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Second Coming
03:14
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Pretty Girls Make Graves (UK)
Hugo says he’s gonna burn the whole school down.
Pretty girls make graves, and all I need is polyester.
And Spastic Jones say, Our prospects are looking dim.
A change in the forecast, this ain’t about the weather.
You go the cellar and I’ll bring a match.
You ain’t gonna see me on no assembly line packing fish into a can.
And no one gonna steal my jelly; gonna call me a hero.
Five long years, and you the only friend I got.
And Mama’s not gonna see me
wearing little girl’s clothes in the kitchen.
I ain’t getting me no room
in no juvenile hotel division…
I’m not buying no postcards.
I’m not buying no pigeons.
I am the rule,
this ain’t no exception—
(Oh, baby, please…)
Hugo says he gonna set the world on fire.
But concrete weighs more than his dreams.
“And why’d it go wrong? Something’s always going wrong.”
This is I call a higher education.
And Mama’s not gonna see me
wearing little girl’s clothes in the kitchen.
I ain’t getting me no room
in no juvenile hotel division…
I’m not buying no postcards.
I’m not buying no pigeons.
I am the rule,
this ain’t no exception—
(Oh, baby, please…)
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I Danced for You
03:31
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Pretty Girls Make Graves (UK)
Hugo says he’s gonna burn the whole school down.
Pretty girls make graves, and all I need is polyester.
And Spastic Jones say, Our prospects are looking dim.
A change in the forecast, this ain’t about the weather.
You go the cellar and I’ll bring a match.
You ain’t gonna see me on no assembly line packing fish into a can.
And no one gonna steal my jelly; gonna call me a hero.
Five long years, and you the only friend I got.
And Mama’s not gonna see me
wearing little girl’s clothes in the kitchen.
I ain’t getting me no room
in no juvenile hotel division…
I’m not buying no postcards.
I’m not buying no pigeons.
I am the rule,
this ain’t no exception—
(Oh, baby, please…)
Hugo says he gonna set the world on fire.
But concrete weighs more than his dreams.
“And why’d it go wrong? Something’s always going wrong.”
This is I call a higher education.
And Mama’s not gonna see me
wearing little girl’s clothes in the kitchen.
I ain’t getting me no room
in no juvenile hotel division…
I’m not buying no postcards.
I’m not buying no pigeons.
I am the rule,
this ain’t no exception—
(Oh, baby, please…)
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Tattoos
06:16
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Tattoos
She traces the scars of her faded tattoos,
says, Why’s it the pretty things always cut you?
We listen to cars, slick one-lane road,
I could tell her it’ll be OK but we both know it won’t.
Outside these windows,
these January storms,
don’t help much at all.
Sitting naked on this motel floor,
listening to the rain come down at night
And tomorrow, I’ll wonder where she’s gone
and who’s taking my place tonight?
Outside these windows,
this hobo parade
don’t seem like fun.
I want to burst out like a bandit
till cops come in on a raid
cold rain a discount baptism,
and I watch as they take her away.
You’ll be a song I put in a letter,
a story about a man tap dancing on a grave.
the chemical push in a soundless forever,
and the best mistake I ever made.
These hands don’t work like they used to;
and these cigarettes don’t calm me down.
And outside these windows
these haunting harbor lights are calling me home
Outside these windows,
baby, I can’t find my way home.
These days, I don’t make too many promises
because I’ll only let myself down,
like when I think what could’ve been
or when I watch the trains leave this town.
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The Wandering San Francisco, California
The Wandering are a San Francisco alt-country/rock/punk band (depending on the year), led by novelist and songwriter Joe Clifford with any number of the following: Jarrett Cooper, Joe Dean, "Big" Tom Mitchell, Franz Nicolay, Mattt Rossoff, Kevin Seidel, Krishna Feeney, Michael Urbano, and Erik Zalkin. ... more
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