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Beggars and Kings
03:25
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We're on our way, No one can stop us now it has all gone too far
Here we are
Time to go, Head out to the road and we'll run as far as we can go
Fast not slow
Where we'll go don't follow
The climb's too steep to slow down now
In this world we're just two things
Just Beggars and Kings
Now it starts, we're going to get farther than we ever have gotten before
Now it starts
From the heart, we're going to take this engine and put the pedal to the floor
Beggars no more
Where we'll go don't follow
The climb's too steep to slow down now
In this world we're just two things
Just Beggars and Kings
Beggars and Kings
We're on our way
Beggars and Kings
no than we'll ever be
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2. |
Gravity
03:50
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AND WE SAY, THESE BROKEN HEARTED LOOSERS
THEY KEEP WEIGHING ME, MY SYMPATHY IS GONE
AND I'M WASTING AWAY ON HONESTY
MY BEST INTENTIONS HURTING ME, I'M TIRED OF MOVING ON
FROM BIG WORDS LIKE INTEGRITY
HIPOCRACY, AND ALL THAT WE'VE DONE WRONG
AS WE STAND THESE DAYS IT SEEMS
THIS GRAVITY IS A LITTLE HEAVIER, THAN IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE
THESE SATILITES ARE BROKEN, FALLIN IN
INTO OUR ROOMS WHERE WE PRETEND
IT DOESN'T BOTHER US
WE TELL OURSELVES THEY'RE MENT FOR US
AS WE FLY UP HIGHER IN THE CLOUDS
WE'RE AFRAID OF LOOKIN DOWN
TO WHERE THE WORLD FALLS OUT
WE'LL RAIN LIKE BOMBS UPON THE GROUND
AND WE SAY, THESE WELL INTENTIONED USERS
THEY KEEP WEIGHING ME, MY APATHY IS GONE
AND MY FRIENDS THEY ARE ABUSERS
BUY THATS ALRIGHT WITH ME, THEY FILL MY GLASS FOR ME
AND WERE GONNA MOVE YA
SHOOTING STARS, BROKEN HEARTS, LOUD GUITARS, YOU AND ME
AS WE STAND THESE DAYS IT SEEMS
THIS GRAVITY IS A LITTLE HEAVIER, THAN IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE
FALL AWAY, FALL AWAY, FALL UNTIL THEY'RE BLOWN AWAY
FALL UNTIL THIS WORLD TURNS GRAY, FALL UNTIL THEIR ALL THE SAME
SCATTERED ASHES, SCATTERED HEARTS, SCATTERED PIECES TORN APART
BLEEDING, BROKEN, AND ALONE
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3. |
Heartbreak Station
03:42
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I've got this new girl who's real kind to me
36 24 36 of personality
She's got a truck named Rocket and a dog named spike
Lives with two friends who never seem to mind
Her engine runs a bit wild, a little to quick for me
She's got tattoos and piercings in places kinda hard to see
I'd been thinking about the future, we're gonna go far
Till I saw her steaming up the windows of my best friends car
Well I'm innocent, it's so. It's a consequence I know
Of never breaking hearts. Other than my own.
I'm all little complications and awkward hesitations
They only play my songs on the heartbreak stations
He's got a sweet ass bike with a seat for me
1200 cc's of American machine
Busy all the time, got two jobs or three
always pays for our dinners, says free time's for me
He's got a killer of a smile, sharp hair and soft eyes
All of his friends they tell me I'm quite a prize
Things are going great, my man is so fine
but that's not the smell of Calvin Kline
Well I'm innocent, it's so. It's a consequence I know
Of never breaking hearts. Other than my own.
I'm all little complications and awkward hesitations
They only play my songs on the heartbreak stations
I know I'm a mess, I hear it from all of my friends
I'd promise to stop but I'll just do it again
(repeats with guy, gal, mix)
Well I'm innocent, it's so. It's a consequence I know
Of never breaking hearts. Other than my own.
I'm all little complications and awkward hesitations
They only play my songs on the heartbreak stations
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4. |
Fallen to Ashes
03:29
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So it happened once again and you turn to a friend
And whisper politics, all hypocritically biased
Look how far we've come, we're right back where we started from
There's nothing wrong with us, we just can't be delirious
And she said it's not that bad, your the best I've ever had
And what is wrong with me is trapped in ancient history
We can only go so far, you can't be more than what you are
As hard as this is, how can we ever go the distance
I've fallen to ashes once again
I think it's time to make a mends
Maybe life's a bit more than we pretend
They say there's light where the darkness ends
Take me home, I've fallen once again
We all know, it never works out in the end
It is so, what I mean I don't know
but it seems to me that we, should be allowed to be
somewhat ordinary
So it happened once again and you turn to a friend
And scream about that bitch and all the shit that comes with it
He says who believes in love, it's just something that we all dream of
A ritualistic, masochistic way of killing time off
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5. |
Pray
04:53
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Shot down, with a six shot, right outside my bedroom
Was a man I once knew as a friend
Till he spent all his time on the playground
Running favors for a handout
Just eighteen, wanted to be famous, or a just a good test
Of how a no-one can become a man
Shame though, caught up in the wrong flow, could have been a well known
If someone ever gave a damn
See it in the streets at night
Just another man shot on sight
What about the long road, we are supposed to go, what about the dreams
That come to us at night
Worked out, played out, thought out, drawn out
Until a man takes your life
Get down on your knees and pray
Get down on your knees (ya better)
Pray for us sinners
Cause a sinners heart doesn't have a prayer
Pray for us sinners
Cause I know there's a sinner in me, a sinner in me
My friend though, he was a good Joe, just another player
Caught up in a bad scam
Came to my bedroom, told me to get out, talkin bunch of false lies
About how he just kill a man
Crying like a baby, not worrying about his safety, the week ones
Always get a bullet in the head
Cause their not worried about nothing but their conscience
Your conscience always gets you in the end
It's not good to spill your secrets
Your secrets get you when they can
Like a mad crowd, that you just sold out, coming up behind you
To seek out their revenge
In the form of a sentence, carried out before you, you see from your window
Right outside your bed
Now there's this little chill I see
What I need is a little heat
Than it can be seen
If people listen to what I mean
When I say it's time to pray
You best not be in my way
Cause it's alright to shoot on sight
But your not allowed to cry at night
So i kneel and i pray
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6. |
Freedom
02:39
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DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT ME
OR ANY OF THE WORLD AROUND ME
DO YOU HAVE THE TIME TO TAKE
THE KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR
DO YOU NEED THE FRIENDS AROUND ME
YOUR FAN BASE IS ALL EMPOWERING
COME ON DOWN FROM YOUR TALL TREE
I'M READY FOR SOME MORE
GET YOURSELF A LITTLE HIGHER
AND GET YOUR FEET OUT OF THE FIRE
AS I'M CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL
AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
HOLD ON TO YOUR FABLES
THAT KEEP YOUR SPIRIT ABLE
HOW COME YOU NEVER WANT TO
SIDE WITH ME
SO KEEP READING OFF YOUR FABLES
AND KEEP EATING OFF YOUR TABLES
POISING THE MIND OF ALL
THE FRIENDS THAT YOU KEEP
BUT DON'T TRY TO TAKE ME
NO, YOUR MINIONS WON'T OVERTAKE ME
COME ON DOWN FROM YOUR TALL TREE
I'M READY FOR SOME MORE
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7. |
Mercy
04:33
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The beginning is the best part, it's always easiest to start
I never seem to finish anything
As things become a bigger mess, they tend to get cleaned up less
Money never solves everything
I've got my reasons for the reasons this reason isn't working
Reasons never fix a god damn thing
Another song about reasons, another song about the good fight
Ya know the songs about tomorrow are never right
MERCY, MERCY I'VE HAD ENOUGH
MERCY, MERCY SOMETIMES IT'S A LITTLE TOO MUCH
And the bills are piling up, working overtime to get though it
What's life when we are working seven days
Everything on TV is getting very scary and confusing
I fear that things are never going to change
As we keep on growing out, everybody's somehow different now
But the more we change, the more we stay the same
And we put all of ourselves into something that no one else believes in
All your hero's were amateurs one day
MERCY, MERCY I'VE HAD ENOUGH
MERCY, MERCY IT'S GETTING TO BE TOO MUCH
And our bodies stay in motion, somehow with our hearts all broken
It's something about satellites and gravity
And we all fall down when we loose the people that we lean on
Hospital rooms keep ruining my week
I swear I'm gonna change it all, scream until the walls all open
but I loose my voice every time I speak
I've put everything away, given up my dreams and shut the door
I'm too damn old to be a rockstar anymore
Can't outrun my shadow yet, sympathetic silhouette
broken dreams and mounting debt
I'm sorry to everyone I've met
Alcohol, loosing bets, rapid fire cigarettes
We all have our ways of coping best
Nothing good comes from no regrets
MERCY, MERCY I'VE HAD ENOUGH
MERCY, MERCY IT'S JUST WAY TOO MUCH
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8. |
Beginning of Time
02:25
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When your hoping to hold on to
The beginning it's hard to
Laziness has crept into the mind
But the start is something
This great unbelievable something
Where you can always take your time
For whatever you want to
To have hearts to cling on to
Without the threat of loosing your mind
Let me tell you something
Remember this one thing
There's nothing wrong with wasting time
It is so alarming, yet so elegant and charming
I feel aspirations deep within my heart
This is all part, of the start, the beginning of time
There's this drive inside you
You couldn't find again if you tried to
Complications complicate over time
There's an innocence and charm
A soul that does no harm
Questions that don't ever need an answer
Cause your a dancer, a romancer
You have a little toy blaster
Not worried about the sickness of the mind
Oh a child, young and wild
With everything your entitled
A god to everything you find
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9. |
Tonight-Tomorrow
03:11
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Model cars and model planes
Monopoly and all life’s games
Warriors of backyard wars we fight
Doctor, soccer, rock star dreams
Dad is god, mom is gueen
As I am the king of my own regime
Superheros and comic books
Big time dreams of small time crooks
Race car winners on matchbox model A's
Movie star, silver screen
Dinosaurs and winning teams
Amazing all the things we once believed
Cause tonight holds tomorrow's dreams
Of a foolish mans reality
A fantasy that creeps into the mind
Of love, money, and monopoly's
Sugar treats and sugar dreams
Tonight will make tomorrow mine
Civil rights, majority
Job security, stability
Love that never fades away
Rest all day, sleep at night
The feeling of warm light
A cure to all of life's disease
Happy times, happy life
Happiness that isn't slight
Ignorance is bliss is what I say
Famous likes, movie right
Broadway play of all kinds
Of stories they'll write about me
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10. |
Life
03:38
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Tonight is just a waste of time
cause tomorrow is never due
You can't avoid the wrong time
when the right time's just not you
My friends they are a many
acquaintances I knew
So how's your love life
mine's a bit trite and overdue
I haven't missed the good times
they just didn't feel right for me
I seem a little on the outside
on the other side of reality
For fifteen minutes the spot light
didn't shine on me
I don't feel guilty about
never being close to anybody
You can see it on my lifeline
when you look at the good side
you see right through
I just don't feel right
I've cried every night
since June
When I sleep at night
I dream of a fantasy
I dream of being the high life
the social life of the party
When I write the story of my life
it won't be much of anything
So this is my life
is this what life is supposed to be
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11. |
World of My Own
03:34
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CALL ME LONELY
CAUSE AT NIGHT, I SLEEP IN A WORLD OF MY OWN
AS IF I HAVE NEVER KNOWN A SOUL
AND IF I SEEM BITTER, IF I SEEM COLD
IT'S CAUSE I LIVE IN A WORLD I CALL MY OWN
Innocence is growing old, where to I belong
To old to be all alone, to young to be gone
My soul it is exhausted, accounts are overdrawn
Can't you see I'm broken, I'm barely holding on
They say it's all my fault, set my expectations high
They say if you're a free man, your will can never die
Don't speak yourself so soundly, freedom holds the highest bounty
Damn your freedoms, damn your stories, damn your gods they all deplore me
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I'm going to sleep until tomorrow, and put away my sorrow
of the life that I am going to be leaving behind
So please don't give me pity, of forgiveness when your ready
to say I haven't lived my life quite right
Cause your life is only reflective, of you joy and your happiness
you get from doing all the things you like
So when you write about me, remember all that I see
Most only get a moment, I got my whole life
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Pure Nonsense Detroit, Michigan
Pure Nonsense was birthed out of my desire to record and release songs I've written over the last 20+ years which haven't appeared elsewhere. The group is made up of Mark Kowal (songwriter, music) and Dick Darling (Vocals). Scott Brooks assisted with ideas for the programmed drums. We are currently working on the second album (with real drums!) which is going to be awesome. ... more
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