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120 years ago
02:07
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120 years ago they'd chain me to a wall
it took til 1950 to get Thorazine and all
and then we'd drool and shuffle
no ideas and no action
but in the days of Bedlam we were #1 attractions
I've never had a doctor turn and ask me for my say
but I'd like to give my frontal lobes their own chance to decay
Freeman learned from Fiamberti, go in through the eye
he pared the brains of housewives, what a charitable guy
In 1970 we're all cocked up inside a war
and lithium restored us maladjusted by the score
although I'll one day have to switch to Tegretol instead
I'm certain I'd be hurtin' if my kidneys washed up red
I last saw confinement roughly eight years ago today
I've never been a danger
still they took my rights away
this might be slightly personal but please don't look askance
the staff all had a laugh while terrified
I shit my pants
"Morally insane" is just one label they've allowed
but "mentally defective" is what my government calls me now.
I tell you all these stories not because I'm sane or free
but in case yr not alert to kinda hurt that you can't see
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bad at the dream
02:14
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i'm bad, i mean bad at having the dream
i ruined what i got but i want you to listen to me
i wanna be someone you know
i don't wanna be something you see
i'm bad, i mean bad at having the dream
so much, so much when yr smart and yr white
see the world, break what you touch
it don't put up a fight
but if yr into my particular thrill
try and do it while yr mentally ill
so much is just wondering if yr all right
it's cool, i mean cool to get what you can
if yr stable and able to swallow the sea like a man
but i don't really wanna be cool anymore
i'm just an irregular mule, and it's cruel
i mean cruel
the way yr riding on me
i'm bad, i mean bad, but it's not like it seems
i love it a lot when it's sad
when it's fat
when it's mean
i think i've been thinking too much
it's been a while since somebody touched me
still i'm glad
for the love of the world
that i'm not a machine
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analyze the tides
01:54
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tell me baby how you lost yr clothes
did you slip them down
did he rip them off
my memory's a page out of a coloring book
you pushed me outside the lines
tell me buddy how the liquor worked
is it perfect yet
did it make her wet
confusion had me howling but the truth is worse
so look how the seasons changed
i can't let things go
they just fit too well
i'd rather dream forever
than get caught between these thoughts
so mean
tell me baby how you feel so bad
did you muck it up
did you suck on glass
old enough to act yr age and look the part
a seashell shaped like a heart
a nice day and i feel like lead
you didn't make the news
you don't count for shit
don't you think you'd better analyze the tides
and sparkle at what you find
and drown in a grand design
and wish that yr dreams were mine?
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terrell state hospital
02:07
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i like my life a lot
i read books and play guitar
and daydream and smoke pot
duck and cover days are over
even when they're not
and i can go outside whenever i want
i never made a kid
to learn to say no to
and i've never wished i did
there's some things they should not go through
feral forces made me pull
into terrell state hospital
and i don't like fourth reich shitholes
where you can't go outside whenever you want
i did not lose my mind
i know where it is
and if you don't come in that's fine
just be sympathetic
it's not right to have thick skin
no wild light gets in
and you see staring at the walls
the same as staring at the sky
as if we only live or die when they say when
it's normal no one cares
what is ultimately fair
"one man's prison..." blah blah blah
now i've been to mars
i know exactly who i hate
and i can smell the outside and i never have to wait
i like the life i got
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care and feeding
01:51
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if i only knew in college what a personality disorder was!
why is just a lie for when the only thing around is yr because
it's an interesting world
full of interesting things
and arresting my attention's all the garbage that you bring
people don't have halos if you see one you should run
the other way
all up in the mud you'll fall down covered in the sympathetic clay
it's a fascinating girl
who says fascinating things
ratiocinating lyrics to a song she'll never sing
i don't belong to you but you belong to me
believe me when i say i wish it were the other way around
so tell me all your secrets i am unafraid how scary you can be
if anybody here deserves a shake inside their skeleton it's me
it's a lousy lemon world
full of lousy lemon liars
and i'm rubbing your bare shoulder
as you slash the good guy's tires
i don't belong to you but you belong to me
believe me when i say i wish it were the other way around
i don't belong to you but you belong to me
believe me when i say i would sleep softly with you in the ground
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true love is coming for you
there's never been a doubt
so do the things you always do
and just stick around
yr gonna find someone who
has a two-ton heart
and everyone who used to walk on you
will just fall apart
true love is coming for you
there's never been a doubt
so do the things you always do
and just stick around
everything is gonna start to make sense
inside of yr brain
nothing in yr life will be an accident
problems all melt in the rain
true love is coming for you
there's never been a doubt
so do the things you always do
and just stick around
yr gonna be shakin' and cryin'
we all will be too
an us and a them and lots of
dying
dying
dying
dying
but we'll be happy for you
yr never gonna have to look about
yr never gonna have to leave the house
yr never gonna have to use the internet
yr won't have to walk around bragging
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7. |
dog support
01:44
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(instrumental)
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8. |
us
02:53
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i really don't like how it is
i really don't like how it is
can't you see that the world's either rubble
or it's bubble and fizz?
i really don't like how it is
i wanna have a barrel of laughs
i wanna have a barrel of laughs
because
when the joke gets unrolled
i gotta blurt out my half
i wanna have a barrel of laughs
if it's going to shit
then i will have to admit
i got plans that put both of our hands
on the lid
so we're gonna go
and yes you will be mine
and we will have fun
and yes there will be wine
i feel like i don't have a friend
i feel like i don't have a friend and then
i hear you getting up and ugly feeling it ends
i know i'm getting back on the mend
sometimes i think i don't believe who i am
i think i don't believe who i am but then
you break me down with lucky lovin' batterin' ram
and i fall back to the world of goddamn
when the weather is tar
i will be where you are
load up the cups and just get in the car
so we're gonna go
and yes you will be mine
and we will have fun
and yes there will be wine
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