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Are We There Yet?

by GrooveLily

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Rewind 04:09
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Calling all aliens And time-traveling superfriends Secretive scientists with secretive client lists Calling all aliens I know you've got this practical invention To move a human through the fourth dimension I need to get my hands on the remote control of my life And press rewind Rewind Rewind Rewind I'm feeling paranoid Hanging like Harold Lloyd The clock face is dripping and my grip is slipping I'm feeling paranoid Ground control is tampering with my flight plan Shortening and hampering my life span I need to get my hands on the remote control of my life And press rewind Rewind Rewind Rewind If I could rewind my life If I could revise my ways If I could rewrite my lines If I could rerun some days I'd take back all the ugly things I said And all the people I misled Would see me looking shiny new and clean So I'll give you lots of cash If you take out my karmic trash I will need proof, but I'll pay through the roof I'll give you lots of cash H.G. Wells me back to where I started Please don't let me die here brokenhearted I need to get my hands on the remote control of my life And press rewind Rewind Rewind Rewind I am calling all aliens I'm calling, I'm calling, I'm calling Calling all aliens
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Live Through This (Are We There Yet?) 02:56
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You ask me are we there yet This road is harder than before We've got to grin and bear it We're not in Kansas anymore But if we can live through this We get everything we wanted If we can live through this We will find a house less haunted If we can live through this We will never feel so daunted If we can live through This used to be a party This used to be like Sunday school Those days are over darling They crashed the planes and changed the rules But if we can live through this If we can hold out a little longer If we can live through this Surely things can't go much wronger If we can live through this What doesn't kill you makes you stronger If we can live through this Are we there yet? Are we there yet? We've all been suicidal We've all been laid low with regret We can't just sit here idle We're not quite six feet under yet But if we can live through this We will come out into the sunshine If we can live through this We will be of one heart and one mind If we can live through this Maybe we'll get the cosmic punchline If we can live through this Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
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It's All Right 03:59
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I don't know anymore How to get back where I was before Now there's only a wall Where there used to be a door But it's all right I've got nowhere to be Got no deadlines hangin' over me Since I lost my job Well, my schedule's pretty free And it's all right CHORUS: Ain't it funny how you get what you want and you can't be satisfied All along you were riding the right set of rails to the end of the ride But your train runs aground when you run out of track And you had something good and you can't get it back And it won't let up if you don't get up and now I've got time on my hands And I've cancelled all my best-laid plans So I wind my watch and fill my hourglass with sand And it's all right CHORUS
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Apocalyptic Love Song (I Don't Care) 04:12
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You - catching my eyes across a crowd and holding them fast You - speaking my name, you whisper soft again and again just to make it last Touching your hand to mine Your breath so sweet, your lips so near I never thought I'd feel like this, like I could die right here and CHORUS: I don't care if the sky comes falling down and I don't care if the stars stop spinning round and I don't care if the waters rise and the whole world drowns No, I don't care now that I found you You come to my window, gazing up and I feel you there Feels like I'm floating and if we had wings we would take off and fly somewhere Nothing is real except Your breath so sweet, your lips so near I never thought I'd feel like this, like I could die right here and CHORUS I never thought I'd feel like this, like I could die right here and CHORUS out
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Post-Apocalyptic 02:26
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This Is Going To Stop 05:41
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We began with our hearts and our minds open wide We were filled with ambition, we could take on the world if we tried Told ourselves we would make it come rain or come shine Told ourselves we were fearless, and we believed it most of the time We said we'd never let the hard times bring us down We would go round each road block in this crazy town Back then it never crossed my mind at all That this was going to stop This is going to stop We got used to the feel of the dice in our hands Yeah, you win some and lose some, everybody understands But I can always find something to worry about Trying to make a living in the shadow of a doubt And you'd say, "it's all right, sleep tight, dream the night away Tomorrow the sun will rise and bring a brand new day" But what if the morning shows the writing on the wall That says this is going to stop? This is going to stop And it's so damn hard, this road is so long My radio plays the same old song It's all I ever think about these days It's the one thing I can't stop ....I don't know how much longer I can go on I get so tired, and I'm feeling like all our hope is gone But I've got to keep moving along or I'll drown I try to look like I'm up when in fact, I am sinking down And you say "keep your head up, don't let up, it'll be okay And then when our ship comes in we'll all sail away" But what if it never ever comes at all, And this is still going to stop? Either way This is going to stop
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Diva Girl 04:31
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You strike your diva pose I worship you, but nobody knows I tell my friends you're jive But when no one sees Oh babe I'm on my knees My Diva Girl See you on MTV I know you're singing only to me I love your navel ring Don't really like the song And yet I sing along My Diva Girl I'll come to your concerts, baby I'll sneak in backstage Hope you won't notice, baby That I'm almost twice your age My Diva Girl I love the way you move Your video puts me in the groove I watch it every time It never makes me bored Although there's just one chord My Diva Girl I'll sneak in your dressing room, baby It won't be so hard Might not get to meet you, baby At least I'll meet your bodyguard My Diva Girl Someday you'll be too old You'll always have your records of gold But still you'll be my girl I'm loyal through and through Until you're twenty-two My Diva Girl
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No Room In Your Bag 04:31
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She said in 1967 she got married to my father with a borrowed pair of bluejeans and a bridesmaid And San Francisco was a bubble of excitement like a butterfly a-flapping in the stomach of a decade She didn't know exactly everything he'd been through She didn't know exactly what she'd gotten into She got an offer from a magazine to write about the music scene because they liked her resume and bio She told her husband who'd been offered a position on the faculty of music at a college in Ohio He said, "you either take this job or save our marriage." She put her luggage in the back of his carriage CHORUS: She said, "you make a choice, you make a call. You may rise, you may fall. You will pay for what you get, But you got no room in your bag for regret." She said that 1975 was like a purgatory doing needlepoint inside a decompression chamber And Cincinnati was a garden of conservatism growing like a vine that tried to tie her down and tame her She said, "Now surely there has been a big mistake here. This ain't resembling the mark I want to make here." She saw her future like a single at the bottom of a stack of records that'll never ever see the buzz bin And she had subjugated all of her desires for the good of the family unit and the betterment of the husband She saw that they had not been marching to the same drum She took her son and hit the road to where she came from. CHORUS BRIDGE: She drove that beat-up Pinto out to California She kept the windows down and the air was hot and dry She kept hearing Joe Cocker on the radio Singing "You Are So Beautiful," and it always made her cry And in the rear-view mirror, piled high were crib and walker, Toys and clothes and little shoes for little tiny feet. There ain't no room in here for things she wished she might have done, Only her behind the wheel, And a consequence of all her actions, Fast asleep on the passenger seat. (yeah, yeah, yeah) She said that 1989 was like a fuse that burned inexorably to the dynamite of my departure And she was sad that I was growing up and glad to shoot me out into the world like an arrow from an archer As I was packing up to leave and go to college, She took a minute to impart a bit of knowledge: "you make a choice, you make a call. You may rise above it all. You will pay for what you get, But you got no room in your bag for regret."
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Open Letter To Madonna 04:46
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Dear Madonna, You were everything that a girl would want to be All the junior high boys worshipped you and wouldn't notice me You told Dick Clark you'd rule the world Reigning queen, material girl Seeking Susan desperately CHORUS: Do you breathe easy? Do you feel like the monkey's off your back? Do you dream that your life is just a movie? And now that you're big, can you relax? Dear Madonna, You express yourself in the top ten every time I hope you live to sell your secrets - I wanna be the first in line Blonde ambition's all you need Dirty books for us to read Whatever keeps you on our minds CHORUS Me and my band, we want to know How is the view up there at the top? I understand that once you begin To reinvent yourself, you don't stop Holding on tight to the brass ring Are you afraid that you might drop? And is it worth the sacrifices you have made? Dear Madonna, I read somewhere that you're tired of your fame You wish all your fans would back away from the car and clear the lane You are bored with interviews You are sick of making news But you've got no one else to blame If you don't breathe easy If you don't feel like the monkey's off your back Do you dream that your life's a scary movie? And now that you're big, can you relax?
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Can You Believe 05:31
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As I drive on 95 I often wonder what life has in store Wheels go round on familiar ground and I see things I've never seen before Wheels go round and round Until I'm homeward bound And I'm in sight of my front door Every highway that we drive Another chapter of our lives Make sure your eyes are open wide CHORUS: Can you believe how far we've come Can you believe how far we've still to go Can you believe how much we've learned since then Can you imagine how much we still don't know See the sun on 81 is shining through the early morning air Comes a-creeping over mountains, brightens every color everywhere Illuminates the road Lightens up my load Wipes away all traces of despair But now and then you feel the strain Thunderclouds and hurricanes Can't see the road for all the rain CHORUS And when I look back on the boy I used to be The world was smaller then as far as I could see I've come so far and yet I still got miles to go The more I learn the more I see the more I'm sure I'll never know I'll never know I'll never know On every interstate Another twist of fate Another high, another low CHORUS out
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Happy, Happy, Happy 04:19
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It's really great to see you once again How are you Word travels fast around these parts, my friend I got the news Heaven knows you deserve it After all you've been through, you've earned it You've passed with flying colors now, and I'm going green with envy, I am brimming full of bile I am running red with rage like it's going out of style I'm becoming bluer every moment that life just isn't fair And I'm yellowing with age and fear that I'll never make it there But I'm happy, happy, happy, happy for you Happy, happy, happy, happy for you I'd love to hear about your future plans Yes I would You say this lucky break fell in your hands? Well, that's good You're really going places Skipping right around the bases I'd say that you're batting a thousand now And I'm dangling in the dugout in my worn-out uniform I am lagging in the lineup as I keep this old bench warm I am making errors every time that I get near the ball And I'm wondering if I'll ever see the major leagues at all But I'm happy, happy, happy, happy for you Happy, happy, happy, happy for you And you're so nice And you're so kind And you're so giving of your time To a friend like me who can't help but speak his mind And I find... That I'm going green with envy, I am brimming full of bile I am running red with rage like it's going out of style I'm becoming bluer every moment that life just isn't fair And I'm yellowing with age and fear that I'll never make it there And I wish you hadn't come here, and I'm wishing you would stay And I'm hoping whatever charm you got will rub off on me today And I know that all my stumbling blocks are only in my head But still I'm simultaneously wishing you were dead, and feeling Happy, happy, happy, happy for you Happy, happy, happy, happy for you
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All I Want Is What I Do Not Have 05:23
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I, I want to know what to do With all of my thoughts of you I can't let show No no no I can't do the right thing I tried, but I cannot bring myself To let you go All I want is what I do not have All I want is what I do not have One small particle cloistered Deep inside of an oyster shell Can make a pearl How do you take that grain of sand And by some small sleight of hand Make a treasure for the world? All I want is what I do not have All I want is what I do not have I want it all and I give it my all And I see that it's all for nothing I know I know The worst thing of all - is it already almost too late And I'll always want more and more and Days are tumbling past and I Am stumbling faster now I can't keep up One more runaround and I ask Myself what I've found in This half-empty cup All I want is what I do not have All I want is what I do not have

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released September 2, 2003

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GrooveLily Seattle, Washington

Bicoastal trio GrooveLily inhabits that contemporary space where creative musicians ignore the boundaries laid down by words like rock, folk, jazz and pop. The success of their first concert-musical, the critically-acclaimed holiday show STRIKING 12, has led them farther into the world of theatre, where they have carved out a unique niche as a rock band writing and performing shows. ... more

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