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Swervin’ In My Lane
Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

Sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing
‘Cause sometimes all my days are filled with rain
As I travel down life’s highway, things ain’t going my way
‘Cause there’s always someone swervin’ in my lane
You keep a-swervin’ in my lane and it’s causing’ lots of danger
I’m a-honkin’ on my horn, I’m a-shooting you the finger
I keep a-switchin’ on my bright lights, but you’re just too dim to know
When your swervin’ on life’s highway, you’re running someone off the road
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Beverly Hills
Weezer (get a Snuggie with their new CD!)

Where I come from isn’t all that great
My automobile is a piece of crap
My fashion sense is a little whack
And my friends are just as screwy as me

I didn’t go to boarding schools
Preppy girls never looked at me
Why should they, I ain’t nobody
Got nothing in my pocket
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Inaugural Trams (YouTube) (download from Mediafire)
Super Furry Animals

Trams
Inaugural Trams
Trams
Inaugural Trams
Trams

I will design a town in the image of your face.
Round the wrinkles of your eyes my footsteps you can trace.
We could promenade down infranasal depression.
The streets of your hands will never feel a recession.

It’s a secular day and it will be even better tomorrow.
It’s the first day of the integrated transport hub,
Let us celebrate this monument to progress.
We have reduced emissions by seventy-five percent.
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What a great song. If I had a band I would cover this in a heartbeat.

No Sissies (YouTube)
Hawksley Workman

You’re being so tough to me
Like a leather jacket
I know you’ll have no sissies
No baby, you just wouldn’t hack it
Gotta be a strong man
To carry the beautiful burden of your love

No sissies get your love
No slackers get your love
No weaklings get your love
No suckers for your love
No actors for your love
No gangsters for your love
No sissies get your love
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Crystal Ball (YouTube)
Keane

Who is the man I see
where I’m supposed to be?
I lost my heart, I buried it too deep
under the iron sea.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.

Lines ever more unclear,
Not sure I’m even here,
The more I look the more I think that I’m
starting to disappear.
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Another gem Pandora brought me. What a great pop song.

We’re Not Getting Any Younger (free mp3 from ReverbNation)
Color Theory

I say I should take you home but you want to stay here
On the beach all alone with our blankets and beer
In the dark how we ache to fulfill this hunger
Cherish it now cause we’re not getting any younger

Ashes in fire pits and fires in our hearts as we move
Crashing waves in an urgent and quickening groove
Consummating the end of a perfect summer
Cherish it now cause we’re not getting any younger
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Cable TV (YouTube)
Fol Chen

Now you’ve been working so hard
Running in circles
Like a robot shorting circuits
Like it’s set to blow

I’ve gotta make an appointment
Just to kiss you
Baby I’m not complaining
But I’ve got to know
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Clint Eastwood (Youtube)
Gorillaz

Ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I’m useless but not for long
The future is coming on

Ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I’m useless but not for long
The future is coming on

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San Diego Zoo
The 6ths (YouTube)

Met you on a traffic island
We were there all day
In the middle of the world’s highway
Summer left its light green lipstick on our war faces
Took us to all the pretty places

Highway 405 will take you from the Boom Boom Room
to Interstate 5 which goes right to the San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo
How could I have ever left you?
How could I have ever left you?

Left you in a sidewalk cafe
I’m the restless kind
and I must have been out of my mind
cause I haven’t slept since Wednesday
I’ve been getting thin
I just want to see your silly grin

Highway 405 will take you from the Boom Boom Room
to Interstate 5 which goes right to the San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo
How could I have ever left you?
How could I have ever left you?