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Fata Morgana
03:04
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It must have been around the ocean
On that fateful day
When the wheat fields parted and my problems fell away
I saw it in the middle distance
In the morning light
And quick as it came it flashed through my brain and vanished from my sight
She loves Texarkana
Said she reached Nirvana in that town when she was five
She was barely alive
Is it Americana?
It's the light playing tricks outside of your eye
Grey ship up in the sky
Oh Fata Morgana
Just a reflection in my mind
Oh Fata Morgana
So many years since you've been mine
On the far horizon line
It's a sign, it's a sign, it's a sign
I did my best to describe it
When I got back into town
Everyone said I was crazy
Oh, they all pushed me around
I took her down to the shoreline
But all she saw was a lake
So I swallowed my pride and locked in inside
And said that I'd made a mistake
She hates Arizona
Said her father moved her out there after her mother died
He was tryna survive
And on to Pensicola
It's the light playing tricks outside of your eye
Grey ship up in the sky
Oh Fata Morgana
Just a reflection in my mind
Oh Fata Morgana
So many years since you've been mine
On the far horizon line
It's a sign, it's a sign, it's a sign
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2. |
Play It Right
03:03
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I'd make a way
Find time to hit the pavement
It's not much while living in a basement
But goddamn now we're old enough to face it
Never meant much anyway
We kept pace
Pushing through the pages of the timeless
Humility desolate behind us
We were face to face right with his Highness
Never meant much anyway
And it shouldn't be different (ay!)
Cross-stoned in a Bostonian apartment
Stone-cold sanitarium of blankets
We can make it all
There's one way to get it to where it's going
Oh-
So are you loose enough?
If it's dangerous?
Cause' you know it's so much
Enough to lose it all
It might've been a mutual attraction
We kept coming for the chemical reaction
We get hurt then we call it a distraction
Never meant much anyway
And it'll never be different
Roadside motel with the automatic curtain
We talked for hours till we knew that we were certain
Never meant much anyway
So are you loose enough?
If it's dangerous?
Cause' you know it's so much
Enough to lose it all
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3. |
More (Milk)
03:04
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You don't have to do it
No matter what the nike guy said
If the pieces are congruent
You can get them out of your head
People come and people go
Walking fast, walking slow
Everybody knows that you need to make your bones grow
Big and strong
But it takes so long
I only wanted an ocean
I never wanted to sail
I'm just so full of emotion
I should have ordered the quail
I never wanted an ocean
I only wanted to sail
I'm just so full of emotion
I should have ordered the quail
It's one part living
And one part 2% milk
But the recipes forgiving
You can always
Add more milk
Everybodys walkin round
Being loud, making sound
Doctors out of town but I gotta see the head crown
There's my boy
My pride and joy
I only wanted an ocean
I never wanted to sail
I'm just so full of emotion
I should have ordered the quail
I only wanted an ocean
I never wanted to sail
I'm just so full of emotion
I should have ordered the quail
I never wanted an ocean, ay-
I only wanted an ocean, ay-
I only wanted an ocean, ay-
I only wanted an ocean, ay-ahhhhhhh
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4. |
All Again
03:40
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It's all again
I can see wonders
It's all again
Anything could happen
It's all in getting old again
It's all in getting old my friend
And in the fall
I hope you fall with me too
It was nothing at all
When you crushed me under your shoe
And when I call
And I say I care about you
Was it nothing at all
Or was it just something to do
It's all again
I can see wonders
It's all again
Anything could happen
It's all in getting old again
It's all in getting old my friend
(Tom skatting)
And in the fall
I hope you fall with me too
It was nothing at all
When you crushed me under your shoe
And when I call
And I say I care about you
Was it nothing at all
Or was it just something to do
It's all again
I can see wonders
It's all again
Anything could happen
It's all in getting old again
It's all in getting old my friend
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5. |
Unhappy
02:14
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I think we got a problem now
I literally don't have a mouth
Just some stitches are keeping the whole thing shut
I can make sound but I can't contribute much
I think we got a problem now, oh oh
I'm tryna make my way down south
But these dogs keep knockin on my cabin door
They're on two legs, I can't take much more
It's a small beam of sun through a magnifying glass
You open a window and stick your head outside to ask
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
I think we got a problem now, oh oh
Built a house of matches and I'm burning it down
And if this isn't living I don't know what is
I'm scraping up my knees like a little kid
I think we got a problem now, oh oh
I'm back in my own home town
But the dogs keep chasing me around and round and round-
If you're standing at the grocery
Waiting for a ship
Don't forget to ask the question that's on everybody's lips
Wherever you're going and wherever you been
Just ask yourself again and again and again
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
Am I unhappy?
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