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If You Will
03:06
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Get out
Get in
Looks like I'm at the start again
Put it all on the window sill, and give it all back if you will
Love hurts
Love lies
But, can I please get back my supplies
Then ill ask if you love me still, and get away from you at your will
I dont need special treatment
I dont need a dotted line
I dont need a way to call you with a dime
All I need is some help right now
I turned over a new kind of dumb
Luckily for you, man my heart was numb
I clean up all the things you spill, and leave it on me for the bill
Went to the fortune teller
and she told me my next rhyme
Dont want no new old fashioned lover to tell me lies
all I want is someone there when I die
Know what? Im done
and I wouldnt even call this fun
what I'd call it is a trucker's crash
so put it all back in the trash
and give it all back if you can
give it all back if you will
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Birds and bees and robins
Chickadees and passers by
Squirrel and cow can come by seven
flocking to my window
Flower's petal, piney cones
Sitting ducks and flying drones
to make some room just throw a stone and flock up to my window
Room aplenty for a friend
Bring eleven, even ten
Just make an even structured line
the cover's free, just be on time to flock up to my window
Window cleaners, farmer Jons
better bring them all along
and when it's hot, we'll share the lawn and flock up to my window
when you make a little den
company will come in tens
just keep it clean and youll be fine
the rent is due so pay on time to flock up to your window
flock up to my window
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New Love
02:47
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I've got something to say
it's not coming out
I've had it gone my own way for a long time now
I'm learning to keep my place in a book right now
this fiction escapes my pace
in one ear then out
it's easy when nobody remembers your name
Happy times ain't no friend
just a gentle little slap
reminding you to take the day
just a break old chap
new love is on the map
new love is on the tap
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The Calmer
02:33
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Usually it happens when you're inside of the house
you can keep it with your pocket change and put it in your mouth
every time is different, so I cant say "all the same"
when it happened to my brother he was feeling kind of lame
once in every instance there's a secondary "bing"
when it happens in the morning you can put it in your drink
Oh, why do I?
Oh, why do I?
Out into the alley theres a tiny little note
you can read it if you're on the edge of someone's little boat
"Love is Just the Sun that's Shining in Us" what it read
it's an offer to reteach you how to put away the dead
oh so very often you forget to paint a smile
but you see the note a mile away and read it for awhile
Oh, why do I?
Oh, why do I?
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Happens all the time
when I'm wondering what to write
when you're under the stairs tonite, call my line
Happens all the day
when I'm wondering what to say
when you wonder if I'm okay, I'm sure I'm fine
Happens just to me
when I'm wondering what to wear
when I wonder if they won't care when I'm not here
Happens all the week
when I wake up in the dream of hurt
when I pull out my box of dirt
Happens all the time
when I can't pay for the bus
when I can't buy food for us I run and hide
I can learn from me
like we did in the 80's
back with multi-color sheets, black and pink
When I crank out a sweaty shirt
When you message a four year flirt
When you carry a holy thirst
When I make up a silly lie
When I tell it to all of my guys
When I take out both of my eyes
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Organ Song No. 3
02:26
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Love
love is gunna find my heart again
love is gunna change my mind again
I remember when you told me that
Hate
hate is gunna spin my head around
it throws all the good times to the ground
I repeal the frown that it gave me
Love
Love
Love
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Now that we've found out the times that you've lied
the whole of September, mid way through July
I try to tell you how much of it flew by
it's not a story as much as a rhyme
the melody was longing for someone to pry
you tell the jokes and I'll keep the time
Looking for a reason to live
Nothing is easier than making a song
the verse and the chorus will come right along
what's tough is bridge
well, that's where you're wrong
I find it simple, I find it a joy
to treat it so calmly, to treat it so coy
to laugh is to live, and that's what love's for
Looking for a reason to live
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I Promise to Be Sorry
05:56
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Something with distance, something with pride
something to even out the flowing tide
something I'm taking just to pass the time
keep my stuff in line
Anything comfortable, and old rag
read the sayings on the marquee from my old main drag
they told me to forget about my old black bag, and to sit and smile
Smile
Can you talk it over with me, chop it up, repeat it?
can you talk it over?
I promise to be sorry
I promise to be sorry, I do
Lost it in the mystic, covered in pine
found in the business of the flooring kind
discovered in the bedroom where you make your rhymes
I'm not the best with time
Time
Can you talk it over with me, chop it up, repeat it?
can you talk it over?
I promise to be sorry
I Promise to be sorry
can you walk me over to the car and let me start it?
but could you walk me over?
I promise to be sorry
I promise to be sorry, I do
I do
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Up & Down
02:56
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Up in the morning
up at night
up in the daytime blue
up to the evening through the light
morning is passing too
Down in the middle of the day
down when you can't come back
down is the feeling when you say, "staying would make me slack."
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