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From the Album Technostalgia
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Lyrics ©2001 Troy T.
Take
the Ride
When
I think of the Seventies
Takes me out for a ride
See the roads sprawl before me
A land full of promise and time
If
I could turn the wheels
Back in the schoolyard that day
It eats me all the time
Away
Going
down the freedom ride on the river
Going down the helpless ride on the road
Try
to slow the emotion
Remember the days in the sun
Riding around open windows
Glistening smiles in the fun
If
I could roam the fields
Think of all that I could have done
It cheats me all the time
I pay
Going
down the path that leads to destruction
Running down the steep incline of my woes
When
I think of the seventies
I wonder if I'll get that far
Will I look back with relish
Or will I close and be sour
If
I can use the now
Make something out of today
I can win and I will
Be ok
Going
down the freedom ride to the river
Going down the freedom ride on the road
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Mountaintop
He
comes from the top
From the very mountaintop
He claims that he knows
What it is that makes us go
I say, he's full of shit
Acting like to the world he's a gift
Portray
And fear
Show
me that he's from the mountain
Show me that he's from the top
Throw me from the mountain
Show me what it's like at the top
He
comes before us all
One up man, he cries his call
He says to do as we please
It's a weakness he perceives
Hear the band, it plays on
Though the curtain call is gone
Away
he's from the mountain
Show me that he's from the top
Throw me from the mountain
Show me what it's like at the top
He
comes from the top
From
the top
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Longing
For October
When
I walk the streets of A-town
In my mind in the morning time
Feel the breeze on my face
DVD clarity, slow motion stride away
It comes to me from the tree-lined boulevards
History
whispers, the call brings me down
Forcing a mental walk through the town
Driving
the point home
It's no longer my home
I can't go home again
When
I walk the streets of T-town
Thinking back to all those times
Walked that way before
13th and Reed and Morgan's place, nights on Riverside
The feelings that accompanied those times
History
blisters, the burn brings me down
Branding reminders blur when slowed down
Driving
the point home
It's no longer my home
You can't go home again
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Elusive
I
look for you almost every day
You are elusive in every way
I find myself looking over the hill
Missing the step that's in front of me still
Saturday in the afternoon
I will find you
Deep in a sea of blue
It's true
You
are to be found somewhere I know
But I can't locate you for all that I know
Saturday in the afternoon
I will find you
Deep in a sea of blue
It's true
Saturday
in the afternoon
I will find you
Deep in a sea of blue
It's true
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2084
Winter
raised it's ugly head and covered up the sun
Stealing heat and sending sleet it, had us on the run
Crying skies and lonely eyes met us on the streets
The ladle and the cradle, they were covered with disease
That's
when the bubble burst
Sending showers of fear, we were clinging to the worst
Setting sail for the moon
We were riding toward, toward our doom
Thinking we were making our own destiny
Knowledge
was the cornerstone of everything believed
Gorged ourselves on the fruit of the forbidden tree
Moaning sighs, withered ties settled on the earth
The lady in the desert, she was waiting to give birth
That's
when we felt the worst
Bursting flowers of fear, we were clinging to the curse
Setting sail for the gloom
We were heading for, for our doom
Thinking we were making our own destiny
Winter
raised its ugly head and covered up the sun
No-one paid attention, they were having too much fun
That's
when the bubble burst
We were scattered and seared, we had to be the first
Setting sail for the moon
We were riding toward, toward our doom
Thinking we were making our own destiny
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Mr.
Big Boy
Opinions
swirl from the mouth of the anointed
It seems he doesn't like what it is he's now hearing
And I wonder if it matters some
Does the printed word validate what he says?
Or does his fury signify his emptiness?
His
vitriol burns my eyes absorbing, his
Negativity it leaves me reeling
And I wonder at his motives now
Does it make him feel better to put us down?
Does he resent locals making sound?
And
while we toil away
He dismisses with a wave
And when we try again
He destroys with his mighty pen
I
see him out and he's looking all smug
And I have to hold back to keep from leveling charges
And I wonder at my readiness
Something tells me that this is all in my mind
That I care at all suggests a deeper crime
Suggests
a deeper crime
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D.O.I.
I
get mad when I read the news
Keep it up, I'm going to blow a fuse
And I can't go on and on and on like this
But I read anyway
Living
in a state I hate to love
Too many hawks and not enough doves
I can't go on and on and on like this
Living here anyway
Take
me away someday
And there's broken hearts strung along the way
D.O.I.
Surrounded
by mass homogeny
Simpler minds are looking down at me
I can't go on and on and on like this
I get along anyway
Take
me away someday
And there's broken hearts strung along the way
D.O.I.
Listen
to people only talk about themselves
Don't they know that I'm a deeper well
I can't go on and on and on like this
But I listen anyway
Take
me away someday
And there's broken hearts strung along the way
Even
though it never seems to work
I keep trying to stop being a jerk
And I can't go on and on and on like this
D.O.I.
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Thinking
Thinking
about what is here to stay
Thinking about yesterday
I've
been wandering life's lonely streets
Knowing that I'm not here for keeps
I'm
moving on but I can't forget
What I take with me will be never met
Will be never met
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The
Outsider
So
she takes me to a party
Up on the hill
It's high drama and
A bitter pill
But she tells me that there are others there
Who aren't so unlike me
So
I branch out
To another world
Drinking toddies and beautiful girls
A veranda looking down below
I'm up high but I feel so low
We
should go
On our way home
Still I find a way to be alone once again
So
now I'm rubbing elbows with all of the elite
Self-importance is not so nice to meet
And she tells me
How lucky I should feel
That my face is too long
Spare
me
Is all that I desire
From this high party I wish to retire
But she won't leave
There's hobnobbing to be done
Why can't you be more fun?
We
should go
On our way home
Still I find a way to be alone once again
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Cold
Winter's Day
It
was cold and gray that day
When I followed the winding avenues and trails that I thought led
to your private moments
Silhouettes routinely appeared and disappeared as I found myself
stumbling
Down an alley
Out
Into a field
Near campus
The
bleakness permeated my eyes, and the blinding devotion to an ideal
Sprayed
the hard, frozen ground with the bright red blood of my emotion
Near the tracks where we played the party I saw a withering vision
It was you but you weren't solid
And your mouth moved but I heard no sound
Creeping by the gray house at 600 13th
I saw the long shadows of my former life and self
And
I wondered where the time went
Not to mention my memory of the events that shaped the now
Why did the details have to be so fleeting?
Did the skies have to be so gray?
Truth is the walk never ended
I'm roaming still
Treading the gray skies of yesterday inside the darkened skies of
tomorrow
I can still see you
Walking away from me in the rain
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Road
Less Traveled
Your
way
We've got to do it your way
We can do it my way
But you insist
your way
And we find out who our friends really are
If we do it
Your
way
I'm thinking 'bout your way
I wonder if it's the way that i should go
But no
I think I'll go my way
Gonna do my own way
'Til your way is gone
'Til your way is gone
Our
way
We should have done it our way
And we find out who our friends
Really are
I'm gonna go my way
'Til your way is gone
'Til your way has gone
'Til our way is gone
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Ominous
Sunlit
room in '82
Reading those books while the feelings grew
Taking my time to far away lands
And the pages turning fast they marked my path
And now when I hear that music in my soul
The down times run and the streets are gold
Walking around late at night
And the leaves are falling and the lamps burn bright
back
there suddenly
My whole life staring in front of me
The lands are green and the forests sing aloud
The boys are gone that persecuting crowd
And here I am on top of the peak
Crying to the eagles that are lookin up at me
Thinking about that cold swept night
When the tears were frozen and the ground burned white
Darkened
room in '82
Weeping in the fear don't have a clue
Creeping time no self-esteem
Lying in the bed of the loathing stream
Llisten to the wind of the dark filled night
Calling my name and I'm filled full of fright
The boys will be waiting with the coming of the day
When the insults fly I can't get away
When
the insults fly I can't get away
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Wrong
Kind of People
A
long time ago
I found myself
Hanging with the wrong kind of people
I hit the highway
Doing it my way
And I found myself alone
Hit
the highway and go away
I found myself all alone
All alone
A
short time ago
I found myself
Hanging with the right kind of woman
I hit the highway
Looking other ways
And I found myself alone
She
hit the highway because of my ways
I found myself all alone
All alone
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Legacy
I
can only hope to see
Continuing the legacy
How about the day Coach Bryant went away?
It's sad to say
Men in black and silent children
Stream like ants on the highway
Will the family recover?
Now it's time to rediscover the way
The Way
In
darkened days of yesteryear
We found a man who made it clear
And how about the times he took us all the way
It's nice to say
Men with hope and cheering children
Breaking barriers away
Will the family remember?
The letters of the great amender
His way
His way
Secret
Meetings
Under a table for two
I
can only hope to see
Continuing the legacy
How about the day the doctor went away?
It's sad to say
Evil men, misguided children
Fired the shot now we're the victims
Will the family recover?
Now it's time to rediscover the way
His way
Will
the family remember?
The letters of the great amender
His way
His way
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Lyrics ©2001 Troy T.
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