1. |
Liars
03:19
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Liars, put the hip in hypocrite
The sham in champagne
The voice inside my head that says
What do I stand to gain
Two wrongs can’t make a right
That’s why I got the blues
Two rights can make a wrong
And that’s why I gotta deal with you
You’re a cruel and shallow money trench
Where pimps and thieves run free
Liars
Just another name
For the music industry
First step is sounding good
Second’s fitting in
Third’s dealing with assholes
until your just like them
Business is a circle jerk
Stroke it til the well runs dry
Don’t matter if your spirit’s dead
Just as long as you provide
Little fish eat plankton
Bigger fish eat fish
Showbiz’ll eat a plastic bag
If there’s enough money in it
Don’t matter what you got
But who you got on board
When they start whitewashin’ your fence
The pimp will find you more
It’s a cruel and shallow money trench
Where pimps and thieves run free
Liars
Just another name
For the music industry
Funky people don’t feel the same
As the heart grows old
The pop music fades
Til we’re talking bout soul
Only some things
You can’t falsify
Old hearts laugh a little
Every time they cry
It’s a cruel and shallow money trench
Where pimps and thieves run free
Liars
Just another name
For the music industry
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2. |
Ghosts
04:43
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Waved to an old friend
At the late night bar
She looked right through me
Like a shadow in the dark
Called up an old buddy
To get a beer
He picked up the phone
But he did not seem to hear
Well I realized things weren’t right
When a stranger said to me
Life wouldn’t mean nothing
Without ghosts like me
Just then I recognized him
Another old friend
Who drowned when we were kids
Way back when
He said
Living with ghosts, it’s gonna bring you down
You’ve gotta sing them a lullaby
Show them you love ‘em while your heart still pounds
Before they take you to the afterlife
Listen closely you can hear them sing it goes
Ooh
oooh ooh
Ooh
oooh ooh
Don’t ya look nice
Don’t ya look nice
Ooh
oooh ooh
Ooh
oooh ooh
Don’t ya look nice
Don’t ya look nice
Ever since that day
It ain’t been the same
I get premonitions
Hear voices call my name
If something haunts your dreams
You better make it your best friend
Or spend the rest of your short life
Trying to make amends
I said
Chorus
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3. |
Bad People
04:15
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My heart keeps beating
Racing towards the dawn
Birds are chirping
You know it won’t be long
One last night in a dirty motel
Before I turn myself into jail
Oh lord I’ve come so far
Ain’t gonna let you break my
Heart
No no no
The trees are blooming
The air is warm and sweet
I’m so tired
But I can hardly sleep
There’s a ring around the moon
Means I’ll be crying with you soon
Oh lord I’ve come so far
Ain’t gonna let you break my
Heart
No no no
I been convicted
Of being blind
Something’s broken
But I see just fine
Shoulda listened to the church bell ring
But all I heard was a lonesome train
Oh lord I’ve come so far
Ain’t gonna let you break my
Heart
No no no
At least there’s free parking in
hell
And the heat bill is covered as well
Oh yes it is now
Makes you wonder how heaven could be so
swell
When the bible don’t ask it just tells
I’m going to the farm
To turn myself in
Didn’t mean to do no harm
But I’m struggling
I wake up shaking cold with sweat
The nightmares don’t let me rest
Oh lord I’ve come so far
Ain’t gonna let you break my
Heart
No no no
Bad people need more
Than we can give
A villain without a nightmare
Is just a kid
You’re not evil til your grown
Til the shadows make a home
Oh lord I’ve come so far
Ain’t gonna let you break my
Heart
No no no
At least there’s free parking in
hell
And the heat bill is covered as well
Oh yes it is now
Makes you wonder how heaven could be so
swell
When the bible don’t ask it just tells
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4. |
Starlit
03:58
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I need money
And I need it quick
Fire burning
Only got one wick
And pretty things
are only half of it
I’ll be the cherry of your cigarette
If you keep my dreams starlit
City lights
Have burned a hole
In the back
Of my country soul
And now I crave
what I used to loathe
All except
For you
Chorus
You come round
And my breath gets hot
I take you down
Only takes one shot
It’s what you feel
and not what you got
But I’ve got everything you need
Chorus
The emptiness
Never goes away
The more you know
The less you say
But I was hoping
That you could stay
And watch me
Fade away
Chorus
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5. |
New Mexican Rockstar
04:07
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6. |
If It Don't Bleed
05:32
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If it don’t bleed
Then it ain’t alive
Another shiny thing
For the crows to find
If it don’t bleed
Ain’t worth listening to
I smell dead things
Funkier than you
Devil got my woman
Woman got myself
Kept drinking til I lost my mind
Then I lost my health
I don’t care if it rains
No grave’s too shallow for me
You can take everything I have
Ain’t afraid to bleed
First it was survival
Then it was god
Then the ivory tower turned to babel
And look at what we got
I got family that can go to hell
And enemies that get me through
Seems like everyone I love
Has an open wound
Chorus
Every canary ever saw this place
Lay down and died
Don’t matter if you’re in the groove
If you ain’t got the time
Sometimes a beautiful lie
Can be true
If it draws blood
When it’s gone away from you
Chorus
Some day I’m gonna end it all
Drown in shadow
Time has such a bitter taste
So little to call your own
But with each and every tear I shed
I see more stars above
You never gonna see the light
Until you see the blood
Chorus
x2 like intro
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7. |
Don't Have to Be Good
04:47
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When I came to they tried to take my blood
I didn’t know just what I’d done
I said no, but the judge said yes
Nothing like the law to put your mind to rest
I said hold back
Ease up
Don’t have to be good to have good luck
Threw me into that Memphis jail
Thirty six hours til they took my bail
So I played chess with the christian bloods
Next thing you know I’m praying with the thugs
Saying hold back
Ease up
Don’t have to be good to have good luck
Let me tell you what I did this time
Took out a gate blacked outta my mind
Passed out at the wheel drinking moonshine
And puked on cop at the scene of the crime
I said hold back
Ease up
Don’t have to be good to have good luck
It took fifteen years
Of going outta my mind
To accept that faith
Is all that gets us by
Most people rather believe
Someone else’s lie
Or make up their own
That helps them give a
Fuck
Don’t have have to be good to have good luck
I got faith in the blues
The funk, the soul and the holy groove
Hallow be that which moves
Your eyes to shine in the gloom
Gives us the strength to do our best
Delivers us from emptiness
An invisible sacrament
That medicates the malcontent
I said hold back
Ease up
Don’t have to be good to have good luck
Chorus x2
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8. |
Mississippi
04:37
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Strung out like mother of pearl
Hanging round the neck of a dead eyed girl
She don’t love you but she won’t let you be
You gotta raise hell for her to see
She can’t break you and she can’t break me
Mississippi
Sick- but not ready to die
Speaking truth and preaching lies
Many to blame only some to despise
People talk, but when they harmonize
There’s a tear in the devil’s eye
Mississippi
“No man ever steps in the same river twice
For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man”
But I carry that river and she carries me
Towards the pearly gates, but before I leave
We gonna make the shadows gleam
Mississippi
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9. |
The Denouement
04:01
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Light a candle by the riverside
Sail away in the moonlight
And the nightbird sings
The same old tune
Before you go sit with me
Two empty bottles in the breeze
Always humming
The same old tune
Rest your head
In my arm
Don’t say nothing at all
I guess they call this
The denouement
When you don’t know what’s right from wrong
But you can’t, can’t, can’t stand
The sweetest song
The river sings as she moves
The sweetest words that you ever knew
But she never stays
Where she ain’t meant to be
Watch the boats rumble by
Hear the engines alchemize
All the dead
Into that smoke in your eye
Rest your head
In my arm
Don’t say nothing at all
I guess they call this
The denouement
When you don’t know what’s right from wrong
But you can’t stand
The sweetest song
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10. |
See Red
03:07
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You’re in my blood just like that nicotine and wine
You’re in my dreams just like those nightmares of dying
You’re a word better left unsaid
So many colors I only see red
You’re in my breath just like these magnolia trees
you’re in my glass just like these ice cubes that bleed
You’re the sun burning holes in my eye
The other stars can’t make me blind
You’re the heat that makes my water boil
You’re the drill that’s got me gushing oil
You’re the truth that I never tell
Another lie and I’ll see you in hell
You’re the red line on my dial
You’re the lipstick on my smile
You’re a word better left unsaid
So many colors I only see red
So many colors I only see red
So many colors I only see red
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