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M.I.A.
03:48
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M.I.A.
In the summer of 95
The divorce got finalized
When my dad showed up
With a moving truck
There was no place for me to hide
He said, "Son, can you help me with those boxes in the kitchen?
There's a dolly in the U-haul. We'll be done in thirty minutes."
So I looked him in the eye
It’s a look he’d seen before
But I never did reply
I was running out the door
MIA away, I'm away, I'm away, MIA
(Are you lonely now all alone tonight?)
MIA away, I'm away, I'm away
(Are you lonely now all alone tonight?)
I was just past 25
When the end of things arrived
With a girl who's truck
Wasn't big enough
For the shit she left behind
You can take it all for granted when you're struggling for a living
And it's hard to reconcile what you'll miss with what you've given
But the part of me I left
I don't ever want to meet.
He's still sifting through the trash
In a cold November street.
MIA away, I'm away, I'm away, MIA
(Are you lonely now all alone tonight?)
MIA away, I'm away, I'm away
(Are you lonely now all alone tonight?)
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The Night You’ll Always Remember
It's gonna take everything you are
To keep from breaking down when I drive off in my car
It's gonna take everything you have
All of the best things right off of your hands
It's gonna take everything you own
All of the things you think you need
And the ones you don't
This is the night that you’ll always remember me (3 x)
Yeah yeah yeah (4 x)
It's gonna take every book you've read
To put the words back in your mouth after what you said
It's gonna take every drag you smoke
Now that you've burned through the ones you bummed when you were broke
This is the night that you’ll always remember me (3 x)
Yeah yeah yeah (4 x)
All those nights you were too drunk to drive
I slept right by your side
Now my eyes are open wide
So let me crawl out of your bed
Right into your head
This is the night that you’ll always remember me (3 x)
Yeah yeah yeah (4 x)
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Walk Away
03:58
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Walk Away
She slumped against the wall,
Black hair beneath a blue beret.
Her date had thrown her purse onto the street
Tom and I watched half a block away
He was drunk and screaming for his keys
Overweight and nearly twice our age
As we crossed to them I heard a voice inside
Saying, "Boy, you better walk away."
Walk away
He slumped against the wall,
Ran a sleeve across his bloody face,
Said, "Two on one ain't fair at all,
And you fucks are only half my age."
When he grabbed his date and told her
"Call the cops!" I knew we couldn't stay
As they got into his car
She said, "Boys, you better walk away"
Walk Away
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Nowhere To Find Me
03:40
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Nowhere To Find Me
Every time I try to leave her I’m cocaine
Chop me out and line me up into her brain
She comes to me with empathy and heightened rage
When I can’t fake what she wants
And I don’t need her anymore
It goes on and on, and on and on
Until I take her back
Ignore the signs of malcontent
And the self-respect I’m known to lack
A second chance, she comes to me with open veins
Tie me off, and shoot me up into her skin
Before I know we’re right at home and we’re so strung
For the mind is everything
What you think, you become
It goes on and on, and on and on
‘Til I clean up my act
Exploit my fear of solitude
And self-control I’m known to lack
My back’s against the wall, you’re always right, I’m always wrong
Cause I love the numb of cocaine from your tongue
Well you know I come unglued every time you make me choose
So I’m gone, and you’re a hook in a punk rock song
It goes on and on, and on and on
Resist and counteract
These chains you strain to maintain on me
Nowhere to find me, cause it’s a fact that
My back’s against the wall, you’re always right, I’m always wrong
Cause I love the numb of cocaine from your tongue
Well you know I come unglued every time you make me choose
Now I’m gone, and you’re a hook in a punk rock song
Let your lies compromise my brain
Let your lies compromise my brain
Realize your lies breathe life my way
Let your lies compromise my brain
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Lost Highway
03:12
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Lost Highway
Another Saturday.
The cops all drove away.
The party’s slow decay
Goes on and on . . .
And pretty soon you’ll graduate
And Jenny’s moving out of state,
And out of mind, and out of time, but wait,
She’s got some things to say to you.
Oh, repeat the words, repeat the way
You left her on that Saturday.
The last words that you heard her say
“You’re not afraid. You’re just too late.”
And now you know it’s not the end.
It just goes on. The living’s in
The day to day. All days you waste.
You say you won’t. You say
The hardest part’s not when it’s over
(When it’s over you’ll know why)
It’s looking back over your shoulder
(When it’s over, when it’s over)
At kids you knew out on the corner
(When it’s over you’ll know why)
In summer clothes. September’s closer
(When it’s over, when it’s over)
And now you know it’s not the end.
It just goes on. The living’s in
The day to day. You’re not afraid.
You’re just too late, you’re just—
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Knock It Down
04:52
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Knock It Down
Gotta brother, dear.
He was my transistor
He had to live with the fear
Now I don’t even miss her
Cause he’s still the same
Ain’t a damn thing’s changed
And all the boundary lines
They just get in the way
I saw you walking down the street
After we took some time off
You didn’t recognize me
Or were you just on your high horse
I’ll never claim defeat
Even though I’m outnumbered
Back home where you used to be
I see your pictures on the wall
And I knock em Down
Knock it down
I was walking down the street
Just me and my anchor
When I see the other me
Yeah it’s easier to blame her
Nothin you did wrong
I seek my solace in strangers
Don’t get too close to me
I’ll put you up on a pedestal
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Exported from the suburbs of Philadelphia to the heart of the city in 2013, The Late Greats formed out of a corps group of friends, writers, and musicians that met one another at West Chester University ten years prior. Since then, their "swing for the fences," two guitar attack has assaulted the local Philly music scene. Desperate and celebratory rock n roll. ... more
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