1. |
Seems Like A Daydream
04:20
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So you’re tryin’ to raise funds for your mid-life crisis
But your nest egg is lined with a bedding of vices
Gettin’ crowded in there with all those fancy devices
But to give any back has you thinkin’ twice
Then an hour goes by and it seems like a daydream
When your life has become nothin’ like you’ve seen
Am I in the middle of your demographic
Do you predict my moods like a telepathic
Do you count all my votes, and then do you graph it
Does my bell curve ring out He’s just gotta have it
Then an hour goes by and it seems like a daydream
When your life has supplied whatever you need
So you’re tryin’ to raise funds for your mid-life crisis
So you can sit out the siege and still afford the high prices
And you can have a fresh piece of whatever entices
But to give any back has you thinkin’ twice
Another hour goes by and its closer to payday
When you look back on this, hey how was your heyday?
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2. |
Vertigo
04:02
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High or low
Just don’t look where you're going
Off the road
Just good intentions showing
I can see these aren’t the words you’re looking for
Its not me lining them up at your door
Yes or no
The facts are sometimes fleeting
[About-faced struck-through switched and replaced]
We all know the arguments are heating
[Clamoring and taking up space]
I can see these aren’t the words you want to hear
Its not me whispering them in your ear
Dizzy Spinning
Wide-eyed vertigo
Rose-colored images
You gotta let ‘em go
The daily dose that cures whatever ails ya
[Dose-a-day the ailings away]
I’m the ghost that comforts and assails ya
[There’s nothing that I can’t send your way]
I can be anything you think of me
Its not me dreaming up the fantasies
Dizzy Spinning
World-view vertigo
All this stimulus
You gotta let it go
You just ought to let it go Your full moon's showing
You just ought to let it go I think you know it
You really ought to let 'em go I think you know
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3. |
Cast Your Spell
03:13
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Seize the day
That’s what they say
And let your hair down
Cast your spell
You do it well
When your hair’s all hangin’ down
And when it hangs down
You’ll see what you wanna see
Say all you have to say
Fade in Fade out
But make ‘em notice
One day Today
You’ll get your focus
And see what you wanna see
Say all you have to say
Feel how you wanna feel
Everything Everyday
So what’ll it be?
We got it
We got it right here
Choose your potion
Wade in Wade out
Pick your ocean
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4. |
Sent With Love
03:34
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No matter how it sounds to you
No matter how it tastes
Don't matter if its wrapped and sent with love
And if its yours to take
You oh so in control of all under your skin
You never let 'em know the places that you've been
She gathered all her thoughts for him
She had something to say
Our worlds just spin around like marbles in a glass
Here comes the future looking oh so like the past
No matter if there's nothing else to do
We'll do it all again
Her thoughts just walk around and gather what they need
Although she's said it all he hasn't heard a thing
Don't matter if its wrapped and sent with love
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5. |
Picassos
04:54
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Move a little closer
To where you ought to be
Stake a place inside your head where you can kick up your feet
Now that you’re all listening
And fully up to speed
Pull yourself up by the roots
Climb down the family tree
Its time you had it all
The time has slipped its getting late
Its time to dream
Too soon to shake awake
Ask a couple questions
With answers obvious
Find someone to fill your blanks
Draw Picassos in your dust
Imagine all murals painted brightly on the walls
Picture yourself chipping off and letting the chips fall
You can have 'em all
The time has slipped its getting late
Its time to dream
Too soon to shake awake
So hit the clock and head back in
The action’s there
Its hero time again
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6. |
Happen
03:46
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By the way…
You shoulda let it happen
You gotta let it happen
‘Cuz if you let it happen
You’d ride the world bazaar
Your private shooting star shining on me
You gotta let it happen
Have a little fun with everything you’ve done
Don’t be so serious
You’re better delirious on me
You gotta let it happen
Droppin’ down your arms
and wrappin’ all your charms around me
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7. |
Coming Days
03:22
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Its all the things you do and what you say
Its all the things you think and what you throw away
Its not the bad things that you do
Its your blinding point of view
You hear a lot about the coming days
But predictions of the future just get in the way
If they don’t share your vision
of the benefits of indecision
You hear some more about the coming days
Our little perturbation moving in to stay
All the changes have begun
Punctuated equilibrium
You hear it all again it must be true
Everybody’s talking blaming you know who
Its not the bad things that you do
You’re just living like a fool
So here it comes again another chance
To rally misled masses with you new defense
There’s no action only talking
Time this bullshit started walking
The talking just goes on and days roll by
Here comes another heat wave drying out your eyes
Is that part of the prediction
Are the models only fiction
Is there truth in your depiction
Every point has contradictions
You got up on the stage
The world was on your knee
And in the party haze we pass the days
You get a little older days roll by
You come to realize the sparkle in your eyes
Has gotten duller and somewhat faded
You never thought you’d be so jaded
Its not the things you do and things you say
Your reckoning is based on what’s left in your wake
What did you learn this time around
Skip your turn this time around
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8. |
A New Discovery
02:25
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A new discovery
No more mystery
Oh the flattery now
Sign the guarantee
Start the forgery
Void the warranty now
Now they're asking your opinion
The flattery oh everybody cares
Maybe its an interview
You wanna see your words in quotes somewhere
Don't you?
A new discovery
Name it what you please
Shape your legacy
Soak in the revelry
Swing from the drapery
Be all you wanna be
Because its alright to lose your mind
Just shake it loose and scream until they stare
You wanna splash some ripples through the
chaos sending fractals everywhere
Don't you?
A new discovery
A change in the strategy
Rewriting history
Brand new celebrity
Paint the society
Surrounded by bended knees
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9. |
The Way It Is
03:28
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I'd give you reason
I'd give you rhyme
I'd give you treason if I had the time
So what if that's the way it is
I offer everything to you
The highest bid
But you don't want me to
There was no one
Then there was you
You looked at everything
You've chosen few
I'd give you no restrain
I'd walk your dog in the pouring rain
But you don't want me to
Anywhere Anytime
The timing's good and the words all rhyme
When you’re wishing you could turn back time
And you’re shadowcasting long black lines
Mutter a toast to what you’ve left behind
I'd breath you new life
A brand new start
I'd take the pledge if I had a heart
So what if that’s the way it is
I offer up to you my life to live
But you don't want me to
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10. |
Acting Social
05:49
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The new momentum now has to fuel itself in violation
Of every natural law on the books
With all our worries now we still come up with many more ways
To fantasize ourselves in control
But the gold loses its luster buried in the dirt around your feet
Six billion of us now
We hit the mark October that year
Many many more on the way
With all the counting now
All the evidence and inconvenience
Of buying back the things that we stole
But the gold loses its luster and piles up like dirt
around your feet
No money and no school
But no one's fooling you
You found your street
The social trends are in
It’s a trendy way of acting social
Ride whatever wave ‘til it breaks
The list is shorter now of who approves my information
And satisfies the need they create
You walk away sometime
Your body and your mind on holiday
These ways are new just like the first
A dry undying thirst
Another day
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11. |
Days Like That
02:25
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All waiting there to be
All I believe
The just outside staying there
Beyond the reach
The I don’t care
The closing eyes are looking out again
The coming true
The me and you
A life of days like that
The story stirs
Presents itself to you
You read the lines and realize
That crazy look, its in your eyes again
The coming true
The me and you
I like my days like that
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12. |
So It Goes
04:35
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I'm the lucky one, or it seems sometimes
I'm the only one with this on my mind
I'm the lucky one in the pouring rain
Soaking up the sun and what else remains
I'm the lucky one
Guess its my turn now
Having all the fun that's been handed out
And if there's anything that I want
I can have it I can have it
And if there's anything that I want
I can have it I have it
I'm the lucky one, or it seems sometimes
I'm the only one with this on my mind
I'm the lucky one in the pouring rain
Soaking up the sun
Guess I got it made
I'm the lucky one
Guess its my turn now
Having all the fun that's been handed out
And so so it goes at the speed of light
I metamorphose every single night
But then so do you
Yeah, you're lucky too
On a scale of 10, no one else will do
And if there's anything that I want
I can have it I can have it
And if there's anything that I want
I can have it I have it
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13. |
There Might Be
04:27
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Another day Another day spent going over
The words that tell the story
Careful that you don’t say something wrong
If anything is said at all
Another day Another night spent tossing over
Was it sharing or just selfish
Therapy or foolish in your eyes
That were always smiling
Smiling Admiring your stylings
Life’s too short to let it get away
Charming Smiling A manner so beguiling
I can’t say everything I want to say
Another night Another night to think it over
Is it better with you knowing
Better if you try to understand
I’ll put it in your hands
Another dream Another dream of what there might be
Another time and other chances
To see what’s going on inside of you
Because outside I see
Smiling Charming A laughter so disarming
Life’s too long to let it get away
Charming Smiling A look so mesmerizing
I can’t say everything I want to say
All I know about you touched my heart
I guess you really got to me this time
You got to me You didn’t even try
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14. |
Testimony
04:23
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I have seen the clouds roll through my skies
With their changing faces
I have faced the music in my mind
You got a song you play it
If I could count the times I’ve tried to relive days gone by
I’d fall in my own footsteps
Its not the world
There's nothing you can do to make a change
I have felt the flying gliding soaring through the skies
Wind through my hair like fingers
I have often wondered what it takes to stay so high
And keep the brilliant sun bright in my eyes
In everything I see that means a lot to me
I have seen a light shine in the corners of my mind
So many things are stuffed away back in there
And I have often tried to hide a see-right-thru-disguise
And keep the lights out of the corners
You wonder why
There's nothing you can do
Its not the world
Its what you’re looking through
And how it looks to you
That's just the way things are anymore
Its not the world
There's nothing you can do
Its not the world
Its what you’re looking through
So how's it look to you
I have seen the world spin round more than 13,000 times
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Michael Starks Tampa, Florida
Actually Dade City, not Tampa, but close enough in the cosmic scheme of things. In fact, one might argue that outer space is closer than Tampa is. Still trying to save the world, whether it wants to be or not. These records should help with that, at least a little bit... ... more
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