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Sanity
03:55
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Sanity
Wait for me
Wait 'cause I wanna see
Oh, it's time to pretend?
Time and again...
but is it only me?
Wish on a star
Whenever you are
It's time this should end
'cause time's not our friend
So should it be me?
A little blasphemy
I'll kill the king
For humanity
In my life
I've abandoned my friends
I've crossed the lines
I thought I'd never bend
An end to meet the means
To restore the kingdom's liberty
It's simply a sanity plea
But wait
You know he's never gonna stop
...so stay quiet
I'll wait by candle light
Outside his brothel door
I'll turn out the light
And restore dignity
Destroy indignity
It's my gift to you
Sanity
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2. |
A Reason
03:34
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A Reason
Is there a reason why we're here?
Is it a dream so serene I'm floating out of the atmosphere?
If there's a reason, shame on me
If I could take what went wrong and replace it with apathy
But I know what is so
I can't tell you way to go
I'm slow, doncha know?
I wanna stare at the sun
I want to run with rusty scissors and a loaded gun
I'm gonna have my fun
I can't hide my inner demons from anyone
Is there a reason for what is so?
If I could play give or take, then I'll give it a go
It leaves you thinkin is that all?
Half-planted indiscreet with a bottle of alcohol
You looked hi and low
Not having much to show
...reap what you sow
I wanna blot out the sun
I want to make some toast in the bathtub, invite everyone
I'm just a song of a gun
A hypocritical armchair genius
fuck everyone!
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3. |
Ghost of Sympathy
03:23
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Ghost of Sympathy
What do you want?
What do you need?
What does it cost you to breathe?
Is everything that you want
Disregarded
Up front?
Then close your eyes and see
The other half, they’ll bleed
My position
On extradition
It’s an imposition’s reprieve
If they take
What you’ll cede
Brings suicidal daydreams
Then close your eyes for me
The ghost of sympathy
I’ll close my eyes and be
Devoid of all my greed
There ain’t no other way around it
I wanted you to see
Through all these words in passing sir
The other half is me
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4. |
Clementine
03:40
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Clementine
I drift alone in the ozone, don't ask why
Slippin again the mistake that I’ve been
It frees the amber that's inside
I've been gone a long time
Sweet Clementine
I'll be fillin' out my hollowed insides
I'll be fine, I'll be fine
You can stick a pin in the places I've been
Then you'd have to wonder why
I picked at ties with plain alibis
to become a passerby
I've be lost a long time
(it's) by my design
I will masterminded my decline
But bear in mind my frame of mind
My Clementine
I'll be gone a long time
So leave me behind
Shadows cast a space you’ll never find
So divine
My peace of mind
My Clementine
I'll sit and spin
Again and again
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5. |
Feels So Right
04:43
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Feels So Right
I said I love you
You said I love you too much baby
But it feels so right
I said I knead you
You said I hurt you too much baby
I said I'm worthy
You have to love your pretty baby
Cause it feels so right
Yeah it feels so right
Ahhhhhhh...
You said you love me too much baby
Umpf....
But do you want me
You didn't want me too much baby
Now will you keep me
You said for every pretty baby
Yeah...
Cause it feels so right
Yeah it feels so right
Ahhh...
It feels so right
It feels so right
Ahhh...
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6. |
Try Love
04:48
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Try Love
When I was a younger man
I'd sing to the light of the day
Never thinking to question its wonder man
For fear I'd be swept clean away
Can't you see that the weight of the things in this world
Will hold you and keep you alone?
So listen to me and create destiny
But you can't if you sleep on your own
So try love
Love, oh sweet love of mine
sweet love of mine
I said love yeah
Love, oh she's a friend of mine
Try love
And if your tables turn
To twist you and then walk away
Turn all of that burn into lessons well learned
And bask in the light of the day
See the hurt won't be long for the ones who stay strong
You're worthy of making a stand
There's a girl over there so consider a dare...
You just have to hold out your hand
And try love, love, sweet love of mine
Try love, yeah, love - she's a friend of mine
She's really fine
I said try love, love, oh sweet love of mine
I said love, yeah, love - she's a friend of mine
She's really fine
I said love, yeah! Love oh sweet love of mine
Sweet love of mine
I said try love
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7. |
Abilene
02:57
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Abilene
And we were talking
Just the other day
My mind was occupied
By another busy day
Phones were ringing
Timer screaming out
Like a blaring howitzer
What the heck’s that all about?
I close my eyes and without a doubt
I’m in here somewhere spinning ‘bout
If I’m still here tomorrow
My fate is unforeseen
Endless stoplights
Van Nuys and Normandy
Dood’s in another world
Aggressive absentee
Jeff’s out raking
His slice of paradise
Commuters pass him by
And they don’t look twice
If I could breathe you in and out
I’d have a clue what it’s all about
In Abilene
It’s so serene
I just can’t live this in between
So I’ll wait for tomorrow and I’ll see you Abilene
I feel the comfort and there ain’t no doubt
I won’t be standing all alone
When I get home
With everything that I own
Well I can see you and me
There ain’t no place I’d rather be
I got one problem to figure out
What I should do with this hidden doubt
In Abilene it’s unforeseen
I just can’t wait, know what I mean?
So I’ll wait for tomorrow and I’ll see you Abilene
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8. |
Childhood's End
05:13
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Childhood’s End (Lonely Passenger)
And then you wonder
What's left?
What's ahead?
What's done?
What the fuck have we done?
I'm just a lonely passenger along for the ride
I sit in the back taking pleasure in that no one notices I notice back
My sin of silence sings for you
It's the only thing that's ever show
The voided life I've never know
And then was one from two
I'm just a digit
a random bit, imperfect prime
Turing's own engines never predicted
Simplicity factored for time
And then I sit and dream of you
Well a kernel's connection to random connections
Could never envision you
Divisibility is proof
It encapsulates the way I feel
The way that's real that way that's true
The way that I was with you
Comply, and you're safe and sound
Until retribution's found
Just lay low, your law man's comin' round
And then they try to keep you down
It's revolution town!
Just stay low, let's go
Countdown...
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9. |
Immobile
03:11
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Immobile
Sheltered here so long
Cast among the embers
Every window’s curtain’s drawn
Seems Hope has packed and gone
Now all my bridges burning
Let the world go for a song
It’s wrong, so wrong
Well you tell me I should stay, I can’t take another day
I’m immobile
Check my profile
It’s how I’ve always been
Peel away the skin, the beginning of the end
Well I’m burning
I’ll burn you if you let me in
If I’m leading you astray will you find another way to forgive me
Just don’t let me
Do it again
If I give it all away can I live another day
Does it matter?
I’m just chatter
Blowin’ it again
White lights and city streets they failed me
Tell the younger pretty boys they win
Seems like there’s always been this problem
Pain and desire at it again
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10. |
Sweet As You
05:10
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Sweet As You
Taste the Envy
Your riches offend me
The greed and those silent
Are complicit to a tyrant
And all I can do is comfort you
And you’ll see when you Hold me
Can I sing a melody just like the springtime?
Can I make a little rhyme and keep it all in time leave it all behind and will you be mine?
But you know
Some things don’t flow just the way that you might have planned I’ll be your man
Will you stay ‘til tomorrow presents us a new day?
Will you tell me what to say to keep em all away so we can sing and play Won't that be fine?
Cause you know
Nothing compares to a moment we share that is true It’s sweet as you
And we know love doesn’t grow if you think you just simply can
Live a lie, take a back seat and don’t even try, to hear the children cry Be human
Sweet as you...
Let me go if I fail you or take you for granted
That’s not who I am
Take my hand, make a stand with me
Don’t give a damn what the others won’t do It’s all sweet as you
Resilience
Resistance
Things that are good
Take the kindness
To the blindness
Lead them away
It’s all sweet as you
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11. |
You're Gone
03:27
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John Aulabaugh - Channel4 Champaign, Illinois
In the space between Wilco and Radiohead, John Aulabaugh has an authentic rock sound, echoing back to the British Invasion.
Edging up against psychedelic rock, John's band has the characteristic sound resembling The Raconteurs or Ryan Adams - [insert imagery of the the smokey Piano Bar
Sweet As You is a live performance album and is as analog as it gets. The music leads you to a simpler time.
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