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NOTES: All Songs by Stone Gossard .. Produced by Pete Droge .. Engineered & Mixed by Matt Bayles .. except Hellbent - Engineered by Steve Wilmans .. Mastered by Edward Brooks - RFI CD Mastering .. Artwork & Photo Transfer by Beth Haidle .. CD Art by Paul Haidle .. Photos by Lance Mercer .. Design & Layout by Brad Klausen .. Management by Kelly Curtis .. Thank You Pete Droge & Tyler Wilman

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BORE ME
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Matt Chamberlin: drums .. Pete Droge: background vocals, 12 string in bridge, prophet 5 in bridge .. Stone:vocals, bass, guitars

Just passed too bizzare
The organgrinder quips
Locked inside a barricade
How could you get in?
The admiral checks his thieves
To see what they'd done wrong
Wrapped it up in silly paper
Tacked it to the wall
He bore me ..
All could see ..
He bore me ..
He tries to get his armies outside the trail
He knows his better part is outside of bail
He found me ..
All could see ..
He bore me ..
Ten pounds, ten pounds
Ten pounds, ten pounds
The admiral checks the crowd
To see if they would mind
He knew it wasn't instigated
By his little frog
The rabbit chased the pig
Around their parking lot
Pony tail between his knees
Customary sot
He bore me ..
All could see ..
He found me ..
All could see ..
He bore me ..

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FITS
vGossardv

Matt Chamberlin: drums/extreme drums .. Pete Droge: slide wah guitar, clavinet, mellotron, panning random buzz guitar .. Stone: vocals, bass, guitars, piano

Could be the difference in our age
Been charged with reckless driving, oh and pardon our rage
Albeit, I know it, these fits are made of change
The skins, the texture of our page
Our nest of shredded paper strewn in our cage
Albeit, I know it, these fits are made of change
Albeit, I know it, these fits are made of change

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PIGEON
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Tony Coleman: tambourine .. Pete Droge: bass, high chorus harmony, morse code clavinet .. Stone: vocals, drums, guitar

There goes my love, there goes her heart
And that's not the last of it, or the worst part
There goes my eves, down my downspout
There goes my car, and my house
Cuz I'm out of here
Cuz I'm out
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
There goes the pop, there goes my ears
And I've been around so long, just not here
There goes the wings, of my grey dove
There goes the world, I've been of
Cuz I'm out of here
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
It's not the way that it seems
But yeah i know that I like it
Inside this mixed up dream
Yeah I know that I like it
Knock off the shirt, knock off the gloves
Knock off the price, of my love
Knock off this deer, in my headlights
Knock off my seed, and my wife
Cuz I'm out of here
Cuz I'm out
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
I'm not through sleeping
I'm not through sleeping around
I'm not through sleeping ..

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ANCHORS
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Mike Stone: drums .. Ron Weinstein: piano/Hammond C-3 .. Pete Droge: tele .. Guy Davis: bass, high harmony backgrounds .. Stone: vocals, acoustic/electic

The hopeless immortal's beginning to fade
Wrestled down with anchors, impervious chains
The ocean's electric reduced to a buzz
The pills turn the popper, he probably would
The standoff mechanic of cognisance, sighs
Mulls brooding through the alleyway, a harbinger's night
He pulled the remains, and teeth from the tree
When he sat down in memphis, he bound it on a hill
How to take it all in stride, win your soul and mind the light
How to live around the storm, wind and pressures to befall
Here's a question you might need to ask
What's self destruction and how can we last?

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CADILLAC
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Ty Wilman: lead vocals .. Guy Davis: background vocals .. Pete Droge: background vocals, high tele licks, bridge double on tele .. Stone: bass, drums, guitar, percussion/congas, background vocals

I don't know if I can tame her
Cadillac, I'll be truest one
She's the one why I've been waiting
Cadillac, you'll be my only one
Cadillac, she glides along
Like a cadillac, my only one
All the men are tailgating
Cadillac, I'll be a truest love
I just hope their brakes aren't failing
Cadillac, I hope our love's the one
Cadillac, boy she's a cadillac
Cadillac, boy she's a cadillac
Down, down, down, down ..
Down, down, down, down ..
She tells me i'm her all-time favorite
Cadillac, I'll be the truest one
Don't drag my heart across the pavement
Cadillac, I'll be the only one
Cadillac, she glides along
Like a cadillac, my only one
Down, down, down, down ..
Down, down, down, down ..
She's a cadillac, boy she's a cadillac
She's a cadillac, boy she's a cadillac
She's a cadillac, boy she's a cadillac

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BAYLEAF
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Pete Droge: chorus arpeggio guitar, 12 string leslie guitar .. Stone: vocals, bass, guitar, drums

Once this man I knew had a lovely song to sing to me
All in three: one-two-wee was the way he sang
With a southern twang, he ??
A gentle man, we'd owe him
From his dusty days though, he'd been split four ways
Cut to the bone, left alone too many
It only takes these memories to make me want .. sigh ..
ahh ..
You wanted to survive, had a notion to explain our way
Pending grey and coldness
Tried to woo him to me but the spell I cast was far too weak
To break him free, who woe him
He had a different dance, he had a different song
He had a different sound to follow home
But he didn't believe it
He did not, bayleaf
He didn't believe it
He did not, bayleaf
He didn't believe it at all
He did not, bayleaf
He didn't believe it
He did not, bayleaf
La la la la la ..
Well he didn't believe it
He didn't believe it at all
He did not, bayleaf
He didn't believe it at all
He did not, bayleaf
He didn't believe it
He did not, bayleaf
Made his midnight stand with a pale fist
He took a swing, sight unseen, he suffered
Pulled his lover to him
Made his will about the hands of fate
A bit too late, to save him
When he went back home and his mom would drown and mold
He had a different mood, he had a different style
He opened up his love so wide

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EVERY FAMILY
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Mike Stone: drums .. Ron Weinstein: Hammond C-3 .. Guy Davis: bass .. Pete Droge: slide guitar, bridge background vocals .. Stone: vocals, guitar

If you have an instrument, without any rhyme
That unprecedented crime
Conspiracy theorists take heed
It's time to bleed for every family with a fractured crown
You've had experience beyond your years
You've had your head up in the clouds
It's time to let go
Let the tears begin to flow for every family with a fractured crown
I found a guitar string, it tied me to my mother
I left it curled up in a ball, thinking Id need it for tomorrow
If you have an instrument, without any key
Let's christen it's demise
The queen and her jester's decree
It's time to bleed for every family with a fractured crown
Every family has a fractured crown
Every family has a fractured crown ..

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UNHAND ME
vGossardv

Ty Wilman: lead vocals .. Mike Stone: drums .. Ron Weinstein: piano .. Guy Davis: bass .. Tony Coleman: all percussion .. Pete Droge: guitar/12 string guitar, bridge keys .. Stone: background vocals, guitar

I can't believe we're still together
Even after all these years
I guess you can call it civil pride
This selfish love that i hide, yeah
Unhand me
Unhand me, my ego
Unhand me
Unhand me
Unhand me, my ego
Unhand me
You put your keys to her aid
It doesn't sit so friendly
I guess you can call it needle-eyed
That pointy bar just won't fly
Unhand me
Unhand me, my ego
Unhand me
Unhand me
Unhand me, my ego
Unhand me

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HELLBENT
vGossardv

Mike Stone: drums .. Guy Davis: bass .. Ty Wilman: background vocals in chorus .. Matt Bayles: extra keys .. Zac Baird: nord lead .. Mike Dillion: vibes .. Pete Droge: acoustic guitar, background vocals in chorus .. Stone: vocals, guitar

We go marching off to war
And the richter scale swings
Pile on those trains
Pile in that hearse
Pools congregate the men
And segregate the girls
I don't feel clean
Where are my girls?
Like hellbent inn
Like hellbent inn
There's an old man in his chair
With a leather shaven grin
I don't want war
I don't need plays
Like hellbent inn
Like hellbent inn
Like hellbent inn
Like hellbent inn
It's like hellbent inn
Like hellbent inn
It's like hellbent inn ..

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FEND IT OFF
vGossardv

Ty Wilman: lead vocals .. Mike Stone: drums .. Guy Davis: bass .. Ron Weinstein: piano/Hammond C-3 .. Pete Droge: chorus vocal stack .. Stone: guitar

He intermitted honesty by adding up his dignity
He put it in his pocketbook, a wooden nickle in his sheath
[that's why we say]
Love, fend it off
[we say]
Love, fend it off
He'd leave her heart in misery
She'd leave it in his company
If ever he would relegate
A love for her to imitate
[we say]
Love, fend it off
[that's why we say]
Love, fend it off
[you know we say]
Love, fend it off
Fend it off
I've fallen from grace
In a million disguises
All over this game
There's a lot to be said
For the women who fled me
All gone, you're still stained

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