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madison
07:35
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sometimes i wonder if you're human
you're not even from wisconsin
oh madison, madison
we don't have to talk, we hardly speak
it's all about walks around a lake
long walks with madison, madison
like medicine to my soul
oh won't you sing to me?
you belong to someone else (madison)
you're not mine
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dropping like flies
02:08
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though a multitude around me
turn color and fall,
i remain
perfectly green and solitary
forever
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hurricane season
03:01
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she's a tropical storm today
she's a million miles away
but the crusty old guys say
a storm is coming
and i feel her anger when
she's changed her course again
now she's a category ten
and everyone's running
the land of warmth and sun
lies in the path of one
whose devastation
will for decades linger
it's like she is a ghost
she's haunting the gulf coast
where the one i love the most
is her prisoner
i'm serious, you better duck and cover
she's a furious, pissed-off and angry mother
i share the blame of what was lost
when you were swept away
our natural disaster cost much more
than we could pay
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pictures
03:25
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i got pain of my own
it's a train moving slow
and it's taken me so far away
i got pictures of places i used to go
i got pictures of people i used to know
i got pictures of the way life used to be
i got pictures hanging on my wall
i got pictures of people i tried to call
i got pictures they're everywhere to remind me
i got pictures taken in black and white
i got pictures of close friends who have died
i got pictures of the one you took from me
there's one thing i've learned from you
i make new friends, it's all i can do
it's a slow train, a slow train
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a song for speter
02:41
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"speter" is steven peter
all smushed together
spelling something better
during inclement weather
he thinks there's nothing better
than too much butter
on his orville reddenbacher
watching movies through a winter storm
his hair is shorn like a baby
on the day that it was born
he is so forlorn without popcorn
there is no one neater
neater than speter
if he had another sister
well i'd sure like to meet her
he used to have a fish
but i guess he forgot to feed her
the crx doesn't have a heater
that's how he justifies a subaru
(subaru..)
my favorite roommate you were
just wish the shrews were fewer
i hope your house finally sells
before the summer
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i don't play piano
02:08
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i don't play piano
piano is just too hard
it's not like singing falsetto
and it don't fit inside my car
i think i'll stick with guitar
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things that go boom
03:28
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leaving earth with liquid propulsion
launched from the roof of the garage
sabotaged with a firecracker
duct taped to the fuselage
'cause i was cruising
aiming for the stars
and i was flying so high
then all at once
i don't know what happened
and i don't understand why
i'm set to self-destruct
i always self-destruct
this song will self-destruct
in 5, 4, 3, 2..
one day and everything will change
one day and i will be free
one day and i won't be the same
but when will that day be?
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thompson ave
01:02
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well the sun is so warm
through my windows in the morning
and the rent is cheap, the dogs don't bark
and the people are so friendly to everybody
but we still lock our doors
welcome to mountain view
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shuttle full of puppies
03:44
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this song is sad
maybe the saddest song i've ever had
you might think, "it's not that bad"
but the evidence is ironclad
sadder than a shuttle full of puppies
exploding into space
sadder than a thousand pimples
scattered all across your pretty face
what could be so sad?
i'll tell you what's so sad
how many times have you missed an opportunity to say
"i love you" to someone that you loved before they went away?
did you take it for granted, thinking that "today"
is just another day?
well, that's why i say it's sad
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stop the war
04:09
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when she was younger i remember her joyous laughter
young father and mother were still learning just how much we loved her
before we broke all our hearts
broke our family apart
it's never right to hate until you begin to litigate
the bitterness just escalates
let's stop the war, how can we remember who all this fighting's for?
let's forgive each other before we do more damage to her
before we break her heart
her tender heart
the deepest wound she received
was never deserved and never grieved
and greater than we ever believed
when will her pain ever be allowed to leave?
let's stop the war, why can't we remember who all this fighting's for?
let's forgive each other and ourselves for the sake of our daughter
before we break her heart
her perfect, tender heart
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super hippy
00:49
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that's right i'm the super hippy
tie dye moderately trippy
and though my smell might linger
my two most powerful fingers
will change the world
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declaration
05:13
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emotions, affections: they're just distractions
completion of your actions: these prove intentions
without love my life ain't worth my time
life is not enough with the absence of love
without love it won't amount to (poop)
i am nothing more than love
i need nothing more than love
i have nothing more than love
i will love
i choose love
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statement of faith
02:22
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there is a God
just one
and i am so toast without him
and we are so toast without him
that's what i believe
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100% paul sarafin
01:10
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brett rawalt Anchorage, Alaska
Not trying to be a rock star. I just like writing songs. (and one book.)
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