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Change the Game
03:30
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All the years of running ragged
Disappeared and left you haggard
Fighting for crumbs
Floating in the doldrums. Now you’re
Living in a factory where
Everyone’s your enemy
A threat to your name
Maybe it’s time
Hooked on efficiency and
Economies of scarcity
No time to explain
No place to feel the pain
At the door on bended knee
Skipping over niceties
Survival’s the aim
Maybe it’s time to change the game
Open up, open wide
Break apart, look inside
Take a breath, thank God you’re still alive
All the money, all the fame,
all the people, all the same
Turn the volume down and change the game.
Looking over souvenirs
From your days as a pioneer
On flights to the coast
Closing deals and making toasts
Whatever happened to that seed
Taking on the unmet needs
No pressure, no shame
Maybe it’s time to change the game
Open up, open wide
Break apart, look inside
Take a breath, thank God you’re still alive
All the money, all the fame,
all the people, all the same
Turn the volume down
Open up, open wide
Break apart, look inside
Take a breath, thank God you’re still alive
All the money, all the fame,
all the people, all the same
Turn the volume down and change the game.
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2. |
My Story of You
03:54
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Always the gentlest of men
True to your word and regimen
Loved in your way
Loved in your solid, silent way
The light-hearted comrade you were not
Marching in circles, lost in thought
What stole the voice?
What stole the voice and made you stone?
Now from across the country
I open my heart to strangers
Adopting the pain imagined
Staring you down
Wearing you down
Tearing you down
My story of you
Left in the vessel all alone
Three little children on their own
Speak for you now
Speak of the memory of it
Harder to see than to believe
Living repeated history
With faith in a soul
Faith in survival of it
Walking the mother country
I see your face in strangers
Adopting the life imagined
Racing me now
Tracing me now
Facing me now
My story of you
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3. |
Jaded
03:50
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If I could take you
Back into a simpler time
Reverse the path of a crooked line
Experience that left you numb inside
If I could wake you
From walking dead among the fickle crowd
I’d pick you up and climb to higher ground
Refresh your memory till you came around
And pull you from the brink of jaded, jaded
I’d bring you back from jaded, jaded, jaded
I can’t protect you
From falling down the rabbit hole
And toys designed to leave you cold
And clicking through to being bought and sold
The slippery road that leads to jaded, jaded
You’re slipping down to jaded, jaded, jaded
The state of wonder’s dead and gone
And any sense of mystery
It’s too late for saving innocence
With everything you want
And everything you don’t
Coming at you anyway
Let’s go back to a simpler time
Experience can leave you full inside
The shiny opposite of jaded, jaded
The shiny opposite of jaded
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4. |
Haven't Missed a Beat
03:07
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I left you behind
I pulled out the promise
With a hand on the mailbox
The bus dropped me close
To where buildings all reach, and no one is sleeping
Adopted a smile
Threw off the accent
And the tough allegations
I picked up on cues to hide
All that I’d been, and all that tradition
As if the break-up was clean
As if I’m over the teaser for what might have been
I haven’t missed a beat
The flight is now completed
With no hint of me
You lingered behind
You kept up the garden
And the family gossip
You’d rather not hear
About places I’ve been, and races I’m winning
You look at me like a cheat
Another whip on the merry-go-round of conceit
You haven’t missed a beat
The circle’s now completed
And closed off to me
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