Ramshackle Ready
Regular Song
"Rollins Power Sauce"
Rowboat

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Rowboat / Stereopathetic Soul Manure 1994

rowboat
row me to the shore
she don't
wanna be my friend no more
she dug a hole
in the bottom of my soul
she don't
wanna be my friend no more

pick me up
give me some food to eat
in your truck
goin' no place
I'll be home
talkin' to nobody
you'll be strange
you'll be far away

big fat moon
and my body's out of tune
with the burnin' waves
she's a billion years away
dogfood on the floor
and I've been like this before
she is all
and everything else is small

pick me up
give me some alcohol
in your truck
playin' the radio
I'll be home
with the gasoline
you'll be stoned
you'll be far away

rowboat
row me to the shore
she don't
wanna be my friend no more
she dug a hole
in the bottom of my soul
she is all
and everything else is small
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"Rollins Power Sauce" / Stereopathetic Soul Manure 1994

[slowed down:]  Ummm...My throat muscles are completely shredded

You tell no one
'bout Barney 
leaning on you
dirty pictures 

False faces
Bloody wallet 
Ripped out your heart 
Put on my clothes

No one'll want you 
with a bloody bozo 
with a bloody bozo 
And I got no focus
Got no focus...
Oh...
Ow...

[slowed down:] Use the taser
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Readymade / Odelay 1996

An open road where I can breathe
Where the lowest low is calling to me
I can pull myself back up back down
Stuck together like a readymade

And nobody knows where we been
Cancelled rations are running thin
Watches tick out of tune
Falling apart like a readymade
My bags are waiting in the next life

Rubbish piles fresh and plain
Empty boxes in a pawn shop brain
License plates stowaway
Standing in line like a readymade
And my bags are waiting in the next life

An open road where I can breathe
Where the lowest low is calling to me
I can pull myself back up back down
Stuck together like a readymade
And my bags are waiting in the next life
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Regular Song / Unreleased / Radio / Tibet Concert 1996

well I just got put down
in the ashes of an asphalt town
black debris, the burned out trees
blows out over the sunken seas

somewhere far along
singing a regular song
dead machines, frozen dreams
they don't bother me at all

I'm loose inside my skin
and all the walls are wearin' thin
shoot out on the traffic lights
on your way to the dead of night

somewhere far along
singing a regular song
frozen dreams, dead machines
they don't notice me at all

[harmonica solo]

troubles find their own
you're better off alone
nobody knows the coupon clones
the stowaway's in the captians clothes

somewhere far along
singing a regular song
dead machines, frozen dreams
they don't bother me at all
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Ramshackle / Odelay 1996

You've been so long
Your blind eyes are gone
Your old bones are on their own
So take off your coat
Put a song in your throat
Let the dead-beats pound all around

We will go
Nowhere we know
We don't have to talk at all
Hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all

The bargains you drive
Buckets and bags
And all your belongings
Your train's in the sand
Ramshackle land
Let the rats watch the races

We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all

Praises get spent
Your trick face is bent
Pigsties and prizes
'Cause there's no kind of wealth
You're suiting yourself
You leave yourself behind

We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Your hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all
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