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A see saw lets you float up
The water lets you slide
One after another
Get in line for the other side
And your time is up
Put away your tin cup
Breathe in the sweet air
And take it in and feel it there
It's alien
Good times
Just teach yourself the subjects
The moons are in your reach
Get out your favorite colors
Give all your sands a beach
And your time is up
Put away your tin cup
Breathe in the sweet air
And take it in and feel it there
It's alien
Good times
The ocean's getting deeper
From the drains you had to waste
The desert's just a little colder
From the nights you tried to chase
When you taste the bitter
Taste that they left behind
Sip your favorite water
Refresh whats in your mind
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Begging with a borrowed hand again
Burning bridges, swimming rivers
Building and breaking and fixing things
You can never run from the devils in you
But you can beat a path to my door
When the running gets the better of you
Rest yourself a while, sit a spell
And you know that tomorrow is a new day
It's all in how you harvest me
It's all in how you harvest me
It's all in how you harvest me
It's up to you, how you harvest me
Betting on a borrowed hand again
Desert sands in your barren palm
Your rivers dried out into the seas
Brother, don't you curse my name
I haven't made peace with parts of my past
Or with those ghosts with halos round their eyes
And you hope that tomorrow is a new day
It's all in how you harvest me
It's all in how you harvest me
It's all in how you harvest me
It's up to you, how you harvest me
It's all in how you harvest me
It's all in how you harvest me
It's all in how you harvest me
It's up to you, how you harvest me
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You're driving in your car
Not going very far
A sunday sunny drive
Feels good to be alive
Your friends are in the back
Ask you where you're at
Some take the wrong turn
The moonlight tavern burns
At the bottom of the hill
A wooden house is filled
You've got to climb the stairs
Your friends are unaware
Just make one more call
To the pictures on the wall
This dream will come to pass
You'll sleep in beds of grass
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Never thought that you'd feel so sad
Never wanted anything you had
And its time that you learned to see
It's enough to just believe
We all will pass this way
No one makes us stay
If there's any way to make it good
I think that you should
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From temperate climes, through rain, set sail
Ribbons of water, they sparkle and spangle
In the coming sun, falling through liquid streets
Into the jungle and out of the rain
Steal into dreamtiger eyes and slowly leave behind
Domino days of time, inches of distance
Slip past the double-edged sword of building
The cost of building more, or of just maintaining
Feel the dreamtigers prowling free and easy
But ribbons of memory still tumble and tangle
And turn into questions, "Can your friends trust you now?"
Only dreamtigers never have a need to change
In time, as night declines, fleeting and fading
Ribbons of laughter, they jingle and jangle
And all the dream-tigers retreat back into the trees
With green, smiling eyes, at the coming of the day
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Dusty Baker (Grassy Mix)
03:26
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When you are feeling low
Let the juices flow away
When you are moving slow
Take a ride down the drain
I don't have the time to wait for you
And I don't care if you stay
Just don't hang around and blow my brain
Can't you break the clock today
When you are feeling low
Get down on the grass and lay
The snake is gold and he follows you
The poison takes your cares away
When you are feeling low
Let the juices flow away
When you are moving slow
Take a ride down the drain
Down the drain
Down the drain
Down the drain
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Clouds so swift
Rain won’t lift
Gate won’t close
Railings froze
Get your mind off wintertime
You ain’t goin’ nowhere
Whoo-ee!
Ride me high
Tomorrow’s the day
My bride’s gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
I don’t care
How many letters they sent
Morning came and morning went
Pick up your money
And pack up your tent
You ain’t goin’ nowhere
Whoo-ee!
Ride me high
Tomorrow’s the day
My bride’s gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
Buy me a flute
And a gun that shoots
Tailgates and substitutes
Strap yourself
To the tree with roots
You ain’t goin’ nowhere
Whoo-ee!
Ride me high
Tomorrow’s the day
My bride’s gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
Genghis Khan
He could not keep
All his kings
Supplied with sleep
We’ll climb that hill no matter how steep
When we get up to it
Whoo-ee!
Ride me high
Tomorrow’s the day
My bride’s gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
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Instrumental
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Nothing to believe in
Nothing worth seeing
It's ok
The dunes are frozen
Throw rocks in the ocean
The waves are astounding
The heart keeps on pounding
It's ok
Your arms are golden
Your sunlights are broken
When night is falling
You hear me calling
Can you tell me how to see
Can you tell me how to look
I can't find my way inside
I haven't read the book
It's ok
The sunrise ocean bender
The sunrise ocean bender
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instrumental
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Tadpoles Hoboken, New Jersey
Tadpoles, based in Hoboken, NJ, disbanded in 2000 after releasing 4 critically acclaimed studio albums, 1 live album and 1 E.P. all on their own Bakery Records label (except for their last studio album, Whirlaway, which was released on Australia's Camera Obscura Records.) The group was formed by vocalist/guitarist, Todd Parker and original drummer, Michael Kite Audino in New York City in 1990. ... more
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