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These birds can sing
Flap their wings
Fly free like it’s the first day of spring
This world can bring
Such suffering
It can you sharp when you’re just hanging on by a string
Don’t even cling
Or try to be some king
Just find a comfy swing and swing
Cause we don’t know if we know anything
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Who even are we? What even is this
That ain’t your business, just trust the physics
Trust the ones that tell you ‘bout your limits
Like they were there to witness whatever did this
Don’t trust your prey to help you with your hunting
Don’t trust the bread just ‘cause you’re in the dungeon
They throw assumptions at your with instructions
You know they don’t know nothing and, hey, at least that’s something
Baby
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Shrink me to an atom, small as you can get me
Or blast me into space, way out past the Trekkies
At either end, the math gets kinda messy
Blueprints sketchy, it’s all a little guessy
If God didn’t bless me then why can I come
And bare my soul to the beat of a drum
We can be electric, we can be numb
Seems odd if we’re just astro-crumbs
This ain’t just zeroes and ones
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We don’t know if we know anything, baby
We don’t know if we know anything
We don’t know if we know anything, baby
We don’t know if we know anything at all
We don’t know if this is real as it gets, baby
And in this life, I don’t think we’ll ever know
We don’t know if we know anything, baby
We don’t know if we know anything at all
Anything at all
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Do we live inside a snow globe
Inside another snow globe
If we’re all a bunch of particles
Then why is everything so beautiful
We live inside a snow globe
That’s full of fucking miracles
Where everything dies and grows and shows
That nothing’s really fair at all
We live inside a snow globe
Is the glass as far as it goes
Are our hands the ones in control
And should we even care at all
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That we even exist, whatever that means
It means we can laugh, we can cry, we can scream
We can carry on like it’s all a dream
May as well be, we in the holocene
I’ve seen a lot, I ain’t seen a drop
There’s views you can’t see if you’ve seen mountaintops
Cause you don’t find truth by hearing ‘em talk
We may never know, but we can never stop
Oh it never stops
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We don’t know if we know anything, baby
We don’t know if we know anything
We don’t know if we know anything, baby
We don’t know if we know anything at all
We don’t know if this is real as it gets, baby
And in this life, I don’t think we’ll ever know
We don’t know if we know anything, baby
We don’t know if we know anything at all
We know what this is like a dog knows economics
We think we know the stars, we barely know the comets
We don’t know if we know anything, baby
We don’t know if we know anything at all
Anything at all
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We don’t know if we anything at all
We don’t know if we anything at all
We don’t know if we anything at all
We don’t know if we anything at all
Anything at all
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Anywhere You Wanna Go
05:13
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Did you know that we can disagree
That there ain’t no place we actually gotta be
That you can choose your face and your fantasies
Did you know that we got a lot we can be
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Did you know that we know what we need
We got gas and brakes, and we choose the speed
This place got lemonade; if you like, there’s tea
Man, we so fuckin’ free
Yeah we’re free to go out and spread our seed
And we’re free to escape it all with weed
Find pain to embrace or just bereave
We got a lot we can be
And a lot we can see
And it’s all just kind of dream
Where you can go
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Anywhere you wanna go
You go anywhere you wanna go
Anywhere you wanna go
You go anywhere you wanna go
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Did you know that we can take the lead
That we don’t have to chase, we don’t have to plead
Don’t have to copy and paste last week this week
Things don’t have to be
How they’ve been
Forever and ever and ever and ever
Blowing through days like there’s nothing to treasure
Forever and ever and ever and ever
Trading for fulfillment for flags of surrender
Dealing with stressors by drowning in pleasures
Evading the pressure to ever get better
Letting go of the levers and all your endeavors
Settle for lesser in every measure
You can see
You and me
We can be
Anything
And you can go
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Anywhere you wanna go
You go anywhere you wanna go
Anywhere you wanna go
You go anywhere you wanna go
Anywhere you wanna go
You go anywhere you wanna go
Anywhere you wanna go
You go anywhere you wanna go
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Tiger on the Loose
05:39
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And I bet it’s something nice, just sitting by the pool
And keeping your cool
No calculations, no rhetorical duels
Taking all the fuel
You got up
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Oh, can’t you just take a trip to the zoo
And enjoy the kangaroos
No bringing up the past or your black and blues
No breaking news
Can chilling with the crew just be chilling with the crew
Tipping no canoes
You’re free like it’s a dream, go visit the giraffes for a few
And know there’s things we can’t recoup
But we go up
Still, we go up
And there’s
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No excuse for taking all the abuse
You’re shooting from the roof on yourself and I think it’s time to call a truce
Stop running ‘round like there’s a tiger on the loose
Ah ah ah ah, ah, ah ah ah ah
Don’t you wanna go up
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And there’s no excuse for tying to together your own shoes
Ain’t you trying to do the things you always said you’d do
And there’s no excuse for being such a fucking recluse
Gotta find a way to lose without tying up your own noose
You gotta tame the tiger on the loose
Ah ah, ah ah. Ah, ah ah ah ah
Tame it before we go up
Before we go up
Before we go up
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The Days of Luxury
04:39
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It kinda fucks with me
We on the cusp of free
But to what degree
We see it’s crumbling
All the plundering
The cracks underneath
Some are stuck asleep
Some hide under sheets
Do you trust the weak
We ain’t yet under siege
So I think I’ve had enough disease
I’m still wondering
If it’s so, but let’s act like it’s up to me
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We don’t run the streets
We into puns and weed
And they got submarines
And submachines
It’s all plummeting
You ain’t begun to need
Become the breeze
Still jump with glee
Yeah, you must succeed
Don’t give up the dream
Condemn your sun to freeze
Live redundantly
While you ain’t the one under your feet
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Remember to live like these are the days of luxury
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh
Remember when I told you that these are the days of luxury
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh
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I hope you’ll come to see
We didn’t come to see
We come to be
So be
Be abundantly
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Remember to live like these are the days of luxury
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh
Remember when I told you that these are the days of luxury
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh
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Pack your bags, we’re leaving, they’ll say
This ain’t a weekend, it’s an extended stay
Hope you got your needs and your dreams met along the way
Pack your bags we’re leaving
Did you even make the most of your days
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Hold up, conductor, I’ll screech
All I did was suffer, all I did was reach
I didn’t get enough of holding hands at the beach
I never recovered, broke free from the leash
Never slayed my dragon, never earned my bride
Stop the wagon, I cried
The whole time I was bragging. I said I tried, but I lied
They’ll say quit your nagging
Your chances all been taken
Hope you enjoyed the ride
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Hope you enjoyed the ride
Hope you enjoyed the ride
Hope you enjoyed the ride
Hope you enjoyed the ride
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We’ve reached the station, and it’s time to leave
Did you get the relations you tried to achieve
Was it really amazing? Did you roll up your sleeves
There ain’t no more ovations
Did your imagination
Lead? Did it die
Hope you enjoyed the ride
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Hope you enjoyed the ride
Hope you enjoyed the ride
Hope you enjoyed the ride
Hope you enjoyed the ride
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6. |
Forever
06:50
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In the end, we just want to be free
We just want to be free
We want to be free
In the end, we just want to be free
We just want to be free
We want to be free
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For the first time, I want to be still
Don’t need to muster the will
To be
No, we ain’t climbing no hill
This time time ain’t just to kill
We’re here to see
How much we can love and how soon
We can squeeze it in before the moon
Takes over the beams
Laughing our way out of escape rooms
Seeing if we can give, not just consume
How much joy can we glean
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But it’s been a long, long, long time
Since we even tried to touch the sky
It’s been a long, long, long time
Since we lived and stopped asking why
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Can it be this way forever
Can it be this way forever
Forever, forever
Can it be this way forever
Forever, forever
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And sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
Sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
And sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
Sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
And sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
Sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
And sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
Sometimes we sing ooh
Ooh
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That it’s been a long, long, long time
Since something like this satisfied
It’s been a long, long, long time
Since Japanese with friends felt high
It’s been a long, long, long time
Since we felt joy we didn’t need to buy
Been a long, long, long time
Can this be the main supply
Can it be this way forever
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Can it be this way forever
Forever, forever
Can it be this way forever
Forever, forever
Can it be this way forever
Forever, forever
Can it be this way forever
Forever, forever
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7. |
You Got It Like That
09:30
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Looking back, there was no malintention
Coming or going, no nefarious henchmen
An IV of straight apprehension
Courage drip left in the back
Full, we were never sending
Despite all the talk of reinvention
Plan a way out then throw your own wrench in
Drive yourself right off of the track
Yeah, it was like that
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Looking back, was it even the heartbreak
Or is the truth there’s an earlier start date
The real shit that don’t make the art fake
How far we going back
To eighteen when porn destroyed ya
Couldn’t fuck even if she enjoyed ya
Cheated on you in the south of Georgia
Maybe that’s too in the past
Could it have been the eight years after
Never learned love, just impotent disaster
Put the confidence straight out to pasture
Felt, lived, and was so small
Fixed it, found love, made a costly fumble
Hair shed says you’re feeling humble
Psych ward says you took a tumble
A fall
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But that was back in the day of library lunches
Spend thousands escaping, miss chances in hundreds
Looked fear in the face, but never would punch it, recall
How ya get to living in your mother’s basement
Til 26 then later it’s your brother’s basement
This is where you’re at when you choose not to face it
At all
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You got it like that
Oh, baby, lately you got it like that
Baby, you know you got it like that that
You got it like that
You got it like that
Oh, baby, lately you got it like that
Baby, you know you got it like that that
You got it like that
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Can we just stay
Can we just stay here
Stay
Can we just oh oh oh
Can we just stay
Can we just stay here
Stay
Can we just oh oh oh
Can we just stay
Can we just stay here
Stay
Can we just oh oh oh
Can we just play
Can we just play scared
Play
Can we just oh oh oh
There ain’t no way
There ain’t no way here
Way
There ain’t no oh oh oh
We can’t just stay
We can’t just stay here
Stay
We can’t just oh oh oh ah oh
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So you got some earth on your shoulder
A few cuts, little clay to mold ya
Wipe the tears, there’s things I ain’t shown ya
Did you know that life can revolve
You getting back up spring-loaded
Half the worries, twice devoted
Twice devoted, you can write it and quote it
All
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No more back in the days of being pathetic
Eating your stress nearly diabetic
To hell with that, these days we getting shredded
We ball
The street signs, they do not block us
Take the top down, then go topless
Fuck it, they can watch us. They ain’t gonna stop us
At all
I think you love me and I think you know it
I think this time you ain’t about to blow it
I think we staying up ‘cause you know what’s below it
You crawl
Back
At last
Cause
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You got it like that
Oh, baby, lately you got it like that
Baby, did you know you got it like that that
You got it like that
You got it like that
Oh, baby, lately you got it like that
Baby, you know you got it like that that
You got it like that
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Did you stop to say
Maybe we’re going the wrong way
Did you stop to say
Maybe all the love ain’t gone away
Did you stop to say
Maybe we’re going the wrong way
Did you stop to pray
And realize there’s so much left to say
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But they never said it’d be close to this
They never said it’d be close to this
They never said it’d be close to this
They never said
They never said
They never said
They never said it’d be close to this
They never said it’d be close to this
How in the hell I ain’t noticed it
They never said
They never said
They never said
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And we don’t need no fiction, we don’t need fact
You got me, I got you. And I got it like that
You got it like that
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Dan Bauer Manchester, New Hampshire
Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumental recording artist making experimental pop. Also former rapper, but we don't have to
talk about that.
Both 2023 albums, "My Demons & Me" and "Divinity Infinity," now available to stream or purchase. Happy listening!
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