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Brand New Start
02:27
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I remember you said that I would never recover
that I would die in the condition I was in
And even though I was weak
I had a positivity that you were talking out your behind
So I rode and I rode till I found someplace to go
and I thanked God for my broken heart and this brand new start
I remember the day when you took all my money
and claimed it all for your very own
But I didn't wanna fight
so I took off into the night and to see what else I could find
And I rode and I rode till I found someplace to go
and I thanked God for my broken heart and this brand new start
I remember I tried with everything I could muster
with every neuron bouncing round in my brain
I would never give up on us
never walk away until I heard you clearly say "Get out"
And I rode and I rode till I found someplace to go
and I thanked God for my broken heart and this brand new start
And I know and I know upon me he's has bestowed
A concrete will you'll never know so it's you I'm praying for
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Tell Me a Story
02:43
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Tell me a story with a happy ending
one that is not make-believe
I'll give you money
pure milk and honey
if you'll just pacify me
Tell me I'm pretty, handsome and comely
better than cabernet wine
Don't be too honest
just keep your promise
to treat me as though I'm divine
When I get nasty just call me a saint
say that I'm perfect, don't say I ain't
love me or leave me, cause I'll never change
I know I'm perfect, so don't say I ain't
Tell me I'm witty, sharp as a tack
even when I'm talking crap
I don't read nothing but gossip from hacks
and my brain is turning to sap
I don't need improvement, just more self-esteem
That's what is really lacking
more mumbo, more jumbo, more affirmations
and I'll be a goddess again
When I abuse you, I'm justified
and if you don't back down, you're a sexist guy
Love me or leave me, cause I'll never change
I know I'm perfect so don't say I ain't
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Brain Pollution
02:46
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It's never easy to go cheesy,
you gotta shut off 20 different parts of your brain
your eye sockets got air pockets and their toxic
poisoning the image you see
Noise pollution from the air waves
distribution indoctrinates
no solution for the masses
yeah were just asses to violate
It's never simple to do it civil to make a living dribbling pablum for all of your peers
walk on their egg shells, selling what they sell, everybody is just a child playing their show and tell
Brain pollution from your comrades
institution for your mind
execution of a divorce
you're just a resource for them to fine
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Tale of the Bloated Goat
02:27
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I took a look in the mirror just 10 years ago
that's when I decided I cut up my nose
The doctor was friendly when I wrote him a check
So I went under the knife and I never looked back
I chopped off my boobies cuz they made me look fat
but when my husband freaked out I tried putting them back
the plastic however never did feel the same
so he left me for a more natural dame
Well, the anger I felt made my hair all turn gray
so I started to dye it every other Monday
but soon it was fried, it was frizzled and frayed
and a wig was the price that I paid
All the drinking on weekends had wrinkled my eyes
I had flab on my belly and cellulite thighs
I went back to the doctor to get a face lift
and narrow the shape of my hips
Now I don't look quite human, but it don't bother me
I'm a famous actress who's won 13 Emmy's
Remember that series back from the 80s?
I'll bet you wouldn't recognize me
All the teenage women still look up to me
They admire my life and my celebrity
They want fame and money and they want it for free
and of course some plastic surgery
They stare in the mirror and wanna fix what ain't broke
They don't seem to realize that my life is a joke
Looking like an anorexic and bloated goat
and drugging myself just to cope
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Envy
02:30
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Envy is knocking at my door
but I won't let her in
cause I ain't keeping score
can't stand competition
when everyone's a whore
and they just can't ignore
Satan's little grocery store
Don't blame Amber
the little timbre
of her voice when she's singing for you
Don't try and scam her
or reprimand her
only a gambler would take it that far
when you feel the heat
what's she cooking?
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I should have asked you to dance
took you by your pretty little hands
and we'd run off in the sunset with our pockets full of hope
to a place where no one cares about an opera made of soap
I should have told you everything
Letting all the chips fall where they may
and I am not a gambling man but I would bet on you
to follow me to victory with all the strength you knew
I should have asked you to dance
and taken bigger risks with our romance
we'd be living better than we ever could have dreamed
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I'm Not a Cannibal
02:28
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Was my grandpappy swinging from a tree?
Or did he obsess on the throwing of feces?
Was he capable of love or empathy
Or did he act unconsciously so he could preserve the species?
Let's start throwing fish onto the land so they'll evolve
They just can't seem to get the job done on their own at all
Billions of years gone by and they're all still waterlogged
but when they join the human race we'll all be cannibals
Vegetarians claim that they don't eat fish
but what about the algae that was their great-grandparents
Or cyanobacteria, the father of us all
or better yet the rock that gave birth to the soup primordial
So let's stop eating rocks and every kind of vegetable
cause they were my great-grandparents and I'm not a cannibal
and bananas are just people having trouble to evolve
they're part of my family and I'm not a cannibal
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8. |
Grease the Machines
02:15
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You might not know what I mean
When you're caught up in this kind of scheme
of trendies and opportunists
using themselves as the grease
for machines that will swallow them whole
for the love of their kerosine gold
For the endless supply of stimulation
and tumbling divination
Put on your hats and sing to the stars
don't let them out of your sight
for the demons you summon are listening well
and looking for someplace to hide
the sun set this morning, it made me uptight
drop me off in the desert and say hello to the night
I'll crawl for salvation, I'll repent for my sins
I'll knock for eternity until you let me in...
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