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Sixteen Gallon Tank
02:38
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I still got this car
with all 4 wheels and a seat saved for you know who
but you'll have to quit that job that you hate goin' to
It'll get us there as long as there is still there
when the motor dies
but at least we'll have this radio and cooler filled with melted ice
a little bird told me told me I'm right stop making faces
you're too uptight trying to weave your way out of your destiny
clinging like a cub to the way things used to be
there is a better way, I don't know what it is
but I know just what it ain't
but we'll never know if there is something better til we burn through
this sixteen gallon tank
No we'll never know if there is something better
"til you take your mind off the brakes
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Never Married No Kids
02:17
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never married no kids
waved a flag and called for Detente
now the only thing I ever do is anything I want
never worry 'bout SIDS
hacking up my family tree
and every nickel of my child support just goes to me
maybe i'll die alone no one calling on my phone
the robots will get better
i'll just turn her off when i upset her
never married no kids
I'm fine with kittens sadly
tried teaching my young niece to purr and man it ended badly
not shackled or bound
by deadlines or time constraints
just a once a day trip to the litter box on a crusade
no i won't die lonely with all this fur around me
and my robot will say calming words as the lifeforce
gets sucked from my body
never married no kids, never married no kids, never married no kids
no I won't die alone, if these paws all go to heaven
all march right straight down this crooked street
to a shelter and replace them
never married no kids
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Jesse Louis always waves hello
hangin' half way out his side window
he somehow made me feel half alright
the first time I walked to school alone, he got me there on time
right next door to twilight video
he waves at all the legs who come and go
I used to change my route on purpose like
so Jesse'd see how good I'm getting on my bike
but I got older like they said I would
but the same old kid in the same neighborhood
with bigger shoes and a much bigger bike
still them flailing arms of Jesse caught us as we road by
then one day i overheard at schoole
some teachers talking by the swimming pool
said Jesse lost his baby son and wife
in a fire back in '63, he hasn't spoken since in grief
Oh Jesse, I wish there was something I could do for you
Jesse Louis always waves hello
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Imaginary Friends
02:43
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first one to the door gets out alive, boy
stop this world from getting on your bad side
there will be work to do
wake up shivering sometimes without a clue
you can go ahead and live on bread alone
with a pistol by the bed and a telephone silently ringing
and imaginary friends waiting on the other end
3 doors down the wind blows through a chime,boy
four old bells Rachmaninov could never find
what have we come to know
Will it stop the melting of our childhood snow
you can go ahead and live on life alone
but your legs are slowing down cuz you're getting old
tired and jaded
scrapbooks full of memories dutifully fading
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Where I Want
01:50
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I will go where I want
gliding unmolested with the wind kissing my back
and the purest of intentions
go where I want
no-one even left to stop it
be beggar or a prophet
I'd love to see them stop me
where I want, where I want
And anywhere that I do lay my head is home
freezing faster than a fern in mastodons
where I want
I will go where I want
with or without a direction
stars surround my body in a circle of protection
go where I want, the tide is coming in
I'll ride it back before the hands of time can touch my skin
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Ben Gordon Show Asheville, North Carolina
psych rock
colors on colors
above and below
auditory drugs
love and light
mind and magic
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