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Down Baby Down!
(In the Valley)
Well I went down in the valley
I was down in the canyon
It's a big ol' coulee
(Don't ya know it's a big ol' coulee)
It's a big ol dam
(Don't ya know it's a big ol' coulee)
And I come out with a bum knee
(Just the moon and the stars above me)
I got down with a waitress
I didn't see no planes in the sky
(Just the moon and the stars above me)
And I sang a song for the people there
And they said: "Honestly, we don't care
You can sing in your underwear!"
Well I went down in the valley
(Well I went down)
When everything went wrong
When the world turned upside-down
And it's up to the Gretchen question to save us now
Love your fellow man,
Love your fellow man,
Love your fellow girl even more
Just show her all the love in the world
Me and Tellus Mater
Well I was down in the valley
(Well I got baptized down by the riverside)
And I was down on my knees
And I was down on my knees
And I stayed down on my knees
And it's up to the Gretchen Question
And it's up to the Gretchen Question
And it's up to the Gretchen Question
To save us now
Where were you?
In the valley
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Be Free and Do Not Die
02:29
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The angels they were singing
Aged four
From the top bunk to the floor
Seemed like a thousand feet or more
And
I fell
Hey Momma Mama
O! Mother Mama realize
I had a vision
I thought I dreamt into your eyes
And when I woke up
I'd seen myself from the ceiling
I thought I was dead
I thought a lot of things but I was only dreaming
And out the window
There were angels
And they were looking out for me
Then they started to sing
They sang
"You're alive
O! child
Be free and do not die!
Not right now"
(Second Grade)
High
As a kite
From the the playground slide
And I thought to fly
O Father Father
DAD!
I think I landed on my head
You were so patient with me
When I thought that I was Peter Pan
Down by the riverside
When I was face-first in the sand
I felt your loving touch
And Dad
I think I got it
(Gotta get it)
Automatic
I was not a boy
Still I might not yet have been a man
And then I felt your hand
On my arm
Outside my self I was a child again
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Summer of Hate
04:17
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Summer of hate (It's the summer of hate)
Years and the seasons tend to bleed
This Indian Summer
It is based
Not on want
Not on need
And I love the sun
When it shines down on people in love
Makes them warm
And I love the sun
But no
This is no summer of love
This is the summer of hate
And hurt
Hate
My heart hurts so bad
Hate
Oh I don't want something for nothing
I just want something for pain
Pain
And hurt
Pain
Oh my heart
Maybe it's just me and I forgot
To ride my bike down to hidden beach
When it was so hot
Look around have some fun
Watch the sun shine down on people in love
Make my hair wet
Look around have some fun watch the sun
Shining down on people in love
Watch the sun going down on love
But no
This is no summer of love
This is the summer of hate
And hurt
Hate
My heart hurts so bad
Hate
Oh I don't want something for nothing
I just want something for pain
I'm not a glutton for nothing
Certainly I've got my needs
But baby don't hate me
Don't be hate
Don't be hate
Don't be hate
Don't be hate
Baby, writing to say that I'm sorry now
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She says she likes to dance
She says she never wears pants
Or rarely
She wants to promenade on home
With her partner
Do-si-do with your partner
Do-si-do
Do-si-do with your partner
Now promenade home
She says she likes to dance
She never wears pants
She likes to play around
She wants to lay you down
She wants to dance
She wants you to want to dance with her too
She wants to dance with you
And promenade home with your partner
Promenade home with your partner
Promenade home
Do-si-do with your partner
Promenade home
Do-si-do
Promenade home
She wants to dance
She wants you to want to dance with her too
She wants to dance with you
And promenade home with your partner
Promenade home
Promenade home with your partner
Promenade home
She likes to play around
She likes to play around
She wants to lay you down
She says she likes to dance
She wants to dance
She says she likes to dance
Do-si-do
She never wears pants
Do-si-do
She says she likes to dance
Do-si-do
She says she likes to dance
She wants to dance
She says she likes to dance
She wants to dance
she never wears pants
She wants to dance
Do-si-do
She wants to dance with you
She wants to dance with you
She wants to dance with you
She wants to dance with you
(She likes to dance)
Now promenade home
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Fake Blood and Sweat
02:23
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You were down
On your luck
You were down on your knees
More than anyone needs to be
But you got up
And you threw a punch in the air
You said
"I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
I deny reality
Any claim on me!"
You woke up
In a pool of blood and sweat
Then you woke up for real it was only wet
In your bed
It was the color of colorlessness
It was not red
Come to think those sheets are Venus blue
Well you think that blood is blue
I've got news for you
What's in your veins
It's all the same as mine
All the same
All the same
All the same
All aboard for the ride of your life
"Wouldn't it be nice?"
When you were born
It kind of just seemed like you stopped being dead
And even this will end
Have no fear
For the love love love
That brought you to the ground
Though it seems so sad to be around
Sometimes
Sometimes!
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The Bridge to Nowhere
03:14
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It's 3 a.m at the Super America
This big ol' slack-jawed sister
Catching snowflakes on her tongue
And just the day before
At Ten-O-One Marquette
I'd remarked on a fella from Madras
Doin' the same
Made a snowball and smiled at his friends
They were in town for a convention
They ran away on the bridge to nowhere
Super America
Even that'll go away
Away like seven-eleven did
When you were a kid (Either!)
You looked up and they were gone
(One day) somebody said "They're gone!"
And
They were gone (They were gone)
They ran away on the bridge to nowhere
You know man, the bridge
What they did, they just ran
Ahhhhh-ahhh-uhh-hah
Caliban Coincidence
The deformed slave
The green satin box
With golden thread
Or just gold
Sliding open sound
Sounding simultaneous on the wisp
Of thumb on page
Abu Mazen, Life of Johnson
Awake old man
Grasping at the green box
Gone now
But for Nancy
Savage beast
Dream awake to riches
Lost in the storm
They're on the bridge to nowhere
Too much livin' and not enough life
Always had a pretty girl
But you never took a wife
Never signed that contract
Though a ring was bought
Now we fought and we fought
And that ring came to naught
Your whoreson malthorse drudge
You ought to be ashamed of yourself
You're on the bridge to Nowhere
Ahhhhh-ahhh-uhh-hah
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My Greatest Sin
02:54
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Sinners Repent!
Sinners Repent!
Sinners Repent!
Sinners Repent!
Sinners Repent!
Meet your maker!
The end is near I fear I fear
Sinners Repent!
This body of mine
I once thought divine such vanity
What vanity
My greatest sin must be vanity
Right behind being slovenly and gay
In the face of calamity
O! dear lord where is the piety
Today?
Sinners Repent!
The end is nigh
O! me oh my
I got some shit to do before I die
Such vanity
What Vanity
My greatest sin must be vanity
Right behind maybe gluttony and say
Baby, how about a little envy
The good lord knows I can't be sin-free everyday
Whoa and if you sin a lot
Have no fear
Saint Peter ain't going to make you pee in a cup
When you show up
At the pearly gates
He'll hold up a mirror to your face and he'll say
"Sir, repent!"
Gluttony and
Greed and
Lust and
Sloth and
Wrath (Sinners repent!)
Envy and
Vanity
My greatest sin must be vanity
Right behind being sloth
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Alone (and So...)
02:06
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Alright
Alone
Alone and so
Alone and so
Shooby doobie doobie doobie doo wah
Come on come on come on come on
Shooby doobie doobie doobie doo wah
Doin' what you wanna do 'cause you're
Alone
And so
Alone
And so
I didn't have nowhere to go
So hopped
In my car
And I thought I'd drive very far
But I stopped into a shop for 3 shots see
There was a girl working there and she looked at me
She said
"Ice?"
Well I don't know
I like it hot
I like it cold
I don't know
I'm alone
And so
Alright
Alone and so
I said
"How is business?"
She said "slow"
"Why don't you close the shop
And come with me?"
She said "Where?"
I just said "We'll see
I got a quarter tank and some money for some food"
"That ain't half bad
In fact it sounds
Very good!"
Shooby doobie doobie doobie doo wah
But let's go!
You're not alone anymore
You're not alone and so
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The Girl in Orange
02:55
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You know the color orange?
He was twenty-five
She was thirty-two
They were in a scene
Where everybody knew
What was going down
And who was doin' who
But he had been away
And this girl she was new
Do you see that girl wearing orange
Turned my head inside out
I like the way she looks but I don't know
How she acts
Maybe I should ask her
And if I call
Will she call me back
Don't call me back and so no no bae-bae
Just get out!
Of my way
Such a one
That I love
LOVE
Do you see that girl wearing orange
She's the one that I want to love
She's over there and she's wearing orange
I gotta get with the girl in orange
So time it came and went
Like money earned and spent
And oh his hardened heart
Was like flesh that had been rent
I finally talked to the girl in orange
I gotta say I was a mite discouraged
Like when she said I'll give it to you straight dude
Don't you know that I cannot date you
I gotta a girlfriend and she says she hates you
I don't need her getting up in my face so
Get out of my way!
Such a one
That I love
Do you see that girl wearing orange
She's the one that I want to love
She turned my head inside out
I gotta get with the girl in orange
Do you see that girl wearing orange
She's the one that I want to love
She's over there and she's wearing orange
I wanna get with the girl in orange
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Dü the Watüsi
02:10
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(She whispers hot in my ear)
It's fun and easy
It's fun and easy
It's fun and easy
She never ever wanted to be anything other than
A good person and your favorite lover and your best friend
Well now I'm not counting but those are three things
I only need one right now and that's love
Let's rock
Let's roll
Well she can do the Watusi
But she doesn't really know how to dance
She just shakes a tail feather
And does a little wave with her hands
She whispers hot in my ear
"You know I got good cookin'
My mind is acute
And I ain't bad looking to boot"
Is that right?
That can't be wrong?
But what's not right
Must be wrong
But maybe we should change the rules
For just this one song
And dü the watüsi
Dü the Watüsi
Do the grind
Now do it forward
From behind
I'm feeling lucid
Now loosey-goosey
Dü the Watüsi
Dü the Watüsi
Yes we will do it all night
Ohh
It's fun and easy
She never ever wanted to be anything other than
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I see your bird has flown
How does it feel to be alone
In a jail of your own fashioning
With reason for the walls
And despair for the ceiling?
I lived in pissed off city
For a long, long time
The landlords they are greedy
And the bums don't take no dimes
In pissed off city
Most the girls are pretty
Most the boys are nice
We can walk on water here
When it turns to ice
At least we got a family
To justify the line
"The scene is so incestuous"
I hear that all the time
In pissed off city
Get yourself some money
Find yourself a wife
Escape from pissed off city to, uh
The countryside
We've all got our dreams
And most of them are pipe
Pass that over to the left
And yes, I'll have some more wine
In pissed off city
I lived in pissed off city
For a long long time
When Hell freezes over
I reckon I'll be doing fine
I'll freeze there with the sinners
For everything I've done
'Cause in pissed off city
You gotta do what you can to have some fun
Fun?
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Faux Jean San Diego, California
Faux Jean is singer-songwriter from Duluth Minnesota who currently resides near the border of Mexico. He is kind of a stay- at-home dad slash dilettante coming out of hibernation and releasing music with greater frequency as time speeds up. Faux Jean cut his teeth in the fertile Minneapolis music scene in the early aughts before settling down to family life. He likes to draw and dance and and and!! ... more
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