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Picture Myself
04:20
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I saw you once across the intersection
I can't be sure if you saw me
But without wanting to
I made believe
That from where you stood
I'd look like Jesus
Minus the loose fitting clothes and religiosity
Cadaverously thin and sporting a beard
In retrospect I'll admit it's a little bit weird
For who am I...
To even try
To picture myself
Through your eyes
I wanted so desperately to find you
Then I saw you on your balcony
And in the kitchen behind you
I was playing the host
Asking, "Love, do you want some butter for your toast?"
But who am I...
To even try
To picture myself
In your life
In your life
I could be pudding on the stove
Just grab yourself a bowl
And rinse it when you're full
But who am I....
Who am I...
To even try
To picture myself
As your guy
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2. |
Not Today
03:34
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Doesn't matter what you want to do
Only matters what you've done
Doesn't matter what you want to say
All you've ever got's what's said
They're gonna get you
They're gonna find you
And there's nothing you can do but hope
It's not your day
Doesn't matter what you think you've got
Nothing's ever really yours
And all those things you swore you'd never lost
End up in someone else's drawers
What are your rings but things
That'll have to be pulled off your fingers?
But you're not gonna need them anyway
And no one ever said you were here to say
Or that they'd just sit around
And wait for you to say "I'm ready"
I'm not ready
Not today
They're gonna get you
They're gonna find you
And there's nothing you can do but hope
It's not your day
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Wild Card
03:17
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You played your part
By somehow serving as the wild card
A place at the table
You're no longer able
To want
You forgot the words
When it became you turn to speak
And you couldn't remember
Where you'd last seen the lever
To leave
Who will be the easiest target for you
When you're through
With everything you knew
Because none of that shit was true
You open the lid
If just to listen to the fizz
You don't have to taste it
To know the thrill would be wasted
On you
Who will be the likeliest project
For when you begin again
And you could use a friend
Who says nothing when it ends
It's just show
No need to know more
Than we think we do right now
What's the worst thing that you could say
When it's done?
"It wasn't any fun."
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Wut Mitev Bin
03:05
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Don't you wonder
What might've been
Oh I could've sworn
That you had some more
Left in you
For me
But nothing ever really made much sense
Repeat again explain and then repent
No not anymore...
..'Cause it doesn't matter
where you've been
but what's in your heart baby
and what's left for me
let me see
Excuses never really made a dent
repeat again explain and then repent
no not anymore
You're so tired too
but no one believes in you
as much as I do
So what do you say baby
is there something left in your heart for me.....
Nothing matters
more to me
than what's in your heart baby
and what's left for me
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Cheater
03:18
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Camel
03:43
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You wait in the back of the room
fingers crossed for her return
don't look now, here she comes
with somebody else on her arm
But nobody deserves it more than you do right?
'Cause in your eyes it's always been yours anyway
You're all the same
Spend some time getting tight
Cock your head to the side
Hide your eyes boy
No one should see
What you're about to see
Nobody deserves it more than you do right
'Cause in your eyes it's always been yours anyway
You're all the same
What are you going to do
When she's through with you
When one little straw's all it takes
For this camel's back to break
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Tim Bruce Johnson Montreal, Québec
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