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Baksheesh
03:36
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I said no to everyone
Gave them my excuses
Gave them my "I’m so sorry"s
One more border to cross
One more mask to put on
Pay you your baksheesh and I’ll be gone
Staring rows of taillights down
Wiper blur
The past is propane
Relax when you roll it and you’ll come out alive
In the silence of shadows sometimes
Reflect on my repentance
And the flows and fouls and falls and failures
Staring rows of taillights down
Wiper blur
The past is propane
Relax when you roll it and you’ll come out alive
I gave you I gave you I gave you
Don’t care what you want now
I’ll call you back
I’m on deadline
I gave them my “I’m so sorry”s
Gave them my excuses
And I said no to everyone
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Here's the Keys
02:40
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What’s next? Do we do the damn dream
And pretend it doesn’t matter what we’ve seen
What’s next? we could hit the road
Wonder which one of us will make the bubble explode
And we make our promises and we make our vows
But God knows we could just fuck it all up right now
So it’s over now
The trip's ending here
I’ve done my part
Here’s the keys, my dear
Here we go; stay right where you are
You wrote your own myth; you’re gonna be a rock and roll star
There you go; you’ll ruin us all
No doubt you’ll be the one to make the pillars fall
You say you wanna be a pioneer
But we all know I can’t drive and you can’t steer
So it’s over now
The trip's ending here
I’ve done my part
Here’s the keys, my dear
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Rain Dream
02:44
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You think you’re someone
You moved out here when you were seventeen
You think you’re special
You’re just an echo on the tape machine
I got here early
I had my shoes on long before you showed
I put my time in
I’m gonna borrow every cent I’m owed
And the rain dream
Means nothing.
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Verona Sunday
02:44
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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
Two houses, both alike in dignity
At the U.S. 30 dragstrip, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
In nitro-burning funny cars
Two star-crossed lovers take their lives.
Death-defying leaps o’er thirty-two tractor trailers
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage.
World of Wheels!
World of Wheels!
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Joe Griffin Chicago, Illinois
Singer/songwriter in Chicago, IL.
Cover photo by Joe Mazza. Banner photo by Peter Angus Medlock.
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