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Just You Wait
04:10
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She left home today
For the big city life
Hope for a job and some fame
When she got there she found it really sucked
Let down, amused and abused.
So she turned to drugs, turning tricks at night.
Working at McDonalds by the day.
When she nearly died she had just enough of the big city life and rat race.
The big city life and rat race.
She went and joined a cult, shaved off her hair.
Walking barefoot in the sun.
Then their leader said to the government “fuck off” and the government sent in a thousand Feds.
Here comes those thousands of Feds.
The gun fight broke out, at breakfast time.
Everyone was killed in their toast.
Now she had reached her true paradise.
Peace of mind came mind came when she was dead
“Peace of mind came when you're dead.”
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Slowly it goes, floating around,
moving around
the brown water.
It makes no sound.
It has no real time .
But bobs all around , just fine.
Can't make it's mind
It's floating away,
It's floating away
Round the bend.
Slowly it sinks
Going way down,
going far down.
To the depths below.
Only go slow
Floating on down.
Slowly go down,
down on a breeze.
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Survey '67
02:27
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Long lasting love
Is that a dream?
I sit there wondering
what it was for.
Faucet is flowing
water down the drain
It seems like love
fading away
(Wasting away)
I have no thoughts
and no one has
Today baby
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Take A Tumble
02:35
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Some days that you fall
Some days you don't
Seems no reason at all
To cherish that note she wrote
Get back on your feet
walk a little more
Trust the one you're with
No worries no more
Take a tumble today
But not for tomorrow
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The road rolls up and rolls down.
Watch the corner at the bottom of the hill.
It's claimed many a car
It wants a driver for it's ditch
The clouds of dust will blow me away
I have to move I cannot stay
The fields of corn will bury me deep
No time to run don't wanna get lost
The hills of grass and thistle seed
Lost my patience no will to succeed
Along the rolling and green land
No such luck to give me a hand
Meadowlarks and finches too
Bob up and down like a fish on a pole
Wood got it right in his art perhaps
The crazy roads , what's over that hill?
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Grand Palace Blues
03:13
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SING A SONG OF THE POOR
SING A SONG OF THE LIGHT
WAY ACROSS THE OPEN SEA
SING A SONG OF THE FIRE
SING A SONG FOR THE FARMER
WORKS SO HARD TO TILL THE GROUND
WONDER WHAT HE'LL EVER GET
POLITICS WILL CUT HIM DOWN
SING A SONG OF THE POOR
WAY ACROSS THE FIELDS OF GREEN
SING A SONG OF THE LIGHT
SING A SONG FOR TONIGHT
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Unattainable Thoughts
02:21
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I can't feel it this month of May
And so she pushes them into the fray
Don't have to steal it and go astray
Farewell she said
but that was on the way
Silhouettes I knew, they fade away so fast
Unattainable thoughts, they fade away so fast
Silhouettes I knew they fade away so fast
Don't go down there.
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Tess Said So
02:16
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The king has the key to let her
What was the crime she did not know
The key is stuck inside a jar
Without that freedom won't get far
A friend Tess will stop by soon
Tess will sneak inside the room
Key in her purse Tess makes away
The maid is her for another day
The story ends in tragedy
No key found to be free
The maid did die, forgotten about.
No Way !
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Preface
02:55
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GOING TO TOWN
TO SEE AN OLD FILM
SOMETHING TO MAKE ME HAPPY
SPIN AN OLD TOP TWIRL IT AROUND
CAT WILL BREAK IT REAL SNAPPY
HEY IT'S ME HE SAID
WHY'D YOU LEAVE ME FOR DEAD (DREAD)
HEY IT'S ME SHE SAID
LET'S GO OUT FOR LUNCH!
BACK ON THE PLAIN
A FOOL TO BE FOUND
PLAY BY THE RULES WITH THE FAMILY
A TOAST TO THEM ALL
TWELVE WILL NOT DO
WHY DO THEY DRESS IN KHAKI?
TO SUM IT ALL UP
A PINT WILL NOT DO
HE WANTS TO BE THEIR LACKEY
OF ALL OF THE TRIBES
THERE'S SEVERAL YOU KNOW
BRAVEST ONES ARE THE APACHE
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Burning Moon
04:57
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The moon is in it's full force
Shining in on me
The noise in the foothills...
slowly moving away
The fox stalking around.
The rabbits are very nervous.
The hounds are baying in the distance.
Something peers now in...
to get a better view.
There's fire in the field.
Where the corn once stood
The corn's now on a barge,
coasting down the mighty river.
Animals are free to roam
in the barren cornfield,
which is all burnt down.
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Wovoka Jr. Madison, Wisconsin
Side stuff done by Mike Turnis during and after the existence of Horny Genius, circa 1992 until this very day...a musical journey that is still evolving and well worth investigating.
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