1. |
Not OK
02:52
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Search for meaning / cul de sac
Search for meaning / double back
No excuses / no regrets
But all you can tell me / is you're not dead yet
Cool and tasty / green delight
Pick o' the litter / drink in the sights
Charge your pleasure / on your Mastercard
With any luck, who knows, tonight / you might be hard
Got nothing to say, it's not OK (4x)
Self-indictment / pointed guilt
Watch it tumble / watch it built
Law and order / never wins
Pride and malice / double sins (double sins)
Got nothing to say, it's not OK (8x)
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2. |
Elusive
03:25
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So you had that conversation
And you avoided confrontation
But you live with such frustration
When you're really needing more
It's well known that you trusted
But now you're feeling busted
And the ship's completely rusted
And too far from the shore
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Maybe someone out there needs you
And the charges that you plead to
Not guilty of the crime
Don't go looking for a handout
Just do your best to stand out
Every time your life is planned out
You end up turning on a dime
(break/bridge)
The big prize is elusive
And life is not conducive
To behaviour that's abusive
And fighting for your way
The big prize is elusive
And life is not conducive
To behaviour that's abusive
We've had our fill today
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3. |
Edge of Arpeg
02:54
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4. |
Nasty Boy
03:48
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You took advantage, cut out my tongue
Made sure to finish while the night was young
Your heart is hollow, you can't fill the hole
No salvation for your rancid soul
You can't create so you destroy
Oh you are such a nasty boy
You hate the sinner, but you love the sin
You're a disgrace when you fake it again
I left the field, no, I'm not in your game
No winning, no wonder, and you are to blame
You can't create so you destroy
Oh you are such a nasty boy
Get off my planet, don't breathe my air
No pity on you, I do not care
Nothing to offer, you got nothing to say
STFU and get out of the way
You can't create so you destroy
Oh you are such a nasty boy
Nasty, nasty, you're such a nasty boy (STUF and get out of the way)
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5. |
The Easy Way
02:47
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You don't know where you belong
Don't know where you're going
Always helped you to be strong
Took my turn at rowing
Everything you want is upstream
Did you think that you would get to take the easy way
Carved initials in a tree
We were only children
Dreams for you and dreams for me
Bet we could have built them
Coasted long enough, let's pick up speed
Did you think that we would get to take the easy way
The easy way / The easy way
Seen too many gone astray
Too many lost in fighting
Got to get far away
From what you are inciting
No one ever says, "There's too much love"
Did you think that you would get to take the easy way
Did we think we might get to take the easy way
What made us think that we could take the easy way
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6. |
Some Kinda Change
03:27
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That time we nearly lost it / Almost bought the farm
We must have had a deity / Keeping us from harm
I never see inside you / You never look that clear
But when all this is over / Why don't you come on over here
Let's you and me go have some fun
Some kind of change has gotta come
Desperate for an answer / You try your luck at cards
But no matter what the reading / You know your life is hard
Strain to hear the echo / Of words you never said
It's time to come to Jesus / And tell him lies instead
Our sins are burning in the sun
Some kind of change has gotta come
Well, I couldn't sleep for dreaming / And you were always there
I need your arms around me / Love and warmth to spare
I fall into the gutter / I crawl onto my knees
I know that you're the strong one / The one I need to please
We don't know where we'll get it from
Some kind of change has gotta come
Our sins are melting in the sun
Some kind of change has gotta come
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7. |
Shake the World
03:10
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Loss prevention dusk 'til dawn
Won't you put your helmet on
Seek protection from the storm
Shelter where it's safe and warm
Erase a line that was never there
Shout your freedom through the air
Safe is not where you belong
You're too brave and you're too strong
Do what I could never do
Lead the way and follow through
Be the change I failed to be
Shake the world and make them see (repeat)
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8. |
Tears of a Crone
03:20
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Couldn’t believe all the things I was hearing
We’ve been consumed by what we are fearing
Cut through the underbrush, search for a clearing
Shake up the planet, the crisis is nearing
How can we tolerate so much that is wrong
Say we are helpless and must go along
Out of our hands because we don’t belong
We pull back inside when we need to be strong
Wringing our hands is like hoping and praying
No known effect from the words we are saying
Coulda showed up but we’re too busy playing
Circus and bread for the price we are paying
Let’s take some action, I’m sick of the noise
Repurpose the network, throw out the old boys
Don’t settle for soma, don’t settle for toys
But ya better hold tight, ‘cause creation destroys
Tears of a crone / she weeps alone / for sin she must atone
Needs readjusting, that bullshit detector
Decrease the tolerance, set a new vector
Turn it around, it becomes a reflector
Pushed through the lens of a movie projector
Shining a light on the way that we live
Innocence squeezed through the mesh of a sieve
Virtue must be more than performative
Been a taker too long, I’m ready to give
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The home of all things Vero B, maker of music since her wasted youth. Formerly Lisa's Hotcakes (early 2010s Vancouver), the Underachievers (mid-1980s Boston).
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