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Uphill Grill
03:47
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Sunday morning at the Uphill Grill
Waiting for some inspiration
Buds are blooming on the dead stick hill
Burning torch of renovation (invigoration)
Waiting for, waiting for, some inspiration
At the Uphill Grill
Spring’s rewarding, you are still alive
Survivor’s guilty education
Buds are bursting, so it must be time
Guilded with appreciation
Waiting for, waiting for, some inspiration
At the Uphill Grill
Some we lost just like that diamond ring
Some have battened down the hatches
Some are deep within a memory
Buried down below the ashes
solo
Sunday morning at the Uphill Grill
Memories are not forgotten
Drink the summers till you’ve had your fill
New life grows from something rotten
Waiting for, waiting for, some inspiration
At the Uphill Grill
Waiting for, waiting for, some inspiration
At the Uphill Grill
Waiting for, waiting for, some inspiration
At the Uphill Grill
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Bottle Rocket
03:06
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Keep your spinning plates
Just to tempt the Fates
Wonder now and then
Will you break or bend
Will the river know
When to overflow
If you’re in a jam
will you break the dam
You are a bottle rocket
And I’m gonna follow you
You put me in your pocket
Sparking the sky
You got a lot to handle
And I’m gonna follow you
You are a Roman candle
Sparking the sky
Flying through the wind
Like a javelin
We will never lose
When you light that fuse
You are a bottle rocket
And I tied myself to you
You got me in your pocket
Sparking the sky
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Ursula
03:00
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Ursula can’t get me
But she’s gotta reach
Entangling the mothers
And strangling the others
But she can’t get me
Rewriting history
inky black lies
Her tentacle’s long
but her aim is all wrong
And she’s history
She plots in darkness,
Winning the game, pretty lies in her voice
Failing to see, that she’s giving me the choice
You spread the poison,
You think that you’ve won, but you’re nothing to me
You’re just a cartoon, tentacle - ly
Ursa, you can’t get me
I still got a voice
Your bitter ink smothers
All the cousins and the mothers
You may have got the others
But you can’t get me
You can’t get me
Ursula
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These Pages Must Show
03:36
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero
of my own story
or whether
that station will be held
by anybody else
these pages must show.
David Copperfield is watching
over my shoulder Like the Dickens
watching over me
Whatever’s there to see
These pages must show
Jimmy backs against the wall at recess
Lonely crying. Lonely crying
No one checks on him
I guess it’s sink or swim
The hero has left the story
Daddy made his great escape while Jimmy
Was dreaming about him
Left without him
Mommy shared the news
Now those 4th grade blues
These pages must show
Daddy doesn’t live here anymore
Mister Micawber
Kind of hero
The tyranny of words
A noisy flock of birds
These pages must show
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5. |
I'm the One
02:41
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I know we’ll always and forever
Be bestest friends
Even if we aren’t close distance -like
Or involved in each other’s lives
We’ve got too much to talk about
We’re on a relative plane
To 40 years of silence
40 years in the wilderness
So don’t think you’re gonna lose me
By living parallel lives
I’m the one
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6. |
Sand Man
02:40
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Sandman
god of my dreams
Nothing is quite what it seems
Come in disguise
Why are there teeth in your eyes?
Abel and Cain
Keeper of brothers remain
Where is my pouch of sand?
(Please let me sleep)
Sandman
Morpheus moon
Strum to Calliope’s tune
Bender of screams
Echoes you lost in your dreams
Lucifer lies
Everyone dies when they sleep
Where is my pouch of sand?
Where is my helm?
Where is my ruby?
Sandman
Death and Desire
Setting my nightmare on fire
Constantine mends
Lucifer ponders revenge
Summon the Fates
Morpheus stands at the gates
Sandman
Please let me in
When will the dreaming begin?
Come to me soon
Bury me under your moon
Please let me sleep
Show me the secrets you keep
Ah, Morpheus
(Please let me sleep)
Sandman
god of my dreams
Nothing is quite what it seems
Come in disguise
Why are there teeth in your eyes?
Abel and Cain
Keeper of brothers remain
Sandman
Please let me out
Drown in a river of doubt
I’m dreaming of
Reaching the surface above
Summon the Fates
Morpheus, open the gates
Where is my pouch of sand?
(Please let me wake)
Where is my helm?
(Please let me wake)
Where is my ruby?
(Please let me wake)
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Dream Life
02:28
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Can you see me as your heart sees
Not apart from you, but a part of you
And remember me as the man I am
Not the things I do or faults I have
And when you lie asleep at night
I'm beside you in your dream life
And when you open up your eyes
If you think of me
Know I am compromised,
Fighting time and a busy life
And nothing seems to come easily
But I'll be there when you need me
And when you walk along the street
And the wind blows like a memory
If you should wake up suddenly
And you think of me
History is full of hurt and tears
But nothing worse than the fear,
I'm forgotten
Most of all I want to say
I hope you find your own way
And never quit but remember this
Life is quick; make the most of it
And when you lie asleep at night
I'm beside you in your dream life
And when you open up your eyes
If you think of me
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Rocket Surgery
03:40
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One door closes
One door opens
Cans of worms
For the early bird
Will sink or swim
Batten down the hatches
Loose lips
sink ships
Passing in the night
So why should I worry?
Politics and perjury
Untie its knot
Rocket surgery
Pride comes before
You fall on your own sword
Come or hell or high water
Under the bridges
You burn
We’ll burn that bridge
When we get to it
So why should I worry?
Politics and perjury
Untie its knot
Rocket surgery
One door opens
Down the rabbit
Hole in one
That bridge has sailed
Hand grenades and horsehoes
Only count your eggs
Ask the chicken
On the road to hell
The mother of inventions
Is paved with good intentions
The road to hell
Hath no fury
So why should I worry?
Untie
It’s not rocket surgery
So what
What me worry?
Why me in big hurry?
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See the children
Run on the grass
In the sunshine
In the past
We all know
they grow up fast
And the truth is
Nothing lasts
The old ones
stand for youth
And the mountains
stand for truth
And the ones who are left
All on their own
gotta be strong
Now the children
Have all grown
And they’re living
All on their own
Mamas and papas
Go on and on
Wander and Wonder
Where they belong
Chorus
Though the family’s
Spread far apart
Still connected
Heart to heart
There’s a wedding
coming soon
We’ll all be there
Singing one tune
Chorus
See the children
Sun on the grass
In the future
And the past
To the the ones who
Are no longer here
I raise this
Glass of beer
And the old ones
stand for youth
And the mountains
stand for truth
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10. |
Skis, Boots, and Poles
02:16
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To the mountain
Skis, boots, and poles
Fly down the chutes and bowls
Feel the cold, icy wind,
(windy ice)
Frozen nose
(Winter clothes)
Race down the hill
on your skis, boots, and poles
From the top your
Poles, boots, and skis
Shoot through the Christmas trees
Hold your edge, steady hands,
Roll your knees
Keep carving turns on
your poles, boots, and skis
Owe it all to your
Skis, poles, and boots
Holding your mountain roots
Up the chair, to the top, down the chutes
Your life depends on
your Skis, poles, and boots
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Summers Never End
03:00
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You should have been here yesterday
The orange ball goes east to west
Pack your trunks and bring your best board and your wax
You should have been here yesterday
Summers never end
Just around the bend
Track the swells and trends
Live to surf another day
Searching for the perfect wave
You check the cams you watch the buoys
the orange ball will lead you on
Find a wave to dance upon
You check the cams and watch the buoys
You should have been here yesterday
stand your board upon the sand
Hold the sunset in your hand if you can
You should have been here yesterday
Follow the sun
The shining path
This is the way
To life in the curl
Follow the summer
Around the world
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