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Soldier's Honour
04:32
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Soldier’s Honour (Lee/Dunbar)
Remembering those memories
Of photographs and dreams from some other day
They’re all gone, they’re all gone
There’s nothing left behind these whispering eyes
All that you can do
Is laugh about it
When there’s nothing left
To cry about
The memory fades away oh yeah
But you never love
Anybody else.
Love strays and your hair grays
Soon you find the days
Have fallen behind you
All gon, they’re all gone
You wander through a maze
With no one to find you
‘Til all that you can do
Is laugh about it
When there’s nothing left
To cry about
The memory fades away oh yeah
But you never love
Anybody else
and on that sunny day, she went away and never came again
Nothing else remains but a photograph
You’re far too gone to cry
But you can laugh
The memory fades but ahhh…
A soldier’s honour
It’s like an armour for the fight
He’ll win every night
To remember a love
That withered and died before
The second World War
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2. |
McDonaldland
02:13
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McDonaldland
Hey wow, it’s such a tasty kind of madness
That draws us on through those
Arches, golden glowing
And it’s said, by the wise and kindly prophets
That you can’t outrun the sun
(but if you could then time would stop, and you’d be bored completely,
nothing changing, nothing growing, nothing living, nothing dying)
Attention s'il vous plaît!
Liberté, égalité, yeah!
I wanna be your chauffeur! I wanna take you over!
I’ll set you free McDonaldland!
I wanna pay your pension! I wanna ease your tension!
I’ll heal the wound McDonaldland!
Because hope, it’s such a funny kind of feeling
When you had all you can take of all their
“You have no bread, but we’ll let you eat cake!”
Hey, wow! But that guillotine sure swings,
When those heads go rolling
(and if they ever said the past was dead they never read the writing
on the wall before the saw the gilded curtain fall upon them)
Attention s'il vous plaît!
Liberté, égalité, yeah!
I wanna be your chauffeur! I wanna take you over!
I’ll set you free McDonaldland!
I wanna pay your pension! I wanna ease your tension!
I’ll heal the wound McDonaldland!
I wanna be your Captain! I wanna make it happen!
I’ll set you free, McDonaldland!
I wanna do it today! I wanna fuck your pain away!
I’ll heal the wound McDonaldland!
I’ll set you free!
McDonald
Land.
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3. |
Strange Mutations
03:36
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Strange Mutations (Gunette, Lee)
There have been changes
In my behaviour
Strange mutations
I've got no saviour
It seems like ages
I'm rearranging
I've gone through stages
There's no escaping
And it grows and it grows and it grows
And it keeps on growing
Let it roll, let it roll,let it roll
Rolling on the radio
It feels like paradise come tripping off my tongue
Don't let it roll
Out of control
I've got addictions
but no restrictions
I've got obsessions
That I'm suppressing
Too fast to follow
Some pills to swallow
Too good to pass up
Now I'm enveloped
There have been changes
In my behaviour
Strange sensations
That aren't familiar
I've lived in cages
In open spaces
Now I'm waiting
To be overtaken
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4. |
Punch The Sky
04:14
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Punch the Sky (Lee)
Could it be that they dragged you through the mud?
Stole your blood, took your name,
Brought you to the brink of shame?
But there’s a light inside your eyes
The could not recognize it, you disguised it
But how they must despise it
When you feel your heart is broken
You may find you’ve just awoken
So stand up tall and punch the sky
When you feel you’re about to die
Draw a breath and take the kiss of life
From the jaws of death
Punch the sky
When you feel that everything’s a lie
Oh, no, you must be dreaming
Cuz you’re bound to be receiving
Everything, you’0er the King
Of your destiny now, and everything is free
For the taking
Don’t you be mistaken
No, no.
Was it you,
That they scarred and blistered through and through?
Oh no! You were nowhere to be found
When their nose was to the ground
That light they couldn’t claim
Your dignity, your name
And your soul
Are incorruptible!
So when you feel your heart is broken in two
You may find you’ve just awoken too
So stand up tall, man, punch the sky
When you feel you’re about to die
Draw a breath and take the kiss of life
From the jaws of death
Punch the sky
When you feel that everything’s a lie
Oh, no, you must be dreaming
but you’re bound to be receiving
Everything, you’re the King
Of all destiny now, and everything is free
For the taking
Don’t you be mistaken
No, no.
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5. |
Sisters & Brothers
02:47
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Sisters and Brothers(Lee, interpolating "Let My Baby Ride" by RL Burnside)
I love making a plan
Oh, with sisters and brother
To reconnect the telephone
The bills are paid, the lights are on
Among you
So why’d you go and leave me
All alone?
Cuz maybe, if you’d like a conversation after hours
Then I’ll see you again
Quite literally I can say that
Lately I’m sublime,
My mind is fine, but still I find
That I’m crying all the time
Lay down your arms
And if you listen, I’ll be there for you
It’ll be so very nice
To be the ones who
Say the same thing twice
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6. |
Golden Boy
04:17
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Golden Boy
The patterns of the world
Are buried ‘neath the weight of diamonds and pearls
Like shadows in the night
We never knew something so wrong or so right
And anyway you go, it’s just a gimmick or a show
You take your pills and wrestle with your conscience
While they tighten up pressure
Measure by measure
Well, I’m a Golden Boy, oh boy!
There ain’t no question!
That the patterns of the world
Still buried ‘neath the weight of diamonds and pearls
Are like shadows in the night
Who never knew something so wrong, or so right
Ah! But the inimical feeling!
A poison of the process
Whereby they tighten up pressure
Measure by measure
But I’m a Golden Boy, oh boy!
And there ain’t no question!
I’m Harriet Beecher,
Pleasure to meet yer!
No more cardinals, for the old souls
We know
Which way to go
So cordon off the scene, man, lock up the green room
Come lay your body down beside me
We’ll go and take a walk outside
Commit your career suicide
With eyes open wide
Way down past the trees
With the people upon their knees
Let the magic strike
Prove the might of Right
Ahhhh
The patterns of the world
Where buried ‘neath the weight of diamonds and pearls
Lie the shatters of our lives
Let’s put the kids to bed and turn out the lights.
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7. |
Don't Kill Yr Friends
04:22
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Don’t Kill Yr Friends (Lee, Dunbar)
It’s hard when you discover
That another lowly brother’s played you
For a fool
And all those things you thought were sacred now are jaded, faded
Black to blue
Because everybody’s got their own agenda
All the liars, and pretenders
Fashionistas, pimps and scensters
Businessmen and people pleasers
It makes me wanna shoot somebody down…
But don’t kill your friends!
Make love to them, and while you slumber
They may increase in number
And you’ll meet someone who’s gonna
Love you for yourself!
That’s your friend! Hang on to them, though you’ll be parted
You’ll never be broken hearted!
And when you’re dead, someone will weep over your grave
That’s why you need friends!
All you Nazis, Christians, punks and homies
Intellectual cultured phonies
Poets, politicians, lovers
All you fucking useless others
Who think your feeble lives have meaning
In some grand and cosmic scheming
It’s a rhetoric so self-esteeming
Jesus Christ, you must be dreaming!
It makes you wanna shoot somebody down…
But don’t kill your friends!
Make love to them, and while you slumber
They may increase in number
And you’ll meet someone who’s gonna
Love you for yourself!
That’s your friend! Hang on to them, though you’ll be parted
You’ll never be broken hearted!
And when you’re dead, someone will weep over your grave
That’s why you need friends!
Cuz oh, it’s such a wicked, cruel world!
So hang on to your friends!
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8. |
SUV
01:29
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SUV (Lee)
Guy, on the day that you were born
The angels blessed your name
And they blew their shining horns into the sky for you
And guy, on the day that you will die
No one will wonder why
There’s a twinkle in your eye
Well, you hit me with your SUV,
You broke my bike, you hurt my leg
I hope the sun has shone on you today!
She is coordinating quality
Down at the I.M.V. StatOil SAG Hydro Facility
Mihaela, oh my Consuela
From Venezuela
I’ll never fail you, I’ll confess in rhyme
You hit me with your SUV,
You broke my heart, you stole my life
I hope the sun has shone on you today
Poor people work hard too
I hope The Man is working hard for you
I gotta confess, I love you
In a very simple way
And I hope the sun has shone on you today.
I hope the sun has shone on you.
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9. |
Dandy Man/Hill St Blues
04:09
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Dandy Man/Hill St Blues (Lee)
The Dandy Man is stringing you along
Like, he says he wants to be there
But will he be there... tonight?
Out of mind, out of sight?
Tangled up, getting strangled on your lawn
If you show me how to be there
I’d be there tonight
Out of mind, out of sight
I’m just a criminal in my mind
So fucking wasted all the time
I climb into the elevator
Up where the sun is situated
And all this common earth can’t take me on
When I’m so turned on
The angels on your shoulder all have gone now
No more will they be there
You’re free tonight
Out of mind, out of sight
Just a criminal of the mind
I come on wasted all the time
I climb into the elevator
Where the sun is situated
And all this common earth can’t take me on
God, I’m so turned on!
So put a criminal on the cross…
Your cause is wasted, all is lost…
Whoah! I don’t know
If crime is something you can solve
You get the Hill St Blues
It comes in twos to your door
When you don’t wear sandals
On your naked ankles anymore
Cock Robin, Cock Robin!
Where have you been?
Have you seen the light?
‘Twas the sparrow, shot the arrow!
He fired with all his might
He got the Hill St Blues,
It comes in twos to your door
When we don’t wear sandals
On our naked ankles anymore
Whoah! I don’t know,
If crime is something to be solved
Cock Robin! Cock Robin!
Will it ever be
Resolved?
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10. |
Dave
02:45
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Dave (Lee)
The show can’t wait another day
You’re lost inside of yourself
And I’ve been waiting patiently
To see you
But you’re not coming out
You’ve got a bad case of the Gout
But I’ve known you a hundred years today
You’re cradling your grave, Dave!
So light another cigarette
Prepare your victory march
This English heart will shine anew
To see you
Hey! Mister Twist n’ Shout!
When all the little lights go out
The Hand of God will strike you down today
For cradling your grave, Dave!
(Sister Ray says “love is lazy,” oh how delicately lays it down…)
Alone, in dreams we’ll walk alone
In spite our brave designs
And all our crimes will creep in time
To see you!
Well, I’m not running out!
Oh, cast away all doubt!
Cuz I know you’ve got nothing left to say
Go cradle in your grave, Dave!
I can’t wait until the end
You’ve lost your little mind
But I could wait a million years
To see you…
In dreams
In dreams, I’ve walked through your heart
In dreams, I’ve smiled through your eyes
In dreams, I always
Die
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11. |
Forever Tonight
04:56
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Forever Tonight
So laissez-faire you come on dear tonight
Forever tonight
Forever tonight
Don’t shy away from excessive force
You can’t outlast what you can’t endorse,
All right?
Forever tonight.
American me
Dreamt while fame was only fleeting
Yet scarcely believe
In a foe more fully beaten
We fade into the light of a renaissance
Your presence haunts me still
And it’s waiting in the wings just like an old, familiar feeling
Seems to be the ceiling’s caving in on you again
And you’re left without a friend, kind companion,
Or a lover by your side
Set down for the ages on those long forgotten pages
Written by the sages when the world was just
A twinkling in your eye
A fiction and a lie
So lies and fears, come, come on down tonight
Forever tonight
Forever tonight
Don’t burden me to burn my bed
I’ll eat a pomegranate in the land of the dead instead
Forever tonight
Abandoned we meet
In the spaces between sleeping
Soldiers in need
Freed while wounds are slowly weeping
We drift into the light of our own renaissance
Your presence haunts me still
And it’s waiting in the wings just like an old, familiar feeling
Seems to be the ceiling’s caving in on you again
And you’re left without a friend, kind companion,
Or a lover by your side
Set down for the ages on those long forgotten pages
Written by the sages when the world was just
A twinkling in your eye
A fiction or a lie
So come on, money man
Gonna wipe away the voices on the sidewalk
Cuz you can’t afford the revenant you’re coveting
You took it all back for the sound of crucifixion on the radio
My God!
Come on and take me to the fields where I used to roam
I know someone’s waiting on the telephone
My soul is calling out to you…
And it’s waiting in the wings just like an old, familiar feeling.
Seems to be the ceiling’s caving in on you again
And you’re left without a friend, kind companion,
Or a lover by your side
Set down for the ages on those long forgotten pages
Written by the sages when the world was just
A twinkling in your eye
A fiction or a lie..
So laissez-faire you come on dear tonight
Forever tonight
Forever tonight
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The Psychic Alliance Vancouver, British Columbia
The less you know about this band, the better. Rumor has it that they're very bad people, paranoid, misanthropic, frequently given to melancholy and intellectual dullards to boot. Stories of vicious infighting and naughtiness follow them like a black cloud, and the threat of immediate collapse is constant. Fortunately they look cool. ... more
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