1. |
Blinding Light of Love
03:05
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Blinding Light of Love
Frank Booth says, "Now it's dark"
A woman's killed in Central Park
Brown sludge pouring out my sink
Who slipped something in my drink?
Secret police in unmarked vans
A tidal wave engulfs Japan
Twenty likes from Facebook friends
America is great again
Redemption's coming from up above
We need the blinding light of love
Push lost long ago to shove
Give us the blinding light of love
Now your disease is inside me
I saw my heart on the TV
Doctor said the news is bad
I asked him how much time I had
He flipped the light off on his head
And said son you're already dead
The danger's deep, the water's wide
We're afraid to go outside
Redemption's coming from up above
We need the blinding light of love
Push lost long ago to shove
Give us the blinding light of love
of love
of love
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UNCLE WATSON WANTS TO THINK
Uncle Watson wants to think
So please leave him alone
Go and play outside
Come back when you're grown
Uncle Watson wants to think
Can you help him understand
Why nothing ever comes
Of anything he's planned
We're not really related
He's just my mother's friend
Men like Uncle Watson
Will destroy us in the end
Uncle Watson likes his scotch
Takes his first drink at noon
Well before the sun sets
He'll be shouting at the moon
Uncle Watson went to war
Uncounted years ago
He never says what he did
Just says, You don't wanna know
We're not really related
He's just my mother's friend
Men like Uncle Watson
Will destroy us in the end
Uncle Watson has been known
When I forget my place
To rise up in a rage
And suddenly punch me in my face
Uncle Watson gets confused
In truth he is quite dim
His one unquestioned skill
Is making others just like him
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3. |
Oliver Plunkett's Head
03:45
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OLIVER PLUNKETT'S HEAD
There's a head in a glass case
In St. Peter's in Louth
A real human head
With a smile on its mouth
Enemies burned his body
But they preserved the top
Someone really wanted
To make Oliver stop
I think I'd like something to pray to
That head can keep you up at night
People they scare me
Dead or alive
Oliver Plunkett tried
But Oliver Plunkett's dead
Some people sat and cried
At Oliver Plunkett's head
Just believed something different
He didn't mean any harm
But if they didn't believe him
Why were they so alarmed?
Yeah, the abyss is scary
We're all afraid to fall in
What good's hanging in heaven
With who did that to him?
Quit praying to the knucklebones
Of skeletons you never met
They don't grant wishes
They excrete regret
Oliver Plunkett tried
But Oliver Plunkett's dead
Some people sat and cried
At Oliver Plunkett's head
The case fogs over
Plunkettt stops smiling
That could never be my skull
Cuz I don't believe in anything
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4. |
Hairshirt
02:18
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HAIRSHIRT
It's all the same
It's all your fault
Prepare yourself
For the assault
When you lay down
Don't close your eyes
Cuz all your sins
gonna shout surprise
Put on your hairshirt
Spread your arms wide
Let this cruel world
Be purified
The devil waits
For those who pray
And then he whispers
What they meant to say
The world will know
The bad you've done
Your punishment
Will be such fun
Put on your hairshirt
Spread your arms wide
Let this cruel world
Be purified
Build up a big funeral pyre
Burn your jealousy, torch your desire
Bid a fond farewell to your envy
Feel the spirit fill you with its frenzy
Lust is just one
Reason men moan
You have to endure
Pain to atone
So if you want
Your sins erased
You must be willing
To be abased
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5. |
Pong
03:42
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PONG
We were cavemen
playing Pong
Till Jaye P. Morgan banged a gong
Billie Jean King
beat Bobby Riggs
Killing all those male chauvinist pigs
Son of Sam
came along
So Levon sang the Band's last song
Peter Frampton came alive
Nadia couldn't be deprived
And Concordes tore right through the sky
(Bye bye)
Everyone's invited
To join in on this song
All love's unrequited
Every game is Pong
We were trading
Baseball cards
While DDT rained in our yards
The Poseidon
Flipped upside down
L.A. collapsed in Sensurround
Squeaky Fromme blew her one shot
Gerald Ford fell down a lot
Patty Hearst finally got caught
(Bye bye)
Everyone's invited
To join in on this song
All love's unrequited
Every game is Pong
New York City went flat broke
Brody said we need a bigger boat
Cheech and Chong went up in smoke
(Bye, bye)
Everyone's invited
To join in on this song
All love's unrequited
Every game is Pong
© & ℗ 2020 People Suck Music
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6. |
Something to Drink About
04:07
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Something to Drink About
I was covering you in suntanning lotion
While we watched surfers skating over the ocean
Is there an ointment I can rub on my head
To keep away all these feelings of dread?
Fidelity is an admirable notion
And jealousy is an ugly emotion
Tried not to see that look in your eye
When you were looking at that other guy
You've given me something to drink about
You're filling my mind with cause for doubt
Gonna call up my shrink and shout
I'm looking forward to passing out
I once believed we were bound by ideals
It's sad to discover that none of it's real
I was naïve I now recognize
Not sure I can cope with all that implies
The purple mountain's majesty
Can withstand the orange man's travesty
I might forgive but I won't forget
The hypocrites who aid and abet
You pay lip service to liberty
But go berserk if I take a knee
That word don't mean what you think it does
If it don't apply to all of us
You pretend everything is fine
While openly flashing white power signs
40 percent of the country cheers
I'm ashamed that it's happened here
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7. |
Tranq it Up
02:39
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Tranq it Up
What did we know without knowing we knew?
What promising paths did we neglect to pursue?
I think that I found the way back
Feel like I lost something I never had
That picture's not of me it looks like my dad
Look out kid don't step on that crack
Tranq it up!
Turn life down!
Gaze at the flames as they dance around
Tranq it up!
Turn life down!
Swim toward the light as your sorrows are drowned
Always arranging the logs on the fire
Trying to ensure the flames don't expire
You should just sit back in your chair
Fire wants to live, you can leave it alone
Before it goes out your mind will be blown
The best flames explode from nowhere
In the ER in unbearable pain
One shot of Dilaudid I was never the same
That single shot was all that I got
But now that feeling is all that I want
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8. |
Snow Day
02:30
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SNOW DAY
These billboards are bothering me
I don't wanna buy your fucking clothes
Who the hell named this street?
Sick of walking the same way home
I went to bed and I dreamed about
the boring day that just went by
Bells are pealing in the distance
I'm unravelling inside
I declare a snow day
Not gonna work, no way
I am great you're ok
Remain inside stay out of my way
I used to love to watch it fall
snow, snow don't go away
I never went to church
but I sure knew how to pray
A Saturday nobody planned
Never guessed teachers liked em, too
Lots of words I like
Those were my favorite two
I declare a snow day
Not gonna work, no way
I am great you're ok
Remain inside stay out of my way
Should I punch the clock or punch the boss?
All snow does now is make me late
Doesn't mean much at all
just one more thing to hate
Jump under the covers, at first you freeze
Pretty soon you never wanna leave
Today is cancelled, alert the press
Getting up is too treacherous
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9. |
Flux Capacitor
04:04
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FLUX CAPACITOR
Each night we all go crawling
Through the air vents of our minds
Looking for the secrets
Our conscious selves don't want to find
Each one's guarded by a monster
Frightening to behold
To defeat them you must hold them tight
Or so I have been told
In the dark I see a figure
Clothed entirely in black
I know she means to kill me
So I'm first to attack
You have just sixty seconds
To prevent a massacre
Can you defuse the weapons
In the flux capacitor?
My dog is speaking English
My grandma is a tree
My teeth are falling on the floor
My hand becomes a key
I put the key inside you
The universe explodes
The laces on my sneakers are
Beginning to corrode
Now the ground becomes elastic
Now my tree's become a log
Now the now is now tomorrow
Now we're in a synagogue
Entrusted with the ransom
For six kidnapped ambassadors
Fight off all the phantoms
In the flux capacitor
Then that guy I saw this morning
Jogging backwards in orange shorts
Is sitting on my sofa
Being boring about sports
I wake up in my old house
But my daughter's here with me
Except now it is a motel
And my daughter's on TV
She's calling me a racist
She's calling for my death
I'll call her in the morning
When we're both feeling refreshed
Per the charts some nun displays
Men are trending flaccider
Seek the center of the maze
Find the flux capacitor
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10. |
Camper of the Year
02:57
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CAMPER OF THE YEAR
Shirts against the skins
I'm embarrassed by my chest
Small barbarians
Everything's a test
As a mark of the acclaim
And respect of all your peers
We are honored now to name
This season's one and only
Camper of the year
You're camper of the year!
William Hoser is the fat kid
Sometimes we kick his ass
He's such a little pussy
He likes being attacked
As a mark of your renown
Here's a small bronze naked man
He cannot be melted down
But welcome to the clan
Camper of the year
You're camper of the year!
On the rifle range
Led by Uncle Jack
He says fire at Will
And everybody laughs
(even Hoser laughs)
As a mark of the acclaim
And respect of all your peers
We are honored now to name
This season's one and only
© & ℗ 2020 People Suck Music
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11. |
New Memories
03:21
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NEW MEMORIES
Way back when you were mine
Once upon a different time
We would lie in bed all day
You'd demonstrate your old pliés
As shadows stretched across the wall
And summer slowly stretched to fall
You had those lovely leather boots
And several others in pursuit
I remember beds in Rome
And several different ones at home
The first one followed us out west
But the third one was the best
It took some time to dawn on us
A decent mattress is a must
That's not a thing you simply know
Until time proves it to be so
I need
Some new memories
I have used up all of these
This weed
Induces reveries
And forgives all treacheries
The third was the first we bought new
It seemed a crazy thing to do
Fresh springs that did not squeak
A headboard without a creak
We'd stay in bed till afternoon
We'd both get stoned and watch cartoons
Felt like precious luxuries
And we had precious few of these
I need
Some new memories
I have used up all of these
This weed
Induces reveries
And forgives all treacheries
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12. |
Not Being You
02:44
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NOT BEING YOU
My phone is set to vibrate
And it's always going off
I pick it up in case it's you
But it's just my fucking boss
Or maybe it's a buddy
Or maybe it's my dad
I'm trying to be happy
But they only make me mad
I'm angry at the animals
That gaze at me with trust
I have no patience for the people
Riding with me on this bus
I'm furious with friends
Who call out of the blue
I'm mad at all of them
For not being you
They're just being themselves
What else could they do?
But it's bad for my health
When they're not being you
I want you in my arms
I want you in my bed
I want you inconsolable
after I am dead
I want you on an island
I want you in France
I want to watch you wiggling
Out of too tight pants
I want you crying out
I want you soaking wet
I want to be impossible
Ever to forget
You're over an ocean
You're away across a sea
Are you mad at people there
For not being me?
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SHOUTING CROSS THE OCEAN
Everybody's born in chains, yeah
Forged by those who came before
Some folks find theirs very lovely
Some find theirs cause for war
Some make music when they shake theirs
And dance right out the prison door
Shouting cross the ocean
Nothing but your rage came through
Couldn't make out a word you said
But we could tell each one was true
Shouted back across that ocean
Yelled until I lost my voice
Thought I heard the sound of freedom
But I don't think you had a choice
You had to make the shy ones dance
Help the hopeless to rejoice
Outrage, wonder and wisdom
And one damn cool overcoat
Getting ready for that perfect moment
When ten thousand bands all play the same three
fucked-up notes
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14. |
More of the Stuff I Like
04:19
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MORE OF THE STUFF I LIKE
Please do more of the stuff I like
And less of the stuff I don't
The roads should be flat when I'm pedaling my bike
I should decide when I am alone
Please make more scenery like that
Stunning fjords and clear blue skies
Must always look good when I'm wearing a hat
You should be there when I open my eyes
Give me more stuff I like
I'm in desperate need tonight
Please tell me that I'm a good man
Absolve me when I fall short
Do not quote the Bible or read me the Quran
Make all guitars perfectly distort
Please give me all the money I need
And stop sending all these bills
Charity must win when it's battling with greed
Make all drinks come with free refills
Give me more stuff I like
I'm in desperate need tonight
Please let me sleep until spring
It must be warm when I awake
Must not be reminded of any bad things
Make a vaccine against heartbreak
Please play me more punk rock songs
I like my music fast and mad
Records should aspire to right the pressing wrongs
And they should never be too sad
Give me more stuff I like
I'm in desperate need tonight
No more miles of fast food chains
No more suburban sprawl
Banish minor aches and major pains
Always catch me when I fall
© & ℗ 2020 People Suck Music
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15. |
Just Around the Bend
10:01
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JUST AROUND THE BEND
Just around the bend
There are some people
They're gonna be our friends
Just around the bend
It's spring then summer
Then spring then spring again
Around the bend
This road has got to end
Sweat in my eye
My head it aches my feet they hurt
Throat is getting dry
My fingernails are caked with dirt
This is not what I asked for
This was meant for someone else
All we want
Is a little for myself
Just around the bend
There is a cafe
Best food you ever ate
Just around the bend
It don't cost nothing
They let you break the plates
Bugs on the windshield
These wipers don't do anything
Holes in the floorboard
Could scrape the skin right off my feet
Seems we've been driving always
This old car ain't even mine
Odometer is turning
Watch it read 99,999.9
Just around the bend
There is a woman
The one you're waiting for
Just around the bend
We'll ditch this old car
Won't need it any more
Just around the bend
There is a woman
She's gonna comfort you
Just around the bend
I'll do what I want
You do what you want, too
© & ℗ 2020 People Suck Music
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Too Much Joy Scarsdale, New York
TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight hours on MTV back when they did that sort of thing. ... more
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