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Lowlife
01:13
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Oh!
The lowlife's a mighty high life,
where the food is always free.
And the only thing I pay for
is beer and misery.
I know I gotta go
cause it's running down to three,
and the only thing I need
is a reason why to be.
If it wasn't for dying,
I'd probably be dead.
Eventually I'll figure out
how to live on beer and bread.
and eventually I'll learn to deal
with scorn and misery,
by knowing where to go
and where I'm supposed to be.
Oh!
The lowlife's a mighty high life
being gainfully unemployed.
May not have any money,
but I'll die a happy boy.
If I had a hundred dollars
I'd be living like a queen,
with pockets full of cigarettes
and swimming in caffeine.
But I only got two dollars,
and I'm happy all the same.
Just standing on this on-ramp
and hoping it don't rain.
I got nothing left to lose,
and nothing left to gain,
and if I don't die happy,
I got no one else to blame.
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2. |
Sittin' Round
01:10
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After sittin' round all day
I thought I could hear myself breaking,
Boom, boom boom.
It'll be okay,
just for today,
hope so anyway.
Breaking, boom, boom, boom.
Last night had me wake up, looking down
at my feet trying to move, stomping on the ground.
Cracked surface wearing down, kinda thin.
Maybe when it breaks I'll wake up again.
After sittin' round all day
I thought I could hear myself breaking.
Boom, boom, boom.
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3. |
Uphill
02:01
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Cover my head,
so bugs can't fly in my mouth
while I'm sleeping.
Sleeping bag feels like lead,
do you have any cardboard?
Watch that home-bum shit over there.
Do you have any cardboard?
Uphill both ways,
five miles from here.
Uphill both ways,
soaking wet,
five miles from here.
Come to appreciate dry pants
and the kindness of strangers.
Drinking cranberry Emergen-C
in smuggled American gin.
Wigs for entertainment,
mud and bugs,
and mud and blood
and bugs and...
Uphill both ways,
five miles from here.
Uphill both ways,
soaking wet,
five miles from here.
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4. |
Uphill (reprise)
00:43
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Shep and Me Minneapolis, Minnesota
Experimental / psychedelic folk music project of Matthew Himes, active 2001-2011.
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