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I'm leaving your apartment
but I want to go in reverse
things have gone from bad to worse
She speaks to Jesus every night
while I try to get things right
while I try to make me right
And you wonder what is wrong with me
tell me cuz I'd like to know
tired of everyone I used to be
I'm tired and over you
tired and over you...my love
You're a freight train
with understated makeup
with our overstated break-up
You send me back to go
And October has grown so long and tired
all the words that you've inspired have run out of weight
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Eyeliner Blues
04:09
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She's got the eyeliner blues
and dead heroes with black tattoos
Only women bleed
What the hell does that mean?
I don't know
Must be something they say
Screw the details of feeling sorry for yourself
you can't beat it
you're the last to know and the last to let things go
The radio is playing the Ashtray Heart
Highway wires all tied in nots
You missed the summer of rock n' roll
And all the people that you used to know
She's got a Keith Richards poster on her bedroom wall
Makes her feel so warm, so invincible
Coffee shops and beat up cars
rainy nights and the sweethearts of the teenage scars
no one writes letters anymore
they just fade away and leave this place behind
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Cash Machine
02:26
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Moonlight Girls make their weather
while the jukebox plays lets spend the night together
U.S.A. talent equals pretty
turn off the tv, the shit is killing me
It's a cash machine advance
don't it make you want to dance
survival left to chance
Where's it go when the money's gone
try to figure out where the hell I want wrong
Half is spent before I pay the rent
Half is spent before the money's sent
don't it make your blue eyes red?
Moonlight Girls go home in fancy cars
after all night parties drinking at the hip hop bars
I go home, Studio 24
Jack of hearts sleeping on the floor
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Gold Star
04:49
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Sometimes you have to let go
to find out what you're looking for
with your car crash romances
and a year in review
what's happening to you
Now I'm falling in love with the idea
idea being in love
and it all goes back to you
What's on the menu for a broken heart?
Gold Star for the meaning of life
and I can't believe the things that are happening to me
Gold Star for the meaning of life
Work and taxes
loads and loads of faxes
rock n' roll dreamer of dreams
loyalty fades and sympathy gleams
traffic lights detect it
you come to expect it
the dark comedy of love and life
year in review
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Harris County
04:29
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I call home at midnight every morning
from deep inside the Harris County jail
Answer back and echo and a warning
You've got a lot of nerve boy
You've got a lot of gall
You've got a lot of time to have it all
Twenty one year's old and look at me crying
Mama don't bring my little boy here today
Sick of all of my shit and he's sick of me lying
Call you every morning boy
can't you hear me scream
Am I just an echo in your dreams?
Deep inside me I know everyone wants to feel a little like me
Bury my soul on the side of the road and set my conscience clean
These consequences are catching on fast like a water to a stream
We've got a lot of time to have it all
Alcohol can make you feel uneasy
Never been all that you wanted her to be
Have you ever watched a man stop breathing
Than you ain't never been high boy
You ain't never been stoned
Until you suddenly find yourself alone
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Sleeping in the backs of cars
wonder where we go when we say too much
do you think we're ever gonna work it out
you really don't have much to give
I'll remember that as long as I live
do you think we're ever gonna work it out
do you think we're ever gonna see it through
and I'll be alright
just for tonight
and you'll be high
high as a kite
just for tonight
Telephone says I'm alone
telling me another bird has flown
do you think we're ever gonna work it out
Crying in the backs of cars
Sleeping in the skyway between the bars
do you think we're ever gonna work it out
do you think we're ever gonna see it through
When dreams lose out to memories
one of these days you'll see things my way
and love, love took a year from me
one of these days we'll see it again
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Minot
03:02
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I've got no love
for my hometown
500 miles isn't far enough to run
You're so carefree
you can't judge me
delusions make me feel so nice
can you still breathe?
I don't need your lessons to learn
throw in the towel before I get burned
This is an ode to cover bands
bad punk rock and a town I can't stand
Standards
I can't relate
I don't believe in that anymore
I guess I'll sit it out
Feeling sick
Feeling well
The same thing that kept me high
Brought me down
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Take a picture and let it go
in the folds of your wallet that let you know
that what you've had has been replaced
all the lives that you have led
some expanded and some are dead
but it feels so good to like yourself again
It's hard enough to break (more than I can take)
it's hard enough to break (more than I can take)
It's hard enough to break
You better give it away
Here it comes again
don't you see it
It's the attitude you take with me
So give me a new address
and get me away from your mess
A pill to make you function
An attitude adjustment
A smile from your replacement
That is all you need
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Traffic Report
03:50
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Baby wears low rise jeans
Lives in a high rise in midtown
cold kisses in the corn fields tonight
And they take you for a ride
Down the avenues and alleyways and dead ends
Motor cars run out of gas
Lightrail runs out of tracks
It's times like these I get weak in the knees
and my stomach hurts like hell
I guess I should learn to live with this burn
and start moving on myself
You're just like a cloud
Baby likes to keep in touch
With my memories and answering machine
I lost my confidence
To past acquaintances and broken down old taxi cabs
You're just like a cloud
You come and go
And you rain
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1995
03:30
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She comes to me like broken glass
Heart half empty, fading fast
She's got "Girls Can Tell" on her stereo
Spinning round and round
to "Chicago at Night"
She knows what I'm after
and she's gone, before the sun
She's on the telephone
Whispering sweet nothings
Feel like an asshole
I'm probably right
There's no connection
Karma sets in
Tossed to the side like 1995
Never told me it would be like this
It all started with a kiss
Got me into this
She comes to me like broken glass
Heart half empty, fading fast
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I won't let you break
Your voice makes me shake
I'm gonna give you away
I'm in charge, up to my neck in your debt
Keep away from me
Keep away from me
I've got a postcard that says breathe
Breaking the patterns where nothing really matters
ain't that easy to break
Habits are built, sweet cherry guilt
is gonna take you away
darling
breathe
darling
When you go to sleep
Miss Amphetamine
Miss Amphetamine
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Guess you're finally gone
no more nothing's wrong
I guess I was naive to think we'd have a family someday.
Can't say I didn't see it coming
Doesn't make it hurt any less
Shadows on the wall
"Clocks" in the air
Can't hear nothing
Now that you're gone
Get up and read the news
and shake away these dusty blues from you
I guess there's nothing I can say but lay here and stay awake
Thinking of you
She says I still love you
Just not the way that you want me to
She says she still cares
But how am I supposed to feel
When you've said that all along
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High on Stress Minneapolis, Minnesota
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