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South Oaks

by South Oaks

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1.
Ghost Dream 02:23
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GHOST DREAM I'm back as you can plainly see And you thought you'd seen the last of me an apparition or the real thing? I'm back and here I'm standing holding in my hand is the knife you planted in my back, and now I brandish the cold steel, pointing right at you I'm back as your foil and plotting yer demise has been my ghostly toil and your sorrows are my ennui Late night and your slumber is startled by the rumble of distant thunder Before your eyes... How can this be Back from the grave... or just a dream? A manifestation that you've conjured From your imagination, how it wanders You try to explain me away As a bit of indigestion More gravy than of grave but on closer inspection the lightning's flash brings a recollection of my face and of who I am Pull up the blankets and recoil A revenant returning from the soil I've come to claim what's mine Late night and your slumber is startled by the rumble of distant thunder Before your eyes... A lightning's flash Reveals the nightmare... of your past... Daylight gives little reprieve Still haunted by the previous night less sleep collect yourself, try to hide your dread That the sun will bow its face to the moon which the clouds will shroud in a mournful gloom lock the latches to your lonely room The whispering wind... Brings me again From out the tomb or from within
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Jaws of Life 03:41
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JAWS OF LIFE I’m chugging like a freight train rolling I’m doomed like a car stalled on the tracks A whistle and a warning Ensnarled in the wreckage around me Like the flesh of some primitive beast Trapped in the Jaws of... Life I’m huffing like a man who’s running late It’s faster if I pull around this gate My choices are in question And the consequences... are glaring like two eyes crouched in the brush with teeth salivating for their lunch it’s me, it sees... I think you’ll need The Jaws of Life... The Jaws of Life... The Jaws of Life... The Jaws of Life... An epic battle of life and death waged in a war nobody wins... To escape has been my life Now I have children and a wife Counting on me Caring for me Keep pouring, I still feel the pain Synapses fire in my brain Deep in darkness, there’s a light That beckons me to go inside... and die! Still holding to the snake that eats me whole Still trying to fill that empty hole... in me Ensnarled in the wreckage around me Like the flesh of some primitive beast Trapped in the Jaws of... Life
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Eulogy For A Cowboy 01:54
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EULOGY FOR A COWBOY They're all talking about the dead guy Seems he could do no wrong Lots of nice words for the dead guy now that he is dead and gone Words of praise and accolades are showered on his noble grave O'er head a flag does fly as TAPS is gently played... Bye bye Dead Guy The final act Cue the sunset He's a man who's only ever solved his problems with a gun Who laid to waste without much haste before he rode into the sun His shadow loomed at 5 past noon the doorstep of that old saloon He upheld the law with that .44 and he sent them to their tombs Bye bye Dead Guys (x2) A cowboy never really dies he merely changes plains (planes)... from fruited up to Astral his spirit still remains Kind words for dead guy The legacy that he does leave of solving problems with a gun Left us crying in the rain as he rides into the sun Thanks dead guy
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You've Never Suffered 03:24
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YOU'VE NEVER SUFFERED You've never suffered for anything We're gonna see if we can change that Kill the fukkin commies Kill the fukkin zombies I think I hear yer mommy Calling you Kill the fukkin commies Kill the fukkin zombies I think I hear yer mommy Calling you... Boo hoo She'll never suspect us of anything Nothing we ever do will change that I've killed the fukkin commies Killed the fukkin zombies Now I'm fukkin coming after you Killed the fukkin commies Killed the fukkin zombies Now I'm fukkin coming after you You're through... Break out the guns Make up the bombs We're heading off to school
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Modern Clown 02:19
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MODERN CLOWN I go mad when I think of things I cannot understand The chasm's vast between the knowledge and the little that I grasp I lose focus and I drift off Far away... ...and dancing bears are dancing there And ladies flying through the air Motorcycles whirl around And I am just an Olde Tyme clown I hear my name Nosey neighbor rapping on my window pane Through the haze Turn over put the pillow on my face Bellows in the backyard "I know you're in there..." The door swings open And there are no bears dancing there No ladies flying through the air No motorcycles whirling 'round Seems I'm just a modern clown... Standing there In my robe and underwear Your worst suburban nightmare And I need to mow my lawn I get mad When I think of things I cannot understand Hold my head in my hands So sad that all I do is laugh Overwhelms me And I drift off Far away
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Super Stupid 03:27
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released February 12, 2013

All songs written and performed by South Oaks
*Except "Super Stupid", written by Funkadelic (Nelson, Hazel, Clinton, Ross)

Engineered by Steve Johnson at My Low Studio, Bellmore, NY

Jim Burns - Vocals
Frank Fusco - Guitar
Kevin Purcell - Bass
Eric Hoffman - Drums

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