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1. _ V
When I was down she was full of advice
'Cause she'd been there once or twice
With a ring on the side of her nose
Wearing other people's clothes
She had her highs and she had her lows
In between she show
When she smiled everything else died
V let off a good vibe
As if in a dream
The one and only V
That's a feel of dream
The one and only V
Buying shots and breaking hearts
She used to wait on us down at the bar
Never took as much as she gave
Is still giving to this day
Staying up half the night
Mood swing yet we cried
On a cold December day
V up and went away
As if in a dream
The one and only V
That's a feel of dream
The one and only V
Staying up half the night
Mood swing yet we cried
On a cold December day
V up and went away
As if in a dream
The one and only V
That's a feel of dream
The one and only V
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2. _ Ill Fated
Wasn't much of a union
Denial and confusion
Meant something to you
I bet you wouldn've stayed
Stumble on some good times
Turn them into landmines
You know you can turn the other way
You say you've been meaning
To sort through all your demons
If there's some room,
Are you gonna let me in
You've been hung dry by your close friends
Your inner child's an orphan
You're so far down,
You don't know where you been
So many things you don't know
If you want me to leave, just say so
It's the kind of thing I like
Curse cast in the night
So ill fated, so I'll fated
Goodbye with preservation's
Regrets and salutations
Something in there somewhere that I didn't say
It's you I think of only
Whenever you get lonely
I got more than years to give away
I've been dying to start living
You're just living to be dying
We can't seem to find no common ground
You hate me when I'm lonely
I'm lonely when you hate me
Mostly I'm just there to kick around
Sorting high and low
First to leave, last to know
It's the kind of thing I like
Curse cast in the night
So ill fated, so ill fated
It's the kind of thing I like
Curse cast in the night
So ill fated
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3. _ Making Waves
Saw your eyes light up the horizon
Just like the sun, still it's new
Bodies being hung for drying
Now there's one, guess they're through
Making waves in the bathroom
The time it saves, it's the last room
Hearing sirens on the street
Getting closer, please don't stop
Race won't be with these feet
Even closer comes the drop
Making waves in the bathroom
The time it saves, it's the last room
Ooh don't leave me now
Ooh don't leave me now
Ooh don't leave me now
Ooh don't leave me now
In the chair I thought you were sleeping
Your eyes rolled back, your lips blue
It was a drag to be dragging
You down the hall 'til you came to
Making waves in the bathroom
The time it saves, it's the last room
Are you in there
Hello, hello, hello
I'll be out in a while
I'll be out in a while
I'll be out in a while
Are you dying, hello
Ooh don't leave me now
Ooh don't leave me now
Ooh don't leave me now
Ooh don't leave me now
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4. _ Jennifer Save Me
Jennifer save me, Jennifer save me
I'm sick of all the faces
Staring back as if to say
I know that you're half crazy
But I wish you would go all the way
I'm driving your friend's car
'cause I ain't got my own
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
It's time to face the music
But they never taught me how to dance
I'd give you everything I've got
If you'd only give me half the chance, yeah
I'm driving your friend's car
'cause I ain't got my own
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
Jennifer save me, Jennifer save me
Need not fight for sunlight
The ashes and the elms grow tall
Fences bent gunmetal sunlight
Wrapped from here to Montreal, yeah
I'm driving your friend's car
'cause I ain't got my own
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
And if I leave today, see you tomorrow
Jennifer save me ...
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5. _ He's a Dick
I once knew a guy
Who always asked for money
I'd give him 10, he'd insist on 20
And now when I see him around
His face is always pointed down at the ground
All I wanna know
Is why he is such a prick
Please tell so I know what makes guys like him tick
He's such a dick
He wanted to borrow some records from my collection
On no return, I felt the rejection
And now, when I see him in town
Same way as always, his head is towards the ground
All I wanna know
Is why he is such a prick
Please tell so I know what makes guys like him tick
He's such a dick
Unsatisfied, a word he often uses is need
He is usually really wired on that cheap trucker speed
Last time he was at my house, he tried to walk away with my weed
Jeff plays bass, Mark and I play rhythm
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6. _ Glad & Sorry
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7. _ Red Headed Stepchild
Hello darkness, come on in
Let me light a candle
Imaginations running
Hands start to tremble
Knows enough to know not to believe
What is real, and what it seems to be
Knows what's keeping him from being free
Right outside your door
Don't run away
Red headed stepchild
I can only promise you won't
Find your way back home
In another room there's laughing
Entertaining strangers
Wasn't there, don't breathe no more
But keeping out some angels
Laughed so much, he almost cried
Stranger offers him a ride
City blocks roll on by
Never coming back
Don't run away
Red headed stepchild
I can only promise you won't
Find your way back home
Tear your pictures off my wall
I hate to look at strangers
Then it's burn before warned
Keep me out of danger
Knows enough to know not to believe
What is real, and what it seems to be
Knows what's keeping him from being free
Right outside your door
Don't run away
Red headed stepchild
I can only promise you won't
Find your way back home
Find your way back home
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8. _ Radio King
Lets go down, together
3 A.M tomorrow night
I'll take you over anything
Lets go out, together
Broad daylight in the street
I'll take you anywhere
Your music fills my car
Your voice breaks every time
I'm still wonderin'
If I know who you are
I hang on every line
Lets go down, together
Down by the old mainstream
Ill take you over anything
Lets go back in time
Nineteenfiftynine
Ill take you, Radio King
Your music fills my car
Your voice breaks every time
I'm still wonderin
If I know who you are
I hang on every line
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9. _ Love and Mercy [#]
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10. _ To Call My Own
Blowing through my losing streak
Bought the farm on a dead end street
Nothing ever grows under your sun
Filling voids with emptiness
And driving past your old address
Loneliness two has turned into one
They welcome you with open arms
Tell you they don't mean no harm
Do they mean anything at all
Feeling crowded by my company
You can't hate but parts of me
I know there's a new myth on your floor
Staying up in 409
The day are yours the nights are mine
Burned out everything except the door
It's like breaking out of broken homes
They tell you they don't eat their own
Searching for one thing to call my own
To call my own
There's a goldmine in the local scene
Get nine lives you need thirteen
Paid the price landed on all four
You used to mean the world to me
Scared to death of what that means
So we don't mean anything at all
I welcome you with broken arms
You know I don't mean no harm
Do I mean anything at all
And they all come from broken homes
They tell you they don't eat their own
Searching for a thing to call my own
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11. _ Until You Came Along '97 [#]
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12. _ Pecan Pie
As I walk along and stumble
Trains rumble in my head
As I breeze along and grumble
Think about you instead
And a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all I want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all I want is you
Sometimes I get so hungry
Think about pie all day
Just a little whipped cream
Honey, I'm on my way
With a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all I want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all I want is you
Just a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all I want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all I want is you
Now, don't you call me key lime
You are the apple of my eye
Don't you know I'll be fine
Whenever you're by my side
With a piece of pecan pie
And you that's all I want
Just a piece of pecan pie
And all I want is you
All I want is you
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13. _ Lost Love
Lost love in the desert
Lost love on the sea
If you can put it behind you
But it's still beyond me
'cause hearts break in the summer
And they meet me in the spring
Broken hearts all around me
But I don't feel a thing
Lost love on the highway
Lost love on the phone
Lost love with a suitcase
Heading back home
Where hearts break in the summer
When they meet in the spring
Mines still wrapped inside me
But I don't feel a thing
You're my lost love, I can't see
That you're coming back for me
You're the travel I can't find
And it's only a matter of time
Should've taken it all so hard
Should've taken it all so hard
My lost love ...
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14. _ Won't Be Coming Home
He is reaching up for climbing
Ropes hanging down below
I see the children smiling
No need to let it show
I know, I won't be coming home
No more
The street in sidewalk borders
Stretch out beyond the scenes
The sweet and dark emotions
Every day hopes and dreams
My God, I know who's waiting
Beneath the bedroom floor
Her eyes anticipating
I'm reaching every move
I know, I won't be coming home
No more
All I ever wanted
Was to turn from my side
All I ever wanted
Was to turn from my side
The rake is scratching harder
The half drawn window shade
Like any empty memory
The colors seem to fade
My God, I know who's waiting
Beneath the bedroom floor
Remember summer showers
Outside the cabin walls
I know, I won't be coming home
No more
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15. _ Looking Forward to Seeing You
Looking forward to seeing you
In the sunshine of my time
In a station off the coastline
Coming in view
Looking forward to seeing you
In that one room down the hallway
With two doorways and a window
Without a view
It all comes in threes
I purchase six and I still got three
Looking forward to seeing you
Where the sun shines off the coastline
In a station on your time
Coming in view
Looking forward to seeing you
In that one room down the hallway
With two windows and a doorway
We can't get through
It all comes in threes
I purchase six and I still got three
Looking forward to seeing you ...
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16. _ If I Only Had a Car
If I only had a car
Wouldn't be here in this bar
Trying to get to you
Time takes toll, the hours I'd roll
Is it a blessing or is it a curse
Seems this love makes matters worse
I'm stuck in this cafe
Lost along the way
Moving to keep strong
When I'm feeling myself burn
It don't matter let it hurt
It tells me I'm alive
When you saw me in California
I was lost in a dusty haze
Now that I know you
You feel so far away
If I only had a car
Wouldn't be here in this bar
Trying to get to you
As I'm waving you goodbye
Following the line
Trying to get to you
Still the echos fill the void
Your eyes rolled in your head
As you slowly disappeared
Still hard to rearrange
The distance made it strange
I'm still trying to get to you
If I only had a car
Wouldn't be here in this bar
Trying to get to you
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17. _ Please Tell My Brother
Please tell my brothers I love them still
Over the mountains on their phone bill
I should call more often
But they know I never will
Please tell my brothers I love them still
Please tell my sister I miss her too
My nieces and nephews and their swimming pools
When I think about her
Her skies are blue
Please tell my sister I miss her too
Please tell my father I love him still
Forget the railroad and all those bills
Head for the cooler
And drink your fill
Please tell my father I love him still
Listen dear mother, I miss you the most
And as I travel from coast to coast
I feel your love an'
I feel your ghost
Listen dear mother, I miss you the most
Listen dear mother, I miss you the most
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18. _ Until You Came Along
Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down
Don't let your feet ever thouch this ground
Comfort me in times of doubt
In deep despair, lies and cares and a falling out
With my friends I used to follow
Nearly everybody's daughter
That's until you came along
In a bar-room patrons singing
But I just sat there drinking
That's until you came along
Your star-crossed eyes and your troubled mind
Seems you were left just for me to find
Sweet lady lay your hands in mine
Upon my face laid to waste by years of wine
With my friends I used to follow
Nearly evevrybody's daugther
That's until you came along
In a bar-room patrons singing
But I just sat there drinking
That's until you came along
Sweet lady lay your hands in mine
Upon my face laid to waste by years of wine
With my friends I used to follow
Nearly evevrybody's daugther
That's until you came along
In a bar-room patrons singing
But I just sat there drinking
That's until you came along
With my friends I used to follow
Nearly evevrybody's daugther
That's until you came along
But the darkness just got darker
This heart of mine got harder
That's until you came along
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