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Heavenly Heights
02:41
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Heavenly Heights
(words and music by Dave Stoops, as interpreted by the Quags)
Look at those holy rolls and a revelation grandiose
Solace from the strength of Job patron saint of the Varicose
Dressed up! She’s a Destitute Delight
Gilded gloves, bourbon over ice
Choir begins to wail and shake
Icing on the cake keeps the flock away
Wavering she finds her faith
Who can heal the head when the heart still aches?
Dressed up! She’s a Destitute Delight
Gilded gloves, bourbon over ice
Blessed up! By the vespers of the night
To Heavenly Heights!
She sits spell bounded for another round and round and round
Dressed up! She’s a Destitute Delight…
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2. |
Release Me
03:24
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Release me
So this is it
So there’s a heaven after all
And you can feel the love beneath your feat
It’s like you’re dancing on the air
But I don’t understand why you torment that man
Awaiting parole for his soul
When you gonna release me from this hell
When you gonna let me be myself
Well shut up and close your eyes
You've been keeping us up all night
Pretend you're out there at the twilight …carefree
Yeah this is it, yeah there’s a heaven after all
And there’s a nice array of drugs to take and there’s a lot of hearts to break
now she wait at the gates
for her chance to escape the prisoner of paradise
When you gonna release me from this hell
When you gonna let me be myself
When you shake those shackled hips
Through the dungeon walls you slip
You'll be out there in the twilight, care free!
When you gonna release me from this hell
When you gonna let me be myself
Today we’ve awoken to find the cell open
And they were both out there walking hand and hand in the air
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Bergen Pines
03:20
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Bergen Pines
Walking dogs in the park with the emotionally disturbed
Discussing the world and the price of pot in the quiet suburb
The fading tattoos on wrinkled skin read: “the devil may care,
But we don’t give a dam, we’re beyond loneliness and despair”
Have You Ever Crossed the Borderline
Between Reality and Bergen Pines
From shopping malls with waterfalls
To flickering florescent lights
Suburban Sweet Hearts never say goodbye
I ended up here cause some one slipped me some LSD
I could have been a contender in the music making industry
Now I’m sailing the seas on a drug-induced tranquil dinghy
I’m hearing my songs being sung in a far out alien key
Hopping up and down the borderline
Between Reality And Bergen Pines
From shopping malls to padded walls
It could happen to anyone
Suburban Sweet Hearts forever on the run
Half verse with chorus break and sirens
Now I’m singing my songs with my love from the loony bin
Packing the house at every place that we perform in
We made our way across the borderline
Between reality and Bergen Pines
From padded walls to music halls
It happens all the time
Suburban Sweet Hearts, Escape from Bergen Pines
Suburban Sweet Hearts Never Say Goodbye!
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4. |
So Much More
03:23
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So Much More
If I could write a song of love, I'd dedicate it to all of you!
Life is too short to be holding a grudge - Over a different point of view!
I had a real good high -You asked me to explain who I am
How long? How long? How long, until you become?
So much more!
Who is that in the mirror? I don't recognize you either…
We're so much more than a reflection
All the little things add up! Beyond what you bargained for!
What does it take to fill the cup! To even out the score!
No amount of flesh would be worth the world and its troubles!
How much? How much? How much is enough?
So much more
Who is that in the mirror? I don't recognize you either
We're so much more than a reflection…
If you got some time to kill, won't you please enjoy yourself?
Because if you don't nobody will, and the consequences felt
On the hamster wheel of life you ain't going nowhere
How many laps until you collapse without any Medicare?
You never really know - It could be tonight or tomorrow -
Come on! come on! come on! And realize we're
So much more
Who is that in the mirror? I don't recognize You either
We're so much more than a reflection
Love You So Much More!
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5. |
Another Moment In Time
03:08
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Another Moment In Time
Another day above the ground to be grateful for
A lover’s arms reaching out for something a little more
Is this a real love sent from heaven above
I sometimes feel I’m being sucked down through the floor
Someday all this will be forgotten history
And something’s will never jive
This is the malady, this is humanity may our Love survive
Another Moment In Time
Come on let’s dance, dig the sounds and groove to the guitar strum
Our hearts are beating right in time with the slap on the bongo drums
I think of time travel a lot
And a lost forget me not
Are we who we thought we would become?
Someday all this will be forgotten history
Some things will never jive
This is the malady, this is humanity may our Love survive
Another Moment In Time
Another day above the ground to be grateful for
The sun it shines behind the clouds I’m hopeful we can score
Imagine You and Me on drugs
Making love on a bearskin rug
I don’t believe that’s something we have done before
Someday all this will be forgotten history
Something’s will never jive
This is the malady, this is humanity may our Love survive
Another Moment In Time
In time… In time…
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6. |
All In A Days Work
02:40
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All in a days work
All In A Days Work For what money can’t buy
Tell me is it really worth all the time gone by
Everyday I punch the clock
Everyday it knocks me out
Is it worth the time just to pay the rent?
When by the end of the week you’re already spent
All in a days work for what we could not afford
Baby knows how much it’s worth to be so adored
No one needs to let you know
How to fix your broken heart
Only in your dreams
Can you be apart?
That only in our dreams
Are we truly free
Awe
Everyday I bust my balls
Everyday it breaks my heart
Only in our dreams
Can we be a part
That only in our dreams
Are we truly free
Awe
All in a days work
All in a daze… work
All in a days work
All in a daze… work
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7. |
Enough Already
03:00
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Enough Already
All the Love I have for you can’t be denied
Can’t be dismissed or compromised
Go have a good time get wined and dined
You might be in for a big surprise
All my heart all my soul
Everything that means anything at all
Enough Already
All the doomsayers don’t get me down
Don’t let those monsters make you cry
They make a fortune making people frown
I never pay them any mind
All my Love all my dreams
Anything that means anything to me
Enough Already
All that they can take away
Will decay eventually
Our Love will burn beyond eternity
All the predictions of the troubled troubadour
May never see the light of day
All the grief you hold me accountable for
You can hang it out for the birds of prey
All my heart, all my soul
Everything that meant anything at all
Enough Already
All my Love, all my dreams
Everything that meant anything to me
That’s enough already
That’s enough!
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8. |
The Last Christmas
03:13
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The Last Christmas
People shopping for each other on with the Christmas race
People fighting one another over a parking space
And people have the nerve to pass by me and mock
As I spend my Christmas in a cardboard box
Whiskey warms a winter’s day I don’t care what people say
I just wish they’d stop and think and join in with the tune I sing
Have yourself a happy holiday
Another year has melted away
Pour yourself another glass
This could be your last Christmas
Tis the time to be kind So throw me your spare change
So I can buy a cheap high, And make the scenery change
But you’ll just pass by me and chide and mock
As I spend my Christmas in a cardboard box
Whiskey warms a winters day I don’t care what people say
I just wish they’d stop and think and join in with the tune I sing
Have yourself a happy holiday
Another year has melted away
Pour yourself another glass
This could be your last Christmas
I just sit here with my friends Smoking cigarette ends
We just party cause who needs sorrow When there’s no tomorrow
How’s about another round?
Before Babylon’s walls come down
Everybody raise your glass
Three cheers for the Last Christmas…
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