1. |
The Resurection of NV
03:00
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The Resurrection Of N.V.
I was getting stashed out sideways
I was high on defeat
I was giving up on my way
I was even down kissing your feet
But then I died and went to heaven
Where the sun always shines
Now I'm getting used to the climate
And I tell ya I'm doing fine
There ain't no halos up here
We don't hang around on clouds
It's a whole new dimension
Where everything's allowed
And that stuff about thou shalt not
Well, baby, it's got to go
It's supposed to be thou may
And you can tell them that I told you so
Oh yeah life life life life life
Yeah it was some fun
But my days were staggered with worrying ways
But now as I'm dead
My worrying days all long gone
I used to worry about the food
I used to worry about the air
But now I don't breathe so I don't care
All I need are these wings to lay back on
The holy ghost made this guitar
And Jesus helped me write this song
Yeah he wrote this part it goes
Well there's whisky in the smokehouse
Gonna be trouble on cloud nine
My angel don't wanna know me
But that don't come as any surprise
Cause I talk with a stutter
Sometimes I don't talk at all
Yeah I walk with a stagger
But when you're dead it don't hurt when you fall
Yeah there's witches in my blood
But don't let them scare you none
I bathe in their brew I steal their brooms just for fun
Any fears I had before staying alive it was based on
So if I swoop down on ya will you run
Words and Music by Lionel Lodge
All Rights Reserved
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2. |
Smile
02:14
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Smile
All right have it your way
We’ll spend our day talking fantasy
We can be king and queen of all there is to be
We’ll cruise through Camden Town
In our new Rolls Royce with the top
You won’t need to make a sound
And I won’t need to hang around
We’ll buy all we’ve ever seen
And never need to dream
I’ll have an airplane with a games room
Zoom zoom zoom
They’ll hang our wedding picture
In every class room
The perfect bride
And the perfect groom
With nothing to do all day but smile
And wave at all the people mile after mile
Money will never be an issue
Just think of all the things that we could do
We'll live in a castle up on a hill
With maids and servants to do our will
And we’ll bask all day in the sun
Just like contented pigs
Living on champagne and fresh figs
And I could escape anytime
And you could look more than fine
And we could make it all the time
Yeah we could make it all the time
And when we die they’ll make us saints
Oh come on now baby wouldn’t that just be great
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3. |
The In Between
03:09
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The In Between
Parallel streams, parallel storms
Parallel ways of trying to be born
Into a dream that blurs in the mist
Life holds a line that continues to twist
And it’s easy to write all off as just a dream
But it’s the waking up that pulls you closer
to the in between
I skipped out a stone, I let it fly out
It skipped out till it’s skipping it did doubt
That’s when it vanished into the sea
But I swear somewhere
it’s still skipping inside of me
And it’s easy to write all off as just a dream
But it’s the waking up that pulls you closer
to the in between
And they say wake up now to a shadowy dawn
Then someone grabs you by the shoulder
and says hey you don’t belong
But I thought we were just starting to get along
You finally make it to the station
but the tracks are all gone
And it’s easy to write all off as just a dream
But it’s the waking up that pulls you closer
to the in between
Parallel streams, parallel storms
I put my best foot forward but the heal’s kinda worn
It makes it easy to write it off as just a dream
But it’s the waking up that pulls you closer
to the in between
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4. |
Little Row Boat
02:55
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Little Row Boat
We’re in a row boat
In a little row boat
A little row boat made for two
Were in the middle of the vast ocean
We've got a lot of rowing to do
Cause they say there’s a better place
For us to be
Somewhere out there it’s waiting, waiting
A much better space for us to be
A better better place for you and me
There’ll be time for laughter
There’ll be time for joy
In our future
There’ll be time for happy ever after
And the waves rise up
And the wind does howl
And my arms ache my back aches
I’m drenched to the bone
But they say there’s a better place
For us to be
Somewhere out there it’s waiting, waiting
A much better space for us to be
A better better place for you and me
There’ll be time for laughter
There’ll be time for joy
In our future
There’ll be time for our happy ever after
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5. |
Shut Down
03:23
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Shut Down
You come to wrestle me down
Chain up my thoughts make me your fool
Your words are disease
Your religion is greed profit Is your one rule
You build up walls of class, call it progress
Dark oceans rising
It all happened so fast
Now my balls in a vice but it’s profit making
You must be shut down
For poisoning what I love
Now the water burns
But your greed hasn’t fracked enough
You must be shut down
This is where we live
It’s not yours to give or blast full of holes
It’s a soulless game feeding off the tame
And the planet knows
You must be shut down
For poisoning what I love
Now the air it burns
But your greed hasn’t raped enough
You must be shut down
You want to tax our breath
Bury us in dept
Enslave us even more
It’s a monopoly game
For the truly deranged
We’ve seen your type before
You must be shut down
For poisoning what I love
Now my brain it burns
But your greed hasn’t gouged enough
You must be shut down
You must be shut down
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6. |
Rock In My Shoe
03:25
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Rock In My Shoe
There's a rock in my shoe and it hurts
There's a rock in my shoe and it hurts
I've been limping around for years
Just choking down the tears
There's a rock in my shoe and it hurts
Some folks say I should just yank it out
Yeah some folks say I should just yank it out
But then what would be left
For me to complain about
There's a rock in my shoe and it hurts
So I have learnt how to hobble my own way
Yeah I have learnt how to hobble around my own way
It adds a certain charm
And does me no real harm
There's a rock in my shoe and it hurts
So lend me a little smile as I pass
Just lend me a simple little smile as I pass
Sympathy for my burden
Is all that I ask
There's a rock in my shoe and it hurts
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7. |
Occupied
01:58
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Occupied
They’re out on the road
stopping traffic again
With all their friends,
marching again
They’re out on the road
stopping traffic again
And they’re starting to piss me off
They’re carrying signs
and chanting again
When will it end,
they’re chanting again
They’re carrying signs
and chanting again
And they’re starting to piss me off
They say we’re too rich
and that it’s not fair
They want their share,
as if we’d care
They say we’re too rich
and that it’s not fair
They’re really starting to piss me off
I’ll do them a favor
and toss them a dime
That’s me being kind,
I’ll toss them a dime
I’ll do them a favor
and toss them a dime
If they just stop pissing me off
We’ll call up the chief
and change the laws
Spin a good cause
and just change the laws
We’ll call up the chief
and change the laws
So they have to stop pissing us off
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8. |
Where Will They Go
04:04
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Where Will They Go
Never so clever never would surrender to
save their soul They let us down they sold
the town they know it’s so Never going
back there never find a track there on our
own It’s a little fat line on a brittle back
climb to your corporate throne
It was easy enough just play that bluff and
let the cash just flow It’s there in the slime
that you leave behind on your way back
home Someone says that it’s word from
above but is a fact a fact Never know how
but we can figure out why there’s a cat in
the sack
Somebody says it was just slip so just let
it go Springing off a diver profit from
climber with a tally ho Gonna drag out few
gonna pump up a-new and rally the show
There’s a million more waiting to come
ashore and give it a blow
It was crazy in the beginning but now it’s
left me just a little bit stoned Let’s find a
light let’s break this night let’s find our way
home And maybe sometime we could look
on back and laugh at all this How we sank
in the bog how we crashed in the fog
without a thought to resist
It’s easy to say but we really shouldn’t
have cut them loose But someone in
betweens gonna keep it clean so you
won’t feel the noose But what are you
gonna do when you can’t even handle
your own thing Buy another toy that will
give you some joy in this swamp we’re in
It was easy in the beginning but now I
really just can’t explain It’s hits you in the
middle the way they lied through the fiddle
and dance in the rain We say it’s enough
they gotta fix this stuff but on they laugh
Paint a new picture enlist and new
preacher and save a giraffe
Where will they go When we all know
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9. |
See It For Ourselves
03:23
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See It For Our Selves
One thing I see as sure
It's hard to find peace by going to war
We can knock them down and drag them out
But imposing belief
just breeds more doubt in ourselves
One thing I see as right
It’s the desire for wings that gives to flight
We can open it up and let it sing
Nobody knows what the children will bring
We’re the way
We’re the promise
We’re the ones that can delivery us
But we have to see it for ourselves
We’re the way
We’re the promise
But we have to see it for ourselves
One thing I see as clear
Just being here will get you there
Taking the time to let it shine
Bending those rules
and crossing those lines in ourselves
One thing I see as a blast
Is tomorrow’s not here but it’s coming fast
It's gonna rip right across the autumn sky
Coming over the horizon you can feel it fly
One thing I see as straight
Is it’s hard find love when you harbor hate
The boy he grows into the man
Still trying to grasp what he can’t understand
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10. |
Putting Down My Gun
02:58
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Putting Down My Gun
I'm putting down my gun now
oh Captain
Ain't gonna fight in this war no more
Oh yeah, I'm putting down my gun now
Just watch me
As I walk right out of this war
They wouldn't let me help a young girl
Who without my help would surely die
They said it's not our problem and besides that
She might be on the enemy's side
We came here to help them, what a joke now
When we trampled all we came to protect
Yeah we came here and broke them
Then we told them
We're going to teach them to respect
Well you can shoot me in the back now
As I'm leaving
Or you can lock me up in jail
but that won't make you right
You can label me a traitor, a deserter
But at least I will sleep a bit better at night
Gonna head across the border
From disorder
Find some truth that won't turn to dust
And when this mess is over
We'll consider
Who betrayed the people's trust
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11. |
123
03:13
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123
It might take the day now
It might take the week now
It might take the strong now
Whatever comes under the sun
They tell me that I’m free now
As long as I agree now
To draw inside the lines now
They’ll allow me to be some
One two three swings of the axe
Brings it all back
to the way life used to be
One two three swings of the axe
Cuts through all the crap
and all they’re selling me
So it’s forward on the heave now
Whatever you believe now
Is slipping up a sleeve now
Don’t come come under the gun
The spinner has it spun now
The hero is unsung now
The mind games of our lives now
Just to end up another
The sun is going down now
Time to turn the day around now
When it comes back up again now
We’ll be ready for another
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12. |
The Agitator
02:12
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The Agitator
Who’s that up on the roof
Dancing the goofy clown
He ain’t coming down, no he ain’t coming down
He says he’s never coming down
As Elvis tried to tell us
We are living in paradise
But he ain’t coming down,
no he ain’t coming down
And he ain’t gonna tell us twice
Some neighbor called the county
And they called the police
The police came and tried to charge him
With disturbing the peace
Peace he yelled, you’re on planet earth he yelled
This country is at war
Don’t talk to me about peace he yelled
And then he yelled a whole lot more
Don’t you know being an agitator
Will get you labeled as a radical threat
Well I’m an agitated agitator
I won’t forgive and I won’t forget
So who’s that up on the roof
He looks a lot like you
And you’re inviting your friends
to come and do the goofy dance
Hell what the hell you trying to do
Don’t you know being an agitator
Will get you labeled as a radical threat
Well I’m an agitated agitator
I won’t forgive and I won’t forget
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Lionel Lodge Vienna, Austria
He was born, he lived and he will die. In between he dreamed and achieved and made a lot of friends. Loved a lot, didn't hate too much except for hate and greed. Tried to help, played a lot of guitar, sang a lot and released a whole slew of cds.
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