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Love Is the Problem
03:18
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Just find someone with similar interests; if computers can do it, then why can't you?
Just ask around, and see who's still single or almost single again
Or recovering from a coma, or just let out of jail.
Or visiting the country, or learning how to fail.
And if you get your basic needs all met, then you can concentrate on what really matters
Love is the problem that you can't ignore
Love is the problem that you're looking for
Just find someone who's fairly good looking, but not too good looking; you'll get used to it.
Just ask around about friends of friends, about exes of exes of exes of yours
Just find someone who can stand to be near you, who has similar needs; could that be so hard?
And if you're lucky, all your time will disappear, and you'll never have to fear
And if you're lucky, all your interests will dissolve in the life you'll have to solve
And if you're lucky, all your cares will multiply as your years go tearing by
Cause you found someone
Love is the reason that you're fading fast
Love is the answer to what you never asked
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I Insist
03:37
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In place of a soul, I’ve got tendency
Got a leaning, I’ve got energy
I push headlong into a tumbling whirl
Of my own, of my own, well, I don’t know what
I am driving, I am pressing the keys
I am losing what’s left of my periphery
I am forward essentially
I am motion and force, and something too fast to see
And my eyes focus out to a point and refract
And I will pierce every door; nothing fails to react
And I will overcome all the crap that I drag
I am not asking the world, I am not asking the world
I demand it, I insist
If I must give a reason, well, consider this fist
I demand it, I require
You mistake what I make, and all the love I inspire
In place of a soul, I've got irony
In the space of a conscience a rock
In this peace my belief is a 15-ton truck
If I hold out my hand, you will shiver, will shiver
I am driving, I am pressing it down
If I fly at this speed, I will be sleeping around
I am forward, I am all the way
I'm a mistake of the future we'll all be some day
Don’t be put out or fooled, or cover yourself in drool
I’m a person, a person, and not a force of nature
Don’t be one of those guys who puts feet in his mouth
I am lonely and done, I won’t save you, won’t save you
And my eyes focus out to a point and refract
And retract and turn black and go back and attack
And relax and distract and react and react and react…
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A Few Gone Down
03:50
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Open a riverboat; stay away
Take out a circus float; it's your day
Market to everything in your way
Fail to philosophize
Maybe they'll think you're wise anyway
Don't mind a few gone down, a few gone down
Don't pay them attention; they'll think that you care
And they'll never leave you alone
Don’t mind them, just move on; just move on
Gesture within to what you have sown
Gesture without to what you will own
Don't mind me shakin', as I shiver to the bone.
Move on to better things
Record what the movement brings, you're alone
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White Rabbit
02:40
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Mark Lint Madison, Wisconsin
Catchy, homespun tunes ranging in style from power pop to folk ballads to alt country, laced with a sense of the absurd.
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