1. |
Closer
03:51
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Give me a reason
Give me a sign
Charge me with treason
Charge me all night
'Cause a long long time away
gets closer every day
every day
Make me remember
Make me forget
Make me an offer
I'll always regret
'Cause a long long time away
gets closer every day
every day
Never been a big fan of no
Pop the cork and let it flow!
Break that record
Break me in
Do me a favor
Do it again
'Cause a long long time away
gets closer every day
every day
Promise me tomorrow
A carrot on a string
I walk around in the well-worn circle
of your laughter's wicked ring
And a long long time away
gets closer every day
every day
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2. |
Black Sheep
02:49
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Bop bop ba da ba
A bucking black sheep from the start
I left the hearth a pile of rocks
I stamped and kicked warm cockles cold
Trampled every mountain top
I got so high I stabbed the sun
Tore a hole the size of god
I knocked the lights out of the moon--
she never did me any good
She never woke to watch me break the morning
At her wake I was right up front applauding
I hijacked beauty from the sky
so I could snap her helpless wings
Pushed her face down in the mud
Tattooed her with my black ink
I wanted to disgust her with my sordid little history
but she looked me in the eyes and said
she saw herself somewhere in me
I said I never knew you told such pretty lies
Last one to that grey horizon dies
Bop bop ba da ba
I never knew you told such pretty lies.
Pretty pretty intoxicating lies.
And when we came around I let her cross that line.
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3. |
I Get Lost
03:14
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Exchanging favors
and trying new flavors
Buckles and blindfolds
Electric shavers
Abuse a few hours
playing with power
Get a little dirty
Take a cold shower
I get lost most of the time
in thoughts that never cross her mind
Like eying up strangers
and flirting with danger
Making it noisy
keeping up neighbors
Or backseat adventures
in freestyle gymnastics
Keeping it fresh
Wrap it in plastic
I get lost most of the time
in thoughts that never cross her mind and
it's a lonely way to be
Taking it higher
that's all I'm asking
Just a little bit longer longer longer
Love everlasting
I get lost most of the time
in thoughts that never cross her mind.
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4. |
Try Using Science
03:00
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Ahh ohh la dee da
Take your vitamins she said
and gave me pez
And I ate 'em even though I know
there's cancer in the reds
Livin on the edge for her
And I can't rely
until I've lied like I been dying
Try using science
with a girl
Now I'm on my way to tooth decay
But it doesn't stop me smiling
like the one that got away
from the regimen
and her
But I can't rely
until I've lied like I been dying
Try using science
with a girl....with a girl...
Know what to use
know what it's for
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5. |
Extinct Music
02:52
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With a pop the needle hit a skip
and a song snippet looped into a mobius strip
And it's perfect wallpaper
for the sirens and the silences
in the lead trajectory of you and me
Cause my head is thick
my head is thick
with the strains of extinct music
The waves rise and break
the sound of my mistakes
Dirty little rhythms
that never wash away
They can hold me down
but I can't drown
these dead sounds
Cause my head is thick
my head is thick
with the strains of extinct music
At bottom oysters turn
grains of sand into pretty pearls
They're making sounds I'll never know
and never forget
Cause my head is thick
my head is thick
with the strains of extinct music
My head is thick
with the strains of extinct music
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6. |
She is a Bomb
04:44
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She is a bomb
and she's ticking toward me
The killer soundtrack
of inevitability
But I can never give in
Never give in!
Cause there's no will to begin with
in me
You try ignoring the sun
You try ignoring gravity
I know it doesn't make sense
But that's not what this is about
And I could try to explain
but she's using my mouth
Yeah she's using my mouth
using my mouth
Well I hope you understand--
I don't have much faith
And I hope you can forgive me
when she explodes
in my face
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No one knows like you know that I'm tender
As tender as steel toes
And if I kicked you with my tenderness
what good would sorry do
unless I said it
But you know I'm not the kind
to say too much
In a dream I dreamt a stream between us
You built a bridge for me
Well the water flowed down from your eyes
as we stood there hypnotized by fire
And it was water underneath the bridge I burnt
No one knows like you know that I'm tender
and no one ever will
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8. |
ESP
03:06
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Sing a fleeting melody
with plastic guitars
Temporary wishes
on disposable stars
Bank all your tomorrows
on the tumbling cards
and leave all your warranties home
Corner your conviction
with a flint and a spark
Stoke the trembling embers
'til you're blazing the dark
Navigate the ending
and you'll know where to start
and leave all your warranties home
Pack up all your promises
and open the choke
I'll meet you where the highway
and the heavens elope
We'll wave goodbye
and climb a rope
of cigarette smoke
and we'll leave all our warranties home.
Yeah we'll leave all our warranties home.
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9. |
Sinkhole
03:16
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Well I got myself tangled in my American circumstance
Yeah I'm hogtied strung up in a good ol' American circumstance
I had some money and a big idea but I couldn't keep 'em in my pants
No no no
Now I'm standing on the corner like in 50 other songs
Yeah I'm standing on the corner blowing in my hands like in 60 other songs
I've been here so many times before but I've never felt like I belong
No no no
Yeah there's a sinkhole where our house used to be
There's a big black gaping sinkhole where our pretty house used to be
Too many records and books with heavy ideas made a broken home out of me
Is this like a short story or an autobiography?
Is this a work a fiction or am I singin' about me?
Well I can tell you'd like to know but I can't tell I can't tell you what to believe
No no no
But here we are again I can't say it doesn't matter as far as I can see...
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10. |
I Had A Vision
03:22
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I had a vision while riding on the subway
A satellite transmission was echoing above me
And nobody tuned in to hear the story of the year
except for me
You can't regret what you forget
Seven thousand cigarettes is just a phase
Your amnesia makes you over and you're saved!
Someone discovered how to make gold out of babies
And we all hunted lovers hoping that just maybe
we could afford a little happiness
what's a baby for some bliss anyway.
You can't regret what you forget
Seven thousand cigarettes is just a phase
Your amnesia makes you over and you're saved!
No one seemed to mind until I cried "I can't believe this!"
The devil will defeat us with his cost-effective fetus
and now I sing my story to the only ears open on a holiday
You can't regret what you forget.
Seven thousand cigarettes is just a phase
Your amnesia makes you over and you're saved!
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I'm riding home alone
It's just me and the ghost of Joey Ramone
Sometimes when you snap in a cassette you raise the dead
I watch the night come on like a TV
It was big and bright and star-filled and empty
Seeping through my eyes with visions of heavenly bodies
But the sun is gonna run right out of gas
in just about a billion years or so
In the meantime I'll be walking to the bus stop
when the bars all close
So let's set our rusty chairs up in the yard
and watch our awful bodies fall apart
Cause my ears are ringing out and over everything--a siren song
And I can't resist the music of your sundress as it hits the ground
It's the kind of noise you can't turn down
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It seems as though I've hit the ceiling
selling someone else's feelings
Falling from the heights of favor
and savoring the air
I'm sailing through
the next wave of emotions
Oceans of uncharted notions
Nearly drowned in dim convention
Suffered so that one might not offend
a lender to the project
Wrecked upon a sober shoreline
Signed into a new existence
Pistons pumping steam against...
...against resistance to a novelty
like lemons in the eyes of science
Searching for a new appliance
Blinded by reliance on a trend
toward a golden era
Holding gold against a mirror
Choosing its sublime complexion
over my unsure reflection
Reflection
Reflection
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There's a space where her paperbacks used to be
Some of them I never even had a chance to read
Now three whole empty shelves are shockingly dust-free
in the space where her paperbacks used to be
I found a sock under the bed, a sock she used to wear
Passed out on the bedroom floor and when I woke I saw it there
With a hole worn in the pinky toe and coated in cat hair
the sock I found under the bed, the sock she used to wear
And the 25th letter of the alphabet
is living in my head
There's a nail in the wall where her picture was
She took her things and left me with a just because
Now it doesn't really matter what the weather does
'Cause there's a nail in the wall where her picture was
And the 25th letter of the alphabet
is living in my head
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Choo Choo La Rouge Boston, Massachusetts
Choo Choo la Rouge is a guitar/ bass/ drums rock trio from Providence, Seattle, Boston, Anywhere, USA. Their songs are equal parts Kinks, Richman, Zevon, Big Star, Dylan, and more. They’re celebrating the release of their third full-length album, The Sunshine State, available April 5 on Kiam Records ... more
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