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Dig You Up
02:47
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I saw somebody who looked like you
I almost asked if they wanted to
But then I remembered you
Out there in the yard
I'm gonna dig you up
I'm gonna make you mine
Just brush off all the dirt
Just Wash away all the time
I know that you don't mind
You look a little pale
Nothing a little bit of blush won't fix
You can hardly even tell you were sick
And in my mind
You're as pretty as the day you died
So I'll dig you up
And I'll make you mine
Just brush off all the dirt
Just wash away all the time
I know that you won't mind
And I keep seeing you out of the corner of my eye
And in my heart I know you weren't ready to die
So I'll dig you up
That's why I'll make you mine
I'll wash away all the dirt
I'll just blow off all the time
I know that you don't mind
I bought you a brand new old dress
And I hope you know that I did my best
When I dug you up
When I made you mine
I licked off all the dirt
I took away all the time
I hope that you didn't mind.
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2. |
Acid Rains
03:05
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It was a hot day
It was acid rain
They offered to clean my windows
Offered to give me shade
They offered free samples of wine
Both times I declined
what if they find him face down in a creek
what if you see something but do not speak
youll find a way to talk or youll have to get out
after the cannibals and the dogs who's there left to let out
when the fog burns off
we won't be used to seeing so clear
after the rearviews bust off
we won't be used to seeing things so near
when the sun burns out
when it's signal bars
static on a screen
white noise and guitars
i'll find out what you mean
when it's all dust
when we're all rust
after the last film is screened
when it's all rust
when we're all dust
after the last scream is screamed
what do you see in your dreams
cuz I know it ain't me
she said not if you were the last man on this earth
yeah but what if i wasnt
you can't tell me this whole goddamn armageddon was for nothing
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Place Yer Bets
01:53
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And did you ever wanna talk to me
Did California fall into the sea
And will you ever be my baby
Did you ever walk along the beach
Did you ever see what I see
Is that just a hanging tree
Wouldn't put bets on this rivalry
Wouldn't put them on you
Wouldn't put them on me
It was nobody's fault
Not one of us is free
Wouldn't put them on you
Wouldn't put them on me
God said to me what are you thinking
Maybe you should just quit
Go away for a bit.
I said man maybe you have the right idea
Grab another case of them and get out of here
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If I don't light you on fire anymore
Tell me so
Instead of letting me die slow
and if you don't want to try anymore
why don't you let me know
so I can let you go
and if you can't decide anymore
don't give me the blow by blow
cuz I don't wanna know
if you won't lie anymore
just tell me the truth
you can cut me loose
if you don't want to ride anymore
just turn the engine off
and slow it to a stop
if you won't let me inside anymore
why don't you just lock your door
if you don't want to tell me goodnight anymore
i'll find other ways to keep warm
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5. |
Apocalypse Waltz
03:11
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I saw you on camera you looked into the lense like you could see me back
Tell her we will never be friends or see eye to eye as long as all her eyes are black
There's a missing child in the lost and found
They dug him up from six feet under the ground
He told a tale and it went like this
The will end not with a bang but with a kiss and you better run as fast as you can
And trembling now he took a knee
and said I know the lord is waiting for me
and everybody came to see but it was only the postman
Like the sky your hair is ash
A pretty young thing moving [too?] [so?] fast
too fast for anybody to catch
by the time we reach out you're fading
A nuclear war broke out in your eyes
We were lookin at you we were watching the skies
Slowly but surely we were invaded
You fell asleep with a cigarette in your mouth
I burned myself trying to figure you out
I knew all about you but I didn't know what you were all about
but that's all over now
Bombs started falling you started calling me on the phone
You said come see me but I had places to be and I left you (all?) alone
but you still got your health
and you still got your mouth
you should be glad that you still got a home
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6. |
Turn Into a Tragedy
01:27
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This morning I put my foot in the wrong shoe
And spent all afternoon hopping around you [dancing around you]
I don't have anything to choose
You are the best at what I do
You wanted the number of my telephone
And the colour of my blues
When I solved the mystery you handed me a clue
It was a travesty a heartbreaking melody played on a kazoo
On your first birthday you bought me a flute
And asked if I'd turn into a tragedy for you
There are things even I am not willing to do
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Frozen Car Song
03:44
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it was a frozen car
a backed up freeway
it was a bitter wind
it was a lucky scrape
it was the smell of exhaust in an underground parking garage
it wasa dirty cold
it was the freezing rain
something made you bold
as it iced up the trurning lane
it was the hidden hell in a drifting desert mirage
it was a rolling stop
it was an unlucky cop
it was a bloody moon
it was a second too soon
it was a skeleton in the snow without any jaws
and you almost almost made it
you did everything you were supposed to do
you almost almost almost made it through
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8. |
So Easy
03:11
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I'm out here all alone
And I forgot my coat
And I ain't going home
I'm about as cold
As a wolf in the snow
And I feel as old
As a dried up bone
And it would be so easy to let go
And lie in the snow
And as I make my angel for you
I wonder why we wonder so much about the truth like we do
And it would be so easy
It wouldn't be so hard
And it would be so easy
Just lie down in the dark
I think I will just rest my eyes
Today there's such a clear blue sky
The birds above are drunk on love
And I think they like me too
And as I freeze
I wonder how
We ever got so blue
And I do not think of you
And how it'd be so easy
Wouldn't be so hard
It'd be so easy
Just lie down in the dark
It's be so easy
To just let go
It'd be so easy
Cuz all the sudden the snow don't feel so cold
It'd be so easy
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9. |
A Light On
02:45
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I decided a long time ago
that I would leave the light on
I confided in you a long time ago
that this is the hill I'm gonna die on
if your feet don't stop maybe your heart won't stop
I decided a long time ago
that i would try to keep it going
The engine still turns over
and the interior light in the dark is glowing
she decided a light year ago
that she'd always keep it moving
with enough practice
you can find a sort of comfort honey in losing
there's a baby wolf inside you
he's small but he's growing
you're soft around the edges now
but soon your teeth will be showing
and it's hot down on the devil's avenue
oh soon it will be snowing
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10. |
Halloween Song
02:42
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I met you there in ancient rome
Up on the crucifix
You were beside me mumbling
Your pin number six six six
She said she can't decide
What kind of phone to get
I want something that'll stay with me in death
That won't stop running when I get a little wet
Halloween's for lovers
Of a very specific kind
Cherry trees and taxidermies and heartache mixed with fright
Watches and women and witches that won't give me the time of night
It took years for me to think of you that way
And then just one stray thought
A butterfly pulling his own wings off
Love yourself love yourself not
The streets are lit with orange and black
Trick or treaters were decorated with debris
The wind was enough to keep you quiet with the silence of memory
Broken glass on the ground by the trees reflecting the last of the leaves
When will you stop running
When the pavement stops falling off in back of me
It was only in fun well it might have been fun for you
It was never fun for me
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11. |
Let the Right One In
01:49
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Listen here baby you need to let me in right now
There are 16 crosses at my back and it is now approaching sundown
I'm gonna freak out I'm gonna bleed out
Hasten baby to the locks golden deadbolted and raw
I used to have a pony but he bolted when he saw god
Sticks and stones choking on the bones choking on the bones
The crows have learned to murder and booked the next flight out west
It's just too easy to just accept death and the pleasures of the melting flesh
And the wounds are too fresh and the silence is madness
I'm gonna freak out I'm gonna bleed out
Let me in
Let me in
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12. |
Vampire Honey II
02:18
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Your blood was never mine to keep
I can only taste it when I sleep
The blood is the life and I need you out of mine
I can't help you now
You better get out
And you've got some of mine inside
I think I'll survive
The blood is on the knife cut me anytime you like
And I can't look at you now
You better get out
This is the last time you see me
This is the last time you creep me out
The last time you see me
Oh honey you better kill me now
This ain't funny
My vampire honey
This just ain't funny anymore
My vampire honey
I can't help you now
You'd better get out
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now you been workin on me since we were young
did you ever think you should just give up
you can't fix everyone
now i'm lookin at me
i think you won
i'm wondering exactly what you've done
now i'm seasick now i'm dumb
we were better then we were young
we were o.k., maybe
but now we are just crazy
you been looking at me like i'm blood
you wanna fight roll around in the mud
i don't believe you can drink all that rum
now i'm seasick...
we look at mirrors
can't help but stare
we laugh at jokes that are not there
sometimes we shiver in the sun
sometimes it's hell sometimes it's fun
we dance in ballrooms full of blood
we help angels out of their ruts
we got the keys but not the cars
we made god but not the stars
sometimes it's knives sometimes it's guns
sometimes we stick around sometimes we run
now i'm seasick...
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14. |
Missing & on the News
03:43
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She walked somehow familiar
Like I had seen it before
She got off the ride in silver
Got dressed and went for the door
I looked out the window she'd vanished
And I knew she'd hurt me before
She popped a pill beside me
And let me go off to sleep
There was too much left to decide
Shivers that ran too deep
The wolf at the door he complained
Said he'd called the cops for less
He drained the pain from both of our brains
And took his pay and left
The day was too ugly to look at directly
And she was too honest to love
Sometimes the better to just burn the letter
Than find out what it tells of
When I got there a gentleman caller set hounds on both of us
It was me that he wanted but her that he got
When he found her under the bus
I think when I met her I knew things were ending
But I wanted to know what I'd lose
I guess that I knew that I'd break
I wanted to see if she'd bruise
Now I'm just missing
You might have seen it on the news
Now she's missing
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Unconnected to everything you see
She said it's all the same inside a dream
And I will be here in the back seat
Don't you worry about me
Unconnected to images flying by
She said she'll look out the window at everything but the sky
I'll stay behind in the back seat
Don't mind me
I'm falling
I'm falling
Don't wake me up just yet
And I promise
I promise to forget
Just don't wake me up just yet
Unconnected to me
She says it's always okay inside her dream
She said if she could she'd let me see
And I will always be here in the back seat
Don't you worry about me
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Luck
03:11
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I was fighting these devils when you found me
And you were an angel, maybe
or maybe that's what we wanted to see
I asked the fates all about you
They gave me no advice on what I should do
They said flip a coin
Heads you lose, tails you lose
I pray that luck ain't with me tonight
I'm already on fire
I'm already alright
and i bet you
the end is comin soon
and if i'm right
i stay alive
oh but if the house takes all the night
just spin the wheel one more time
I pray that luck ain't with me tonight
I'm already on fire
I'm already alright
And I know that god ain't watching me now
I'm on my way out
I'm on my way down
Honey roll the bones one more time
I think we're alone tonight
I don't ask for much
But I don't ask it light
Honey roll the bones one last time
chorus
honey you never should have bet on black x3
If you could go back
I was fighting these devils when you found me
And you were an angel, maybe
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17. |
I Can't Say
02:03
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i keep seeing the nuclear war out of the corner of my eye
i just found out my best horse died trying to find you
i got a telegram telling me where i am and who to shoot
what does all this add up to
what all this have to do with you
i can't say
except that everything goes away
i saw a rockslide
i saw a hurricane
i saw a rat race
i saw a bleeding brain
i saw a switchblade gunfight
i saw the rain
i sat you there
i saw my face
what does all this add up to
what all this have to do with you
i can't say
except it all goes away
except you
except you
except you
i can't say
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18. |
Dig You Up Redux
03:52
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I saw somebody who looked like you
I almost asked if they wanted to
But then I remembered you
Out there in the yard
so i'll dig you up
i'll make you mine
take away all the dust
blow off all the time
I know that you wouldn't mind
You look a little pale
Nothing a little bit of blush wouldn't fix
You can hardly even tell you been sick
And in my mind
You're as pretty as the day you died
and i keep seeing you out of the corner of my eye
and in my dreams i know
that you weren't ready to go
So I'll dig you up
And I'll make you mine
blow off all the dust
wash off all the time
I know that you wouldn't mind
I bought you a brand new old dress
And I hope you know
that whatever happens next
I did my best
When I dug you up
When I made you mine
I licked off all the dirt
I took away all the time
I hope that you didn't mind
when i dug you up
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The Acid Rains Edmonton, Alberta
i write songs, play guitar and sing
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