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Mr. Pilgrim
02:58
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Mr. Pilgrim
Mr. Pilgrim drinks a lot
he's caught drunk every time he turns a cheek
His face is flared up red and hot
his shirt is torn and wears
unbuttoned jeans.
I hear him every morning
He wakes me up screaming at his trees
He is quite the crazy man
when he dies life won't be such a dream.
(Chorus)
His house is a zoo of plants infested with spider webs
His '55 Chevrolet rots in the sun all day
He's got an empty pool and a garden full of nothing but garden tools.
Mr. Pilgrim, what to do?
Mr. Pilgrim never shaves he's got a wisp that waddles to the ground
His back is bent his legs are white and crooked like a bastard from the slums.
He's skinny like a girl and it's funny how he smells up the town
He is quite the crazy man
when he dies the world will lose someone it never found.
(Chorus)
Lost in the shuffle now
Taxman on holy ground
knocks at his door all day
no one is home I'd say
but he keeps coming back
thinking I'm hiding him in some old sack.
C'mon Jack!
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Baby Of Mine
02:11
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Baby Of Mine
Baby of mine - is on her own
Baby of mine - is eligible
but baby of mine
is happy to be my friend
I’d buy her a diamond to keep her true
I’d send her a letter every day or two
but baby of mine is happy to be my friend
I know that she’s the one
but she has lots of fun
with other guys
should I be happy for her
after all we’re only friends
Baby of mine is being told
she’s breaking my heart and leaving me cold
if you don’t see it - you don’t know how to be my friend
She’s seeing a man - who tells me she’s scared
I’m being a nuisance
so get out of her hair
but baby of mine is happy to be my friend
baby of mine - is happy to be my friend
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I'm A Swine
03:12
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I'm A Swine
I'm not the only one having fun blowing a lung
Now I'm famous throne karma prone comatose
If you want to ask me I'll sacrifice a little time for you
The answer you will get I'll bet will disappoint you.
(Chorus)
Because I'm a swine I'm on the line
It's back to bucks that friendship trust
It's bittersweet the way it eats away
this fame disease.
I've tried to be kind to say the lines to pull a smile
Seems I got too tired friends were hired money wired
If you want to ask me my reputations at stake can't talk to you
Because the answer you'd get I will bet will let the real me show through.
(Chorus)
I am famous face on display another race
I have all my wits shred to bits media blitz
If you want to ask me my reputations at stake can't talk to you
The answer you'd get I will be will let the real me shine through.
(Chorus)
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The Freak Parade
02:14
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The Freak Parade
Crazy man
thinks he's sane
he's a clown
in the freak parade
He thinks he's fine
in his own little mind
but that you know is just his imagination
(Chorus)
Because he's crazy
in his own little way don't you know?
He's staying in the freak parade
Because that's his home
There's a face in the mirror and he's looking at himself
and he's talking dirty politics and his tales are rather tall
and he wants to join the freak parade but they say
he's on the ball
and he's disappointed because of it but that's just the way things are
He's crazy
in his own little way don't you know?
He's staying to join the freak parade
Because that's his home
He's crazy
in his own little way don't you know?
He's staying to join the freak parade
Because he's alone.
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A Cruel Hard Time
02:57
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A Cruel Hard Time
Love was
a cruel hard time
someone else's world
and she said
there's nothing strange
in loving that girl
Something in the way you said it made me grow
something in the way it was said gave me hope
(chorus)
Now I'm kicking along
saying what's wrong
she belongs on the undertakers role
making a song
singing it wrong
getting along is all that I'm good for.
I dug a ditch
for a bitch
I was caught with.
And you said
the anger used
can bury it.
Something in the way you said it made me grow
something in the way it was said gave me hope.
(chorus x2)
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County Of Piney Woods - Dan Frechette 142 bpm
Finding no one of relation of mine
in the county of Piney woods
I found an old axe and I built a cabin there
and I hit the city to dish out my goods
I came back there because I had to fight to air
and I wished I'd never left
there's nothing like sitting where
the silence is lifting the noise from the pockets
of theft.
Deep in the city the evils are with me
bringing me down in the mines
where I dig for my dollar
with the hell around my collar
and I pine for my holler and time
so I took this mistake
and I found my own brake
and I used it to stop on a dime
in the county of Piney
with good luck beside me
she once was a friend of mine.
Got me a job so my memory bank got robbed
and I glided all the way down the hill
to the place where the cookin is good if you're looking
and the blood there is ready to spill
in the neighbourhood hole where the buddy on the dole
once was a superstar
and the fast life is rigging
and the slow life is swigging on the end of a cheap old cigar.
Chords - E A F C G x2
D A F C G
E A F C G
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7. |
Join The Holidays
04:18
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Join The Holidays
Suddenly you're all alone
you've got no bones about being alone, now do you?
Your world which once was so pristine
don't make you scream
but it makes you mean inside
What is it you want?
A brand new color TV?
To watch all day and burn your eyes away?
(Chorus)
Come join the holidays!
Come join the holidays!
We'll be all dressed to kill!
Everyone is having fun on your TV set
you bet they're making fun of you
This TV dinner tastes the same as the same old things
you've eaten all damn year
What is it you want?
A big shot restaurant party?
But there would be no kicks round there to see?
(Chorus)
You bring your mom and dad along
the dog is groggy but he is coming down too.
There's a restaurant on Bloor Street
where the folkies meet to have a silly time.
What is it you want?
Folk pudding and blues syrup?
But it'll never go down right, you know?
(Chorus x2)
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8. |
The Shrink
02:57
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The Shrink
Take a little time
look into my eyes
everything is dark inside your mind
let me light a candle up there
let me hypnotize you
let me idealize the way you kiss your blues goodnight
I'll be your razor blade
cold sharp steel
I'll see you right down to your soul
(Chorus)
I'm your shrink (he's a shrink)
I'm your shrink man (he's a shrink)
professional shrink (yeah)
your number one friend
Give a little cash
make my day
I'll guarantee your hardship goes away someday
you'll have to work a little harder to pay them bills
but it's better than being up on lunatic hill
don't be a renegade
another little masquerade
I know you inside out so stick with me
(Chorus x2)
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9. |
The Young Sweet Disgrace
03:37
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The Young Sweet Disgrace
All messed up and nowhere to go
the man with mask said "bring me back home"
to the driver who hibernated his heart
he drove home the young sweet disgrace
Somebody told him why he was alone
they soon understood why he hid in a hood
but the scandals he caused with his drunk dirty paws
pulled at his heart 'til he broke
the wife was so sweet she had sex on her mind
the young sweet disgrace drank his last shot of rye
and drunk as a scum he soon became one
and was caught by the men in the town
the girl was so smart she kept her guilt to herself
her husband was called and he was appalled
but he knew her too well and he soon blew his cool
and was off on a rampage alone
The young sweet disgrace was barred from the church
his mother heard and she found him absurd
he couldn't go home so he drank on his own
to forget that his life was destroyed
he called her one night from a blasted old pub
the mother who answered heard an outcry of love
but she soon packed her things to go live with sister Rose
knowing he was coming home
All messed up and nowhere to go
the man with mask said "bring me back home"
to the driver who hibernated his heart
he drove home the young sweet disgrace
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Already I Love You
03:15
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Already I Love You
Your eyes tell lies
and already I love you
already I love you
your feet don't walk
and already I love you
already I love you
your stone is real
and already I love you
already I love you
I love how love feels
(chorus)
Could you be mine
forever, and ever, and ever?
The golden man is he
someone you'll treasure?
someone to never die?
Your heart is locked
and already I love you
already I love you
You haven't talked
and already I love you
love is the drug and we're high.
Your stone is real
and already I love you
already I love you
I love how love feels.
(chorus)
Something you'll do
if you love me forever
forever and after a while
you'll walk in my heart
play a rapid love song with
my radio dial
your stone is real
and already I love you
already I love you
I love how love feels.
(chorus x2)
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11. |
Mozart In Hell
02:42
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Mozart In Hell
Watch the rain hail hell on you as you sleep outside
paint our nights with flights of height for what is right is lies
Now you send a means to an end break free from murder you and me
wait 'til Simon says your halo's rusted on your feet
ah ah ahhh
(Chorus)
Reap rewards your strung up telephone ain't hung up yet
what does it mean you want to scream vent all your pent up hapiness
Roses on your fucking tombstone bet you put them there
hello hello can you hear me are you in your underwear?
I'm so stiff I'm on this riff my mind is swelled I can't state
don't you know how glad I was that now it was today?
ah ah ahhhh
(chorus x2)
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12. |
Goodbye Earth
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Goodbye Earth
Never mind goodbye Earth tomorrow
I must be off and I'm taking on the world
adventures in spite of the storms quickly brewing
the east coast is wet and west coast is burning blind
burning blind
burning blind
burning blind
(Chorus)
Lo and behold me hardees we're sinking
land is not near and the sky isn't clear
it's my time to die and it's my time to try
to die without trying
to die without crying
Polluted sure death lands I escaped from
there were no trees and the buildings surpassed the clouds
The water was swill and the deserts were rocky
smog was so harsh that nobody could even breathe out
breathe out
breathe out
breathe out
(Chorus)
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