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LATEST DISASTER

We met one monday night where my friend bartends
and always gives me drinks for free.
i caught you staring,
or were you comparing the guy you were talking with to me.
then you said:
"this place is dead, and this drink is going to my head.
take me home." i will, if you chill, there’s still time to kill
and this night just started looking better.
she bought herself a guitar, and she learned a few chords.
she wrote me a song that goes like this:
Get out, get dressed, you’re just like the rest,
there’s only one thing you’re after.
you’re still the same self-centered bastard.
you stay out all night with your shady friends just getting plastered.
this relationship’s just my latest disaster.
I thought that i was doing everything right
and giving her everything she needs.
but i wake up one morning
and all that she’s left is a break-up note that reads:
you don’t, and you won’t ever see my side of things…
ahh come on. i would, if i could,
but everything i thought was good would just upset her.
Our points of view will never meet.
i always miss what’s incomplete.

LITTLE BLACK BACKPACK

I know it, it’s a shame a
shame i can’t show it i see it, i can see
it now but i’m so far below it
Don’t wanna talk about it i say why
not don’t wanna think about it i say
there’s got to be some good reason
for your little black backpack up,
smack, turnaround he’s on his back
Don’t want to tango with you i’d rather
tangle with him i think i’m gonna bash
his head in and this shouldn’t concern
you except just don’t expect to get
your bloody black backpack back
I feel you, yes i can what about that
don’t you understand and i sense you,
its something sensual but its less than i
planned
(chorus)
You’re trying to find a reason for the way you feel
tonight you’re mind is lined with layers of lead have
you heard one thing that i’ve said

LETTERS

You’re leaving me here, dear
alone with all your letters
you’re letting it go, no
like innocence and feathers
you’re putting it down
sounds slipping into songs
you’re leaving me here, dear
alone with all my wrongs
you’re pulling away
pray you’re making the right choice
you’re pulling away
stay and listen to my voice
to my voice
Sooner or later you will long
when you wake you will see
sooner or later all the songs
that make you shake will be by me
sooner or later all the throngs of feelings
we used to apprecite will come rushing back
You’re thinking about
how you thought you know me better
you’re looking around town
and wondering how i met her
you’re pulling away
pray you’re making the right choice
you’re pulling awya
stay and listen to my voice
to my voice
Sooner or later all the throngs of feelings
we used to appreciate will come rushing back
when you wake you will see
Don’t wake me as you leave
don’t make me believe i have a chance in hell
don’t tell me what i know too well
don’t wake me
As you’re leaving me here dear
alone with all your letters
don’t let go of your innocence and feathers
now i find every second reminds me of our song
since you left me here der
alone with all my wrongs
with my wrongs

SOMETHING ELSE MIND

Well i waited for the sun to
Come up along with everything that i
Had thought of would it come to mind
Again and again would i be something
In the something out there be there in
The end

It was very upsetting to me ’cause my
Dilemma was only mine then you tore
My soul in two with a single blow and
I’m just sitting around trying to figure
Out which way to come which way to
Go but she had something else in mind
For me then i felt around for whatever i
Could just to get away from it all like i
Should and i heard a little something in
The wind that told me to stop thinking
About where it’s coming from but just
Be happy that it’s blowin’

It was very enticing to me ’cause my
Decision was only mine then you
Chopped my heart in two with a single
Blow and i’m just sittin’ around trying
To figure out which way to come,
Which way to go then i waited for the
Sun to go down but in my heart i want
It to stick around i’ve been sitting here
For hours, you say i’m wasting time but
I just can’t recall my body feeling so
Much like its mine

CITY LIFE

What’s your story send it over to me
i’ll take a look and see what there is to see
at least jot a few things down
anything to let me know i’m in your head
and not on the ground
with the cigarette butts
from the mouths of all those little sluts that want me
i’m lying here with the negative thoughts running my brain
over again, look where i’ve been, feel me try, feel the sky
feel that your able
to do what it is you need to when
This city life is dragging
this city life is dragging us down
don’t push me
don’t push me
don’t push me
anyway, well i can barely face the day
Is it already a quarter to ten?
how can i drag my body from this bed again
when i feel so heavy
from the weight of nothing
it’s not about you as i said
now it’s a quarter to two, another night run through
without connecting
to anything
This city life is dragging us down
I’m already so far away from where i need to be
i’m already so far away
We move a mile a minute
just to keep ourselves in it.
now i think we’ve come to far not to win it
what is it?
if i wasn’t here all of this shit would just go on anyways
if you weren’t here
everything would just go on anyway
that’s what you learn
why do you stay
when this city life is dragging us down

KICK SOME ASS

How many people wanna kick some ass?
I used to be
a nerd
grew up in the
suburbs
nothing there
ever went wrong
i made it up
in this song
i talk about
the heard
i say stuff like
its all good
tell people i’m down
with all the cool kids
down town
when i’ve never even
been there
Chorus:
how many people wanna kick some ass
(i do i do)
and how many people are sick of holding it back
(i am) well i am too
so don’t lay another finger on her
she’s mine and i still want her
you can put your hands up on her,
you’re a goner a goner
and how many people are sick of holding it back
(i am i am)
and how many people wanna kick some ass?
i would if i could but
i’m really just a sensitive artist
but portrayed like i am the hardest
So swing your cap around
to the back
you think you rhyme
but you cant rap
loosen that strap
a little more
till your axe
hits the floor
flip off your fans
make um cheer
try to look
sincere
angers today’s
fashion so
sing another song about
bashing someone’s head in
Chorus:
Acting like
i’m not the smartest
i’m really just a sensitive artist

so don’t lay another finger on her
she’s mine and i still want her
you can put your hands up on her,
you’re a goner a goner
and how many people are sick of holding it back
(i am i am)
and how many people wanna kick some ass?
I said how many people wanna kick some ass
how many people wanna kick some ass
what ya gunna do when you’re sick of holding it back?
i think ill kick some ass
how many people wanna kick some ass
i would if i could but
i’m really just a sensitive artist
but portrayed like i am the hardest
acting like
i’m not the smartest
i’m really just a sensitive artist
artist

BINGO

Caught me faking, at least i
tried totally mistaken, unidentified
hypocrisy, shamelessly fortunately
before i could plant the seed
I want to tell you everything but i can’t
i want to tell you all these things let’s
just forget it
My quote unquote sick mind cannot
understand, just undermine analyzing
everything picking apart every seam
just for a sign
It seems that you have found lately
something better to do with your time
and your mind lets just forget it
Call me hard, insolent tainted by the
thoughts of all that i resent believe i
can do as i said been collecting dust
inside this hollow head

WASHIN + WONDERIN

This just in…where to begin

Grin and bear it, it’s bare and grim

Adoration, titillation, I’m the victim now

Because she’s figured me out

She lights my candle, she has a handle on me

It’s going well but I’m scared as hell

That she’ll figure me out

She thinks it’s sacred to be naked

But I don’t care, ’cause she’s had me there

You see she’s figured me out

And I wanna shout at the top of my lungs now

But oh my god if she hears me she’ll come running in…

These are my hands, these are my faults

These are my plans

These are my nasty little thoughts

I wrote ‘em down for you to contemplate

At a later date

Well the word is out, what’s it all about

Doubtless shady, no shadow of doubt

In moderation, this sensation would be fabulous

But she’s figured me out

She’s in my shower for an hour

She’s just washin’ and wonderin’

And trying to figure me out…

And I wanna shout at the top of my lungs now

But oh my god if she hears me she’ll come running in…

These are my hands, these are my faults

These are my plans and these are my nasty little thoughts

I wrote ‘em down for you to contemplate…

It’s a little bit of something that I feel…

Oh man, I just can’t deal…

And other than this distance that has covered me

Can’t you see that you have smothered me

Well, you’re not there, just stay out there

Just when I was on to something else

That’s when she figures me out

ARE YOU IN THIS?

Sit still, take a trip into my eyes
you’re unstable still to my surprise
be honest but never catch my lies
don’t say you’re the one who always tries
And don’t say…
really are you in this
’cause i can feel you pulling away
not to mention all the things you’d never say
Now my visions gone to hell
i keep it in a box… with my memories
don’t bother with me… i can’t take it
i’ll be on the road with less a load
you’re feeling used….. a little bit confused
Don’t say…
really are you in this
’cause i can feel you pulling away
not to mention all the things you’d never say
so really are you in this
’cause i can feel you pulling away
not to mention all the things you’d never say
the only thing that you really should say
More than a little bit confused about this ‘n that
can i have back all the things we lose
i wish it were that simple, yeah i really do
i’ll be on the road with less a load
you’re feeling used again