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It's not written in code
Or tailored and sewed
But it hangs on me like an overcoat
Take a key and lock it
With history's Davy Crockett
Dried up contact lens in the breast pocket
The elbows are ripped and worn
The buttons poke out like a thorn
When it's bunched on the floor it's a shapeless form
And though seeing you like this really hurts
You're still my favorite plaid shirt
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A - Little Prune
01:18
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Bright little prune
You delight me so
You fall asleep and
I keep tip-toeing around
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A - New Century Theater
01:21
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We can meet on Larkin & O'Farrell Streets tonight
We can know that everything will be alright
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Piecing it together
Cutting every single scrap
Each line is straight
Each line isn't on
Why does it seem endless
It's not on the line
It's back
It's right
It's the fist wave
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You said you saw the sun shine in
In an instant flash
It burned the skin right off your bare back
When you picked your gun pointed it
At Lee Harvey's chest
You saw the world rebuild itself again
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B - Free Composition #2
03:57
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But you try to impress the ones you know
You come with the paper, ribbon, and ink pen
Wonder what the composition is in the end
Anything for a friend
That's what you say
But you already bit at the one that you caught up
Match the colors I would
Everyday I take
Every piece of the part
Every song that I carve out of...
But the saying isn't always the truth
You count the numbers on the tracing paper's line
Heavenly and divine
All the while could never...
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B - Ditch Song
01:51
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Digging a ditch on the side of the road
You never called the phone
You let it ring
But the ditch it fills as the water falls off
You filled the fault
Like you filled the wrong one that you thought you found
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B - It's Alright
02:56
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It's alright to say that I'll be here
It's alright to whisper under your ear
It's not good enough to wonder what you do at home
It's alright to say that I'll be here
Thoughts that inch their way towards
Feeling like the chance ...
If you've got the right mind
I don't think I want to know
It's alright to say that I'll be here
It's alright to whisper under your ear
It's not good enough to wonder what you do at home
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