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No Guarantees
03:23
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I got a calendar
with a page for every day
I turn it maybe two times a week
I just never bother
Gotta find a better way
Before that calendar becomes an antique
I’m sure
There’s a clock on the wall
Couldn’t tell you if it’s fast or slow
Even if it were
Wouldn’t matter at all
Being lates the only way I’ve ever known
Welcome to a world with no guarantees
Somehow I take for granted things I’ve never seen
How did I do it? How did I keep track of the days?
The sound of malaise
I could give a recital
But legally no one can attend
On account of my age
Isolation is vital
I’d say I hate it but I don’t like to pretend
There was an age
When things got rough
You could disappear maybe ride the rails
That romantic situation
Ain’t an option for us
At least you get to decorate your own jail
Welcome to a world with no guarantees
Somehow I take for granted things I’ve never seen
How did I do it? How did I keep track of the days?
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2. |
My House is Like a Hotel
03:39
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I guess my house is like a hotel
A room That’s pay to stay
And these days I’m getting all my moneys worth
I could say I’m on a holiday
But my lies never go well
Still Ill try to keep my condition from sounding worse
I admit I panic in the darkness
And the lights are burning out
I’ve been proscribed going out and buying more
Still they lie, they want my business
Eyes that look just like a sharks does
Stay home but still spend your money at the company store
Stay home but still spend your money at the company store
Well I wake up at the same time
As I’ve done for years on end
But still each morning feels like a brand new day
And I’m ready to work not just pretend
Ready to enjoy the out side
Think about living instead of standing far enough away
They’ll tell you how your day goes
Advice they don’t believe
Funny no one you see on the tv is really poor
If we gave it away for free
What false idol would we follow
Stay home but still spend your money at the company store
Stay home but still spend your money at the company store
And if the vicar says to risk your life
At least you’ll see him for what he is
Before long they’ll be collecting door to door
I don’t see know difference
between big business and religion
Stay home but still spend your money at the company store
Stay home but still spend your money at the company store
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3. |
I Really Only Borrow
03:17
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All those things people say
About the gone and good old days
Just another fancy way
To show they got regrets
A life that passed them by
The hopes that all ran dry
You know time is the reason why
Only helps you to forget
Everybody's wondering if this old world's been out grown
Someday I'll get the answer, I still won't really know
I can look for better questions, sometimes it's how it goes
All I'm saving, I really only borrowed
Did I get myself misled?
Get permission to leave my bed?
Can't lead, can't get ahead
I hope I like where I am now
Still things I wanna see
Got an alert, so I can't leave
Fleeting dreams of being free
Are all this world will allow
Everybody's wondering if this old world's been out grown
Someday I'll get the answer, I still won't really know
I can look for better questions, sometimes it's how it goes
All I'm saving, I really only borrowed
And I don't have the space for the lessons I've acquired
So I hold to things I knew before
My shame don't seem to burn just tempered by the fire
Made stronger when the rain begins to pour
In the dark it's all okay
But night turns into day
It knows no other way
Than keeping me on edge
Everybody's wondering if this old world's been out grown
Someday I'll get the answer, I still won't really know
I can look for better questions, sometimes it's how it goes
All I'm saving, I really only borrowed
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4. |
I Got That Time Now
03:56
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If I’d have had this time before the world fell apart
Can you imagine all the things that I’d be good at
If I’d have been this free before the end times took their start
I might have stopped standing still to chew the fat
I could have taught myself to love
Reconciled blood and bone
I got time now
But my time ain’t my own
If I’d have known just how fragile what I had to hold was
Would I have worked any harder to fill the gaps?
If I’d have known how bad the damn was in need of shoring up
I think I would have stopped using that river to swim laps
I’d have found a friend or two
To pull the weeds before they’d grown
I got that time now
But my time ain’t my own
If I could see where were heading when we finally make it through
What excuses will I have that you’d believe
If we can understand that we decide what we can’t do
May there never be an end to what we achieve
For now I’ll put it through the pen
Dream of reaping what we’ll sow
I got that time
But my time ain’t my own
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5. |
Make Me Cry
02:57
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It’s a big old world
Getting bigger everyday
Still people tell me I don’t fit
What are they trying to say?
I’ve tried to find the magic
Tried to play the part
It’s getting harder with my ever shrinking heart
I used to be sentimental
Now I’m cold I don’t know why
It shouldn’t take somebody dying to make me cry
What really changed?
What did I used to be?
If nothing stayed the same
Well that would be news to me
Life’s always been a grind
It’s always been unfair
But these days I find it so hard to care
I used to be sentimental
Now I’m cold I don’t know why
It shouldn’t take somebody dying to make me cry
No one explained
Summer has to end
If you want the leaves to change, to change, to change
To break out of the old key
Break the past’s hold
If you’re worried about staying young
All you’re doing is getting old
Work don’t ever end
Made to scratch and claw and climb
It will all be worth it in time.
I used to be sentimental
Now I’m cold I don’t know why
It shouldn’t take somebody dying to make me cry
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6. |
Shock and Awe
02:55
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Shock and awe what a way to go
I liked it better when the news went slow
Table manners and empty Frigidaires
Sitting in chintz arm chairs
Shock and awe what a tempting offer
A madman with his fist in the coffer
Gotta figure it out gotta do it soon
But we only get nine people in the room
Mama Needs a new dress
Now daddy’s gotta find a new job
Hell do what he’s gotta short of robbing
let the good lord sort the rest
Shock and awe, I ain’t adjusted
I’ve been running a fever I can’t be trusted
Gotta an old needle and a couple LPs
Gonna put em on and find me sleep
Shock and awe and an empty block
Gotta wipe your ass with what they got in stock
They might have more on town over
But you’ll never get it over the border
Mama Needs a new dress
Now daddy’s gotta find a new job
Hell do what he’s gotta short of robbing
let the good lord sort the rest
Shock and awe why do we stay here
Saving up now so you can spend it later
When we smash the hive to steal a little honey
Don’t bother trying to follow the money
Mama Needs a new dress
Now daddy’s gotta find a new job
Hell do what he’s gotta short of robbing
Let the good lord sort the rest
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7. |
The Sun Exploded
03:42
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Some were counting on war
Others betting on famine
I was inclined to a meteor
Or a collision with an alien planet
But it turned out to be much more simple
They implied it might be millions of years
But it seems these days that all you smell is fear
I ain't saying I want it to be over
It's all going to hell much sooner than reported
Ain't the time right? Don't it feel like
The sun exploded
Have you locked all your doors?
Hiding your daughters and mother?
Cleaned out your grocery store?
Made sure you got much more than the others?
So full of shit I'm glad you got that toilet paper
They implied it might be millions of years
But it seems these days that all you smell is fear
I ain't saying I want it to be over
It's all going to hell much sooner than reported
Ain't the time right? Don't it feel like
The sun exploded
I find panic so peaceful
I'm enjoying the apocryphal scenes
I find myself non essential
Content in quarantine
Is apocalypse a desperate man's dream?
They implied it might be millions of years
But it seems these days that all you smell is fear
I ain't saying I want it to be over
It's all going to hell much sooner than reported
Ain't the time right? Don't it feel like
The sun exploded
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8. |
Momentary Changes
04:21
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When this is over they’ll ask you to forget so much
Please forget all the cracks let’s all go back to the way that it was
Don’t turn the light on you won’t like what you see
Stay inside please
Stay inside please
I guess we’re all famous we’ll be remembered as survivors or victims
Momentary changes ain’t enough to break the weight of the system
Don’t turn the light on you won’t like what you see
Stay inside please
Stay inside please
I got a feeling when the lights turn on
And what we’re waiting for finally shows
It’ll be an apparition
Something we’ve never known
It’ll be an other worldly dream
I got a feeling
Better is something we’ve never seen
I can still charge my phone but it ain’t rang for days
Shocking I’ve had the same number since the seventh grade
Don’t turn the light on you won’t like what you see
Stay inside please
Stay inside please
It’s strange to see what people value more than their health
The simplicity of ignorance, the ease of Everyman for himself
Don’t turn the light on you won’t like what you see
Stay inside please
Stay inside please
I got a feeling when the lights turn on
And what we’re waiting for finally shows
It’ll be an apparition
Something we’ve never known
It’ll be an other worldly dream
I got a feeling
Better is something we’ve never seen
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