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Rare Songs - "O"

Oh Friend|| Once (alt. lyrics)
Once In Our Lives|| One Step Up|| Open Road



Oh Friend [3/12/98; Improv]

Oh friend... where have you been?
Haven't seen you since way back when.
Now you're here, nothin's changed.
Just seems like a better set of days.

I know you for so long.
We see things right, we see things work out.
Almost half my life you've owned my heart.
And I hope you loved you from the start.

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Once (alt. lyrics) [Ten demo]

Yeah, I did it
Tell them I did it, yeah...
Yeah, it's not, it's not that, I'm not sorry
It's just that I don't, I don't feel sad...

Whatcha do?..Whatcha do, yeah?
Whatcha do?..

Once, upon a time I could control myself
Once, upon a time I could lose myself...

I don't want to answer any more question
...another question
I don't have to talk if I don't want to...
So just leave me alone...
Besides, I'm only going to tell them what I want them to hear...

Whatcha do?..Whatcha do, yeah?
Whatcha do?.. yeah...

Once upon a time I could control myself
Huh, Once upon a time I could lose myself, hey... huh...

Young man this court finds you... guilty.
No fucking shit...

Once upon a time I could control myself
Ohhh, Once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah...
Oh, once upon a time I could love myself, yeah...
Once upon a time I could love you, ah yeah...
Once, once, once... ooh once...

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Once In Our Lives* [Improv]

Once in our life, at least once in our lives,
Someone's gonna call you crazy, someone's gonna tell you you're crazy...

At least once in your life, for me at least once every day,
Someone's gonna call you crazy, someone's gonna say you're crazy...

But I know they're the ones, they're the ones...
I'm not crazy, they're the ones...

I'm not crazy... [4x]
They're the ones...

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One Step Up [Vedder Solo; by Bruce Springsteen]

[Lyrics from Crossroads: The Unofficial Bad Radio Website]

Woke up this morning, the house was cold
Checked the furnace she wasn't burning
Went out and hopped in my old Ford
Hit the engine but she ain't turning
Given each other some hard lessons lately
Be we ain't learning
We're same sad story, that's a fact
One step up and two steps back

Bird on a wire outside my motel room
But he ain't singing
Girl in white outside a church in June
But the church bells, they ain't ringing
I'm sitting here in this bar tonight
But all I'm thinking is
The same old story, same old act
One step up and two steps back

It's the same thing, night on night
Who's wrong, baby, who's right
Another fight and I slam the door on
Another battle in our dirty little war
When I look at myself I don't see
The man I wanted to be
Somewhere along the line I slipped off track
I'm caught, movin one step up and two steps back

There's a girl across the bar
I get the message she's sending
Mmm, she ain't looking too married
Me, well, honey, I'm pretending
Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms
The music was never ending
We danced as evening sky faded to black
One step up and two steps back [3X]

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Open Road

(Smokin' the television...)

Take it on already...
This bus is makin way too many stops...
I can't get a-movin' (on my van?)...
Where's my destination?
I take a deep swallow
In my frustration...

I'm takin all I got...
I'm facin' this little thing...

All my life I had empty pockets.
All my life I saw evil eyes
In old dark sockets.

I cut 'em off...I cut 'em off...
I said I don't need them
To make life work...

I cut 'em off...I cut 'em off...
I'll never think twice
If to them I never ever talk...

So here I go...
I'm finally on my way...
Once I said goodbye,
That was my last wave...

Here I am on the...
On the open road...
I've never felt better
Then when I am alone.

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