315 : 2/19/99 : Pain or Parting

We’re not gonna be sad anymore
Enough I say too much is starting
It’s too good a day we have the night
No time for pain or parting
When we’re all together on the hill
Watching the grid go down
Watching the riots start
Watching our brothers rise to burn this town
Now I call that a party
We’ll never finish what we’ve started
That is the nature of life
The seeds you’ve sewn grow only when you have departed

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314 : 2/18/99 : Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll
Jelly Roll
Jelly Roll
Jelly Roll... Rollin’!
Jelly Roll... Rollin’!
Jelly Roll... Rollin’!
You just keep rolling on
Jelly Roll

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313 : 2/17/99 : Right Down Into It

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Slide down around that intestinal
Shiny curving cornucopial spiral
Right down into it
Thinking that just the right moment will inspire all
That wonderfulness locked up inside
The cornucopia and its endless bounty
Meantime doing time in the box
Working for the count of the county
But now I’ve got no time for working
‘Cause I’m working my way back
So kiss me softly honey
Pull my favorite record off the stack
Let’s get right down into it
Let’s not waste time pretending
That it all means something higher
Something better never ending
Whistle to the wind to do our bidding
as we cruise down the long slow slide
I’ve got an ugly feeling that this time I’m not kidding
What I owe will be extracted from my hide

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312 : 2/16/99 : Wasted Youth: Pussy Whipped

Wasted youth: pussy whipped and
ruled by that bitch goddess blue screen sex machine
All lit up and tripping the tryptophan
Fantastic jizm dripping down the glowing silver screen
Ah won’t you chain me down
and make me beg for more
Hook it up to current root me to the ground
Blue eyed silver whore
Magic magic magic box
Tellin’ a tale of bright and electric delight
Look ma they got this thing that talks
And puts out sickly bluish light
And all the wasted youth sit quiet
And watch it slip past shining we’re all pining
for her kiss as we scrape by on a steady diet
of nothing fingers fingers intertwining

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311 : 2/15/99 : Early Riser

Early Riser sleep cannot disguise her
Face pointing straight out East
She's got distance in her eyes, her
heart is set on that movable feast
Daydream wanderer flight of fancy ponderer
You'll dream your life away while she leaves
You wondering how to respond to her
He who hesitates deserves the loss he grieves
Ever always the long end to all days
This slow decline into blank unknowing
Where will we meet perhaps in the hallways
Of the long dream where we all are going

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310 : 2/14/99 : The Gear Game

Big gear drive a small gear faster
small gear drive a big gear slower
Somehow we prevent disaster
But our chances now are lower
Take my place and drive my gear
Directed by the bigger wheels
The Mainspring drives it all down here
I wonder how the guy who winds it feels
Should I play the great gear game
And be a great big wheel like those
who move and shake it in the name
Of giant empty houses and designer clothes
I don’t think so anymore
I’ve seen a vision of a brighter day
I don’t know what’s in store
For me, well everybody feels that way
But if I could find what makes me tick
and truly know my heart’s desire
Then maybe it would all just finally click
And I would finally catch my fire

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309 : 2/13/99 : Roundabout

Roundabout and down the spout
it happens every day
everybody’s big plans turn out the wrong way
Down and out nothin’ but a weak shout
Tomorrow tomorrow always a sorrow
Words strung beads on a long line
I run my fingers over each spine
Looking for the morrow and the proper book to borrow
Won’t lose what I’ve found with my eyes on the ground
The roundabout is always there
The senseless pressure in the air
Don’t make a sound let the surf pound

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308 : 2/12/99 : Antarctica Begins Here

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The dogs are dead and eaten now
The penguins are too fast to catch
You wouldn’t think it would you
I think we’ve hit the bad patch
Antarctica begins here
Nothing to do with latitude
The endless lighted waste
This grim beatitude
I just wanted to find someplace
No one else would like
They’ve got a fuckin’ cash machine down here
Another last frontier to strike
Some penguin brought me fish to eat
And through ice thick and clear
I saw the narwal swimming past
Antarctica begins here

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307 : 2/11/99 : Tonight, Tonight

Tonight, tonight some bum is puking at the bus stop
And the stars are shining brightly up above
And some drunken man is beating his girlfriend so badly
And two kids just fell in love
but it won’t last.
And a car just got turned into abstract art
by a semi, the driver was instantly killed
A twenty-two year old college student thinks he’s figured out
The answers to the questions that spilled
by so fast
Tonight, tonight the moon is above us
But down here it’s just the same old shit
Put it away anyway just to say
I think I’ve had about enough of it

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306 : 2/10/99 : Economics

Well the rich get rich and the poor stay poor
And most of us grew up on the wrong side of that door
Print a little more plastic money whoo-ee we’re gonna get drunk tonight
Tomorrow morning will take care of itself we got time to get tight
Build a machine invent a need
Run the whole show on blindness and greed
Shovel out a little more useless product to pile in front of the cracks
And we laugh about the old pagan offerings with some rich asshole’s tag on our backs
We know nothing of the future we’ve forgotten what was past
And the flags of all our idealistic notions fly half mast
And they tell us that we’ll win it if we focus on the middle card
And there’s no place here for some poor visionary bard
Like me
Civil disobedience is duty not opinion
Either you’re a menace to the system or a minion
This one’s gonna end up in my F.B.I. File
I’m plotting a strange revelation all the while
There is no sure path before us
And the gray Cassandra chorus
sounds a little more descriptive every day
As we try to buy the trip to heaven
Smuggle in a little leaven
Never guessing at the price we’ll ultimately pay
Well it’s always been like this I guess
I’m almost relieved to be beaten I confess

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305 : 2/9/98 : Everything According to Plan

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I asked God about a million times
Why this world was made the way it was
Why the evil are not punished for their crimes
Why the evil man does as he does
Why am I standing here ready to connect the wire
That’ll bring it all shattering down
Ten thousand strong we mark the hour and wait for fire
All ready to assume the thorny crown
There will be no more beginnings now
Everything is going according to plan
In a remote hiding place darkness hides my brow
And I could be any man
Throw a switch and touch a fire off
Send the devil back his own
The world is turning over and its cough
will wipe out all the bad seeds that were sewn
Everything according to plan just like you foretold
The sinners fall down and the righteous arising
See the road to the city paved in gold
Here comes the fire for the new world’s baptizing

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304 : 2/8/99 : Last Day of the Long Vacation

Say goodbye to the sun and sand
Hold a broken seashell in your hand
Say goodbye to the southern sun
Last day of a long vacation
Tomorrow it all starts once more
back in the box down on the killing floor
Relax the change has already begun
By and by I’ll get back to the long vacation

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303 : 2/7/99 : Get Down (II)

Don’t you know you get down on yourself
But it’s a hard road and all men falter
Some are early some are late
And none lead fate as with a halter
Don’t get down so low you cannot see the light
Don’t go beyond the point of sanity
You’re on a long road on a long road now
All the way around it goes humanity
Get down
get off
go hard
or go soft
Go on
get down there
Get on with it
here or nowhere
Down on the surface you’ll receive your orders
Get what you got coming to you grunt
Follow your orders the whole fucked up cavalcade
Is ready one last time to punt
Rise up and die
Speak to the sky
Ask heaven why
You gotta get down to get high
Or leave it be
And cease to roam
Leave it behind
And just go home

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302 : 2/6/99 : Old Times

Gotta know you gotta know girl
I been around I been around the world
And I’ve seen everything there is to see
And I’ve been all the places there are to be
You and me girl you and me gotta get down
to the city one of these days and meet downtown
have lunch and catch up on old times
Discuss the season’s latest high society crimes
You and me gotta get down to Carnival
For old times’ sake get down and relive it all
Gotta know girl you gotta know girl
Thinkin about those times makes my mind whirl
You gotta know I think about it often
Toward evening as the shadows grow and soften
You and me dear by the fire again
Just like all the years had never been
You and me together on the beach
For old times sake come lie within my reach
Gotta know girl you gotta know
That everything will just go the way it goes
But I will never question my decision
Made when you just first crossed my vision
You and me girl got get back to the way it was
For old times’ sake or just because
You and me together all night long
For the sake of old times and our favorite song

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301 : 2/5/99 : Get Down

Gotta get down
Gotta get down
Gotta get down on the floor and dance away that frown
Gotta get slow
Gotta get low
Gotta put your hands together don’t you know
Gotta get laid back
And move your feet like a heart attack
Platter after platter batter up from the wax stack
You gotta get down
Gotta get down
Throw your hands in the air and stomp your feet on the ground
Gotta get down
Gotta get down
Stand real still and listen to the Big Sound

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