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Gaps in My Resume
02:48
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If you give me this job, sir, I won't disappoint
Your face tells me you get right to the point
Your face tells me you read my resume
You got questions, I can explain
I got out of college, studied liberal arts
I went straight to work at a coffee cart
I went straight to work until I got fired
The manager there was always wired
OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume
Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume
Got my first real job at venture dot-com
But I got the pink slip when the market went down
I got the pink slip and I moved back home
I thought about grad school, feared the loan
So I volunteered registering citizens to vote
For friendly folks and the right to toke
For friendly folks living in the hills
My pay was green but it wasn't dollar bills
Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume
OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume
Then I worked construction, I hurt my back
I took worker's comp. and the state took it back
I took worker's comp. and I took another job
The state calls a double dip third-degree fraud
Then I worked in a bank saying no to the poor
But I got let go when I let one in the door
I got let go trying to help a brother out
That's the reason for my loan default
Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume
OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume
Being unemployed I was high and dry
And you don't wanna know the things I did to get by
You don't wanna know the things I did to get paid
It involved costumes and facial paint
Then I guy I went to school with hacked a fund
He owed me money and he gave me some
He owed me money and he hooked me up
With a couple job leads and a thousand bucks
OK here it is straight: I got a few gaps in my resume
Hey, hey what can I say? I got a few gaps in my resume
I want to get my life back on the right track
I was so awful glad when you called me back
I was so awful glad to meet face to face
To explain to you the gaps in my resume
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Hellfire & Brimstone
04:20
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A preacher's son born with a serpent's tongue
Learned a lesson when he was young
He could shout out loud and draw a real good crowd
People coming from miles around
He had a book with a cross
It makes a pretty good prop
But then a brand new toy made him the happiest boy
It amplified his voice for all to enjoy
And it's strange
It's shaped like a gun with a trigger like one
In flames
Over the megaphone it's hellfire and brimstone
A pill-popping lug with a voice like a drug
And a mug three wives couldn't love
And a dinosaur brain, a dinosaur mouth
Around his middle hung a dinosaur pouch
He did a comedy show
At least that's what he told
He brought millions of smiles across the AM dials
To all except the suckers underneath his dogpile
It's strange
If the pen beats a sword how about a radio
In flames
Over the microphone it's hellfire and brimstone
Hellfire and brimstone
Hellfire, hellfire and brimstone, hellfire
Hellfire, hellfire and brimstone, hellfire
He's mad as hell and he knows how to yell
Above all he knows how to sell
To keep butts in seats then get 'em out in the streets
His Nielsen ratings they cannot be beat
He's got a book with a swastika
It makes a pretty good prop
Lookout he's using technology to spread ideology
And some say he commands an army
It's strange
Satellite systems and televisions
In flames
Piped into your home it's hellfire and brimstone
Piped into in your home, hellfire and brimstone
Right there in your home
Hellfire, hellfire and brimstone
Burning, burning, burning, burning
Hellfire, hellfire and brimstone
Burning, burning, burning, burning
Hellfire, hellfire and brimstone
Everywhere I hear the sound of
Hellfire, hellfire and brimstone
Burning, burning, burning, burning
Hellfire, hellfire and brimstone
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Halo of Blue
02:06
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When the nighttime settles and the sunshine's gone
Shadows are long
I see a ring around the moon
Because I got one too
Halo of blue
And I see that man living up in the moon
In his lonely room
I think he feels the way I do
He's looking through
A halo of blue
Well I ain't complaining
But it won't let go
So I'm letting you know
That I just can't shake this halo
I'm like a skipping stone to the glass of a lake
I watch it break
And see the stone sink out of view
Beneath a ring or two
Halos of blue
Well I hate explaining
But it won't let go
So I'm letting you know
That I just can't shake this halo
Every shooting star on its way to die
On a midnight ride
Drops right down on you
A melancholy hue
A halo of blue
All the fallen angels gotta walk the earth
Hiding their hurt
Maybe this describes you
Do you have one too?
A halo of blue
Halo of blue
Halo of blue
Halo of blue
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Elvis Presley was the king
His throne was hand me down
Hand me down
Muddy and Bo Diddley already wore that crown
Wore that crown
Yes they had it down
The story and the glory
Changes with only
The story of whose glory's left behind
Babe Ruth had a mighty swing
Sports fans say it's true
Yes it's true
If he faced Satchel Paige
I wonder how he'd do
How he'd do
0 and 2?
The story and the glory
Changes with only
The story of whose glory's left behind
Washington's a founding dad
Father he knows best
He knows best
Oughta' ask Martha if he sewed that flag he blessed
Flag he blessed
Mama gets no rest
The story and the glory
Changes with only
The story of whose glory's left behind
"Let's go," Lewis said to Clark, "to our new land trust."
New land trust
The folks along the way said, "It ain't new to us."
New to us
That's news to us
The story and the glory
Changes with only
The story of whose glory's left behind
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I tried to run
I tried to hide
But when I got out
I climbed right back inside
You got a hold on me
Like gravity
Something keeps pulling you
Right back to me
Why do I fight?
It don’t take long
Every time I think I’m off the ground
You keep coming around
I tried to leave
I tried to go
But after all this time
You’d think I’d know
You got a hold on me
Like gravity
Something keeps pulling
You back to me
Why do I fight?
It don’t takes long
Every time I think I’ve got this down
You keep coming around
You keep coming around
Every time I try to make a change
I might as well be calling out your name
I tried to run (I tried to leave)
I tried to hide (I tried to go)
But after all this time, baby
You’d think I’d know
You got a hold on me
Like gravity
Something keeps pulling you
Right back to me
Why do I fight?
It don’t take long
Every time I think I’m off the ground
You keep coming around
You keep coming around
You keep coming around
You keep coming around
You keep coming around
You keep coming around (and around, and around, and around…)
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Before you were my baby
Before you were my girl
What did you do anyway?
Who made your toes curl?
Who taught you how to dance?
Who showed you that move?
Before you were my baby
Whose baby were you?
Before you were my baby
Before you were my man
Where did you put yourself?
I’m just trying to understand
Did you have a certain type
Was it always someone new?
Before you were my baby
Whose baby were you?
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ahhh...
Before you were my baby
Before you were my mate
Did you have a lot of fun?
Did you always have a date?
Did you make every scene?
Could you ever be true
Before you were my baby
Whose baby were you?
Before you were my baby
Whose baby were you?
Before you were my baby
Whose baby were you?
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la, ahhh...
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7. |
Lucky Day
04:30
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The wrecking ball hit
The deal fell through
The quarter is flipped
Guess what you get to do
It's your lucky day
Your lucky day
Your lucky day
It's your lucky day
Your lucky day
Your lucky day
Tornado at work
Everything's lost
It's gonna' hurt
Why don't you tell the boss?
It's your lucky day
Your lucky day
Your lucky day
It's your lucky day
Your lucky day
Your lucky day
Didn't want in now you're in too deep
You should have hit save before you went to sleep
It's not your mess, just yours to clean
And you can't run away
'Cos it's your lucky day
Your lucky day
Your lucky day
It's your lucky day (It's your lucky day)
Your lucky day
Your lucky day
Didn't want in now you're in too deep
You should have hit save before you went to sleep
It's not your mess, just yours to clean
And you can't run away (You can't run away)
The secret is out
They're going insane
The question is how
We thought you could explain
'Cos it's your lucky day
Your lucky day
Your lucky day (It's your lucky day)
It's your lucky day
Your lucky day
Your lucky day (It's your lucky day)
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Oh Hudson ain't you grand with all your tugs and PCBs
Your waters always call out to my curiosity
We had some fun but always there's a place I'd rather be
High above the mele on a pristine mountain stream
Mountain stream
Runnin' in my dreams
I looked far and wide
Of every place I've seen
Nothin' moves me like a mountain stream
I've been to London, Paris too, tryin' to find my way
I saw the Thames and I saw the Seine on Les Champs-Elysees
Everything's so interesting, and I wished I belonged
I didn't feel as good as on a mountain stream back home
Mountain stream
Runnin' in my dreams
I looked far and wide
Of every place I've seen
Nothin' moves me like a mountain stream
If I reach the pearly gates and I get asked inside
I hope I find the paradise I knew before I died
Heaven in its theory is a sure sight to be seen
But I won't wanna' be there if it ain't a mountain stream
Mountain stream
Runnin' in my dreams
I looked far and wide
Of every place I've seen
Nothin' moves me like a mountain stream
Nothin' moves me like a mountain stream
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Here comes a real hot story
About the real cool years
From a long gone daddy
Filling envious ears
About learning stuff
Dionysus doubling
Doing beautiful drugs
Beautiful drugs and hard women
Like Keith and his daughters
Don't you want to be in vogue?
Flowing like water
Where your nose just knows
Babe, you got the touch
So just keep chillin'
Doing beautiful drugs
Beautiful drugs and hard women
Beautiful drugs and hard women
Can't stand what I'm missing
At this party where everybody's swimming
In beautiful drugs and hard women
Beautiful drugs and hard women
Can't stand what I've been missing
At this party where everybody's swimming
In beautiful drugs
I wish I'd been a long gone daddy
With a Buddhist flair
Tell my own damn stories
Tell 'em in a nudist lair
I wish I took that rockin' road
To the palace of wisdom
Doing beautiful drugs
Beautiful drugs and hard women
Beautiful drugs
Beautiful drugs
Beautiful drugs and hard women
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10. |
Elemental
04:00
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Moon pulls tide
Sky pulls rain
Sometimes, hurricane
One drop
Monsoon
Elemental
We're like the sun and the moon
The wind and the rain
Hey hey
Hey hey
We're turning in space
Burning inside
Heaven and earth
Magnetic poles
Volcanoes
Elemental
We're like the sun and the moon
The wind and the rain
Hey hey
Hey hey
Fire and ice
You and I
Don’t think too much
Don’t think too much baby
Don’t think too much
Don’t think too much baby
Don’t think too much
Don’t think too much baby
Moon pulls tide
Sky pulls rain
Sometimes
One touch
Motion
Elemental
Fire and ice
You and I
We're like the sun and the moon
The wind and the rain
Hey hey
Hey hey
We're like the sun and the moon
The wind and the rain
Hey hey
Hey hey
Rocks melt in
Extreme heat
Elemental
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It’s only me
And it’s only you
The clock has stopped for a perfect few
Keep me just a little longer
This gentle touch
Elemental need
The world is perfect when you’re close to me
Keep me just a little longer
Innocence and wonder
What a feeling
It’s getting stronger
The night is dark
And the path’s unclear
I get so lonesome when you disappear
Keep me just a little longer
Innocence and wonder
What a feeling
It’s getting stronger
It’s only you
And it’s only me
Time keeps marching to eternity
Keep me just a little longer
Keep me just a little longer
Keep me just a little longer
Keep me just a little longer
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Nate Schweber Brooklyn, New York
By day, Nate is a (mostly) mild-mannered reporter. On certain nights he likes to howl like a werewolf. He lives in Brooklyn; he was raised in Montana. The answers you seek here are in the songs.
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