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Rock N Roll Degenerate
03:50
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Whatsa matter baby, goin’ outta your mind?
‘Cause you can never quite tell if you’re ahead or behind
Me, I shook my family and quit my friends
Took a one-way trip to where the rainbow ends
I’m the wicked witch, I’m the maiden fair
I’m the best-laid plans of your worst nightmare
‘Cause I’m a Rock N Roll Degenerate
Thirty years of education taught me some shit
But I never did learn baby, when to quit
See, there ain’t no stoppin’ this run I’ve had
‘Cause I’m too damn good and that’s too damn bad
I’m the best defense, I’m a real good time
And I ain’t too pressed that I’m past my prime
‘Cause I’m a Rock N Roll Degenerate
I’m the wicked witch, I’m the maiden fair
I’m the best-laid plans of your worst nightmare
I’m the best defense, I’m a real good time
And I ain’t too pressed that I’m past my prime
I’m the coming storm, I’m the going rate
I’m an act of God, I’m the hand of Fate
When it comes to pass, you will come to find
I’m the first in the class of the last of my kind
‘Cause I’m a Rock N Roll Degenerate
I sold my soul to the gig economy
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2. |
Local Honey
02:24
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Tell me what ails you
Tell me what’s wrong
Tell me who failed you
Strung you along
How did it happen?
Who do you long to be?
Write on a napkin
Send it to me
Tell me what ails you
Tell me what’s wrong
Tell me who failed you
Strung you along
You a believer?
Did you want something more?
You got the fever
I got the cure
Local Honey
Tell me what eats you
Let’s make it right
Tell me what keeps you
Awake in the night
You a believer?
Did you want something more?
You got the fever
I got the cure
Local Honey
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3. |
I Got Mine
02:53
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I’m dumb, but I’m rich
So I’m dangerous
I fail up, I get over
I’m just fine
I don’t learn, and I lie
I don’t earn, but I buy
You mad? Too bad
I got mine
Got me an internship (Don’t have to work for money)
And then I up and quit (Can’t tell me what to do)
Got in the Ivy League (I didn’t even study)
And then I went exec (A corner office too)
The hand that signs the check (In case you missed it, honey)
Is gonna write the rules (Woo-hoo!)
Bought me a politish (Shook out the couch for quarters)
To grant my every wish (And keep the rabble down)
And if you got an ish (I got my own reporters)
I’ll say it’s just sedish (I’m gonna keep the crown)
A little bait and switch (They only follow orders)
Is how you run this town (Woo-hoo!)
You’re right
It ain’t fair
So go fight
I don’t care
Stay woke
You’re still broke
I got mine
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4. |
Sweet Beet
02:45
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You can be a boy, you can be a girl
You can be a kind of person new to the world
Oh, you’re my sweet beet
And I love you the way you are
You can be a guy, you can be a gal
Baby, I can’t lie – you are my favorite pal
Oh, you’re my sweet beet
And I love you the way you are
Mr., Mx. or Mrs.
New or a different name
Still give you hugs and kisses
And I’ll love you just the same
You can be a king, you can be a queen
You can be somebody who’s somewhere in-between
Oh you’re my sweet beet
And I love you the way you are
Stick or automatic
Wedding gown or tux
Won’t give you any static
And you look like a million bucks
You can be a he, you can be a she
You can be a they and we will always be a we
‘Cause you’re my sweet beet
And I love you the way you are
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5. |
The Thing
05:36
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Do that thing
I want the thing
To do the thing
But I can’t make the thing
Do the thing
That I want it to do
Got time left? Do what you want
Got nothin’? Got nothin’ but time
All the things
and all the things again
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6. |
Sugar In The Raw
02:02
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What other lovers could be so close
And diametrically opposed?
I stream your colors, I crack your code
And I run for cover when you’re ready to explode
This is the system here in our frustration nation
Limits of persistence in the powers of persuasion
And when it’s working, even though my flaw
It’s heat lightning all night and sugar in the raw
So thickly settled and what a thrill
Continental breakfast with some analytic phil
Unstuck in time, perfectly still
You don’t understand me, baby - ain’t nobody will
Taking a tangent off of a digression session
Hoping for some credit or an honorable mention
Oh my aching body, oh my aching jaw
Sweet heat lightning all night and sugar in the raw
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7. |
Feels The Same
04:13
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Gaining unfamiliar ground
While we wind our way out of the woods
With the madness in the sound
Just a method for getting the goods
Don’t believe you when you say
It was only a moment of doubt
But I love you anyway
And I know we can figure it out
I’m not sorry that I came
But I don’t think we feel the same
Not entirely to blame
I don’t think we feel the same
Gonna take me by the hand
Like you done since forever ago
Got me striking up the band
For a dance with the devil I know
You’re no stranger to acclaim
And the praise didn’t phase me a bit
Knew me by a different name
And I never got used to it
I’m not sorry that I came
But I don’t think we feel the same
More the pity, such a shame
I don’t think we feel the same
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8. |
Clownin'
02:48
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Don’t need to see your features, I know what you are
One of them creatures squeezing legions from a car
Your rictus grinning doesn’t spin a spell on me
Giving me shivers when I hear the charivari
Midway between the thing and imminent disaster
If there’s a ring you can be sure that there’s a master
I saw the elephant – you swore it was a mouse
Making my escapin’ while you’re papering the house
Because you’re clownin’
Bit of business getting twisted ‘til it’s done
A liberation decimates your ten-in-one
We got a fault, it’s lying well beneath the stars
There ain’t no arte in this commedia of ours
Overextended with the tension of a guy wire
Without a net to catch a Herbie from the high wire
All out and over got a handle on the brakes
Lammin’ on ya, Larry and I’m pulling up the stakes
Because you’re clownin’
It ain’t a theory, dearie – said it ‘cause I know so
On like a zanni but you’re acting like a bozo
There’s only ever been two stories goin’ ‘round
A man goes on a journey and the circus comes to town
And now you’re clownin’
You’re gonna go all-in
But you’re no harlequin
I’m done with dukkerin’
Step right up and hear another reason
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9. |
Don't Gotta
02:33
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I would’ve cared for you in sickness and in health
Stood by your side in times of poverty and wealth
But if the little voice inside can be believed
I’m secretly relieved that I won’t have to
I was prepared to share in all that happened hence
Through fortunes foul and fair and family events
But if the universe works in benevolence
It makes a lot of sense that I won’t have to
It doesn’t denigrate the happiness we had
To terminate makes neither party good nor bad
An unfamiliar fate awaits, awake and strange
Love is no inoculation to the strain of change
I’ll make the best of it this respite will allow
I’ll live to love again, surprised I still know how
You’re free to spin your wheels in other circles now
Oh why? I mean, oh wow! Yeah, I won’t have to
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Did you pay your mourning dues?
Did you make the evening nous?
Have you been? Have you gone? Did the symptoms linger on?
Did you back? Did you forth? Did you find Magnetic North?
And do you feel - do you feel the Blues?
Expect the spirit to move you any day now
Expect the practice to improve you any day now
Expect the power to compel you any day now
Expect your demons to expel you any day now
Did you give all you had?
Did you forgive your mom and dad?
Did you bend? Did you break? Did you sleepwalk wide awake?
Did you show? Did you tell? Did you know it just as well?
And do you feel? Do you feel?
Expect the chair to recognize you any day now
Expect the parties to surprise you any day now
Expect your trials to acquit you any day now
Expect forgiveness to permit you any day now
When you’re down and out and all hope is gone
And you’re fighting your way out of hell
And I’m failing you like the way I do
Like I know so much better myself
And encouragement would be heaven-sent
From the one in your corner well then
I will Lady MacBeth you from here to your death (come what come may)
‘Cause I love you forever and ever and ever amen
Expect perdition to disown you any day now
Expect ambition to enthrone you any day now
Expect the planets to align you any day now
Expect the challenge to refine you any day now
Expect the pilot to ignite you any day now
Expect the riot to incite you any day now
Expect the muse to come upon you any day now
Expect conclusion to foregone you any day now
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Mary Prankster
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