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The Pace
03:15
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Give me some silence
Give me that fresh air
I love the smells and I love the space
I've got a front porch
I've got a yard here
I ain't ever leaving this place
Get me some action
Get me some culture
I love the people
I love the pace
I've got a cafe down on the corner
Gives me everything that I need
Settle down with just one more drink
We gotta fight it
We cannot crumble
Well rooted deep and cracking in two
To be or not to be in the city
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind
Chasing for some turf and some time
Seems to me the stars are aligned
Looking for a place to unwind
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2. |
Critically Cool
03:34
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Stylish and sexy
Scum of the earth
Don't talk like you know anything
About politics or art or what they're worth
Hair dyed and hopeless
Trying your best
No one wants to be like that
So be like trash or be like all the rest
Go
Live
Love
We don't come to hear you judge
And this ain't for nobody else
This one is just for my mental health
You're decked out in Dayglow
You're pegged as a curse
You're everything I wish I was
And tried to be but worse
And you don't need the sickness
No you'll go straight to the hearse
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Call me up sick on a Sunday
Slouching deep into my chair
First I comprehend it
Then I recommend that
Traveling's a thing to share
It's a thing to share
You've decided for a drastic
Change so you're consulting with me
Now you've got to pack up
Moving north to Portland
A place where culture is the key
Yeah it sure is the key
When you've lost yourself to see what you can see
Rolling deep into the backwoods
Sweatin’ through the thin mountain air
Now you must forget it
Yeah, you won't regret it
Work was where you just didn't care
Yeah, you just didn't care
When you've lost yourself to see what you can see
You will learn that small town life ain't everything
Woah oh, Woah oh
Woah oh, Woah oh
You're driving along
And singing that song now
Your face in the air
It's ever so clear
And feeling so free
Yeah I’m feelin’ so free!
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4. |
Manifest Destiny
03:46
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Morning comes with red horizons
Fresh fields and pastures new
Western woes and so-called progress
Local grit and Red Man chew
Oh!
Destined to expand the nation
Uninvited tenancy
Brother, can you feel the ground shake?
Manifest Destiny
Oh!
Well I know
I know he's come to take it away
He's here
We're in fear because the white man will stay
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5. |
Ain't on Our Way
03:54
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Pulled into Nashville, Tennessee
Looking like an old tree
Hagged and rootless
Toothless
Concierge a-swaggerin’
Too much drinkin’
Storms out a raging
Thunder's a wonder
Negotiate room price
Twenty-five sounds fair
King size
What a deal
Includes a morning meal
Looks like we're staying here
I'm for a cold beer
Feel like King Lear
I'm a fool in a storm
If there's a better place to stay
It ain't on our way
Unpack
Get dressed
Unwind
Un-stress
Stretch out
Stretch in
Looking like an old tree
Changing clothes
Let's go
Music Row is real close
Storm’s out a raging
Thunder's a wonder
Step out
Look left
Room next door is full
Mom's got a cigarette
Seven kids living in a Motel room
With no room for more
Dad's gone
Always was
I need a good buzz
Numb my aching heart
That'd be smart
If there's a better place to stay
It ain't on our way
Ten o'clock
Hear the rock
Cobblestone feet knock
Checking identity
Big Southern bouncer
Casually mutters
“California's not for me”
Open doors reiterate
I need a good buzz
Band sounds real good
Drummer's kind of struggling
Too much drinking
Band kicks him off stage
“Can anyone play?
We need a steady beat”
Suddenly the kits in front of me
Mocking me
Hi-Hat
Feet knock
Grooving like a beat box
Rat-ta-tat-tat
And I finally get my cold beer
Feel like King Lear
I'm a fool in a storm
If there's a better place to play
It ain't on our way
If there's a better place to play
It ain't on our way
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6. |
The Umbrella Song
02:33
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Well I don’t mind you sittin’ with another guy
Diggin’ all your toes in the sand
No it isn’t a lie
‘Cause it’s a lovely afternoon
And before this day is through
Well I’ll be holding you right in my arms
I don’t mind you talking with another fella’
Or goin’ for a walk in the rain
Under his umbrella
‘Cause it’s a lovely afternoon
And before this day is through
Well I’ll be holding you right in my arms
And don’t you know when I’m with you
Baby, I’m in heaven
Gonna pick up my guitar
And turn it up to eleven
‘Cause it’s a lovely afternoon
And before this day is through
Well I’ll be holding you right in my arms
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7. |
Hella
07:07
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People say we're too mellow
People say we're too nice
What can we say?
‘Twas the way we were raised
East coast assholes only know how to say
They can't listen
They can't listen
We got wine in the North Bay
We got pot in the North State
San Francisco hipsters so chic and unique
Living on a commune
Yeah you know that they reek
But we have fun
But we have fun
But we have fun
We have fun
Liberal as hell
We’ve got all the answers
Driving hybrid cars
And working for a cause
What can we do?
We dig yoga too
You want to change us
Oh you'll never change us
I know that
Traveling the world and over-educated
But we sure know how to have some fun
We've got Santa Cruz hippies
We've got some drinkers in Chico
Don't need no shoes living in a tree
Don't need no clothes out on Baker Beach
But we have fun
But we have fun
But we have fun
We have fun
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In northern California
By a town outside the lake
I find myself daydreaming
Of my wild carefree days
I can dip my toes in the water
As I gently sip my beer
Or jump head first into the river
That cold water makes me shiver
But I love to disappear
The music plays on all night
Even when the sun comes up
And everyone around
Looks like they’ll never have enough
The guitars keep on strumming
‘Til the sun goes round the bend
And it takes with it my sorrows
I can’t wait until tomorrow
To do it all again
And when I get much older I will know
It doesn’t get much better than the ride we’re on
And I could say, “I told ya”
But I’d just be wrong
The days when I got lazy
And the days when I got crazy
Is where I belong
So give me that cold river
In the mountains by the lake
In northern California
In my wild carefree days
I’m bringing all my friends
We’re gonna make some new ones too
And even if it’s snowing
California’s good for goin’
To find a better view
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Leaning out of a second story
Bared to bones in all her glory
And I hope she doesn't see me
She spends all day by that window
Waiting for her regulars to show
And all those guys must know
I mean they've seen the whole damn show
And you'll learn more from her then you ever wanted to know
And every night around nine or ten
I see her come down from her den
And bat her eyes at all the men
(Bah bah bah)
And finally she hooks a man
I wonder if he’d even had this planned
‘Cause that don't work on me
Not after everything I've seen
Her hairy legs and everything in between
So sing it
Doo doo doo doo doo
I can see how bold she is
And its clear to me how cold she is
I wonder how many guys she's kissed
And how many were surprised
La dah dah dah
I've known girls who were oh so shy
In conversations they'd just melt and sigh
The wrong word might make 'em cry
But this girl she's a world apart
Her job makes her cold but I know she has a heart
But still I'd never get close
To the fire beneath her robes
But don't call the department
She's already got a hose
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10. |
Long Arm of the Law
05:14
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When I wakes up for breakfast
I can feel it in my bones
And I goes on every day of my life
Acting like nothing is wrong
I likes to feel my heart a-pumpin’
And it ain’t never beat so hard
Yeah well I’m a two-bit master criminal nitwit
And I’m letting down my guard
I likes to think I’m in the movies
I thinks I got no fatal flaw
Yeah well I never stops!
To take a moment and consider
The long arm of The Law
Well I’m always runnin’ and a-runnin’
I don’t stop
I’m always runnin’ and a-runnin’
I don’t stop
I’m always runnin’
I don’t stop to consider the long arm of The Law
I always thinks it’s my last time
But then I starts to feel the call
Yeah well it’s not my fault that I never stopped to consider
The long arm of The Law
Hey Mr. Policeman
Did you have to make me fall?
Yeah and for this two-bit master criminal nitwit
There’s a last time after all
I just gotta bust my way out
From this same old tired routine
Livin’ straight and clean
It just too much to ask for
Just too much for me
Run away, run away, run away
Run away from your heart
Run away run away run away
Back to the start
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Biv and the Mnemonics San Francisco, California
After four years of playing shows and gaining fans in the Bay Area and beyond, San Francisco band Biv and the Mnemonics is proud to release their 2nd full-length album, 'The Pace,' on April 16th, 2013. They are a band whose laid-back sound celebrates the simple pleasures of life, and has been compared to artists ranging from The Kinks to Pavement and Dr. Dog. ... more
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