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Paul Lynde
04:36
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PAUL LYNDE
Paul Lynde rules the air today
I arrange my body
I'm a gorgeous bouquet
We collide collude collide
I break the peace, I'm not into peace
It's wonderful
To admire myself
My vocabulary does this to me
& an inappropriate sense of space
I'm conquering your will
The way the sun shines
On the bumps on your face
My heart is a circuit
It comes and goes
I serialize
You're a rose
What we do is a crime
Cos you condemn it
Paul Lynde rules the air today
I arrange my body, I'm a gorgeous bouquet
We collude collide collude
I break the peace, I'm not into peace
It's wonderful
Really wonderful
To admire myself
The human personality is a sacred thing
Repeating behaviors under determinate conditions
We might fall in love
We're at the mercy of our writers
I mounted you
And I was free
I held on to the wall
Ooo-eee
Scorched earth or ecology
You're running thru me regardless
And I'm like everybody else
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Shame
06:43
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SHAME
You’ve got the power To generate shame
You’re not invisible Make your point
People say “so what?” But they get uptight
Cruising for a bruising You wait for light
Leave the city Leave the city
So as not to appear to belong
Leave the city Leave the city
You don’t want to think about what leads you on
Full with luxury What do you do with shame?
Try to keep it together Slumped in a car
I know what it costs One more time again
No cut but a revision I’ll never do it again
Leave the city Leave the city
So as not to appear to belong
Leave the city Leave the city
You don’t want to know what leads you on
Can I say what I saw? On the dressing room floor
Life could be better Who can stand so much shame?
Sink my teeth in One more time again
I watched the old misery And I got off
Leave the city Leave the city
So as not to appear to belong
Leave the city Leave the city
You don’t want to think about what leads you on
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Yes Yes Yes (#1)
05:40
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YES YES YES
Yes Yes Yes to the disco drive
It's as bad as all the rest
Let me tell you something -
Who doesn't like feeling alive?
I'll keep you hot when the fuel runs out
Endless mutations; political doubts
There's a cock in your hand
And a boredom in your mouth
But bodies bloat and they still react
Stretching for fingers that might decompress
Secondhand currents we will to life
I taste grim yearnings in the crack of your sweat
Taste precious future in the scent of your sweat
But bodies collide and they still react
Remake the same thing every time we dance
Secondhand lusts we command to life
I see the same future when you pay your tab
I want to do more than dream of distant lands
Yes Yes Yes to the disco drive
It's as bad as all the rest
A spot on the century's lung
I knew I couldn't go on and on
Yes Yes Yes to the disco drive
It's as bad as all the rest
Let me ask you something -
Don't you like staying alive?
But bodies splinter and they still react
Stretching for fingers that might recompense
Secondhand currents we will to life
I taste grim yearnings in the crack of your sweat
Taste precious future in the scent of your sweat
But bodies collide and they still react
Remake the same thing every time we dance
Secondhand lusts we command to life
I see the same future when you pay your tab
I want to do more than dream of distant lands
(I tried, I tried)
Born to be alive
There's a new me coming out
Satisfaction came
In the chain reaction
Nobody can stop the music
To lose it would be tragic
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Rock and Rue
03:25
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ROCK AND RUE
You grip my arm
You’re insulted
Your eyes turn in
You’re a hopeful person
Music’s loud
I offer tiny things
Music’s everywhere
You scratch your rings.
Possession
Is the whole of the law.
But I’m easy.
I’m so easy.
I have no value at all.
So far out
You lose the target
You press the wall
Regain a balance
What you do
Makes no sense
Your fingernails
What are they for?
You’re fucking
You’re smiling
And your culture
Is pulsing everywhere.
A common kernel
Of common living
Better worlds
Our bodies giving
Love is
The gift that keeps taking.
Oh, I’m easy.
I’m so easy.
I have no value at all.
We get close
We share a public
We strike bargains
Gestures get ugly
You grip my hand
Again insulted
One thing must
Lead to a further
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The Welfare State Portland, Oregon
Portland OR rock & roll & groove combo that made it's way from the 00s to the 10s. Guitars & reaching for the stars.
Anthemic jamz for nowhere generations.
“Moves on from where the Velvet Underground left off at Loaded.”
- Richard Meltzer
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