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World Container Lyrics - worldpeace - 10-10-2006

I'm just guessing on a couple songs, incase anyone wanted to know. They're not very accurate, probably.
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Yer Not the Ocean

Again i'm talkin' to the lake,
I'm standin' on the rocks.
Yer not the ocean,
I'm better to watch.

Barely invisible,
I'm a stranger in myself
And a wall of water
just hitting the shelf

Yer not the ocean.
Yer between my toes.
Yer not the ocean,
Yer not even close.

Though, you're so real.
and you (?) every day.
You can think and feel
and get out of your own way

and though, i'm nothin'
You are just a lake.
You're made to take it,
and take and take and take.

Yer not the ocean.
I'm standin' on my toes.
Yer not the ocean,
Yer not even close.

Yer not the Ocean
Yer up to my chin.
Yer not the ocean.
Yer not comin' in.
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Lonely End of the Rink

I looked up and you were there
Just sittin there all alone
Holding your fist in the air
If you need me you're on you're own.

You drove me home through a snowy tomb
and I fell asleep in my seat
I had the dream of having no room
You were there just staring at me.

At the lonely end of the rink
You and me.
At the lonely end of the rink
You and me.

Oh, to join the rush.
As the season builds.

I hear your voice across a frozen lake
Voice from the end of a leaf
sayin' you won't die from a thousand fakes
or be beaten by the sweetest of dekes.

At the lonely end of the rink
You and me.
At the lonely end of the rink
You and me.

Oh, to join the rush.
As the season builds.
Jump into the rush
As the season builds.

You drove me home through a snowy tomb
and I fell asleep in my seat
I had the dream of having no room
You were there just staring at me.

At the lonely end of the rink
You and me.
At the lonely end of the rink
You and me.
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The Kids Don't Get it

You said "If I ask you a question
Are you gonna lie to me?"
I said "Honey, is that yer question
Cause honey that one's easy."

Cause half the truth is
Just how much there is.
The Kids don't get it, no.
The Kids don't get it.

I'm gonna be an expert stranger.
But then the giant squid
I'm gonna leave the stranger experts
Scratching their heads sayin' "How'd he do it?"

When half the truth is
just how hard it is,
those Kids don't get it,
the kids won't get it.

I'll be the headlights,
I'll be the elk.
I'll be the right lane
and i'll be parelall.

The Kids don't get it,
The Kids don't get it.

(something i didn't get.)
I'll be grippin the city,
I'll be hittin' the town.
You say you'd be hurt if I didn't
When I come around.

I'll be as careless as you are certain.
I'll get out of my own way.
I'll stop to cry into the curtains
and like the greats before me go on stage.

If half true is
good enough for this
The Kids don't get it, no.
The Kids don't get it.

If I ask you a question, you're gonna lie to me.
Honey is that your question? Cause that one was easy.
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Family Band.

I can smell a rat, when it's all rat.
I can find one in an elevator.
My mind doesn't work so bad
But I am a poor exterminator.

I can destroy entirely
Or eliminate a little later
I can't see the entire city
But I'm not a bad exterminator.

I'm just a
Shade shy of true wickedness
A shade shy of truly lovin' it.
There are other things i'd rather be doin'
Even nuthin', even nuthin', even nuthin' with you.

One day i'll make some honest rock 'n roll
Full of handclaps and gang vocals
I'm gonna get all the children involved
We're gonna get lost in all yer locals.

We'll be a
Shade shy of true wickedness
A shade shy of truly lovin' this
There are other things we'd rather be doin', sure
Even nothin', Even nothin', Even nothin' with you.

Load out through the snow, through
Small groups of people smoking,
Get that kick-drum loaded
into the backseat folded
down.

We'll go virtually un-noticed,
What's grippin the city ain't hittin the town.

We'll be a
Shade shy of true wickedness
A shade shy of truly lovin' this
There're other things we will surely miss

Load out throught he snow through
Small groups of people smokin'
Get that kick drum loaded
into the backseat folded down.

We'll go perfectly unnoticed,
What's grippin' the city ain't hittin the town.

- Naga - 10-10-2006

It seems in Family Band, the part you didn't know is actually "Full of handclaps and gang vocals".

And it's "I can smell a rat, when it's all right" (I think).

- emperor penguin - 10-10-2006

Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

There’s a world container with your name on it
And a billion ways to go berzerk
When the country quits on you it must be dinner
And the Himmler on this one is there’s no desert
He’s the one who couldn’t imagine
All the people living life in peace
Yooouuu, good news, you get to vanish
Go to Cleveland beyond Indy smash
The good news is now you’re smaller
The bad news is you can be smaller than that
Go suck some souls, be a reader get used
Laugh at a funeral or two
Laugh and laugh till all the chameleons turn black
Laugh and laugh till your told please don’t come back
Then think incredulous, say I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Say aint life a grand and I'm in awe of you all
And drop into your haunted bunk
Go to your touchless times
Out where the waters join
Go past the no tractions past this point sign
What you’ll find there are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Yea I faked incredulous and I just can’t believe
How’d it get this late so early
Said aint life a grand and I'm in awe of you all
I dropped into my haunted bunk
Been to the touchless times
Out where the waters join
been past the no tractions past this point sign
what we have here are all flaws in progress
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is don’t forget
Where all songs are one song and that song is dont forget

- laliber - 10-10-2006

when do the lyrics usually get posted on the Discography section of the Bands website. I suppose as in CDs past the lyrics will be included in the liner notes ect...?

Re: World Container Lyrics - anothersaab - 10-10-2006

worldpeace Wrote:Though, you're so real.
and you (?) every day.

and you're more real every day?

- robert goulet - 10-11-2006

emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

And the hemler on this one is there’s no desert

I'm pretty sure this is Himmler...as in "that bastard Nazi" Himmler

Other than that...sounds great to me!!!

- tim_mac - 10-11-2006

Any guesses on how long before hip historian stephen dame breaks down and references some of the new lyrics?

- PortlandCarbo - 10-11-2006

tim_mac Wrote:Any guesses on how long before hip historian stephen dame breaks down and references some of the new lyrics?

lol, was wondering the same thing myself...
stephen?? you know we love ya.

- emperor penguin - 10-11-2006

robert goulet Wrote:
emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

And the hemler on this one is there’s no desert

I'm pretty sure this is Himmler...as in "that bastard Nazi" Himmler

Other than that...sounds great to me!!!

fixed. Thanks, I didn't think hemler was a word.

- beanmedic - 10-11-2006

robert goulet Wrote:
emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

And the hemler on this one is there’s no desert

I'm pretty sure this is Himmler...as in "that bastard Nazi" Himmler

Other than that...sounds great to me!!!

I agree with goulet

- Billy - 10-11-2006

emperor penguin Wrote:
robert goulet Wrote:
emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

And the hemler on this one is there’s no desert

I'm pretty sure this is Himmler...as in "that bastard Nazi" Himmler

Other than that...sounds great to me!!!

fixed. Thanks, I didn't think hemler was a word.

I dunno, but the couple 2-3 times I've listened to it, I thought it was "hammer".

- SoylentGreg - 10-11-2006

Billy Wrote:
emperor penguin Wrote:
robert goulet Wrote:
emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

And the hemler on this one is there’s no desert

I'm pretty sure this is Himmler...as in "that bastard Nazi" Himmler

Other than that...sounds great to me!!!

fixed. Thanks, I didn't think hemler was a word.

I dunno, but the couple 2-3 times I've listened to it, I thought it was "hammer".

It says "Himmler" in the World Container poem that was in the Hipeponymous art book.

- Billy - 10-11-2006

SoylentGreg Wrote:
Billy Wrote:
emperor penguin Wrote:
robert goulet Wrote:
emperor penguin Wrote:Edit, here is my best effort at "World Container"

And the hemler on this one is there’s no desert

I'm pretty sure this is Himmler...as in "that bastard Nazi" Himmler

Other than that...sounds great to me!!!

fixed. Thanks, I didn't think hemler was a word.

I dunno, but the couple 2-3 times I've listened to it, I thought it was "hammer".

It says "Himmler" in the World Container poem that was in the Hipeponymous art book.

ahh, yes...very good, carry on.

- Gortron - 10-11-2006

In Luv (sic) what is Gord saying in this part...

Am I lovesick?
It's as if love is the only _______?

- worldpeace - 10-11-2006

The Drop Off
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When the summer is young, and nobody has the prizes
No one is no one and nobody in a crisis
There's no swimming past the drop off
oh, feelin' summer for yourself
you don't go swimming past the drop off or else

You're a pistol you're a gun, and suddenly i have no prices
I'm like a friend at Dylan's (Bob Dylan) or shovels meeting in some crisis
there's no swimming past the drop off
yeah we don't replace ourselves
there's no swimming past the drop off or else

The best part of life is by measured by gut and the past is meant to please us
johnny's been murdered, the kids are like shit saying 'holy f*ck it's Jesus'
The surface is green and the dark and the weeds and the lonely irredecence
terribly deep and the cold is complete and only lacks your presence and nothing else

when the summer's done and nobody sympathizes
You're no freind of Dylan's yeah you won't see another crisis

There's no swimming past the drop off
I feel as though I lost out
there's no swimming past the drop off or else

Personal stakes get raised and you're raised 'til you're strongly discompelling
deep like the sense of the willfully dead says 'forever in the telling'
The surface is green in the dark and the weeds and the lonely irredecence
it's terribly deep and the cold is complete and it only lacks your presence and nothing else