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Maybe I'll Feel Better When I'm Dead

by The Vernes

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1.
Lonesome ocean drinking up the oxygen we breath do you feel like somethings never change? but now i’m older younger than i’ll be tomorrow guess it’s true that somethings never change But i don’t feel the same, no i don’t feel a thing I’ve been on the corner walking waiting here for half an hour maybe i’ll feel better then maybe i’ll feel better when i’m dead Holy diver blasting out the bathroom window makes me feel like somethings never change but now i’m older younger than i’ll be tomorrow guess it’s true that somethings never change but i don’t feel the same, no i don’t feel a thing I’ve been on the corner walking waiting here for half an hour maybe i’ll feel better then maybe i’ll feel better when i’m dead maybe i’ll feel better when i’m dead
2.
1994 04:33
i took a walk down by the water and i saw things i’ve never seen there was a face floating in space he told me he dreamed the same dreams as me Are you at home? I’ve been living here since 1994 I’ve been alone for too long Maybe next spring you’re in california doing everything i’ve been at home for too long So i took a year and looked in the mirror I saw things i’d never seen but there was a time before you were mine all the drones & the leaves they all sound the same to me Are you at home? I’ve been living here since 1994 I’ve been alone for too long Maybe next spring you’re in california doing everything i’ve been at home for too long Oh, i don’t mind anymore all those apologies oh, all the cracks in the floor they don’t matter to me anymore
3.
Murder In Db 02:44
I was standing on the highway and the taillights looked like jupiter and the headlines all read murder, murder all those letters that you wrote and the silence like cancer growth and the headlines all read murdee, murder when you feel your eyes close softly and slowly and the moonlight shines above all the world but you feel like you’re dying but you ain’t old
4.
Zurich 1953 01:09
5.
i’m somebody new i am somebody more like you drunk on the floor i have made myself a fool once more good god my son you’ve been chokin here far too long drunk on the floor you have made yourself a fool once more cuz lately maybe mama i’ve been talkin in my sleep searching through my whole life for something i can keep some say that you’re the chosen one but i don’t look at you that way say that you’re the only one I’m sort of hoping you’ll go away cuz time is never time is never here to stay so tell me you’re the chosen one but it’s hard to say good god my son you’ve been chokin’ here far too long drunk on the floor you have made yourself a fool once more someone once said “what was once lost cannot be dead” been here before and i’m never coming back for more cuz lately maybe mama i’ve been talkin in my sleep searching through my whole life for something i can keep some say that you’re the chosen one but i don’t look at you that way say that you’re the only one I’m sort of hoping you’ll go away cuz time is never time is never here to stay so tell me you’re the chosen one but it’s hard to say
6.
pick your nose put it in your pocket where nothing grows cause there is no reason there is no reason that you are gonna need it up in outer space all that we believe in comes from outer space is it really there if we don’t see it? do we really care? for there is no reason that you are gonna need it up in outer space pack your bags we’re leaving up to outer space we sailed across the stars and wound up where we are our little water world i love you all and when our time is done we’ll crash into the sun our little fucked up world
7.
well i’m just a boy with big dreams and like a dream i wish i could have you every night of the week but i can’t so i’ll have to learn to adapt and although i feel so incomplete all my doll parts are intact maybe one day we’ll make the MTV but until then we’ll have to get used to playin for pennies in the street and they’ll give us dirty looks and they’ll say “boy you can’t play guitar you better hit the books. better start a family be the man they say you have to be.” well i’ve been waiting for you since morning Jack what took you so long were you fuckin’ around in the back of nothingness of greed and ugliness I saw a beggar with a sign in his hand it said “i fought just to fall so far down i can’t get back up again” can you spare a nickel or a dime? so i don’t have to die broke so i don’t have to die a joke so i don’t have to choke on this noose around my throat You’d better mind your manners and watch your tongue and if you forget how to apologize you’d better hope you’re never sorry again cause these uniformed men carry silver guns and they’ll put a bullet in your head if you don’t walk and talk and speak and think just like them
8.
T.L. 03:18
you said that you want to die today so what’s left to say seems your minds already made but nothings as it seems when you are living in a tv screen & you see nothing else you said that you want to try today but try as you may your brain is always in the way but nothings as it was when you was happy just because you felt better, then. you felt better then, before.
9.
Bug(s) 03:35
The bugs are crawling all across the kitchen floor where you once swore that i was not one of them always looking for perfecting always searching for direction I saw sadness in the most peculiar places and worn out faces cut right through me cause you don’t know me anymore you don’t know me anymore New York City’s cold but i don’t feel a thing anymore when you’re staring at the clock and i’m staring at the clock it’s time. cause you are not the chosen one and i am not the chosen one we are just another bug I saw sadness in the most peculiar places and worn out faces cut right through me cause you don’t know me anymore you don’t know me anymore cause you are not the chosen one and i am not the chosen one we are just another bug But New York City’s cold and pretty where have all the people gone? when you’re staring at the clock and i’m staring at the clock it’s time
10.
sometimes at night i sit and wonder what it’s like to be the moon to be the stars but those highway lines they stretch out miles upon miles leading you back to me so strike a chord and let it out hit record and let it out and when you’re gone i feel nothing at all so strike a chord and let it out.
11.
in this city that i call my home well they’re cutting down trees and they’re building new roads and they name all the streets after all of the trees that they cut down to build all the roads that we see cause everything goes away in time but i won’t go away this time so i get up at 5:45 and i put on my shoes and i go for a drive I drive down the streets where there once was the trees that they cut down to build all the roads that we see cause everything goes away in time but i won’t go away this time
12.
Tired Shoes 04:31
when you’re driving in fancy cars when you’re drinking at all the best bars will you be lonely? will you think of me? will you want more than before? when your world is upside down when you can’t get two feet on the ground will you be lonely? will you be only what you once were nothing more when we crash into the sun when it seems that our time here is done will we be proud of the roads we choose in our tired shoes

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released September 28, 2018

Produced by Joe Michelini at Berlin Studios
Mastered at Westwest side in Upstate NY
All songs written by M. Gragg (ASCAP)
except Outer Space (Bang Bang!) written by M. Gragg/J. Michelini

Published by NCC-1701 (ASCAP)
Licensed by The Orchard Music (on behalf of The Vernes); ASCAP

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