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Remember when you got high for the first time?
With your friend from the bad neighborhood?
Laughed so hard at your school uniform
Said man this shit is good!
Remember when you got laid for the first time?
Thought that you were a man?
Felt so good even if it didn’t last long
Said now I understand!
Remember when everyone hated the president?
Then it was “yes we can”
Tried to give a shit by watching the news
Said here’s my opinion!
Remember when you skipped church for the first time?
Forgot where you come from!
Felt so good to know you were right
Said god is opium!
Remember deciding what to do with your life?
Seemed so important back then
Gotta make livin it don’t matter how
Said I just want to be happy man!
Remember when you were smarter than everyone
Had an answer for everything
Closed the book and took a look around
Said everybody’s just like me!
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Tell Yo Sista
02:51
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Tell your sister I said hello
Tell you sister I said hello
Cause I seen her last night
At the pool hall with the lights down low
Tell your sister I said what’s up
Tell your sister I said what’s up
Cause when I seen her last night
She acted like she wanted some
Tell your sister I said good morn
Tell your sister I said good morn
Cause I left her last night
Just before the breakin of dawn
Tell your sister I said hot damn!
Tell your sister I said hot damn!
Cause I never can say nothin
Way that she be howlin!
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Far From Reach
02:35
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Discotheque bout to wreck your mind
Americana callus keep it cauterized
A hand in your pocket on a buckeye seed
A good luck charm is all you need
But you try to make the best of everything
Even when it ain’t what you thought it would be
You left your heart
Somewhere far from reach
Disappear and hear the pool balls crack
Betcha five dollars he never come back
Windows down the sun is too
In the arms of mother nature it’s almost true
Far from reach
Rocks on the mountain and sands on the beach
Far from reach
Lousiana jambalaya to the Georgia peach
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Daydrinkin'
03:20
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Daydrinkin’
Gonna get me tired
Daydrinkin’
Gonna get me so so so so tired
Go to bed with my head still spinnin
When I wake up I be alright
Daydrinkin’
St. paddy’s day parade
Daydrinkin’
At the st. patricks day parade
Capitol street yo feet be draggin
Think it’s time for another drank
Daydrinkin’
Ain’t got no worries at all
Daydrinkin
Ain’t got no worries at all
Just thinkin bout daydrinkin
Bout to make me quit this song
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She got a brand new apartment in town with a riverview
And a discoball in the living room
There’s a bar called Chez Colette, it’s down below
Everybody loves to say hello
But the other night
She told me that she’s sad inside
It breaks my heart
But I think she’s off to a better start
Happiness,
I hope you find it
Happiness,
Or somethin like it
She’s got a job and it ain’t the best but it pays the rent
And she’s young and she’s intelligent
I tell her she can do whatever she wants and don’t despair
It’s not too late, baby girl I swear
The river’s high
But it’ll go back down in a while
The current’s strong
Keeps that river movin along
Happiness is a funny thing
Like a blues song that we sing in a major key
Here’s to hopin that we find it eventually
And for every blue note, a happy memory
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Family
02:55
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Momma had a baby and the baby was me
Named him Benjamin as you can see
Moved back to Ackerman, Mississippi
3 kids later, was a family
Family is somethin that you can’t replace
Got some pretty good friends, but it ain’t the same
Brothers and a sister and a mom and dad
If I lost everything I know I’d still have my family
Momma is a teacher and she taught us well
We was four little heathens but we turned out swell
Surely have to say that’s where I got my start
She put a book in my hand and love in my heart
Daddy is a hard-workin business man
Taught me the meanin of discipline
But he’s quick with a joke put a smile on your face
Made me the man that I am today
Well my brothers and me you know we used to fight
But we grown up now, we get along just fine
And my kid sister, she turned out alright
One day we’ll get together talk about old times
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Nightfall
02:25
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You can take the night bus home
It runs into the early morn
It’s cheaper than a taxi ride
Though it takes more time
There’s a whole lot goin on
You live a day and then it’s gone
You do so much but you ain’t done much at all
And it’s nightfall
The iron that is in you blood
Was forged upon a distant sun
Billions of years ago
But you don’t feel that old
You’re a modern Sisyphus
Live to work and work to live
You think too much but you don’t think much at all
And it’s nightfall
There’s a party at Liz’s place
You could go or you could stay
You try to make sense when it don’t make sense at all
And it’s night fall
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Justine
03:21
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Justine, Justine
I met you just in time
I met you just, met you just in time
One more minute and my heart woulda turned to ice
Justine, Justine
The two of us are two of a kind
The two of us, the two of us are two of a kind
Just look in the mirror, honey you and me side by side
Justine, Justine
I want to be your guy
I want to be, want to be your guy
I’ll be your Mississippi llama pretty mama gonna treat you right
Justine, Justine
I met you just in time
I met you just, met you just in time
Soon I’ll be leavin, but I’m still here tonight
Justine, Justine
Won’t you sing with me tonight
Wont you sing with me, sing with me tonight
Me and you are gonna sing until the mornin light
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Was a metal head, a student of history
Met the president up in D.C.
Got his picture took and put up in a frame
But he had muddy, muddy water in his veins
Was a girl from Jackson, lawyer’s daughter
Played the violin like a fish in the water
But she got knocked up and gave that kid a name
Cause she had muddy, muddy water in her veins
Was an immigrant from south of the border
Left his wife and kids for bricks and mortar
Still sends them money, but somethin in him’s changed
He got muddy, muddy water in his veins
Was a lamb of the lord who just didn’t buy it
She figured she was different, kept it quiet
Sang “glory, glory” all the way to the grave
Cause she had muddy, muddy water
She had muddy, muddy water,
They had muddy, muddy water in their veins
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Well I heard a little somethin down in New Orleans
Down in New Orleans
Yes they tell me of a man lived a hundred years
Lived a hundred years
Said tell me what’s the secret to a longer life
They said all you gotta do is not die
Well I went to see the Pope at the Vatican
At the Vatican
And I told him all about my life of sin
My life of sin
Said what must I do to get to Heaven?
He said, boy, just do the best you can
(whistle solo)
Well I climbed up a mountain in the land of Tibet
In the land of Tibet
I found the Dalai Lama just a’ sittin there
Just a’ sittin there
Said tell me Dalai Lama, what is true happiness?
He said mmhmmhmmmmhmmmhhhmmmmm
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Nighttime in the Everglades
The grass starts to move
There’s a tremblin round your ankles
Cause the python’s comin for you
The python’s low lyin
He’s low lyin, don’t let him get a hold
He’ll break every bone in your body
And then he’ll swallow you whole
Fifteen hundred dollars
For the man who kills the most
The great python hunt of 2013 is on
Some say he’s a menace
Some say he’s straight from hell
Even gators won’t go near it
Although there never was one lived to tell
You can cut him up with your machete
Put a bullet in his head
Don’t matter how you do it
Only python that’s good is dead
You know the white coats couldn’t do it
They said Go get em boys, it sounded like fun
What started out as population control
Was a blood bath by the time it was done
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Panscendentalia
02:15
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Water and light
In a hotel pool on a starry night
In this web of refraction, what spidery fate
Hath wove us together?
We are one in this place.
I wanna be everything
All at once
All at once
Body and mind
Hard to believe that we’re machines inside
In the water our cells divide
Them dancin lights keep us occupied
I wanna be everything
All at once
All at once
No one’s got a room
And no one can drive
Everbody’s half half half half tonight
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Mercy
03:44
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We are weak, fallible
Fragile little things
Condemnations get thrown around
Way to easily
Gotta have mercy on your kin
Mercy on your enemy
Gotta have mercy on your best friend
When he says somethin you know he didn’t mean
We are held accountable
For everything we do or say
Ain’t no getting around it
It’s just the price of liberty
Can’t undo what you did
Pardon don’t mean shit
Can’t unsay what you said
But we ain’t gonna crucify you for it
We are frightened, paralyzed
By mistakes we’ve yet to make
Takes courage just to raise your hand
Courage from the moment you wake
Everybody’s scared
I swear it ain’t just you
Gotta have mercy on your fellow man
Cause lord knows you need it too
Gotta have mercy on your kin
Mercy on your enemy
Gotta have mercy on your best friend
When he says somethin you know he didn’t mean
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Callin' You Out
02:26
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Hey, little sister
Tell me where have you been
Last time I saw you was I can't remember when
Hey, little sister
I thought we were friends
If you call this friendship, consider it the end
I'm callin' you out (cause you never call me)
I'm callin' you out cause you never call me
Tried you on your Twitter
Hastage WTF
Sent you an Instagram in sepia no less
I know you saw that message
My iPhone don't lie
You sure hurtin' my feelins, why can't you just reply?
You better call her out if she don't call you!!
You tell me, well the telephone
You know it works both ways
Don't even give me that, honey, I've been callin' you for days
Tell me you've been busy
Well how could I have known?
You might as well be dead
I wish you'd pick up that phone...
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Womb Envy
02:39
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Dreamin'
01:12
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Buckets of Rain
02:29
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Vu de l'extérieur
04:13
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Keep On Goin'
02:47
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Taratata
01:09
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Lullaby in B
01:57
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Ben Shaman Jackson, Mississippi
