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Out of Round
03:51
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Smilin’ Bobby, clutching normal
Sunday morning’s broken glass
Secret bedlam every hour
Kills the peace that never lasts
Will a merciful corona
Warm me in the glow?
Tightly bound, come unwound
and the circle’s out of round
Painting colors in the breezeway
Dims the noise inside his head
Does it have to be this murky symphony?
Panic stays forever fed
If they only heard the voices
Pleading in the wind
Tightly bound, come unwound
and my circle’s out of round
Smilin’ Bobby tells a story
No one else can ever hear
It’s a holiday, in the alleyway
Can he make them disappear?
No one else can hear the voices
Strangling his own
Stop the sound, burn it down
and my circle’s out of round
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Eddie
02:58
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Eddie climb aboard
Let’s go on the ocean
Sail to Pape’ete by the light of the moon
Honoring the path of the ancients
Pulling up Tahiti right out of the sea
With nothing to show the way
But the stars, wind and waves
(And counting the days)
The crowd on Magic Island cheered and shouted
The crew turned back enjoying the view
But outside in the channel, the storm was raging
It rolled and flipped them over, nearly broke them in two
And on through the night
They kept themselves alive
Then in the morning light
He pulled his board astride
Saying “I’ve gotta try”
Eddie stroked away into the future
Riding on the swells of eternal grace
Onward how he paddles into forever
Pulling Hawaiki right out of the sea
The best he could do in the end
Was to give some hope to his friends
So he pulled his board astride
And he said “It’s time to ride”
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Seven Acre Wood
03:38
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You can’t tell one from another
Cause you’re self-contained
It could’ve been a sister or a brother
God’ll take the blame
Sometimes, the mix is richer
Bright lights, burn out quicker
We can’t live like a hero,
in everlasting flames
It’s a short trip down
To the lonely patch of ground
In the Seven Acre Wood
Two boys, kings of their quarter
only to recede
The wiser one, cuts it with water
The other takes his neat
One more, stay a little later
Pink slip, the world’s elevator
And now he sleeps with the others,
another soul to feed
It’s a short trip down
To the lonely patch of ground
In the Seven Acre Wood
You can’t tell one from another
Cause you’re self-contained
It could be your sister or a brother
God’ll take the blame
Some nights, it gets pretty scary
I’m sure—it’s just temporary
Any day you’ll be celebrating,
your everlasting fame
It’s a short trip down
To the lonely patch of ground
In the Seven Acre Wood
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Good For Nothing
02:54
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An elephant wise knows that crying’s good for nothing
But your elegant side’s been kickin’ and-a fussin’
It feels like this in the month of December
Lying on the ground just to watch flying embers
Look like stars in firelight
Glow like stars in firelight
When you’ve lost your way, it doesn’t feel like nothing
Especially if you think it might to lead to something
All your days you’re just painting and buffing
As if a masterpiece could cover all your bluffing
Another man’s game is a blessed interruption
Something never gained in a bottomless assumption
Lost in the eyes of some negative persuasion
Left to suspirate on the edge of the equation
When you’d rather be chasing fireflies
Rather be chasing fireflies
The maddening night watched the tail lights dimming
Down a dark street to a never made beginning
If left to your own, you’ll never have a notion
To spend your days in perpetual motion
The sensitive life never earns a lot of glory
But a hero’s end doesn’t mean a happy story
A restive mind must convince itself to listen
To the clatter of the rain on the ground cloth kissing
The spider showed the tailor how to do cross-stitching
While the pelicans cried “Boys, let’s go fishing!”
There’s nothing but the evening left behind
Nothing but the evening left behind
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Wonderboy
04:59
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The tower gleaming
In the evening sun
Cast its shadow
Down on everyone
For the crowd had gathered
With a fulsome roar
To watch the daring
Wonderboy
So he climbed the wires
To their highest high
Just one step closer
Into the sky
And standing steady
His eyes grew wide
Now just breathe in
Lift yourself and fly
Just fly
But he heard a gasping
From in the crowd
Could it be the last jump
Of brave Wonderboy?
But at that moment
Everything was fine
He raised his fist
Was it to wave goodbye?
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Whatever happened to Jennifer? I haven’t seen her around.
I heard she’s working in a bistro on the finer side of town.
I heard she took a job in Detroit at an auto plant,
And she’s pulling in the big bucks with a steel stamp.
When it comes to life for her and me,
will she change her mind and cease to be?
Whatever happened to Jennifer? Haven’t seen her ‘round here.
I heard she’s working at a gallery sipping wine instead of beer.
I heard she went to Santa Monica with an oompah band
wearing a red bandanna tied around her hand.
When it comes to life for her and me
Will she change her mind and cease to be?
And if it takes her life at least she’s free.
If it happened for Jennifer, can it happen for me?
Whatever happened to Jennifer? I haven’t seen her around.
I heard she’s working in a strip club on the wrong side of town.
I heard she’s hanging out in Pittsburgh on the riverbank
with her face in a stocking cap to cover up the stink.
When it comes to life for her and me,
will she change her mind and cease to be?
And if it takes her life at least she’s free.
If it can happen for Jennifer, it can happen for me!
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Now You Wanna Know Why
02:54
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You thrash and fight but don’t know why
You bought yourself a gilded lie
But this is not a lullaby
Just a postmodern hue and cry
And now you wanna know why
And now you wanna know why
Your sacred cow is full of flies
Your leather vest is just rawhide
The sturm und drang of modern life
Is everything that you despise
And now you wanna know why
And now you wanna know why
Hey there sunbeam why do you look so down?
The whole world is at your feet
And still you curse your crown
To strike out on your own
Was the badge you wore with pride
But now you don’t know where you want to go
You curse and stomp but don’t know why
You bought yourself a gilded lie
The postmodern hue and cry
Is everything that you despise
And now you wanna know why
And now you wanna know why
But this time there’s no alibi
Your custom suit has been tie-dyed
The sturm und drang of modern life
Cuts you down and makes you cry
And now you wanna know why
And now you wanna know why
Hey there sunflower why do you look so down?
The whole world is at your feet
And still you curse the dawn
Leaving home was all you’d need
To live the life you want
But now you don’t know where to point your toes
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Melancholy Rhyme
03:43
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He puts a pen to paper
His words will surely make her sigh
Maybe cry, if the moon is willing
It’s a piece worth painting
The thirsty world is waiting for
It’s a cure, At his door
Melancholy rhyme,
filling every line
lonely tears and time
Long and true and weighty
Word count is 780 now,
With a long summertime in waiting
The tune will be his tonic
Make her tale platonic wrong
in his long, sad sad song
Melancholy rhyme,
filling every line
lonely tears and time
Memory’s a muse
Where he will never lose
a fiction built for two
Words will melt her down
Life is spiral bound
Buried in his sound
So the story goes ...
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9. |
The Dotted Line
04:12
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Riding down another landslide
Nothing left but some wounded pride
Happened right there before our eyes
Fifty times its normal size
So this is how this is gonna be?
Smoke so thick that you couldn’t see
This is trouble and that’s bona fide
Like a paper boat in a rising tide
It’ll knock you right down to your knees
You rise up to live another day
That’s all you can say
So this is how it was gonna be?
Under pressure that’s been crushing me
But I found my feet and I took a ride
Making time to the other side
So when the sun is blistering
Burning holes in everything
Know it’s time to make a getaway
And look out for a cresting wave
They’ll knock you right down to your knees
You rise up to live another day
It’s all you can say
It was all down to chivalry
When I signed on the dotted line
Now you’re chewing your fingernails
‘Cause I’m drinking all the time
If this is how this is gonna be
Picking up all that’s left of me
I’ll find my feet and I’ll take a ride
Get a line on some better times
Cause I’ll be gone, gone, gone into the dawn
Heading out to live another day
That’s all I could say
They’ll knock you right down to your knees
You’ll rise back up to live another day
That’s all you can say
Riding on a wave
Riding all the way
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So long aloha farewell
We had some stories to tell and we hope
that red party liquor has a little bit more than a fickle flicker
‘Cause sometimes it ends in a flash
So damn fast you can't even relax and you know
even when it lingers, it slips through the gaps in between your fingers
Hey-hey
So long aloha farewell
Life's great, so ring the bells and I know
I should be celebrating instead of feeling like disintegrating
‘Cause sometimes it comes in a dream
The meaning of you’ll never glean, but you know
if the cancer won't get you I guess sometimes an aneurysm will
Hey-hey
So steady as you go out into the night
Never in this life could you see such a sight
But you know that people may come undone
When they fly a little bit too close up to the sun
So long aloha farewell
I’ve got some memories to sell and you know
If the waters don’t get you, I guess sometimes the anesthesia will
So step out into the night
Last one can turn out the lights, and you know
that red party liquor was only just gonna make you sicker
Hey-hey
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The Daylight Titans Austin, Texas
Big guitar rock/ power pop. Jangly and melodious but also snarly and spiky.
The band has been
active since 2002 with the present lineup in place since 2011. In 2005, our song "Dangle" was featured in Veronica Mars (Season 1, Episode 17).
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