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Mr. President
08:29
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2. |
The Songster Part 4
03:29
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Some people get what they ask for, then get what they deserve
But when we gotta get it too they got some nerve
People doin in the light what they used to in the dark
I been done told you bout that locker room talk
You’ze a mannish little boy, how you fit your britches?
You too damn dumb to mourn your bitches
You too damn dumb to listens to your soul
So I’ll tell you anything you wanna know and everything you don’t
I’ve known you boys for a mighty long time
You’ll give me a nickel if I give you a dime
Throw me down the stairs with your words and then smile so cruelly
Then turn around and say “We gotta stop these bullies”
You can’t take no heat but you’re standing in the kitchen
You think the nothing that you know is somehow sufficient
Flying through your chamber door was the raven and I quote
“I’ll tell you anything you wanna know and everything you don’t”
You betray the trust we need to survive
You can’t handle a queen so you’re stirring up the hive
Blues fallin down like hail from the sky
I hope to understand it better in the by and by
The afterlife ain’t a question that sticks in my mind
The way to heaven on Earth is down deep and out wide
I swear the whole truth or the truth as I know
I’ll tell you anything you want to know and everything you don’t
Baby we can’t stop fightin, but what fightin will we do?
I got my guitar case and my aim is true
Gonna sing about war, gonna sing about peace
Gonna sing about love from the west down to the east
I’ll let the art department handle what photos they’ll use
I’m goin’ down in the valley on a walk with my muse
From time to time I’ll stop by with a couple that I wrote
They’ll tell you anything you wanna know and everything you don’t
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3. |
You Like Everybody
03:56
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I got a friend in Houston.
I humor him a bit.
He say “Trump said this and Trump said that”
til I got to beg him to quit.
I say “You live in Texas, man.”
I say “Don’t you know they like that shit?”
I say “Don’t you know they ain’t never gonna change?
“Why don’t you leave if you’re tired of it?”
They keep their thoughts very simple.
They don’t allow nothin new.
They only look out for their own kind.
and if you were smart that’s what you would do.
Chorus
You know what your problem is?
You like everybody.
You know what your problem is?
You think everybody else does too.
You know what your problem is?
You think we’re all equal.
What in the world is the world gonna do with you?
I got a friend in Detroit.
Now she lives in Flint.
She be talkin bout “Immigrants this and immigrants that”
til I got tot beg her to quit.
I say “Girl, don’t you got your own problems?”
“Girl, don’t you ever think?
I say, “They ain’t gonna do nothing but take the few jobs you got.
“Must be something in the water you drink”
She say, “They fleein death and destruction.”
She say, “It could be me or you.”
I say “But it ain’t me or you.” Yeah, I said it.
I say “I don’t care what they goin though.”
Chorus
I had a dream when I was a kid,
saw the beginning and the end.
I woke up and I started to cry.
I haven’t cried since then.
My hippie parents got me a doctor
Doc say “Boy, what’s wrong with you?”
Five months later they stopped wasting their money
They got me a job at a petting zoo
An old man taught me how to make money
Then disappeared with all of mine
He said most people fear the truth
so you can sell ‘em any lie.
Made some friends in rehab
They believe in bright shining days
They see all y’all folks coming together
I don’t see it all that way
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4. |
New Miami
03:13
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The sadness in your eyes
has nearly ended me
Just once to see you smile
be thrown in ecstasy
You need to get away
I know just the place.
There's a paradise 'round there
and there's never a frowning face
I will take you home
to the shores of New Miami
We would be alone
on the shores of New Miami
Into the Milky Way,
past Alpha Centauri
on the planet next to Mercury
We'll land in new Miami
You need to get away
I know just the place.
There's a paradise 'round there
and there's never a frowning face
I will take you home
to the shores of New Miami
We would be alone
on the shores of New Miami
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5. |
Feet
04:37
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You and me been down here
Can't buy a thrill
It must be nice up there
on top of the hill
Trouble calls you by your name
Knocks on your door
and you know why
and you know what for
But it's alright
It's alright
You got soul and everybody knows
that it's alright
Double-dealin' under the table
as you place your bet
Thought they took you for all you had
but they forget
I got my feet to keep on dancin
Might feel your being dragged along
like a marionette
Might feel they been pulling your strings
but don't forget
I got my feet to keep on dancin
I got the truth to keep from lying
I got the weight to keep from flying
I might be broke, but I ain't broken
I might smile, but I ain't jokin
I got my feet to keep on dancin
This ain't over, this ain't it
I ain't never gonna have enough sense to quit
I got my feet to keep on dancin
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6. |
On Time Love
06:02
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My love is on time, baby
You can rely on it true
My love is on time, baby
You can set your watch by my love for you
Use and age will dull the sharpest blade
It don't take much time for change
Build your hopes on things eternal, babe
True spirit never fades
The minutes become hours, dear
The hours become days
Dawn and dusk collect the years
Your metal rusts away
And the world you want starts to decay
Then something winds you clock anew
The hands, they move me into you
My love is on time, baby
You can rely on it true
My love is on time, baby
You can set your watch by my love for you
Every second you have second thoughts
Love your time in essence
Come and rest with me, my love
Let's work on our transcendence
And when we rise we must still know
that not all work will pay
But we must know the worth of work
when nothing gold can stay
Don't wait for fate to give you faith
Let's do the work we will not hate
Let's do the work that will not wait
Do the work and don't be late
My love is on time, baby
You can rely on it true
My love is on time, baby
You can set your watch by my love for you
I'll be on time
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