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i think the universe is trying to tell me nothing
i think we both feel it'd be best if we walked away
and all the wives are drinking with their husbands
like they've run out of anything good to say
i don't feel sometimes
anything but fear
there's a limit to what i'll take
i think the universe is trying to tell me nothing
like maybe it's run out of good things to say
in the dwindling beauty
let the boredom kill
oh i wish i had the answer
in the dwindling beauty
let the boredom kill
oh i wish i could
let's fake our deaths together
let's fake our deaths together
in the dwindling beauty
let the boredom kill
let the boredom kill
what kind of drugs don't you think we're over using?
what kind of strangers do we think we both would make?
i hate the thought that either of us would be caught choosing
i hate the thought of losing anything for goodness sake
one day if we're both feeling lucky
we'll get tired of the grudge
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2. |
Around Here
04:34
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around here
we name the strays
we let them into our hearts
give them a place to stay
like jesus did
or so you read
you gotta love everyone
until they're dead
and it's what i've been telling you
all along
i want you know
i need you to know
and i know we're both tired of making mistakes
and falling has become our middle name
i know we just want to be rescued some days
we don't want to become some kind of broken cliché
around here
we keep on fucking up
we drag our egos around
in a beggar's cup
because we've all been taught
from such an early age
to build a wall around our hearts
so that thing will never break
and it's what i've been telling you
all along
i want you know
i need you to know
i just needed someone to see where i belong
and it’s next to you
right here next to you
and i know we're both tired of making mistakes
and disaster has become our middle name
i know we just want to be resting some days
with the stolen eyes of love
that we carefully hide away
i remember what song was playing that day on the radio
as two speeding cars slow motion collide
we promised ourselves we'd never go silent again
we laid there for hours together and cried
and i know we're both tired of making mistakes
and disaster has become our middle name
i know we just want to be rescued some days
with the stolen eyes of love
that we carefully hide away
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Just a Dream
03:59
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walkman and a bmx
we both know what happens next
before god created sex
there was just a dream
just a dream
black and white and local news
wrangler jeans and jordache shoes
twisted sister sings the blues
it was just a dream
just a dream
who wants a hero who's attainable?
or do we really even care?
tiny little egyptian kings
really know how to mess up things
we all want attachment without strings
ot was just a dream
just a dream
do you want to live forever?
do you want to go get high?
do you want to burn it all down?
before we even try?
school council presidents
all lie about the things we'll get
some join wars and some forget
it was just a dream
just a dream
may all your dreams be ever wet
and all your stumbles heaven sent
it all feels like we lost a bet
it was just a dream
just a dream
who wants a hero who's attainable?
or do we really even care?
we want a beauty that's sustainable
and a love that's truly rare
do you want to live forever?
do you want to go get high?
do you want to burn it all down?
before we even try?
to get ourselves together
like there is no reason why
for two birds of a feather
who would rather sit and cry
do you want to live forever?
do you want to go get high?
do you want to burn it all down?
before we even try?
to get ourselves together
like there is no reason why
for two birds of a feather
who would rather sit and cry
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4. |
Young and Wasted
05:08
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old enough to go to adult jail
lost enough to know that when it's over
stinging nettle and a telephone made of wood
that keeps calling
old man raven's wings sound like a basket wheezing
growing up so cold in a wartime bungalow
you were such a show-off
brushing your teeth before bed even when we were both so drunk and stoned
and laughing and falling down
and i just feel asleep and started dreaming
we/they were both so beautiful
so young and wasted
and now we judge ourselves in empty hotel bars
fisheye lens distortion and hating who we are
it's our dirty little secret we love to celebrate like a national holiday
we're screaming through shut bathroom doors like enemies
we/they were both so beautiful
so young and wasted
don't look me in the eyes
look me in the device
we/they were both so beautiful
so young and wasted
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Acid Wash Jeans
04:58
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i don't want to be mean
how does it feel to downhill ski in acid wash jeans?
i don't want to be cruel
but it seems like a pretty freaky thing to go and do
and on a sick day when you're in your bed
common cold lodged in your poor little head
when you're playing all the conversations
and all the little things you say you never said
what can you say?
you've been losing faith in being saved
and let down by your heart again
what can you do?
when nobody is being fooled
and the kids are sick of being cool
what can you say?
when you're part of everything you see
but remember how it used to be
you know i hate to be mean
but those French immersion girls will always be out of reach
i don't want to offend
but sometimes my sony discman is my only friend
on a bench seat on your school bus you never felt so far out of love
what can you say?
you've been losing faith in being saved
and let down by your heart again
what can you do?
when nobody is being fooled
and the kids are sick of being cool
what can you say?
when you're part of everything you see
but remember how it used to be
overrated me overrated you
we'll be a family
do what families do
overrated me overrated you
can we just be friends?
do what friends will do
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Tahiti Treat
03:53
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i like to think of you with sunshine in your eyes
with your beauty so easy that it doesn't try
and when i get bored of myself you never care
everybody falls in love with the wind in their hair
my tahiti treat
my bermuda triangle
disappear with me
i’ve been angling for you
come let me hold you tightly in my canadarms
i want to feel you pressed against me here with all your charms
a pop-a-wheelie is everything when you're a boy
but when you grow up everything just makes you annoyed
my tahiti treat
my bermuda triangle
disappear with me
i’ve been angling for you
better them than us
except when comes to having fun
born in the year of the rabbit back in '75
we were twelve in 87 feeling so alive
the threat of cold war kept us up almost every night
but tv dinners gave us strength and gave us second sight
my tahiti treat
my bermuda triangle
disappear with me
i’ve been angling for you
capital city tokyo japan
i want to be with you wherever i can
nostalgia's greek for returning home to pain
mark of gorbachev
looks like italy
let’s go down to yonge street
and get with it silly
i want it to be more than coming home to pain
better them than us
except comes to having fun.
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whatever happened to good old fashioned acid rain?
i miss those simpler times i’d give anything to have them back again
to those handmade years backed up by a laugh track
i'd sure like to have that back
it's getting to be that time of year
when everyone starts to go insane
i know that i’m a man who's a little out of step with the times
i've run out of whimsy and i've stopped being interested
in what others think about the war and what we’re even in for
when jesus comes to town
what's he gonna say to you?
what's he gonna say to me?
that i haven't already thought of myself
will he just come striding in?
how long will it take him to see?
there's no way that we're gonna go clear?
whatever happened to gorbachev and ronald reagan?
we woke up terrified in 1986
wise beyond our years
impossibly straddled between decades of adults
it’s getting to be that time of year
when everyone starts to go insane
whatever happened to all those heavy metal bands?
lyrics backward masked and suicide solution dreams
in the early days of fear of moms watching donahue
that's when it finally dawns on you that jesus might be wrong
what's he gonna say to you?
what's he gonna say to me?
that i haven’t already thought of myself
will he just come striding in?
how long will it take him to see?
there's no way that we're gonna go clear?
will he just come striding in?
how long will it take him to see?
i don't already loath in myself?
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8. |
Slow Suicide (by wine)
04:56
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we'll lock ourselves next to the dalìs
in the peggy guggenheim museum
they can go to hell
i'm done listening
and i don't care if i ever see them
don't paint me strange
just because you think i lost conviction
just get me and my wife
on a flight to somewhere in italy
slow suicide by wine
we'll change our savings into silver
and barter for deer skins of chianti
we won't read the news
we'll just be dreaming
the kind you get on the ligurian sea
don't think i'm insane
it's just that my wife and i would like to die on our very own time
if we could
in italy
slow suicide by wine
what if it's weak to grow old?
slow suicide by wine
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9. |
Name The Strays
03:35
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we name the strays
we name everyone
we wanna love everything
we wanna save everything
we name the strays
even the ones we don't like
we name the strays
we name everyone
we wanna love everything
we wanna save everything
we name the strays
even the ones we don't like
everybody looks beautiful
everybody's worth saving
everybody got a place on this ship
even though we're sinking
we name the strays
we name the strays
we want to save everyone
we name the strays
like jesus would have done
everyone looks down on this creation
such is here
we name the strays
everyone carries a passport
everyone knows our names
we're all just getting famous on talk shows
of the game
we name the strays
everybody looks beautiful
everybody's worth saving
everybody got a place on this ship
even though we're sinking
we name the strays
just like jesus would have done
we look down from on high
everyone is worth saving
everyone has a story
everyone carries a message if you've got time to listen
we name the strays
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