1. |
Bloodshot
03:34
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I've been awake for 40 years straight
I've got a bloodshot view of the world
These troubled times
This talk of war
My hand don't shake
I've seen it all many times before
The skies are dark
The seas are rough
My hand don't shake
I have lived and lost enough
I've been awake for 40 years straight
I've got a bloodshot view of the world
My teeth are stained
My hair is gone
My hand don't shake
My back and shoulders strong
I plant the seeds
I wait the time
My hand don't shake
I will pour and drink the wine
I've been awake for 40 years straight
I've got a bloodshot view of the world
I run with the hunted
Must be aware must be awake
Eyes are bloodshot face is hard
Body bruised calloused and scarred
When I bite the hand that feeds me
My hand don't shake
Sew my eyes shut
Nail my feet down
My hand don't shake
I'll be around
I've been awake for 40 years straight
I've got a bloodshot view of the world
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2. |
Learn To Live This Down
05:35
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You're gonna have to learn to live this down
I told you
You're gonna have to learn to live this down
I told you
Can't take it back
Once the deed is done
All your horseshoes and your hand grenades
Sure won't help you none
Ain't no god in heaven
Can change what goes and comes around
You're just gonna have to learn to live this down
You're gonna have to learn to live this down
I told you
You're gonna have to learn to live this down
I told you
Your mamma always told ya
Pappa told you too
Your teacher and your preacher man
Probably said that it was true
That we all make mistakes
And the lost can still be found
Bullshit!
You're just gonna have to learn to live this down
You're gonna have to learn to live this down
I told you
You're gonna have to learn to live this down
I told you
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3. |
Black Bird
02:09
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Paul McCartney got it wrong
I ain't never want no song
I ain't special I ain't strong
I'm just a black bird
One and one is never three
Sunken eyes can never see
I ain't waiting to be free
I'm just a black bird
They may try to break my wings
They only love me when I sing
But I ain't no slave I ain't no king
I'm just a black bird
These broken wings can't learn to fly
I got your four and twenty in a pie
Well you can tell your stories and your lies
Of just a black bird
No special land I've gotta go
No special breed you need to know
I might be a raven or a crow
I'm still just a black bird
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4. |
I Just Got You
02:32
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I got no cream in my coffee
Got no sugar in my bowl
Got no bacon in my frying' pan
No jelly in my roll
Got no reason to apologize
No time to take things back
I've got no place I can retreat to
Got no courage to attack
I just got you
I've just got pennies in my pockets
Just got holes in my blue jeans
Just got worry lines and unpaid fines
And old abandoned dreams
Just got storms on my horizon
Just got tracks already laid
Just got unintended consequence
Of choices never made
I just got you
Someday I'll be dead and gone
I know you will still live on
It's how it's always gonna be
You have to suffer to be free
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5. |
Never Coming Back
04:31
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I do not recognize
Myself anymore
I no longer feel the same
As I felt before
I'm never coming back
Again
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I used to do it for the passion
But now the passion is gone
Wanted to do it for the money
But it never came along
Tried to find a 9 to 5
I suck at doing what I'm told
I ain't really getting' better
Im only really getting old
I am a modern man
And I understand
That everything's been done better before...
The great ones had the pain
They had the struggle and the war
But me I grew up middle class
Sheltered and bored
I used to want to have the blues
Thought that it would give me soul
Thought that if i payed my dues
I wouldn't have to pay the toll
I am a modern man
And I understand
That everything's been done better before...
Save me baby
From this killin' floor
Save me baby
From what's been done before
are u better off
Are you satisfied
need to be the best
Or is it good enough to try
You won't listen to a cynic
No one ever does
Go be the best that you can be kid
But not the best that ever was
I am a modern man
And I understand
That everything's been done better before...
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7. |
No Moral To This Tale
04:00
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Well there goes one more minute
Towards the end of my life
No real reason not to end it tonight
I'm not blinded by faith
Or concerned with what others will say
I've got the shades and the curtains
Drawn to block out the sun
Got the pills and the bottle and the bullets and gun
No fear and no hope
I know tomorrow's just another day
There will never be an answer
There ain't no moral to this tale
Well there goes one more minute
Towards the end of my life
Got no real hope for ever getting it right
I'm not afraid of the pain
And don't expect it will ever be gone
I'm more old and frail
Than I am young and free
And my vinyl won't change to MP3
But the scratches and the pops
Make it more worth playing the song
There will never be an answer
There ain't no moral to this tale
The fairy tales of childhood
Don't end up like they said they would
Goddamnit it's good to let them go
I don't want to be saved
By silly superstitious and religious ways
Goddamnit it's good to let them go
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