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It's my way or the highway
There really ain't a second choice
Wait eight hours to be picked up
By some banjo plucking bucktoothed boys
Or you can throw your bags in the back
Of my cream colored Cadillac
Whitewall tires, sabertooth tiger seat covers front and back
Or you can throw your bags in the back
Of my cream colored Cadillac
Portable wet bar, entertainment center and a trampoline autovac
Got a dozen sumptuous honeys
Playboy bunnies every last one
Every night I- get the money
And they don't stop till I say they're done
Sometimes they all pile into the back
Of my cream colored Cadillac
When I blast my woofers and tweeters
We make this car a shake shack
They all pile into the back
Of my cream colored Cadillac
Color television, road glare omission. The precision’s Positrack
(SPOKEN ON CB Radio)
Affirmative on this citizen band
My handy handle is The Velvet Smog
Mostly I sandbag, make sure no oaky doaky smokies
Gonna bust up this pickle park
10-4 good buddy, I got your lot lizard here
and she’s no mama bear she’s feisty, a little anti-Christ-y
It's my way or the highway
There really ain't a second choice
Wait eight hours to be picked up
By some banjo plucking bucktoothed boys
Or you can throw your bags in the back
Of my cream colored Cadillac
Whitewall tires, sabertooth tiger seat covers front and back
Or you can throw your bags in the back
Of my cream colored Cadillac
Portable wet bar, entertainment center, trampoline autovac
Oh we own, we own the road! Oh we own, we own the road!
Oh we own, we own the road! Oh we own, we own the road!
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Hummer
04:53
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Ain't got a life, ain't got an occupation
No longer the center of the equation
Only police want to know every which way I go
All the hangers on have fled here
Since finances are in the red , dear
Only revere the famous and the dead here
And if you're in between, no one tells you so
But that was long ago
Back when I loved you so...oh oh oh
One more Indian summer spying on you in my Hummer
Though I don't belong, I won't be here for long
I know that I am just wasting my time
Crying over this whole world over
Saturday night is just another evening
Once this whole worlds was spinning not careening
There was love everywhere, love enough for all to share
Now rats have made their nests in the ceiling
Where plaster falls and paint is peeling
I filled my coffers but I lost all feeling
And that's how it goes when you're the last to know
But that was long ago
Back when I loved you so...oh oh oh
One more Indian summer stretched out in my Hummer
Though I don't belong, I won't be here for long
I know that I am just wasting my time
Crying over this whole world over
Yeah! Guzzling gas!
Prius you'd better let me pass!
You're not saving the world's ass
Coz he's back here with a drink in a flask!
Guess I'll go for one tour around the town where
I'll see some new old signs coming down there
Coz time marches on, even you soon will be gone
Gone...gone...oh oh oh
One more Indian summer spying on you in my Hummer
Though I don't belong, I won't be here for long
I know that I am just wasting my time
Crying over this whole world over
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The Silent Clowns
03:14
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Photographs I hid underneath our bed
Two baby faced blurs masquerading as us
Talked and talked until they both had their fill
And all of the words moved on
Tell me why you can't resist
Feeding me lines where the only rejoinder is
Breaking up but no one's saying it
Just cry and laugh behind our hands
The Silent Clowns...
The Silent Clowns...
The people in 2D say they hear every move we make
Every door you slam draws them a diagram
Why can't you just STOP ! bringing her name up
Why can't you just let it drop?
Tell me why you can't resist
Feeding me lines where the only rejoinder is
Breaking up but no one's saying it
Back to back and sleeping sound
Dreaming just like silent clowns
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Countrypolitan Girl
03:11
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He can only detain her, she's on every third page of newspaper
She did him a favor and if the movie gets released he might probably pay her
Countrypolitan girl, Mama's pride and pearl
She haunts this white picket world
She don't wear painted on jeans
She dresses like the Opry queens
Back when they used to turn heads
In their fringes and their epaulets
Hair in a perpetual curl
Countrypolitan girl
He was a charmer, he could sell you a Christmas tree in the summer
He promised her stardom but he embezzled her future with his Faustian bargain
But Countrypolitan girl managed to evade
His criminal escapades
He's a one man Bialystock and Bloom
He never could seal her door
In his plastic film can tomb
Now she's made it off to Dollywood
One letter off but twice as good
Countrypolitan girl
Now if you hear someone say
That fame and fortune are just a boot scoot away
Don't pay them no heed
The documentarian did a dastardly deed
But Countrypolitan girl
She of the big blue eyes
Drove off in a new sunrise
She ditched the vampire fiends
They sunk their fangs in different things
Lost her mama when she was young
Now every country song that's sung
Sounds just like a lullaby
Bye Bye Countrypolitan girl, Mama's pride and pearl
She haunts this white picket world
She don't wear painted on jeans
She dresses like the Opry queens
When her future came to call
Like a broken record on a wall
She recognized her Lucifer
Countrypolitan girl
She's that Countrypolitan girl
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San Jacinto Prison Band Phoenix, Arizona
When San Jacinto Prison Warden William Crosley realized the Scared Witless program his facility introduced was not deterring kids from pursuing a life of crime and in fact was creating new felons daily. To that he formed the San Jacinto Death Row Prison Band. "Every last one of the musicians is one overturned sentence from frying in a strapping chair," said Crosley diplomatically. ... more
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