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Bunkers
03:28
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Every day it’s all the same
Starting to forget my name
All the things we’ve done and seen, and
What a year this week has been
Fear is spreading like a sneeze
Carried on a changing breeze
The men we ask to save us
Pay themselves in stacks of stolen cash
It’s like a snow day without snow
Everybody’s letting go
Pain sets in our bones
And leaves us so alone
And if it weren’t for all of you
Sitting in your bunkers, too
Reaching out in moving pictures
Writing words and singing songs, then
I might give us up for lost
It’s too hard to tally up the cost
We’re better living day by day
And taking care of everyone
We know
And those we don’t
Because we know we’re not alone
No excuse for going out
To the bars and making out
When our foe invisible is
Out there feeding off our souls
On the news we hear the voice
Of someone who was not our choice
A broken puppet clutching strings
And pulling down the curtain on us all
We fall
With no one there to hold
And if it weren’t for all of you
Sitting somewhere else in bunkers too
Prob'ly cleaner than the one I’m in
But if it’s not who cares
Because
We’ll live to fight another day
Ignore the ones who say
It doesn’t matter if we go or stay
Because although we sit at home
I’m not alone
You’re not alone
We’re not alone
I sing a song that you can hear
And if you hear it
Then it means
You’re not alone
You’re not alone
We won’t sacrifice the meek
To prop up companies
Who won’t throw us a bone
We’re not alone
Although we’re staying home
We’re not alone
In our bunkers
In our bunkers
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2. |
Good One
04:03
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Tonight we lost a good one
A singer and a sage
A jester in the first degree
A poet on the stage
Although I never met him
I hold his open cage
And sing because he taught me how
Now it’s all the rage
In ‘96 they fell out of a catalog
Landed on a boy learning how to play
Followed them across the ocean deep
Picking up their gems along the way
Today we mourn a good one
But not the last I fear
Though they're gone
Their songs live on
Beyond this rotten year
Frozen rhymes in changing times
Always lead me home
To the space between the speakers
Where I never feel alone
Life is the company you keep
The waking and the sleep
On days like this they bleed together
'Til it’s so hard to see
The beginning and the end
Better things are
Waiting just around the bend
Tonight we miss a good one
A hero lost the fight
We flip the record over
Of the soundtrack to a life
Good ones
Great ones
Echo on and on
Good ones linger on
Great ones echo and we
All sing along
Good ones linger on
Great ones echo and we
All sing along
To our favorite songs
On and on
On and on
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3. |
Leap Year
05:45
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This year’s too long
By a thousand days or more
Can’t send it back now
They closed all the stores
This decade is defective
Who can guess
Which of us will make it through
And who will need a new address?
Smiling faces lying ‘bout
The places that they are
Gas is dirty cheap but
No one’s driving cars
I’m running round the house
But not getting far
Politicians flying blind
And we’re the one who’s seeing stars
This leap year’s longer than it ought to be
Roll it up and stuff it in a bottle and
Throw it out to sea
Stop saying next year will improve and
Asking what we’ve got to lose
The answer is more more more
Hypocrites get high on
A rising body count
Hippocrates saving souls
Like the sermon on the mount
Rusted points of contact
Keep the beasts at bay
Checking in on friends and strangers
Making sure that they’re okay
Power shifting
Even farther
As the rich pretend to barter
This new deal
Is getting harder
To choke down
Without water
This leap year’s longer than it ought to be
Crumple it, shove it up a bottle and
Throw it out to sea
Stop saying next year will improve
And asking what we’ve got to lose
When the answer is more more more
We beg them for a test
That none of us can pass
Looking at the world
Through panes of shattered glass
Men in charge come apart
We break their fall
Shaking heads instead of hands
And dousing both in alcohol
We’re looking older than we ought to be
Take this year, cram it in a bottle and
Throw it out to sea
Stop saying next year will improve
And asking what we’ve gotta lose
When the answer's always more more more
And oh
I’m tired of keeping score
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4. |
Hold On
03:13
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Hold on
Hold on
Cause this road
We’re traveling on
Is long
Hang onto the wheel and
Take all the time that you can steal
Hold on
To the ones you love
Like the fingers in a glove
That you wear
When you go out there
Where the future is unclear
It’s so easy to be sad
So be sad
We’ll be there
Do the things you’ve got to do
In here
Where you’ve been
And will be
Until next year’s
Come
And gone
Now it’s dark
But hold on
And don’t give up
On the ones you love
Some days they’re all the ones you got
It’s so easy to get mad
So get mad
It’s okay
You’re not the only one
To be scared
Of things
You can’t see hanging in the air
Hold on
Hold on
Time’s are tough
But time goes on
So do we
We roll along
Don’t let go
When hope is gone
Don’t let go
Just hold on
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