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Rock 'n' Roll
00:59
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There's no two ways about it
We were born to twist and shout it
Rock 'n' Roll, it's not a joke to you or me
You won't see me laugh about it
'Cause I just can't live with out it
So let's take it to where the world can see
I love you
And I'm positive that you love me
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The secret to your success exists in your mind
The way you turn a phrase and time your jokes not quite right
You say you've been to places no one's been to
Pop music's the dream, Rock 'n' Roll is the clue
Violence makes you throw up, your body makes you cry
The gaze of the world is enough to make a shameless man shy
You say you've been to places no one's been to
Some times I look at you the way an animal must view the moon
The love of the world is not enough to lift you upright
Tell me why you say you've been to places no one's been to
The secret to your success exists in your mind
The gaze of the world is enough to kill you outright
Tell me why you say you've been to places no one's been to
The secret to your success exists in your mind
No hugs for no one
Love is why the world is wrong
All night in the pool
Don't you think the moon looks cool
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3. |
Alright (Yeah)
03:57
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So much wasted ambition
I hate to see a young man with an addiction
A man now wicked and cruel
Was once meek and humble
All the things in this world you would replace
They made you what you are in the first place
Dogs and cats aren't family
I've put down pet before and it meant nothing to me
Community and neighbors
They do me no favors
Car shows and chili cook-off events
Local leaders with ribbons to present
Sunsets, I don't admire
Natural formations all fail to inspire
Canyons and rivers and lakes
All nature's mistakes
Alright (Yeah)
These aren't lines from poems or from plays
It's not a stage for opera or ballet
It isn't prose for podium or page
It's not a role for cinema or stage
Principles and rudiments to teach
Eighteen holes to play at Pebble Beach
The hand that holds the prize will someday change
Sacrifice in the spirit of exchange
Privileges provided by birth
Soon return to the dust of the Earth
Alright (Yeah)
What sounded wrong suddenly sounds correct
Heavy songs in sound and subject
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4. |
I Can't Die
02:41
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All my life been a nervous guy
Went to the doctor today and he told me I'm clinically shy
There's nothing he can do for me
No medicine, no surgery
No procedure or therapy
But all my life I've been skeptical
Of rich doctors, their opinions, and their morals and their principles
So even with a PhD
Medical school, residency
Can't diagnose me properly
I can't die
Poison and disease and sword and scythe
Can't hurt my body it won't
End my life
Disasters and collisions
Spears and knives
They'll fail once, they won't try twice
In the past I've been critical
Of those who create altercation and make disagreements personal
I avoid confrontation typically
Violence specifically
Don't involve myself physically
But something's changed in me recently
A fire's been ignited, doesn't matter if you think of me
As ignorant and uninformed
A criminal to be reformed
A beast unneutered fanged and horned
I can't die
Poison and disease and sword and scythe
Can't hurt my body it won't
End my life
Disasters and collisions
Spears and knives
They'll fail once, they won't try twice
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You know me and everyone knows you
You know me and everyone knows you
You know me and everyone knows you
a-woo-hoo
If you went deaf too soon
From all the shows you've been to
Then I'd learn sign language for you
ooo-oo-ooo-ooo
wah-oh
wah-oh-oh-oh
wah-oh-oh
I really hate my dad
Oh man
Tell me it's not true
It's tough
It's tough being a young man
I'll burn down this whole school
It's tough being a young man
And it's hard being a Rock 'n' Roll fan
And it's not easy having a favorite band, I mean man, like
Do I look like I made a fuckin' six-year-plan
My situation's not awful
But there are things that
I don't have
That I want
That I need
To be gratified
There's no lampshading in real life
No prequel
To explain that eye patch
No teenagers in jackets talkin hella shit about your friends
It's tough being a young man
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6. |
?
00:40
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?
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7. |
Vine Street
03:24
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8. |
An American Appetite
07:42
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Schools all compete now
The kids will grow into their crowns
And teachers hang their frowns
From the walls of delis across town
From speech incoherent
They make out some terms of endearment
Words however frequent
Assure them of their achievement
Hell, they stand near it
It cries but they do not hear it
For they do not fear it
They stand with the holy spirit
And in it's protection
No harm will come to them or their children
That old time religion
It's good enough for them
I said I'm leaving this town
The people here they just keep me down
She asked how is it anybody keeps you down
When you choose to live so close to the ground
I said I've only ever acted sincerely
I've cried so loud and they just don't hear me
She said open your eyes your not seeing clearly
The people of this town love you dearly
I said I do not require permission
From their old superstition
She asked well if you've got so much ambition
How do you plan to break their tradition
I said the words that I invent
Will be heard someday in every accent
She said poeta nascitur non fit
But I did not know what that meant
From their seats some lips repeat
The poetry of a football coach
With rolling drums and big country strums
And from a float the champions approach
Well I learned my lesson
I guess I really learned my lesson
I never should've dropped out of college
News is starting to spread all over town
A kid went swimming in the river that's where he drowned
Apparently a dead tree on the bank fell down
I mean it must've weighed at least nine-hundred pounds
And when it landed in the water it pinned him down
And there was no body else around
No way for him to make any kind of sound
No way to draw attention, no way to be found
And now they're putting him in the ground
And at the funeral everybody's standing around
Waiting for someone to say something profound
And so they find the smartest guy and they surround
him as he tells them to remember that "time is round
and it rolls quickly" and though tragedy may confound
The light of the lord astonishes and astounds
To this Earth we are not bound
Well I learned my lesson
Everybody learned a valuable lesson
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9. |
It's A Curse!
03:11
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If I could rule
If I had subjects I'd be very cruel
I'd break their hearts, I'd use them just like tools
But they'd love me all the same
'Cause I'd be their king
They would drink from no one else's spring
They'd bow their heads, put their lips to my ring
From every branch it would be my birds that sing
The expressions of a servant faithful and devout
Who starves to death as buzzards eat his systems out
Sometimes I get so sad
But no hill on the Earth will go un-stabbed
By the staff of my own kingdoms flag
No hill but your own
'Cause you say that we
Have attitudes uncomplimentary
Personalities that disagree
I was born to rule, you were born to be free
The gallows have been prepared and the hanging's been rehearsed
Still the whole kingdom mourns for they know that it was a curse
If I could rule
If I had subjects I'd be very cruel
I'd break their hearts, I'd use them just like tools
But they'd love me all the same
'Cause I'd be their king
They would drink from no one else's spring
They'd bow their heads, put their lips to my ring
From every branch it would be my birds that sing
I'll throw their fucking bodies in a stream
Is your name Little Nemo 'Cause you're livin' in a dream
I'll kill every fuckin' hippie in the world
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10. |
Roseville Skyline Rag
01:23
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11. |
(Alright) Yeah
03:43
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I woke up this morning my hair looked a certain way
I used a different product, now it's lost its wave
My entire face has changed
On my driver's license I have dark skin on my face
I look at recent pictures, I appear a different race
When was I replaced
(Alright) Yeah
When I was a boy a crashed my bike and cut my knee
The scar, it still remains, its the only thing I've kept with me
How can that be
(Alright) Yeah
I woke up this morning my hair looked a certain way
I used a different product, now it's lost its wave
My entire face has changed
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12. |
Life Is Strange
05:00
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A stroke of the master's brush
As the subject it makes me blush
Life is Strange
This boy, he will not improve
Forelock never to be removed
Life is strange
I was certain this was my year
My craft honed, my word sincere
But things can change
Life is strange
How disingenuous I've become
I live by expressions and idioms
Words are strange
The gaze of an audience can make me pause
But what can I say, I live for applause
But now they say get off the stage
Get off the stage
I've acted with intent to destroy
Unlike a man and just like a boy
I'm so ashamed
Life is strange
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13. |
??
01:46
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??
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14. |
Weird Anime Pt. 2
05:55
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The minute you gave me
Has turned into forty-three
And you won't get them back from me
I feel really bad for wasting so much of your time
Weird anime all day
Weird anime all the way
The ideas you give me
Well they're just too good not to repeat
And the feelings they inspire
Well I'm not really sure what they mean
I had no idea what weird cartoons could do to me
Weird anime all day
Weird anime all the way
The jokes that I told you
the humor just didn't come through
The minute I gave you
Has turned into fifty-two
And I won't get them back from you
You can probably tell we're approaching the end of the song
Weird anime all day
Weird anime all the way
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