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Another Morning

nothing ever seems
to make you happy
are you miserable, babe
or are you just plain mean

is there no joy in you
c’mon don't keep me waiting
your broken heart might bring you heaven
but not another morning
another morning with kathleen

someone does you wrong you give away your life to prove it
you wear your pain with pride you refuse to remove it
you become the evil that plays with you like a doll
big rules only make our lives small

was your voice never heard
c’mon you know were listening
justice will only bring you
a prison
not another morning
another morning with kathleen

now you're the big expert with the truth
now you're all apple pie and you're bulletproof
there must have been a short 5 minutes in your youth
when you laughed like water breaking over the broken land
when you laughed like the wind burning the sun blind on your face
when you laughed like water breaking over the broken damn
when you laughed like the starting gun at the start of the race
lets smash all the violins at the symphony
i want to see you smile with a real simple melody
its when you wake up and you're glad that you're breathing
its when you wake up and you're glad that you're living
that's another morning
another morning with kathleen

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Patriots Heart

if you want to see something patriotic there's a stripper
he don't that look that good but he's got an all american smile
that fills his underwear with all the lonely dollars
from all the lonely men who no one ever suffers
who wait around the bar and spend all their lonely hours
who’re already gone no ones running for cover
the farther the run away away the more you have to hide in the dark
white as a worm that crawls through the patriots heart

its so red white and blue the way he works the bar
selling his embraces like mr. president or a fallen star
and he doesn't care if you're worldly or wise
he's looking for men with sin in their eyes and
he always says the same thing: he says how are you doing baby
I'm your rod and your staff and for a tip you can touch me
and after a few tequilas he becomes something holy
and this crappy little bar with its sweating mirrors and mildewed ceiling
has more love than even natural selection
and dollar for dollar babe - its a better bargain
the more you pay the more it can break you all apart
dollars pour like ashes from the patriots heart

he knows that your good time will someday kill him
but the thought of getting old doesn't thrill him
he says give me all your money and don't tell me what you're thinking
I'm the past you wasted I'm the future you're obliterating
c’mon grandpa tell me what you're celebrating
that you're heart heart finally dried up
or that it finally stopped working and
how you make a dead man come is the undertakers art
make 'em shine like the alcohol that preserves the patriots heart

see him fade with the dawn and a pile of washington's
with his head in a spin - happy to pass out again
he would rather fade into the static than hear the violins
that whine like old lovers who whine that they loved him
he would rather laugh alone in the dark with the soft hands of heaven
because it leaves him alone with his new entertainment system
he does it for the money but he gives more than he’s given
he does it for the money but he gives more than he’s given
and its only when he’s naked he feels his heart
in the whorehouse desert of the patriots heart

we all want a patriots heart

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Love Is

love is only
a light in the sky
the shadow of a star
flying by
were so small compared to our hearts
were so small compared to - a lullaby
i didn't mean to makes you cry
i'm sorry that that I made you cry

did i make you throw away
all the lives you had
and the songs all the moons
all the lovers in your bed

were so small compared to our hearts
were so small compared to - a lullaby
i didn't mean to make you cry
I'm sorry i made you cry

did i take what
you couldn't really give
and it drained your soul
through your eyes
I'm sorry
i didn’t mean to make you cry
I'm sorry I made you cry

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Job 2 Do

i cross the street to avoid her
no i cant live with her eyes
would it stain my hands to touch her
would her smile take me
the way gravity takes the skies
some of us were born to run
some were born to smile on you
everyone's got a job to do

i see her every day
she’s got a silver lining that i cant break
she's like something i threw away
a voice in a dream that says
oh love come awake
some want to show you where the light is
some want to stare at the view
everyone's got a job to do

god is on my side
he’s a prisoner that stares
that stares out of my eyes
and the prisoner don't care
some only live inside walls
some want to paint the horizon blue
everyone's got a job to do

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Only Love Can Set You Free

you think that weakness is only
a way to give your heart to the enemy
but if the blow that knocks you out is the one you don't see
then why are you fighting

Listen

before you lose the ocean from your tears
before they carve your fists out of stone
before they finally force you to your knees
only love can set you free

you were no civilian you fought every war
but now you don't want to fear your heart anymore
you always did what was right and it was no good
now you stay awake in the dark and think your no good

Listen:
takes a baby years to know
what's making it cry
but what it wants aint no mystery
only love can set you free

and I've been so lucky

i’m just a normal man that's true
and i got nothing to brag about or maybe i do
that once i was loved by someone like you
that once i loved someone like you

Listen:
i was happy to live with a lie
cause then i’d have nothing to deny
except a face ruined by vanity
only love can set you free

swept under the bridge and out into the ocean

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Montevani The Mind Reader

montevani the mind reader wears a blind fold cause
he thinks no one’ll see the truth in his eyes
that used to float like the breeze over postcard seas
now its a lifeboat that leaks alibis

knows what's in your wallet knows what turns your keys
what heats up your lover - what makes them freeze
hears the fine reasoning of those who without belief
who never touch forever and only offer grief

chrs
they say you can be anyone that you want to
under the sun - anyone that you want to
well I'm sure its true I'm sure its true
you can be anyone that you want to

loses himself in the thoughts of the sinners he entertains
ends up feeling nothing and seeing others in pain
the blind fold is what his justice has become
a whiskey heart all daggers and a frozen tongue

chrs

br
what kills your soul
is the pain you make
the fights you throw
the love you fake

montevani the mind reader
has such a marvelous goodbye
a melody of little glasses
for the tympani sky

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Home

its easy to leave
hard to stay behind and rust
with all the stupid things i believe
watch my life drift like dust

hope i make it to a warm heart
hope that's where i belong
hope i don't end up out of breath
where the washed up are hung

I'm afraid of my own shadow
cause its what I've become
why do i waste my time with people
who’ll never love anyone

my only sin - i started hating my own skin

home - i hope i make it home x2

when you get lost
the road drags on and on
you forget who your chasing
or what you’ve become

I always thought the world looked better from a distance
now I'm a set of eyes lost in the blur
and the only thing that bothers to hate me now is my pride
no one sees me they don’t need to to know i slip away in the tide

home - i hope i make it home x3

my only sin - i started hating my own skin x2

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Myopic Books

one day i left my room
in the evening
it was freezing
the sidewalk shining
but it was ok
i wasn't lonely
i wan’t no one
i was just hoping
for a bookstore
like the one i prayed for
and the music they play there
would be dinosaur jr
and the people who worked there
would be super skinny
and super unfriendly
and that would make me happy

what really kills me
is I'm only lonely
when i talk to you
yeah i should have told you
i just cant handle
your endless sorrow
all i wanted from you
was some tomorrow
ah but its ok
I'll find a bookstore
and buy Saul bellow
& one about old ruins
for my mother
you never met her
she liked manhattans
they taste like mouthwash
she understood how
to be alone
all alonex2

maybe the worst is overx4

i left my room
one evening
the sun had just gone down
but the sky still shining
and not even the stars
up in heaven
could throw their ashes
on the blue still burning
over this ugly city
and that makes me happy x4

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America Loves The Minstrel Show

my life is a sham
i pretend that I’m me
my life is a sham
i pretend that I’m free
wake up wake up
its time for me to go
America Loves The Minstrel Show

i don't want to hurt you
but if I do I’All pay
i don't want to hurt you
but if I do I’ll pay
i’ll live in the dark where
nothing can ever grow
America Loves The Minstrel Show

its the thief whose the first
to accuse others they steal
its the fake who claims to
always know what is real
and millions all want to bathe
in his glow
America Loves The Minstrel Show

they love me babe,
there's a line around the block
they love me babe,
compared to that what have you got
its who I am it’d be a
crime to let it go
America Loves The Minstrel Show

i know that they’ll never forget me
and the funny faces I make
they’ll never forget me
and the funny faces I make
i make ‘em think that they won’t reap
what they sew
America Loves The Minstrel Show

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The Horseshoe Wreath in Bloom

here's the story of the incredible shrinking man
of fatal disappointment met with a frozen margarita grin
blinking in time to the hour hand
funny red nose, Rudolph jokes, memory failing

if you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day
a pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver all
scratched away

see him face the manageress he feels her bright disdain
watches as she yawns all the way through his final scene
she makes it clear my dear in no way does she wish him ill
says there's no justice there's just this bill

10 years at the Columbia Hotel
for that there should be a fabulous prize
a lifetime room for a life that slipped away
to hide his asphalt and tarmac eyes

if you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day
a pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver all
scratched away
and i’m sure my horseshoe wreath will surely bloom

if I wait in the hotel bar all afternoon
just wait in the hotel bar every afternoon

Ed Mc Mann and the models will emerge from the gloom
with big thanks for the life you lead and the joy you made
give up a wad of paper and all my favorite balloons
I’ll make a kick ass speech how you never let the bastards kill your soul
how those who pound sun to dawn you pound of the walls of doom
and fight the vacuum in a world without supermen
how a star must never cast a shadow across the room
I’m a king i know i wrote it on my tomb..

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Song of the Rats Leaving the Sinking Ship

Once you rode a tide, it was always flowing out towards the sky
It was like a dancer who followed your steps
It was like a lover who could take you to the dawn
It was like a history you could throw away
yeah...

Now the sea is throwing back all the voices who don't want to drown
Every wave is like a soldier who will fade back into the fear
where the soldiers are made
trapped with your first class papers on a lonely dock
where the future is a luxury to mock

You can laugh, you can cry, you can even bitterly grieve
But you can't deny that it's time to leave

your indecision is poison, worse than broken bones or the coffin
your either standing still or your running out
You're like a safety door that's stuck and won't open
for a fire or a summer day
All you do is tire
But you don't have to try - everyone wants to be deceived
But you can't deny that it's time to leave
I swear you want to say goodbye even more than you want to breathe
But you can't deny that it's time to leave

The enemy always lies
Hides like a match in a lump of coal
He won't use his eyes
He hates you for your soul
He hates you for soul..

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The Devil Needs You

You take the high road
I'll take the low
don't ask me for direction
all I've got is for show

you're beautiful
and i hope the devil
never tries to free you
never ever needs you

you want to give me heaven
you assume that's what I've lost
you go sing hymns with your wife
I'll stay here and carry your cross

you're beautiful
and i hope the devil
never tries to free you
never ever needs you

what possesses you
is what you deny
I'm not trying to save your soul
i just don't want to see it die

(all lyrics copyright Mark Eitzel 2004)

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