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HFMC
02:55
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Put on a happy face
Put on a happy face
Put on a happy face
and cry it out
Write down your maiden name
Write down your maiden name
Write down your maiden name
just to try it out
Baby, pick me up a big container,
Something that can contain it all
I know you’re out there somewhere
At your karaoke bar, and you want out now
One by one, when we make our escape
And we never look back, will this still be a place?
Do you know why I move so slow?
Poisoned wells made me bionic, and obscene
So write down the maiden name
write down the maiden name
she wrote down the maiden name
just to try it out
It’s gonna make you a man someday,
gonna make you a man someday,
We’re gonna walk the king’s highway
In lock step, it’s us and them
I ain’t sayin you treated me unkind
You always think I’m cheating
But my phone just dies,
cuz it always dies
One by one, when we make our escape
And we never look back, will we still feel the same?
Do you know why I move so slow?
Poisoned wells made me bionic, and obscene
so I put on a happy face
Put on a happy face
put on a happy face
and cry it out
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2. |
Pick Me Up
02:57
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Why don’t you like
Why don’t you like me
Why don’t you love
And wanna protect me
Who do you love?
Oh please don’t lie to me
I’m alone, and I need
Someone half as good
as you seem, when you pick me up,
and drop me off, like I’m who you love
Hats off to you, you know what you did
Hats off to you, you know what you did
Hats off to you, you know what you did
Hats off to you, you know what you did
But I saw you skid, on the stitchless ground
You defeat me, I rebound
And I come back all proud
of a thousand things I never did
Hats off to you, you know what you did
Hats off to you, you know what you did
Hats off to you, you know what you did
Maybe I’ll always be a stranger
Maybe I like to be strange
Tell me you love me
Tell me you feel the same
Maybe I’ll always be a stranger
Maybe I like to be strange
Tell me you love me…
How did I get to be a stranger?
I’m on the opposite page
I can forget that
and whatever else you said
but why don’t you like
why don’t you like me?
Why don’t you love
and wanna protect me?
Who do you love?
Oh please don’t lie to me
I’m alone, and I need
Someone half as good
as you seem, when you pick me up,
and drop me off,
you drop me off
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3. |
Abandon Dream
03:35
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Baby come back to me, bother my head
I don’t mind that you wish I was dead
Oh who do you love, and how did you know?
Do you remember the details,
humbling our sight til we couldn’t say good night
when I most would have liked to say good night
but just couldn’t say it? Good night,
there, now I said it
I’m gonna have to call you an abandoned dream
Baby come back to me, bother my head
No other man’s gonna half-understand
Oh who do you love, and how did you know?
Who do you love?
Do you remember the details,
humbling our sight til we couldn’t say good night
when I most would have liked to say good night
but just couldn’t say it? Good night,
there, now I said it
I’m gonna have to call you an abandoned dream
You know I read a thing
in a magazine that said
That you forget your dreams
as soon as you leave your bed
Baby come back to me, bother my head
I don’t mind that you wish I was dead
Oh who do you love, and how did you know?
Do you remember the details,
humbling our sight til we couldn’t say good night
when I most would have liked to say good night
but just couldn’t say it? Good night,
there, now I said it
I’m gonna have to call you an abandoned dream
I’m gonna have to call you an abandoned dream
I’m gonna have to call you an abandoned dream
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4. |
Fake Out
02:28
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There’s something off about him
Insisting I’m forgiven
Sternum with staples in it
that was just a fake-out
how the nightmare sequence goes
I know it’s just a fake-out
and now I’m gonna wake up and stay foes
You don’t deserve me
I don’t deserve you
You don’t deserve me
By the grace of god
By the wrath of god
By the grace of god
By the grace of god
I give and I get faked out
I can get enough of that
And I’ve had enough
That’s just a hefty bluff
that was just a fake-out
now the nightmare sequence ends
i hope it’s just a fake-out
and now I’m gonna wake up and stay friends
You don’t deserve me
I don’t deserve you
You don’t deserve me
By the grace of god
By the wrath of god
By the grace of god
By the grace of god
I give and I get faked out
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5. |
Iowa Psalm
02:30
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I love Iowa
the blue ribbon skies
the dark rich soil
its rivers and lakes
that taco place
and the dependability
of its seasons
in unlimited heavens
birds swoop down
on a million stalks of corn
ear to fat ear,
leaf on leaf
the corn says more
than the moon and the stars
and the moon and the stars outshine
It takes a lot to leave
I wonder what I will eat
tomorrow in chicago
this was all i needed, it’s alright
I learned the Iowan language
how to ride a bike and make friends
and the sveltest friends
I have ever made
were up in the choirloft
outside Dubuque
gonna move to Iowa
drive off in a pre-owned silver truck
you know we’re not coming back now
that you know
just couldn’t stand it when you said no
It takes a lot to leave
I wonder what I will eat
tomorrow in chicago
this was all i needed, it’s alright
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6. |
Old Simon
01:57
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Old Simon
you were my enemy
do you still remember me
Old Simon?
you stretched me out
on a rack til I was flat
but I survived
I hope that you're not alive
But if you are
I hope you're stuck in a jar
With your toenails growing real long
Insufferably long,
Old Simon
Old Simon
The things that you stole from me
I hope they grow tiny
And you can't use them
Old Simon
because you are my enemy
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