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Cover of Rolling Stone
01:14
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We’re on the cover of Rolling Stone
I call you up on the family phone
Let’s steal your dad’s car and drive around
Let’s turn the dial to a different sound
We’re MVPs of MTV
Don’t have to live like a refugee
We’re VIPs of VH1
Learning to fly and free fallin’
Blasting through the city and it’s full of dead ends
Always shooting apples off the heads of our friends
Victims of friendly fire
When we turn the TV on America sings
It’s like the sound of 18-wheelers bringing us things
We can’t stop we’re finally in the zone
On the cover of Rolling Stone
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2. |
Strung Out On You
02:43
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You’re one step ahead of me
And I’m one hundred steps behind
Where I oughta be
But I’ll go there some other time
‘Cause I need something
Just to see me through
Gimme something
Be my pick-me-up
I’m strung out on you
I cry like Liv Ullmann
When the camera is trained on me
I call up the Pentagon
To wage war on a memory
And I need backup
Like I always do
Gimme something
Be my pick-me-up
I’m strung out on you
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3. |
Hung Up
01:52
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I keep getting hung up on stupid things
I think I need a distraction
I keep getting strung up with broken strings
I think I need a distraction
Coach says I’m slower than last year
I hide behind guitars all the time
The lucky ones are all born in September
Is it too late to change my sign
I keep getting hung up on stupid things
I think I need a distraction
I keep getting flung up on Cupid’s wings
I need a piece of the action
Oh yeah
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
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4. |
Me And My Blue Angels
01:41
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Can I fly in your airshow
Write your name in the clouds
Find you on an open channel
And not be shot down
Can I hide in the peripheral
Vision of the world
Me & my blue angels
Maintaining a perfect flight pattern
Almost at the speed of sound
8,000 feet above the ground
Have you ever been lonely
Have you ever seen your world from above
Have you ever been too high
To be hurt by the ones you love
Never shoulda started crushing on a B-52
Me & my blue angels
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Wouldn’t it be nice to let it be
Let it all hang out
When it’s all going electric on me
Find a new way out
Don’t drag me out
Don’t bring me down
There’s no one around
I’m just holding
The cross section of a dream
Wouldn’t it be nice to let it be
Let your hair hang down
Nothing to do here nothing to see
Nothing to cry about
Don’t call me out
Don’t call upon the National Guard
It’s only the cross section of a dream
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6. |
Beat Of The Drum
02:39
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Fran has fun to the beat of the drum
Wondering where the beat comes from
Will has fun to the beat of the drum
Wondering where the beat comes from
It’s too loud to think now maybe
But we ain’t gonna turn it down ooh
Mike has fun to the beat of the drum
Wondering where the beat comes from
Buzz has fun to the beat of the drum
Wondering where the beat comes from
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum hey
Moe has fun to the beat of the drum
Wondering where the beat comes from
Dennis has fun to the beat of the drum
Wondering where the beat comes from
Keep it going now
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7. |
Poet In Residence
03:01
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When you’re right
When you’re wrong
When you’re off
When you’re on
It’s alright
You’re our poet in residence
You make boredom fun
When you walk
When you run
When you’re just getting started
And when you’re all done
We took to you now we look to you
Like a forest looks to the sun
You’re the bass note of our favorite inversion
Yeah you know the one
You know the one
Poet in residence
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8. |
Kramer In LA
02:09
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Hello Jerry it’s me Kramer
I write you from 3,000 miles away
You may recall in the previous episode
That I packed up and moved to LA
Life here’s crazy I’m doing the Hollywood hustle
Working hard and trying to catch a break
But between the Smog Strangler
And being made fun of on the Tonight Show
I don’t know how much more of this I can take
I miss my old place
I miss your place too
I wish I could just burst right through that door
I miss Elaine and that crazy George Costanza
Hell I even miss Newman
So goodnight to the city that never sleeps
As distant as the hills of yesterday
Goodbye Jerry Seinfeld
Goodbye New York City
Sincerely
Kramer in LA
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9. |
Teenage Overpopulation
03:28
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There’s too many teens in the world
Ruining the human experience
Too many teens taking summer jobs
From hardworking Americans
Too many people living in warzones
Of typical teenage hormones
We never shoulda given smartphones
To the generation
Of teenage overpopulation
There’s too many teens in the world
It’s truly a global crisis
Too many teens buying stems and seeds
At premium prices
Is it too late to take back
What we said about “Paint It Black”
We have the facts
Let’s adjust our calculations
For teenage overpopulation
Too many teens in the back seat
Sharing spit in their parents’ cars
Generating too much heat
Burning holes in the ozone
It’s teenage overpopulation
Kelso Justin Bieber Samantha Smith Nastia Liukin
River Phoenix Joan of Arc Topanga Tommy Stinson
Millie Bobby Brown Ron Howard Greta Thunberg
Hannah Montana Chloe Kim Beavis Aaliyah
Beverly Marsh Ruby Bridges Lizzie McGuire
Malala Yousafzai Butt-head Frankie Muniz Leif Garrett
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10. |
Hand Of The Brand
01:28
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Summer styles are here again
You’re finding out the Beatles are not your friend
I wanted to tell you ooh
Before it all fell through
I really really wanted to tell
I shouldn’t have said what I said and instead
I shoulda wrote a letter
Can you help me out now
Back in status symbol land
You’re finding out Chris Weisman is not your friend
I ran into Rimbaud oh whoa
In formalist limbo
He told me that I look like hell
I wanna hold the hand of the brand
I shouldn’t have done what I did but I did
And I’d do it in a second
If I had the opportunity to do it again
Summer styles are closing in
You’re finding out that 2nd Grade’s not your friend
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Bored to death in witness protection
Wanting something to get through to you
Like a dog jumping out of
A moving car you want something new
Well lemme know
Tell me which itch are you scratching today
Can you keep a really big secret
And not repeat it when I walk away
Like when Bruce did the spoken word bit
In “Street Hassle” baby we were born to pay
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12. |
Keith And Telecaster
01:46
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The navy goes for a show away
Telecaster takes a drag trip alright
The navy goes for an away show
I like American Telecaster
Sometimes at night when the delta is bright
There’s a hit and run waiting to happen
The light turns red in the kaleidoscope oh whoa
I need to drive through the city
With Gram Gretchen and Anita huh
So sick of Telecaster shows
On the top of a Telecaster
Sometimes at night when the jukebox is bright
And you’re crying in country heaven
The light turns green in the guitar solo oh whoa
Keith and Telecaster yeah
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13. |
Planetarium
01:12
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Way in the back at the top of the stacks
In the blind spot of my education
There’s a glitch in the solar system
And a dying star in heavy rotation
Planetarium ooh planetarium
My lawyer says not to talk to the press
But I just like the way that they listen
I made a list of everything in existence
But it still felt like something was missing
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14. |
Controlled Burn
02:09
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Hey look at me
I’m on Australian TV
It’s a controlled burn
The fingers are fanned
So you talk to the hand
It’s a controlled burn
And we’re coming live from
You can’t rent a car
Because they know who you are
It’s a controlled burn
The fingers are fans
So they talk to the band
It’s a controlled burn
And we’re coming live from
As a matter of fact
It’s a heart attack
It’s a controlled burn yeah woo
And we’re here to tell you woo
C-O-N-T-R-O-L
What’s that spell
C-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-E-D-B-U-R-N
Controlled burn
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15. |
Hands Down
02:45
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The back half of the b-side is where we belong
We lose our cool when the closeup begins
Smiling for a camera that isn’t there
Like demented newlyweds
Interlopers in the rock room
Tumbling down the demand curve
Double parked and half dead
We opened the time capsule
And this is what it said
I’m your biggest fan hands down
And if I weren’t in contact with you
I don’t know what I would do
They gas you on the highway and up on the hill
They long to gas you virtually everywhere
And if you allow them to they will
Round the rosy corners
And keep your stripes to yourself
Approach every new day
Like you’re stuck in a swing state
Remember when you’re shooting off flares
And nobody cares
I’m your biggest fan hands down
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16. |
Easy Listening
03:25
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When I float down the stream
Dreaming a dream of easy listening
It’s so hard for me to tell you
What I really mean
Adding up the score
Forgetting you’re a poet in a war
Doing the dishes in a different place
I found my lucky number in a database
My friends don’t seem to mind
I’m in the 1990s all the time
It’s so hard for me to tell them
But they don’t seem to mind
What did you expect
It’s lonely at the bottom of the deck
Plans go haywire in record time
The blues abuse you but you turn out fine
Surely someone must have told you
Looking backwards at something strange
Your horoscope’s telling you to keep the change
When I walk down your street
Dreaming of dreaming of dreaming a dream
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