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Dead To The World
04:20
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I'm almost to the age where I only do things that I know how to do
I can make coffee and I can make small talk, 'cuz who wants to try something new?
Oh, 'who wants to try anything new?
I'm old enough to know better, but I'm old enough to that I could probably get away
with it still, it's a dangerous proposition to ask yourself a question when knowing that
answers can kill
and I know that this answer will
Dead to the world, I'm not dead to the world, I'm just dead to the world around me
With my eyes closed so tightly to all the possibilities I'm surprised that I could see that I
was dead to the world around me
No I don't want to be, I don't want to be dead to the world around me
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Colorful Kids
04:09
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colorful kids
we were colorful kids
in a black and white world there's nothing that they could keep hidden from us
we didn't have much
we couldn't care less
Were we innocent? No. Well maybe, I guess we were
I see me as I was and you as you were
before the color began to bleed out of us
Huckleberry Finn
we need a Huck Finn
to figure out a way that we could run away again
the duke and the king
the duke and the king
are coming in to town to carry out another scheme
I see me as I was and you as you were
before the color began to bleed out of us
but that's just the way it is
even the colorful kids eventually will fade
into the black & white
come out the other side an ugly shade of gray
I see me as I was and you as you were
before the color began to bleed out of us
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Raised in the age of reason
It was a sepia season
Steinbeck sang an anthem and we knew what it meant
to do without is better than
to have so much you cannot stand it
whenever I'm in need I believe that
I can always ask my friends
so help me boys, help me help myself
to stand alone, I need somebody else
Oh ain't it a beautiful sight
staring at the end of our lives
I made my mind up early
I was going to do things differently
I just had to find my own way
whatever road that might be
to go without is better than
to carry so much you cannot stand it
whenever I'm in need I believe that
I can always ask my friends
so help me boys, help me help myself
to stand alone, I need somebody else
Oh ain't it a beautiful sight
staring at the end of our lives
Oh and everybody I know
is waving to say good bye
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4. |
Synthetic Love
00:30
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Arabella, my love
Arabella, my heart
Arabella, I knew it right from the start
My curious mind
A synthetic love
We'll make it ourselves
It might be enough
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Arabella
04:12
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Why did you run
Through the delicate mind of Joseph
Bare feet
Hair falling down
In the delicate mind of Joseph
Maybe we should call your name
Arabella
Two paths diverged
In the curious mind of Joseph
Dark eyes led him astray
in the curious mind of Joseph
Maybe we should call your name
Arabella
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Lessons
05:05
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I was born with American ambition in my blood
I consider it an attribute, if only because I was
you were born with a silver spoon laying just out of reach
no such thing as the American dream
they couldn't teach it anymore
an educational afternoon
in the mid-90's
you said it didn't bother you
well, it bothered me
I want to know that I get you back in the end
Patience please wait on me, be a good friend
I was born with American Ambition in my blood
a false sense of entitlement, it'll never be enough
yeah, you promised me the whole world when I didn't ask
but I believe that in the end that I might settle for only your half
I want to know that I get you back in the end
Patience please wait on me, be a good friend
Belief is a bet I placed on myself
Faith was a gamble on somebody else
I keep the world at arms length and my hands to myself
My time spent alone for somebody else
Patience please wait on me, be a good friend
I was born with American ambition in my blood
I know it'll be the death of me, if only because
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7. |
American Ambition
04:12
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I was born with American ambition in my blood
I consider it an attribute, if only because I was
you were born with a silver spoon laying just out of reach
no such thing as the American dream
they couldn't teach it anymore
an educational afternoon
in the mid-90's
you said it didn't bother you
well, it bothered me
I want to know that I get you back in the end
Patience please wait on me, be a good friend
I was born with American Ambition in my blood
a false sense of entitlement, it'll never be enough
yeah, you promised me the whole world when I didn't ask
but I believe that in the end that I might settle for only your half
I want to know that I get you back in the end
Patience please wait on me, be a good friend
Belief is a bet I placed on myself
Faith was a gamble on somebody else
I keep the world at arms length and my hands to myself
My time spent alone for somebody else
Patience please wait on me, be a good friend
I was born with American ambition in my blood
I know it'll be the death of me, if only because
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Synthetic Hearts
01:00
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Rewrite Our Lives
03:45
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I said that I don't want to see, but I'm beginning to believe
that I've got more past now than future left in front of me
I wish that we could rewrite our lives
I wish that we could rewrite our lives so many times
If we could rewrite our lives
I said that I don't want to quit
I want a heart that's synthetic
I want you to have one too and we could try this all again
I wish that we could rewrite our lives
I wish that we could rewrite our lives so many times
If we could rewrite our lives
so many times we could learn from our mistakes
synthetic hearts could replace the ones we break
I know that love gives you more than what it takes
we could repeat all the good times
we'll keep our defeats and failures in mind
it's a brand new start with a synthetic heart
so I want you to give it another try
it's easy to rewrite a life
a brand new start with a synthetic heart
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Cold Forgiver
03:41
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cold water, cold river
cold shoulder, cold forgiver
when it's gone, it's gone forever
I know we got old overnight and the morning showed our age
so many years went by in a dream
I didn't come here to beg for forgiveness but I still can
if that's what you want, just say the word
I thought our synthetic hearts would never stop beating until
we both decided we'd had our fill
cold water, cold river
cold shoulder, cold forgiver
when it's gone, it's gone forever
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11. |
Pied Pipers
03:13
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the country roads are calling us
all the kids will follow us
out of this town
Saturday night
the Pied Pipers to a good time
the Soft Bulletin or classic country music are gonna serenade us
and we're gonna use it to lure all the girls
onto a makeshift dance floor in the middle of a field that we shouldn't even be in
I've got an older brother and you've got a cousin
with a little convincing somehow we've managed
to procure the essentials that the crowd was demanding
everybody knew the pied pipers could handle it
and the country roads are calling us
all the kids will follow us
out of this town
Saturday night
the Pied Pipers to a good time
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12. |
The Past Has Arms
04:11
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mouthful of blood when I bit my tongue
I caught myself feeling important again
alone on a night when I shouldn't have been
I caught myself talking to myself and listening
I know that the past has arms
I can feel it hold me tight
Every time I close my eyes
I can still some light
hateful of hate and the way that I'd been
I couldn't wait to hear myself stop talking
oh but I know that the past has arms and opinions on everything that I say
I know that the past has arms
I can feel it hold me tight
Every time I close my eyes
I can still some light
I know that the past has arms
I can feel it hold me back
every thing I had to give
and everything I lacked
I know that the road I'm on
it's gonna come to an end
But every time I turn around
I always turn back again
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13. |
Terrible Tomorrow
04:02
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I'm no fortune teller, but I can see it coming
A terrible tomorrow
It's a terrible tomorrow we'll know
I can see little thought bubbles over everyone's head and it's causing me trouble
It's a dangerous thing when everyone's thinking out loud
My face, a concrete smile
I should take it off, I've been wearing it awhile
It's a hideous thing and a little bit maniacal now
No I'm not a fortune teller, but I can see it coming
A terrible tomorrow
It's a terrible tomorrow we'll know
I wish you could see
How it looks to me
When everyone's thinking out loud
I wish you could see that everyone's thinking out loud
Last night I had a dream
It was Mary Todd Lincoln and me in a theater
It was real enough
I checked the back of my head for blood
Yeah when I woke up
I checked the back of my head for blood
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14. |
Prove The World Wrong
03:10
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I set out to prove the world wrong
but all the lessons I've learned have only taught me that I'm stubborn
and the funny thing is that I knew that all along
when I set out to prove the world wrong.
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Ha Ha Tonka Missouri
Ha Ha Tonka is the unmistakable indie-meets-Southern rock band comprised of Brett Anderson, Lucas Long and Brian Roberts. The band toys with the theme of living beyond a normal lifetime- the concept of reliving and rewriting our lives, and the lessons we can all learn along the way. ... more
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