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Instant
05:16
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Instant
(Music: SAS - lyrics: Daniel Ramirez © 1984)
Won’t you tell me please, oh what’s your hurry?
We know you’re the life of the party
I like to put you on like I wear my clothes
Take a one-year pill with no weight to pull
I like your hair - I love the way that you dress
It’s money, muscle, booze and ah – tenderness.
So won’t you tell me please, oh what’s your hurry?
We know you’re the life of the party
Hey – what’s your hurry?
She won’t neglect you...
Got no time for truth, no patience for lies
Ain’t no time to doubts that lay deep inside
You won’t force your time, you even pretend
Not aware of pay for things that you said
You’re past your golden age, your time is so short
Minimum’s the wage, it’s all you can get
Rug from under goes and still you go on
Face in the mirror and it’s you all alone
Hey – what’s your hurry?
He won’t neglect you
You’re the life of the party
She won’t neglect you
Now you’re running on your own - UH HUH (x 4)
Just can’t take now I feel like crying
Rug from under goes to hell from trying
Gone and dashed your dreams the night just before
Cover up and say that you love him more
Go to work with bruises blue on your skin
Tell the story that’s so purposely thin
Family and friends give silent glances
Why won’t they just say it, you long to tell them?
Hey, what’s the hurry?
He won’t neglect you
You’re not happy though you breathe the same air
What is justice, now where is it fair?
Go to work with bruises blue on your skin
Tell the story that’s so purposely thin
Rug from under goes and still you go on
Face in the mirror and it’s you all alone
Go to work with bruises blue on your skin
Tell the story ‘cause the blame the victim.
You’re the life of the party
He won’t neglect you...
Now you’re running on your own - UH HUH (x 8)
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Breaking Habits
05:10
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Breaking Habits
(music: Sullivan/Vitale/Soule/Morninghawk/Pearl - lyrics: Chuck Sullivan - © 1983)
Problems have not disappeared.
They are only sleeping
But when the problem is waking up
Everybody’s leaving
Breaking Habits -
Hard To Stop
Automatic
- Back to the start, start, start
Turn around, look within, catch a glimpse
Of where we’ve been
What we do and what we say
Break off into separate ways
Forking tongue and hiding hand
Are we trying the best that we can?
Breaking Habits
- Hard To Stop
Automatic -
Back to the start, start, start
Turn around, look within, catch a glimpse
Of where we’ve been
If you mind your own affairs
Cause nobody harm
But you when you look - you look the other way
The trouble hits you double hard
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I followed this bell, into the valley of loss
Entered the absence through a crack in the shell
Waited so long, for the destruction of dreams
And waiting for the clarity that can never fail
Though I try, still the rain’s a fact
On a street that runs in every direction
After the absence of your violent grace
Racing black and fiery in pursuit of perfection
Oh, and god – when I can see the kites
Like hot prayers rising in the steam of the night
Let me rise to understand – by convection
Now the horror is vision and a sacred infection
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The Hopping Frog
02:45
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The Hopping Frog
(music: SAS - lyrics: David Soule - © 1984)
It is very late
A frog is hanging out, a frog is hanging out
He is considering Language
He has a bright idea
It makes him hop, hop hop --- hop
He likes nature
He wants to kill a fly, he wants to kill a fly
He hops all over the place
He is considering twilight
He needs to sing to it
He’s having a great day and he thinks he’s bad
Bridge
He likes nature
He wants to kill a fly, he wants to kill a fly
He hops all over the place
He is considering twilight
He needs to sing to it
He’s having a wild day and he thinks he’s bad
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Mom's A Bunji
05:28
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Mom's a Bunji
(music: SAS - lyrics: Dan Ramirez - © 2008)
So pass the mountains - So pass the days
I’ve touched the ocean - I’ve passed this way
There comes a day, godspeed child
Pursue a longing = break the mold
Between my lies and treasons
Things I’ve done made her old
So pass the mountains - So pass the days
I’ve touched the ocean - I’ve passed this way
I know I’m not alone
Her love is all around
Stretching from coast to coast
Hold me tight but never bound (x2)
Around around around
Mom’s a bunji, I’m a clown
Around around around
Found a land with funny people
Talked to a man - marked his words
Drove through a desert of deceit
Became who I am in spite of the hurt
So pass the mountains - So pass the days
I’ve touched the ocean - I’ve passed this way
I know I’m not alone
Her love is all around
Stretching from coast to coast
Hold me right but never bound
Around around around
Mom’s a bunji, I’m a clown
Stretches and pulls Around and around and around
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Breaking Habits
(music: SAS - lyrics: Chuck Sullivan - © 1983)
Problems have not disappeared.
They are only sleeping
But when the problem is waking up
Everybody’s leaving
Breaking Habits -
Hard To Stop
Automatic
- Back to the start, start, start
Turn around, look within, catch a glimpse
Of where we’ve been
What we do and what we say
Break off into separate ways
Forking tongue and hiding hand
Are we trying the best that we can?
Breaking Habits
- Hard To Stop
Automatic -
Back to the start, start, start
Turn around, look within, catch a glimpse
Of where we’ve been
If you mind your own affairs
Cause nobody harm
But you when you look - you look the other way
The trouble hits you double hard
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Grace
04:52
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Grace
(music: SAS - lyrics: David Soule – © 1984)
I followed this bell, into the valley of loss
Entered the absence through a crack in the shell
Waited so long, for the destruction of dreams
And waiting for the clarity that can never fail
Though I try, still the rain’s a fact
On a street that runs in every direction
After the absence of your violent grace
Racing black and fiery in pursuit of perfection
(BRIDGE)
Oh, and god – when I can see the kites
Like hot prayers rising in the steam of the night
Let me rise to understand – by convection
Now the horror is vision and a sacred infection
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Wasted Lives
04:41
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Wasted Lives
(music: SAS -[Creighton, Duer, Laugelli, Murray, Sullivan, Vitale, Wenzel] - lyrics: Richard Vitale © 1981)
Insulated from Change
Don’t want to waste your life.
Open the door now
Open up the door.
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Mom's a Bunji
(music: SAS - lyrics: Dan Ramirez - © 2008)
So pass the mountains - So pass the days
I’ve touched the ocean - I’ve passed this way
There comes a day, godspeed child
Pursue a longing = break the mold
Between my lies and treasons
Things I’ve done made her old
So pass the mountains - So pass the days
I’ve touched the ocean - I’ve passed this way
I know I’m not alone
Her love is all around
Stretching from coast to coast
Hold me tight but never bound (x2)
Around around around
Mom’s a bunji, I’m a clown
Around around around
Found a land with funny people
Talked to a man - marked his words
Drove through a desert of deceit
Became who I am in spite of the hurt
So pass the mountains - So pass the days
I’ve touched the ocean - I’ve passed this way
I know I’m not alone
Her love is all around
Stretching from coast to coast
Hold me right but never bound
Around around around
Mom’s a bunji, I’m a clown
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Grace (full band version)
(music: SAS - lyrics: David Soule – © 1984)
I followed this bell, into the valley of loss
Entered the absence through a crack in the shell
Waited so long, for the destruction of dreams
And waiting for the clarity that can never fail
Though I try, still the rain’s a fact
On a street that runs in every direction
After the absence of your violent grace
Racing black and fiery in pursuit of perfection
(BRIDGE)
Oh, and god – when I can see the kites
Like hot prayers rising in the steam of the night
Let me rise to understand – by convection
Now the horror is vision and a sacred infection
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Breaking Habits
(music: SAS - lyrics: Chuck Sullivan - © 1983)
Problems have not disappeared.
They are only sleeping
But when the problem is waking up
Everybody’s leaving
Breaking Habits -
Hard To Stop
Automatic
- Back to the start, start, start
Turn around, look within, catch a glimpse
Of where we’ve been
What we do and what we say
Break off into separate ways
Forking tongue and hiding hand
Are we trying the best that we can?
Breaking Habits
- Hard To Stop
Automatic -
Back to the start, start, start
Turn around, look within, catch a glimpse
Of where we’ve been
If you mind your own affairs
Cause nobody harm
But you when you look - you look the other way
The trouble hits you double hard
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Get It All Out - feat. Billy Pilgrim & Jacquea Olday (E) (DJ SOY SOS_ Same As It Never Been - Re-freak Mix)
and its on again
and by the time you catch the riff another song begins
and im on the mend
but wont bend to break
cuz it just dont end w no time to waste
wait!
cant do it, gotta get it out
while ya'll just go thru it
make me wanna shout
like muthaphuckaz are clueless
grind till they toothless
while the other side is ruthless
foolish game we pursue w passion
askin, wavin white flags
but they blastin, huh?
caption closed
just another crack in the road
on the path chose that were supposed to act on
shown the map but use a frac-tion
til it overloads
left w only a reac-tion
boom!
w a feeling that its coming soon
so i leave it on the floor when i step into the room..
then resume to trip
like they expectin me to lose my grip
oh shit!
dont slip when theyre coming to get ya
and if not, then they make you flip from the pressure
no matter what you got there is always more to measure
and get chopped down if you cant remember
stop for the sound when you cant surrender
talk of the town when they treat you lesser
cant handle it
cant escape
feeling so scandalous
change the pace
and let it unravel
never go to waste after you taste a sample
drop!
let it dangle
watch out for the plainclothes
at a different party
but surrounded by the same hoes
you gotta wrk the angles
ample
more than a handful
cuz we're going in they wanna make example
same as it never been
back in the saddle
ride w the wind
so they cant hold a candle
stay vigilant
ready w another salvo
never been innocent
and i feel the imminence
indifferent
comin off like a militant belligerent asshole
keep you worried bout cashflow
while they screamin praise the lord - pass the ammo
and i speak it in canto
agro
burning from end to end like tobacco
blend with the beat
10 toes in extended from the streets
you misrepresent
but we kept the receipt
you washed up and rinsed out
no need to repeat
dont sleep!
keep running
they comin for yer spot top gunnin
always on your back
cuz you never stop frontin
give love to get
never something from nothing
gotta get it out!
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Stick Against Stone Brooklyn, New York
Stick Against Stone is a post-punk/no wave band from Pittsburgh, PA that resided in Pittsburgh; Brooklyn, New York; Eugene, Oregon and San Francisco and remained active (in no less than six incarnations) between 1980 and 1990. The band incorporated elements of no wave, world music, free jazz, reggae, avant-funk, rap, spoken word, ska, dub, African, and art-rock into their music. ... more
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