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Lie Awake
03:06
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Lie Awake
A placid wink of turquoise rouge brought forth consensual ties
My glance fell upon her inner thigh
She sells the curfew bells, then drives on through the day
But that song on the radio still plays
Joanie’s with her demons in a consciousness delayed
She’s teasing all the stupid girls with promises she made
She’s off to her psychiatrist to bandage yesterday
When she’s walking through herself I know what she will say
I lie awake at night
Can you sing me that Latin lullaby?
You know the one that makes me cry
I like to keep my perversion to myself
I’ve only got one minute left, so could you do a little dance and wet your lip?
Maybe in awhile that song will leave my head
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Spaghetti A Go Go
03:56
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Spaghetti A Go-Go
Silky webs add ambiance
Pseudonyms fill vacant slots
Scattered voices in my head
Know that we’re not dead
Steal the prize if you come in last
No one cares if your future has past
Karma lies underneath your bed
Sheep will wait to be led
Draping God all around my neck
Pray I die at the discothèque
If it comes before I wake
Pray it’s commercial break
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Elevator To The Sun
05:01
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Elevator to the Sun
No one was listening to the dirty princess on the throne
I was a custodian, she was looking for a chaperone
Coal miner on the run, I thought for sure she’d found me out
Staring into the sun she said let’s take a different route
Dragon fairies at the door
Give me a little I want some more
Wish on me, oh wish I might
Make a wish for me tonight
Poison berries in disguise
It comes to me as no surprise
Tell me I’m the only one
I’m on an elevator to the sun
Armed with her parasol she wouldn’t hear of culture shock
A rumbling from the underground, a floor a second ‘round the clock
She don’t believe in fairy tales or anything not easily explained
She’ll tell you what tomorrow brings, but can’t remember yesterday
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Suck Radio
04:28
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Suck Radio
Teen queen, so serene
What are we doing here?
Been down that dusty road
Now it’s starting to clear
I got no time for pantomime
I thought I figured it out
That’s O.K., I had my doubts
Suck radio in my head
Every goddamn day she said
When it gets to you just all depends
On how much they want to spend
Suck radio in my brain
Every goddamn night I go insane
And if it gets to you it’s all the same
Suck radio knows your name
Old hag, it’s such a drag
Where are we coming from?
I had to steal me a frequency so all my friends could come
And don’t you tell me it was better back then
‘Cause it was never that good
Sometimes I wish I could…
I’m a lonely boy
Somebody just stole my favorite toy
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Only A Dream
04:17
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Only A Dream
There she stood where the angels lament
In a message of love I’d been sent
Many stars would pass over the sea
By the time she’d come calling on me
No one will tell me where my Isabella has gone
It’s only a dream
Sometimes I hear her whisper, you’d better keep moving on
It’s only a dream
Never quite like it seems
When I awoke from my slumber at last
I had hoped all these visions had passed
Though sometimes my perceptions aren’t clear
I could sense only dreamers were here
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If I Ever Make It Home
05:10
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If I Ever Make It Home
Frothing salmonella on the Adriatic Sea
Someone locked the gate to dreamland and threw away the key
I swallowed my umbrella, curled up in a Persian rug
The rain came down for thirty days so into the earth I dug
I never found any rainbows, …no pots of gold
Stranded in the station all alone
I never reached that destination, I turned to go
But I don’t mind if I ever make it home
I took the midnight train to Venice, sins of the carnival
The gypsies turned on one another to keep their bellies full
I bid farewell Prater, the meadows turned to snow
Woke up in a warm legume with one place left to go
I blew out the candle and forced myself to sleep
Others shared the bed I made, daisies lined the street
The cake defacing vandal, to the gondolier he spoke
I wonder if the birthday girl would ever get the joke
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So Long, Serotonin
04:18
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So Long, Serotonin
I fell asleep with Candelabra
I woke up in the Pharaoh’s tomb
Out on the seas I was the sunset
Here on the shores I am the moon
So long, Serotonin
Take your worried mind
Now I must leave you for another
It wasn’t hard to find
I can’t remember how the sun shines
From underneath El Rio’s sod
Here on the shores the sailors blaspheme
Out on the seas they talk with God
I must leave you…
I must leave you far behind
My darling Serotonin, I love you
Now get out of my life
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Junction 29
03:15
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Junction 29
Pam’s got her carryall running through the mini-mall
Bob’s working drywall now that he’s AWOL
Junior’s playing baseball at the town hall
I’m smoking Pall Malls looking for the Great Wall
Mary’s in the convent, got to pay rent
Get bent, repent on the pavement
In the first stall sprayed some Lysol
She escaped with a Bible and a U-Haul
Get back to the end of the line
Junction 29
Cop car double parked, kill the fine
Had to see what Wounded Knee was selling to the elderly
Old ladies on LSD in double D’s scratching flees
Seduce me, please
Sign mine can you find the time to spare a dime and drop a line
We’ll pantomime
We’ll smoke and choke on big cigars
We’ll be stars
…number one on the pop charts
Whole wheat collagen, message for the boss man
I’m leaving San Fran, headed for the bandstand
Amen, God bless incense and peppermints
Go to school, pass the test
Now clean up your mess
Happy hour
Cold shower
Devil to the sixth power
Old dead president creeping through the Laundromat
Drinking cappuccino with a camera around his neck
Saying “cheese”, smile please
Why don’t you make me?
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Mentholated Blues
04:20
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Mentholated Blues
I clean out my mind with a moist towelette
Then I smoke a GPC mentholated cigarette
I stole some ideas from a third world war
But now the police officer’s at my door
Vegan at my table trying hard to digest
She got a water logged hog in a bullet-proof vest
She cried, she cried the whole night long
Though she hasn’t yet realized what went wrong
I ride my motorcycle down the freeway so fast
I got a tattoo on my arm of a love that wouldn’t last
Look out, look out, get out of my way
‘Cause I’ve been feeling kind of paranoid all day
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Uh Huh Huh
04:05
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Uh Huh Huh
So there I was in an alligator tie,
With a half empty box of super-sized fries
Just an anonymous vagabond with nothing to live for
…and no place to die
I landed at a neo-night club just around the other side
That’s where I met this little hippie flower girl
…she began to philosophize
My scantily clad imagination left me wondering,
”Just what was she talking about all that time?”
Nevertheless, I politely indulged her fortune cookie mind
She said, “Hey, hey there bartender, bring me another one of those,
Bring me another one of those dark blue espressos,
‘cause I’m a punk rock dreadlock lady!”
Cement flowed beneath her vinyl skin
The V-necked intellects digested politics and told their lies that lie within
Diabolical movie reviewers stood motionless in time
I would have made a call to my friend Jesus upstairs, but I couldn’t find a dime
So my cathartic production left me a little unfulfilled on this particular eve
Green fog bounced off tie-dyed mohawks
Cuckoo clocks chimed emphatically
Across the floor strolled this girl once more
From the look in her eye I think she’d seen me before
She said, “Hey, what’s the problem over there? I’m just drinking my espresso.”
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Bring Me Down
06:29
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Bring Me Down
Well I’m a pendulum swinger on the midnight train
In the codeine garden I’m a child of the rain
I’m the voice of another, you don’t have to pretend
‘Cause I ain’t your brother and I ain’t your friend
I leave it all up to the judge and jury
‘Cause some get lost and some get found
I’m going up top without a worry
There ain’t nobody gonna bring me down
Well everybody get together, you got to love someone
Like birds of a feather flying into the sun
That gun wasn’t loaded, I tried to explain
It must have just exploded down memory lane
Ain’t nobody gonna bring me down
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Tyler Jakes
Tyler Jakes is an independent singer-songwriter/producer with an eclectic variety of influences ranging from garage rock to folk to punk to blues. His music has appeared on TV shows such as Deadliest Catch and Survivor, and his songs have charted multiple times in the Top 20 on U.S. terrestrial radio stations. Pulse magazine says, "Jakes is intent on laying down some truly dirty rock and roll." ... more
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