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That ignorant slut couldn’t get it together
All of the times and the rest of forever
Here I stand by the side of the highway
Watching all the cars that happen to fly my way
All the skies clouds have been parted
For the one recently departed
And I’m standing here with my heart in a mess
There’s blood on my fingertips and all of the rest
Semis and flybys and exits and bye byes
Solos and no goes and cities and street signs
And all the goodbyes, all the goodbyes
I freeze in the sun and melt in the snow
I’m incompatible wherever I go
And the water constantly flows from the tips of the clouds
Blankets of raindrops and ungraspable shroud
I’m ready to drift in the fog
I’m ready to drift in the fog
I'm ready
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Today
03:56
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The past keeps on calling
and my heart is falling
In the corner of a dark room
with a needle and a spoon
and I'm very happy today
My children are all gone
Anita, Tim, and Tom
My heart is in the basement
There isn't a replacement
for the girl waiting upstairs
I just wish I could make it up the stairs
to the room filled with color
and her sister and her brothers
and I'm very happy today
The sky's clouds are grey
and my mind is far away
Distant friends are waiting
and I'm just contemplating
whether soul is still alive
My bees have left their hive
and I'm very happy today
Tara and the room
waiting for the bride and groom
my eyes are filled with smoke
and I'm much happier this way
and I'm much happier this way
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Dean Street Caper
01:34
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Sad Sally's back at the house
tryin' to work all of her problems out.
Mad Marie is here with me
askin' me questions 'bout Charity.
She drank some beer and disappeared.
The colors changed and the scene became queer.
Marianne got stuck in the can.
Beat her way out with a bucket of ham.
We shared a smile and drank for a while.
Picked up the phone and she started to dial.
Called some friends from around the bend.
They all came over and it started again.
I'm somewhat ashamed of the deeds I've done.
Paul took the money and I held the gun.
We took the loot and ran for the hills
with a handful of happiness and a mouth full of pills.
Living in this glass house I built;
my smile's about as large as my guilt.
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Rolled into Nassau at a quarter to ten
Those flashing lights shining behind me again
All of the while he stood and smiled
He took my name and through it into the pile
You've been to Hollywood, you think you're doin' so good
No use to change or pack
Because there's no way back
Down on main street the hustlers walk in file
Takin' your money with a devilish smile
They bring you down so low and love it when it hurts
You dig the grave they'll shovel on the dirt
All of time you don't even know
It's not how far, but how low you go
Out on the board walk the junkies are stacked
There's no way back
I'm down in Tulsa tryin' to smile
Don't expect me to be back for a while
This woman gave me love and took away my worry
Then she took my money and left in a hurry
Just when you think its alright, you find out it's all jive
No time to change or pack
Baby, there's no way back
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The Jester & The Queen
02:32
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It seems that through the passing time
your judgement has been thrown off
Where once you bread an air of warmth
now all you do is cough
Your eyes once shone a bright true blue
now faded to a brown
Where once I stood a man of pride
now only stands a clown
It began not too long ago
on a bright and sunny morn
Our eyes shown across a sea of sadness
and a priceless love was born
To the chains around my heart
she did hold the key
A woman I once thought a queen
has made a joker out of me
She took away my sadness,
my sorrow, and my pain
In return I gave her all my love
but she took it in vain
I gave her my everything
including the whole word
Where once I saw a woman
no I only see a girl
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Stumble 'round like a moron
Walk into the wall
Fall into the backseat
I hit my head on the floor
Live in confusion
Trip and fall
Squirm around on the carpet
Write around in a hole
Can't forget you
Can't forget you
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Well, the party is over
The lights have turned grey
I’ll head for October
not April or May
She fled to the airport
with a suitcase of brown
I lost my poor cohorts
I feel I’m goin’ down
I flew through Chicago
for your eyes to see
I took on the water in Cincinnati
I looked out my window
at towns passing by
I grabbed on your halo
and never asked why
Said the weather could get better
then she started to frown
I’m goin’ down
I grabbed my Saint Christopher
and rushed for the streets
Oh, I lost my sweet sister
I feel incomplete
I crawled through dark cities
countries and towns
Her eyes were so pretty
And now, I’m goin’ down
Said one day we’ll be okay
So I grabbed on her gown
I’m goin’ down
Goin’ down
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The River
04:22
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Your mind is an open book
so easy for me to read
I've searched down deep inside
and have taken what I need
There's something locked inside of her
that needs to be set free
A girl with pretty eyes
and a face that needs to bleed
Your mouth pronounces madness
your eyes express anger
So many htings I'd like to know
but I was too afraid to ask her
Jesus was alive
so was my brother
I know it's gonna end sometime soon
one way or another
I'm sitting in a white house
staged by a river
Thinking of a girl I knew
and all the love I couldn't give her
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Why did you leave?
In the morning I was home
I’d sit and wait around
But you weren’t there
I tried to find you
I tried to remind you
Why did you cry?
I said I wasn’t bad
I’d hold you in my arms
but you’re not there
I tried to see you
I tried to be you
What did you say?
It don’t matter anyway
When the heart is gone
It don’t come back again
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Trout
01:05
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I don't do no promotional work, no
and I don't kiss no stinky jerks, no
I said "I'm outta here"
And then a trout appeared
And then we drank some beer
And then he disappeared
She came from San Tropez
And took my trout away
I said "Come back, ok?"
She said "What did you say?"
So I left for Hollywood
Just like a stankweed should
And there my trout he stood
And boy, I sure felt good
Trout!
Trout!
Trout!
Trout!
Trout!
Za za za za
Za za za za
Za za za za
Za za za za
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West Virginia
04:28
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Now she's livin' in West Virginia
and I'm down in San Anton
She said "I'm tired of tryin' to win ya
Now I'm livin' my life alone"
I've been workin' at the Lone Star Saloon
Cleanin' tables and sweepin' floors
Spend my evenings staring at the moon
Dreaming of what ain't no more
I've been livin' in a flatbed pickup
down the road from the Alamo
Then the man come says "It's time to get up"
You gotta know when it's time to go
There's ties that break and ties that bind
and there's some that don't do at all
When you try to tie tow hearts unkind
You know those are bound to fall
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She said don't cry for lost angels
or for the deep Cincinnati blues
Don't waste time on broken highways
'cuz I'm savin' all my love for you
She said don't cry for sister morphine
or for sad and darkened hues
Don't lose yourself in sweet sadness
'cuz I'm savin' all my love for you
She said don't cry for darkened sunshine
or struggles that you're bound to lose
Don't you drown in desperation
'cuz I'm savin' all my love for you
She said don't drown in crooked alleys
searching for lost clues
Don't you hide in forgotten doorways
'cuz I'm savin' all my love for you
Don't waste time on lost martyrs
or churches with broken pews
Don't bleed for hiding devils
'cuz I'm savin' all my love for you
Don't flee from whores of glory
Don't you sleep in gold in gold saloons
Don't waste our broken heartache
'cuz I'm savin' all my love for you
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Ledie (Bedroom Version)
02:01
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Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Brian's cryin' from the trouble he's hidin'
Yeah, he's cryin' from the trouble he's hidin'
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
The dogs are barkin' when my car is parkin'
Dylan's thinkin' that he should be drinkin'
Andy's quiet 'bout quittin' his diet
Damon's jokin' 'bout the shit we been smokin'
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
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Sometimes you get ahead
Sometimes you wind up dead
Sometimes you fly away
Sometimes you're stuck to pay
She said I take too long
I said you wait too long
I guess I ain't that strong
Sometimes I'm always strong
Oh, yeah
hey hey hey
That's the way it goes, I know
Sometimes you get real high
Other times, you still get high
Sometimes you gotta lie
I never thought she'd say goodbye
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Moonlight
05:06
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Zero
07:22
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Withdrawl '77
03:27
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Since you left me by the windowsill
With a bottle of Red Stripe
I won't walk with anyone to the Texaco
But I will stay home naked and stoned
I'm waiting for something
So I broke the phone. Nothing to assume
Cleaning the stalls
I won't walk with anyone to the Texaco
But I will stay home naked and stoned
I'm waiting for something
And I will not talk to anyone
until you come home
But I will say "No, leave me alone"
I'm waiting for the one I love
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Wedding Gown
03:37
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Whiskey riverbed
Found a place to rest my head
Grass has turned the footprints brown
Wearin' Mama's wedding gown
After school special room
Sweeping with a broken broom
Falling on a dirty dime
Find it hard to get the time
When I'm falllin' down
I feel like screamin'
When I hit the ground
I feel like dreamin'
When you hold my hand
I feel you steamin'
When the walls are sand
I see 'em leaning down
Standing in a dirty shoe
Burning in a hand of glue
Hitchhike on the interstate
Broken axle rollerskate
Lean out window golden hair
Todd and Sandy in despair
Backwood train tracks still a smokin'
In the leaves I'm still a chokin'
When I'm falllin' down
I feel like screamin'
When I hit the ground
I feel like dreamin'
When you hold my hand
I feel you steamin'
When the walls are sand
I see 'em leaning
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Cornholio
07:01
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Tequila Moon
01:09
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Tequila moon be shining in your eyes
Trickling down under Montezuman skies
Oh, Seraphina,
it sure was nice to meet ya
But the moon has set
and I bet
tomorrow it wont be the same
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A Song For Summers Past
05:11
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I feel good and I'm not too sure what it's all about.
I better stop thinkin' before I find answers, situations, scenes, and doubt.
She told me not to worry, 'cuz it will all fall in place.
I somehow couldn't believe her when I saw the look on her face.
The dusty road we travel down sometimes seems dark and strange.
You never know the good from the bad without difference or change.
She smiled sweetly and softly, walked through and out the door.
It's hard to believe what once you had just ain't there anymore.
We were almost there, I could see it clear right in front of my eyes.
The bad went to worse. I felt lost and cursed; tangled up in lies.
I felt unkind in the back of my mind and all became withdrawn.
Some can't see what others need, strength and courage gone.
Summer's almost here; I can fell it near, just like years ago.
Where it went and who were are now, I will never know.
I remember one evening by a riverbed watching the sun and waves.
I gave it my all and started to fall now neither of us are the same.
I flew to other countries; I flew to other states.
I've been trying, somehow, to get bak to her, but I always arrive too late.
I was out one night at a restaurant with a couple old friends of mine.
There was something he said that stuck in my head "Our lives are nothing in time."
So, I thought of her and eternity, and how it all fades behind.
There was nothing I could do, so I lit a smoke and ordered a glass of wine.
I saw here one night in the city, she was wearing a silver dress.
We said hello and my mind felt slow, then I had to confess.
I told her I was lonely; she told me of experience.
She said she's been wed, my face turned red, and I haven't seen her since.
Now I'm spending my days in a haze, playing a broken guitar.
Trying to put it all together, but I never get too far.
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Lazy Hand
02:38
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She’s got cocaine eyes
And all the nitrus highs
Since she cut the ties
I knew you’d be surprised
I’m feeling incomplete
I bet she tastes sweet
Just keep your hands to yourself
You ain’t no high class shit
I struggle with my arms
You struggle with your charm
You tapped out all your veins
Looks like you’re screwed, motherfucker
A feeling so intense
You put up your defense
You gotta save yourself
I don’t give a fuck about Monday
Gotta give it up
Ain’t no Jesus with his loving cup
You gotta see yourself
I’m lookin’, but it’s not too clear
You gotta hold it inside
You gotta tie it tight
Sometimes you gotta feel
I feel it’s comin’ near
Sometimes it gets to close
And least becomes the most
I’m disappearing nightly
I’m fading hard and fast
I tried to convince her
But she wouldn’t listen
I shot a gram week
I could hardly speak
Scene seems so much clearer
I feel it getting nearer
I’m fixed and broken like glass
I’m shattered and ripped to shreds
I’ve got a lazy hand
Someone should understand
I know I’m still alone
My self esteem is blown
Can you see me standing there?
I’m feeling everywhere
My strength is almost gone
When something's not right, it’s wrong
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Illumination Cajun Style
03:29
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She once said something that stuck with me
It stuck hard and good
She said she's meet me in a week so,
and me, I knew she would.
She was a brown haired Betty from Tennessee
who moved out to Hollywood
When she says she can do it I know she can
I know she can and could
She arrived 'round 7 or half past 8
in a Lincoln powder blue
With a loaf of bread and whiskey rye
you can have your cake and eat it too
I rolled in on the railroad line
with a handful of pork and beans
and you know me, I was right on time
lookin' hard and mean
The conductor said "Where's your ticket, boy?"
I musta left 'em in my other pair of jeans
He squinted, put his hands in his pockets
and was lookin' really mean
Well, he threw me off before I could cough,
left me by the tracks
Well, I put on my hat and grabbed my sack
You know, I didn't look back
I rolled into town about sundown
in a '64 brown coupe
I ran into Fred at the old homestead
and, you know, he gave me the scoop
He said to me "She was here, you see,
She's come, gone, and went."
So, I grabbed my stuff and took a puff
and opened up a vent
I grabbed my sack and slapped it on my back
and turned toward L.A.
I knew inside, if I caught a ride,
I could be there in three days.
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Royal Flush
02:03
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Salt Peter
01:41
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Seascape
01:56
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Royal Fuck
03:39
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Rotar
03:38
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Centigrade
04:17
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It's the chill I instill upon myself
and the fever that you fight me with
It's natural disaster of your plaster eyes
and the delicate dirt you live
It's the celebrated liquid
it's limpid and delicious
I's eat seven dishes
if you gave me all your kisses
If you you weren't so vicious
i'd fulfil your secret wishes
The desire inside
is why the outside itches
Just give me half of what you got 'cuz I can't stand the pain anymore
You're gonna have to take it with a melody
or, baby, don't take it at all
It's the virulent deterrent that draws me in
and the aspersions of your withdrawal
When the climate's cold
and the winter sets in
The centigrade is visible
beneath your skin
And the mercury's droppin'
and the mercury's droppin'
and your blood's too thin
If you're gonna shake it shake it off on me
oh, baby, don't shake it off on him
If the fever's risin' high and it's too much to bear
just take off your skin.
Then you'll know how I feel.
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Andy
03:58
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400 pounds
an edible socialite
Blast out all reason
with a can of dynamite
Acrylic paint sideburns
turn on the reruns
Take a shot of whiskey
from the barrel of a shotgun
Burrito mouth braces
with a double barrel inkwell
Smoking up tulip petals
bong-hit bombshell
Soda pop mop top
Cheez-Whiz nightmare
Rippin' off a hobo
for a dollar bus fare
Ten foot tonails
slice out eyeball
Beer drunk pool fiend
phony ass pratfall
Barrels of stains
with wicked persuasion
Puffin' on a blunt
Taco Bell invasion
Pukin' in the back yard
cigar hand landfill
Talkin' shit with Satan
sittin' on a pinwheel
Glue-fire nightmare
downtown apocalypse
Burnin' down the coffee house
chicken on my fingertips
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Little Liza
00:48
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Lay your head down little Liza
Lay your head down low
There is nothing to be said now
It's time now to go
It's time to go to sleep now
Yes, it's time, I know
There is no need for to speak now
I already know
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Riverboat (Demo)
01:46
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Piano Rag
01:14
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Parisian Prostitutes
03:20
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Rebecca's Barroom Fling
02:42
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Why try to keep me when it's so nice to be apart?
When did you change your mind and make me become so unkind?
Your face at the window
Your face at the window
Why won't you let go
Why won't you let go
You cry in your sleep and can't explain
what you meant when you called my name
Hide in the back seat
You hide in the back seat
and close your eyes daily
You close your eyes daily
Why won't you listen when I try to explain
we were never together and thats how it remains
Why do I try to hide my hate?
I look at you and can't relate
Why did I stay with you as long as I did?
Who was I trying to kid?
You wait in the bushes
You wait in the bushes
and go through my garbage
and go through my garbage
You keep little things that remind you of me
a sock, a shoe, various debris
You kneel at your shrine
You kneel at your shrine
Light your damn candles
your scented candles
and say a nice prayer to bring me back there
to where you are, but I'm happy apart
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Toledo Suite I
07:19
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Why are you leaving me?
Why are you deceiving me?
Life is a bullet
Women are windows
My eyes are slowly closing
The trigger, please pull it
Break her bleak halo
For soon we must leave
or we will be imposing
Lover be careful
My heart is enamel
We now must be cautious
The game’s grown obnoxious
Let us become drunk to forget
The sum of or lives is regret
Let us become drunk to remember
None of these things last forever
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Hope
02:17
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Bow your head in silence
Wait for the world to end
Rush back to church
Hope you can remember
Feel slight desperation
Don't let it slip
Hold back your fear
running to a faceless girl
Accept the world
Accept yourself
Breathing underwater
Accept yourself
Accept your death
Breathing underwater
Hope you drown
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Subterfuge
03:37
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Bleeding on the bed again, ghosts echo up my spine.
Geographically crippled, prosaic and supine.
Is that your arm around my shoulder, or a noose around my neck?
You’ve lost your files in your folders and your truce to protect.
Companies of chaos, and no ground for respect.
No enemies to speak of, at least none we can detect.
The seats smell like pussy, and the streets smell like blood.
Nail me to a lamppost spilling from your golden tongue.
The trees are bending over; they’re bowing in lament
There’s no time for poetics or pallid sibilance.
You don’t need me anymore, not that you ever did.
You don’t love me anymore, not that you ever did.
You don’t love me anymore, not that you ever could.
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44. |
Mammalapuram
02:50
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Inde/Nyon
02:57
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Black Book
01:12
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Ooty
03:02
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Hello (Farm Version)
06:47
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Hello, it’s me. I’ve come to say farewell
I’ve had a lovely time as you can tell
But it’s getting late and your patience is growing old
I guess I’ll head out to someplace like Maine
Where the summers are real cool and the winters are the same
And find myself a cabin, a nice place to settle down
I cherish our time together and you I’ll never forget
Those nights of cafés filled with drinks and cigarettes
And that one time you sang a sweet song to me
Our money was scarce but our hearts were strong
For a couple of dollars we’d work all day long
And your bicycle you rode all around town
Time’s running late and there’s a long haul ahead
You can’t get stuck in the past, you gotta look ahead,
But it’s so hard to turn and start again.
Hello; it’s me. I’ve come to say goodbye
Maybe be someday we’ll meet when the waters aren’t so high
And we’ll swim to each other and get lost in the surf
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Horsefinger
07:21
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Feet in the stirrup
Hand under the saddle
Horsefinger
You wanna ride a cow
But you don’t know how
Horsefinger
Stable’s too small
You had to fall
Horsefinger
Purple nail
Hay in a pail
Old salt brick
You feel like a dick
Horsefinger
Hit the straw
lost the draw
Horse
Face in the hay
What can I say?
You ain’t come one
Your work ain’t done
Foreign recluse
My neck’s in a noose
Horsefinger
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Crystal smoke and
your mind is broken
98 miles per hour
Naked and alone
there’s no one home
Into a corner you cower
What you bought was cheap,
You can barely speak
It woulda happened one way or another
Your thoughts will flee,
you cant even read
Can you say motherfucker?
It’s not too hard.
That’s what you are. Say it.
I bet you could if you tried
Don’t try to deny it, there’s no way to hide it
Did you think I had lied?
Your uptown pad
One room aim’t bad
Can you see how youre livin
A disease that’s new
Did it get you too
Heard lotsa people are givin’
Your friends, city folk
Heavy drinks and smokes
Hey, there goes another
Wrapped up in silk
Skin pale as milk
Their faces are covered
A distant thought
That you almost caught
Hey, how about that?
Is your head still together?
I couldn’t tell whether you were sleeping
Or knocked out flat
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That ignorant slut couldn’t get it together
All of the times, and the rest of forever
Here I stand by the side of the highway
Watching all the cars that happen to fly my way
All the skies clouds have been parted
For the one recently departed
And I’m standing here with my heart in a mess
There’s blood on my fingertips and all of the rest
Semis and flybys and exits and bye byes
Solos and no goes and cities and street signs
And all the goodbyes, all the goodbyes
I freeze in the sun and melt in the snow
I’m incompatible, wherever I go
And the water constantly flows, from the tips of the clouds
Blankets of raindrops and ungraspable shroud
I’m ready to drift in the fog
I’m ready to drift in the fog
I'm ready
I'm ready
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motorcycle
03:44
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Turn
02:27
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Constantly moving, never stopping to catch a breath
Spinning like a carousel, tumbling to your death
I can't take it anymore, bottled deep inside
Letting out my hatred, to strong to hide
Swimming in a sea of endless thought
You'll never learn
Strangled to unconsciousness
Now its my turn
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L.A.
03:18
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I'm havin' the worst L.A. dream
It breaks your legs and makes you wanna scream
A pig kicks your head in 'til you bleed out your eyes
The devil comes in many shapes and disguises
A nasty little town full of broken dreams
The empty streets are filled with your screams
Lost my heart
Lost my mind
Lost myself in L.A.
Can't get away
L.A.'s heart is in the shape of a girl;
It pulls out your eyes and takes and takes away the world
A heart so strong you don't let go
What happens now you never know
A heart so strong you can't penetrate
A hate so deep you detonate
Lost my heart
Lost my mind
Lost my soul in L.A.
Can't get away
Pimps, sluts, and dealers and much, much more
all wait for you outside your door
City of Angels fallen from heaven
Give me a break, you work at 7-11
Give up and you go straight to hell
your life ain't worth it, it's just as well
Lost my heart
Lost my mind
Lost myself in L.A.
Can't get away
There ain't no L.A. woman no more,
they've all been replace by a bunch of whores.
In L.A.
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56. |
Born To Live
03:39
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Anytime would be a good time
for you to stop and say hello
But it has been such a long time
so long I almost let it go
But I don’t wanna let it go
You might see me in the city
You might catch me at a show
But you’d never even notice
‘cuz your eves are always closed
It could have been so nice
if you thought about it twice
But you never even tried
I’m a shining constellation
You’re another fallen star
I’ll be living in the city
while you’re drowning at a bar
Some were born to take
others born to give
Some were born to die
but I was born to live
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57. |
The End Of The World
04:50
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If you’re lost in this world
Feeling like the last girl
Just wait ‘till the end of the world
I’ll tuck you in tight
But tomorrow we might
wake up at the end of the world
The dead shall all rise
Staring at you w/ hollowed out eyes
Bringing you to your demise at the end of the world
Good deeds may you have
But the dead shall all laugh
It means neigh at the end of the world
When you hold me so near
It all comes so clear
That we’re only here for so long
When the last trumpet blows
No one truly knows
For whom it is blowing for.
Will ever there be
Room for you and me
Waiting at the end of the world?
We’ll all rest in peace
With our heads six feet deep
Buried at the end of the world
It doesn’t have to be the best house
It only has to be ours
Just our house
We all only last for so long
Like a splash in a pond
Or the flash at the end of the world
I’ll hold you tight
But one day we all might
Disappear at the end of the world
I’ll always be your boy
If you’ll always be my girl
And we’ll stay together ‘till the end of the world
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58. |
Dark And Lovely
03:21
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We came together that night
We held our breath like a new song
Upon a fluke and new languages
She came to me like a dream
Dark and lovely she was
Darker than my fondest reverie
Held together with shoelaces and glue
Held together by nothing
It’s just like that old song we sing
“Let’s see what the new day brings.”
If it brings nothing at all
Then we’re probably better off
She held me tighter than death
Closed eyes and sweet wine on our breath
We watched the sun spill
Through the window in the morning
We’re almost the same
We’re almost in the same amount of trouble
When you’ve pawned all you’ve gained
It costs twice as much to get it back
It’s just like that old song we sing
“Let’s see what the new day brings.”
If it brings nothing at all
Then, we’re probably better off
Dark and lovely like the night
Dark and lovely like your kisses, Baby
Dark and lovely like your skin
Like this trouble we’re in
Dark and lovely like this song
And like everything wrong
When the world falls away
Forever shall you remain
Dark and lovely
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59. |
Coal To Diamonds
02:53
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When your friends have all left you
and your lies hold no truth
You rely upon tactics
so rude and uncouth
You display disillusions
like a porno film booth
We’re just pawns in your game
where the ante’s your youth
If I’m runnin’ away
it’s ‘cuz you’re runnin’ me down
Your mouth speaks so senseless
yet utters no sound
Worth wastin’ my time on
like dirt in the ground
Each ounce of your pleasure
equals pain by the pound
Your soul’s up for stake
well, nothin’ ain’t free
But you’re tryin to drive
that stake right through me
So just leave me alone
and let me be free
All that glitters ain’t gold
nor worth what it seems
You speak of your sorrow
you speak of your pain
You speak of no tomorrow
like this life is a stain
Upon these lithe lonesome memories
you hold close in vain
You can’t own what you’ve borrowed
like you can’t own the rain
The old midnight hour
is now close at hand
And I be holdin’ my baby
who sure understands
That you can’t own a woman
and you can’t own a man
You can’t turn coal to diamonds
in the palm of your hand
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60. |
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When you left your home there in that city
You found darkness wherever you’d roam
Then you came here to this city
And found that you weren’t so alone
You came to me on Cuban heels and bruised arms
I never could turn you away
As all dreams must fade in the morning
You knew you never were here to stay
Sometimes I cry for the lonely
Sometimes no reason at all
Now I’m cryin’ ‘cuz you left me
And you’re not here for me to hold in my arms
If you ever come back to this city
Baby, you’re never alone
If you find yourself here on my doorstep
You’ve found yourself a home
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61. |
Hands/Feet
02:36
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I love your hands
I love your feet
I love the way you stop and look at me
I get upset
when you regret
everything I’ve come to be
I shouldn’t have stayed
I should have moved
I should have done something
Anything
Anything’s better than nothing
and nothing’s better anything at all
I never wanted this to happen
I never wished this upon us
Why does it always end this way?
I never meant to upset you
I never looked into the mirror
I only tried to break it
I guess I couldn’t accept it
I only wanted to believe it
I never wanted to deceive you
I only wanted to keep you
and have you stay
Don’t walk away
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62. |
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63. |
Here Come The Kittens
03:18
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Here come the kittens
prancing down the street
wearing calico mittens
on their argyle feet
It feels as though I've been bitten
by something sweet
I'm bleeding on the outside, but deep inside I'm fine
I wear razors on my eyelids most all of the time
That bloodstain on my sleeve is just worn for a friend
I swear it's all the truth, he's just waitin' 'round the bend
Romeo's in hiding and Juliette's a whore
after the tiniest taste she just had to have more
But I had to laugh, 'cuz I've had 'em once or twice
and out of all honesty, neither was that nice
Rimbaud looks unexciting, but he's the one you want
He'll cut your eye with glass and pretend it wasn't his fault
HIs innocent look will make you give in
He'll tel you it's all heaven, when you know it's just a sin
My head's a molten montage of dark disdainful thought
I smoked so many cigarettes, man, my fingernails feel hot
My stomach's warm with whiskey and my eyeball's filled with gin
My hands are hot with heartache and my wrists have turn to fins
I'll make an eager waitress and all above is fine
She'll make my coffee sparkle and my eggs and toast will shine
Now Pedro's become impatient with his fifty grams of fat
He thought it was a beehive, but know he's not sure where it's at
The jive is moving slowly and crawling down my back
I fucked them in the alley and I said I was a cat
He held on the ladies, but he really liked the guys
He wore a chiffon overcoat and lightning on his eyes
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64. |
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I’m like a cat in a bag
I’m like an oil soaked rag
I’m the raised black flag
I’m the horse bit that gags
I’m just a fool for your love
I’m a teen with stained jeans
A soldier fresh and green
Wet behind the ears
Lapping up your tears
I’m just a fool for your love
I’m queer behind this veneer
A marquis with no premier
A fisherless pier
A three legged deer
I’m just a fool for your love
I’m a train with no tracks
I’m the cheese with no mac
Billiards not racked
A junkie with no smack
I’m just a fool for your love
You’re a twat with no cock
A gold ring in hock
The writer’s block
A boat dry docked
I’m still a fool for your love
I’m just a fool for your love
I’m just a fool for your love
I’m just a fool for your love
I’m just a fool for your love
But, Baby, You’re just a fool
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65. |
That's All Right With Me
02:05
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I got no hair, but my baby don’t care
and that’s alright with me
My dog don’t bite, but he barks all night
and that’s alright with me
There’s a hole in my roof where the rain pours on through
and that’s alright with me
This old motel is dark and it smells
and that’s alright with me
The bottle’s half gone I’m drunk singin’ songs
and that’s alright with me
If I get too loud I might get thrown out
but that’s alright with me
When Jesus returns
Everybody gonna learn
The sinners gonna burn
The righteous get what they’ve earned
and that’s alright
God made dirt and dirt don’t hurt
and that’s alright with me
I love when you flirt and hike up your skirt
and that’s alright with me
Show me some leg, and make me beg
‘cuz that’s alright with me
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66. |
Air Conditioning Blues
05:06
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Can't go to sleep with the radio on
Open up the window, air conditioning's gone
It's water for the dog and whiskey for me
The ghost of your memory is haunting me
Somethings we should remember and others we forget
but I can't recall which is which,
so I light another cigarette in the kitchenette
The cats are scratching, crying, begging to be fed
sometimes when I be shavin' with my razor
I wish I'd slip and slice my throat instead
I can't take it here with you, but I can't make it on my own
I don't ever want to see you, but how I wish you'd come home
You gotta let me be
Let me be...etc
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67. |
Alabaster Blues
02:45
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|
Darling, you know I would never hurt you,
and I wont treat you like a fool.
You know that I would never desert you,
or break any of your precious rules.
I hear you speak of your frustration,
which way to go, or this and that.
You promise me your self-deprication,
I know that’s not where it’s at.
You walk in your crimson robe and silver,
and your fourteen alley cats.
Your men all walk behind you.
I know that’s not where I should be at.
I know that there’s something about you,
and this time I know you’ll be mine.
I know you’re strong, I don’t doubt you,
but I ain’t wasting no more precious time.
You can hide in your silver box,
with your newspaper coat and blues.
I’ve got a key to every lock,
and your dummies can’t stop me from breaking through.
You know I know it’s true.
So come out from your library book
and your plastic keychain soul.
Take off your glasses and get a better look
Drag yourself out of your hole
‘Cuz I’m taking you anyway
and I ain’t holdin’ nothin’ back.
So you can get rid of your confusion
and lose your Tom and Jack.
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68. |
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Sometimes you get ahead
Sometimes you wind up dead
Sometimes you fly away
Sometimes you're stuck to pay
She said I take too long
I said you wait too long
I guess I ain't that strong
Sometimes I'm always strong
Oh, yeah
hey hey hey
That's the way it goes, I know
Sometimes you get real high
Other times, you still get high
Sometimes you gotta lie
I never thought she'd say goodbye
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69. |
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Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Brian's cryin' from the trouble he's hidin'
Yeah, he's cryin' from the trouble he's hidin'
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
The dogs are barkin' when my car is parkin'
Dylan's thinkin' that he should be drinkin'
Andy's quiet 'bout quittin' his diet
Damon's jokin' 'bout the shit we been smokin'
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
Ledie's preggie and I don't think she's ready
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70. |
Gold
03:50
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Aaron died among the flowers
and the whole world turned to gold
He stuck his feet in situations
where people don't grow old
Now another day is turning
and so is my mind
the Sky is colored deeper than feelings
I took all that I could find
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71. |
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Stumble 'round like a moron
Walk into the wall
Fall into the back seat
I hit my head on the floor
Live in confusion
Trip and fall
Squirm around on the carpet
Writhe around in a hole
Can't forget you
(It'll get you)
Can't forget you
(It'll get you)
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72. |
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In my Cadillac I keep my seats rolled back
and an angel on my dashboard
I been listenin’ to Kerouac
And playin’ along on a washboard
I’m gonna take it down to New Orleans
and put some voodoo on Jack and some whiskey on Steve
and some whiskey on Steve
and some whiskey on Steve
and some whiskey on Steve
and some whiskey on Steve
I’m gonna raid the tomb of Marie Laveau
carve an X on my forehead
When I’m told it’s time to go
I’m gonna dig down deeper instead
I got some chicken in a pan
I‘m gonna eat it, yes I am
Gonna put aside my current reservations
put a needle in my eye
Gonna listen in to your conversation
and leave your words to wither and die
I’m gonna smoke an entire uwanga bag
Float around on the ceiling
Gonna dance to Scott Joplin’s rags
‘till my legs, they loose all feeing
Gonna wear my clothes until they stink
put a cobra on my sleeve
Gonna put umbrellas in my drinks
and retreat to the bar and never leave
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73. |
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Grease on the wheel, blood on my thumb.
Replace the bearings and rotate the drum.
Sweat in my eye, burn on my shoulder.
The days get longer and I keep getting older.
Mud caked boots, trout on a line.
Chewin’ black tobacco, drinkin’ Woodbridge wine.
Take off your clothes, jump in a creek.
Cut your toe on a bottle catch a crow by its beak.
I found my baby hanging from a telephone pole.
If I ever get her down I swear I’ll never let her go
Lockjaw tetanus, rabid hounds.
In the Carolina heat She’s gonna show me what she found.
Flat wound strings on a broken guitar.
I keep a 12 gauge shotgun on the front seat of my car.
I shoot cats of the fence in my neighbor’s back yard.
My pistol barrel’s smokin’ and my fingers are charred.
Corn fed Mexican, cotton field.
Grits in a bowl is my favorite meal
Cotton gin, roof tin, tractor pull.
I keep my sideburns slick with the spit of a bull.
Brylcream, collard green, widow’s peak.
I keep my toothpick soaked in gasoline.
Castor oil, tin foil, hair on my back.
I keep my woman satisfied in my Cadillac.
In my Cadillac…
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74. |
Aphrodisiac
02:14
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I went out to search for truth
but all I found was a telephone booth
Now I'm down and cryin' at your door
'cuz my baby don't love me anymore
I dropped my cigarettes in the rain
and left my 8-tracks on a train
Now I ain't got nothin' to smoke or hear
and a hobo stole my last bottle of beer
I got naked at a checkout stand
my groceries were stolen by Ayn Rand
Mama said "Don't come 'round here no more
'cuz my mouth is tired and my fists can't fight no more."
She said "There's nothin' left to talk about,
so get your shit together and get the hell out."
So I closed my eyes and swallowed the Georgia sun
and I hit the roof with a six pack and a gun
I held your hand
then I found out you were a man
I put on my old tin shoes
and I pounded out the Boston blues
'cuz nothing's what it seems
and I'm drinking down a drunken dream
Yeah, nothing's what it seems
and I'm drinking down another drunken dream
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75. |
Plastic Cup
02:47
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Ghetto blastin’ butt
bustin’ out on the scene.
Don’t be green,
‘cuz it’s alright.
Don’t be afraid,
smoke your last cigarette.
And don’t forget
it’s so dark and cold.
It’s too early to go to sleep,
so I drink another cup
of cheep red wine.
It’s past the time.
Don’t close your eyes.
No, no, don’t close your eyes
or you may find it’s all in your head.
and you don’t want somethin’ this good to disappear
Holdin' up to a plastic cup
and you know when it’s really time to go.
And you know when it’s really time to go.
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76. |
re•so•na•tor
06:01
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77. |
Oktober
12:09
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78. |
ghostship
04:00
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79. |
pamplemousse
06:06
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80. |
Dark Moments
03:04
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81. |
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82. |
Zed Lepley
03:04
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83. |
mshr•m
11:41
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84. |
BURNT CRUST
01:27
|
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85. |
Deep End I
00:37
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86. |
Deep End II
00:51
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87. |
Deep End III
00:35
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88. |
Deep End IV
02:09
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89. |
Deep End V
01:40
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90. |
Avoiding Dark Places
02:01
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91. |
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92. |
Windbreaker
01:06
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93. |
Daybreak
04:04
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94. |
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95. |
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96. |
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97. |
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98. |
Gisella II
03:14
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99. |
The Electric Company II
04:41
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100. |
Connect Four
02:54
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101. |
Clear Crevasse Step
03:48
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102. |
SRF TRP
02:49
|
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103. |
DUMMI III
02:26
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104. |
DUMMI I
01:00
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105. |
DUMMI II
00:45
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106. |
DUMMI V
01:00
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107. |
DUMMI IV
01:08
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108. |
DUMMI VI
02:10
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109. |
Orange Julius
01:13
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110. |
Cowpoke
00:54
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111. |
Section Five
01:33
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112. |
Sowieso
01:28
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113. |
Neuchâtel
01:02
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114. |
Düsseldorf
01:16
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115. |
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116. |
Cargo
03:04
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117. |
es regnent
04:42
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118. |
/lɘv/
03:58
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119. |
Caldwell I
00:42
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120. |
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121. |
Theme From Bad Humor
00:30
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Gimme a break
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122. |
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123. |
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124. |
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125. |
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126. |
Metaphysical Supplements
03:03
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127. |
The Altogether Now
04:00
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128. |
Logos Liguria
13:36
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Aaron Lepley Austin, Texas
Aaron Lepley is a composer, performer, and educator who currently lives in Austin, TX. His music ranges from works for full orchestra, small ensembles, solo pieces, electronic music, and various hybrids thereof. He received the Master of Music in Composition from the University of South Florida and creates original compositions for advertisements, film, and multimedia art installations. ... more
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