BLIND MELON 55:23

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1) Soak the sin 2) Tones of Home 3) I Wonder 4) Paper Sratcher 5) Dear Ol' dad
6) Change 7) No Rain  8) Deserted 9) Sleepy House 10) Holyman  
11) Seed To A Tree 12) Drive 13) Time    

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 1) SOAK THE SIN 4:00

I've got to buy some shoes

these ones are getting loose

my feet are shrinking in the sun, and it ain't fun

But it looks like rain up ahead in forty miles.

A big rainbow took the blue sky......

I'm gonna tell my momma, I love her so

and thank you for giving me these bones o' gold

I'm gonna run from my home

Jump in the river and let the

water soak the sin in my soul.

Fine time we all crossed lines

make the music that makes us feel fine

Rednecks on sun decks hearing a hillside Romeo say

"Boys this is the good shit, so come on all and eat a little bit."

And if I ever go back home, I'm gonna set......

Don't even say a word, it confuses me.

What he says to do, is that we don't have to.

We don't have to.

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2) TONES OF HOME 4:25

What do you think they would say

If I stood up and I walked away

Nobody here really understand me

and so I'll wave goodbye I'm fine

Tones of home

said you don't know the way I'm living

you don't like me

Tones of home, tones of home

And so I'll wave goodbye.

I'm flyin' I'm flyin' home

And I always thought this would be

the land of milk and honey

Oh but I came to find out that it's

all hate and money

And there's a canopy of greed holding me down.

See I'm so High to you, so I'll fade away

I said your on your own

Your Mom and Daddy said , that your

sister said, and your brothers saying

Everybody is saying Everybody, is

saying I, eye God I gotta go!!

All my friends patronize me and

They say YO Hey Boy! Have you

found what your looking for.

It seems they don't really know me cause it's here and its what they can't see.

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3) I WONDER 5:30

All alone the broadening skies

Under the every night I will lie

Scratching claw and grip the rails

Every day my living hell

Oh God you know I've tried

I know how hard I tried

and oh I tried......

Hey I'd like to daze away to a

Place like no one has known

In a state of mind I could call mine

That only I could own

Where I could hum a tune anytime

I choose, and then there is no such thing as time

Where I can feel no pain just calm and sane

What a place for one to find

Now you see I'm watching everything

I do and they're watching everything I say

Why wont they leave me be?

Why am I even here? I wonder

You leave me wondering

Won't you stop watching me

I said they're watching me, watching me, watching me

Now in my corner I got the ceiling in my eyes

Arms holding up my knees

And rocking back and forth my life

I didn't mean to feel this way

When I walked into the door, Lord

Then they ripped away my memories

And I cant remember who I was before.

And I only wanted to be 16 and free.

......and I wonder.

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4) PAPER SCRATCHER 3:14

Shuffle can to can nobody really gives a damn

For every living day I give myself a hand

Now I'm scroungy as can be

I got all you normals looking at me

I'll scratch a hole in my life

So everyone can see

My mind is a mind that I have come to know

And my eyes can't conceive a world that can not grow

And Fridays are always fresh days

Screamin' at the sun, don't really

Know what he has done

He don't believe in God and a world as one

So he rambles through the weeds

And he will sleep beneath the trees

On the day I die, Thank God my Soul will be released

I've seen all your eyes

And I've seen all your faces

Can you tell me honestly that you wanna be free?

Then look in my eyes

I've been lots of places

Can you tell me honestly that you'd want to be me

Honestly.

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5) DEAR OL' DAD 3:01

Come now and listen babe

I gotta reason why I behave

Like a child with a light in eyes

Running naked on a cold winter night

I am like a pigeon that is spreading

it's wings to fly away to better things

Like a hammer that has made

a dent in every little single cent you've spent

Said oh God you've got to help me a little bit

you've got to have a relief file for me

Now I know I'm always right, that's a

thought that never even crossed my mind

Don't touch me there, I've gotta be pure

So smack that hand, and read this verse

So I wrecked your life, what the heck

My new found faith will pay by check

This life's took a toll on my soul

So this is me and that's my song

And I guess that you can see that we don't get along

I've shut the doors on what we had

so now she can sleep with her Dear ol' Dad

my eyes are dry and my hands are clean

and I can't believe all the things I've seen

Oh My God!

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6) CHANGE 3:40

I don't feel the suns comin' out today

its staying in, its gonna find another way.

As I sit here in this misery, I don't

think I'll ever see the sun from here.

And oh as I fade away,

they'll all look at me and say, and they'll say,

Hey look at him! I'll never live that way.

But that's okay

they're just afraid to change.

When you feel your life ain't worth living

you've got to stand up and

take a look around you then a look way up to the sky.

And when your deepest thoughts are broken,

keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

And as we all play parts of tomorrow,

some ways will work and other ways we'll play.

But I know we all can't stay here forever,

so I want to write my words on the face of today.

and then they'll paint it

And oh as I fade away,

they'll all look at me and they'll say,

Hey look at him and where he is these days.

When life is hard, you have to change.

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7) NO RAIN 3:35

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

I like watchin' the puddles gather rain

And all I can do is just pour some tea for two

and speak my point of view

But it's not sane, It's not sane

I just want some one to say to me

I'll always be there when you wake

Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today

So stay with me and I'll have it made

And I don't understand why I sleep all day

And I start to complain that there's no rain

And all I can do is read a book to stay awake

And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape

escape......escape......escape......

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

ya don't like my point of view

ya think I'm insane

Its not sane......it's not sane.

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8) DESERTED 4:19

Grab my knee and look at me

And try to tell me I'll be home soon

Asleep in my bed and unstoned

I'm tired of me this way

I don't know what I've gotten into

But I'm glad it's now instead of sooner

This desert heat has crowded me strong

With a wish I had for winter

It's not as gentle as it sounds

As though it sounded yesterday

When I heard a leaf of my life hit the ground

And as a bottle cap flew from my fingers

I don't know what I've gotten in to

But I'm glad it's now instead of sooner

This desert heat has crowded me strong

With a wish I had for winter

..And the sands blew in my eyes

I stood on the edge and looked down to see

The light of a new life, shinning up on me

...With a wish that I had

The sand blew in my eyes

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9) SLEEPYHOUSE 4:28

No time frame, for what I need to do today

Here at the yellow house. I think I'm gonna play

With free livin' lads down the street aways away

As I feel the moon rise

The time that all feels is the right time

Here in our sleepy house

As I wipe eye bugs away, the candle flickers at me to say

And in my head I sometimes pray

Hey aren't ya feeling fine

As I was as a little child

And I'm feeling better when I'm high

With a red light shinning on a little unity

The mistakes that I've made

No they don't seem to bother me

I sure as hell don't feel like

I missed any kind of train

If I could only show you how I feel

Then you wouldn't bother me

And then maybe you'd see why we don't mind being blind

As I was as a little child

And I'm feeling better when I'm high

With a red light shinning on a little unity

I'll probably be in a little while.

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10) HOLYMAN 4:46

I was born on the banks off a hot muddy river

The child of one stupid steamy night

Born to roam beneath the sun

What do you think of me, I'm better left alone

I met a Holyman that said that he knew the way

And he'd like to show me so my life won't go astray

Take my hand child now little boy don't you be afraid

I'll take your soul and walk on water

Holyman, ya don't understand

The cuts on me they run much deeper

Holyman, you righteous man

I've been shown the way a thousand times

Not one a keeper

Older man he said I'll tell you boy

You've planted rotten seeds

And in a land of happiness

They'll grow us evil trees

Guided minds, and eyes that will never see

Holyman I'll tell you

Just what it is that I believe

Holyman I tell you man you gotta

Believe in what you see

Cause its you that corrupt us man and

Deep throat philosophy

I don't need your spells or the little

Games you try to pull on me

Come to think of it I don't need your religion

Gotta get away

I wish you would understand

Everybody prays

Let me find my own way

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11) SEED TO A TREE 3:28

As I shit, I sit and wonder why

My floor is so cold and my back broken tired

But life is good, even though it won't be long

With a candle comes emotions that

Dance with the shadows on my wall

What were you thoughts, as they

Were flying through your mind

Compared to what you feel from

The bars your now behind

If they could speak, what do you think

They would say to you?

I do believe you'd been better

Off if you'd just told the truth

Never had a problem till I stood face to face with me

And I wish there was a way for me to go inside so I could see

All the faces of the people who have torn a piece of me

As I grew from a seed to a tree

Can you feel the power of the eye

That's hidden away 5 feet from where we lie

What do you taste, when you take a drink of me

Is it to much for me to ask if I asked you to leave

Please just leave 'cause I want to be alone

There's a fine line between love and my feelings for you

High time I washed it all away

Unkind, I watch your future burn before you

Denied, a chance of any love in your life

And I ask you one time..Why?

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12) DRIVE 4:39

His feet are dirty

And his face, his face is long

And while he's peeking out

Through his hair he hides the pain

Till that Lennon song comes along

He'll turn it off and say can you drive?

Jimmy, we need to borrow this for a minute

Cause we need to escape

Now there's so many things that

He's gonna do in 5 lifetimes

Hell I could do 'em all

Yeah and while he's rolling his own smokes

He says to me he's buying a new ride today

A classic deal the boss will give

He said the same thing two weeks ago

You've seen that sweaty jet rag

Feeling come over him, and I've

Seen that boy nod into a dream a time or two

And on his way out his glazed stare

Will make you stop and wonder

Hey William is that the last time

I'm gonna look at you?

But the next day phone will ring

And it will be him

Can you drive?

Jimmy, what would you say

what would you do

Oh should I pray?

Or do you think that this blind mind

would listen to me, anyway

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14) TIME 6:02

Said all these people they won't leave me alone

And we need, a little time to ourselves

And half the reasons why

I'm sketchin' all the time

The result of a life in this hell

But oh well, I think it's time

My faith is falling like the leaves from a tree

The pockets both take it away

The sun warms my body as I'm

Sittin' on a swing watching

Columbus clouds bring in the rain

Oh well I think it's time

Its time to go

My mind is playing tricks on me all the time

To let you know that I am real

And all the worries you build

Up inside your soul

The ones that make your world stand still

Mean you can feel, that it's time to go..

Are you fed up, Are you fed up with me?

Do you think you could do better?

Do you think that I know better?

Do they think that they know better?

Five fed up faces with the itch to kill a king

Blood red sunshine, and a breath to air that's clean

I drink from the faucet

From the porch I take a pee

I look at you through the bushes

Where you can't see me

I laugh and slip into another state of mind

To let you know that I am real

And all the worries you build up inside your soul

The ones that make your world stand still

Means you can feel, that it's time to go

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