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It Don't Last Long
05:28
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It Don’t Last Long
I came out of oblivion
With two hit MTV songs
So Jackson quit his day job
Process serving
Michael Milikin
I bought a house out in the country
With my publishing advance
Geoff Ayeroff said <pause>
See? I knew you’d write a hit by accident
And I should have got down
Upon my knees and thanked the lord
Cause it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
Cause it don’t last long
Hoooooo
it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
Cause it don’t last long
The second album
We recorded it out in pioneertown
We tried to rent (frank) sinatras house
the realtor shut us down
The album spawned three more singles
None of them sounded like grunge
But we were selling out theatres
It’s timing and it’s luck
And I should have got down upon
My knees and thanked the lord
Cause it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
It don’t last long
Hoooo
it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
It don’t last long
Solo
Solo
Cause I should have got down upon
My knees and thanked the lord
Cause it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
it don’t last long
Hoooooo
it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
it don’t last long
I was getting way too cocky
There was some bad behavior
But it didn’t really cost me
selling 5k every week
but then I taught the audience to sing
the record company president
direct line telephone number
we were dropped in just a week
I should have got down upon
My knees and thanked the lord
Cause it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
It don’t last long
Hoooo
it don’t last long
Enjoy it while you can
It don’t last long
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Fat Little Babies
04:07
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Fat Little Babies
Fat little babies riding on a cosmic chariot
Fat little babies trip the light fantastic
Fat little babies won’t fix everything between you and me
Fat little babies the mystery of the universe
C’mon little darling everything will be all right
We should have a station wagon full
Of fat little babies
C’mon little darling everything will be all right
We should have a station wagon full
Of fat little babies
Fat little babies wake you with a hangover
Fat little babies eating from the dog food dish
Fat little babies can’t make you like me any less
Fat little babies what’s it gonna hurt?
C’mon little darling everything will be all right
We should have a station wagon full
Of fat little babies
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Mark Loved Dogs and Babies
Mary found Jed behind the 7-11 out on Doswell road
It took a while to tame him but then it took
It was minus 5 one winter night
The woodstove blazing hot
He came into the house all on his own
Jed never liked the guitar player
He was always trying to bite his ass
Other wise that dog loved everyone
Lucy had a broken leg
From a fall off a balcony
That’s what her owner said we didn’t believe
Took little Lucy got a pin put in her leg
And no we never gave her back
I guess we are dog nappers
Lucy bit everybody except for Mark Linkous
He would pick her up for rides in his car
He even wrote two songs about her
And everyone just assumed
They were love songs bout a beautiful girl
Mark loved dogs and babies he came to visit my day old son
He took a big sniff of his head and said “ I love that smell”
Mark loved dogs and babies and may have a happier life
If he and his wife could have had little babies of their own
Or maybe not
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SUNRISE IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
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[INTRO:]
[Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb]
[Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb]
[Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb]
[Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb]
[C] [Eb] [C] [Eb]
[C] [Eb] [C] [Eb]
Sun-[Gm]-rise in the [Bb] land of the pha-[Db]-roahs [Cm]
I see my broken [Gm] arrows
[Bb] Scattered 'cross the plain [Db]
Sun-[Gm]-rise on the [Bb] river in the [Db] city [Cm]
I'm feeling pretty [Gm] shitty
In the [Bb] wreckage of my life [Db]
CHORUS:
[F] So if you wanna live
Let's live to-[Db]-gether
In boas and fea-[Cm]-thers
[Bb] Wiemar decadence [Db]
And if you wanna die
We can take the low road
'Cause dying is easy
It's living that's hard
[REPEAT INTRO]
Sunrise in the land of milk and honey
She says "my little bunny"
"Is this all that there is?"
Sunrise in the land of southern idols
Lines on hotel bibles
With fallen debutantes
CHORUS:
If you wanna see
What's in the shadows
The burning meadows
In our apocalypse
I dream of fallow fields
I dream of winter
'Cause dying is easy
It's living that's hard
[ENDING AS INTRO]
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Vending Machine
04:28
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Vending Machine
Capo at 5th fret
Tempo 148/74
Em C G Am
Em C G Am
I passed out underneath of the desk of the
Publisher of Spin Magazine
It was the last night of the Modest Mouse
Camper Van Beethoven tour
Am E D
Am E D D
I said I didn’t want to live this way anymore
Walked down the alley and I knocked on the door
C G Am Em
C G D D
How do I get started
Fixing myself
He said it don’t work that way
Do you believe in god
I’m really not sure
He said we’ll find a way
Em C G Am
Em C G Am
We’ll pray to God but your higher power
Will be that flickering
vending machine
We pray to god while your higher power
Is that flickering
Vending machine
Am Em D
Am Em D D
I do the work I read the book
I volunteer each week
I focus on keeping clean my side of the street
C G Am Em
C G D D
But not that it matters
But this is a historically black
AAroom
I am accepted
I’m extended grace
This blows me away
Em C G Am
Em C G Am
Everyone but me prays to god I got this flickering
Vending machine
Everyone but me prays to god I got this flickering
Vending machine
Am Em D
Am Em D D
Everyone I ever met on Madison street
I got you back cause you had mine
C G Am Em
C G D D
And if you are living well
even if you’re not
I hope that this will find you
And Even if you feel irredeemable now
Well you should know that you’re not
Cause one good deed done
Or One moment of grace
Is greater than all the darkness in the world
cause what we don’t know
Is always greater than what we know
Including how this really works
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Darken Your Door
04:15
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Darken Your Door (Richmond Version)
So If you don’t want me no more
I’ll go away never darken your door
Baby we been up and baby we been down
If you don’t feel it anymore
I’ll never darken your door
We had some good times living
With a downtown Richmond view
The sound of music studios til the bottom dropped out of it
We had some bad times trying to keep
The whole damn thing afloat
Recorded music revenues were sinking like the Titanic
So If you don’t want me no more
I’ll go away never darken your door
Baby we been up and baby we been down
If you don’t feel it anymore
I’ll never darken your door
We had some tough times
Raising up two small kids
On the road 100 days a year
Playing for half the audience
There were still good times
Produced a record for Counting Crows
A Hollywood Hills swimming pool
Looking down upon the Sunset Strip
So If you don’t want me no more
I’ll go away never darken your door
Baby we been up and baby we been down
If you don’t feel it anymore
I’ll never darken your door
I’ll never darken your door
I’ll never darken your door
If you don’t feel it anymore
I’ll never darken your door
I’ll never darken your door
I’ll never darken your door
If you don’t feel it anymore
I’ll never darken your door
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The Giving Tree Father
02:43
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The Giving Tree Father
C F Am G F F C C
Where you gonna go my black haired son
You can’t be the prodigal one
Your mother she’s asleep and the winter is deep
White snow beneath the old leafless oak
G G F C G G F F
G G F C Am G F F
We can go for a drive while the roads they are fine
Black velvet ribbon of the blue ridge skyway
While Aphex Twins softly bleats from the speakers
I’m sorry I gave you my bad chemistry
When you were fifteen I was out on the road
When you probably needed me most
“Father that’s not true” but it probably is
The small lie says you’re a good son
So please take from me I’m the giving tree
Climb on my branches and rest in my shade
You can have all my fruit and when I grow old
Chop me down and sell off the wood
Cause when I was young I was The Cover of the Rolling Stone father
Also by Shel Silverstein
But now that you’re my son I’m the giving tree father
And that’s what you gave to me
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Art Basel
03:50
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Art Basel
ATL Delta Airlines to MIA.
Accidentally went to Art Basel on this day
I’m a civilian spouse tagging ‘long on my wifes business trip
She’s a Live Nation music business executive
9 AM a movie producer drinking mai tais in the pool
A couple French rent boys snorting yeyo off a boogie board
An Instagram influencer floating on a raft
Her publicist follows her trying not to get her iPad wet
Chorus
I’m so glad I’m on the outside looking in
Cause none of this ends well.
Its like a dumpster fire
But the worst amongst emerge unscathed
For bread and circuses that let us choose
Which of them will live
And who goes to the lions
Verse
An NFT artwork conference here at the hotel
They got a sitting US congressman in on the grift
He says “NFT smart contracts gonna reverse
Systemic inequality”
While making Sandhill VC firms a few trillion more
Chorus
I’m so glad I’m on the outside looking in
Cause none of this ends well.
Its like a dumpster fire
But the worst amongst emerge unscathed
For bread and circuses that let us choose
Which of them will live
And who goes to the lions
The devil’s having drinks with an agent from CAA
But he’s gotta see what William Morris is willing to pay
A little taste of Gomorrah in Miami Beach
Never knew the end of the world was much watch TV
ATL Delta Airlines to MIA
Accidentally went to Art Basel on this day
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Every Time I try to get out
D
3/4
110 BPM
But Every time I try to get out
They pull me back in again
I try to go straight
Try keep me a day job
But I miss my songs and friends
Woke in a motel in Panama city
The end of a cross country tour
Sick as a dog and the maid is shouting
Don’t think I can do this no more.
But Every time I try to get out
They pull me back in again
I try to go straight
Try keep me a day job
But I miss my songs and friends
Went to go work in the loop in Chicago
Arbitraged options by day
Sat on the board of a couple of startups
Made some good friends but I just couldn’t stay
See every time I try to get out
They pull me back in again
I try to go straight
Try to keep me a day job
I miss my songs and my friends.
Finished my doctorate so I
Could teach college
The University of Georgia
Got me a title
Got me an office
Co-wrote a textbook as well
Still every time
I try to get out
They pull me back in again
I try to go straight
And keep me a day job
But I miss my songs and my friends
Still every time
I try to get out
They pull me back in again
I try to go straight
And keep me a day job
But I miss my songs and my friends
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David Lowery Athens, Georgia
David Lowery is the lead singer and guitarist for the critically acclaimed groups Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker. He splits his time between Richmond VA and Athens GA.
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