[00:00.000] 作词 : Joshua Tillman
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Joshua Tillman
[00:23.48]I was living on the hill
[00:31.96]By the water tower and hiking trails
[00:41.25]And when the big one hit I'd have a seat
[00:50.21]To watch masters abandon their dogs and dogs run free
[00:59.52]Oh baby, it's time to leave
[01:05.97]Take the van and the hearse down to New Orleans
[01:13.96]Leave under the gaze of the billboard queens
[01:20.28]Five-foot chicks with parted lips selling sweatshop jeans
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[01:29.48]These L.A. phonies and their ******** bands
[01:39.10]That sound like dollar signs and Amy Grant
[01:48.31]So reads the pulled quote from my last cover piece
[01:58.00]Entitled "The Oldest Man in Folk Rock Speaks"
[02:05.87]You can hear it all over the airwaves
[02:13.10]The manufactured gasp of the final days
[02:20.31]Someone should tell them 'bout the time that they don't have
[02:27.63]To praise the glorious future and the hopeless past
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[02:36.62]A few things the songwriter needs
[02:44.83]Arrows of Love, a mask of Tragedy
[02:54.44]But if you want ecstasy or birth control
[03:03.65]Just run the tap until the water's cold
[03:12.15]Anything else you can get online
[03:19.40]A creation myth or a .45
[03:26.35]You're going to need one or the other to survive
[03:33.13]Where only the armed or the funny make it out alive
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[03:42.64]Mara taunts me 'neath the tree
[03:50.49]She's like, "Oh great, that's just what we all need
[03:59.99]Another white guy in 2017
[04:09.41]Who takes himself so goddamn seriously."
[04:17.74]She's not far off, the strange thing is
[04:24.10]That's pretty much what I thought when I started this
[04:31.42]It took me my whole life to learn to the play the G
[04:38.94]But the role of Oedipus was a total breeze
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[04:47.94]Still I dreamt of garnering all rave reviews
[04:56.91]Just believably a little north of God's own truth
[05:06.17]He's a national treasure now, and here's the proof
[05:15.85]In the form of his major label debut
[05:24.32]A little less human with each release
[05:31.37]Closing the gap between the mask and me
[05:38.57]I swear I'll never do this, but is it okay?
[05:45.65]Don't want to be that guy but it's my birthday
[05:52.36]If everything ends with the photo then I'm on my way
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[06:02.45]Ohhh-ho-o-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
[06:19.71]Ohhh-ho-o-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
[06:36.52]I watched my old gods all collapse
[06:44.91]Were way more violent than my cartoon past
[06:54.49]It's like my father said before he croaked
[07:03.86]"Son, you're killing me, and that's all folks."
[07:12.75]So why is it I'm so distraught
[07:19.52]That what I'm selling is getting bought
[07:26.78]At some point you just can't control
[07:33.37]What people use your fake name for
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[07:42.10]So I never learned to play the lead guitar
[07:51.50]I always more preferred the speaking parts
[08:00.89]Besides there's always someone willing to
[08:10.23]Fill up the spaces that I couldn't use
[08:18.55]Nonetheless, I've been practicing my whole life
[08:25.53]Washing dishes, playing drums, and getting by
[08:33.14]Until I figured, if I'm here then I just might
[08:39.74]Conceal my lack of skill here in the spotlights
[08:47.25]Maya, the mother of illusions, a beard, and I
[08:53.39]
[08:56.55]2000 years or so since Ovid taught
[09:05.91]Night-blooming, teenage rosebuds, dirty talk
[09:15.45]And I'm merely a minor fascination to
[09:25.30]Manic virginal lust and college dudes
[09:33.13]I'm beginning to begin to see the end
[09:40.29]Of how it all goes down between me and them
[09:47.24]Some 10-verse chorus-less diatribe
[09:54.55]Plays as they all jump ship, "I used to like this guy
[10:01.27]This new **** really kinda makes me wanna die"
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[10:11.14]Ohhh-ho-oh-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
[10:28.67]Ohhh-ho-oh-oh oh-ho-ho-ho-oh
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[10:50.34]My first memory of music's from
[10:59.52]The time at JCPenney's with my mom
[11:08.33]The watermelon candy I was choking on
[11:18.29]Barbara screaming, "Someone help my son!"
[11:26.27]I relive it most times the radio's on
[11:33.48]That "tell me lies, sweet little white lies" song
[11:40.32]That's when I first saw the comedy won't stop for
[11:47.62]Even little boys dying in the department store
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[11:56.72]So we leave town in total silence
[12:06.23]New Year's Day, it's 6 o'clock AM
[12:15.71]I've never seen Sunset this abandoned
[12:25.10]Reminds me predictably of the world's end
[12:33.35]It'll be good to get more space
[12:40.60]God knows what all these suckers paid
[12:47.41]I can stop drinking and you can write your script
[12:54.54]But what we both think now is...