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Jerusalem's Lot
02:22
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the screen's light has gone out
trying to sleep in this house
i'll die a million deaths before the morning comes
and what i'm supposed to do
when i look up at the sky and i see that it is blue
but i don't wanna see it anymore
you told me the truth just yesterday
you said you don't feel the same but that's okay
'cause if you go i guess that i can stay
i spent so many months just looking off that bridge
that i don't know where i live
'cause where you live is where your life is
and there's no life here.
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Robespierre was killed by a blade
that fell with the whole world’s weight
you told me you wanted to kill a cop
while waiting for Marat’s bath to finally be drawn
he said the Leftover Crack show was full of jocks and preps
and that made him love the show a little less
i said no no no, forget stereotypes
if you’re coming to learn then you’re doing it right.
So sing with me, sing with me, sing with me, all night long
take comfort in knowing it’s a tradition of freedom
sing with me, sing with me, sing with me, all night long
and don’t the confusion confuse what side you're on.
In the summer of 1895
Allen, Verity and O’dell went to find
a little piece of land that they could share
and started the Home community there
it was a free and communal place
free from the corruption of the state
until one day some wanted to swim nude
and a few of the others seemed to think that was rude.
It seems to me if you believe in freedom
you should believe in the freedom of other people
those who coerce their friends in their lives
i wonder how they sleep at night
those who hated naked swimming
hate the state too ‘til it’s in their best interest
they went to the courts to state their case
and dug the home community’s grave.
This is an open invitation to go far away
because it’s not immediate, smashing the state
up on the moon or back home in Maine
we can go somewhere to be free someday
let’s build a rocket fueled by vegetable oil
or maybe live like worms under the soil
one way or another let’s find a place
where the good in humans can stop going to waste.
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To the Canal
02:00
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Pretty Ty, he says to me
that down here in DC
we only smoke these
it was PCP
but he did not tell me
i got lost on Potomac St.
in what he said to me
i'm going down
i'm going down
i'm going down down down to the canal.
so you can stop and stare
i don't really care
i'm not really there
just some bones in some clothes i wear
so when you stop and stare
i would shoot Voltaire
if i even cared
i'm going down
i'm going down
i'm going down down down to the canal.
what was that thing
what was that thing
that we used to have?
if i could remember
i'm singin', if only i could remember
i think i could get it back.
but i'm going down.
i'm going down.
i'm going down down to the canal.
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Virginia state, oh Virginia state...
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