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Blowing Off the World
03:52
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Got nothing important to do today
Staying in bed is something new for me
I’m usually turned up to 11
Running around 24/7
So I think I’ll take it easy, thank you very much
No you can’t stay in touch with your demands for plans and such
I know you’re calling me
Sorry, I’m busy blowing off the world
I’m busy blowing off the world
I’m busy blowing off the
You want to talk to me
Sorry, I’m busy
Try not to take it personally
Taking this time off just occurred to me
I need a day avoiding the sun
So now I’m ghosting everyone
I think I’ll strum my guitar a bit,
Disappear off the grid, yeah you’ll all just have to deal with it
I know you’re calling me
Sorry, I’m busy blowing off the world
I’m busy blowing off the world
I’m busy blowing off the
You want to talk to me
Sorry, I’m busy
I got this hot date with a pot of tea
Some art house films I’m dying to see
Yeah, it’s sunny out but I can’t be reached
Cause there’s no love lost between me and beach
I got a crossword puzzle
This book’s the best
How bout a solitary game of chess
Or solo Scrabble that never ends
Yeah, you could call it Words without Friends
I’ll consider this day a success if I can safely dodge the...
Stress you’re trying to pile on me
Sorry, I’m busy blowing off the world
I’m busy blowing off the world
I’m busy blowing off the
You want to talk to me
Sorry, I’m busy
I’m busy
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2. |
Quarantine Blues
03:28
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Monday: no fun day
Tuesday: got the blues day
Wednesday: miss my friends day
Thursday: in the worst way
Friday: I cry and sigh and really want to die
And then it's Saturday: the only day that used to matter to me
Sunday is hell, I’m just bracing myself til it starts all over again!
Monday: no fun day
Tuesday: got the blues day
Wednesday: miss my friends day
Thursday: in the worst way
Friday: I cry and sigh and really want to die
And then there’s Saturday: the only day that used to matter to me
Sunday is hell I’m just bracing myself til it starts all over
I’m trying to stay sober
I’m really just tired of staying inside
I don’t think I can swallow another day wallowing
In my apartment—the bed and the carpet
The four walls are all closing in!
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3. |
Life Our Own Way
03:00
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Something happens between the hour of midnight and dawn
A deeper frequency no one but me and she can be on
I know you tried to raise us right but you raised us wrong
Let’s hit the streets time to get with the beat of the song
C’mon
We’re living life our own way
Living life free
Living life our own way
My baby and me
Something happens when we ride to the city on the bus
A deeper feeling like love without the pity or lust
Don’t you know there’s people out here on the streets and they’re dancing just like us
It’s true to you what we do doesn’t make a difference but to us it does
Because
We’re living life our own way
Living life free
Living life our own way
My baby my baby my baby and me
Yeah
Oooh-ooh-wahh etc.
Something happens when we hold each other, move into the crowd
A deeper spirit takes hold of us, it doesn’t seem so loud
Just the two of us—our bodies and the sound
I’ll be true to you if you’re true to me until it all comes down
Living life our own way
Living life free
Living life our own way
My baby my baby my baby and me
Yeah
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You – you’re smiling at me
And you can see
I’m lost in your loveliness
Why can’t we say what’s going on?
I – just came here to play
But you have a way
And I’m at my clumsiest
Why can’t we say what’s going on?
It should be easy to fall in each other’s arms and unwind
So what’s stopping us?
Maybe what’s blocking us…
We both think this is just in our minds?
No.
I - believe that it’s real
And I can feel
That you believe something too
So why can’t we say what’s going on?
You’re – touching my hand
While the rest of the band
Is in the other room
So I’ll try to say what’s going on…
It should be simple… I’ll just lean in close and kiss you
If that’s okay
And then you say…
You want to know, when this is over, will I miss you?
YEAH!
It’s so easy… we both just needed to say
These few simple words
I’m yours
And you’re mine
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5. |
If We Became Lovers
03:24
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If we became lovers
The tension we’re building would all just collapse
The coy little smiles and laughing love taps
I’d have you and you’d have me
How disappointed we would be in each other
If we became lovers
The light in our eyes would quickly go out
We’d know all along what those looks were about
Explore each other to the depths
Til there was nothing left for us to discover
If we became lovers
There’s no such thing as the one
You can just pivot from one stranger to another
Til you became lovers
If we became lovers
That first time would be explosive all night
Within a few hours we’d have our first fight
We’d say things so cruel I don’t think you or I would ever recover
If we became lovers
There’s no such thing as the one
Love is specific to where you find yourself
You can just pivot from one stranger to another
Til you became lovers
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6. |
On Your Side
02:39
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Boy:
I know that I’m rusty
but I hope you can trust me
‘cause I’m on your side
If you’d just let me
I would love you so gently
‘cause I’m on your side
I know your heart has been shuttered for a while
And rushing into loving is no longer your style
But if we take this step together
then you’d realize forever
I’ll be on your side
Girl:
As soon as I see you
it’s not hard to believe you
that you’re on my side
Whenever I’m shaky
I just love how you make me
Know you’re on my side
It’s time to open up my heart again
And you’re the only one I want to let in
So if we take it slowly
I can offer you the whole me
I’ll be on your side
Together:
It’s not easy to give yourself away
But I don’t want to live alone another day
In a while you’ll find you
Don’t need me to remind you
That I’m on your side
You’re on my side
Yeah I’m on your side
You’re on my side
Love you and I’m on your side
Please stay on my side
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Thought my dreams would all come true
Showers of gold from yonder blue
I traded Earth for stranger views
My head was in the clouds
Now I’m feeling motion sick
Pressure’s cut me to the quick
I’m falling like a ton of bricks
My head was in the clouds
I see my head was in the clouds
Vision blurred but still I vowed
Hallucination’s all I found
But now my feet are on the ground
And it feels good to be on the ground
Thought the voice I heard was God
Didn’t think it all that odd
Doing His will was my only job
My head was in the clouds
But now the voice has gone away
Said what it needed to say
I realized there’d be hell to pay
If my head stayed in the clouds
I see my head was in the clouds
Negativity not allowed
A fantasy was all I found
But now my feet are on the ground
And it feels good to be on the ground
I see my head was in the clouds
I miss the sights, I miss the sounds
But the air was thin and hard to breathe
I told myself to close my eyes and just believe
But it all came crashing down
I see my head was in the clouds
Vision blurred but still I vowed
Hallucination’s all I found
But now my feet are on the ground
And it feels good to be on the ground
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I can’t take relentlessly sunny people
I always wonder how you treat your kids
It always seems like just below the surface is a pool of anger boiling
No matter how much you think you kept it hid
I want to pop your bubble
Make you see the truth of what I say
But preachers preach the sermons they most need to hear
On any given day…. So…
I dedicate myself to the night
Darkness and pouring rain
I dedicate myself to heartache
The shadowy part of my brain
Cause I like it when it’s dark outside
and I get pleasure from pain
I hear the shadow calling and it’s time to go again
If you don’t bring forth what is within you
What you don’t bring forth will seal your fate
You’ll become a shadow of yourself and talk about what could have been
Your heart consumed with hate
I wish my words would touch you
Shake you out of your sleep
But I’m the one who needs to find the strength it takes
To take the leap….. So…
I dedicate myself to the night
Darkness and pouring rain
I dedicate myself to sorrow
The shadow inside of my brain
Cause I like it when it’s dark outside
and I get pleasure from pain
I hear the shadow calling and it’s time to go again
I dedicate myself to the night
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9. |
You Make Me Work
03:45
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I want it easy, served up on a platter - You say “no”
You see right through me
and all my chatter and you’re not afraid to tell me so
Lucky for you, I’ve got the patience of a saint
I’m saying “Bout time we did it.” You just say, “No it ain’t”
Honey, please… Just when I think we’re through you grab my hand and say “Okay, let’s go”
May not happen as often as I want but when it does, it’s hot as can be
You don’t know just what you do to me…
You make me work
I got a dream, yeah - I can’t wait until it all comes true
Yeah I believe it’s
just around the corner hid from view
Lucky for me, you’ve got no patience for that shit...
Yo, we’re slowly going broke while I wait for my ideas to hit
I’m on my knees again, you grab my hand and tell me
“I don’t care what you have to do! Just go out there and make some money!”
May not happen as often as you want but when it does, it’s like the lottery
I think you know just what you do to me…
You make me work
Can I at least get a lunch break?!?
May not happen as often as we want, but when it does, it’s cause it’s gotta be
I think by now you know what you do to me…
You make me work
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You only get so much time
If you want to spend it laughing (Don’t let me stop you)
If you want to spend it sleeping (They probably got something for you)
I hope we’ll spend it singing (Singing out my heartache with you)
Cause we need to keep believing… believing...
You only get so much time
If you tell me time’s a wasting (Every day’s a waste without you)
I’ll be by your side this evening (Gotta get over to you)
I know just what you’re needing (Feel my arms around you)
Cause we need to keep on living… and loving….
You only get so much time
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I Love You (Duh)
02:56
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You must be some kind of idiot not to noticing me staring
Do you see what I’m wearing?
Nah, you just act like you don’t care when I walk by
I had you pegged for a smart guy
But you don’t seem to want no part of my heart, why?
I got this feeling if we were to get together
You’d hit my pleasure center better than anyone ever
Rip my sweater. I’d let you do whatever
Bring another girl if it won’t upset her
I could get her in the mood, make this a double header
See? It makes no sense
This could be all yours if you weren’t so dense
What, do you think that girls are too intense?
Get off the fence, you stupid jerk, and get on top of me
See the signs and maybe read ‘em
Where is cupid when I need him?
If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em (wink, wink)
Don’t blink. I’m on the brink and you seem to need a bigger hint
Why else do you think I’m always showing up for drinks?
I don’t live in your area.
I love you, duh
I’m so sick of these kind of guys I love
Maybe they’ve been traumatized into never making a move
Did that girl in middle school break your heart in that gymnasium?
You could make a fresh start with me if you stopped playing dumb
How did it come to this?
Guys are pussies, girls are dicks
How did this come to be?
Why can’t you get into me?
You’re lucky I even like you, boy
Dumb is hot, but only to a point
How is this the state of things?
It’s scarier than Stranger Things living in America
But I still love you, duh
I love you, duh
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Meme
02:03
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I don’t wanna be a meme
I don’t wanna be some internet fodder
That place is really mean
It ate my son and it swallowed my daughter
What would happen if we all fought back?
Throw out our phones so we could get our thoughts back?
I don’t wanna be a meme
You take my photo and add a stupid caption
What does it even mean?
You chuckleheads just want a piece of my action
You’ll see what happens when we all fight back
Delete our pictures and get our rights back
I think it’s time we had our days and nights back
Don’t you?
I don’t wanna be a tweet
Trending for like an hour
I wanna feel my feet… on the ground
Not some ego trip that’s sapping my power
Go to bed turn out the lights and lie back
Stop trying to find the things that I think I lack
Don’t wanna live inside a square my whole life
Ignore my kids and avoid my lonely wife
I think it’s time I quit the whole damn scene before I scream
I don’t wanna be a meme
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13. |
Pissin' White Light
05:20
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I’m pissin’ white light, I got flames comin’ out my ass
Felt the Unholy Spirit of Lucifer as I breathed my last
Took a face-melting trip down to the Gates of Hell
With a chorus of bloody angels screaming clear as a bell
Brimstone and ash filling up my nose
I landed with a crash… What happened to my clothes?
There was a cute girl at the gate all tatted up
Sucking on a whiskey bottle and a cigarette butt
She said “Welcome to Eternal Damnation, dear
It’s really not as bad as they describe it up there.
We can drink and smoke and fuck as much as we please.
The food is kind of a joke, but at least there’s plenty to eat.”
She handed me a robe and some sandals that were crimson red.
Then she kissed me on the cheek and said I’ll find you later in your bed.
I walked through a tunnel for what felt like hours.
Found myself in a cavern full of blackened flowers.
Saw miles of buck naked bodies at play.
I put my robe on a rock and I jumped into the fray.
Swimming in an ocean of flesh, I bobbed up and down.
One orgasm blended into the next, I thought I might just drown.
It wasn’t too long before I wanted off the ride.
Sweaty bodies surrounding me outside and inside.
Tried to paddle through the rave. I had to push and shout
Til I got caught up in a wave and then it spit me out.
Battered and bruised, my body was now sorely spent
I found my robe and sandals and I stumbled towards a big red tent
There was a great bonfire surrounded by a ring
Of red-robed figures, head raised to sing
The low growling voices shook the teeth in my head
Then the pitch soared higher til my eyeballs bled
By the hour that I reached my bed, it was almost time to wake
Tattoo girl entered my cave and she gave me a shake
Then she climbed on top and rode me for a while.
I saw through bloody eyes her demonic smile
When she was finally done, the morning trumpet blew
She said “Are you ready for more fun? Cause we’re ready for you.”
Ten hours in a row of drunken, smoky sex for days on end
No good music or books, no one good to befriend
No trees, no lakes, no mountains or clouds
No peace, no quiet, everything too loud
No fresh air vents, no sun, just shade.
It finally made sense what they said about the life that I spent
Guess I gotta lie down and repent
In the bed that I made
I’m pissin’ white light I got flames comin’ out my ass
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14. |
Johnny's New Hair
02:11
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Johnny you got that hairstyle and it’s appalling
Now tonight’s the night and the sights are calling
Johnny you hopped that turnstile without warning
Now the lights are bright like it was still morning
Went to the barber on an army dare
(Hey! Johnny-ho, Johnny-hey!)
Barber was drunk but you didn’t much care
(Write it down boy, write it down boy)
Maybe that’s because you were drunk as well
(Hey! Johnny-ho, Johnny-hey!)
Now you don’t look too much like yourself
(Write it down boy, put it in that book of yours)
Johnny you got that hairstyle and it’s appalling
Now tonight’s the night and the sights are calling
Johnny you hopped that turnstile without warning
Now the lights are bright like it was still morning
Johnny you got just one more day
(Hey! Johnny-ho, Johnny-hey!)
Find a girl who wants to carry you away
(Write it down boy, write it down boy)
Might as well take her and put her in a song
(Hey! Johnny-ho, Johnny-hey!)
She’s gonna miss you when you’re gone
(Write it down boy, put it in that book of yours)
Johnny you got that hairstyle and it’s appalling
Now tonight’s the night and the sights are calling
Johnny you hopped that turnstile without warning
Now the lights are bright like it was still morning
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15. |
Rock My Mind
03:33
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You say… what you mean
Doesn’t make a bit of difference if I scream
You say… what you think
Doesn’t really matter if I swim or if I sink
You say… what you feel
My heart is flippin’ all over itself like an eel inside a wheel
You say I’m a crazy person, I have to agree sometimes
But you rock my mind
Don’t you know I’m feeling fine
Long as I got you to rock my mind
You know… how to fight
Hold it all inside your body, read your book, turn out the light
You know…. how to love
You start it sweet and slow and gentle, then you’re getting rough
You know… how to be
All this time I tried to teach you… teachin’ me
You know I’m a crazy person, I have to concede sometimes
Cause you rock my mind
You know I’ll be just fine
Long as I got you to rock my mind
I say you rock my mind, that means you shake me to the core
And after I fall apart and put myself back together…
I want more
You chose you a crazy person, I have to believe sometimes
So you could rock my mind
Don’t you know we’ll be just fine
Long as I got you to rock my mind
Long as I got you and you got me and I got you to rock my mind
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David Heatley New York, New York
DAVID HEATLEY is a musician, cartoonist and animation director living in Queens, NY. Over several decades, he has recorded 5 albums and 7 EPs as a solo artist and as part of the bands Velvet Cactus Society and The Bischoffs. His animation production company Dream Puppy, Inc was launched in 2021. A TV show based on his 2019 graphic memoir "Qualification" is currently in production. ... more
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