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SpinTunes #3: Round 4

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1.
I know that it sounds dire it might even seem perverse but every time you find my movements to your benefit I'm used up bit by bit and I'm made worse But I'm not really one for grudges I try to keep my words in check but all these things that pass right by my field of vision now they move by with precision and turn black And you can try to keep your focus pointed ahead till you're swerving up and down every lane and though you may see them coming back down the road you know you're gonna lose them again My vision through a tunnel just like headlights in the night is currently awash with all your gestures before promptly disappearing from my sight Yes in the past I kept on turning towards all the miles I could accrue but now I realize that every time you got where you were going I wish I had gone there too And while you may like to think you're part of it all there's a distance that will grow as you age and though you may see them coming back down the road you know you're gonna lose them again I tried my best to just keep up with you and for a while we were the same but time is kind and terrible this much is true and now you're stuck with my remains So now I'm caught between the oak trees even more silent than before and near the pavement where I was once a modern chariot you've stranded me alone forevermore And I see lights as they flicker off in the dark and I'm feeling like I'm doing the same and I feel time standing still it's permanent now but I know I won't be moving again I know I won't be leaving again
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The sun is a-shinin, the forest is deep Nobody sees us, slip thru Mr. Wilson’s trees.. We got a secret, we promised to keep So I’m gonna follow you To the Cadillac of ocean blue, boy You’ll be the captain, and I’ll be the crew Well this little place is our own We speak of in code Adventure is automatic out here it’s a getaway car a ship in the stars In the DeVille the world disappears We were eleven, we’d sneak here to hide We’re seven years older, Wilson’s gone to join his bride His car’s in the clearing, and we’ve got some time So I’m gonna follow you To that Cadillac that’s rustin through, boy You’re gonna understand the way that I love you Well this little place is our own That nobody knows Adventure is automatic out here We’ll fix it up right Drive off in the night In the Deville the world disappears La la la, La la la Nobody’s gonna know where we’re gonna go In the DeVille the world disappears And we’ve got to disappear, baby We’ve got to disappear let the tracks wash away in the rain, so come with me Someday... I’m gonna follow you In a Cadillac that’s shiny and new, boy You’re gonna understand the way that I love you... Well this little place is our own (The sun is shining) That nobody knows (The forest is deep) Adventure is automatic out here (Nobody sees us) It’s a getaway car A ship in the stars In the Deville the world disappears La la la In the DeVille the world can disappear (We've got a secret) So come with me, my baby, and fly....
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Well you left me behind a long long time ago I guess I thought you'd come back, but even so I'm not goin anywhere, I'm not sure that I could Take me Back baby, I wish that you would A little Rusty on the outside A little worse for wear Just sittin out here in the world somewhere You'll never find another like me, baby that's for sure Cause they don't make em like me anymore Well I'm still waiting don't know what else to do Slowly fallin apart without you And I can feel my body agin', fallin apart at the seams Sometimes my old life seems like nothing but a dream A little rusty on the outside Alittle worse for wear Just sittin out here in the world somewhere You'll never find another like me, baby that's for sure Cause they don't make em like me anymore Well you used to love me baby, when I was shiny and new Back when you thought that there was nothing I couldn't do And times have changed, but oh no not me And you say I'm just a shadow of what I used to be A little rusty on the outside Alittle worse for wear Just sittin out here in the world somewhere You'll never find another like me, baby that's for sure Cause they don't make em like me anymore
4.
Skipping stones with you has turned my head I was ready to give you my precious summer days before you said That we can't be in love we're only nine years old But Fiona, my heart beats still As you curl up beside me in our secret world I'll drive us away to a house by the sea And between every wave you can skip stones with me Some years later in the junior high Where the boys and the girls meet at football games to flirt through the night When I asked you to dance with me your cheeks turned red And I knew from the way you held my hand That you can't be in love with your first best friend But Fiona, my heart beats still And the air turns electric with one smile from you Then one moonlit night we took to the woods And we stumbled into our imaginary childhood And we climbed into the car where this feeling began You whispered we might be in love Oh we might be in love Oh Fiona, my heart beats still As you curl up beside me in our secret world I'll drive us away to a house by the sea And between every wave you can skip stones with me
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Remember when we were kids Drive-in movies, road trips Every step in my worn out sneakers Was a step closer to your sunset smile It might've been foolish But I can't see how You could bury your memories Along with our vows Rolled down the windows And drove down the road With not a care for all the world We never thought we'd get old Do you still have that pretty white dress? I still have my car, it's rusted sitting in the grass It's proof that our love Has long been surpassed It might've been foolish But I can't see how You could bury your memories Along with our vows Rolled down the windows And drove down the road With not a care for all the world We never thought we'd get old Rolled down the windows And drove down the road With not a care for all the world We never thought we'd get old It might've been foolish But I can't see how You could bury your memories Along with our vows
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old abandoned rusty love where did you go these seeds to sow seasons hot and seasons cold unending rain deepest snow back roads black hills your motor trills on those happy days of rolling free pedal down you took me your took me far, so far beyond these silent hills did we abscond back roads black hills your motor trills on it’s so unfair to leave you so roll away steel tombstone long you live beyond the grave my aching heart did you once save back roads black hills your motor trills on
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PHOTO FINISH wmh 7.26.11 Two old horses have run the race Both aging but undiminished A little rusty, and lost of some spark But crossing the line in a photo finish I remember the past days like they are tomorrow As fresh as a meadow in spring Put out to pasture - no regrets and no sorrow Looking forward to the promise the future would bring Broken eyed - but not blind Both victims of the ages and sun But classic things never go out of style They just get recycled around and return Mettle or metal, which wins the battle Relics of the past, neither one with the will to survive Except into memories and fantasy And the history of what walks or what rides One dies a pauper- one retires to a museum There’re some who would say they’re the same Each of them sent to his own mausoleum Never again to run on the tracks of the game Broken eyed - but not blind Both victims of the ages and sun But classic things never go out of style They just get recycled around and return
8.
'Forgotten But Not Gone' I could spend a lifetime wasting away remembering good times past I'd pretend it's like my greatest days again blurring milestones passed And my thinking of late is it's safe to say there's a million I've amassed But the thing that makes them glory days is the fact that they don't last And it's over now, and I'm settled down, not by choice but the clock is ticking on I'm forgotten but not gone
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would I believe you, should you say I used to be so pretty I used to send the sunglight back And blind the gathered crowd I was so smooth and spotless And no one was so thoughtless no cold, uncaring complaints no jokes from who was loudest if I'm so easy to discard well then I'm glad the hard part's over these shadows shake and grow stretch across the grass and clover it's just like they always said the love you felt, it's in your head they'll find something else to care about this bitter nectar I was fed a grave, displayed is where it lead gutted by whispers and doubt just rusted and flooded out would you believe me if I said that I deserve better god knows that I'm not perfect but I shouldn't be dismissed you were so sure and steady I guess I wasn't ready for such callousness, indifference to be proven to exist so it seems that in some spotlights though I was blinded, you lost sight of the benefit of doubt of just a bit of empathy it's just like they always said the love you felt, it's in your head they'll find something else to care about this bitter nectar I was fed a grave displayed is where it lead gutted by whispers and doubt just rusted and flooded out I lose a coat of paint and means to begin I lose my voice cracks just like paper crumbling I lose a coat of paint, my lights slowly dim I lose I'll never move from this spot again if I'm so easily abandoned at least I cease to be your fixture with any luck, this ugly scene turns out to make a pretty picture it's just like they always said the love you felt, it's in your head they'll find something else to care about this bitter nectar I was fed a grave, displayed is where it lead gutted by whispers and doubt just like you, avoiding blame responsibility or shame I need something else to care about these wheels will never turn again life disappeared around the bend but until I can work that out I'm just rusted, and flooded out I'm just rusted, and flooded out (2x) I lose (4x)
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MALT SHOP IN THE SKY/SPACE CREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE/DO THE OCTOPUS It was a dark and rainy night I begged her not to go Was I wrong, or was she right? I guess I'll never know I'll always know just where she is But never how or why My baby's in that malt shop in the sky The Chevy felt so heavy The road so slick and wet That I forgot to fix the brakes I will always regret The road went left, the car went right A Chevy cannot fly My baby's in that malt shop in the sky But who could know the really big surprise The crash was seen by unexpected eyes IT WAS SPACE CREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE! Space Creatures from Outer Space (x3) They're talking our women back to their place They got ten eyes They got 12 arms Earth girls can't resist their charms Space Creatures From Outer Space (x3) They never lie, but they are two-faced. ALIEN #1: I love Earth women! ALIEN #2: I haven't had this much fun since I was orbiting Uranus! They pick up chick to take to Mars In souped-up hot rod spaceship cars Space Creatures From Outer Space (x3) Never dare them to a drag race MAKE 'EM DO THE OCTOPUS! Why don't you get three friends Stand face to face Wiggle your arms All over the place Chorus: Do The Octopus! It's really great! Do The Octopus! Don't be late! Do the Octopus! To the power of eight! One and one is two Two and two is four Four and four is eight And there just ain't no more Chorus Eeenie Meenie Mi Meenie Mynie Moe Take an octopus And grab him by the toe toe toe toe toe toe toe toe Chorus
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It was 1952 Five thousand years ago A met a girl, she had a car On a drive we did go There was a monkey at the wheel And a razor in my brain I took control and drove off the road In the pouring rain Chorus: Car Car Car Car Slippy slippy slippery went the tones on my tail She cried and laughed and tumbling we went Another crack from you and you’ll end up in jail And I won’t have the cash to pay the rent Deterministic random faces accuse me as I walk Without you though I’m carrying your head The grass grows round the car crash from so many years ago You’re lucky I didn’t wind up dead I miss you my co-pilot when you’re not there Which is often meaning everytime I wake I’m a bit confused about the purpose that you wear If I weren’t crazy that’s all I could take Look upon my windshield mortals tremble as I break The windows rusting grass upon the wheels The energy you shed will quickly run into the night I think I understand just how you feeled
12.
Borrowing mom's car totally blew It really sucked on ice But if you wanna be cool You gotta pay the price A friend of a friend of a guy I know Had a car to sell I had some extra cash to blow So I said what the hell Chorus: My first car was a thrill It even looked good sitting still But on the road it was a joke It filled the county with blue smoke So I spent all I had Then it didn't look too bad Then I went and spent some more Now I just can't be ignored It used to be a four door But now I only got two The hood was red, the tail was white And both the doors were blue The steering kept pulling to the left And boy it really sucked It had the power of a Yugo And the handling of a truck Chorus You can hear my bass for miles I ain't got no treble I got it riding so low I can feel every pebble I jacked it up and I chopped it down Now it's a mean machine Now you just sit back and listen To my tires scream Chorus
13.
BAYOU CADILLAC You’re the prettiest girl on the bayou I know you done heard that before But how’d you like to get a new V-8 And trade in that old four on the floor CHORUS: Bayou Cadillac I want to buy you a Cadillac My, you’d look good in a Cadillac If I were to buy you a Cadillac I’m a simple man with simple tastes I only accept the very best Baby, you’re just like a Cadillac So how’s about a little road test? CHORUS BRIDGE: I know you’d look good with a Caddy I don’t mean the kind that plays golf I hope you don’t mind a convertible ‘Cause I’d love to see you take down your top Now baby, I could teach you some driving Tricks that you would love to learn So come on over to my racetrack And we’ll both make some rubber burn CHORUS
14.
Detroit Iron, two tons flyin’ Powering up hill Jet black, get back Jack Cadillac Coupe de Ville Vows to keep, it made men weep A dream you couldn’t kill Super wide, a nation’s pride Cadillac Coupe De Ville Lean, obscene, a mean machine A boyhood’s dream fulfilled The urge you feel in solid steel Cadillac Coupe De Ville Road dog, gas hog, A wish that’s built to thrilll This road warrior never looked sorrier Cadillac Coupe De Ville Freeway, Leeway Send the kids the bill Broken trust, Creeping rust Cadillac Coupe de Ville It pulled the load, it ruled the road But now it’s sitting still Off the track, with no attack Cadillac Coupe de Ville This is your Daddy’s Caddy, laddie
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(Lay Around the) Caddy Well, I just got back from chooglin’ Down Mississippi way And the boss man won’t get hold of me If I got somethin’ to say I’m-a livin’ in my Caddy My good ol’ Detroit wheels I got what I need and what I don’t have I can beg, borrow or steal chorus: Lay around the Caddy, boy, kickin’ up my feet I’m fishin’ out the back window if I need sumpin’ t’eat Snoozin’ in the front seat, keep my banjo in a tree ‘Cause the back seat’s for my baby and me I'm livin' up the good life Got everything I need the 9 to 5 is far behind with avarice and greed I just need my baby and then we're good to go We don't need no engine to watch the river flow. So climb on in here mama, We'll have a real good time The beers are in the cooler And catfish on the line And when the full moon rises We'll bed down for the night Left to our own devices The stars our bedside light Just you and me all cozy In our rusted iron bed We'll have no need to mosy Where the noise just hurts your head It may not get up to speed But baby, apart from you, My Caddy's all I need This Caddy is just big enough for two

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A Picture's Worth A Thousand Lyrics - Write a song inspired by the Reinfried Marass photo used on the album cover.

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released August 18, 2011

The photo used on the album cover is by Reinfried Marass.

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