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Blue Breed
04:11
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It was cool when the world was a pool
You could step right in and get out whenever you wanted to
And always someone to hold your hand in the deep end
But we were wrong about the atomic bomb and now
An eagle's shitting on the White House lawn
In a blonde wig with Chinese fireworks every holiday weekend
Here it comes
Another daily dose of your unnatural remedy
Here it comes again
Sleep was a joke
You wet your beak with a rolled up doctor's note, then
Went lookin' for more
Flat on the floor
Spanish radio in the static of my 404 and you
Head to the source
Stepped out between hurricane debris on the beach
To occupy the empty lifeguard seat
While you OD'd on a micro dose on your first date
and told me "I like pop, hip hop, and karaoking yacht rock;
Any little moment I could lose in a tune
I could use to bust open the blues or punch through the static
It can be boujee and bad
Or spooky, sad, and dramatic"
Here it comes
Another bogus dose of your unnatural remedy
Here it comes again
Sat up from the dream
Somewhere between click tracks and drum machines
That died in the Sixties
But we're accidentally born
Like Spanish radio in the static of my 404
And then head to the source
Spiked and sparkling
New breed born on the spit of your theremin kiss
Left the lightning on
Scared or sacred
New breed born on the split of your paradigm shift
Found it frightening
Spiked and sparkling
New breed born on the spit of your theremin kiss
Left the lightning on
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2. |
Made for It?
04:26
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You were there when the wave did hit
At the second floor lift of the Hard Rock Casino
When all of the chips floated up to the surface
Past all the prizes and apathetic employees and then
Shorted out every slot machine
Where the retirees started to scream in their Sunday best
You and me stripped down in the street
Turned to salt in the sauna
Left nothing but a poem on the wall
It's your life
You were made for it
It's your life
You were made for it
It's your life
You were made for it
Light a fire, you're the ambassador's son
So run, run, Rudolph
Run until the fun runs out
Find a way to be calm and behave
Get a job shoveling hay
In Scandinavian summers and then
Save your luck, delay the minute your time's up
Walk a little slower every morning on your way back home
Pass a tune that you already knew
Hear it hummed by commuters and Hungarian holymen
It's your life
You were made for it
It's your life
You were made for it
It's your life
You were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
Close your eyes, drift back with me now, dear
One more time before the past is gone for good
Wakin' up on a lazy day
With your hair in my face back when love was real and we could
Find hope in an inside joke
Just you and me together afloat in our nation of two
Recollect all the hours we kept from the world
Before we knew just what love could do
It's your life, you were made for it
You remain a spot on my heart that hurts when I breathe
It's your life, you were made for it
You renamed yourself at last and now you're finally free
It's your life, you were made for it
I guess we did it all, babe, all but the final bow
It's your life, you were made for it
Go and get it now, BB, I know you're gonna make your brother proud
It's your life, you were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
It's your life, you were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
It's your life, you were made for it
You were made for it
It wasn't made for anyone else
It's your life, we were made like this
Just a flake in the wind tryin' to cling to whatever is left
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3. |
Bohemian Shuffle
04:23
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When it snowed on Bohemian Grove
Andy Warhol wore his white pants
But the doorknobs all had froze
Before morning
The superego stole
Every spell that held your indifference
Then laughed at the inside joke
You're ignoring
Til the soldiers all awoke
To a blonde bombshell on their locker room doors
Hopin' it wouldn't blow
Without a warning
We're not far off from the ending now
It's hard to believe we began at all
That was no ordinary dream
The feeling remains on my eyelids
The details are fuzzy and hard to recall
That was no ordinary dream
You were told to paint every stone
With the remnants of your wilderness
Scratched at the river's bones
til it emptied
Now your love is a broken toy
Self employed that can't make ends meet
So it's sold for artificial gold
To your enemy
Not far off from the ending, babe
It's hard to believe we began at all
That was no ordinary dream
And all those times we thought, "Well, this must be the end"
Look here comes another one
Then we froze
When it snowed
on Bohemian Grove
Undercover we're reborn
Through the cracks inside your psyche
Poked holes just to look at the world
Like a secret
You're the gold upon my coast
You're the romance in my memory
Now you're only the shape of a ghost
In my doorway
We're not far off from the ending now
It's hard to believe we began at all
That was no ordinary dream
The feeling remains on my eyelids
The future is fuzzy and hard to recall
That was no ordinary dream
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4. |
Dave's Waltz
02:22
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Clicking cicadas like a metronome wait
But your memory's a cricket
Keepin' me awake
It'll buzz at my screen door
Tryin' to get in
Until you come over and love me again
We were close to the bottom
I heard the olive branch break
Then forgot my own mantra
Somewhere in LA
I'll be halfway to heaven
With my eyes half open
Until you come over and love me again
But there's holes in my reason
Holes in my rhymes
But it don't make the singing no good
I'll be workin on forgetting
And getting some sense
Until you come over and love me again
She laughs when she dances
And swoons when she talks
With blue eyes soft
As a country waltz
She'll be here until I've forgotten the pain
I'll forget it til you love me again
Cuz love's a disgrace
Makes me blue in the face
But it don't make the leavin' feel right
And there's one thing I'll miss
Til the day
That's when you'd come over
And swallow my pride
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