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Living In A Grown Up World
I been waiting for a world I've never known
I've been hoping for a life I can rock n roll
Look at all the restrictions
stepping on my convictions
I'm a bad ass child living in a grown up world
I've been dreaming of staying out all night long
Rock N Rolling with the gang who've gone all wrong
I'll try here once again
Hoping I can make a friend
as a bad ass child living in a grown up world
(Bridge)
Nowhere to play
Time falls away
Life is today
Find me a girl
sun sets again
not even a friend
but it's not the end
of the world
I'm still looking for a world I've never known
Still out there pushing for somewhere that I ain't gone
Somehow the dream's still there
even though the world don't seem to care
I'm just a bad ass child living in a grown up world
I'm just a bad ass child living in a grown up world
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Ladder Of Luck
02:50
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Ladder Of Luck
Don't be nervous about me
I'm on my way out the door
I was on my way up
Now I'm pacing the floor
Should I stick it out
Or are my dreams just stuck?
Up on a high wall of hope
Needing a ladder of luck
(Chorus)
Ladder of luck, so what do you say?
What do you tell someone who is tired
who's come all this way?
Do I wait til I die
For the light to be seen
shining down
on the mountain
where I've just been
I've done all I can
Lots of music around
They're on their way up
I'm on my way down
I can still try trucking
but I'd get caught in the muck
With my high wall of hope
without a ladder of luck
(Chorus)
Don't be nervous about me
I'm on my way out the door
It's been fun to master
all the things they ignore
I feel sorry for people
who feel sorry for me
It ain't about nothing
but what you're gonna leave
(Chorus)
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One Puff Ain't Enough
03:28
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One Puff Ain't Enough
Going down to the water
to get my spirit filled
there's a time in life you gotta let rest
Can't be in heaven all the time
(Chorus)
When I got it rough
One puff ain't enough
When I'm loading up on that stuff
One puff ain't enough
Get me to the top of the mine
One puff ain't enough
Gonna try to have me a good time
One puff ain't enough
She's my valentine
she's always on the run
Freedom's a dream of mine
we're never gonna hang in the sun
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Give to the day
pass on the right
Break away
from anything too tight
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
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Digging The Love Machine
04:28
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Digging The Love Machine
Her heart was broken back so long ago
She can't even remember his name
She's been pulling the weight of her soul up the stairs
and I'm just loving now she has nothing to blame
(Chorus)
Well she's alright
Digging in the sweet sunlight
and she's all mine
running in the warm moonlight
She's a spellbinder
digging in the sunshine
sidewinder
digging in the moonshine
she's my singing dancing rock star queen
we're gonna be alright
digging the love machine
This rhythm got me feeling so loved and secure
She'll be my bad habit when I'm done looking for a cure
She mix me up like brandy
Shake me for some fun
If we run out of progress baby I'll be mixing in some fun
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
She can ride her road to glory
She can let me be in her story
She can find me in her territory
Never will she ever need to worry (x2)
(Chorus)
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Wake Up On The Run
02:19
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Wake Up On The Run
Been not traveling
Been just staying here at home
wake up in the morning
wonder where the day has gone
Sun already setting
looks like the day already done
Sad to see time drifting by
I really gotta wake up on the run
Make something quick to eat
dress myself make my bed
try to remember
to do something proud before I'm dead
Every day is a winner
no matter where you come or go
the day has got us living
we choose to shrink or grow
Someday we will be free
and life will be what it should be
just hiding out in limboland
so these demons won't catch me
Sun already setting
looks like the day already done
Sad to see time drifting by
I really gotta wake up on the run
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Late For The Party
04:53
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Late For The Party
So around the time the well had run dry
I had stopped looking you in the eye
I had stopped believing in anything good coming of going
I had given in on escaping any fire that would come rolling
The sound that filled the air was just passing time
And the world had descended into hopeless crime
While there’d been hope in the air before
Freedom was washed up on a changing shore
(Chorus)
I can’t begin again because of where I been
I can’t sin again because of what I’m knowing
Who am I fooling to meet with anybody
I’m showing up now too late for the party (x2)
I can go for a walk outside
But I’m just walking around some soul that has died
Wondering where are the tears I must cry
These feelings I’ll never tell have hardened inside
The moneys good when you’re selling your soul
And those who rob you you put out on parole
It’s sweet how a prime can just take its toll
Leave some empty shell when you’ve reached your goal .
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
The journey is all I wanted now I find
There’s nowhere to go now I’m just doing the time
So around the time the well had run dry
I had stopped looking you in the eye
I had stopped believing in anything good coming of going
I had given in on escaping any fire that would come rolling
(Chorus)
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Smoke And Mirrors
04:45
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Smoke And Mirrors
Our country was a sacred place before they laid that plan to waste and leader after leader told their lies
Why did we let it go this far? Until they told us who we are and our allies turned away with their goodbyes.
Have our memory banks been robbed? When you read your eyes are mobbed by anything you'll understand as clear.
Take a fresh good look outside my friend when the sun is shinging look again and all the road will look like smoke and mirrors.
(Chorus) - High time goodbyes
to blind eyed war pride.
My side your side.
My my bye bye.
Kiss your growing family bye and turn around until you die because the world is always in arms of dirty war
They'll use your blood to sanitize the image of the final prize but why is blood the dollar of the poor?
I hope you get your swivel chair and you can look around for air shackled to your silly dream career
and take a fresh good look outside my friend and when the sun is shining look again and all the world will look like smoke and mirrors.
(Chorus)
With these tall tales you disagree but have you looked around to see? The cancer of this world is growing fast.
Nobody lives without the time and ordinary life is a crime like a ripped up sail hanging from a mast.
It's cruel to be kind when you can see some mastermind on TV
grinning ear to ear.
Take a fresh good look outside my friend and when the sun is shining look again and all the world will look like smoke and mirrors.
(Chorus).
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Thinking Of Giving Up For Good
I've been hungry for a couple of days
a couple hard nights and a thrill to kill
she showed me a sense of what I was missing
wishing I was on top of the hill
oooh
I was thinking of giving up for good
ooooh
I was thinking of giving up for good
She'll be my Delilah we'll kill trends together
make a map of the holes we burrow through
she'll give me some sky to put in my pocket
a little bit of heaven to pull me through
oooh
I was thinking of giving up for good
ooooh
I was thinking of giving up for good
(Bridge)
Does this make me wonder where she is now?
These words that kill when they touch me
Does this show you I'm into dying to
to hold her for the first time?
Does this make me wonder where she is now?
These words that kill when they touch me
Does this show you I'm into dying to
to hold her for the first time?
ooooh
ooooh
This part coming up gets good
I was thinking of giving up for good
I've been hungry for a couple of days
a couple hard nights and a thrill to kill
she showed me a sense of what I was missing
wishing I was on top of the hill
oooh
I was thinking of giving up for good
ooooh
I was thinking of giving up for good
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Killed These Feelings Fast
Tired of caring and considering in vain
Hurting and nobody cares
Can't tell I'm going insane
She brought me down to earth with her rocket ship illusions
Ran out of gas and filled my mind with intrusion
I'd forgotten how to feel
Now I'll remember what is real
It's time she carries on with her ticker tape parade
Must be nice to have it made
Chorus:
All the hope left an empty shell
Can't hide from her ride from heaven to hell
She left me here with these feelings to die
But I killed these feelings fast, babe
and baby may wonder why
I'm no longer invested in bullshit situations
Don't flirt with disaster it's a mindless conversation
I sat high on this emotional curve-ball
Tired of living for years buried in these walls
I'd forgotten how to feel
Now I'll remember what is real
It's time she carries on with her ticker tape parade
Must be nice to have it made
(Chorus)
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Living In A Borrowed Hole
I seen you on the corners
I've seen you on the floors
you're messing in the doldrums
you're playing with the whores
there's no one among you to call
there's no two ways to fall
(Chorus)
Did all the living in the street, kid
just wash all your faith away?
Living in a borrowed hole
and there's nobody home
you're walking down a tunnel
the tunnel is getting thinner
you think you're so smart
yeah there goes a winner
there's no one among you to call
there's no two ways to fall
(Chorus x2)
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Treading The Same Old Ground
Dream can't stop when it's still in motion
Time can't hide these deep emotions
Life can't hold on to good things gone
Where do you go when you're just going on?
(Chorus)
Love can't hold a broken man down
Living in sin with the stolen crown
How does it feel to be moving around
instead of treading the same old ground?
I'm jazzing on a promise of tomorrow
Still alive and ready to roll
You can kill me with your shallow grave
My silence is gonna strip your soul
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Have I crossed your mind today
Are you gonna love me?
I'm just a bum with a heart of gold
We're hiding our break up songs from one another
Looking back to every trick I've pulled
(Chorus)
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