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New Day Rising
by Husker Du
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Overall Rating:
3.5429
Avg. Critic Score:
4.0000
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- New day rising...
- All these crazy mixed up lies
- Floating all around
- Making these assumptions brings me down
- And you get tight-lipped, how do I know what you think?
- Is it something I said when I lost my mind?
- Temper too quick, makes me blind
- I apologize...
- Said I'm sorry, now it's your turn,
- Can you look me in the eyes and apologize?
- So now sit around staring at the walls
- We don't do anything at all
- Take out the garbage, maybe, but the dishes don't get done
- Women sewed the Stars and Stripes
- And the men, they fought the wars
- The children learned arithmetic
- And everyone was poor
- Young man was the hero of the day
- Long long hours, short short pay
- Lesson I learned in history book, now
- It's not what they told me
- Folk lore, folk lore, folk lore
- Your momma never told you
- Now the women scream for equal rights
- Their man wants to have an affair
- Children learn to hate the world
- And no one seems to care
- Now the kids play vids instead
- Their heroes are living on Wonder Bread
- Lesson I learned in history book, now
- It's not what they told me
- Folk lore, folk lore, folk lore
- Your momma never told you that
- Some things never change
- Some things stay the same
- Some things rearranged
- One thing I know for sure, your heroes always die
- If I told you it wasn't easy
- If I told you now would you believe me
- I couldn't convince you if I tried
- You weren't around the times that I cried
- And I was crying
- Love and hate was in the air, like pollen from a flower
- Somewhere in April time, they add another hour
- I guess I'd better think up a way to spend my time
- Just when I'm ready to sit inside, it's summer time
- Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around
- It's back to summer, back to basics, hang around
- Getting drunk out on the beach, or playing in a band
- And getting out of school meant getting out of hand
- Was this your celebrated summer? Was that your celebrated summer?
- Then the sun disintegrates between a wall of clouds
- I summer where I winter at, and no one is allowed there
- Do you remember when the first snowfall fell
- When summer barely had a snowball's chance in Hell?
- I never look back at it, but it's always in front of me
- It's always worth the hurt, but I know it's hurting me
- I'll never let go of it because it's all that's going for me
- I'll put it in the past when the past is history
- A perfect example is all the things it's done to me
- I think I might lose my mind, but not my memory
- A perfect example is what we all wish we could be
- I think I might lose my mind
- I think I might lose my mind
- You think you might lose your mind
- But not the memory, means a lot to me
- I see you walking down the road
- And the thoughts within my mind explode
- But having to hold back taught me a lot about control
- And letting it all loose at once when it was time to let you know
- You occupied my space and you occupied your mind
- By jumping off the roof to the first conclusion you can find
- Now all the silver you can steal
- Can't buy a piece of what I feel
- It's sad but the means they just don't justify the ends
- To be forever haunted by the ghosts of all your friends
- Painful, yeah that's the way you've chosen it to be
- C'mon can't you think of anyone besides me?
- Now don't think you're the only one who harbours a self hate
- I'm just as guilty of selling what my sweet soul creates
- And don't feel bad the next time my memory comes creepin'
- You've got your own bed now, I suggest that's the one you sleep in
- The most intense of burning hells
- Blasting expectations into smithereens
- Never feeling normal, can't accept the truth
- Resign myself to hating it, I hate it all
- Can't say that I don't like it
- Because the words won't come out right
- All I feel is bitter, and it won't make it better
- 59 times the pain, I could never be like you
- 59 times the pain, I could never be like you
- 59 times the pain
- Never figured out eating 3 meals a day
- When the people sit in their broken-down homes
- Look at the photos from different eras gone by
- Shows the changes, and I hate them all
- Don't want to live with myself
- Can't live with what goes on
- All I see is the humiliation
- I wish it was gone
- What's this humming in my head
- Was it something that someone said
- It's connecting us with them
- Electric wires turned on again
- It aggravates, and it pacifies
- Hear the power in the lines
- Strung high on every pole
- How can this power be bought and sold?
- Trying to harness solar rays
- Making minutes seem like days
- It captivates, and it hypnotizes
- Hear the power in the lines
- Powerline
- Walking down a sunny street to the library
- Checking out the latest books on outer space
- Going to the fruit stand to buy a dozen oranges
- Then she and the books and the oranges go back to her place
- She tells the same old story to everyone that she knows
- She's just sitting in her room reading books about UFOs
- Sometimes I see her sitting on the rooftop
- Perched in a lawnchair and staring into the sky
- I know that somewhere in some faraway galaxy
- That some gray men with telescopes are gazing right into her eyes
- Her live revolves around all of the planets
- And she is constantly aware of all the changes that occur
- I'm going to turn into a lens and focus all my attention
- On finding a new planet and naming it right after her
- You're a student of the world, learning every day
- Surrounded by these walls
- Tell me, "Man, I've been around the block"
- But you haven't seen it all
- I don't know, I don't know
- I don't know what you're talking about
- Confrontations every day
- Argue, then we go our separate ways
- Always over as soon as it begins
- Know that you're losing when you can't give in
- I don't know, I don't know
- I don't know what you're talking about
- Now you live alone and it's always the same
- Talking to yourself when you say that I'm to blame
- There's more to life than being right and wrong
- There's something in between called getting along
- I don't know, I don't know
- I don't know what you're talking about
- We are starting a cat ranch and taking one hundred thousand cats
- Each cat will have twelve kittens a year
- The catskins will sell for thirty cents each
- One hundred men could skin five thousand cats a day
- We could be dealing a profit of over ten thousand dollars
- But what should we feed the cats?
- We will start a rat ranch next door with a million rats
- The rats will be twelve times faster than the cats
- So we can have more rats to feed each day for each cat
- But what should we feed the rats?
- We will feed the ratsThe carcases of the cats
- After they have been skinned
- Now get this!
- We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
- And get the catskins for nothing
- We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
- And get the catskins for nothing
- We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
- And get the catskins for nothing
- We feed the rats the carcases of the cats
- After they have been skinned
- We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
- And get the catskins for nothing
- Rats to the cats and the cats to the rats
- And get the catskins for nothing
- I gotta make plans for the plans I make
- Gotta have friends for the friends I make
- I gotta make plans for the friends I make
- Gotta have friends for the plans I make
- Go make plans
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