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Be
02:49
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Be
I'm not going to take
Take your side
I don't want to know whose side you're on
I'm not going to take
Take your side
Every little side
It turns out wrong
Chorus
I'm just going to be
A part of that mountain
I'm going to be
A part of that sea
I'm just going to be
Slave to the air
And that's all that I'm going to be
I'm not going to move
Out of position
I'm not going to leave
My mind behind
I'm not going to let you down
With new information
Falling out from the sky
To rest in the ground (chorus)
I'm not going to waste
Any more anger
I'm not going to loose
Any more faith
I'm going to dance away
Away from this sorrow
Take a chance that tomorrow
I'll still be in this place (chorus)
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2. |
Road Of Rain
03:32
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Road Of Rain
On the brighter side
There’s not much left to lose
But if they took it all
You’d have one less place
From which to fall
This world’s filled with loneliness
It’s the worst kind of pain
Two wipers broken on this
Road of rain
Another Café morning
Every pretty woman seems to question your despair
And on the worst of days
They don’t have to say a thing
They’ll cut right through you
Just by sitting there
The world’s filled with loneliness
It’s the worst kind of pain
Just try to keep from drowning on this
Road of rain
Two lives live as one together
Swearing to hold on forever
So you head out to Sedona
Where water splits the hills of red and green
It could be any place
It’s hard to find any beauty when you’re looking through the waste
It hurts to look through loneliness
It’s the worst kind of pain
You’re heart’s been shattered now it’s floating down this
Road Of Rain
Just try to keep from drowning
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3. |
Small Town Girl
02:26
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She’s a small town girl
She lives in the city
Her heart in the fields
Her eyes on the lights
She’s a small town girl
Lives in the city
She’s trying to turn day into night
She don’t talk much
She don’t have a lot to say
She’s up every night
She’s down every day
Looking for someone
To break her heart each way
But catch her in case she falls
She’s a small town girl
Stuck in the city
Where people smash their faces in the ground
Business work there
Men and women
Keep their vides tight and hidden
Trying to take two days
From each one the earth spins round
She’s a small town girl
Lives in the city
I guess she grew up there
Lived there most her life
Pierces the dark
With eyes like a shark
But her heart flashes on
To a stream of street lights
She’s a small town girl
She lives in the city
Her heart in the fields
Her eyes on the lights
She’s a small town girl
Lives in the city
She’s a small town girl
She’s alright.
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4. |
The Bottle Cap Kid
04:56
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See him walking with his head held down
Soda in hand
Scanning the ground
Looking for a letter on the back of a bottle cap
He won it before
He’ll win it again
Twenty thousand dollars
A Hawaiian weekend
He says it’s not in how you find it
It’s all in how you look for it
Searching through each day
Guessing that it pays
He’s the bottle cap kid
Down the boulevard
In the rain
He sees the lights
He feels the pain
But walks on by
‘cause he knows what he’s looking for
On a bus lying in his lap
He has a shopping bag filled with bottle caps
Once he gets home
He’s going to find
That he’s won once more
Something in his eyes
Seems so hypnotized
He’s the bottle cap kid
His room is tuned
State of the art
He has a digital, computerized, bottle cap chart
Remote controlled windows
A robot, bar, TV.
And in his dreams there’s a place in his world
For a Coke machine
And a bottle cap girl
But he knows he’ll never find it
Until he starts to look for it.
W I N
I think he’s won again
He’s the bottle cap kid….He can’t lose.
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5. |
One Room
02:53
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One room
I used to live there
It was small
And leaked in the rain
What do you do when you got no money
And no one but you to blame
I’d take a job
Then I’d leave the job
Never had much more
Than my time to spend
What do you do when you know you know nobody
And you know nobody knows you
You got to
Stand up
To stand out
Stand up
If you want to stand out
Locked in
Too cold to go outside at night
Gang members trading guns in on bullets
What do you do
When you’re left with no way
But still have to find a way
Before those friends
I had nothing but a hole
I dug it in deep
But all I felt was control
What do you do when you know you know nobody
And you know nobody knows you
What do you do when you know you know nobody
And you know nobody knows you
You got to
Stand up
To stand out
Stand up
To stand out
Stand up
If you want to stand out.
Of one room
For one
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6. |
Junkman's Journey
03:43
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Junk Man's Journey
By david shepherd grossman
Grossosaurus music bmi
Stop sign, go sign, people see you feeling fine
Left turn, right turn, break it out and let it burn
Nonsense makes sense, everywhere you go
You go with the flow, for the flow, up ahead down below
It don't matter
Stying thin getting fatter
It doesn't really matter on a junk man's junk man's journey
See the sky, close your eyes, see another space
Everything is real, some hurt, some heal
Wake up, go to bed, read about what someone said
Laugh about it
Cry about it
Live with it or live without it
It don't matter
It can not matter
It doesn't really matter it's a junk man's junk man's journey
Bless the ground, bless the sky, bless the trees, ask why
Get a job, hold it down, leave a job, get out of town
Stay rich, stay poor, wonder what you're living for
Answer questions, ask some more
Open up or close the door
It don't matter
It can not matter
It doesn't really matter on a junk man's junk man's journey
Buy this, buy that, throw it all away
Make a friend, start again, if it doesn't work then trade it in
Too small, too tall, too good, no good at all
Catch a thought
Break a fall
Interrupt a phone call
It don't matter
It can not matter
It doesn't really matter it's a junk man's junk man's
Journey
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7. |
Save Me From The Station
04:49
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Save Me From The Station
David Shepherd Grossman 1999
I don’t need imagination
From what I’ve seen it all looks real enough to me
Someone save me from the station
‘cause its not bad here
As bad as it could be
To ride this train
You must walk along the track
You can’t catch it from the front
But you might catch it from the back
And don’t assume it needs you
It’s gonna roll along
Sometimes it might take you
Somewhere you belong
I don’t need imagination
From what I’ve seen it all looks real enough to me
Someone save me from the station
‘cause its not bad here
As bad as it could be
There’s some I owe
And some feel put upon
And some of them they thank me
For this rail that I roll on
And some of them are right
And some of them are wrong
And some of them are here
And some of them are gone
I don’t need imagination
From what I’ve seen it all looks real enough to me
Someone save me from the station
‘cause its not bad here
As bad as it could be
Let me roll on
Save me from the station
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8. |
Commercial Art
03:15
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Commercial Art
It's 3am and I'm starting to unwind again
It's too late to leave
It's too early now to call a friend
Pulling down the cans from the cupboard for a quiet meal
Numbers on the television - call us if you want a deal
Brother you alone? There's a girl by the telephone
Call her anytime - for a dollar and a dime you can have her
Have her, have her for a little while. Forget about the price
Doesn't she look nice? She's in color. Channel ten
She really wants to be your friend
Books are on the table. Beer is in the fridge
Somewhere in the middle I find a will to live
There's a lot of people working 'round the clock these days
Trading cash for food and gas and just about anything
You want. You can get it. Any time forget it.
What's wrong with that? That's where it's at. You got to Stay ahead of the
guy next door. There's no telling who he Is. He's got purple dots on his
socks. He's wearing shorts of Course. Hairy legs a dog that begs and kids
selling lemonade
At 3am? There's something wrong with them.
Rotary pinball - before it went extinct, filled my life with Pleasure and
gave me time to think.
Two plays for a quarter. Five balls to a game. You put the Bumper to the
ball and watch it go insane. You could catch It on the flipper - take your
time and aim. You could feel the Gears roll your points - today it ain't
the same. It's a little Too smooth for this geezer in his 20's. That's all
I got to Say about it - all too smooth - from the hairdo to the Groove.
Commercial art it breaks me heart I see it everyday. But I want to keep on
singing so that's all I'm going to say. You got to buy this, try this, see
this, get this, - I want to Keep on singing so that's all I'm going to say
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9. |
Steering Wheel
02:56
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10. |
When Lilly Dreams
03:18
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When Lilly Dreams
It tears you up
But here you are
One less love
One more scar
Another story
For your friends
They get into you
You took the ring
And bag of clothes
Where you went
No one knows
You leave them clean
You leave them
Never quite knowing you
Chorus
When Lilly dreams
She dreams of a road
When Lilly sings
She sings about love
When Lilly lies
She breaks a heart
And carries it with her
He wasn't that good
He wasn't that bad
You're going to miss
The love he had
It's hard to love
When they're so dam into you (chorus)
When Lilly comes down to see me
She ain't going to stay
There's going to come
Another day
Where there's no pain
No hell to pay
There's a life
And it's out there waiting for you (chorus)
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11. |
Indoor Moon
04:35
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One day
I’ll come round and see it your way
Right or wrong
It’s the long way
I’ve been here before
My friends
Do not change when I change
They stand tall
And tell me if I’ve changed
They can’t see it much at all
Blue Screen
Lights up my room
Like and indoor moon
New scenes
Shown too soon to see
Faces
Talking to each other
While I sing another song
From inside my head
Grey Skies
Empty rooms
And water eyes
Ice Cream Cones
And cherry pies
Can not stop my song
Blue Screen
Lights up my room
Like and indoor moon
New scenes
Shown too soon to see
One day
I’ll come round and see it your way
Right or wrong
It’s the long way
I’ve been here before
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David Shepherd Grossman Los Angeles, California
All music written by DSG
('cept where noted)
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