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California Wine (Demo)
02:43
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California, here i come
show me your dark side
let me taste your rum
California wine, show me a good time
french inhaling sara's cigarette
it must be a holiday
cause there's no one around
and lauren's out of town
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2. |
Even
01:41
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helpless as a chess piece
lifted by your hand
helpless like your mother
crying by the van
i guess we're even now
i guess you're leaving now
i guess we're even now
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Dairy Queen
02:18
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let's go to dairy queen
and hang out in your parked car and grin
let's buy ice cream and let it drip on down our chins
i'm completely free for the rest of my life
so come with me let's live the high life
let's cut our hair into the shape of bad mistakes
let's get tattoos of vulgar words across our face
i don't really care what they've gotta think
i'm starting to wear my heart on my sleeve
let's smoke crack cocaine and get paranoid by every noise
let's take long drives with nothing real but time to kill
i love you
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4. |
Elephant Fish
02:24
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i could've been your lover
fed you your pills for supper
and cut your hair by the bath
tell me how long would it last
oh no
i could've been your mother
tucked you in for your slumber
and fought off all those rats
who'd take you back to his pad
oh no
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5. |
Fuck Yr Frns
02:57
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fuck your friends they make me sick
all their condescending compliments
and fuck mine too i hate them just as well
if i ever got the chance to speak
oh i'd never get the chance to leave
cause one of those guys would beat me to hell
cause i talk a lotta shit yea
i'd get my ass kicked yea
i've got a lot to say but i can't fight
i've got a big brain but i'm a skinny guy
fuck your friends they're all so uptight
and fuck your job it keeps you away from me
but it pays the bills and let's us eat
and fuck my art it's never made a dime
but if i were famous just for a day
oh i'd probably spit in some camera's face
and i'd never leave the house and lose my mind
cause i'm sort of scared and
nervous and weird yea
but i've got a lot to show for a reclusive ass
i've got a lot to sing for someone who would pass
yea fuck your job and how long it lasts
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stop trying to wean me off your love
cause you're my favorite person on earth
i never changed your life
i only showed up for the drugs
love i'm tired of feeling alone
so i'll hold my breath and bite my tongue i guess
stop trying to wean me off your love
cause you're my favorite person on earth
and love i'm tired of feeling alone
so i hold my breath and bite my tongue i guess
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7. |
Sigmund Freud
02:29
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Sigmund Freud, my galaxy
i'm all calmed down on herbal tea
and i'm tired
baby it's easy to find me
i'm around
Novocaine, my wonder woman
i'm all worked up on the way you fear fun
it's contagious
maybe it's hard to find love
when everyone's on drugs
little dear, my rubber soul
won't you come a little closer i'll eat you whole
it's easy
cat got your tongue
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8. |
Run
02:12
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fill your idle hands with something to make you forget
drink til you can't stand then your soul leaves your tape deck
you wanna make a toast
but i run from you
am i going blind or am i just bored
it's a nervous state of mind i'll be better in the morgue
i took it on the chin
but you run from me
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9. |
Christmas Eve
01:49
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don't tell me something that i can't believe
oh i'm as lonely as christmas eve
don't look at me like that
don't raise your fists to fight back
i slept with a cat that was perched on my breasts
and i struggled and gasped for my last breath
don't curse at me that way
don't raise your voice to complain
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10. |
6 Pills
04:16
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6 pills, i've got 6 pills in my gut
8 days, i've got 8 days to love
and the traffic was relentless
it proceeded to wake me up
and the man of my mistress
is pushing his goddamn luck
3 hours, it took 3 hours to find you
and when i did i lit a cigarette
and we spoke of the moon
she brushed her hair
in the mirror by the door
and i feigned sleep
on the mattress in the floor
mail man, mail man go away
too high, i am too high you're scaring me
and i don't want no bills or checks i have to cash
but my albums never sell so i know it's not checks to cash
blue skies, blue skies why do you weep
emerald eyes, emerald eyes what do you see
and the gift from her hands, it fuzzied up my head
and her heart is a land, foreign to her friends.
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11. |
When It Snows
02:22
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when it snows i've got less of a chance
to see my baby in the flesh
when it rains my heart gets wet
and clouds fill my ramshackle head
this town it's as ugly as sin
and i've become dreamy and thin
i don't know where to go from here
honey, what's the weather like from here?
here's the key to your grandmas house
i've got it hidden right here in my mouth
give me a kiss so i can get you sick
i've got my whole life to figure things out
say, where have you been all my lives?
honey, what's the weather like in your eyes?
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12. |
Sunday Face
03:16
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i've got boots of italian leather
so that i can walk with your spirit while you're away
overseas
my darling, the queen
you are you are you are you are my favorite place
you are you are you are you are my great escape
oh god oh god oh god oh god return to me
all in one piece
i'd like to spend my longest day
somewhere with your sunday face
thanks for filling my gut
i could never love you enough
you are you are you are you are my favorite place
you are you are you are you are my great escape
oh god oh god oh god oh god return to me
all in one piece
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13. |
April 24th
01:37
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leave me in my misery
and my unrequited love
things are perfect when you're with me
and that's not what i'm thinking of
time is easy to waste
love is easy to taste
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so love, go and speak to him if that is what you want
just don't introduce me to him i'll probably throw a punch
cause i turn green with envy so that i can't speak
love, write a song for him if that is what you want
i'm sorry that it's awkward now when he comes into your work
but most of all, it's a shame, that bugs you at all
i'll probably be a bummer for the rest of my life
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