No Such Thing Single CD
No Such Thing
- "Welcome to the real world", she said to me
- Condescendingly
- Take a seat
- Take your life
- Plot it out in black and white
- Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
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- And the drama queens
- I'd like to think the best of me
- Is still hiding
- Up my sleeve
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- They love to tell you
- Stay inside the lines
- But something's better
- On the other side
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- I wanna run through the halls of my high school
- I wanna scream at the
- Top of my lungs
- I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
- Just a lie you've got to rise above
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- So the good boys and girls take the so called right track
- Faded white hats
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- Grabbing credits
- Maybe transfers
- They read all the books but they can't find the answers
- And all of our parents
- They're getting older
- I wonder if they've wished for anything better
- While in their memories
- Tiny tragedies
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- They love to tell you
- Stay inside the lines
- But something's better
- On the other side
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- I wanna run through the halls of my high school
- I wanna scream at the
- Top of my lungs
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- I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
- Just a lie you got to rise above
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- I am invincible
- As long as I'm alive
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- I wanna run through the halls of my high school
- I wanna scream at the
- Top of my lungs
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- I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
- Just a lie you've got to rise above
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- I just can't wait til my 10 year reunion
- I'm gonna bust down the double doors
- And when I stand on these tables before you
- You will know what all this time was for
My Stupid Mouth
- my stupid mouth has got me in trouble
- I said too much again
- to a date over dinner yesterday
- and I could see she was offended
- she said "well anyway"
- just dying for a subject change
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- oh, another social casualty
- score one more for me
- how could I forget
- mama said "think before speaking"
- no filter in my head
- oh, what's a boy to do?
- I guess he better find one soon
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- we bit our lips
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- she looked out the window
- rolling tiny balls of napkin paper
- I played a quick game of chess
- with the salt and pepper shaker
- and I could see clearly
- an indelible line was drawn
- between what was good, what just slipped out
- and what went wrong
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- oh, another social casualty
- score one more for me
- how could I forget
- mama said "think before speaking"
- No filter in my head
- oh, what's a boy to do?
- I guess he better find one soon
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- I'm never speaking up again
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- it only hurts me
- I'd rather be a mystery than she desert me
- oh, I'm never speaking up again
- starting now
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- one more thing
- why is it my fault?
- so maybe I try too hard
- but it's all because of this desire
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- I just want to be liked; I just want to be funny
- look like the joke's on me
- so call me Captain Backfire
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- oh, another social casualty
- score one more for me
- how could I forget
- mama said "think before speaking"
- no filter in my head
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- oh, what's a boy to do?
- I guess he better find one soon
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- I'm never speaking up again
- it only hurts me
- I'd rather be a mystery than she desert me
- oh, I'm never speaking up again
- I'm never speaking up again
- I'm never speaking up again
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- starting now
Lenny (Man on the side)
- six numbers, one more to dial
- before I'm before you tonight
- I tried to call
- been busy all night
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- gave up waiting at daylight
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- excuse me Mrs. Busybody
- could you pencil me in when you can
- though we both know that the worst part about it
- is I would be free when you wanted me
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- I am the man on the side
- hoping you'll make up your mind
- I am the one who will swallow his pride
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- life as the man on the side
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- one of the many
- one of the few
- to stand back and wait for you
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- excuse me Mrs. Busybody
- could you pencil me in when you can
- though we both know that the worst part about it
- is I would be free when you wanted me
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- I am the man on the side
- hoping you'll make up your mind
- I am the one who will swallow his pride
- Life as the man on the side
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- I fell in love with the dream that I built of you
- playing the part of the queen
- taking my own advice
- I'm giving up tonight
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- good luck to you and the king
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- I am the man on the side
- hoping you'll make up your mind
- I am the one who will swallow his pride
- life as the man
- you know life as the man
- living life as the man on the side
The Wind Cries Mary
- After all the jacks are in their boxes
- and the clowns have all gone to bed
- You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
- footsteps dressed in red
- And the wind whispers Mary
- A broom is drearily sweeping
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- up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
- Somewhere a queen is weeping
- Somewhere a king has no wife
- And the wind, it cries Mary
- The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
- and shine their emptiness down on my bed
- The tiny island sags down stream
- 'cause the life that lived is,
- is dead
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- And the wind screams Mary
- Uh-will the wind ever remember
- the names it has blow in the past?
- And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
- it whispers no, this will be the last
- And the wind cries Mary
