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OFFICE OF STRATEGIC INFLUENCE LYRICS
"Free" (2006)
1. Sure You Will
2. Free
3. Go
4. All Gone Now
5. Home Was Good
6. Bigger Wave
7. Kicking
8. Better
9. Simple Life
10. Once
11. Our Town
1. Sure You Will
First, I bit you and spit you out
When there was a doubt
Now, I'm calling you when I can
What is a man?
I did it my way, I did it my way
I did it my way on the highway, highway
Did it my way, I did it my way
I did it my way on the highway, highway
Be yourself by yourself
Get yourself a little green pasture
Keep yourself to yourself
Save yourself,
Sure you will, sure you will,
Sure.
Give, take, crowd control
They get in my way when I'm starting my day and
Teamwork, self-control
Is making me blue so I knew what I had to do.
I did it my way, I did it my way
I did it my way on the highway, highway
Did it my way, I did it my way
I did it my way on the highway, highway
Be yourself by yourself
Drive yourself a little bit faster
Keep yourself to yourself
Save yourself,
Sure you will, sure you will,
Sure.
(What is a man?)
Sure you will
Be yourself by yourself
Get yourself a little green pasture
Keep yourself to yourself
Save yourself,
Sure you will, sure you will.
Be yourself by yourself
Drive yourself a little bit faster.
Keep yourself to yourself
Save yourself,
Sure you will, sure you will,
Sure.
2. Free
Free!
Last man to the bottom
Last man to the bottom
Last man to the bottom
I consider myself... free.
Run run run outside,
Keep your head covered
Get back in, "Outside?
Are you outta your mind?"
You're free.
Watch your mouth,
And watch your television
If something don't look right
Dial 1-800-YOURE FREE
Free!
You're free.
Free!
You're free.
Run run run outside
Get your hair colored
Hang that thing outside?
Are you outta your mind?
You're free.
Watch the sky,
And your television
If something don't look right
Dial 1-800-YOURE FREE
Free!
You're free.
Free!
You're free.
3. Go
On the first day,
I set the scene in a magazine
And now I've hurt someone.
In the next scene,
I cracked the code of the episode
And now I'm having fun.
In a house
In the mountains
There's a way to fall asleep
And I know
When I find it
I will let... this... go.
I can still feel my hope,
Which crushed by the force of chromosomes. (sic)
Its a trailmap to a beartrap
Separating poor torn camoflage.
Under house,
Under water
Lay a wing-clipped history.
And I know
When I find it
I will let... this... go.
On the first day,
I set the scene in a magazine
And now I hurt someone.
In the next scene,
I cracked the code of the episode
And now i'm having fun.
In a house
In the mountains
Theres a way to fall asleep
And I know
When i find it
I will let... you... go.
4. All Gone Now
Well said in my head, dumb in down
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot)
Well, scream "that was mean, put it down"
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot
If this is all, you can look for the door
(Don't shoot don't shoot, don't shoot)
But it's all gone now, (shoot)
Its all gone now (shoot)
Its all gone now (shoot)
Now its all gone.
Full steam, this machine, down the track
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot)
No tread, lose your head, put it back
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot)
And when it stalls we can walk home alone.
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot)
But it's all gone now, (shoot)
Its all gone now (shoot)
Its all gone now (shoot)
Now its all gone.
This one, here, is starting to open up inside of you
This one, here, is already talking and talking and talking....
This one, here is already folding up inside of you
Running slowly out of oxygen, this one is falling.......
Well said, in my head, dumb it down
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot)
Well scream, That was mean, put it down
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot)
If this all, you can look for the door.
(Shoot / don't shoot, shoot / don't shoot)
But it's all gone now, (shoot)
Its all gone now (shoot)
Its all gone now (shoot)
Now its all gone.
5. Home Was Good
Go on ahead,
Your story is just where you left it.
Go on ahead,
But I still can't believe you can't help it.
95% happened in the home
Swallowed by the bed and caught in the phone.
Hammering the walls, and sleepwalking falls
Overstepping out and haunting the halls.
Go on ahead.
Go on ahead.
95% happened in the home
Swallowed by the bed and caught in the phone.
Hammering the walls, and sleepwalking falls
Overstepping out and haunting the halls.
Go on ahead.
Go on ahead.
6. Bigger Wave
First think of a name, Ok
Try to keep it the same all day
Now go over your lines
Relax, and get into character.
Now open an eye, nice try
But put a foot on the floor, then one more
Cause we're going live, in five.. four...
Get into character.
I was thinking we can walk on the water and still find reasons to swim inside
But now I'm worried there's a bigger wave just behind this one...
I was thinking there's a bigger wave
I was thinking there's a bigger wave... just behind this one.
I was thinking there's a bigger wave...
I was thinking there's a bigger wave...
I was thinking we can walk on the water and still find reasons to swim inside
But now I'm worried there's a bigger wave just behind this one...
I was thinking we can walk on the water and still find reasons to swim inside
Now I'm worried there's a bigger wave just behind this one...
7. Kicking
Again...
Four times last night, I was on the visitors side,
Anybody felt this?
Deep end, 3am
And if it rains again, I think I'm gonna break it again, again, again.
Again again, again again.
Don't start telling me love is a symphony
Point that phone at the floor
You can fire anyone else in a name of hope.
Haven't we been through this, haven't we been through this before?
That's my bedroom door you're kicking.
Kicking, kicking.
Four-star sanity tripped on a memory,
Trapped under water and cold.
We drift, blank refugees, tossed 'round roughly
And scream at the border control.
Its easy, (I'm gonna break)
Just start kicking.
Kicking.
(I'm gonna break)
Kicking.
Don't start telling me love is a symphony.
Don't start telling me love is a symphony.
Don't start telling me love is a symphony.
Don't start telling me love is a symphony.
8. Better
Things got better when you left, your friends always say that
But I think you better check your leaving memo contract
You don't get to say, you don't get to say goodbye
And I don't want to be the one, but I could try.
Things got better when you left, I hang my hat upon it
People say I'm somewhere else, what's so sad about it?
Even though it means, even though it means goodbye
And I don't want to be the one,
I don't want to be the one here
I don't want to be the one, but I could try.
You're not talking and I'm not talking
The dog's not talking and no one's talking at all
When you're home.
No bark in the street, no bark in the yard, no bark in the house
Next bark is the sound.. of... my own... war for peace.
Things got better when you left, so tell your friends about it
I've been saying it to myself, that I can't live without it.
Even though it means, even though it means goodbye
And I don't want to be the one,
I don't want to be the one here
I don't want to be the one, but I could try.
I don't want to be the one, but I could try.
9. Simple Life
I want a color tv and a newspaper blocking the door.
I want a credit card key and a new phonebook on the floor.
I want a getaway map of the hallway,
I want a bird's eye view of the Hyundai,
So I can sleep sleep sleep, or maybe I'll just sit in the car.
Cause here there's no silence (so so simple, its)
There's no silence (so so simple its)
There's no silence (so so simple its)
Best thing is, keep singing (so so simple, its)
I want a colorform theme and a vending machine down the hall
I want a ready-made bed and a fast passport safe in the wall
I want to have it just the way I couldn't give it
I want a life that lives the way we could of lived it
So I can sleep sleep sleep, or maybe I'll just sit in the car.
But here there's no silence (so so simple, its)
There's no silence (so so simple its)
There's no silence (so so simple its)
Best thing is, keep singing (so so simple, its)
But here there's no silence (so so simple, its)
There's no silence (so so simple its)
There's no silence (so so simple its)
Best thing is, keep singing (so so simple, its)
10. Once
(Once) I didn't know you but I saw your trash on the curb
(Once) I'd sit and watch it burn, I couldn't find any words.
(Now) I think I've find them, turns out you've got some words of your own
(Now) Let's try to hide them for (once) this story, this story.
(Once) You made no questions and I try to hum back the words
(Once) Go see it our way when we promised no one gets hurt
(Now) Let's visualize it again, we'll write it right off the page
(Now) Feels so imaginary, (once) this story, this story
(Once) You look so happy together, and
(Once) You seem so happy together, and
(Now) This story's film is falling
(Now) This story keeps falling down.
(Once) You look so happy together, and
(Once) You seem so happy together, and
(Now) This story's over, it's over
(Now) This story keeps falling down.
11. Our Town
Okay, hey, I'm going outside, you can put the plate back on the shelf.
And its cold, though the snow isn't falling, the neighbor can speak for himself
And the cold, hard, look in your eye is more than a line in the sand.
And the truth gets hard to imagine, the hours get harder to stand.
There's a seasick terminal passenger singing this song to himself,
Till the store-bought soul on his skeleton leaks into somebody else
He's a seesaw caught in a storm, a hurricane after the war.
When he drinks all the blood you can offer, he still wants more.
Lemon plains, and rumbling trains,
Are shaking the ground in our town again
Thought it twice, and kicking the ice,
I got myself turned back around, singing.
Everything's gonna be fine, sure that we'll both be
Okay, hey, I'm backing outside, now just put the plate back on the shelf.
And its cold, though the snow isn't falling, the temperature speaks for itself.
Its a moonlit reason to quit, and nobody answers the phone
So if there's still blood left in your body I'll come back home.
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