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1. |
Hey
02:47
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Hey, I saw you standing, I saw you smile
You look enchanting, let's dance for a while
For a while
Hey, I know it ain't easy, I know it's hard
You leave yourself open, you're gonna get scarred
I'm still scarred
I love everybody, I love you
You're the only friend I got I wanna do stuff to
Hey, you took my soda, you stole my fries
I thought you were honest, but then I got wise
I got wise
Hey, let's take a vacation, just me and you
Cause I got a secret and you have one too
Yeah you do
I hate everybody, I love you
We could save the world but we've got better things to do
Push me up, pull me down, kiss me underground
Throw me off, watch me drown, fill my head with sound
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2. |
Time Cube
03:29
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Leopold
02:42
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He was born in 1882 in London
He'd kick your ass at violin and organ
And then he'd steal your wife
Hey, that's life
You broke one of my favorite possessions
Of course you realize this means war
Now I fart in your general direction
I won't stop until I even up the score
You can't keep me down forever
I will hunt you down and get her
Leopold
With Greta Garbo
Those two made quite a pair
You broke my banjo
You won't be coming up for air
And little do you know
You're singing for a long-haired hare
All I want is to sing and play me harp
What's the matter fat boy
Can't you hear you're sharp?
You can't keep me down forever
I will track you down and get her back
Leopold
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4. |
Without You
02:40
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I was a solitary man
Living life without a plan
Till I met you
I never thought I'd meet a girl
Who could overturn my world
Till I met you
I was so alone the years that I was on my own
I was so alone without you
I saw you gliding through the air
Like an answer to a prayer
When I met you
I asked if you would like to dance
I'm so glad I took that chance
When I met you
I was so alone the years that I was on my own
I was so alone without you
Now I know you love me
Now I know you care
I won't dance with another
Since I saw you standing there
I was so alone the years that I was on my own
I was so alone without you
Now I know you love me
Now I know you care
I won't dance with another
Since I saw you standing there
I live my life now without fear
I'm just happy to be here
Since I met you
I love you more than I can say
Every day's a holiday
Since I met you
I was so alone the years that I was on my own
I was so alone without you
I was so alone the years that I was on my own
I was so alone without you
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5. |
Don't Look Right
02:33
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You don't look right
Where are your pores?
Have you ever been out of doors?
You're the one that the public adores
But you don't look right
You don't look right
You call that skin?
What kind a vat did you grow that in?
I don't know where your body's been
But you don't look right
I look at you and I don't know what I'm seeing
I'm not even certain you're a human being
You stopped aging back when you were seventeen
But you still stare out from your magazine
Selling Avon Revlon and Maybelline
You don't look right
You grew too tall
You could look down on the Taj Mahal
And you don't weigh anything at all
No, you don't look right
You don't look right
You're skin and bones
Living on a diet of sticks and stones
Another soldier in an army of drones
And you don't look right
I don't know what to think when I look at your face
Searching for humanity and finding no trace
I think you're a member of an alien race
Who's come to enslave us from outer space
Along with Robyn and Roxette and Ace of Base
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6. |
Red Integra
03:53
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I saw you sitting there on Fruit Street
But I'm not any good with words
I'm the red Integra parked behind you
So I'll leave this little note instead:
"I think that you should be more careful parking. There were no
damages but next time, be careful. They might not be as nice as
myself. I saw you back up into my car."
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7. |
I Will Deny
01:44
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Everybody loves me but it doesn't mean they care
I'm just an arrow in the air
And I will fly and I will fly
My heart is stronger than the ticking of a clock
And for a week I took a walk
I will deny
It doesn't matter what my fortune tells for me
If I am tied to someone free
And she will fly and she will fly
My heart is stronger than the pumping of a pump
My memory's a useless stump
I will deny
Kiss me Carolyn, I like you cause you're cruel
You calculate my innocence and pull me in the pool
We fooled everyone cause everyone's a fool
But now I will deny, I will deny
I keep a diary of data to disclaim
It mentions all of you by name
And you will fry and you will fry
I have another one of people that are true
The only name in it is you
I will deny
And I've got secrets that are locked up so secure
That I've forgotten what they were
And they will die when I will die
I've got another one that anyone can see
And it's the only part of me
I will deny
And I will be what I will be, I will deny
And we shall see what we shall see, I will deny
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8. |
Wake Up
02:26
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We could jump from a supersonic aircraft
We could dump all our toxins in the bay
We could do the things that other lovers do
But I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to wake up next to you
We could drink all your amniotic fluid
We could think it was going to taste okay
We could hold each other's breath until we're blue
But I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to slowly regain consciousness
Look at the floor and see your dress
And fall asleep in your caress again
We could party like it's 1992
But I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to wake up next to you
And I would say that there's nothing I would rather do
Than start the day by remembering that I got you
Lullaby and good night, I can't wait till daylight
We could live in the wreck of the Titanic
We could give all our cartilage away
We could cuddle, we could snuggle, we could screw
But I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to see your softly sleeping face
Suspended in a state of grace
And fall asleep in your embrace again
I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to wake up next to you
I just want to wake up in the morning next to you
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9. |
You Broke My Brain
03:49
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I was a child prodigy
Just got my third Ph.D.
I could solve bicubics in my sleep
I used to be the teacher's pet
Up until the day we met
Now I'm far too shallow cause I fell in love too deep
I used to think I had it all
But now I hardly think at all
Oh, you broke my brain
I used to ponder and reflect
But now my cerebellum's wrecked
Oh, you broke my brain
I won the state boy genius crown
From Encyclopedia Brown
There was not a book I hadn't read
I studied Hegel and Descartes
Back in the days when I was smart
Now I've found a better thing to do than read in bed
I used to cogitate and think
Before you made my IQ sink
Oh, you broke my brain
I used to be head of my class
But now I just think of your ass
Oh, you broke my brain
I thought it was a sprain but I was wrong
I'm gonna be in pain before too long
And so here's the refrain of my new song:
My erudition knew no end
Now I can barely count to ten
Oh, you broke my brain
My genius was second to none
But being stupid's much more fun
Oh, you broke my brain
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Over falafel at lunch
I hear he's awful a bunch
I see you waffle, well tell me
Will you won't you will you won't you, you won't
You say you like me a lot
So will you invite me or not
I kissed you politely, was that wrong?
Will you won't you will you won't you, I don't care any
Will you won't you will you won't you, I don't care
I don't want to hear about your crappy boyfriend
I don't want to hear just how great I am
Love him or leave him but don't you deceive him
Cause I'm not the other man
Calling him stupid ain't right
If you're going to do him tonight
While I watch the Bruins
Will you won't you will you won't you, you will
I know you don't want to choose
But if I don't go on I'll lose
I'm happy with no one, just tell me
Will you won't you will you won't you, I don't care any
Will you won't you will you won't you, I don't care
I don't want to hear about your crappy boyfriend
I don't want to hear just how great I am
Love him or leave him but don't you deceive him
Cause I'm not the other man
You said, who cares what you said
I thought, it doesn't matter what I thought
You said, don't say it again
Go on, say it again, I don't want to hear it again
Don't say it again, go on, say it again
I don't want to hear it again, hear it again, hear it again
I don't want to hear about your crappy boyfriend
I don't want to hear just how great I am
Love him or leave him but don't you deceive him
Cause I'm not the other man
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11. |
Pollard Saves the Day
02:26
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Every tune's been collared
Every word's been hollered
By a certain Mr. Pollard and the songs he sings
Every tune's to die for
Every word's a cipher
About his hunting knife or other valuable things
The celebrated Mr. P
Performs his tracks express for me
They burrow in my head and there they stay
And when a tune escapes his brain
He simply fills it up again
The songs of Mr. Pollard save the day
Every tune's been collared
Every word's been hollered
By a certain Mr. Pollard and the things he thinks
His muse produces like a geyser
It doesn't matter what he buys her
And so it's usually Budweiser that he drinks
When laundromats and lullabies
Conspire to cut me down to size
I tremble like a zebra on display
The flies surprise the telephone
A new parade to call me home
The songs of Mr. Pollard save the day
Cry your knife away
Pollard saves the day
Bands collapse and he will stay
Pollard saves the day
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12. |
I Don't Say Anything
03:19
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I'd like to say you're looking good, because you're looking good
I want to say I like you cause I do
I'd like to say a lot of things but they might be misunderstood
So I don't say anything to you
I'd like to say I like your hair, because I like your hair
It wouldn't be obnoxious if it's true
I'd like to say a lot of things but when I try to I don't dare
So I don't say anything to you
It's such a pleasure just to have you as a friend
And I don't want to say something that might cause that to end
Cause you might freak if you found out that sometimes I pretend
That I'm your favorite coffee cup and you are my house blend
I'd like to say I have a crush, because I have a crush
It's possible that you might have one too
I'd like to say a lot of things but I suppose that there's no rush
So I don't say anything to you
I don't talk and I don't sing
I'm silent in my suffering
Because I don't say anything to you
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13. |
Country Mo-Fo
02:39
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What's the matter with you Mrs. Flori?
Can't you see that I am poor?
That night you raised the rent again
Now I'm sure I'll be walking out that door
Antonietta
Eyes so blue
When you wear that fancy sweater
I remember I loved you
That Italian accent
It all sounds true
When you said you'd come to spray the apartment
I thought that's what you would do
But oh, the way you looked that night
Antonietta
Hair so blue
Though I know I can do better
All I'm dreaming of is you
And the way you looked that night
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14. |
The Benefits of Language
01:37
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When you've got some seasoning that I need
I just ask you to pass it and you hand it to me
And I can put it on my sandwich
This is a benefit of language
When Glinda saw Dorothy fall out of the sky
She didn't know how, she had no idea why
But she could ask "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"
This is a benefit of language
Contracting your diaphragm
forces a column of
air through your larynx and
your vocal cords which can
vibrate at one of a
number of frequencies
When you broke my heart and you threw it away
I checked into the hospital the very next day
And I asked the doctor for a bandage
This is a benefit of language
But when colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Well, it just sounds like bad Bob Dylan to me
There's no deep structure from my vantage
Although syntactically it's language
Using your lips and your
tongue, not to mention your
uvula, you can pro-
duce many sounds which are
then strung together and
turned into human speech
When I'm feeling hungry but I don't want to cook
I just sit on my couch and I pick up a book
And then I soon forget I'm famished
Another benefit of language
And when I got some subject that I hold dear
I just put it in a song and I know that you'll hear
And then I don't feel so much anguish
The biggest benefit of language
If it's a benefit
Then I'll take ten of it
These are the benefits of language
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15. |
I Push Her Buttons
03:10
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I'm the best man in the world
Though I can't imagine why
Cause the most amazing girl
Thinks that I'm an amazing guy
Don't know how to win her heart
Good thing I don't have to try
I push her buttons
I push her buttons
I push her buttons
Just like she pushes mine
Everybody and his bro
All across this fruited plain
They're all clamoring to know
How did I infest her brain
I hate to say I told you so
But it's easy to explain
I push her buttons
I push her buttons
I push her buttons
Just like she pushes mine
Why is she so intoxicated?
It can't be my brawn or my brains
The impossible has been eliminated
There's only thing that remains
If she wrote a personal ad
Detailing each desirable trait
I probably wouldn't do too bad
But I don't know if I'd do great
So then why do I drive her mad?
Allow me to explicate
I push her buttons
I push her buttons
I push her buttons
Nearly all of the time
I push her buttons
Just like she pushes mine
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16. |
I Get By
04:17
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If I had you I'd hold you like a guitar
I could slay you with a well-placed F sharp barre
If you don't want to hear that tune I'll leave my fingers where they are
And every time I see your face I want to touch it
And I know I'll never touch it
I get by, I get by
And I can't tell how hard I tried
I can't reveal what I can't hide
I said that I was fine, I lied
But I can stick around and see you smile from the side
I say William Shakespeare had the right idea
Put your passion in a poem she won't hear
If your heart is whole again you can publish it next year
And every time I see your neck I want to kiss it
And I know I'll never kiss it
I get by, I get by
And I've been in my head too long
To know when what I think is wrong
But I can write another song
And I can stick around and see you as you sing along
I had another set of words to use instead of what I'm singing here
The rhymes were intricate and every line was filled with alliteration and the best poetic tricks
It demonstrated just how clearly I'm the perfect guy for you to hear
But in reality perfection isn't really what we want so we just throw words at the page
And we call it a masterpiece if any part of it sticks
I've been waiting on another bright idea
I've been waiting on another bright idea
I've been waiting on another bright idea
I've been waiting on another bright idea
I've been waiting on another bright idea
I've been waiting on another bright idea
I've been waiting on another bright idea
I've been working on a song that you won't hear
I've been working on a song that you won't hear
I've been working on a song for you, dear
And everybody tells me that I'm fine
And everybody tells me not to mind
And everybody says just toe the line
And everybody tells me that the world was made for me to play in but I don't believe them
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17. |
Tatooine
03:12
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A pile of sand is all I see
And in the distance, Mos Eisley
A wretched hive of scum and villainy
That smell you smell is bantha pee
And though I'm willing to admit
That it's a piece of shit
It'll always be a part of me
One I don't regret
Tatooine
A moisture farm ain't loads of fun
Especially in the heat of our two suns
I need a ship that can make the Kessel Run
To go find my sister with her hair in two buns
Though I wanna get off this rock
So far it's just been talk
But one day that droid will come
And I'm gonna walk
Tatooine
Everyone has dreams, mine are clear
Find Obi-Wan and get the hell outta here
Knowledge and defense, but never fear
That's right, one day I'll have Yoda's ear
You can hide the truth from me
But with the Force I can see
That one day I'll be set free
Like my father before me
Tatooine
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18. |
Head Like A Hole
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Honest Bob & the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives Boston, Massachusetts
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives are a rock-and-roll band founded in 1992 by four M.I.T. undergrads. The band
has endured for more than 20 years, released four full length albums.
The band is known for its lyrical wit and quirky subject matter, including such topics as Noam Chomsky's linguistics theories, the Time Cube, the Heaven's Gate cult, and the Star Wars movies.
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