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Moving On
Here we are at last, you are moving on
I was living in the past, now the past is gone
You pick up all the pieces, then you move along
You pick up all the pieces, then I'm left with none

When you find yourself weak
and you feel it in your knees
when there's no one there to speak
and no one there to please
Your thoughts are incomplete
this feeling of defeat
Remember that it's you that made it out to be like this

You're standing by me now
Soon you will be gone
If you're ever feeling lonely
You don't have to be alone
You pick up all the pieces, then you move along
You pick up all the pieces, then I'm left with none

If we never kiss again, if we never cry again, if we never laugh again, well I'd just die, but then, if we never live again, we never love again, if we never try, that's just fine, that's just fine with me

cause I am moving on
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Let Yourself Out
This story played out,
how I thought it would
And when I'm feeling down,
you keep me there for good
So if it's really it,
I'm ready to let go
of all we could have been
and all we could have known

oh now, well I, I guess nevermind

Take a look at yourself
take a look at you now
you let yourself in
now lett yourself out

It may be over, maybe not
but I put this to you
And if we drift apart
there's nothing I can do

oh now, well I, I guess nevermind

Take a look at yourself
take a look at you now
you let yourself in
now lett yourself out

It's the same,
it's a shame what happened to you
From what I hear,
what I fear's already true
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Here and Now
Something's wrong, you've gone cold
There's a fire in your look
now that look has grown old
hidden well, not at all
there's an absence in presence
and hollow-toned calls
well it's on again, off again,
inside my head
if it's gonna be borrowed
I'll take nothing instead
Whatcha think? What went wrong?
You sat on your worries and angers too long
But now it shows

here and now, nothing else,
nothing more, nothing less
here and now, before you go
was I all that you wanted,
or all that you've known

Something's wrong, something's changed
you always seemed helpless,
the role's rearranged
go ahead, and begin
to wrestle your demons,
you know you won't win
but all I can hope to do,
to keep me from losing you
is become as cold and hope we see it through
so I wait, well aware
I'm reaching for stars that I know are not there
But now it shows

But I Don't
The new has gone old or so I'm told
these days you never know
I've been up watching war hoping for
a way to let go

The new love craze had me in a daze
but then again true love is so passe
I guess

But I want to breathe, I want to need, I want to fall at your feet
I want to miss the taste of your kiss and crave your skin's heat
I want to know just how overblown I made our differences seem
But I don't

There's talk about waging a war that's making us safe from other wars
But I've heard the lines and I know this time it's never worked before

The new love craze had me in a daze
but then again true love is so passe
I guess

But I want to breathe, I want to need, I want to fall at your feet
I want to miss the taste of your kiss and crave your skin's heat
I want to know just how overblown I made our differences seem
But I don't

There was a time when I thought we'd find ourselves renewed
But those days are gone and all that is wrong will stay with you
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It Goes On
I've been combing for answers but, these clues just aren't enough for me
Call me irrational, alligning with the fashionable, but it seems
It's true it's more than medical, hypothetical toxins in the distance
Undead spoon-fed it's been said, but we can't wait for this to go on

And in the morning rituals, tune out the habitual if you can
Long nights getting longer and spotlights getting stronger but again
It seems it's more than medical, hypothetical toxins in the distance
Undead spoon-fed it's been said, but we can't wait for this to go on
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Come On
Here it is, well I guess you're happy now
You got your problems all worked out
And all it took was time
So what's more, you got your ear down to the floor
You're frozen to the core
And you think that's just fine
Well you're sure you'll keep winning and by the beginning, the end will be bringing as long as you're singing out

No one's gonna show you how, no one's gonna slow you down, nothing's gonna stop you now

Well I guess, it's like you always said
Success is in your head, when you're resting in your bed
So hang on now, don't get your panties in a bunch
While daddy's out to lunch and baby's being bad

Well you're sure you'll keep winning and by the beginning, the end will be bringing as long as you're singing out

No one's gonna show you how, no one's gonna slow you down, nothing's gonna stop you now
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Tamina's Song
speaking confidentially,
ten years have burdened me
when you can't return home,
and your lover's face is unlearned
you listen but never speak
because regret's such a boring topic
and all the years have blurred,
you can't arrange the events you've known
you're sure that it's strange to be
so young and feel so old
it's crazy to love and fall,
but love is madness or nothing at all

you got your looks, you got your brains
you got your youth but it's running away
you got your thighs, you got your breasts
you got it all but you couldn't care less
it's crazy to love and fall,
but love is madness or nothing at all
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Just Breathe
so breathe, breathe in and out
shiver, shout, whatever it takes
tonight it will all be fine
just give it some time and it will all be done
you're better off alone, you're better on your own
you're better off as one
so cry, cry if it helps, believe in yourself
and hate in defense, for everything you've spent
for how your love's been bent
and how you've been ignored
it's all there, just look in the shoebox
it's loaded and unlocked
now it's in your hands
the punches that he lands
your unanswered demands will go unanswered no more
so push aside the pain inside
take the hope you've been denied
once and for all, all and all
you're the only one who can stop your fall
and when it's all behind
when it's all behind you can start again
so breathe, breathe in and out, quiver about
whatever it takes
for all the love he fakes for all the pain he makes
and all the time you know you waste
you know you can do this, and you know you'll never miss
and you know you'll never have to kiss
spiteful borrowed lips again
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My Kristin
My Kristin, I realize that we only went on 12 dates
but I kinda wish you'd acknowledge my existence
but that's just me
and hey I like to not return phone calls as much as the next guy
but you hold the record for 1999
congratufuckinlations
you make me sick

It's got to be because I'm Jewish

My Kristin, Do you remember the night at the Pike party when you were grinding with 2 random guys?
and then you pretended like you didn't even know me
ah, memories

and yes, yes, I don't know, yes, and never again
Is that her? Did she see you? Why didn't she acknowlege you? Do you feel like a douchebag? When are you gonna call her again?*

Lick my nutsack

*notice I answer my questions, then ask them at the end
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Back to College
Well I quit best buy and traded in the dodge
Sucked it up and went back to college
And I told Diane I was a changed man
I went out drinking less with my friends
And started studying Italian
And spent my nights reading Leviathan
Hanging out in the student union
I befriended all of the freshmen
Who were happy to have a middle-aged friend
I made liquor runs twice a night
Stayed in the library until the light
Diane wasn’t too happy with me then

But waking up was no longer a chore
I didn’t have to pretend I was happy anymore
And Diane stayed at home to hold down the fort

I played ultimate Frisbee and I went
To a Sigma Chi rush event
And I said, “What the hell”
Accepted my bid and within a month
The brothers referred to me as “T-Love”
And I said, oh it’s just as well
I tried to be in student government
And I ran for vice president
But I g ot but 3 % of the vote
Meanwhile, Diane stayed at home
Livid to be left alone
Watching re-runs of murder she wrote

By semester’s end I was a vegetarian
A dean’s list registered libertarian
And parlo italiano, bene
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Dream Sequence
Last night I went to bed
My head heavy exhausted and
I closed my eyes to find escape
From daily life I’d grown to hate

But something died within my dream
A change it seems I can’t ignore
Reflecting what I could have been
All that could have stood for more

I dreamt I held a little girl
And in the corner I saw
A man in a cape and a violin
He challenged me to make it sing

I dropped the girl, he told me "begin"
I said I’ve never played
But he dismissed it and I
Struck a line of a lovely hymn
But the girl suffered as the music didn’t stop
She screamed, she shivered, she cried
I played until my fingers leaked blood
The girl collapsed and the caped man laughed
And I stood alone uncertain, cold

When I awoke, confused, I tried to understand
Why I would watch a girl fall apart
And it would take so little to bring her up

And now when I return,
I can’t carry on this way
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Hey Laura
Hey Laura could you hand me a noose please?
or some other life ending device
It's like you slit both of my wrists dear
and sewed them up so you could do it twice
It sure was nice to rip my heart out
and rather than just to throw it away,
you stuck it lovingly in a blender
and pushed down the knob, "puree"

Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura
fuck you bitch
Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura
you should burn in hell
I mean it now

You been fooling with another
behind my back to say the least
I think you fucked the Harlem Globetrotters
I hope you're attacked by man-eating yeast
Did you have to shred my scrotum?
I feel like a deer in headlights
cause you been banging your ex-boyfriend
for forty days and forty nights
I'm sorry that I've been so hostile
and for that I show remorse
but I can't help but feel like you shot me
and sexually violated my corpse

Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura
you sick twisted bitch
Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura, Laura
oh you should rot in hell
I mean it this time you fucking ass 'ho
rot in hell
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How I Got Here
It didn’t use to be like this
Each morning spent helpless
Locked inside routine
Life’s nothing I thought it’d be
I fell in love at 23
Then marriage got the best of me

But then I get so tired
And I’m not satisfied

I’ve been living day to day
Stuck in Bucks County, PA
But I guess I can’t complain
Spent 20 years moving job to job,
A middle-class suburban slob
With drinking friends to numb the pain

I conceited to conformity, denounced individuality,
Accepted mediocrity, Wrapped up in normalcy
And I feel so damn tired

I scream out loud when no one’s home
Hold in it when I’m not alone
And I am not satisfied

It’s not living when living’s helpless

I’ve been living day to day
Stuck in Bucks County, PA
I have every right to complain
Spent 20 years moving job to job,
A middle-class suburban slob
And nothing numbs the pain

And I’m not satisfied
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If You Try
From far away you look all right, but up close you seem troubled
It's a sad way to be
kissing strangers for numbers to help you get beyond him
If it makes you feel better, so be it, but first heed this warning
In the end tongues and drinks won't help you forget or get beyond him

It's been a long trip, and we all need to slip and fall
and crawl our way back up
You'll find someone new who'll be good to you if you try

From far away you're still the same, but up close something different
phoning strangers for comfort, when you worry that nobody understands
You can talk about your hurt and recruit your friends
to just join in on your side
but in the end it won't help you, it's a dirty trick and it's all in your mind
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Ready for a Change
I'm about ready for a change,
I'll pass my mess off to you halfway through my freedom phase
I get burdoned by the day
and all the goals I laugh at having drank half my semester away

Here I am, I don't regret a thing
Screw it, who am I kidding?
There must have been some better way
If I just stay on task and let the moments pass
all I know's this all would last and I'd be bitching just the same

I've been living for yesterday
I've seen nothing worth the wait, but I admit that I am running away
you say friends move on, but I disagree
the best way to combat a drift is to disappear completely

now two years have slipped by me, two years frozen in memory
I've said all there is to say
I could write a song about how we changed I could sing about our freshman days
but would it matter anyway?

I'm about ready for a change
I'm done living for yesterday
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