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We can die by the minarets
sealed in a pyramid in a pack of Camel cigarettes
like the novel you read it in
I'm filled with good lines that make all the girls cry
So if we die by the minarets
sealed in a pyramid in a pack of Camel cigarettes
on the day that you're wedding him
I would have bet my life we wouldn't have made it alive
when you stood with no crutch
now just like a crutch you can lean on us
like all those times that Seattle came close
but then it sank like on the backs of a ghost
You were giving up
cursed the outlaw heart
we were sealed in a pyramid
break the walls apart
princess Leigh-Cheri
you know it's free
there's no string attached
you can't take it back
you can't set it off without a match
How do you make love stay?
and where does it go when it goes away?
Can it ever come back?
Can it ever set foot in this town after that?
It don't adhere to no rules
there may be lies and oaths and bonds and truths
but all those thoughts you had of making it stay
is like a wager with a lie for some proof
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Compass
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State your name
the time and facts and dates
if you had a compass
it'd lead you to this place
If every day
would start and end the same
then in-between
I hope that it would change
Well the story stays the same except the names, they change
and everyone always says they'll move away, they stay
It's the same old place we're all trying to escape, but with you.. I thought it'd be ok
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Classic Cars
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Temple of Boom
02:14
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Rudy says it's getting too hot
TOO HOT!
You know the pressure can drop
PRESSURE DROP!
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Ghost of Joe Strummer
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Dangerous
02:52
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I'm dangerous
that's the only thing I trust
I'm dangerous
one thing I know
I'll never touch gold
no diamonds or pearls
no hearts of good girls
everything I touch
crumbles to dust
don't you want more than love
cause darlin', darlin', all I've got is us
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The Well
02:16
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You had the spokes of your bike flanked with baseball cards
running from the street lights to your momma's yard
stay to the end, die as friends
"Die Young! Die Young!" we sung
'til the well run dry
stay until the well runs dry
I always thought it would end by now
we're on borrowed time and don't want out
there'd be theft of our youth, planned escape routes
I'll take the north - and I'll take the south
we can meet on a death bed rendezvous
it's a blood pack oath we never knew
we just grabbed fate, we just couldn't lose
I'm going down with the ship - and we are too!
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Box Fan
05:13
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So I sat on the mezzanine
and watched the bars empty
and laugh at boys try to take girls home
the bar the drinks what you said to me
it all feels empty
except when sing at the top of my throat
it's not the same world
as I'm sitting here alone
and lately it's one in the same
cause I know there'll never be a night again
where I'm going to take you home
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The Hempsteadys New London, Connecticut
From their beginning on Hempstead Street in New London Connecticut, to cities across the U.S. and Canada, The Hempsteadys have enjoyed every minute of it. What best sums up the Hempsteadys is lyric is a lyric from their concept album El Amor de los Muertos; "what really matters in this world is here tonight". On The Undercard, their latest release, proves they are much more than just a ska band. ... more
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