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New Mansions In Sound
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Fortune's Misery/
Which Has Not Been Written/
No Information/
I Know/
Weather: Perfectly Clear/
5 5 5 pt. 1/
5 5 5 pt. 2/
Stay At Home/
The Bitter Drink/
Just Say/
Banner Year/
Is It Familiar/
Space Station #5/
Find Your Way/
Girl's Eyes/
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Fortune’s Misery (2:43)
WRONG AGAIN
ANGRY MAN
SAW AND LEFT
Don’t forget considering another way
I hate when stupid things ruin a perfect day
BROKEN DOWN
ISN’T FAIR
I DON’T CARE
Sitting here at home without too much to do
I’m tying up the phone just so you can’t get through
But here’s a few things that won’t have any time for you:
HAPPINESS
REASONING
PLEASANT DREAM
Call me paranoia ‘cause I don’t trust books
I won’t believe in anything that really works
I would say
Leave me in the hands of fortune’s misery
I don’t care
Which Has Not Been Written (0:58)
Used to be afraid of what I liked
Used to be afraid of what was right
Never thought I’d get too far in life
Never thought I’d last another night
And then morning came and with it a new light
I’m telling you it wasn’t all that bright
But it helped me to perceive all that I might
Put off for so long that I lost sight
Of the reason why I started this to write
Why is it so hard sometimes
To keep feeling sorry for myself
And finish ruining my life
No Information (2:43)
(First appeared on Alone In a Furniture Warehouse) (EP)
That it was the laughter drove the man away
Some misinformation to lead you astray
“Older and wiser . . .” what they’d always say
He never welcomed that noise anyway
August first his letter read aloud today
Eloquent and absolutely nothing did he say
The less we heard the less confused that we were made
Information wasn’t all he never gave away
The cards were left where his last game was played
Eleven more months rent had just been paid
I Know (4:19)
See the sun in the window
See the sun in the sky
I know
You know
Everything through the window
And nothing is mine
I try
You tried
There’s a life out the window
There’s a life going by
I sit and watch it sometimes
And I know it’s not mine
You know nothing is mine
Everywhere
All the time
See the stars in the window
They are stars in the sky
I know
You know
I’m watching all day and night
Wondering why
I try
You tried
Weather: Perfectly Clear (1:36)
It took off into space from this terrible place
Won’t be ‘round for a year
The instructions, they said, had been numbered instead:
“WEATHER: PERFECTLY CLEAR”
“Plot: uninspired”
Bored, I got tired
I won’t pretend that I stayed ‘till the end
Now they won’t return my call
They won’t speak to me at all now
They won’t return my call
It was Sunday again at a quarter to ten
He’d stepped out for a beer
While walking home in the rain all alone
Weather perfectly clear
5 5 5 pt. 1 (2:04)
And after weeks alone I figure why
Not start again and see what else that I
Could get together
My endeavor
But at least it looks good here on paper now
I checked my pocket from inside
I had a dollar and I had a five
It’s not enough but somehow I know what I could do
With a little change of pace
5 5 5 will always be
The number and the one to beat
Remember that time I can’t wait to see
5 5 5 is never wrong
And isn’t right but come along
And trust me one more time it’s you and me
No certain avenue I planned to try
I had the number and I had a time
That a good start like that could ever lead to never mind
What I had said before
5 5 5 pt. 2 (1:49)
I’ve set all my time aside at this old timer’s bar
Spending what I saved to hear another dumb guitar
The number is my friend and calling me to play
It doesn’t understand that when we lose I have to pay it
5 5 5 is definitely mine
5 5 5 definitely alive
I’m just old enough to know you know you never know
When the weakness in the number 5 5 5’s about to go
It hasn’t made me much
Someday it never might
And I’ll be going over soon
And I’ll be never right
Stay At Home (6:07)
Yesterday I took the bus downtown
Got off and looked around
I thought the world was right
I was wrong
I thought that I would try my car instead
My better judgment said
To stay at home today
Well, okay
I don’t think you really need a car
(You never)
Stay at home and find out where you are
(Forever)
Look through all the walls and you’ll see far
You might have all you need
Right where you need it
And there’s more right there
Than you can see
It may be hard to find
But you believe
And maybe it will all be there
Hours later I was still at home
I stared my four walls down
They won when I gave in
They don’t listen
When the sun comes up and warm I sleep
Wondering the days to come
Put faith in your dreams
Keep to yourself
Don’t discuss them with anyone
The Bitter Drink (1:15)
As the actual response had not been publicly disclosed by then
I’d forgotten just how many years
It was since they had spilled the bitter drink onto the ground they say
Was the day the modern world was free
Bitter drink find you when it can
And will put you down and out on command
Bitter drink comes looking for you
Yes there really is much more it can do
Oh, and here’s the background I forgot to tell you the last time
You know I neglect some very crucial things!
There were people working overtime to poison all the waters there
The bitter drink boiled once again!
Just Say (2:32)
How can you say you’re all alone?
How can you say where are you going?
How can you say the phone rang
Only once for a wrong number?
How can you say you’re always sad?
How can you say you feel so bad?
How can you say you don’t think
Anyone cares you’re around here?
Just say I’m all alone
Just say where am I going?
Just say the phone rang
Once today for a wrong number
Just say I’m always sad
Just say it’s all so bad
Just say I don’t think
Anyone knows I’m around here
Why can’t I be strong?
Why’s my number wrong?
O.K. it’s not the only time I felt like this before
Why is nothing new?
Why know what to do?
O.K. you look so hopeless I don’t know how I’ll get by
Banner Year (2:54)
Tell me what’s been going on?
It’s been a good year this far along
And a banner year for things gone wrong
And a revolution for impulsive types,
Who never put all their problems away
‘Cause when you might look up to the sky
Thinking about your dreams and wonder why
It’s a banner year for finding where you are
Never lock all the dreamers away!
Why can’t I see through
The windows I need to?
Or wash all the sand from my eyes?
Run away fighting
Lightning and writing
My way back to the corner I’m in
So as not to upset natures will
I will sing along as if until
It’s a banner year for leaving things unsaid
Never throw those old ideas away
And it looks like I might get my way
Is It Familiar (4:59)
Is it familiar that someone’s loss words are to blame?
Is it familiar, and once again things aren’t the same
And sometimes they are fine
They are the same
Not better
Are today
Not changed
Or better now
I seem to remember something that occurred to me
The year I had chosen was of no real help to me
It wasn’t very fun
It’s all the same
Not better
I can’t change
Or make it better now
Is it familiar now
Does it stand to reason after all these years
Of trying to get back there
Trying to go back and then you see
What there was to know when you get back there
Know that you got back there and you’re sure
What there was to know
What you would have seen
If you would have known
Walk away and be
Did you ever feel a little hopeless?
In fact I did myself
Complain and think that it was pointless
Space Station #5 (4:36)
When we were in junior high, the high school kids listened to this
in the parking lot. When we were in high school we listened to this.
We still listen to this. Originally recorded by Montrose in 1973.
Written by Sammy Hagar and Ronnie Montrose.
Find Your Way (3:55)
Find your way
Alone along around the longest day
Like they said
You won’t have choices better or instead
“Unbelievers!” they say
It’s now okay
Go find your way
Like they said
Send you up
Leave you there
There you are
And they will
And you are
They won’t help you get too far
Where you were
Want to stay
Don’t wait long
Start today
So much help
You don’t need
And you won’t know what to say
Find your way
Girl’s Eyes (2:47)
Our little side 3 repast... recorded in a desultory bolt of
inspiration... Oh! That one night... The Who... Even the
songs they threw away were great... Written by Keith Moon.
