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It'll all be fine
Let a chocolate Jesus melt on your dash
Change all your clocks back to 12-hour time
Spend some time with you
Drive it into the lake brand new
I've been up for over a week and I'm fine
Stale-mouthed alone in your living room
Stale-mouthed with mom and dad in the car
Stale-mouthed with strangers on the bus
Later on in life, wherever you are
The piano drank alone for years
Didn't sound too good, though he tried
Half a life later, I still laugh wrong
A drunken third asleep with the lights on
Or wide awake on the couch at 2am
Because after all
This house would make a perfect place
For a dead jet engine to land
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Props Rock Forever
01:14
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The money pit and sturdy porch swing
Forget I ever left
I watched the old road take me in, take me out
To the sound of old Who's Next
The steel chair to the head
You didn't sell your best
You couldn't tell me if anything was real or just a test
This isn't what it seems
Can't tell you who I am
But I keep having dreams I'm chewing bottles into sand
Talk shows in the dark
And never making plans
This one's called Rocketman
The stranger on the steps
The news that stopped me dead
It hasn't helped
To see myself
With all this Christmas decoration dust in hand
Jet engine on the floor, propeller through my chest
Please wake me up and tell me what happens next
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Lunchmower Man
01:58
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Fourteen and new
Go outside every summer day
The sun will set at 10
Play the games that make you laugh
Play the songs that make you sad
Mow the lawn to AFI again
Don't look down now
You can't just fear
Just how far you'll fall
On that day next year
When the mower blades
Clip your legs
And the blood on your shins
Becomes good reason to give in
For ten New Years of sin
Or the next disaster
You'd pay to see just what it is
Go all the places that you love
Stow away the way it makes you feel
Leave a note and read it in five years
Read that note again
Before you take the next drink
Bitter juice you use to take the truth
Don't look down now
You can't just know
Just how bad the movie gets
When the young years let go
When the mower blades
Clip your wings
And the blood inside your lungs
Becomes good reason to turn in
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Lars, Metallica Here
01:22
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John Denver was full of shit
And I'm full of shit too
And every time I'm home I've got no stories left to tell you
My gums are bleeding more than flapping now and it's not true
What I said about the things I thought I would do
I didn't know it was so bad
I didn't know that we were half dead
I didn't know that hell on earth was where the crowd went
I didn't know the roof caved in
I didn't order this life of cheap sin
I didn’t know the roof caved in
I was just sleeping on the couch
You brought me outside, washed my feet, burnt down the house
I love the coastline more than I act
And I can't tell you
And every time I have that same old dream, I always wake you
My eyes are bleary, can't make sense of what just came up
Out the window, back to bed, my mind is made up
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I Do America
01:33
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Don't sit next to me
Been working hard on this thousand-yard stare
For the last long year since I've been gone
I've screwed the distance shut with my tongue
I don't talk much, and when I do it's dumb
I talk out of turn with my fat fucking thumbs
When someone says with the sternest of tones
You're goddamn right we're all here alone
How do you read that, looking glass lost?
How do you feel after laughing that off?
I tried to tell you that
This wouldn't get the best of me, oh I tried
To write you a list, to write you a book
All you heard was the jetliner crash outside
I'll pretend I'm better, just for tonight
When someone says with the sternest of tones
You're goddamn right we're all here alone
It's bulletin boards, it's telephone game
I'm stuck reading maps and remembering names
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