybody see what happens to be
Keeping you high
Keeping you dry
Keeping you home
So you go on through the daily danger
Everyday just a little stranger
You can’t see through your dust and your debris
What you don’t know you don’t know
Can anybody see when they’re completely free
To align themselves
To define themselves that way
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Gone
02:47
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The skies have not been lit up with the darkness of your crowd
For more than a century you haven’t been around
It’s hard to imagine how things go so far astray
Seems like only yesterday we all were here to stay
I never saw the likes or looks of anything like you
You disappeared so long ago but left a couple clues
Of how you looked and how you lived and how you got around
Of how you faced the future that was sure to get you down
Since you’ve been gone you’ve been gone
Imagine all the pures and cures
that slipped right through our hands
Even when we realized we still ruined the land
Survivors of the fittest never piss into their well
Uncommon sense is endless when there’s no one left to tell
Dying’s not a new thing it’s been around awhile
In case you hadn’t noticed it’s now very much in style
So many journeys ended and so many caught between
It’s just a game of numbers when we're dying for the dream
Since you’ve been gone you’ve been gone
It’s hard to put your finger on the richness that we had
Unintended consequences kinda drive you mad
Yet we don’t learn We cannot help
We only serve ourselves
We mix in with the make-believe that dying’s just as well
Now I sit and look around and none of you are here
There’s no turning back when you’ve completely disappeared
It’s hard to face the new days
when you don’t learn from the past
We end it all We end it now
You were not built to last
Since you’ve been gone you’ve been gone
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Interesting Times
03:34
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Now that your long hair is falling out
It begs your forgiveness for letting you down
I got this god damn thing in my head
It’s stuck and it rattles up under my bed
And then it escapes me
Like so many things
That kinda enrage me
But then they just give give give
You got this affliction
This social disease
You do what you want to
Whatever you please
I got this god damn thing in my head
It’s loud and it’s quiet like something I said
Whatever it was
I don’t mind
Whatever it could be
That’s just fine
It’s so good to live in interesting times
Now that your long hair is falling down
It’s gonna be draggin’ you on the ground
I smell something burning up under your bed
I’m glad you’re not learning how not to be dead
Whatever it is
I don’t mind
Whatever it should be
That’s just fine
It’s so good to die in interesting times
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Chief Barrel Belly
03:11
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8. |
Earthly Commotion
03:38
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Put your back to the wheel
Get your head in the game
That everyone's winning if they play
Push it up from the bottom
Like a weed in the woods
To be upwardly mobile can be good
Hey it’s up and it’s down
It’s a little piece of the ground
Rolled up in the morning
Jumped outta bed
Turned on the fluids in my head
Went out for the evening
A night on the town
Rumors were swirlin' around
Hey what did you hear
Did you find out anything weird
Saw some big lunar panels
Sparks fly when they're full
They come from the dark side of the pool
And now you’re a witness
And it’s all in your head
And it’s scaring you shitless to offend
Hey what did you see
Were there moon sparks up in the trees
Hey what did you hear
Was the buzzing incredibly clear
From the calm of the ocean
To the talk in the trees
There’s an earthly commotion at your feet
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9. |
Relevance Aside
05:44
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It’s never been a skill
The art of standing still
While all of the big guns shoot to kill
Relevance aside
Take it all in stride
Try not to fall down or say goodbye
or petrify or do or die
It’s ok to be a little cowardly
It might come in handy surviverly
One day we’ll be alone
No one will take us home
Need a little rescue everyday
The slow decay and disarray
Did I thank you for the help
You gave to me so well
You might not have noticed
cuz I forgot to tell
So that one’s on me
I guess they all could be
Probably gonna find out eventually
So say what you say
Do what you do
Try to leave a little useful residue
All we have to be is always trying to see
All of the good things there are
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Quaint Delusions Tampa, Florida
Quaint Delusions is an indie-ish rock band (whatever that means!) from the Tampa hinterlands cranking out original music indelibly tainted by the Beatles, Guided By Voices, Crack the Sky, glam, and punk.
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