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Its 1969 in my head
I just wanna have no place to go
Livin thru the sound of the dead
I'm gonna get stoned look round at my soul
I'm hearin voices in the trees
And seein footsteps in the rain
I just wanna die before I loose my dol
I have been cryin in my sleep
Cause I dont kno where i've been
I just wanna live to see another day
Hey hey hey hey
When I get my buick six
I'll see my life drop in that whirlpool
If I get to see you again
You're the only one I know
Here we go
There I stand
I'm a seed
Of a man
Dare I go
Dare I stare
I'm a seed
On my way to God
All the way to nowhere
Searching with a hope
Ain't that hard to know it
She is, she is gone
Wishing on a star
Looking for a meaning
Fate tore us apart
Ain't no use pretending
She is, she is gone
She is, she is gone
On our way to God
Searching without hope
Wishing on a star
I'm looking down by the streets end
Girl you've been lacking a pretense
So save your money for the weak you're gonna kill
Cause I got something that the company know how to feel
I'm looking down by the streets end
Girl you've been lacking a pretense
There can't be anything between
It's automatic over me
Shoot like an animal machine
Straight from the colors of her dream
I'm looking over the deep end
Time ain't a reason for defense
Fly from a tree to a sea bed
Mean while, you've been locked in a freezer
There can't be anything between
It's automatic over me
Shoot like an animal machine
Straight from the colors of her dream
Colors of her dream
Shoot like an animal machine
Straight from the colors of her dream
Colors of her dream
Colors of her dream
Colors of her dream
Allie was a girl I knew
Took my heart and tore it in two
There are things I couldn't say
There are times I feel ashamed
Marriage was a thing we had
Hurt so much that it made me mad
Living off of coke and brew
So much time to sit and lose
You say you want a reason
I've been known to you
The weather of the season
They tell you where to move
That day she walked out the door
Cried so much on the kitchen floor
Wishing I could have her back
Feeling like a heart attack
You say you want a reason
I've been known to you
The weather of the season
They tell you where to move
A year later on the telephone
Record deal and a movie role
Telling me it's all okay
Sun child
You're a sun child
Awoken by the spirit of the day
Well I've grown wild
Speaking so mild
Forgot about the engine in the rain
Don't let it bring you down
For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray
But I can't pray
Sun child
You're a sun child
Awoken by the spirit of the day
Well I've grow wild
Speaking so mild
Forgot about the engine in the rain
Don't let it bring you down
For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray
The winning days are gone
Because I know just where I'm seeing
Was given eyes I know
I can hear
Cause underneath there's gold
I need to get around to find it
And when I want to go
I can dream
I've been trying
All my time
I'm just seeing it rise
Cause it could be the land that's over me
So I just wanna let it breathe
The winning days are gone
Because I know just where I'm seeing
Was given eyes I know
I can hear
Cause underneath there's gold
I need to get around to find it
And when I want to go
I can dream
I've been trying
All my time
I'm just seeing it rise
Cause it could be the land that's over me
So I just wanna let it breathe for now
Get up and go outside
It can help your mind too
Get up don't hide away
Cause I know where there's gold
I didn't know when I was flying
I'm sinking like a stone
I can dream
I hear the sound
Comin' up
Goin' down
Danger in the hollow
Sewer on the side
Waitin' for the morrow
Dope to get ya by
See for a mile
What I mean
To decide
Danger in the hollow
Sewer on the side
Waitin for the morrow
Dope to get ya by
You're forever dreamin'
And forever bored
Everything ya needed
Out in the atmosphere
Far, far away from here
I hear the sound of you
Tellin ya I love you
If I were anywhere
What me I got no care
As long as I see you
Tellin ya I love you
I cannot remember my own sanity
Gods love ain't forever
He'll set us free
Thought I had to tell you
we came from the breeze but I dont care forever
I dont need a thing
In the early morning
Underneath the autumn shade
I don't need no more reminding of the day
Now the leaves are falling
And the sun won't be around
And the words I am are singing to the clouds
Na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
I am a Vine
All twisted and frayed
Lookin' for light
A million ways
Time hangin' around
Been getting' me down now baby yeah
Show me any sound
Kill me now I'm dead
Keep for yourself
Or throw it away
Damage your health
Or manage your brain
Time hangin' around
Been getting' me down now baby yeah
Show me any sound
I'm tired of feelin sick and useless
then speakin every other way
gluin my eyes together girl
might be the right escape
there's nothin in the secret garden
just images of blue and white
losin my mind forever girl
maybe the only sign
down in a country yard
I was taken by the shadows
although we couldn't see that far
I was dreamin of tomorrow
I really don't need a change
I really don't need what's mine
out in a country yard
it'll be just fine
aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhiiiiiii
down in a country yard
I was taken by the shadows
although we couldn't see that far
I was dreamin of tomorrow
I really don't need a change
I really don't need what's mine
out in a country yard
it'll be just fine
I want the world around me
For it to be gone
And it to be free
Dead in the brain
Is your claim to fame
I live by the sound
Thinkin' enough about it
The spirit is gone
In what I believe
Dead in the brain
Is your claim to fame
I live by the sound
Out in a dream
When I feel sorrow
Try make believin' anyway
Dead in the brain
Is your claim to fame
I live by the sound
Look through me because I am transparent
Her to know me but why even know yourself
I'm beginning to need all that I can't have
I'm succeeding to speak like I'm fucking mad
Looking at the autumn shade
You am I and I am great
Looking at the autumn shade, oh yeah
Look through me because I am transparent
Her to know me but why even know yourself
I'm beginning to need all that I can't have
I'm succeeding to speak like I'm fucking mad
Looking at the autumn shade
You am I and I am great
Looking at the autumn shade, oh yeah
I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
Ride into the sun
She never loved me
She never loved me
She never loved me
Why should anyone?
(Come here, come here, come here)
I'll take your photo for ya
(Come here, come here, come here)
Drive you around the corner
(Come here, come here, come here)
You know you really oughta
(Come here, come here, come here)
Move out of California
Get (get)
Me (me)
Far (far)
When I have alot to lose
Save (save)
Me (me)
From (from)
Here! (here)
When it's pretty time
Look into your mind
Don't wait
I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
Ride into the sun
She never loved me
She never loved me
She never loved me
Why should anyone?
(Come here, come here, come here)
I'll take your photo for ya
(Come here, come here, come here)
Drive you around the corner
(Come here, come here, come here)
You know you really oughta
(Come here, come here, come here)
Yeah ma ma my baby
Yeah ma ma my girl
Yeah ma ma my baby
You'll never rule the earth
This ain't the real world
It ain't a fuckin' thing
People are full of hurl
And so are all their friends
Yeah ma ma my baby
Yeah ma ma my girl
Yeah ma ma my baby
You'll never rule the earth
Two of a kind
Three ain't a pair
Real love were blind
I don't know how the future started
We might as well all be retarded
Cut from an image turned to stone
Makin' me feel it to the bone
Deep in the jungle or Sahara
Real people carry on regardless
Left unaffected left alone
The sun, the earth, the moon their home
In the beginning
Or the old days
Surreal lives and mine are strange
Oh yeah I say
It's like futuretarded
C'mon baby don't say
C'mon baby don't mind
Every night every day
Slip into the autumn shade
I could sleep for days
But I like the sun when
I can hear another sound
It's a long way down
Keep my head up
Who am I to be this way
Dreamin so insane
But I like the sun when
Falling through another plan
Never one the same
Walk the fields and we stare at the ocean
Roll the wheel but forget the notion
Life was better before was smaller
The minds computer will fuck the world up
Feels like a dream
I know you want it
Don't feel supreme
Nobody got it
World
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
Walk the fields and we stare at the ocean
Roll the wheel but forget the notion
Life was better before was smaller
The minds computer will fuck the world up
Feels like a dream
I know you want it
Don't feel supreme
Nobody got it
World
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
Fuck the world, don't
Fuck the world, don't
Fuck the world, don't
Fuck the world, don't
World
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
Evil is what you are
As well as being sharp
I fell right to it
She sells and I don't
Like it feels
Like shonen knife and kills
But they dont mind in an evil town
Evil is what you are
As well as being sharp
I fuckin' feel to it
Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Heads are down and all the people frown
In the factory
I'm so down I put my head around every noose I see
Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Eyes are mean but the walls are clean
In the factory
Patience now they're gonna string you out
In the factory
I'm so tired I never go outside every night I sleep
Days are long but the minds are gone
There ain't no room for me in the city
The lights go down but it looks so pretty
So take me away from the corner
Let me hide away in the fauna
With something at my side
Forget it now forget it then
We'll hang around without a care
There ain't no room for me in the city
The lights go down but it looks so pretty
So take me away from the corner
Let me hide away in the fauna
With something at my side
Going outta my head
Was it something I read
Forget it now
Forget it then
Don't listen to the radio
Hear something that ya ready know
I got no radio
Don't speak upon the telephone
Hear somethin' that you're never shown
I got no telephone
Get out the way today
(Oh yeah I say)
Get out the way today
(Oh yeah I say)
Don't listen to the TV show
Feel someone that you ready know
I got no T.V.O
Get out the way today
(Oh yeah I say)
Get out the way today
Candy daze are here to stay forever
They light the way and keep us all together
C'mon C'mon
Singin' a song
It won't be long
For we are gone
Candy daze are here to stay forever
They light the way and keep us all together
It'll be alright
I don't know I say it might
It'll seem alright
Are you here forever standin' by the road
With the benefit of feelin' on your own
See the late night talk show guest professional
A movie star and some kind of telectual
Hes a she cause shes got more obsessional
Cause whenever I get uptight know you will
See the late night talk show guest I guess you will
Down in there left by the side of the railway
Day goes by into the night, I was thinking
And my love is true
And my love is right
And my love is true
True as the night, oh
Hear the sound over the trees, there's a river
I don't know where to begin or to end it
And my love is true
And my love is right
And my love is true
True as the night, oh
I stand alone inside me
The things you've told didn't harm me
Yeah, we all move on
Yeah, we all move slow
I stand alone inside me
The things you've told didn't harm me
Yeah, we all move on
There's no point in doin' what I've done
Lives are goddamned ruined like the runts
Take me back to the weather
Bend the tracks wish forever
Take me back for I go down there no more
Chew us up and spit us out again
Wavin' bye and getting high on trends
Take me back to the weather
Bend the tracks and wish forever
Take me back for I go down there no more
Well the road is long
But I know I can survive
Been away so long
sunshinin rain's drivin
don't wanna believe
in the saints comin
don't try'n fool my head
the weather can be
any place I am
gone oh oh yeah
gone yeeaahh
drug buyin fake lightin
don't wanna believe
in the way I am
don't try'n fool my head
the weather for me
are the birds flyin
home oh oh yeah
Sun child
You're a sun child
Awoken by the spirit of the day
Will I wild
Speaking so mild
Forgot about the engine in the rain
Don't let it bring you down
For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray
But I can't
Sun child
You're a sun child
Awoken by the spirit of the day
Will I grow wild
Speaking so mild
Forgot about the engine in the rain
Don't let it bring you down
For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray
Mother said
Get me out
Brother meant
Get me out
I got a spaceship in the yard
We're only fourteen years apart
Or am I lost beside the stream
Tattoo my head tattoo my feet
I will leave home
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
About me never comin round
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
And dont know how to be left out
Are you tellin me what you ain't knowin?
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
About me never comin round
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
And dont know how to be left out
Are you tellin me what you ain't knowin?
About me ever coming round to play
And I wouldnt want to let you down
Meet you in the morning after daze
Soaking the sunrays from the ground
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
About me never comin round
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
And dont know how to be left out
First time that we met it was exciting
And was new
Last time that we met
You'd more important things to do
I don't really know
Just what it is you're looking for
Next time come to me
And I will show you to the floor
I know you got it, yeah I want it
But you are colder than no other
If I were older would you bother?
But now I know it's fucking over
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
That's the start, the middle, and the end
Aren't you glad the universe pretends
If I don't get this message home
Once again I'm gonna hate alone
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me, Oh
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me unless you
Bored aloud ignore the right to be
Invite me down because we like to see
The colours through your loaded mind
Fuck the world and liberate our time
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me, Oh
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me, Yeah
I'm not waiting a long life
I'm not waiting alone
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me home
Ride with me
Ride with me
We were hiding from the rain and the thunder
I've been staring out for days
As I wonder a long day around
So here we are again we're outnumbered
The feeling is a wave that I'm under
But I heard it call my name in the summer
Is it ever gonna change in my slumber
I can hear myself walking through this world
Can't believe it's not
They're talking so retarded
I don't know
It might not show
I get
What I own
Don't let
The feelings that I choose
'Cause everybody else do
Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you
We think
You're a lot different
Your number ain't your thing
Your life is on the wrong end
Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you
C'mon
C'mon
C'mon
Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
When I speak out of line
Orange amber in the sun
Shining 'til the day is done
I remember long ago
Standing in that orange world
How did the time just slip away?
I'd do anything to make it stay
Orange amber in the sun
Shining 'til the day is done
I remember long ago
Standing in that orange world
Been searching high, been searching low
Well, there ain't no better place to go
Orange amber in the sun
Shining 'til the day is done
I remember long ago
Standing in that orange world
Orange amber
Orange amber
Orange amber
Tell where I'm going to
Got nothing I wanna lose
Round and round and back again
Grin upon my fuckin head
Nothin's comin
I feel your death
Nothin's comin
Fallin' in or outta space
So sick of our human race
All for one ain't nothing real
Tell you how I fuckin feel
Nothin's comin'
I feel your death
Nothin's comin'
Nothin's comin'
Nothin's comin'
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
Me and your daughter
Got a special thing going on
You say it's puppy love
We say it's full grown
Hope that we feel this
Feel this way forever
You can paint a pretty picnic
But you can't predict the weather
Can't predict the weather
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
Me and your daughter
Got a special thing going on
You say it's puppy love
We say it's full grown
Hope that we feel this
Feel this way forever
You can paint a pretty picnic
But you can't predict the weather
Can't predict the weather
Mary Jane said life's a wait
I already knew
Because we're down
We'll lose the town
Just like I would choose
Mary Jane said minds are games
I went to the moon
Before we know
She'll have to go
Wish I were there too
But I've got to go
Mary Jane
Mary says
I, I can love you
Life's a wait
Why, why should I lose
When I've got to go
Burning down the manger
'Cause my Lord's a stranger
Beatles are bigger than Jesus
'Til the end of time we will be alive
We know more now than we did then
We'll only be awhile
Making the future right
Strung out and here today
We'll take your life away
We'll only be awhile
Making the future right
Strung out and here today
We'll take your life away
I'm feelin happy
So highly evolved
My times a riddle that'll never be solved
Dreamin for somethin
Reachin for somethin
Just waitin for the sun to carry me in
If you feel low
You can buy love
From a payphone
I don't feel low
My brother Bill
He work for the market
Life is an arrow now and he is the target
Dreamin for somethin
Reachin for somethin
Just waitin for the sun to carry me in
If you feel low
You can buy love
From a payphone
I don't feel love
Highly evolved
I don't feel low
Oh, baby girl
I wanna see you night and day
And in my world
I hope nothing will ever change
For you girl
I'll be waiting and waiting
And waiting and waiting
Oh, baby girl
I wanna ride into the sun
And in my world
Try take a shot at everyone
For you girl
I'll be waiting and waiting
And waiting and waiting
You should know
I'll be waiting and waiting
And waiting and waiting
Oh, baby girl
Oh, baby girl
I love you
Oh, baby girl
Oh, baby girl
in the jungle you can sleep
with the commandments at your feet
where the devil lays his hand
you don't even need to think
I'm tearin holes without a sink
but I know just where I stand
lines from the story you put before me
I don't know what to choose
under the oak tree tin all around me
I don't know what to prove
yeah she felt you felt like hell
in the jungle you're in the jungle
you're in the jungle that's you
in the jungle you're in the jungle
you're in the jungle ooooooohhh
and I'll be waitin for a hit yeah
ain't gonna seem fair tonight
and I'll keep havin other fits yeah
because it makes me feel alright
alright alright ooohhh ooohhh yeah right ooohhh ooohhh yeah
so if you should need a hand
write down the address of the land
but I'm runnin out of time
I'll tell you when it's time to leave
When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream
Please don't wake me, no
don't shake me
Leave me where I am
I'm only sleeping
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find, there's no need
Please don't spoil my day
I'm miles away
And after all
I'm only sleeping
Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time
Lying there and staring at the ceiling
Waiting for a sleepy feeling
Please don't spoil my day
I'm miles away
And after all
I'm only sleeping
Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time
When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream
Please don't wake me, no
don't shake me
Leave me where I am
I left my home
I left my home yeah, yeah
Where I should go
Where I should go yeah, yeah
Nothin's gonna save you
Nothin's gonna save you out there
Went on my own
Went on my own yeah, yeah
Without my phone
Without my phone yeah, yeah
Nothin's gonna save you
Nothin's gonna save you out there
Nothin's gonna save you
Nothin's gonna save you or give
I can see the leaves of golden glisten in the sun
Making time for everyone is what I should have done.
Blue and green with eyes between are acting all the same
You and me are never free until we're cast away
But it really doesn't matter couldn't change it if I tried
Though it really doesn't matter
Hey, what are you doing today?
I had enough of my time
And so I threw it away
All away
Give me all or give me nothing
All I want or nothing more
I'm as bored as she is lonely
Wanting for no one to call
So is there ain't nothing you know?
I had enough of your smile
And so I'm letting it go
I'll let go
Give me all or give me nothing
All I want or nothing more
I'm as bored as she is lonely
Wanting for no one to call
Show me the daylight
Oh, when I'm there
Tell me it's alright
Oh, when I'm there
C'mon now let me feel the gross out ain't corruptin' you
Alone and trippin' out on acid agein' in your room
I feel so down
Time bring me round
C'mon now let me feel the gross out obvious and aloof
I know ya never had a faith in all that which ya knew
I feel so down
Time bring me round
C'mon now let me feel the gross out
Anna made the world turn black
Got hit out on a motor track
Now nothin's gone to waste for sure
Was written on her bedroom wall
In to the world
I'm goin'
Anna made the world turn blue
With nothin' but her life to lose
Now nothin's gone to waste for sure
Was written on her bedroom wall
Into the world
I'm goin
Out of the world
Gone
I'm goin'
Out of the world
Find a way out
Get what you can
Keep your head now
Listen when I sing
C'mon get out outta here
C'mon get out over me
C'mon get out
God don't need ya
Find a home now (A home now)
See where you get (Where you get)
Sleep alone now (Alone now)
Or makin a friend
C'mon get out outta here
C'mon get out over me
C'mon get out
God don't need ya
I know you're thinking 'bout yourself (About yourself)
Why would you think of no one else? (Of no one else)
I'll keep on movin with the sound (Vin with the sound)
And sure do hope you come around
C'mon get out outta here
C'mon get out over me
C'mon get out
God don't need ya