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On My Way (Live 3.26.22)
03:58
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(Broderick)
The pavement has a fragrance
That draws you in, your hearts off to the races
A simple gesture, lasts forever
a feeling rushing through all time and space
I'm on my way, I'm on my way
I hit a few speed bumps along the way
But I made it through, I climbed a view
No man has see before
Texas, it's endless
it stretches out like bomb tests in the desert
magnolias bloom, 'neath ancient moons
an outstretched hand from a slowly passing train
Repeat Chorus
I finally found my family, now a garden grows around me
I made it back from war, now the dogs race to the door
Repeat Chorus x 2
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(Broderick)
Like a moth to a flame i got lost in the pain
Iook a walk through my brain but all the walls looked the same
One standard deviation from myself
I thought I had lost it, I couldn’t really take it
There were pictures on my pages and attics in my basement
We're sitting on a satellite orbiting a fire
Free to move around while walking on a wire
Repeat chorus
East went West in a carnival dress
Bring out the circus, start pitching tents
East Went West, overlooking the edge
Moonbeams in her breath, moonbeams in her breath
Repeat chorus
Basketballs on blacktop, black for the backdrop
haves for the have-nots, Carnegies in ascots,
JFK Ask Not, astronauts last stops,
it's all in the game and it came to the last shot
we are floating through the sky we don't have to drop
they can kick it on the ground we are astronauts
we are hanging from a shoe string, dangling off a moon beam
anything can happen, Oklahoma's got a hoops team
Repeat Chorus
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(Broderick)
Don't you burn down Kelly's, Don't you burn down like I did/
All of those nights as I sat 'neath your lights
and a Tom Collins ran thru my head
And don't blame yourself for my ID/
honestly it kinda looked like me/
so I'd sit out the cold at nineteen years old
in the only place I knew how to be
I became a senior in my sophomore year/ cheap liquor took the place of warm beer/
and some nights we'd go across the street at 1:30 but mostly we'd just stay there
And the signatures scrawled up the wall
Told the stories that escape us all
We carved our name in a booth, you me and the crew
but our love didn't die in those flames
And I remember after the first gig I ever played
you turned off your lights but you stayed open late
you knew rebels like us you could trust to lock up
after all we all protect our home
Repeat Chorus
The drinks are supposed to burn not the bar
The drinks are supposed to burn not the bar
Thanks for the memories and thanks for your heart
The drinks are supposed to burn not the bar
And thanks for helping me make it this far
the drinks are supposed to burn not the bar
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(Broderick)
I'm gonna love you, I'm gonna love you the way I did before
I'm gonna love you, but this time I'm gonna love you even more
I'm gonna sing to you old love songs
I'm gonna sing to you all night long
If it ain't right it ain't worth it
I'll be with you when the earth shifts
I need a fire I can burn with
I need a fire I can burn with
I'm gonna glide now, I'm gonna glide around the moon
And we will crash as one solid mass
that brings your strings right back in tune
I'm gonna sing to you old love songs
I'm gonna sing to you all night long
Repeat Chorus
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(Broderick)
Well me and my friends, we ain’t growing up
This is what we know and what we know we love
We’re gonna keep dancing, we’re gonna keep singing
Keep hoping and wishing the morning dont come
Because we all seen pain, and yet we all remain
Standing tall with the beer in our blood in our veins
And me and my boys, and me and my girls
Are the ones that welcome the sun into a cold dark world
So if I seem tipsy, off Tennesee whiskey
It’s 'cause aged oak barrel are the sweetest words to me
Never stop living, and never stop giving
Back to those nights that gave you your name
Repeat Chorus
I’ve got em singing never grow up, never grow old
Keep drinking and singing that devil away from your soul
I’ve got em singing never grow up, never grow old
Keep drinking and singing that devil away from your soul
never grow up, never grow old
Keep drinking and singing that devil away from your soul
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6. |
Naps Jam (Live 3.26.22)
06:13
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(Instrumental)
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Yippee Kai Yay
02:56
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(Broderick)
Yippe Kai Yea it’s a bird it’s a plane are we going insane
no I think that we’ll make it
Yippee Kai Yay it’s a bird it’s a plane are we going insane
no I just think that were naked
I walked her home,I walked her home
A city to ourselves we walked alone
I think I found something x 2
C’mon and lets rage, jailbreak a birdcage
start dancin on stage like our bodies just caught fire
Let em call the cops ya know it’s all for not
theres another DJ playing in the parking lot
You know they aint got nothing x 2
Yippee Kai Yay it’s a bird it’s a plane are we going insane
no we’re dancing on a table
Yippee Kai Yay it’s a bird it’s a plane are we going insane
no but I think that we’re able
I grabbed her hand I grabbed her hand
Didn’t say a word just started to dance
I think I found something x 2
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(Broderick)
Let me go, I don't want my problems to be yours
It's gravity that's got me, knocking at your door
I'll float away, a fading note, a star that slowly dies
My memory will catapult you clear across the sky
And I'll be right beside you, a million miles from here
That tangled root you start to feel, when the love you need is near
One spring morning you'll awake, your plants will start to flower
And I'll be coming back to you 10,000 miles per hour
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Whole Lot (Live 3.26.22)
07:28
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(Broderick/Sheehan)
They got a whole lot to say, but they don't even know my name x 3
They got a whole lot to do but they only want a few to play
I don't got a whole lot to say a whole lot to say to you
I'm losing my mind I'm losing my edge
Going to see some comedy because that's what she said x 2
I don't got a whole lot...
I just wanna hide on the dance floor
I'm sick of people talking to me
I just wanna hide on the dance floor x 2
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The Roof (Live 3.26.22)
07:11
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(Broderick)
45 degrees from the fault line that divides my piece of the pie
And I can read a book without trying
Or bewilder the best minds alive
But you cant read a book about power
If you wont read a book about love
You cant stamp out the flowers
Cause you tower above
Just cause you’ve got a roof doesn’t mean it aint raining
I always put my stock in the sound
I think it’s time to forget your training
For your feet were meant to leave the ground
Sticks in the sand where the plays got designed
We were just executing a call
And you still havent found why youre taking your time
While they're writing our names in the flames on the walll
A Kick to the system
From a life before this one
If ignorance is bliss
Oh Hells just infinite wisdom
Just because you’ve got a roof doesn’t mean it ain’t raining
I always put my stock in the sound
I think it’s time you forget your training
For your feet were meant to leave the ground
We we’re fugitives seeking asylum
But we looked like shit from the storm
And I could always keep quiet
I just couldn’t keep warm
Repeat Chorus
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(Broderick)
Relax, play doo wop, I'll drive these empty streets
By this time tomorrow we'll be dancing in the trees
With backpockets full of memories we'll never review
an empty dinner table in a place I never knew
there’s only so many avenues and so much dirt below
i’m always singing sad songs they’re the only ones I know
I could have been a rock, I could have been a stone
Coulda been a contender I just didn’t need a throne
It’s like they say in the end, it happens over and over again
when you sing a song for a friend you sing it over and over again
I woke up in America and stumbled to my feet
like the last ones at a party we searched for a place to sleep
i never saw the bodies I never saw the blood
i only say the eyeballs looking out across the flood
i sang a song of sorrow, of primordial design
i stood above the ruins of the cities and the shrines
what good is a kingdom if ain’t nobody in it?
and I’ll always believe you even if no one see ya did it
Repeat Chorus
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