Edie Brickell - Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

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I don't believe in hatred anymore.
I hate to think of how it felt before
When anger overwhelms your very soul
It's hard to realize you'll ever know Love like we do.

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I notice me. I notice you too.
And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this.
Beat the time.
And every time I turn around
we got some clever way to put each other down.

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Maybe you ride a different wave.
Maybe you catch another ray of the sun
That I've just begun to feel.

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All your thoughts are in another head.
Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed.
The force that moves you is a circular breath
of life and death going round and round and round.

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Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

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What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?

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Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box.
Religion, is a smile on a dog.

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The village idiots in her bed
Never cared that her eyes were red
Never cared that her brain was dead.
In the hours that her face was alive
It was a thing just to be by her side.

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Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning
And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

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I'm not aware of too many things.
I know what I know if you know what I mean.

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When I'm all alone it's the best way to be.
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway.
When the streets are wet — the colors slip into the sky.
But I don't know why that means you and I are — that means you and... I quit, I give up.
Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

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