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Queen of the Junkyard
02:33
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Verse1: Was / It / A / Rise Or / Fall / Queen of the Junk-yard? / That Put You / On That Throne / Of Cac-tus / and Car-Parts / You Stripped ‘Em Down / You Sold-‘Em For Scrap / The Ben-to-nite / Boys of West Texas / Come Sun-day Out on the Porch / You Like to Make a Co-mmo-tion / With Us
Chorus: Hey-Does-That-Sound / Fa-mil-iar? / Hell Yes / This Songs-A-bout-You / Toss-in’ / Your Crown / Off / Take-in’ Your Hair Down / For The / Last Time / As You Drive / Out Of Town /
Verse2: They / O-ffer / Su-gar and Gold / To The / Queen of the Junk-yard / Ki-ssin’ / In Cars / That / Don’t Run / Drea-min’ of Black-Top / High-Way / But / Now / She’s / Quit-of-All-That / The Cac-tus / And Car Parts / Be-fore / Too Long / She’ll Be Lea-vin’ / Ha-vin’ / Made-a Co-mmo-tion / Appropos/
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2. |
Poison Apples
03:11
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Well I took you to the Pictures / I took you to the Fair / I know You didn't Care / Know you didn't Care but you know / You will care about it soon / So I Handed you a Story / That Did Not have an End / Well What the Hell is This / Is what You Said / You know / You Didn't Even Read It
You Know / You Know / I don't Think We're Ever Gonna Figure This Out / You Know / You Know / I don't think We're Ever Gonna Figure this Out
Now there are Flowers on the Floor / White Lily Petals I Swore I Drove / Myself Crazy / Just Picking Up the Pieces / So Take the Money / Take the Flowers / Take those Goddamn Poison Apples / Break the Racket Apart / This Ruse / I think I Finally can See Through /
RPT. chorus
Will the / Racket / Break Apart on the Boulevard / Who Sold Who Off / Who Was Just Playing a Part in this Thing / RPT.
RPT. CHORUS
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3. |
Bluebonnet Rains
03:53
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Verse1: I-Face / West / And-I / Wait / For the Clouds / To Roll / O-ver / The Range / I-Face / West / And-I / Watch / The-Wind / As-It / Sca-tters / Your Name / But There’s / A-Hun-dred / Li-ttle / Sym-bols/ You Re-sem-ble / A Torn Up / News-Pa-per / I-Could / Ne-ver Fit / To-ge-ther/ The / Wind / Keeps / Blow-ing / The Pa-ges / A-round / So I Could / Ne-ver / Be Sure / If You / E-ver / Were My / Lo-ver / Were You?
Chorus: A / Cou-ple / Notes are Mi-ssin’ / From All My / Fav’rite Songs / And-Now-I / Can’t / Re-call Them / I Keep / on Drow-nin’-in-The / Par-kin’ / Lot / Come / Closin’-Time / But I Am / Dry as a Bone / I Keep On / Run-nin’-Like-a / Ri-ver / That is / Run-nin’-Dry / I’m Going Underground / (I’ll Keep / Running Right / UnderGround)
Verse2: Are You / Up / Are You / Out / There / Po-ppin’-the-Cap / on-a / Cham-pagne / Year / Are You / Up? / Are You / Out There / With-This-on-My-Mind / I Thought I’d / Tell Ya Dear / You See / When I’m Not / Sure / Who / You Rea-lly Were / I Face-A / Mi-rror / Towards-a / Mi-rror / Make-a-Mill-ion-Diff-’rent-Pic-tures Then / Blu-u-u-u-ue / Bon-net / Ra-a-a-ains / Will Co-ver / The Plains/
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4. |
Immaculate Deception
03:21
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Verse1: I Read / The Mess-a-ges / You Wrote / Back and Forth / For a Year / May-be More / I Don’t Know / I Read A-loud / Read A-lone / In the / Li-vin’ Room / The Rain / Star-ted / To Pour / My Head was Spi-nnin’ / Wa-ter-Was-Ru-nnin’ / Like a Moat / ‘Cross the Ki-tchen Flo-o-or / I Thought It O-ver / Thought it / O-ver A-gain / Que Se-ra,
Se-ra / All Your Shit’s on the Lawn /
Chorus: You Still Believe it / An-swer-ing / The Phone / I Keep on Buy-ing Bull-Shit / By the Pound / I Al-Most Wa-nna Keep / Play-in’/ A-long / But Babe I Fear That’s / Just / What / You Would Want / (From Me)
Verse2: It’s Not A Game / But Yeah / You Act-Like-You-Won / Like I Can’t Come Back / And You’ve Ta-ken the Le-e-ead / I Keep For-gett-in’ / That Ya Sellin’ Me Short / And-That-No / We’re Not / E-ven / In the Same League
Bridge: I Let / You Tie-A-Rope / A-round / My Neck / And-Drive-Off/ Whose Fault / Is-That / I-Bet-You’ll-Say-It’s-Mine / It’s Mine / Oh! / You / Were Play-in’ / Hearts / You-Told-Me-Just-to-Trust-You/ Takes Two / To Tang-o / Three To Play / A Game of Cut-Throat / And You Do-o-o
Rpt. Chorus
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5. |
Ramona
03:42
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Verse1: Well / All The Pa-tterns / That You Drew / Were Too Com-plex / For Me / I Breathed Out / Ly-in’ / In the Dirt / The Sym-bols Burned On / End-less-ly / My Con-science / And My / Know-ledge / Had It Out / Last Night / So If I / Seem to Con-tra-dict My-self / Well That / Is Why / They Shine Their Flash-lights / On The Blan-kets / Where-We’d / Gone To Hide / They Shine / Flash-lights / Through The Cutouts / Of Our / Card-Board Lives / Well / I Could Have Yours / And You Could Have / Mine / And Then / I Could Have Yours / You Could Have Mine / I Was Just / Lea-nin’ / In-This Hall-way / Kickin’ Cans / Play-in’ Guitar / I’m Gonna / Drive With Mea-ger Love / Give Me The Keys / To Your Soul’s Car /
Chorus1: I Said /Ra-mo-na / Don’t Wo-rry / Some-bod-y’s / Go-nna Leave a Light On / You can Come Sleep / I Said / Ra-mo-na / Don’t Wo-rry / All of Those A-shes / Will-Get / Washed on / By The Cu-rrent Down-stream / Down-stream
Verse2: (Ooo Etc.) Lookout These / In-dy / Au-stin / Kids Wear-ing Their Fake Eye / Len-ses / They’re Just / Building on the Basics Now the Town I’m From Ended and / You Made a Mess of Me / You Got me Thinking About Dying Til I Died in All My Dreams / Here’s My Jesus and Your Jesus They’re Not / Getting A-Long / One Says You Come Back / The Other One Says You Don’t / I Stay Up /Ar-gu-in’ With Fate / But Des-tin-y Like Love is Blind / It Keeps Me Up At Night With Headaches Trying to Learn Di-Vine Sight /
Chorus2: I Said / Ra-mo-na / Don’t Worry / You’ve Got Good Looks For Now / So / There Is / No Hu-rry / I Said / Ra-mo-na / Don’t Wo-rry / I’m Just Some / O-ther Lone-ly Gui-tar-Man / There’s More Like Me / Chances are that Won’t Be / An-y-thing / Chan-ces are / That I Won’t Be / An-y-thing
Verse3: He Got Paid / I Heard You Got Paid / I Found Out Waiting At this Bus Stop Just Exactly Where You Stayed / I’m Glad I / Walked-On / Off the Tar-mac / Right A-way / From That / Plane/ It’s Just So Strange When Something Matters / The Calculations I Make / Give Back the Keys to My Soul’s Car / I’m Taking Off The Parking Brake / Give Back the Keys to My Soul’s Car / I’m Taking Off The Park-in’ Brake
Chorus: Ramona / Don’t Worry / It Was So Dark When You Came / Home it Will Be / Dark When I Leave / I Said Ramona / Ra-mo-na/ Don’t Worry /
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6. |
I Pay Them to Poison Me
03:59
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Verse1: I-Pay / Them to / Poi-son / Me/ I / Pay-Them / To Save My Life / And The Fun-ny / Thing About This / Is How They’ll / Do Both in the Same / Night / In the Same Night / That I Come Up For Air / I Get / Held Un-der / Once A-gain / They Force Me / To Take / Whi-skey Shots / Though I / Swear I Won’t A-gain / But Here I Am /
Chorus1: Well It’s / Way / Way / Worse Than / It Looks-and / It Looks Bad / I Pulled in / Parked it Side-ways / And I Put / All the Seats In Recline / Oh Yeah / I Pay Them Here / To Poi-son Me / Ev’ry / Night/
Verse2: The-Things / That Make Me / Happ-y / You Know / The Things / That Make Me / High! / It’s / Just-as-Much / Her Ki-sses / As It Is / Wa-vin’ a Good-bye / To-The Love-a-My Life / So-I-Had-To / Learn How to En-joy Fail-ure / ‘Cause Hell I’m Wrong / Half-of / The Time / But-A-Hun-dred / Things-Still / Keep Me / Wide A-wake / At Night / Did I Get it Right?
Chorus2: ‘Cause It’s / One / More / Step / In / The Wrong Di-rec-tion Dar-lin’ / It’s the / Bi-tter / Half / Of Bi-tter / Sweet / That’s / All I Taste / When I / Walk-in / I / Pay Them Here / To Poison Me / Ev’ry Night /
Bridge: Man I’ve Spent / So / Much / Time / Tryin’-ta / Hang-My / Hopes Up High / Some-bod-y / Al-ways / Seems to Rain / On the Pa-ra-a-ade / I Tell You / In / My / Life / So Many Dear / Dear Friends of Mine / Have-Watched-Me / Pay Up / To Be / Poi-soned / E-e-ev’ry / Night / I Swear E-ventually / I / Will Show-Them-I’m / Not-A-Waste / Of Time / I’ll Thank Them / All For / Un-der-stan-din’ / You Know I’m / Not! / That! / Hard! / To! / Find!
Repeat Tag-Line 4x
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7. |
Paradise in Your Arms
02:40
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Pa-ra-dise / It Seemed to Lay / In-side / Of Your Arms / Now I’m Stuck On the Out-side / The Ci-ty Songs Su-rround Me / Then They / Gets So Loud / I Can Hardly / Sleep at Night / The Lights Will Stretch Them-Selves / A-cross the Bed And Laugh / Just Like You Did / I Stare In-Spired / Pa-Ra-Dise- / It Seem to Lay / In-Side of Your Heart / Now I’m Stuck In The Divide /
You Know / I Want / To Be There / You Know / I Want / to Hold You / You’ve Got the Facts / Be-Fore You / Still (So) / I Just A-Wait / My Sen-tence / Or Your / For-give-ness /
Ca-ta-stro-phe / Was Not Far Off / I Sacked the Whole House / Left the Rest Out in the Yard / Al-most as Man-y Years Have Passed / As Things I’d Bro-ken / Now I Just Collect the Parts /
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8. |
Blackboard
03:41
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When You See My Name / On Your Cell Phone Screen / Have I Signaled Complete Surrender / At Arms Babe? / If I Write Your Name on the Blackboard Babe / 1,000 Times will I Receive My Lessons Well /
Chorus: When I Wash the Chalk A-way / I’m Just the Things that I Re-peat / I Wanna Set The Record / Spinning Straight / Inside Your Heart / I Wanna Settle The Ledger / Wanna Roll the Stone Away
Verse: Are We Live Again / Can You Hear Me Out There / Something’s Jamming This Transmission / I Said Some Things I Wish I Didn’t / I Let Myself Go / I’ll Admit / I Got / Used to My Words / I Quit Listening / But If I Shut My Mouth / Maybe I’ll Learn Before Too Long/
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9. |
Headlines
03:25
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Verse: Hu-Sh / Li-sten / You’ll Hear / The Rats in / The Wall / Of My / House / In-The-Ki-tchen / When Rent’s Due / Good Night! / I’m / Quit-tin’ / I’m Kiddin’ / I’d Ne-ver / Do That / But It’s Temp-ting / When E-ver-er-y Night / \
Chorus: I Have / No-where / To Go / Hard-ly / A Dime / To My Name / And I Don’t Have a Show / I Must / Have Missed the Call / But Hear These Four Chords / I Think I Can Change Your Mind
Verse: Hush-a-Bye / Ba-by / You’ll Hear / The Mock-in’-Bird Sing / An O-rig-inal / Tune on / Your En-trance / I’m Born(e)! / A-gain/ So Swift-(ly) / A-way / To The Place / Where / The Che-rubs / Play / Lei-be-straum / I Have Made /
Chorus: My-self / A Home / In This Ci-ty of Songs /Feels Like I / Pulled In-to Town / They Told Me, “Get Gone” / But Hear These / Four Bars/ I-Think-I Can Change Your Mind /
Verse: Hush / Li-sten / You’ll Hear the Words to The Song / That I’m Sing-in’ / I’m Sing-in’ / Good Night /
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