1. |
Borneo
03:34
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Well I ain't gonna live in your world no more
(Hey, Borneo)
Yeah feeling like a flunky for a two-bit whore
(Here I come, Borneo)
Got a monkey for a president
(Hey, Borneo)
And a head all filled up with cement
(Look out, Borneo)
So I'm getting out of here
I'm counting, One! (Two!) Three! (Four!)
I can't take a minute more
I'm gonna swing like an ape from a banyan tree
(Hey, Borneo)
I'm gonna live me a life of luxury
(Here I come, Borneo)
Or get drunk on toddy and sleep all day
(Hey, Borneo)
Unti your world is washed away
(Look out, Borneo)
I'm getting out of here
I'm counting, Four! (Three!) Two! (One!)
Set a course for the rising sun
I'm getting out of here
I'm counting Ten! (Nine!) Eight! (Seven!)
Monkey's gonna go to heaven
I'm gonna set my sails for the virgin soil
(Hey, Borneo)
You know I don't wanna die for the price of oil
(Here I come, Borneo)
I wanna watch the sun set every night
(Hey, Borneo)
I'm gonna fall alseep in the cool moonlight
(Look out, Borneo
So I'm getting out of here
I'm counting, Five! (Six!) Seven! (Eight!)
See you at the pearly gates
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2. |
This Is My Life
03:42
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I've never cared for authority
I've never felt part of the majority
Well I lost my home
And I lost my wife
This is no joke
Yeah, this is my life
This is my life
New suit of clothes, same emperor
Some people think
Think that they're superior
But you can cut them down
With a rusty knife
This is no joke
Yeah, this is my life
This is my life
I'm just one man
What can I do?
Against an army
An army made of you
Time marches on
To a drum and fife
This is no joke
Yeah, this is my life
This is my life
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3. |
Some Kind of Kindness
05:11
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They say that we can't beat the rap
Just a couple of rats without a hope and both our heads inside a trap
You wash my hands, I'll scratch your back
Because we're so dirty and we need to find
I said, some kind of kindness
Maybe there just ain't no use in trying
Every one of us is born alone and someday soon we will be dying
But don't you ever pay no mind
Because when you lie with me I feel that I
I feel some kind of kindness
You know this is no way for us
Ragged and damned at the heel
And deep down you know
There's gotta be a better life for us
Than drifting like dust through an hourglass
Waiting for our blood to congeal
That's why we're singing...
Nobody looks you in the eye
Somebody's always got their fingers in somebody else's pie
We may be cheap, but we ain't free
And we're just fighting for the right to know
To know some kind of kindness
We may be deaf, but we ain't dumb
Two more pariahs of the road without a home and on the run
We may be damned, but we're not done
'Cause the time must surely come when we will find
Maybe some kind of kindness
Yeah, this is no place for us
Stuck like sick monkeys in a zoo
Yeah, life is short
And there's gotta be a better way for us
Than sleeping down under the overpass
Dreaming that our dreams have come true
That's why we're singing...
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4. |
6:45
05:03
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6:45- And the sun has cut the sky and the clouds are still bleeding
As meanwhile I
I drink alone outside the bar at the end of the world
So this is how it feels
10:25- And there's a girl with cold eyes but her stockings are running
And anyway
She's just the end of a melody that sings to me of you
So this is how it feels
To stagger from the undergrowth
And rediscover emptiness
Dancing on the beach
About 2:05- The band's on fire, it's a pyre and the bodies are burning
I'm still alive
But as the papers have assured me, I won't be for long
So this is how it feels
So this is how it feels
To walk upon the waves alone
With nothing to conceal
So this is how it feels
To crawl out from the accident
And die beneath your wheels
Nearly 4 am- I'm just a ripple in the tide and the tide is receding
I really can't pretend
That the end feels like anything more than a joke
So this is how it feels
So this is how it feels
To throw your past onto the floor
And smash it beneath your heels
So this is how it feels
To catch your face in a broken glass
And know that that's what's real
6:45- And the sun has cut the sky and the clouds are still bleeding
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5. |
A Place Not So Unkind
04:32
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Things falling out of the sky
A woman with stones in her eyes
Here's hoping that she may find
Some asylum to hole up inside
A place which is not so unkind
Tears breaking waves on a beach
Crumbling walls which had never been breached
And only the lucky may find
Some high ground to wait out the tide
A place which is not so unkind
Yes here's hoping that they may find
Some shelter to crawl in and hide
A place which is not so unkind
Faces melting like wax in the heat
People dying like dogs in the street
And love is a word in the sand
That a wave wipes away with her hand
And the ocean just don't understand
So here's hoping that we may find
Some asylum to hold up inside
A place which is not so unkind
Someday, somewhere down the line
A place to be free in our minds
A world which is not so unkind
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6. |
Paradise
04:23
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Broken boy, stone cold and far from home
Sent upon a foolish sacrifice
All your plans buried in desert sands
Paradise comes with a price
Taxi girl, sad luck and thorazine
Victim of some very bad advice
Little fish caught in a silken purse
Paradise comes with a price
So hold me up
'Cause I feel I'm falling apart
Alone in the dark
Heaven knows
Take my hand
'Cause I feel I'm floating away
Can we ever win?
Somehow, someday
Boy and girl caught in a brutal world
One more drink together alone
Small surprise, they shoot the messenger
Paradise almost feels like home
So hold me close
'Cause I feel I'm falling apart
Alone in the dark
Heaven knows
Take my hand
'Cause I feel I'm floating away
Can we ever win?
Somehow, someday
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7. |
Banghra Bros
02:38
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(Instrumental)
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8. |
Electric City
04:38
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You were thrown into a tin can
And you learned how to beg and borrow
And you grew into a thin man
In the land of success, sin and sorrow
Now you're sleeping in a suitcase
With a pill bottle for a pillow
When you're hanging by a shoelace
It can get to be hard to swallow
When you're spinning on the subway
Naked lights sent in on the river
No you're never gonna leave her
Though you think someday that you might forgive her
Slipping into a slow dive
Cold black water makes you follow
Swimming into a spiral
Still you're singing
Shine, electric city, shine
In the cool of your emptiness
Around the curve of your spine
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
Like six thousand wings in the sky
Over the scene of the crime
When you come to an ending
Never reaching no conclusion
And you're sick of bending
In us and every fresh contusion
When you're lying in the soft arms
Of a silent ambulance that's speeding
And you're trying to tell the doctor that it's only a broken heart
You don't have to be a soldier to fight
But you'd better have a killer in you
You don't have to be a poet to die
It's the little things that kill you
Everybody gets a bad break
A little hit of pain and sorrow
Just forget about tomorrow
Keep on singing
Shine, electric city, shine
From the back of the cold beyond
Out to the end of the line
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
Like the sun in a hurricane's eye
Diamonds drowning in brine
Come on and shine
Shine!
Shine!
Shine!
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9. |
Hey Clown
03:35
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Once I was happy and I felt no pain
Sang like a sparrow in the pouring rain
Someday those days are coming back again
When you are history
Look like some kind of fallen chimpanzee
Who was it kicked you from the ugly tree?
What makes you think that you're the boss of me?
Why don't you go away?
Everybody say
Hey, clown
We're gonna put you in the ground
We had it all and then you blew it all away
Everybody say
Hey, clown
You turned our happy upside-down
We're gonna burn your flag and piss on your parade
(Piss on your parade)
There's something that I just got to say to you
These are the worst times that I ever knew
And all my troubles are because of you
And your pathetic crew
Every time I see you on my TV screen
I wanna disappear or run and scream
And your existence is the worst bad dream
that I ever knew
Everybody say
Hey, clown
We're gonna put you in the ground
We had it all and then you threw it all away
Everybody say
Hey, clown
You turned our happy upside-down
We're gonna burn your flag and piss on your parade
(Piss on your parade)
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10. |
Already Gone
03:59
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Well I was on the border line
Of a suicidal state of mind
Because all the love we had was gone
But there was just one more courier flight
And it was leaving in the cold morning light
And that's the one you can be sure that I was on
And so I took a long last glance
Around this glorified garbage can
And then I burned all of my bridges goodbye
And now I'm staggering a jagged line
All around this glorious equator line
So don't come looking, because I'm already gone
And so I'm gonna dive, dive, dive, dive into this pale moonlight
And I'm gonna dance, dance, dance until I fall
You know I wanna lose my head inside a song
And I'm gonna drag you all along
But don't you miss me, because I'm already gone
I got a stack of presidents
Stuck way down into my pants
I got a pair of Jesus boots and a head all full of song
I never seem to get it right
But it doesn't seem to matter tonight
Because I'm here and you know I'm already gone
And I'm gonna dive, dive, dive, dive into this pale moonlight
And I'm gonna dance, dance, dance until I fall
You know I wanna lose my head inside a song
And I'm gonna drag you all along
But don't you miss me, because I'm already gone
I'm already gone
Well I'm one day older
And I'm feeling like a soldier
Yeah you know it's colder than a morgue out on this quay
But I'm ready for a last trip
As they hoist me on board this container ship
'Cause where I'm going to, nobody knows my name
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11. |
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In the dawn on the roof, there's a semblance of truth
In the half light that sings to me of you
With my bottle full of sin, I hoist a toast to the mesin(?)
That these black clouds mean the monsoon
Because the sun refused to shine since you left me dumb and blind
Sometimes it feels like the end of the world
Yes it feels like the end of the world
And every word I never spoke dies like a spark smothered in smoke
pulled from the glow of a shitty cigarette
And I probably should shave and dig myself out of this grave
But I can't go
No, not just yet
Mostly the nights they ain't half bad
It's the days that seem designed to drive you mad
Sometimes it feels like the end of the world
Yes it feels like the end of the world
So tonight in the bar of this hotel bazaar
I'll write some postcards and throw them away
And maybe someday I'll leave here
But the drinks, they are so cheap here
And somebody's always got to pay
And it feels like the end of the world
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12. |
Weird To Be Back
03:48
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Well I just touched down today
And it's strange to say but
It's great to see ya
I've been so long away
And I've been so long alone
Sorry for the delay
Oh turbulance and misconnections
Life's a one way plane
Man it's weird to be back home
So I just dropped in today
To check on all my old obsessions
Everything's the same
Or maybe just a little worse
Just crashed in to say
No brass band, ticker tape parade
Must've been delayed
Man it's weird to be back
Weird to be back home
Well it's weird to be back
Yes it's weird to be back
Weird to be back
It's weird to be back home
Weird to be back
Well it's weird to be back
It's weird to be back
Oh it's weird to be back home
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13. |
3-Legged Dog
03:32
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Well
Some people think I'm damaged 'cause I'm always on my own
But just because the lights are out don't mean you're not at home
And they say when you're psychotic that you never walk alone
I'm just a three-legged dog on the roam
And everybody thinks that I'm unfriendly just because I can't recall their names
But all the faces and the places just begin look the same
You haven't got the kind of time it takes to play those kinds of games
When you're a three-legged dog on the roam
No I may not be good-looking, but I'm a killer in the dark
And girl you know my bite is so much better than my bark
So if you need a friend tonight, why don't you come find me in the park
I'm a three-legged dog on the roam
Y'know my father thinks I'm lazy 'cause I ain't got no career
And my mother thinks I'm crazy, and my sister thinks I'm queer
Ah, but if you think it's easy, man, you just got no idea
I'm a three-legged dog on the roam
Yeah I've been down so long that coming up is giving me the bends
And I'm so goddamn lonesome, I count enemies as friends
And every day I chase my tail and wonder when it's gonna end
For this three-legged dog on the roam
Yeah I'm still looking for that something, gonna make my life complete
Can't afford to be too picky when you're living on the street
But sometimes if I'm a good boy, they'll throw me a piece of meat
I'm just a three-legged dog on the roam
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