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Graveyard Of Pines
03:37
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Demon Truck
03:05
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Swerving and speeding up the country road
Seeking fresh kills to stack in heavy loads
They come in search of the giant bones delish
And smash to smithereens all who try to resist
Once towering titans revered in ancient times
Now hacked, hewn, cut down in their prime
No stone unturned until they get what they want
They’ll steamroll their way through your hollers and haunts
Oh don't push your luck
Run run away from the demon truck
Oh, don't get stuck in the muck
And get run over by the demon truck
Follow the little chipmunk
He'll take us away from the demon truck
Over the snagged barbed wire we jump
To run run away from the demon truck
You can hear them coming from ten miles out
Belching smoke, making a deep rumbling sound
And when they come, they unleash the beasts
Whose noisy arms have fast-moving razor sharp teeth
Chakabook Chakabookchak
Chakabook Chakabookchak
Your only choice is to flee further into the woods
Lest you have a death-wish to be trampled under foot
And then they’re speeding back up the country road
Bearing their fresh kills stacked up in heavy loads
So...don't push your luck
Run run away from the demon truck
Oh, don't get stuck in the muck
And get run over by the demon truck
Follow the little chipmunk
He'll take us away from the demon truck
Over the snagged barbed wire we jump
To run run away from the demon truck
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3. |
Deep Tree Diving
03:37
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Deep tree diving, oh.
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Way down in the dark part of town
It aint nothing but a senorita
I heard a hey nanny nanny
Go and tell your daddy
I’m the one they’re gonna call your pa
Sun shines by the hole in the wall
Raindrops falling from under her brella
Eyeballs and ghosts in the halls
Blinking at the traffic lights
Each and every drop never stops, till its found its way
Every single beam finds its meaning in another’s open eye
When the roots are by the river home’s a changing place
And the face you see in each is nothing but the face that you deserve
Sticks says “honey I’m home”
To each and every single lady
It makes me laugh and wheeze “God damn”
He’s the youngest oldest man in town
I saw him sitting on a bench
With Tuba Smith, the ambassador of Jackson Square
Playing his horn in the pouring rain
When the lighting strikes
Each and every drop never stops, till its found its way
Every single beam finds its meaning in another’s open eye
When the roots are by the river home’s a changing place
And the face you see in each is nothing but the face that you deserve
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Barefoot In The Ninth
03:45
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Bare, Foot, In, The, Ninth
Barefoot in the Ninth
Garden Gone
Facing Replacing
Barefoot in the Ninth
Garden Gone
Facing Replacing
1, A, N, E, 9, 1, 3,
No, Tres-pass, For, 'Til, Bur-gun-dy,
Ram-part, Sis-ter, To, The, Le-vy,
House, Of, Pat-sy, West, Gone, Shir-pee
Barefoot in the Ninth
Garden Gone
Facing Replacing
Barefoot in the Ninth
Garden Gone
Facing Replacing
The, Old, Plum, Isl-and, Pooch, Just, Wad-dled, By, As, Told, By, Jon-ny,
As, Fam-ous-ly, Sur-vived, Kat-ri-na, To, Go, To, Lit-ter, Homes,
With, Pups, Of, Love, For, Ma-ny, Child-ren, pro-vide, love, they, so, well,
De-serve.
Bare, Foot, In, The,
Barefoot in the Ninth
Garden Gone
Facing Replacing
Barefoot in the Ninth
Garden Gone
Facing Replacing
Barefoot in the Ninth
Garden Gone
Facing Replacing
Facing Replacing
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Orchestrated Entropy
05:48
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Build on straight lines and lay out grids
Right angles, no tangles, no sediment
Order to chaos, light where it’s dark
Planning and zoning, with public parks
Subdivide, make it bona fide
Concrete slabs, and bromides
Steel frames, pumps and oil pipelines
Cut out the meander to save time
The root will split the rock
Cut out the meander to save time
The root will split the rock
Cut out the meander to save time
Laws of nature versus laws of man
Rippling out again and again
A squandered war so absurdly seen
In eroding coasts and rising seas
The die is most certainly cast
For all of us even those who can grasp
That strangle vines will break open the locks
The root will one day split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
If it’s dominion over harmony
Decadence over parsimony
Why such shock and dread
When the storms rear uglier heads?
The die is most certainly cast
For all of us even those who can grasp
The prisoner of war will break free of the stocks
The root will one day split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
The root will split the rock
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Wolfe Ridge
03:17
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Marshdale Loons
03:44
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We're all dressed in our best luck, and this marriage
Is cast in a bottle, well...
Here we go
A nine-iron toast to Mum for a raise
Was that belt-buckle-bastard-leg-hold-quickstep
Brand of trucker-disco that's killing my knees
I got no clue what he's saying
But it sure is comforting to see someone
Old and good at it
In the older days this room would be filled
With smoke
Now it's just empty:
Everyone's outside
It's a long day for the 99% fat
The planted bulb and
What was it? The...
Weasel's egg
Must've dropped hundreds last night
And I won't be surprised if all those Marshdale Loons
Left purple scars
Down at the levy or wherever we were on our way back
Wow, look at her
She must be saying 1962 from her hips
And 1993 from her hips down
Ah, I just need a blanket for these bloody finches in my head.
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Katrina
03:37
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Katrina
I dig your tiny dresses in boxes
By the door
Katrina
I wish you’d come and listen to the music
Coming up through the floor
The boys here do nothing but play
Up all night and up all day
Schroeder said make ourselves at home
I hope you don’t leave us here alone
Katrina
Moonlight is calling you to come down
From your bed
Katrina
Your magic fabric is dancing
With the dead
Did you leave them as a witchy muse
Or some unseeming ruse
I sure wish that you were here
Cause I’m under the delusion that you’d make things clear
Katrina
Come and join the party on North Roman
and Reynes
Katrina
Those tiny funky fabrics are with me
To this very day
Told my friends in Jackson Square
Told the Indians uptown
Told the old man and the storm
Told Satchmo down in Holy Cross
Katrina come on round
Katrina come on round
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11. |
Adios Plato
02:06
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Groanbox New Orleans, Louisiana
At first glance a roots band steeped in the traditions of American music, they play with all the guts of rock and roll and all the soul of the wandering troubadour. But somewhere along the way, that troubadour turned from his path and set sail from the melting pot of New Orleans to begin a journey that would take their sound to new, unchartered territories with influences from around the world. ... more
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