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Holy man tiptoed his way across the Ganges
The sound of magic music in his ears
Videoed by a bus load of tourists
Shiny shellsuits on, and drinking lemonade.
Now, I've got a funny feeling which I bought mail order
From a man in a tee-pee, California.
He said he once was the great game show performer
Then he blew all his money away,
Blew it all away.
So take me home, don't leave me alone
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
R. E. Perot, get gold card soul
My joy of life is on a roll
And we'll all be the same in the end
Cos then you're on your own
Then you're on your own
Well, we all go happy day glow in the discos
The sound of magic music in our brains
Someone stumbles to the bathroom with the horrors
Says Lord, give me faith, for I've jumped into space
I'm in outer space.
So take me home, don't leave me alone
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
R. E. Perot, get gold card soul
My joy of life is on a roll
And we'll all be the same in the end
Cos then you're on your own
Then you're on your own
So take me home, don't leave me alone
I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad
No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla
I dream to riot, oh you should try it
R. E. Perot, get gold card soul
My joy of life is on a roll
And we'll all be the same in the end
Cos then you're on your own
Then you're on your own
 
Something breaks inside of you with the spectacle of all the shows
With fifteen fights and your six bucks has gone up some promoters nose
Jaded eyes see clearly but only half of what's there
Good old days are far behind what's left is boredom and despair

Sometimes every once in a while
Sometimes every once in a while

It's beautiful I would say, I wouldn't have it any other way
If I said different, that would be a lie
If I said different, that would be a lie, be a lie

What was once rebellion is now clearly just a social sect
But are you just upset 'cause your own social clique has left
Leave when you want 'cause I know that someday I will too
But I won't burn my bridges and be just another jaded fool

Sometimes every once in a while
Sometimes every once in a while

It's beautiful I would say, I wouldn't have it any other way
If I said different, that would be a lie
If I said different, that would be a lie, be a lie

It's beautiful I would say, I wouldn't have it any other way
If I said different, that would be a lie
If I said different, that would be a lie
 
There's no savin' anything
Now we're swallowin' the shine of the sun
There's no savin' anything
From the shine of the sun

But I won't be no runaway
Cause I won't run
No I won't be no runaway

What makes you think I’m enjoyin' being led to the flood
We got another thing comin' undone
That’s taking us over

We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead
Throw your arms in the air tonight
We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead
Throw your shirts in the fire tonight

What makes you think I’m enjoying being led to the flood
We got another thing comin' undone


But I won't be no runaway
Cause I won't run
No I won't be no runaway
Cause I won't run
No I won't be no runaway

what makes you think I’m enjoyin' being led to the flood
We got another thing comin' undone
That’s taking forever

We don't bleed when we don't fight
go ahead go ahead
Throw your arms in the air tonight
we don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead
There’s our shirts in the fire tonight

what makes you think I'm enjoying being led to the flood
we got another thing comin' undone
we got another thing comin' undone
That’s taking us over

I'll go bravin' anything
With you swallowin' the shine of the sun
I'll go bravin' everything
With you swallowin' the shine
But I won't be no runaway
Cause I won't run
No I won't be no runaway
Cause I won't run
No I won't be no runaway

What makes you think I’m enjoying being led to the flood
We got another thing comin' undone
They’ve taken us over
We don't bleed when we don't fight
go ahead go ahead
Throw your arms in the air tonight
We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead
Lose our shirts in the fire

What makes you think I’m enjoying being led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone
We got another thing comin' undone
That’s taking us over
That’s taking forever
 
Leave your home
Change your name
Live alone
Eat your cake

Vanderlylle cry baby cry
Oh the waters are rising
Still no surprising you
Vanderlylle cry baby cry
Man it’s all been forgiven
Swans are a swimmin’
I’ll explain everything
To the geese

All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the

Vanderlylle cry baby cry
Oh the waters are rising
Still no surprising you
Vanderlylle cry baby cry
Man it’s all been forgiven
Swans are a swimmin’
I’ll explain everything
To the geese

Hanging from chandeliers
Same small wall
At your heels

All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the

Vanderlylle cry baby cry
Oh the waters are rising
Still no surprising you
Vanderlylle cry baby cry
Man it’s all been forgiven
Swans are a swimmin’
I’ll explain everything
To the geese
I’ll explain everything
To the geese
I’ll explain everything
To the geese

All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for the
 
Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I'll lift my shirt up
Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I'll lift my shirt up

I'll rest my eyes till the fever's outta me
I'll rest my eyes till the river's in the sea
I'll rest my eyes till the fever's outta me
I'll rest my eyes till the river's in the sea

I was carried to Ohio in a storm of bees
I never married but Ohio don't remember me
I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
I never thought about love
When I thought about home
I still owe money to the money to the money I owe
The floors are falling out from everybody I know

I'm on a bloodbuzz
Yes I am
I'm on a blood buzz
I'm on a bloodbuzz
God I am
I'm on a blood buzz

Lay my head on the hood of your car
I take it too far
Lay my head on the hood of your car
I take it too far

(all the above're new songs that got played last night)
 
(and this is an old one)



Underline everything, I’m a professional in my beloved white shirt
Underline everything, I’m a professional in my beloved white shirt

I'm going down among the saints

Raise our heavenly glasses to the heavens! Squalor Victoria! Squalor Victoria!
Raise our heavenly glasses to the heavens! Squalor Victoria! Squalor Victoria!

Out of my league, I have birds in my sleeves and I wanna rush in with the fools
Out of my league, I have birds in my sleeves and I wanna rush in with the fools

Raise our heavenly glasses to the heavens! Squalor Victoria! Squalor Victoria!
Raise our heavenly glasses to the heavens! Squalor Victoria! Squalor Victoria!

I'm going down among the saints

3:30 in the last night for you to save this
You’re zoning out, zoning out, zoning out, zoning out
3:30 in the last night for you to save this
You’re zoning out, zoning out, zoning out, zoning out

This isn’t working, you, my middlebrow fuck-up
 
Every finger in the room
is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces
Then I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach
I got a desert in my mouth
Figures that my courage would choose to sell our now
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Just what God needs
One more victim

[Chorus:]
Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
And my heart is sick of being in chains

Got a kick for a dog
Beggin' for Love
I gotta have my suffering
So that I can have my cross
I know a cat named Easter
He says will you ever learn
You're just an empty cage girl
If you kill the bird
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Got enough guilt to start
my own religion
Please be
Save me
I cry

[Chorus:]
Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
And my heart is sick of being in chains
 
I've seen the end of the day come too soon
Not a lot to say, not a lot to do
You played the game, you owe nothing to yourself
Rest a day, for tomorrow you can't tell
You can't tell

I've seen the end of the day come too late
Seen the love you had turning into hate
Had to act like I didn't even care
But I did so I got stranded standing there
Standing there

It's nothing that I haven't seen before
But it still kills me like it did before
No it's nothing that I haven't seen before
But it still kills me like it did before

I've seen the end of the day come too soon
Like the prison dogs they set out after you
You owe nothing to the past but wasted time
To serve a sentence that was only in your mind
In your mind

It's nothing that I haven't seen before
But it still kills me like it did before
No it's nothing that I haven't seen before
But it still kills me like it did before
 
I never had to say goodbye
You must have known I wouldn't stay
While you were talking about our life
You killed the beauty of today

Forever and ever, life is now or never
Forever never comes around
People love and let go
Forever and ever, life is now or never
Forever's gonna slow you down

You'll never see me again
So now who's gonna cry for you?
You'll never see me again
No matter what you do

You'll never see me again
So now who's gonna cry for you?
You'll never see me again
No matter what you do

You never heard me break your heart
You didn't wake up when we died
Since I was lonely from the start
I think the end is mine to write

Forever and ever, life is now or never
Forever never comes around
People love and let go
Forever and ever, life is now or never
Forever's gonna slow you down

You'll never see me again
So now who's gonna cry for you?
You'll never see me again
No matter what you do

You'll never see me again
So now who's gonna cry for you?
You'll never see me again
No matter what you do

Forever and ever, life is now or never
Forever never comes around
Forever and ever, life is now or never
Forever's gonna slow you down

You'll never see me again
(Forever and ever, life is now or never)
So now who's gonna cry for you?
(Forever never comes around)
You'll never see me again
(Forever and ever, life is now or never)
No matter what you do
(Forever's gonna slow you down)

You'll never see me again
(Forever and ever, life is now or never)
So now who's gonna cry for you?
(Forever never comes around)
You'll never see me again
(Forever and ever, life is now or never)
No matter what you do
(Forever's gonna slow you down)

Forever and ever, life is now or never
Forever never comes around
 
Oh I'll sing a song,
Of the bravest men!
That famous fighting unit from Armagh
They are the men,
From Crossmaglen,
Amongst the bravest Irelands ever saw

In Crossmaglen,
The fire burns true.
The patriotic flame will never die.
And when you hear the battle cry
It will be the fighting men from Crossmaglen

At night you hear,
Bazookas roar,
Armalites are heard across the land.
The IRA,
Their spirits soar
They know the reckoning has come to hand

In Crossmaglen,
The fire burns true.
The patriotic flame will never die.
And when you hear the battle cry
It will be the fighting men from Crossmaglen

The British scum,
They do fear,
Never again they'll see their cursed shore.
Because they know
They'll pay dear,
And the RA will even Ireland's bloody score.

In Crossmaglen,
The fire burns true.
The patriotic flame will never die.
And when you hear the battle cry
It will be the fighting men from Crossmaglen

We'll not give up!
Oh Will we fuck!
Until we're free!
Until Ireland's out of British hands.
We'll never rest,
Until we see,
The tyrants rule driven from our land
 
Dickheads shit-talk huddled and single-file. First-world frat-boys and prairie skinheads who will never walk a mile or mourn a murdered friend in this tiny woman’s shoes. Drink up and mumble your abuse. I’m still humbled by it all: around the same time that i was riding with no hands, busting windows and getting busy behind the sportsplex (with Labonte’s older sister decked out in her Speedos), Bella was flinching from the sting of a Depo Proveran “family planning”, her own Pearl Harbour and a holocaust spanning 25 years to the rest of her life. A prison my country underwrote in paradise. And in the shadows of Santa Cruz, she crossed her fingers behind her back. Built Suharto a Trojan horse and lay still till the motherfucker sent her north where as night fell she emerged with a box under her arm that held her pledge of allegiance and her uniform. She laid it at the gates of the General’s embassy and her whisper echoed into dawn as she disappeared:

The truth will set my people free.
 
There's a uniform that's hanging
In what's known as Father's room
A uniform so simple in it's style
It has no braid of gold or silk
no hat with feathered plumes
Yet Mother has preserved it all the while
One day she made me try it on
a wish of mine for years
"In memory of your father, Sean" she said.
And when I put the Sam Browne on
she was smiling with the tears
As she placed the broad black brimmer on my head.

Chorus:
It's just a broad black brimmer
With its ribbons frayed and torn
By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze
An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn
And breeches almost threadbare at the knees
A Sam Browne belt, with a buckle big and strong
A holster that's been empty many a day... but not for long!
And when men claim Ireland's freedom
The one they'll choose to lead 'em
Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA

It was the uniform been worn by my father years ago
When he reached me mother's homestead on the run
It was the uniform me father wore
in that little church below
When oul' Father Mac he blessed the pair as one
And after Truce and Treaty and the parting of the ways
He wore it when he marched out with the rest
And when they bore his body down the rugged heather braes
They placed the broad black brimmer on his breast
 
rock mix with marylin manson.

Whatever
Dre just let it run
Ay yo turn the beat up a little bit
Ay yo, this song is for anyone
Fuck it just shut up and listen

Ay yo
I sit back with this pack of zigzags
And this bag of this weed
It gives me the shit needed to be
The most meanest emcee on this - on this earth
Cause since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just cursed
And just blurt this bezerk and bizarre shit that works
And it sells and it helps in its self
To relieve all this tension dispensing me
Sentence is getting it, stress has been eating me recently
All through this chest and I rest to get peacefully
But at least have the decency in you to leave me alone
When you freaks see me out in the streets when I'm eating or feedin' my daughter
To not come and speak to me
I don't know you and no I don't owe you a motherfuckin thing
I'm not Mr. NSYNC and I'm not what your friends think
I'm not Mr. Friendly
I can be a prick, if you tip me my tank is on empty
No patience is in me and if you offend me I'm lifting you ten feet
In the air, I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you
Go call you a lawyer file you a lawsuit
I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
I'm tired of arguing - I don't mean to mean but it's all I can be
It's just me

And I am
Whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the papers, the news, everyday I am
Radio won't even play my jam

Cause I am
Whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the papers, the news, everyday I am
I don't know it's just the way I am

Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered
With all of this nonsense it's constant
And "oh it's just lyrical content!"
The song "Guilty Conscience" has gotten such rotten responses
And all of this controversy circles me
And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me
So I point one back at 'em
But not the index or the pinky or the ring or the thumb
It's the one you put up when you don't give a fuck
When you won't just put up with the bullshit they pull
Cause they full of shit too
When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up your school
And they blame it on Marilyn - and the heroin
Where were the parents at?
And look at where it's at middle America
Now it's a tragedy
Now it's so sad to see
An upper class city having this happening
Then attack Eminem cause I rap this way
But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel
That I need for the fire to burn and it's burnin' and I have returned

And I am
Whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the papers, the news, everyday I am
Radio won't even play my jam

Cause I am
Whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the papers, the news, everyday I am
I don't know it's just the way I am

I'm so sick and tired of being admired
That I wish that I would just die or get fired
And drop from my label and stop with the fables
I'm not gonna be able to top what my name is
And pigeon holdin' to some poppy sensations
They cop me rotation at Rock 'N' Roll stations
And I just do not have the patience
To deal with this cocky Caucasians
Who think I'm some wigga who just tries to be black
Cause I talk with an accent and grab on my balls
So they always keep asking the same fucking questions
What school did I go to?
What hood I grew up in?
The why? The who, what?
When and where and the how?
Till I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearing it out
You've been driving me crazy, I can't take it
I'm racing, I'm pacing, I stand and I sit
And I'm thankful for every fan that I get
But I can't take a shit in the bathroom
Without someone standing by it
No I won't sign your autograph
You can call me an asshole
I'm glad cause

And I am
Whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the papers, the news, everyday I am
Radio won't even play my jam

Cause I am
Whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the papers, the news, everyday I am
I don't know it's just the way I am
 
If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)
If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)

Tonight is gonna be a massacre,
Straight after the sun goes down.
Gonin' out for all a dem haters I'm runnin' 'em down.
I'm bunnin' 'em down.
How you mean I'm gunnin' 'em down.
They goin' on as if they got the right to nyam up town.
Well no they won't we no more eatin' for dem now.
I'm bringin' 'em beef,
It's not the meat from a cow.
You wanna jack man and act like that's gonna be allowed?
D'you think I'd let that ride?
I'm too fucking proud.
The tables turn as I ride on you now.
Say goodnight as I'm puttin' your lights out.
Should've, taken me out when you had the chance,
Under the moonlight,
Time to meet the Devil and dance.
Ask Nas, you from the Hood
You have to get yourself a gun
And when it's on, you don't pop your shit and run.
You stand firm till the 'ole click's done
Or else you'll 'ave a slim chance of seeing tomorrow son.

If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)
If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)

So now I'm roaming with 2 straps,
both off the safety catch,
Around the spots where they're shotting the crack.
I'm lookin' for cats, to get any haters I see.
How many hater's up in Finsbury are there out to get me?
Just like Chong,
A crack head paedophile an' his son.
Goin' on as if dey heavy 'cause they holdin' a gun
Dey can't run.
How many more life's ave gotta dun
So dem mans can sit back with a crack-pipe to bun?
Fuckin' scum,
Love to take life for fun
Killin' innocent sons and leaving heart broken mum's.
I say, MURDERER, blood is on your trainer,
P'liceman took that to forensic doctor.
MURDER the victim's fam'ly must all hate ya,
So kill me now because you won't kill me later.
I'm ready to die and I'm ready to take life
And I'm gonna be surprised if I make it through tonight.

If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)
If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)

All night I've been searching,
To find out where them fassy hoes are lurking.
Think I finally found them but I still gotta be certain.
I heard they shotting work in the crack house in the block,
The flat, without the curtain.
Can we go hurt them?
Firebomb the letter box and leave 'em all burnin'
If they coming runnin' a my bullets gonna splurt dem.
I'm all out to hurt dem and leave 'em for dead.
Makin' sure every one of dem gets one in the head.
I'm runnin' it red,
Not thinking 'bout runnin' from Feds
The only thoughts that I'm 'aving is to fill 'em full of lead.
I didn't wanna 'ave to go resort to all the bloodshed,
But now it's kill or be killed and left on your death bed.
As I look into the face of this crack-facing demon,
Knowing he's the type who rapes his own semen.
What do you believe in,
The dark or the light?
I know I'm gonna be surprised if I make it throught tonight.

If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)
If I make it till tomorrow, I'll be surprised (I'll be surprised), (I'll be surprised)
 
You have to speak the truth
You have to speak your mind

Every time I speak my mind I'm lyrically critical
The pinnacle of being revolutionarily pivotal
Beyond anything ever studied thats metaphysical
Man fuck a minority, I'm not politically minimal
But obviously terminologies that are statistical
Are manufactured to be unequivocally subliminal
Transmitted by monopolized media visuals
So I riddle hypocritically pitiful criminals
Habitually utilizing typical rituals
With false pretense in attempts to be spiritual
TO individuals who believe in biblical miracles
Instead of themselves, because they're not thinking original
And the color of their skin makes them feel invisible
Like microscopic miscarriages lynched wit the umbilical
Only a fuckin imbecile would think their uncorrectable
Cause your susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle
Remember that your flesh your blood and you body are dissectable
Ill beat you until your vegetable
And wake up in a hospital covered in poisonous chemicals
In a fetal position wit your face sewn to your testicles
Thinkin that you were kidnapped by extraterrestrials
You got heart? I'm the blood that pumps in your ventricles
Technique, I'm like ya soul nigga.. indispensable
Wit no respect for those that cower at the hour of revolution
Cause the government owes my people restitution
Instead of sedatives like cocaine and prostitution
Conclusion is that you'll have to violently silence me
Cause I raid the airwaves of cutthroat piracy
In school my teachers blinded me
But now I can see
I'm mentally and revolutionarily free
Broadening Horizons about what my people could be
If we wasn't set up to get shot locked or OD
You see families bleed because of corporate greed
And monopolizing weed is virtually impossible
So it wont be legalized and thats another obstacle
But I'm still rollin up pocket fulls of tropical
The governments involved directly so its unstoppable
Like a nuclear rocket full of biochemical toxins that invade the ecological
Improbable that the average intellect could understand
So I encrypted this into hip hop thats in high demand
and spread it through the ghetto of every city like contraband
Stomp a man of any complexion with a devilish nature
Cause I'm tryin to save the earth, but your just next in line to rape her
 
The sun comes up another day begins
And I don't even worry about the state I'm in
Head so heavy and I'm looking thin
But when the sun goes down I wanna start again
You never understand me
You never understand me
Yeah
Don't turn around until you look at me
Why don't you take a second and tell me what you see
Things I see you only disagree
You never understand that's what I want to be
You never understand me
You never understand me
Yeah
Not wishing to hide but you just can't see me
I tell you the truth but you don't believe me
Thinking of love but I can't hear what you're saying
Tomorrow I'm leaving
Cause I'm not stayin'
Yeah....
(Uh huh huh)
 
Life's not been good to you
It's just not fair
You did nothing to deserve it
You did nothing at all
Sit back and watch
It turns from bad to worse
No matter how you try
It always hurts
Boy I'm glad I'm not in your shoes
How could things
Get any worse for you?
You're so fucking alone
How could things
Get any worse for you?
I don't blame you when you piss and moan
Everybody gets
What you think you should've got
Everybody takes
Your opportunities
Everybody gets
The breaks that belonged to you
Everybody takes
Your just desserts
Boy I'm glad I'm not in your shoes
How could things
Get any worse for you?
You're so fucking alone
How could things
Get any worse for you?
I don't blame you when you piss and moan
Life's not been good to you
It's just not fair
I've got some news for you
Nothing is fair
I wish there was a way
To make it all better
I pray for a way
To make you happy
'Cause I'm sick and I'm tired
Of your whining, complaining, and bitching and moaning
Boo fucking hoo
 
Guitars in front of Marshall stacks,
As full wall of them explode with the simultaneous on switch
Begin wailing various percussion at any tempo...
I, bloody with oozy blast, reach to play guitar,
Thumbiling violently, as it screeches through the Marshalls
Grab guitar and plays what he wants.
I struggle to my feet, Hoisting the guitar over my head.
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Pieces of Meat!
Dual denial,
Duel of denial,
Dueling denial.

Your post-modern, folkcore saviors, SEBADOH!
Your new favorite, dope-smoking Renaissance threesome, SEBADOH!
Jason, Lou, and Eric.

Three guys who appreciate and simulate the power of modern drone rock, SEBADOH!
Jason, Eric, and Lou.

[You see eventually, your music will help put an end to war and poverty. It will align the planets, and bring them into universal harmony. Allowing meaningful contact with all forms of life.]

SEBADOH!
Featuring that guy who played bass in Soul Asylum, Lou Barlow.

Another evening of oppressive noodling, courtesy of, SEBADOH!
Three guys in search of the eternal party, SEBADOH!

Please, Take Me... Away...

Open chord tuning saviors of alternative Rock n' Roll, SEBADOH!

And now, shattering the barrier between artist and audience,
Three guys with smiles you can trust, Sebadoh.

Three more reasons to doubt your boyfriend, Sebadoh.
Jason, Eric, and Lou.

Guitar, Bass, Percussion.
The fire, The wind, The heartbeat.
A live experience, surely among the top ten this year, SEBADOH!

An easy love that strokes in circles, SEBADOH!
Just dumb enough, to try to control a malicious idiot, SEBADOH!

Urging you to openly weep,
Eric, Jason, and Lou.

Music to hold hands by, SEBADOH!
So bad, It's good, SEBADOH!

Never hesitating to bite the hand that feeds, SEBADOH!
SOBODAH!

Three guys who think it's much more important if the music is heartfelt,
rather than if the music sounds like shit or not, SEBADOH!

The east is where the vampires live.
The west is where the searchers go.

Searching for a reason, just like you.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The sensitive power of, Sebadoh.

In the tradition of Daniel Johnston,
Under a cloud of hiss, SEBADOH!
It's not bullshit, It's Sebadoh.
Sibadoh, Sabedoh.

SEBADOH!

Soul, Bare introspection
Framed with fragile melody,
courtesy of, SEBADOH!

Way to Go, SEBADOH!

Puffing proudly upon the pot pipe, there poopy diapers stinking.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Three guys infected with new faith,
SEBADOH! SEBADOH! SEBADOH!

[Mudhoney, Superchunk... (x3)]

[Superchunk... (x3)]

Distinctive song writers,
Any Beatle wannabe.
Three guys you need to know,
Super show, SEBADOH!
Sebadoha

Music to give your girlfriend a hard time by, SEBADOH!

A moment of inept grace, courtesy of, SEBADOH!

Three guys who are free to disagree, SEBADOH!
Eric, Jason, and Lou.

Way to Go, SEBADOH!

Unencumbered by structure,
Masters of melodic atonal free association,
Three Free Spirits.
Jason, Eric, and Lou; SEBADOH!

Sibodoh, Siba-

A crystal shining forever moment, courtesy of, SEBADOH!
Sweet, Destructive,
Turning musical corners at breakneck speed,
Music with which to mourn the death of human spirit, SEBADOH!

Battling monumental indifference,
Sadly overlooked, as creatively inferior bands are basically treated like geniuses and receive enormous recording budgets,
Buns up to corporate waste mongers, SEBADOH!

[Who are you to mess with my head?]

Standing proud, the test of time.
Impulsive in the presence of strangers.
Three dumpy guys with no fashion sense.
Shaking hands, or sharing feasts.
Three friendly minstrels, who aren't very friendly.

Reinventing folk music, SEBADOH!
Jamming where no brain dare to go, SEBADOH!

Boys and Girls,
As free as the fingers flow,
a heartfelt drone you should know, SEBADOH!

Jason, Eric, and Lou!

[Three is a magic number. Yes it is. It's a magic number. Somewhere in the ancient, mystic, trinity. You get three...]

SEBADOH!

The lonely band that mutters.

Perhaps smoking pot or drinking beer before setting foot on stage, it's Sebadoh.

Another hollow proclamation, courtesy of, SEBADOH!
Another shallow communication, courtesy of, SEBADOH!
Mind expanding confusion, courtesy of, SEBADOH!

Staying true to there hardcore roots,
Rocking against negative boredom,
and filling you with dreams of freedom, SEBADOH!

Figuratively pissing in your mouth,
Humiliating, and subduing your spirit.
Exposing every nook and cranny of the human psyche,
Way to Go, SEBADOH!

Wallowing in the peace pig pool of evil,
Swallowing everyone,
Reason to ignore it,
Festering with sex frustration.
They don't use your imagination,
They spit it in your face.

Ladies and Gentlemen, SEBADOH!

Searching for the lowest common denominator,
Resorting to tired tales of naughty boy boredom,
Asking annoying questions,
and providing bogus answers.
Self-serving closet fascists,
Making money from marijuana masturbation,
Incompetence masquerading as inspiration,
Inspiration mistaken for true talent,
A specter of egocentric behavior,
Spuddering wildly out of control,

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Indie rock's newest unrecognized genius of songwriting sucker punch
In a minivan for a six-week tour, SEBADOH!

Making it up as they go along, SEBADOH!

Borrowing the vast energy of positive puss monkey,
Sebadoh snaps forth with remarkable agility,
Nodding solemnly in sad resignation,
Three guys who never went to college, SEBADOH!

Taking every opportunity to suddenly manipulate your expectations for a moment's amusement.
Becoming suddenly bored at your immature attempt to gain our approval,
With your typical butt-licking fan-boy fervor, SEBADOH!

Driving dozens of college-aged lemmings off the cliff of limited imagination.
Smashing there soft skulls on the jagged boulders of our bitter sarcasm,
Three assholes, SEBADOH!

Boring you shitless,
Yet, no one is approaching baldness.
Laughing at your shortcomings.
Tactlessly welding destructive honesty to protect themselves from true feeling.
Eagerly, butt-fucking your grandpa.

Turning personal vendetta and small-minded revenge tactics into eventually cult status,

The only man in the world who truly appreciated the genius of the swans, Lou Barlow.

Rescuing wounded animals and diligently nursing them back to health,
and returning them from there woodland homes, SEBADOH!

Putting down everything,
Judging all as lame,
But for all there hype as something new,
they play the same old game.
Another let down, another reason to do it yourself, SEBADOH!

SEBADOH! (x4)

Soobadoo
Soobadoo
SooBAYdoo
 
Those haunting rhymes are keeping the time,
but they'll never get through to me.
It's my party, but I'm waiting for someone to start it.
It's my party, there's no one but me in the corner.

Gotta get my mojo runnin', engine hummin', don't I?
Now roll it up and smoke it again.
Now light me up and snort it again.
Now fix it up and shoot it again.
I can't believe I did it again.

Keep haunting me, taunting me,
but they'll never get through to me
It's my party, but I'm waiting for someone to start it
My party, there's blood on the ceiling, the carpet

Gotta get my mojo runnin', engine hummin', don't I?
Now roll it up and smoke it again.
It's bottoms up and drink it again.
Now fix it up and shoot it again.
I can't believe I did it again.

I'm readin' the signs, makes me wonder why they're getting through to me.
Gotta get my mojo runnin', engine hummin', don't I?
Gotta get my mojo runnin', engine hummin', don't I?
Now roll it up and smoke it again.
It's bottoms up and drink it again.
Now fix it up and shoot it again.
I can't believe I did it again.
Oops, I did it again
 
Monday morning wake up knowing that youve got to go to school
Tell your mum what to expect, she says its right out of the blue
Do you went to work in debenhams, because thats what they expect
Start in lingerie, and doris is your supervisor

And the head said that you always were a queer one from the start
For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange
Making life-size models of the velvet underground in clay

In the queue for lunch they take the piss, youve got no appetite
And the rumour is you never go with boys and you are tight
So they jab you with a fork, you drop the tray and go berserk
While your cleaning up the mess the teachers looking up your skirt

Youve been used, youre confused
Write a song, Ill sing along
Are you calm? settle down
Soon you will know that you are sane
Youre on top of the world again

Monday morning wake up knowing that youve got to go to school
Mum said she had little choice when she was young, so why should you?
Do you went to work in c&a, cause thats what they expect
Move to ladieswear and take a feel off joe the storeman

Tell veronica the secrets of the boy you never kissed
Shes got everything to gain cause shes a fat girl with a lisp
She sticks up for you when you get aggravation from the snobs
cause you cant afford a blazer and youre always wearing clogs

At the interval you lock yourself away inside a room
Heed of english gets you, asks you, what the hell do you think youre doing?
Do you think youre better then the other kids? well get outside.
Youve got permission, but youve got to make the bastard think hes right
 
Smeared black ink.
Your palms are sweaty,
and I'm barely listening
to last demands.
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering
"What's buried underneath where I am?"
(Where I am)

I'll wear my badge:
a vinyl sticker with big block letters
adhered to my chest.
It tells your new friends
"I am a visitor here... I am not permanent."
And the only thing keeping me dry is...

You seem so out of context,
in this gaudy apartment complex.
A stranger with your door key,
explaining that I'm just visiting.
And I am finally seeing
why I was the one worth leaving.
(I was the one worth leaving)

D.C. sleeps alone tonight.

(Where I am)
You seem so out of context
in this gaudy apartment complex.
(Where I am)
A stranger with your door key
explaining that I'm just visiting.
(Where I am)
And I am finally seeing
why I was the one worth leaving.
(I was the one worth leaving)

(Where I am)
The District sleeps alone tonight
after the bars turn out their lights.
(Where I am)
And send the autos swerving
into the loneliest evening.
(Where I am)
And I am finally seeing
why I was the one worth leaving.
why I was the one worth leaving.
why I was the one worth leaving.
why I was the one worth leaving.
 
Last week I had the strangest dream
Where everything was exactly how it seemed
Where there was never any mystery of who shot John F. Kennedy
It was just a man with something to prove
Slightly bored and severely confused
He steadied his rifle with his target in the center
And became famous on that day in November

Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
ooh, ooh

And then last night I had that strange dream
Where everything was exactly how it seemed
Where concerns about the world getting warmer
The people thought that they were just being rewarded
For treating others as they like to be treated
For obeying stop signs and curing diseases
For mailing letters with the address of the sender
Now we can swim any day in November

Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
(Now we can swim any day in November)
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in

Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in
 
I've got a cupboard with cans of food,
filtered water, and pictures of you
and I'm not coming out until this is all over.
And I'm looking through the glass
Where the light bends at the cracks
And I'm screaming at the top of my lungs
Pretending the echoes belong to someone
Someone I used to know

And we become silhouettes when our bodies finally go


I wanted to walk through the empty streets
And feel something constant under my feet,
But all the news reports recommended that I stay indoors
Because the air outside will make
Our cells divide at an alarming rate
Until our shells simply cannot hold
All our insides in,
And that's when we'll explode
(And it won't be a pretty sight)

And we'll become silhouettes when our bodies finally go
 
this place is a prison, these people aren't your friends
inhaling thrills through $20 bills and the
tumblers are drained and then flooded again and again

there's guards at the on ramps armed to the teeth
and you may case the grounds
from the cascades to puget sound,
but you are not permitted to leave

i know there's a big world out there
like the one i saw on the screen
in my living room late last night
it was almost too bright to see
i know that it's not a party
if it happens every night
pretending there's glamour and candelabra
when you're drinking by candlelight

what does it take to get a drink in this place?
what does it take, how long must i wait?

what does it take to get a drink in this place?
what does it take, how long must i wait?
 
I'll be the grapes fermented, bottled and
served with the table set in my finest suit
like a perfect gentleman.
I'll be the fire escape that's bolted to the
ancient brick where you will sit
and contemplate your day.

I'll be the waterwings that save you if you
start drowning in an open tab when your
judgement's on the brink.
I'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite
albums back as you're lying there, drifting off
to sleep... drifting off to sleep...
I'll be the platform shoes; undo what heredity's done to you:
you won't have to strain to look into my eyes.
I'll be your winter coat buttoned and zipped
straight to the throat with the collar up so
you won't catch a cold.

I want to take you far from the cynics in this town
and kiss you on the mouth.
We'll cut our bodies free from the tethers of
this scene, start a brand new colony.
Where everything will change, we'll give
ourselves new names. Identities erased.
The sun will heat the grounds, under our bare
feet in this brand new colony.
This Brand new colony...

Everything will change,
Everything will change,
Everything will change,
 
The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes
But then they buried her alive
One evening 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone
Now she's a little boy in Spain
Playing pianos filled with flames
On empty rings around the sun
All sing to say my dream has come

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And here's where your mother sleeps
And here is the room where your brothers were born
Indentions in the sheets
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes
 
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