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Somebody
04:09
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Somebody somebody somebody somebody
Someone out there
Out there
Likes me
Someone out there
Out there
Loves me
Someone out there
Out there
Likes me
Someone out there
Out there
Loves me
But listen
Oh listen
Listen
Oh listen
So you've made your mind
Yeah, you've made your mind
Yeah, so now, you're mine
You're mine
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Toom
04:05
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I'm not transparent
Honest and open
Diaphanous skin, Is not
Mine
Cloudy
Opaque words are fine
Thickheaded
Me
Keen thoughts
Kept in line
Lamebrained or vacuous
Bare, blank, or clean
I'm
I'm
Toom
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Pages of The Ages
01:54
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Pages of the ages, made just for age 18 ageist
A populist she is not, but her drive to work sets apart from the rest
Flowers sigh and tug at her heels
They want her company
Writing microscopic into the dirt, all heard is a whistle no matter how hard the ears are strained
Pages of the ages
All the rage with ageists
Atheists ignore
In big shirts that warn: NO SEX!
I've completed the image, it's hard to be said
All well of emotion, dreading non-articulate devotion
Oil well's worth of it
Shell it, ship it, wretch it
Now connect the two
You got triple A's running the show
Everyone's too good with words; showboat
Winklepickers, plenty of snout
Corn on the cob, spices about
Only you, only you, only you only you
have the power to be contemptible!
Not me, cause I've got a beret.....Like. Rik. Mayall.
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Trout
01:17
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Shake The Little Hand
02:13
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I don't care what you do to your body
I don't care if you eat the stalest egg rolls in the world
If you wear boat shoes you are a fascist
All the best pens have black ink
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And now you're outside with the bells and the swill
What were you thinking? Not very smart.
And when you cross then, to the other side of street
What will you think then? Are you cold?
Spread your tin then, nice aluminum fold, take a drink then, take
a break then.
Watch the hairline recede, you're not old, just frightened.
Down in the woods, if the woods, if the woods were so high
Yeah, yes, yeah, I'll never know why, I'll never know why
Yeah, what I never knew I wanted
Yeah, what I never knew I cared
I cared
Yeah, what I never knew I wanted
Is right here, is right here
Yeah, what I never knew I wanted
Never knew how much I cared
I cared
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Yeah, what I never knew I wanted
What I never knew, I cared
I cared
Yeah, what I never knew I wanted
It's right here
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The Asthmatic Portland, Maine
Avant-garde collage pieces with old-time (y) vocals.
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