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Out In The Community
02:43
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Out In The Community
Nice to see you out today, why do people stop and stare?
Tell them please, look away, I will still be there
Time set us free, so we can meet up
Out in the community
Kiss me here amidst the crowd they can watch as we embrace
Let them see we have learned how to intergrate
Time set us free, so we can meet up
Out in the community
Time won't surrender to the call
But the sky is ripe to fall
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la
Time set us free so we can meet up out in the community
I don't think it's safe to be out in the community
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2. |
Danna Was An Artist
03:20
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Danna Was An Artist
Danna was an artist
Who used life as a canvass
She was a walking portrait
With paint made out of glass
She didn’t have to fake a smile
Her style was well defined
She couldn’t speak in perfect rhyme
But her words were always kind
But she colored me different shades of me
Danna was an artist
Whose love was never found
She slept across the landscape
With every boy in town
She could turn the common place
Into something so divine
She put a smile on my common face
And made a new design
Well she colored me then she melted me
Danna was an artist
Who used life as a canvass
She was a walking portrait
With paint made out of glass
She didn’t have to color her hair
The color was already there
If she was asked to paint romance
She’d leave the canvas bare
Well she laughed as she cracked
Danna was a trapeze artist
Who never broke a sweat
She looked at me and smiled
As she missed the safety net
And she laughed yes, she laughed
As she cracked yes, she cracked
Danna was an artist
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3. |
Living Hell
03:01
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Living Hell
I believe in true love darling but sometimes I get confused
When it’s bright and sunny and the walls are white
The sky is black and blue
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the heaven from the hell
Baby it’s all in the mind
Now the neighbors hear screaming in the apartment down below
And the walls are shaken by the drunken god who makes his presence known
Now anyone can tell, we’re in a living hell
Maybe it’s all in the mind
Once time was all I had to waste away
As the days get longer, I’m on my way to an early grave
I can see it more clearly as the fog begins to rise
Through smoke and mirrors you can hide but I cannot deny
Now anyone can tell we’re in a living hell
Maybe it’s all in the mind
Maybe it’s all in the mind
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4. |
Over The Rainbow
03:07
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Over The Rainbow
You woke me from my slumber to say you had a dream
But sometimes dreams become nightmares you know how to make it seem
Like you’re over the rainbow
Like you’re part of the light
Go now!
You paint your face and fingernails and prance off through the dark
You feel as free as you can be no time for broken hearts
You’re going over the rainbow
You’re going into the night
You need somebody to be somebody
All you want to do is stay high
You’re going to Tajuana to play the Prima Donna
At the pony show tonight
Somewhere over the rainbow
Somewhere out it the night
Your black clouds have assembled you’re lost out in the zone
But it feels good to be well, how ya gonna make it home?
From over the rainbow, where you’re a part of the light
You need somebody to be somebody
All you want to do is stay high
You’re going to Tajuana to play the Prima Donna
Everybody’s waving goodbye
Looking over the rainbow
Somewhere over the rainbow
Somewhere out it the night
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5. |
It's Only Fair to Say
03:24
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It’s Only Fair to Say
Standing in the shoes
Of someone so confused
Who was told what to say
I said I’d take the rap for you
But the song became untrue
Now I’m singing it for supper everyday
It’s only fair to say
It’s a vicarious way
To live your life
Through their lies
She blessed me with a curse
And things kept getting worse
Our Love was flying south
The song ceased to exist
As the old ventriloquist
Took the fuggin’ words out of my mouth
It’s only fair to say
It’s a precarious way
To live your life
Through your lies
To say I didn’t care
To say I wasn’t scared
Would be to
I stood before the judge
And swore in the name of Love
Your honor it’s the dream that we forgot
It’s only fair to say
It’s a vicarious way
To live your life
Through their lies
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6. |
So Beautiful
03:34
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So Beautiful
You look like you’d never hurt no one
God knows all the monsters you’ve become
Before the show begun
But all the people in the audience
Pay to see you slay the innocence
It’s so beautiful
So beautiful
Your heart it aint really made of wood
Your cool but you wish that you could
Be Loved and understood
The way you take the pleasure from the pain
Makes the people stare and then exclaim
It’s so beautiful
So beautiful
You frown beneath the beautiful disguise
Deep down a dark and ugly secret lies
Love’s light is in your eyes
Changing leaves are falling into grace
The way the tears are rolling off your face
It’s so beautiful
So beautiful
You’re looking lovely more or less
My frog princess
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7. |
Sea Hag
02:51
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Sea Hag
I was high as a kite on the wings of delight when we sailed in with the tide
On the thoughts of the pleasures and the treasures we would find
But the church bells were ringing
And the sirens were singing
And the mind was drenched in alcohol
And the old hag sang her song
Oh yes you look the best
Why don’t we drink to your health
Sign of the times says have a good time
Go lightly through this hell
Hold tightly onto yourself
I made a new friend in an opium den but how was I to know
In the cool blue shadow, I’d find a friend a foe
Well the world started spinning
And she just sat there grinning
I swear I saw the old sea hag behind those pretty eyes
Oh yes don’t be depressed
Why don’t we drink to your health
Sign of the times says have a good time
Go lightly through this hell
Hold tightly onto yourself
Sirens are singing
And the church bells are ringing
Now another drunken sailor
Has come ashore to spawn
Oh yes you look a mess
Why don’t we drink to your health
Sign of the times says have a good time
Go lightly through this hell
Hold tightly onto yourself
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8. |
By The Sea
03:32
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By the Sea
I had a dark cloud hanging over me
And a hangover in my heart
And all the crap that happened had to be
I almost fell apart
Yeah I nearly bought the farm
Hey how ya feeling
Hey how ya been
I went down to drown my sorrow and pain
By the sea
By the sea
By the sea
I packed my troubles in a duffle bag
And I drove out to the coast
To watch every hang-up that I had
As they rode the under toe
Yeah I had to let it go
Hey how I don’t need that
Yeah I can be
All my cares they got washed away
By the sea
By the sea
By the sea
I used to sit and worry about the things to come
And the things I left behind
Now I here thinking the nights still young
Let’s watch the evening tide
Yeah we’re gonna let it slide
Hey how ya feeling
Hey how ya been
Let’s go out and lay our bodies down
By the sea
By the sea
By the sea
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9. |
What Do You Know
03:09
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What do You Know
Thought I knew you what did I know?
So much sorrow oh it still glows
Though I knew why your heart attacked
Read your nightmare from hell and back
I have yet to pass the test
But I still have no regrets
I got a lot to learn
What do you know?
Thought I knew what it meant to be
Slightly dizzy and so carefree
Thought I know who I was today
Wild old dogs have got to stray
The illusion takes its toll
On the liver and the soul
I got a lot to learn
What do you know?
Thought I knew where this train was bound
Out of nowhere but still unsound
The rude words on the wall
Tell the story of it all
I got a lot to learn
What do you know?
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10. |
Sister Strange
04:18
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Sister Strange
Sister strange I don’t mind
If you use me as a friend
Cause a friend is a friend till the end
Sister slave you’re set free
Go be human, go be you
Go be who you believe you can be
Out in the woods there’s a party tonight
And you have been invited
And you’ll be reunited
In a black leather hood
Your true love is waiting for you
Sister strange my sadist child
You abuse me and then you cry
Just to show me
How you hurt inside
Sister shame screw you guilt
And believe every lie that you tell
Out in the woods there’s a party tonight
Bring your current lover
Cause soon there’ll be no other
In a black leather hood
Your true love is waiting for you
Out in the woods there’s a party tonight
And you have been invited
And you’ll be reunited
In a black leather hood
Your true love is waiting for you
Out in the woods there’s a party tonight
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11. |
Dream Song #11
03:15
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Dream Song 11
When your home breaks a part of you dies
Now you find it hard to believe you’re still alive
Reaching for the star that no longer shines
Someone that told you they’d love you
Till the end of time
Word on the street is you lost your mind
When the 11th hour comes you will find
It passed out on the floor of a blown out
With neon lights shining vacant
Till the end of time
On a dark night the message arrives
It’s one that says you found a friend for life
Till the end of time…
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12. |
Nowhere To Run
03:09
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