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Other Chords (Huh?)
03:38
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Well I drove all night
Snow and ice and big trucks
I needed a haircut
She lived across from a graveyard
Toy dog in the backseat
Take the Scout to the Liquormart
Playing all the worst possible songs we could find on the jukebox
On CNN there’s a standoff
Somewhere in Texas
Do you know any other chords?
Does this answer your question? Huh?
I don’t remember the way home
There was something about barbed wire?
There’s something about wearing dark sunglasses at night doesn’t seem right
I’m pretty sure that whatever bad things happen to me for the rest of my life
Will be justified karmic payback for my behavior that night at the casino
It doesn’t seem like you want this job
Well I…
I’m gonna find some wood paneling
And make the living room a bedroom
Do you know any other chords?
Does this answer your question? Huh?
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Whole Stack of Memos
03:50
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Somewhere out there, in some office somewhere
There’s a whole stack of memos with my name on them
I don’t know how they got there
Or what went wrong or why
But there’s a whole stack of memos I missed about life
By some dusty old fax machine
There’s a whole stack of memos I’ve never seen
Would it make any difference if I saw them long ago?
Would life be any better? I guess I’ll never know
Next to the stack of memos
Growing leaps and bounds
There’s a long list of things I try not to think about
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Looking back I’m lucky to be here
Late night car chases, beer in the front seat, no seatbelts
I tried hitchhiking one night in Texas
Never been so glad to see the sun
That was before cell phones
Then when you were lost you were on your own
When I start counting blessings and close calls
I soon find out I need more fingers
Quiet house
Kids are grown
Job’s finished
More and more friends are gone
Look for new signs
First prayer in a long time
Try to cherish life
Every minute
When I start counting blessings and close calls
I soon find out I need more fingers
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Talking To Rainbows
03:47
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Before you go talking to rainbows be sure you know you may soon be going away
I just saw an old guy sitting on a bench with his dog and a cool old hat
I wonder how they picked the color of the bench or if they just had paint leftover
I think it’s cool that as long as there’ve been humans we’ve prized and enjoyed colors
Or should I say difference it wavelength translated by the brain through the optic nerve
Now I’m wondering how you’d describe color to a person who’s been blind since birth
I just saw you talking to rainbows
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People walking on the moon, that was before my time
A lot of people I know though say it messed with their minds
‘Cause now when they look up they see things differently
Knowing people have been up there changed their reality.
Took away some of the mystery
And it’s funny how, it doesn’t matter how true something is
When you’re in the business of the denial
Wanted: Quiet place in mind
Let me tell you about another day, Philadelphia, May 11, 1997
Garry Kasparov is disbelief holding his head slunched over a chessboard
He started strong, took a pawn, confident he was gonna win again
But this time IBM showed up packin’ 200,000,000 moves a second
Super computer Deep Blue starting to dance, raising his hands standing over him
Beating his chest, looking down, shouting like Cassius Clay over Sonny Liston
There’s one thing I know: The grandparents of our cellphones will always remember it
‘Cause it’s like a moon landing for artificial intelligence
And it’s funny how, it doesn’t matter how wrong something is
When you’re in the business of lying
Wanted: Quiet place in my mind
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All We Say
03:55
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There’s a box
Full of pictures
In a small town
In a thrift store
How was your day?
Is everything OK?
It seems like that all we say
Well they’re all gone
Whoever would have thought
That when those pictures were shot
That some stranger
In the distant future
Would look into their faces
As if from another world
And wonder what their names were
And what their hopes and fears were
And how it all turned out for them
How was your day?
Is everything OK?
It seems like that’s all we say
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