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An Amazing Day / Everyone / Free Love / Knocked Out / Need You Badly / Not Pretty / Pinned / Something For My Head / That's The New Mary Jane / The Beaten Generation / What A Wonderful Time

AN AMAZING DAY
From the meadow they're sweeping grass in the room of the gardener
There's so much he misses, the hugs and the kisses of
The children who walk down the lane
Their mothers and fathers will all gather round
For communion passed down the daisy chain

It's such an amazing day
What did your mama say
Do you think you can come out and play
The night's still young

The homecoming queen hits the town, don't you think she's a vision
She makes her decision with little opposition and
She won't be waiting too long
The boys in the band know her well, hear them playing
The sweetest and saddest of songs

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Oh the apparition of a rainy day dreaming down
The saddest face of a clown caught in the clouds
(Serves him right for spreading his tears around)
I love you... I beg you... You better not let me down
So put on your evening gown, let me fill you with laughter

Now the beggars and borrowers scour the town for provisions
You can hear their laughter when they find what their after
As the schoolbell calls it a day
The shopkeeper wipes every tear away
As he lays his old friend the gardener to rest and
It's such an amazing day...

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EVERYONE

Open wide, I'll give you everything I've got
Just as long as you don't put me on the spot
When the pressure's on I fall behind
Just take a look inside and you'll find

Everyone has to live with their creation
If I slip into temptation
I'll take comfort that I'm not the only one

One by one, collective consciousness subsides
What you know is what you read between the lines
While the world is sleeping sound as babies
Nodding yeses, no's and maybes

Everyone gives a typical reaction
But you still seek satisfaction
Try to keep in mind you're not the only one

Try to keep in mind you're not alone and...

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FREE LOVE

Slipshod and bound for the Underground
On a search and find for the one-track mind
We take any chance, we sing and we dance for free love
Carrying on seems to take so long
And you're losing track, never looking back
Without knowing why, we beg and we cry for free love

I'm a failure, but I'm not blind
I won't make a bet 'cause it's all I can get is
Free love

Moving ahead, you're a king instead
Of that losing bore that you've been before
You're back in control, the heart and the soul of free love

Toeing the line and it feels so fine
As you dine and dance in your cheap romance
You won't be the same, what else could you blame but free love

When it crumbles you start again
It's the reason we're here, so don't dare interfere with
Free love

No one else understands this race you're compelled to run
You're the only one
They could get into your concept, given time...

And when you're broken, it goes to show
That it still doesn't pay 'till you give it away

Give it away, give away your free love...

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KNOCKED OUT

I've gotta know, are you gonna go through the fire
Coming around when it's coming down to the wire
But don't put your faith in queen and crown
It carries you up just to let you down
You're down for the count
You're knocked out

Lack of control swallows you whole from within
Live for today, you don't have to say where you've been
Whatever the cost, you've gone too far
With little regard for what we are
A round and a bout
You're knocked out

Ah- They say that their backs are bent and their hearts are broken
Ah- And they might, for all you know

A question you can't explain away
An order you simply don't obey
They've figured you out...
You're knocked out

...are you gonna go through the fire?

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Need You Badly

I've been out of my head since we said our goodbyes
And you know me so well it should be no surprise
That I need you, need you badly
Yes I need you so bad

Now I'm trying to tell you the way that I feel
So how can you believe that my love isn't real
When I need you, need you badly
Yes I need you so bad

I know we've had our troubles
But love was a reason enough
Just to give it a try
I'm trying to understand why you cheat and you lie
But you've hurt me so bad, I just break down and cry

So I hope you can hear me, I hope you can see
What you've done to me, girl
What your love means to me
'Cause I need you, need you badly
Yes, I need you so bad.

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NOT PRETTY

Here's a valentine for you, my sweet young thing
I'll try a verse of "Love Me Do", yeah I know that I can't sing
I really took this thing and ran, and we've both done the best we can
But you see I'm no Superman

What I've got to say is not pretty
Somehow the lock and key is not fitting
What I've got to say is not pretty, it's not pretty

Now I've met your mom and dad, and they like me a lot
The family dog didn't bark that bad, no that's not the complaint I've got
The picnics in your own backyard, memories I will not discard
But we're both trying way too hard

It's not really more than the doubt inside
It can't be seen but you just can't hide it
You said yourself that you're so lonely
Even as my one and only

You know my love for you is great, and yours I do appreciate
Now before it gets too late...

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PINNED

And if you never will come clean
Or decide on what you mean
Here's your single bleeding heart
If you blink you'll miss it. Oh.

Never one to recede into progress
Only killing time
When you going to kill the rest of you
No one cares to see

Nobody walks around in your shadow
No one will stop when they hear you call
They don't wanna wind up pinned to the ground
When you finally fall

And if you never change your mind
Live your life as the king of the blind
We will say it's just as well
We could see it coming. Oh.

Too afraid to revise the process
Too demanding to try
Haven't followed you for a week or two
No one's asking why

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SOMETHING FOR MY HEAD

One hundred million of our future's best and brightest can't be wrong
It must be in the way they shoot to kill, then carry right along
I only hope that when the bold start to attack
It won't be long before they redirect their troops and call them back
Here's a fresh new set of tracks

And I, I haven't heard a word you've said
Why don't you spare us all instead
Just give me something for my head

I can't believe that you would fight so hard to try and keep me down
Lead away from the shallow water, drop me in to see if I might drown
When I'm sitting still I feel the pressure from all sides
In the look I get from every family member, friend and passerby
Doesn't matter how I try

And you, you won't be happy 'till you're through
You live the kind of life I dread
Just give me something for my head

Why do I bother wasting all this time
At once your plans are fickle and sublime

One hundred billion of our future's best and brightest can't be wrong...

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THAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE

She's not the girl you knew, so young and innocent with true devotion
She used to be so gentile, I do believe she's gone astray
And I'm open-minded when I get reminded
That she's not the same girl... she's not the same girl

That's the new Mary Jane, she knows what to say
She really can get right to you
That's the new Mary Jane, when she comes your way
With eyes that can see right through you

Pure and good and kind until her true love left her broken-hearted
The girl you knew and loved is never coming back again
And I get that feeling when she sends me reeling
That she's not the same girl... she's not the same girl

Wasn't there a time when she was yours forever
Now you'll have to stand in line
You flash that smile and Try to act so clever

And she might not show it, but she'll let you know it
She's not the same girl... she's not the same girl...

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THE BEATEN GENERATION

I've got a reputation
I'm the man of steel with international appeal
And I'm on the way
A megaton of power
I'm a sight to see and as erect as can be
Turn me on today

Your heart is spinning out of control
You can't tell one road from another, but you will recover
Don't forget you're part of the whole
It took a year or two to get it, still you won't regret it

I've got no reservations
When I'm up to speed and if you're ever in need
Put me on the floor
I'm a vinyl album
When the needle comes down, get the hell out of town
'Cause I'm in stereo

Rock and roll is doing you proud
To the beaten generation, vibes across the nation
Feel the groove and turn it up loud
Let's dance on until the morning, then you hear the warning

Happiness is bringing you down
Step in time with all the masses, here's your sunglasses
Try to bring your government down
When it comes down to tomorrow, deal with all the sorrow

I'm an hallucination
When you're coming down, get the hell out of town
Take a holiday
I'm a supersonic neutron
I'm on gasoline, solar power and steam
Shoot me into space

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WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME

Well you don't know what you want until you want it
Then you belt it out and try to make it rhyme
You think it's lost, and then your hand just falls upon it
I shake my head as if to say I've lost my mind
Every day she sounds a little more like you
It's a simple force of habit, and I'd like to follow through

Did you see it? Did you see it?
What a wonderful time

You've hung your hopes up on a greater expectation
Your expectations getting greater every day
What can it be that sucked out all your concentration
Just sing your song if you've got nothing left to say
Now you're bound to plead your innocence, I guess
I've been known to fight for little more and killed some men for less

Did you see it? Did you see it?
What a wonderful time

You know... strict instructions
I know... repercussions
Why can't you take it all in stride
You're so controlling... the tape is rolling...
You'll never know who slipped the hemlock in your wine

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