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| Uncle Kneejerk | (Stevens) |
| Freak Boy | (Pratt) |
| Train | (Stevens) |
| Blue Angel | (Pratt) |
| Hog-Tie The Devil | (Stevens) |
| Slaves | (Stevens) |
| Ghosts | (Pratt/Stevens) |
| Born Again | (Stevens) |
| Diggin' A Hole | (Stevens) |
| Oswald Acted Alone | (Pratt) |
| Don't Shoot Me Down | (Stevens/Pratt) |
| Lake Poncetrain | (Pratt) |
| Autumn's Cold Tongue | (Stevens) |
| Red Heart Valentine | (Stevens) |
| Uncle Kneejerk (Killed a Rat Today)
Uncle Knee Jerk killed a rat today He beat it dead with his shovel That rat had nothing more to say Uncle Knee Jerk killed a rat today Uncle Knee Jerk, he’s a simple man Kills the things that he don’t understand He digs his holes and keeps his head in sand Uncle Knee Jerk, he’s a simple man Life’s a lot like Uncle Knee jerks shovel And I am just the rat I never see the shadow or the trouble And then down comes the shovel Everyday gets more depressing The shovel keeps coming down The pressures keep on pressing But I just pick myself up off the ground 
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| Freak Boy
Selling giant rings for a quarter In a burned out circus booth In an old, dead Iowa cornfield Wearing size 22 shoes Sits the gentle, Jersey Giant He's all of 38 years old He takes all the stares from the passersby And keeps his eyes on the road Well, hey, hey…where you going, freak boy? Where you gonna run? You know it's hard to hide When you stand 8 feet 1 His momma knew he was special From the day that he turned two When her little boy looked in her eyes And seemed to look right through At age 14 he was 7 feet tall The talk of the neighborhood When an agent came down from New York City Our boy was gone for good Chorus Well the doctor's said It was a gland or something in his head He would have to live with the pain His knees would always ache when it rains…so strange He tried his hand at movies Always cast in the monster's role But the novelty quickly faded To make a living he hit the road Take a picture for a dollar He smiles at the kids in line He knows full well that a man his height Never lives past 39 Chorus
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| Gone like a train Screw the brakes Throw that switch It’s gonna take a lot of speed To scratch this itch I’m burning like a furnace Screaming through the night The tracks start singing something A losers lullaby And She’s gone Like a Train In the night She’s gone like a train Coming down the tracks Still in the distance Brakeman stands alone At faiths insistence Well I ain’t that brakeman I’m not insane He’s your husband You’re that train And She’s gone Like a Train In the night She’s gone like a train |
| Blue
Angel
Cigarette, no match |
| Hog-Tie the Devil It takes more than a dream And a faith that’s pure To kill whatever’s in you And hope that it’s the cure He’s been inside me all along Getting stronger every day Until I stared him in the eye Until I heard the voices say Hog-tie the devil Push him down the stairs Hog-tie the devil Gouge his eyes out with your prayers Hog-tie the devil The devil in you There are people you can talk to And there are poisons you can take To make the evil sleep But you’ll still feel the empty ache But it takes more than courage To tie the devil down Don’t try and kill the infidel Just keep him underground Even Jesus got a little devil in him And the Dalai Lama too In different amounts You got the devil too |
| Slaves
It’s all about Kicking ass and taking names It’s all about Finding scapegoats, to pin the blame It’s all about Working hard and staying late It’s all about Dying young and out of shape It’s all about Posing for your stupid boss It’s all about Nailing Jesus to the cross It’s all about Driving cars you can’t afford It’s all about Working late and being bored Working in the salt mine Don’t worry you’ll be fine You gotta do it like your daddy did Help them build the pyramids Who build those pyramids? The slaves did Who built the railroads? The slaved did Who builds shoes for Nike? It’s the slaves It’s the slaves , it’s the slaves it’s the slaves like you
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| Ghosts
I'm not superstitious don't believe in ghosts Or voices in the darkness, out there in the cold But lately I hear footsteps I know aren't my own. My confidence is quickly fading I know we were careful, you said so yourself No credit cards or fancy hotels But maybe we slipped and someone can tell. Someone who's out there waiting I could say that I don't care, but There's a chill I feel in the air. Makes me shiver down to my bones He knows, you know. It's cold cup of comfort that I wash down with fear No knocks on the door, no danger seems near Yet, all of these noises and voices I hear Have my memory reeling You know once we held promise, but promises are broken Exposed by the daylight our goodbyes unspoken Even your perfume lingers longer than you As we walk out into morning
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| Born Again Like flames in the night Born to pay off the debt From her misspent life First born to royalty Her soul grew dark On the backs of others She left her mark She was been born again - to pay for past sins Born again - her soul’s too thin She was born again - to right the wrongs Born again to fight the strong No amount of Mercy No amount of Charity Born to live and die for a thousands years Let them eat cake Those were her words once Inside her the demons That time would confront Bad Karma’s punishment is Worse than the guillotine Marie Antoinette hasn’t Let loose her final screams |
| Diggin' This Hole I been digging the same damn hole Ever since we met I been diggin the same damn hole My bodies drenched with sweat I drive all night through the desert Sand bites my cheek I see light through the tunnel The hole his getting too deep I been digging this hole for you I been digging this hole I spent a lifetime digging this hole for you I spent lifetime digging this hole I kiss the devil good morning He made a deal for me He got me on this treadmill He don't ever wanna set me free |
| Oswald
Acted Alone
He knows she can hear him talking |
| Don't Shoot Me Down Here I am, crashed out in this bar This drink my only prop Morning’s still a long ways off Does it matter if I stop? I won’t swim in the deep end of your ocean I won’t let you shoot me down I’m flying Kamikaze through the evening Don’t shoot me down chorus Don’t shoot me down There’s no one here to watch my wing Don’t shoot me down There no one here to feel the sting or hear the sound Don’t shoot me down I’m not looking for dogfight in the blue sky ‘Cuz I’m damaged from a thousand other flights Rose petals spiral ever downward Don’t shoot me down I been praying for some safe haven A place to rest my bones Won’t you let me in for a landing? St. Christopher will see me home Chorus These damn wheels just won’t come down I’m spinning like the moon up in the sky Are those landing lights off in the distance? Maybe it’ll be all right Tell me it’ll be all right |
| Lake Poncetrain
I'm headed down to Lake Poncetrain Doing 85 on the interstate Wind whipping through the windows 250 miles to go I can still hear your voice whisper in my ear, "Don't you forget me, my dear" I'm headed down to Lake Poncetrain Nobody there knows my name I left so many years ago Most folks are too young to know I can still hear your voice whisper in my ear, "Don't you forget me, my dear" The leaves were falling from the trees As dead as you were to me I still see the look on your face As I watched you slip beneath the waves I can still hear her voice linger in my ear, "Don't you remember, my dear?"
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| Autumn's
Cold Tongue Well it’s Clang Clang Clang, I bang out my song on your wind chimes In time with beat of decay Roses lay frozen Asleep in their beds Dreaming of springtime But feeling so dead There’s a cold wind that blows >From the north end of town Summer she slumbers Passed out like a clown Autumn’s cold tongue She leaves not a trace Of a thousand warm nights That once kissed your face And I’ll drink from a snifter Of rust flavored rain I’ll dry out the hillsides As I’ll choke the terrain And it’s Snap Snap Snap I’ve broken the back Of another young tree Freed now some the suns tyranny Chasing the shadows Inside the barn Cracking the heirlooms That were left at the farm There’s hard frost that hangs Over this city of tents Now I believe That summer’s been spent |
| Red Heart Valentine
Love hearts and impure thoughts It’s another Valentines Day Winter washed the colors From your bouquet Diamonds and rubies The symbols of our sad affair Both born out of fire white-hot Both so rare Now when the sun slowly sets We’ll watch the colors fade away into darkness Everything gets pale before it dies So here’s a bright red valentine Solo / bridge A murder of crows So black against the sky An omen perhaps That this love will die |