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Too Crowded
03:41
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Lost in the crowd, don’t know where your friends have gone.
It’s deafeningly loud, just breathe.
It’s just out of habit, need to try and move along.
You curse and you damn it, just scream.
Waiting to see, what everyone’s talking about.
It’s calming with you, and me.
A voice just keeps talking, all around, without a sound.
It says without stopping, just dream.
When it seems like life, won’t carry on.
It’s around that time, when someone close to your heart needs you to be strong.
There’s no doubt about it, you’re on your own, all alone.
Try not to panic, just breathe.
And just then it happens, all around, the loudest sound.
Your world it comes crashing, just breathe.
When it seems like life, is dark and grey.
You can tell yourself, when you’re feeling down, there will be another day.
There will be another day.
There will be another day.
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What the Stuff
03:38
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What do you want from me?
I want nothing to do with you.
You’d make my life complete.
If you jumped off a bridge or two.
What do I have to say in order to get this message across?
I told you I hate your guts, kick you right in the shin as I’m flipping you off.
What the stuff!
How did you end up in my situation?
You’re always too much.
Every time I see your stuffin’ face I feel frustration.
Loved hanging around with you.
It started off so well.
Then you went and showed yourself.
That’s about the time it went to hell.
You didn’t care, let you’re crazy self run amuck in whatever you did.
I knew right then and there you sucked at life and did whatever I could do to get rid…
Of your stuff!
How did I get pulled into your aggravation?
Enough is enough.
Your stuffin’ little life is your incarceration.
Stuff off, enough with you.
I suspect that you were off way before I met ‘cha.
It must hurt, to see it through.
Carry on like people are indentured to ya.
Well STUFF you and everything you’re working for.
STUFF anything that you are fighting t’wards.
Why the hell couldn’t I, realize before.
You make a mess of any, long term rapport.
It’s just who you are
A scar on an unblemished arm.
A stuffin’ stye.
Cursed upon a newborn child.
It’s time… You, realized the obvious and simply gravitated to the truth.
You’re a ruse.
Subterfuge.
You’re a smudge, left against some polished glass.
When you laugh, it sounds just like a braying ass.
Why, don’t you… take a look around and realize the only problem is with you. What the stuff.
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Struggle
03:35
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Looking around all I see is disbelief, try and take it down but it goes nowhere.
Watching the people around me share their grief, you don’t make a sound and it goes nowhere.
The night is darkest just before the light, so you do what you can just to stay awake.
Music surrounds and tells you that its almost time, the morning dawn is just a moon away.
Why do I feel like I’m needed, even when I don’t belong?
A quiet voice inside reminds us, that what we’re feeling’s never wrong.
And when you don’t know what you’re doing, but you know where you should go.
The path less walked might be your choosing, consternation is your foe.
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Feeling High
03:40
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Every time that you come around I feel high, why oh why?
Coming at me like a beam of light from the sky, me oh my.
Oh it’s time to try, get inside, move your body around, don’t be shy.
‘Cause you’re so damn fine, sweet as wine, I’ll take a bottle of you for the night, oh I feel high.
Let’s go, let’s fly! Fasten your belt, hold on to something tight and get ready for a fast ride.
You can’t deny! The life you were living before this was more than just a white lie.
And in the distance there’s a little tiny voice in your brain.
Second guess yourself and wonder if you’re going insane.
Is this for real or is someone simply playing a game.
Then you stop and see it’s something that you can’t tame!
Let’s go, let’s fly! It doesn’t matter how many, just open up and eat it alive.
You feel the vibe! The energy flowing around you allows me, to just feel high!
Every time that you look my way I feel high, why oh why?
You touch a part of me that simply blows my mind, me oh my.
Oh It’s done you’re tired, of messing around, throw your arm around my side, just tell me about your plan you say take me now, here I am, just a little piece of heaven THAT COULD USE A DEVIL’S HAND.
Well let’s go, let’s fly!
It feels so right, we give it everything we have, we don’t stop until its light.
It’s like oh my god, you’re out of sight.
You bring me back to a time; I forgot how good it was to feel high!
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Midnight Temptress
02:28
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The night she’s calling for you, blowing kisses at you, making promises that you know she’ll break.
Against your better judgment, you step out for a moment, the night air hits you with a smile across your face.
Your trepidation’s fading, your walk, it is a changing, kick in the door that leads you to the other side.
You wonder how you got here, look around and don’t care, order a drink or two and just enjoy the ride.
Feeling fine, but it never gets to show.
Shines so bright, but that sign is always closed.
All your life, felt like something died.
But when that light turns on, better run and hide.
Now you’re feeling haggard, really thought you had her, but you knew from the start just how this would end.
She takes and gives you nothing, swear this is the ending, sooner than later, be out looking for your friend.
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You Never Know
03:36
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Amy wakes up after eight, drinks her coffee feeling great, grabs her bag, she’s running late.
Bus comes rolling right along, Amy trips and sprawls headlong, when it hits it seems so wrong.
You never know, you just never know.
Walter’s life is going well, out of nowhere feels like hell, should be easy to dispel.
Doctor says to come on by, within a day, Walter dies, had no chance to say goodbye.
You never know, you just never know.
Doug looks forward to the cold, snaps him out of feeling old, grabs his snowmobile and rolls.
Takes a shortcut across the lake, hears the ice begin to break, knows he’s made a grave mistake.
You never know, you just never know.
Some will tell you to always take it easy while others say, seize the day.
But no matter the words you choose to live by your end is hidden either way.
‘Cause you never know, you just never know.
I was sure this was the end, I had lost my only friend, I had nothing left to spend.
But you prodded me to think, always swim, never sink, pulled me back from the brink.
You never know, you just never know.
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Functional Blackout
03:50
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Have you ever tried to adjust your eyes, but nothing reminds you of the night.
You almost died told a million lies, and just when you thought you’re doing right.
A knock on door take a look at your floor, the map of insanity unfolds.
Got in a fight what a crazy night, the shadow of the evening comes to light.
Start it up with a cup overflowing with Jack, next role pack a bowl burning beautiful grass.
Hear a thump berry bump things are moving too fast, slow it down come around, starting to crash.
You remember a call from across the hall, Sirens just singing their song.
A hole in the wall ‘is that a disco ball?’ and just when you thought you’re doing wrong.
Clothes on the floor there’s a sock on the door, shaking the remainder of your soul.
Are you alright can you spend the night, man I gotta get outta sight.
Start it up with a cup overflowing with Jack, next role pack a bowl burning beautiful grass.
Hear a thump berry bump things are moving too fast, slow it down come around, starting to crash.
As you step outside you start to realize, it might be easier to die.
You’re paralyzed you slip and fall three times, why the hell do I even try.
Face first in the snow what a balmy glow, feeling like you’re back at home.
When you come to there’s some boys in blue, asking what’s the matter with you!
Start it up with a cup overflowing with Jack, next role pack a bowl burning beautiful grass.
Hear a thump berry bump things are moving too fast, slow it down come around, starting to crash.
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8. |
I Dig you the Most
03:04
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There’s something about you, you always know what to say.
I don’t worry about you, you never make a mistake.
Every time that you come around, you put a smile on my face.
Just wait for nothing to make a sound, feel that warming embrace.
Oh, when you are here, I feel at ease when you’re close.
It’s all so clear, why can’t you see what I know.
I dig you the most.
You’re talent proceeds you, but you’re humble as pie.
Strength runs through you, without you having to try.
Every day is a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky.
You carry on in a special way, catching everyone’s eye.
Oh, when you are here, I feel at ease when you’re close.
It’s all so clear, why can’t you see what I know.
I dig you the most.
I bet you don’t even know, just how uncommon you are.
It takes a lot, it takes a toll, to know you’re watching a star.
Every time you do anything, an angel gets her wings.
With you impossible is nothing, you got the world on a string.
Oh, when you are here, I feel at ease when you’re close.
It’s all so clear, why can’t you see what I know.
I dig you the most.
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Anything But Vancouver, British Columbia
Anything But was effectively born when Jiffy moved out to BC from the Canadian prairies. Starting off solo, Jiffy began surrounding himself with extremely talented musicians from varying musical backgrounds. Two albums later, several tours and now a brand new single; we're not nothing... we might be something... we're Anything But! ... more
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