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I Don't Care
04:09
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I Don't Care
Written by - Dooley / Paul / Skeel
Vocals - Jim, Kevin and Jon
If I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself
Now you're living on the street, with nothing left to eat, no shoes upon your feet
If I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself (no matter how hungry I get)
I don't care, you don't care, who cares?
Now you have no way to know your future is a mystery
Now you have no way to know your life is only what you see
Now your friends have all packed up and left the planet screaming
You think that you're responsible you know you really shouldn't be
The world spins all around me
The world spins all around me, no matter what I do
Now you have no way to know your future is a mystery
The world spins all around me
Now you have no way to know your life is only what you see
If I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself
When I have to wake up, I don't rise to nobody's rules
So you say that I don't care my futures anywhere there's nothing really there
If I think about it too much (you know), I just get scared
So if I gotta wake up, I'll do it for myself , no matter how hungry I get
I don't care, you don't care, who cares?
There's nothing really there, there's nothing really there
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Hungry Dogs Run Fast
03:58
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Written by - Dooley / Paul / Skeel
Irritating Stun Guitar - Robert
Sax - the Rev. Dwight Frizzell
Introducing Mabel Barker
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I Think I'm Losing My Mind
Written by - Dooley / Paul / Skeel
Vocals - Jim, Kevin and Jon
Sax - Kevin
I think I'm losing my mind
Don't know, what am I doing?
Why else would they be kind?
Why would they want to upset me?
Don't know, I'm losing my mind
I think, what I am doing
Why did I walk out that door?
To think is so confusing
I Think I'm Losing My Mind
I think I'm losing my mind
Don't know, what I am doing?
Why else would they be kind?
Why would they want to upset me?
What am I doing, losing my mind?
Don't know what I am thinking
The keys I left behind
Walked home while it was raining
I Think I'm Losing My Mind
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Take Your Place
03:07
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Take Your Place
Written by Cat Cooper
Vocals - Cat with Jim
Reach in deep, pull it out, you can feel it, feel it, feel it
Rich in ease, full of doubt, go on steal it, steal it, steal it
Colors pass you one and all, but you don't feel it, feel it, feel it
What do you want, cause you can have it all
come on feel it, feel it, feel it
Take your place, in the crowd
Take your place, our heads are bowed
Take your place, before you fade
Take your place, do you have it made?
Here's a glass, have a ball, there's a step here, don't fall
Here comes your make up man so don't light up
There's a place to rest, it's one flight up
Will you live it and love it hard, and do you feel it, feel it, feel it?
Don't move too fast, you've played your cards,
and you can't deal it, deal it, deal it
So take your place, in the crowd
Take your place, our heads are bowed
Take your place, before you fade
Take your place, do you have it made?
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5. |
Out East
03:47
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Out East
Observations from a visit to NYC
Written by Dooley / Paul / Skeel
Vocal - Jim
He sleeps on the corner, he sleeps at the edge of the world
She dreams of boys, she dreams of boys and loving touches
He is old, he feels a thousand years old, and his bed is the rising steam in the cold
She is lovely, feels her life beginning and her blade cuts the ice beneath her
Line it cuts, line it cuts like the river Jordan
The city walls, these walls are like the Grand Canyon
Skates her life away and loves the beauty of the plaza
Skating is so peaceful and her dreams are fine
While he sleeps it is peaceful and his dreams are fine
As long as he doesn't want something else
As long as he doesn't feel trapped by time
And he thinks, and he thinks....
and he thinks maybe the best thing for the world is to.....Dream it away
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Banzai
04:36
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Banzai
Written by Paul / Skeel
Vocals - Jim with Cat
Let us imitate the Japanese, after all they're imitating us
No not the transistor radio, maybe the espionage
It's a hard time in the free marketplace, where the big 3 were king
telling the public what they want, we built ourselves out of the game
Well the Japanese believe in some book of rings, and parents in industry
it's foolish to think we could work this way, We in the land of the free
Let us imitate the Japanese, after all they're imitating us
No not the transistor radio, just the automobile we drive
It's a hard time in the land of the immigrant, where the union was king
Asking for more while giving less, we priced ourselves out of the game
Well the Japanese believe in some book of rings, and parents in industry
We independent people of the world, we are the mercenary
We are the mercenary
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Effect of Excess
03:27
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Written by Skeel / Womack / Duckworth
Jon -Banjo
Robert - Bottleneck Guitar
Jim Melodica and loops
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Freedom
04:41
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Freedom
Written by Duckworth / Paul / Skeel
Vocal - Jon
Melodica / Loops & Trumpet - Jim
Staging platform, center stage
Freedom is free
You're out voted Jon
Call it thorazine
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9. |
Page 64
02:43
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Page 64
Written by: Skeel / Womack / Cooper
Vocal - Cat
Sitting by the lamp, reading late at night
I'm prepared to enter a great western book
Somehow the pages are putting up a fight
They don't want me in there to take a look but....
It use to be so simple, on page 64
Never had a bit of trouble, now open up the door
Usually I mesh right in, my senses disappear within
Oh I made it inside and the scene is long ago
Oh I feel uneasy and I think I better go
I was a wanted face in 1834, I want to get back out but they've locked the door
It use to be so simple, on page 64
Never had a bit of trouble, now open up the door
Usually I mesh right in, my senses disappear within
It use to be so simple on page 64, I never had a bit of trouble
now open up the door
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Lullaby
Written by Duckworth / Paul / Skeel
Vocals - Jon with Jim and Robert
Soon you'll know, that it's time to go to bed
Soon you'll know, that it's time to shut your eyes
Dream of happy industry, happy, happy industry
Soon you'll see, futures shining bright
Window gleam, stars above the night
Dream of happy industry, busy, happy industry
And your dreams are monitored
And your thoughts are controlled
Done discreetly while you sleep
Soon you'll dream, of brand new bright careers
Then your world will never be the same
Dream of happy industry, happy, happy industry
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Short-term Memory Record 6 "official"
DIY releases from 1983 to 1993. Originally a 3 piece "electronic" collaborative effort featuring Kevin Dooley, Jonathan Paul and Jim Skeel. These 6 releases reflect a continually shifting lineup of musicians and the change in sound with the departure of Kevin. More to come?
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