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Lost on North Avenue my job took me there everyday

A different world a new country I found out today

It's like I'm a foreigner born in the u s of a

Tension so thick you can cut it I'm here anyway

Driving on back to my home where the radio's free

Crank up the Velvets and Ice Cube and vintage PE

Pop in the Replacements and drift to a van on the road

Every once in a while I just want to explode

The magic of music's a cascading ballet of junk

Stuck in the middle of metal and country and funk

Sometimes I feel lost when I'm writing I want to be Neil

Every musician I know they just want to be real

Yeah

All of these labels for music mean jack shit to me

Subconsciously divide and conquer the will to be free

I don't want no purists around me it's forrest or trees

Give me a forrest and watch me sink into the leaves

Sinkin deep

Yeah, sinkin deep

Ah-oo lord

Ah-oo lord

sinkin deep

Yeah sinkin

Sinkin deep

Here's some chips and dip

Have a nice party, son

I can see it clear as day

All smiling cakes and fun

Bring my chips and dip

To your party later on

I got some peanuts too

For your happy birthday song

Here's a dirty card

Don't show it to your mother

Here's a briefcase and a check

When's last you saw you brother?

Take my stuff on back inside

It's yours now take it light

Yeah and don't drink too much beer

When you're partying tonight

No

I come from overseas

My dad and me no way

And I didn't see him die

My plane was late that day

My old house like a wall

I ain't ever left them doors

Look how they've wrecked my yard

I left my home

What for

So I got my kid chips and dip

He turned 25 today

I took him overseas

You should really see him play

My son looked kind of sad

When I said goodbye

But I taught my boy one thing

A real man never cries

(That's wrong)

Now I don't ever look back

When I drive my truck away

And I hardly see my kids

Except on Christmas Day

So I walk on up them steps

Take my shoes off and lie down

On my stinking single bed

On the lonely side of town.

When I look in your eyes

The clouds leave the skies

My pain starts to wane

So I'll say it again

Say you love me too

It's good making love

Feels so good making love

Tell my buddies roll on

I'll catch up later on

But we all know I won't

Something I just won't do

They're all down at last call

While I'm in bed with you

Say you love me too

All of my life

I searched for what's true

Without even looking

I found it in you

I guess we both know it's right

Even though we m,ight fight

It's a timeless affair

It's like wind in the air

Because when I look in your eyes

The clouds leave the skies

My pain starts to wane

So I'll say it again

Say you love me too

Do you remember giving me your number

And your address too

Do you remember videos of thunder

Can't ignore you

Come sweetly watch your step and shudder

I thought that you were someone's girl

To another empty form of flatter

But not from me

Hanging with my little sister

But you should be

Around my house at dawn for California

I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you

Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific

This song is for you I hope you

Dig it love is what you make it

But it makes you

Just like dying hell you just can't fake it

But it fakes you

Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter

Faces in a whirl I'm taking cover

So what's the reason for all of this clamor

Build you with a chisel and a hammer

Drinking a 40 on the second day of spring

We just sent off the mailing list

Got a keg flowing in the afternoon

It's time for drinking this

So many cats on the mansion porch I know everyone inside

Girl living in an upstairs apartment

One day she'll be my bride

Picked up D down in old Pigtown

Got a ride in the van inside

Smoking around an ounce of weed

Laughing 'til it hurts my sides

Thank god it's finally spring

Snow's been thawed a couple months

It's still been cold as shit

Keeping warm with whiskey and tequila

And a million beers with it

Keeping numb with pills and something

That I got for lifting weights

In springtime there's so many girls

Ain't no need to masturbate

Thank god it's finally spring

Now everyone can sing

Birds fly through the wings

Whistling as we sing

Love me

Let me

Love you

Ooh

Let's agree on disagreeing

Let's agree on moving on

Let's agree just for agreement

On second thought don't call me on the phone

'Cause I'm flashing back on days of sorrow

Cold and melancholy like the night

Frown around and feeling stupid

On second thought I'm going out tonight

I ain't going out just for the movement

'Cause I'm liking sitting here just fine

Yeah

Let's argue for just the talking

Let's drive aroiund and talk some more

Buy a twelve pack close to midnight

And never wonder what's outside that door

Let's just keep our heads and rotate

Round and round each other like the stars

Create panic from enjoyment

I'm sick of all these goddamn local bars

I ain't going out just for the movement

'Cause I'm liking sitting here just fine

Hey

Let's agree on being different

Let's agree on being sane

Let's agree that life is awesome

Let's agree that life is pain

I ain't (etc)

Hey, Dad, I'm dying

Hey, son, I done my best

Hey, Dad, you're lying

Hey, son, I done my best

Hey, Dad, I'm thinking

Hey, son, I'm thinking through

Hay, Dad, I'm starving

Hey, son, I'm hungry too

Hey, Dad, I'm running

Hey, son, I'm running through

Hey, son, I'm gunning

Hey, Dad, I'm drinking brew

Hey, Dad, it's night time

Hey, son, it's morning dew

Hey, Dad, it's summer

Hey, son, it's winter too

instrumental break

Build the levee

Hold back every tide

Submerge every wake

Stifle every ride

Raze the pounding surf

Stop the raging wind

Break the tree that bends

Never grow again

Shade the morning sun

Pave the pastures pure

Sweep up all the dirt

Make a tree a door

Shelter from the storm

Melt the smoldering ice

Then unleash the beast

Suckling on you life

Got in my truck and I drove off I didn't say shit

Looking for words when they left me to stew over it

Every once in a while I just can't shrug it off

16 years sober will make you a shiny self cross

So I apologized when we did plug in the gear

All of this time I been wanting it's year upon year

How can a something be somewhere wherever it is

Can't it be nowhere and nothing and not of the biz

Sinking deep

Checking on back with our hero he's feeling his oats

Making his way as a young man with three leather coats

Has one for weddings and such and one to stay warm

His favorite is over his shoulders it shelters the storm

It's meloncholy and it's bright green and newer than new

Every once in a while I don't know what to do

Living vicariously 'cause that's a writer will do

Put it all in here and then some and do it for you

Sinking deep

Lost on North Avenue my job took me there everyday

A different world a new country I found out today

It's like I'm a foreigner born in the u s of a

Tension so thick you can cut it I'm here anyway

Driving on back to my home where the radio's free

Crank up the Velvets and Ice Cube and vintage PE

Pop in the Replacements and drift to a van on the road

Every once in a while I just want to explode

The magic of music's a cascading ballet of junk

Stuck in the middle of metal and country and funk

Sometimes I feel lost when I'm writing I want to be Neil

Every musician I know they just want to be real

Yeah

All of these labels for music mean jack shit to me

Subconsciously divide and conquer the will to be free

I don't want no purists around me it's forrest or trees

Give me a forrest and watch me sink into the leaves

Sinkin deep

Yeah, sinkin deep

Ah-oo lord

Ah-oo lord

sinkin deep

Yeah sinkin

Sinkin deep

Do you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not fropm me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope you dig it Love is what you make it But it makes you Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it But it fakes you Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover So what's the reason for all of this clamor Build you with a chisel and a hammer