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GREAT INVENTORS
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen
Smug and self-assured
Marching on the world
Never tell a soul
The mysteries we know
We thought it never got any better than this
Stoned in Diag park
Can't wait until it's dark again
Combat Rock on the stereo
and that Rocky Horror Picture Show
We thought it never got any better than this
CHORUS:
Nothing good comes with this colder weather
People blow away like yesterday's papers
After all those hungry years I still remember:
That was the summer of the great inventors
She wants the glitter and the paint
The lush life won't wait
The power and the glory
A growing-up-fast story
We thought it never got any better than this
Last night on the street
I saw her once again
Red hair and white shoulders
Living with her dealer
She said it never gets any better than this
CHORUS
Wake up in the morning, and I feel innocent
Wake up in the morning, and I'm so innocent
CHORUS
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The Known World
03:28
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THE KNOWN WORLD
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen
I'll drive out on a street full of shinier cars
Hear those engines roar
Little white lies is what they are
But every night needs a candle to stay awake
Every man needs something that he can't shake
And she always has a word, a glass of wine or a dollar
Soldiers & Sailors, cannons and students
All think this world is their own
The time they steal, they try to sell it back to the years
But it's just another pawnshop, a handout, a payday loan
All this nothing for nothing that eats at your bones
Paid off with a knife or a club or a rope
CHORUS
In the known world
You're all dogs and snakes and Christ
In the known world
It's closing up, for what that's worth
All was lost, before we were born
All will be won, after we're gone
All was lost, before we were born
All will be won, after we're gone
CHORUS
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MAGNETIC WEST
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen
Too bad about tomorrow
Tonight was all lips and fingers and fun
We built this city of sweating local scenery
With no backstory to come back from
Got caught on a rooftop, smoking
Cutting deals with this wet world
A neon night, a heavy high it calls
CHORUS
It's just one midnight mile to the motel of lost companions
Will we fight for one another in these Western lands?
There's a dread that I get when I look into the West
And I'm back in the valley, chasing red with white with red
I go to bed with every one of you again
When I look through telescopes of dust at the survivors of other men
I'll go there, I'll go there, I'll go there
I liked it, I liked it, I liked it
CHORUS
Amy at the drugstore
Buying band-aids for skinned knees
Amy buying a loaf of bread
Babe, you'd better shut up
I walked back that mile this morning
While the birds pecked the trash in the street
Another empty Uptown Sunday
Tonight there's nothing to do in this town
CHORUS
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People Like Us
03:31
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PEOPLE LIKE US
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen
Walked out alone, along the river
With everything I've lost but the time
Bottleflies in a buzzing chorus
What came down here to die?
Years flake from the rusty girders
Blind bridges to nowhere much
Where you kissed me once, for luck
A dirty bit of business
CHORUS
For people like us
Washed in the water, and left on the shore
For people like us
There's got to be a little something more
Hypnotized by the shops and towers
We never see the sun go down
We want a taste of this game they're running
But never seem to break away from this town
We took our enemies as friends
Now they're selling us back our skins
Reclaiming the brownlands again
A dirty bit of business
CHORUS
All the promises and plans we made
On the Sixth Street bridge that day
They've been nickled and dimed away
A dirty bit of business
CHORUS
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Yesterday's People
04:38
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YESTERDAY'S PEOPLE
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen
Saw my face in the mirror
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
All the smoke and glass and sidewalks
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
At all, at all, at all ...
Now I see a ray
All of yesterday's people
Standing in the dark
Standing in the dark
What seemed so long ago
Has just walked through my door
Now I see a ray
Saw her face in the mirror
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
Greasy fingers through the cobwebs
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
At all, at all, at all ...
Now I see a ray
Yesterday's people
All of yesterday's people
All of yesterday's people
Yesterday's people
All of yesterday's people
All of yesterday's
I hate yesterdays
Yesterday's people
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