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Congratulations
04:39
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Congratulations
You almost made it
You asked for nothing
You got me now
Don't go
It's too wet and cold
Now it's getting late
And it looks like snow
I could play it straight
I could be a man
I could set it straight
Yes I know I can
Oh God, I have broken my staunch code of honor
You're free to move on, so walk out if you wanna
But if you stick with me, I swear I won't do this again
Congratulations
You almost made it
You asked for nothing
You got me now
Don't go
In this bitter storm
Home may not be sweet
But it's dry and warm
You've long since forgotten what it was about me
So pack and unpack but if you can't get out
When your life is a shambles, you'll never be ready to go
Congratulations
You almost made it
You asked for nothing
You got me now
Don't go
Don't go
It's too wet and cold
Now it's getting late
And it looks like snow
I could be a man
I could play it straight
Not on a red-eye flight
Gone without a trace
No ribbon, no rose, no tuxedoed presenters
When you win the contest that no one else enters
So don't play the victim
You're here 'cause you want me to break you
Like my bullshit code of honor
Congratulations
You almost made it
You asked for nothing
You got me now
Don't go.
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Cool
06:03
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She tells you of her foremost complaint
Just sit and listen, you're her brand new saint
How she can't have me, and why you are a friend
The nightmare shadow in her head just won't mend
A foil you cannot duplicate, a man you'll never be
You stand before her, but all she sees is me.
You're real and so you're boring
You're real and so you're fat
You're real and so you feel things
You're real and who wants that?
You're real and so you love her
You're real that's where I sat
You're real she won't remember
You're real and who wants that?
I am all she wanted, I am all she saw
Mephisto and godzilla all naked on the floor
I'm in the past, but I am all important
I sipped her brandy blood and make you impotent
I had a way of tossing back my hair
You do it too but she will never care
I'd tell her to forget me, but I am not around
I am legend now, and you are on the ground.
You're gone because you wanted
You're gone 'cause you held back
You're gone because you told her
You're gone in favor of a ghost
You're gone and I am sorry
You're gone it's tit for tat
You're gone 'cause I was too cool
I apologize for that, yeah
I am all she wanted, I am all she saw
Mephisto and godzilla all naked on the floor
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There's a great big hole in the sky above the North Pole
Opened by a bullet that was fired from the Grassy Knoll
Ripped out wide by the spray of the brain
And the blood and the bone that was something Cobain
And the hole in the sky is a hole into Hell
D.B. Cooper jumped in and he fell and he fell
Now he rots in the silt 23 fathoms down
With a hundred unsinkable ships.
Swing it back and forth
Until we find magnetic north
Hollow Earth lit up by a tiny sun
The sun spins around at night - look up, I can prove it now -
Those are not stars, those are Chinese lights
There's a great big hole in the sky above the North Pole
Opened by a bullet that was fired from the Grassy Knoll
Like a mirror image of a crack in the equator
Full of arsenic, Hawaiian Punch and sewer alligators
And the hollow Earth is a ball of fire tonight
And the future is bright in this nuclear light
It shines like the Hope Diamond.
And the hollow Earth overflows with lemon drops
And we're jumping like bugs in a microwave
Dancing and twitching and why? Because we're supposed to.
Swing it back and forth
Until we find magnetic north
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Jed Davis Syracuse, New York
Song designer; founding member of The Hanslick Rebellion, Skyscape, Collider; oblivious to genre, trends and the passage of time.
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