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will yachange me a 50for my straying waysgaragerecordinsProject 12 - 2023-05-21, 5.07 PM 03:45
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CAN YA CHANGE ME A FIFTY FOR MY STRAYING WAYS i go to bed with buttons to undo the things i said i never should have opened up these hinges in my head you got so bleeding angry, your lips went russian red now tonight i’m in the dog house, i‘m barking to be fed will you please forgive me won‘t ya change your mind? i’m sick and tired of chasing life and being left behind the only booze there’s rations to this homemade mountain shine by morning time you’re gonna find i’ve gone illegally blind you’re the reason i feel the way i wanna feel my stomachs in my head right now it’s doing a cartwheel i ain’t had meat in more than weeks you’ve zip-locked all my meals i’m begging you your pardon darling, i guess i‘d better kneel i promise to do better, i vow to change my ways i’ll be right here beside your side come day light savings day just think of all the money hon. that we are gonna save and we’ll spend it here together in sunshine or in shade i’m glad you are reconsidering you’re giving me one last chance i’m drawing up the blueprint now of all my pledged amends you won’t be seeing this dog stray too far from this here fence i’m doing self improvement laps chained short inside my house reading self-help books on how to court romance
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samsamiamgarageday2Project 12 - 2023-05-22, 10.08 PM 03:35
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you'remybestfriendgarageday2Project 12 - 2023-05-21, 10.23 PM 03:04
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YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND (unconditionally) 20-09-11 EA here ya are baby trying to save me again here ya are baby trying to lend a helping hand here ya are baby giving me all then more than you should have to be and still i demand a little more you’re my best friend my my my you give me - a reason for everything you’re my best friend unconditionally here baby ya are again giving me strength here ya are again baby making amends for all the stupid things i do, i’ll do again too i’m warning you, though i think ya know (cause)you’re still my friend here baby ya are again holding my hand here ya are baby lending a helping hand again my friend yeah :) yeah :)
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i'm flying high up over you jew boiz rapp 78 03:07
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SONG2MADEUPON THE SPOT CAPO3rd A- D E- flying so high up over hell i’m flying i kiss but never tell i’m flying i’m flying high up over you we’re crawling, crawling from the hate we’re stalling, falling as we weigh wondering if it’s really just too late to turn i only gotta wait for you we’re flying high up over midnight looking down on all you little bright lights look to where the light gets shined half past when, according to design don’t you think it’s about time, don’t you think it’s a bout time that we shine, that we shine flying so high up over hell i’m flying i kiss but never tell i’m flying i’m flying high up over you
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greg'ssongedgegarageday2Project 12 - 2023-05-21, 10.25 PM 02:18
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song i started in canada at greg’s – july 2008 Em G D with finger flip por 2 chorus: C D A - C D A7 GREG’S SONG i was on my way by daybreak, the wet road had unraveled the cars and smog were causing hours of clogs in people’s power the light moon lit my way became the sun come beating down the dawn the light that made it day, though light was leaking out i promised i would compromise, i stumbled to get up my friends were all the butchers now, their hands a tarnished cup my prayers were weak from questioning trying to bridge the gap the bible’s weathered leather riding monkeys on my back my prayers had all got wet when the rain was coming down the clowns were dancing jigs and juggling chainsaws for the crowd i slit the jester’s throat with thread – i’d planned to stitch him up the rafters filled with laughter - my cup was filling up my limbs had all crawled back to me a little weary for the rain they passed about a pitcher of elixir for the sane got graced a dog’s deliverance, i drowned the night’s last round and stumbled back to what before i thought i’d figured out i was wayward from my home wayward from my soul flipped a coin i made my bed
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how do U know witch way the wind is blowing 61 03:05
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now i have found the way to be the one • i can not see the sun the day is nearly done C but i’m flying high trying to be (much)wiser then i Dwas the day before THE new horizon Ci can’t be sure what is comingUP Dbut (i’m) hoping ATLEAST there might be SOMETHING good how do you know just which way the wind is blowing well ya stick your head out the train window but the flow is Cin a direction (that) you don’t like where you’re going cause you Dbought the ticket B4 your heart was knowing what it really means to be stuck UP here on a thrown and look at all the shit that the wind has blown how do you know just which way the wind is blowing how do you throw a stone out UP on TO the ocean you skip to the beat of THE train down at your feet going clickity back the other way (as if) smelling RETREAT compelling feeling making make believe in your self again
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my love 4 your 4ever wil B true 8 02:35
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all i know right now love’s gonna make a fool of me so tired of bending down • and begging her • please leave me be but even though somehow • i’m dropped again • weak in the knees i’m compromised 2 vow 2 C true love through faith fully all i know right now • love’s gonna • make a fool of me instead of falling down • i’m getting up again 2C my heart so full of doubt • but brave•2bold•2B believed i’m finally finding out • it’s not love’s fault • this we air we breathe (is LOVE) all i know 4 now • you’re gonna make • a fool of me safe and sound inside • a mother’s homemade recipe if i’d made up my mind • by now my soul • would B set free and floating from above • oh say i’d SAY(la C) • what i can C (with love) all i know right now • love’s gonna • make a fool of me from down here on my knees • my eyes can ‘t see • what i believe the west has justice won • all change still chained to slavery still focussed on desire while wandering round what really needs (our love) all i know right now • love’s gonna • make a fool of me she’s got me locked somehow • my head’s undone • without a key my stomach’s up in knots • she cooks 4 me • but i don’t eat in helping of my self •i think i’ll take 2• love sick leave all i know right now •is i’m thinking about calling you don’t know where you are • or whether you’re still feeling blue i’m trying in my mind • to remember to forget how 2 instead i find a way • into your folded arms•a new (i’m missing you) all i know right now • love’s gonna make a fool of me • she’s cut me off somehow • i’m turning blue • i gasp 2BREATHE • my heart is slowing down • 2KEEP PACE with this change in me
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jesus christ william land craig charlatan 54 02:19
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JESUSCHRIST HOW’D YA GET 2 BE SO ALMIGHTY 6/7CAPO GCD jesus christ - how’d ya get to be so almighty jesus christ - how’d ya get to being something you didn’t suppose you’d be - kinda just like me you are’t supposed to say? you walked across the water - what was the deal on that - my mother said the tides rolling in - my father said don’t even begin - it’snot worth thinking about - now - why not? got a message in a bottle - thrown out upon into the sea - so i need someone to walk upon the water - to fetch my soul for me so jesus christ i really really love ya - but i need to know just what yer all about tell me about your Fame - what’s your HISstory? how do ya think ya got yourself mixed/caught up with all of/ah that crap - that bullshit all sounds made up oh jesus christ makes amends before us but anyone of us is enough to keep it going with out amking all this fuss kinda like christmas oh wait now bow before us our saviour in all his gloriness is about to mix it up again this christmas as something he didn’t suppose he’d be
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my 1GOOdDEEdtoday 20-08-16 03:31
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NEW SONG SAME OLD MELODY C PINK DM7 – F – G7 G – C PINK MY ONE GOOD DEED TODAY FIND A PENNY - PICK IT UP ALL DAY LONG IT BRINGS GOOD LUCK IF ONLY LUCK WERE SOMETHING YOU COULD FIND TAKE A PENNY FROM YOUR POCKET FIND A PLACE TO SAFELY LOCK IT SAVE IT ‘TIL THERE IS A RAINY DAY WHEN THE RAIN does finally come down YOU’LL HAVE ME TO STILL DEPEND ON don’t YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S NO RAIN THAT DON’T END in a SUNNY DAY WHEN THE RAIN IS COMING DOWN imagine HOPE’S A WILTING FLOWER DROP A PENNY IN THE GUTTER LEAVE IT FOR SOME BUM TO PICK UP DONE YOU ARE YOUR ONE GOOD DEED TODAY MAKE A WISH THEN WISH IT WELL take your time cuz time does tell WHAT REALLY WAS IMPORTANT AFTER ALL fake my brain and try to stop it stop it from what’s got to happen a lonely light too blind to see the way that things suppose to be it doesn’t matter what goes around the sun’s just gone inside a cloud
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wildlifeedgegarageday2Project 12 - 2023-05-21, 10.28 PM 02:34
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MY WILD LIFE G#CmC#G#Eb bridge C#G#X3-Eb wild life - taking all my time wildly expecting - reason from rhyme wild life - dependant on memory god’s speed adjusting to all that keeps changing wild life wild life wild life wild life living for answers planning our chances sights set on an the end wild life divorced from god’s forces that govern and give some semblance to things wild life wild life wild life but i never feel it’s not enough - no i never feel it’s not enough no i never feel it’s not enough - to me
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moaningaboutUdoghuntProject 12 - 2023-05-17, 9.39 PM 04:11
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moaning bout - U april1 2023 • Em C G AD AD GD AD B E - A • anybody but me by brenda lee how how i wish i could be any body but me how how i wsih i could be any body but me lonely lonely as i can be i’ll B moaning bout - U moaning bout - U trying 2 find my way back home • from here 2 Timbuktu set out on a journey • don’t really wanna do weak unwilling • in2 the unknown moaning bout - U pacing back in 2 the past • 2 where we all once knew a way into a future • with wide brighter eyes of blue beginning in a second coming home moaning bout - she... is the apple of my eye • so blood shot i can’t see blinded in the alley • wayward • wondering where i’d be with out her • hungry hearted every day moaning bout - U blessings 2 the meek • and 2 the lame and stricken too praying for the rain 2 wash away the awful truth el salvador • won’t B returning soon moaning bout - U singing choirs of angels • knelt down • humbled by the view eyes in envy opened wide • and focussed finely tuned realizing • we’re all only passing through Imoaning bout - me feeling sorry for my former self • i’d seldom disagree mourning for an other life • a longing wannabe 2B any body else • like brenda lee moaning bout - U moaning bout - U i’ll moaning bout - U • from the top of this bell tower i’ll be moaning bout - U
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trying t o undo these things i didgaragerecordinsProject 12 - 2023-05-18, 10.17 PM 04:02
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Plus song i wrote in Canada in my room – july 2008 DOING TIME FOR SOMETHING THAT I DID C F - G F C i wake up every morning i put all of my clothes on then i make my way back over to the bed my heart is always open my heart is always hoping my heart is always bleeding in my head i’m trying to get these things i undone i did i see ya every morning you’re always in bed yawning you’re tired of us and where we always went you like flirting with the rainy days you’re raining hard on my parade the raindrops torture tapping in my head the things i didn’t do but did instead everything i do and say i do and say my special way you always confuse what i really meant i’m picking up the pieces baby that have fallen from my pockets lately to fix these things at least the ones i can i think it’s your turn too to understand we’re playing games that children play my carnival has run away my blue balloons are drifting with the wind a clown too big for his own shoes the circus tents are torn down too this cotton candy kid is stuck to you i’m trying to undo all these things i do
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i'mflying freegarageday2Project 12 - 2023-05-19, 11.14 PM 05:09
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i’m flying free i’m flying forth • flying free into ANother weather flying from the way • i wander from i’m looking deep into the SOUL of disillusion • i AM reaching for 1 reason to sing PROUD i’m dropping dreams in2 a hole wishing well as they plop way down there at the bottom • OF All sound AND i DO know running WATER leads down HILL • recedingFAR beyond profound i’m flying foward UN • tethered toward better then it ever seems 2B B4 it’s gone i’m flying free • flying north • heading toward the war i am fleeing into HELL • way UNDERground i’m knowing that the sun comes round to shine down on us ALL and keep us warm from harm SO brief in time BUT 4 now we warm up2 the fire • with FAMILY Television hour • OUR BRIEf escape i’m flying over clover • floating Up above this summer LOVE is in the air so sweet2breathe i’m flying free KNOWing no one KNOWing nothing feeling fortune 2 have ANYthing 2B i’m sleeping later living longer playing THE good soldier dreaming of ANADAN and ANEVA or i’m like a bear cranky as the weather that’s been raining lately there or i’m like a bear cranky as the weather that’s been raining lately HERE i KNOW my FAME KNOW my NAME • is just a figment i imagine 4 2 day to keep me SAfE i’m going forth 4ward 2 the north stuck true2 course smiling un2 U • from under grace if left alone to my disgrace i’ll lay back down onto the face 2SMILE if left alone to this disgrace i’ll lay back down but UP 2FACE the lOVE
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doghuntProjectnocapo 12 - 2023-05-17, 9.29 PM 03:56
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DOG HUNT dogs hunting in the dark tonight - i couldn’t get to sleep to get me peace of mind - dog hunt head heavy and my eyes are dim - can’t get to sleep it’s either me or him - can’t seem to keep him from my mind - thoughts trip quickly as my time unwinds - talk to myself to keep me sane - holes up in the roof - dogs are on my tail rainbow’s chasing me i got the gold – sunlight flickers click, the shutter’s closed – i claw at time falling down its hole - always crawling back to where i was before - my knees are grinding into gravel floor – chains dripping blood – scraping through to bone dulled mind inside a twister wind – i drink the poison that comes beaconing – it spills on out as i am breathing in - choking me up to where he’s got me pinned - i gasp for breath but then again begin – to suddenly remember - all i thought forgotten shark swimming in a salty soup – he dives down deep he takes you too – should i think to sink or should i swim – heat bleaching you above the sun again – water pouring down comes seeping in - sun peeling skin - like flesh is stripped from bone head long into a heavy wind – what blows me in is at my back again - water rising up above the rim - river over flowing love from some holy hymn - i feel the pain of unsung stinging sin – he’s got me going under before even going in broke window ripping straight through time - lost minutes missed the passing train – saints (go) marching hear them coming in – drumsticks always breaking where they’re wearing thin - i stumble in the dark too tired to sleep - my lungs are filled with lead - there’s trouble where i breathe
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bigmoneybluesgarageday2Project 12 - 2023-05-21, 10.37 PM 03:04
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Eb BIG money (monkey) chorus dance tune holy cr*p Eb A D E capo6 pooling at the corner big money on the pocket chick hens chec king clucking stare ring popping bottle rocket a hun dead doll A.R. raising de pends on if i’ll drop it i smoke her through the hazing pur ple rain poor ºold seat bucket chorus D A E DC/AE x4 big money booze drug sex drin king eve nings deeper in debt big money funny how up set U get once i lose i’ll bet pinching pe ne noodle • rol led oats hall car pet ting a lie a loof in plain dis pute • Oºver co star red orion cinematic story boredºsell an atom apple early evening in the sand paper re fining fables glory phoney ball be lonely for lorn • eich man searching h’ordeurves taste testing his tory dress sing up in arms crossed for war sa luting tears salt watering • gas wide eyed re volving carousel piggy backing bacon wrapped warm hiding loo king love ly in the light low laughing at the chorus the bears row in a thruple • fun nelling nature’s golden porridge bon ding by james’ river º7 ven dou bull split ban-ananas mo no 2 nal monk keys un lock • neo lithic cam er as oranges mourning sun day • kiss sing lips buzz squirrely squirming with the worms the early birds absurdly worry arg u ing down town preaching • blaming HIGH attendance on the dancers folding flaps up on the pants hot trotting ten ets chorus D A E DC/AE x4 big money booze drug sex drin king eve nings deeper in debt big money funny how up set U get once i lose i’ll bet```
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hot air balloonuke 14-08-16 03:39
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hot air balloon C2 B+note2 Am2 F1 G1 back to C C B+ deflated d reams - my attic holds Am F G blue sky asleep - inside a casket C B+ traces of A fire’s coals Am F G my hot air balloon - and basket i’m chained in town and growing sick from dreams i’ve had my plan’s been drawn school and house in anchored brick my airship leaves - just after dawn the buildings fell - a way beneath the fire breathed - a thankful sigh the houses seemed - like rooted teeth below the milky - morning sky i made it happen in my head just hopeful illusions of grandeur those promises that once were said now dissipate into (the) empty air my new perspective on the sky almost makes this world seem kind i know that i was meant to fly it’s just t`he way we’re all designed the clouds are silhouettes in bronze i’m glad they join me on my way i’ve always envied vagabonds for the ease with which they stray
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høt air balloonc/eliben 09-07-15 03:20
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iknowicanBsafeinsidemyself2Project 12 - 2023-05-17, 10.20 PM 04:03
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IKNOWI CANB SAFE INSIDE MYSELF CAPO3 AmCGEm i know i can be safe inside myself • there’s no one else • inside of me • reminding me • to get out • and love i know i can be safe inside myself • there’s no one else inside me • reminding me that i am just another dreamer i know i walk alone • along this road • it winds toward home • i’m weary ‘cuz the heart i carry has gotten so darn heavy i know i can be safe inside myself • ‘cuz no one else could live with me • here in my mind • the time runs wildly free still running from the one • i ‘ve left behind • so many times • to start again • new life begins • once another bends i know i can replace • this face that’s smiling • back at me • and in its place • i see the mirrored lines in my mind slipping • slowly ageing i under estimate • the state of health • that wealth and life • and liberty • have tempted me • to believe IN dreaming may B should find a wife to love • her life • and share it with the kids in debt • drenched with regret • trapped under this red neck  i know my way back home • i’m all alone • wandering knowing • in the morning • you’ll be gone • and i’ll be on my own again i know i can’t be sad • because i’ve had • such a time existing • in my life • just to have been alive • makes all worth living i wished i’d realized • long before delivery • that your mind is as forgiving • as you give it reason • to forget i contemplate the fate that all must die • and what am i • i think that maybe if i try • what difference • will it make my loneliness is always • best kept close • against my chest • inside this secret deal • will soon reveal • god only knows • what’s next i haven’t yet got me a space • i read between the lines • withdrawn into my face • and written over in my mind i smile in spite of what i feel is real • the sun is falling down • the world whips us around at such a startling speed i know i can’t be safe inside myself • there’s no one else • inside me • residing here • with our darkest fear i know i can be safe inside myself • there’s no one else • inside me • riding me like the wind • into the end
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leviathan 8 02:50
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LEVIS® A than shame is UP your highness under garments showing draping ºheld beholden TOP above time • OVER same last century under ground god golden idols ºburning up in effigy • surrendertRUth by rendering sun2 shine on sunny DAZE the Hipocracy of ignorance is growing vines around your fence ºing U in2 A corner closing in on U again strangling U by coroner ºquincy A dams apple (A)day • gulping in the guilt double cruci -fixed christ sympathy flying over fields of fortune dropping bombs ON children reading ºbOOks on safe removal oF live mines ºin jungle sanctuaries believing ghostS of gallantry • citing quotes on chivalry • gaping eyes young mouths 2feed • gauntlet lancing WARt worries bureaucracy leviathan’s clammy hands clamp round your ring • fingering distracting U • soothing what YER SOOth seeing creature comforts creep A way • themeek inherit last class seats • leaving earth 2burn behind • A monu mental man made feat sad seeing things through eyes strain hardening 2 comprehend • living in among mere GIANts • immoral mortal hope less MEN sins accusing god excuses lacking IN self lESS restraint • behaviour gone unpunished • due 2 kamicosmic skeptic debt the democracy of cretins ºis dreaming in what’s seem ing ly • impossible 2 C thin air seeping bREAth • 2 black 2 breathe changing blind direction • waiting on A new BORN dream • prying out enamellED nails • scratching right back at U babe
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dawn090517_001 00:33
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diary of a decomposing dog

this diary on this scary day is one of warmth again and play i am not going to say what my feeling really is in fact it’s just a lark that i have any at all no one’s left to listen, no one ever has, my bed’s been made un-wizened so been judged to be the best, but somehow just one wrinkle in my head is always left. ... more

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