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Lessons

by Ha Ha Tonka

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Undetermined: The Podcast Soulful, witty, warm...authentic. This is truly a wonderful record from some really great and down to earth guys! (Can't wait to see/hear what's to come!) Favorite track: Colorful Kids.
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1.
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 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
3.
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
4.
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
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
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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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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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 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
11.
Pied Pipers 03:13
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
12.
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
13.
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
14.
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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released September 24, 2013

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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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