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Love Is The Asset

by Cincinnati Time Store

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Please Wait Your Checks Are Being Processed 03:52
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the lights went out on another fiscal year strange fish washed up ashore spirits took our arms and legs for souvenirs i spilled a box of baking soda all over the kitchen floor oh honey, i want a real life i don't want to be in bars every night my, my meet me at magrish trailhead where the little miami flows through a still valley wild and true when you feel the fear just let it pass on through and in heat so fierce even our eyes are sweating i dream of frozen years blankets of ice forgetting every name and proper noun everything at once right down to this skim milk and this box of off brand cap'n crunch to the governors we're all just numbers and if the scales need balanced then that's it for me i took a walk to the 24-hr atm on beechmont ave and watched the beer trucks make their midnight deliveries once you were a mustard seed now you're bitter as a mustard green furious at a world you think betrayed you - waiting for some angel to come and save you but like a leaf falls from the childrens' tree may your grief fade into memory
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The DJ's Always Right 05:29
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2 hr drive home from indianapolis so it's 3:45 when my head hits the pillow gotta wake up at 6, drive out east to my church gig try to hide that i'm drunk meeting friends out for lunch we all go for north indian food somebody's getting married and it looks expensive the bride's about our age and her groom's sweating bullets i'm too small for these tux pants and no-one here wants to swing dance but we get paid either way plus cold cuts and free perrier they all just want to hear reggaeton and hey, can you blame them? the dj's always right it's my day off. let's go out walking through hyde park let's lay our heads in flourbeds, rye bread and honeywine on our breath let's kiss in the bushes, let's joke about star wars get high behind the speedway right off of the freeway & the dj's always right it's not enough to watch the world go by it's not enough to hang your head and sigh and if that's all you got you can kiss your ass goodbye cuz i'm inclined to think that the dj's always right i'll summon up my old friends. we'll bike out to the comet look online for a t shirt with Mal Waldron's face on it and i'll ask the doctor: define, "eating disorder" and i'll go through my old tapes with the patience of a dead saint looking for zooropa (1993), zooropa (1993), zooropa (1993), zooropa(1993), zooropa (1993) and the look on their face when i press play: they'll all say "well - the dj's always right . . . " right, right, right.
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Cold Limo 03:58
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i will drive you home again if you have your esoteric plans i'll stay locked up tight until you need me wine and dine, clothe and feed me oh honey i'm all worked up you're out there owning businesses, eyes thick with understanding of everything around and i'm just corked up i know we have our differences but oh i need you and i like to think you need me too if you need a true blue hero in a cold cold limo, hooray you make me drive but you don't like my driving when i arrive it's clear i'm not the good guy you make me drive but you don't like my driving it's undignified i know i'm not some good guy just a true blue hero in a cold cold limo heated seats, free drinks, and tinted windows: here to satisfy if i'm such a disappointment to you why don't you find your own damn ride. shit. maybe you can dance and drink all night because you've got the right stuff and i'm just not tough enough oh i get off on the right tomorrow's future teens are smart at everything and they will never need a true blue hero in a cold cold limo
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Stick The Landing 03:15
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you don't need to rhyme like a writer anymore just tell me what you're thinking lay your burden down on me and i don't need to talk like some sorta expert anymore no school would want us so what good could it possibly be the rain cleared up outside and it's all greening but spring cleaning's not enough without its answer from good old mother nature with fingers on the trigger whatever will we do just leave it all to the ivy league minds sit back and wait for the underdog to lose we'd better let the legacies decide i guess i'm an asshole: i know on halloween we walk through spring grove without fear we are vultures patrolling when the times are mean honey let's go walking in the lake for a year fall back slowly, get clean we're not afraid to be exposed as false cause it's not our fault we were born to eat our hearts out at big buffets along the interstate i guess i'm an asshole: i know you don't need to rhyme like a writer anymore just tell me what you're thinking lay your burden down on me and i don't need to talk like some sorta expert anymore no school would want us so what good could i possibly be
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Ocelots 04:49
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for many a year it was pizza and cheap beer and houses that smelled like cat piss and stinkbugs now we have throw rugs, a yard and a color scheme oh how we've triumphed, you and me. having come this far still loving each other still drinking hudy delight and i thought we'd feel a little less like criminals when we stopped breaking the law all the time save all our receipts: consult them like hymnals summer days pass sky clear as glass milk in the fridge, rice in the pantry blackberry jam, butter and toast we learn to be good hosts when we're tired as hell if alice calls, tell her we're doing well you wanted to keep bees out back but the neighbors objected i'm getting pretty good at the cocktail-hour act but have yet to perfect it villa hills, villa hills, villa hills i am gonna crack and you know that i will these are not the hands that i held when we first danced and i am not the man who you long ago romanced and over off 20 runs 275 our river of plenty, more dead than alive i can see you out waiting for the mail to arrive bearing news that i still love you i wanted to keep ocelots in our house but we live in the suburbs now kim and mark sold all their vases and their life goes out without them so if it's dinner at their house i'll bring the mini marble fountain i like to go out on a summer night and hear the streetlights try to hum with a glass of sweet summer wine and maybe some diet coke and rum come in from the yard cool down in your arms and all the sprinklers turn on over our spring lawns at once
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Where'd You Go? / There You Went! 05:07
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it's okay they're gonna pay me later scour NKU for an ATM i'll probably stay in this god damn suit all night that's alright you're high, you're playing "space invaders" at some new bar down in OTR so i take my last ten bucks and head on up to the party source and get some wine of course and we've been drunk and preening at the grass as it is greening every winding road is gonna lead me home hope you wake with dewdrops on your face one for every day i made you wait nothing makes me miss what i've left more than a drive alone on a vacant stretch of interstate once we were thick as thieves close as hawthorn leaves before we fell now every one way street leads you back to me in due time you'll see, just stay on your feet and don't worry about me love this'll always be enough time is on our side and god can hear us crying out i really wish that i could see from your perspective and i'm sorry if sometimes i make you play detective but the spring is in bloom you can see it from your room and don't worry about me love this'll always be enough time is on our side and god can hear us crying out don't leave me out in the cold love the summer air's not enough no they're coming for our souls and we won't have a hand to stand on
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Tuscarosa 06:08
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give it to me straight man is this a moment to remember or is my way hedged up with thorns again and is it true that, come september, this'll be a streetside full of ghosts? i don't know. but summer will find us all in heaven together smoking blunts - big big blunts putting our feet up for once & summer will find us deep in the drink screaming unthinkable thoughts into the sink who told you love was hard to come by? i think it's time for us to leave cuz i just realized it's me that they are laughing at so finish off your camel crush and tell all of your friends that you will be right back it's not enough to just walk through life you need your people by your side when they go off into the flame, your partners in crime, you want to cry that summer will find us caught up in the details wondering how much longer now such fine friends will stick around and summer will find us totally derailed evil will prevail because we fail to see that love is hard to come by send off our ghosts and into the fire, off they go send off our ghosts from where after the fire? no one knows but summer will find us all in heaven together smoking blunts - big size blunts my heart in the right place for once and summer will find us still weak from the throwdown unable to hold out ready to go now
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These Are Dancing Times (Or Aren't They?) 02:55
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up 71 to the kenwood mall so many dollars my pockets can't hold em all shirt and some summer shoes for you for me a wallet and some cheap perfume trapped up here with the dust and pollution waiting on the coast to provide solutions take exit 8 and drive on down to the busted blocks from the sundown towns my head on your leg on your foot on the clutch down streets no car has ever touched cuz living is shitty and times are tough in bacon city if you don't eat the stuff TITLE OF SONG TITLE OF SONG TITLE OF SONG i'm a part time museum security guard but you're ada loveless with a deck of cards so tonight it's double windsor like they do in the movies cuz i've seen the future and it doesn't include me and if you were born to live the hard way you'd better get born again, as TITLE OF SONG TITLE OF SONG TITLE OF SONG & if we never make it off this damn avenue at least you've got me and i've got you no and TITLE OF SONG TITLE OF SONG TITLE OF SONG
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(gold/spices) 00:42
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Presidents That Suck 03:26
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"so riddle me this, jon, when did we become old snobs?" hey what do you mean i think he's doing a great job "but we lost our youth: we're not righteous enough" man screw that stuff i don't mind someday there'll be more presidents that suck presidents that suck and you're still so pretty i've still got my charm and we face the world arm and arm all our plans to make money: they didn't work people we thought were funny, they were just jerks but i don't mind cuz there'll always be more presidents that suck presidents that suck don't know what happened: we don't talk to strangers now we're hardly even on the scene don't it make us cry to see our high school friends in movies up there prancing on the screen the world doesn't matter, just this whisky and snow in our booth before we go i dreamt a ladder to heaven above and one below so what there'll always be more presidents that suck presidents that suck don't know what happened: we don't talk to strangers now we're hardly even on the scene don't it make us cry to see our high school friends in movies up there prancing on the screen no one's an island but we all act like icebergs we all want cake and diamond rings meet me at highland and if you find the right words i'll come around to your side of things
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Rival Banks 03:37
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you rose to prominence at P & G trusted providence to give you wings from turpin high school football star to the face of new white OTR all the economists onboard agree and with all of the confidence investment brings from liberty street to the brighton bridge your new ephraim rises inch by inch coat of paint, wood floors, and a fridge replace the boiler in a pinch competing loans at competitive rates from the rival banks arts and culture! bike tours and wine! streets clogged with taxis at closing time if the neighbors don't like it they don't have to stay they're probably priced out anyway so what's a little off the top for a sojourn in france baguettes, r&r, and ballroom dance it's the great new craze that's sweeping the nation: city council gathering data on your phone's location and whatever did you think about someone was bound to tease it out because you are a liar you are a liar you are a liar drive south central pkwy with my tux and bass $150 minus $20 for a parking space & i have said this city's dues aren't mine to pay but if i come home cash in hand well, that's ok & i can sleep without a dream but i can't sleep without a drink & from that sleep i keep on waking up the villain & i can't turn it around although i think i might be willing try and live my life & never get found out but deep inside i know i'm going down all you wanted was a bank account now there's protestors outside your house spilling out into the vertiginous streets the cops maintain an uneasy peace it wasn't you who got the YPs to sign the lease nor you who filled the basin with rogue police but the vox pop's decided it's just your turn the smoke's the signal when the body burns so kiss goodbye to that indoor pool rival banks'll play you for a fool it's the hip new thing for the terminally cool: private planes bombing public schools i wash it go to ash & have to find another source of cash i'm just middling white trash and on top of that i am a coward i am a coward coward coward coward coward
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Just Like Peter 05:17
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corporate wants to keep me toeing the line they will not succeed i will tell you why woke up feeling broken in eyes falling right out of their sockets nice blue suit all torn up again something stirring in the walk in closet and a gorgeous view of northern kentucky if you love me, tell me i'm lovely while above sleep the stars in their broken cradles down on gilbert towards the elsinore arch real tired in the dark car nearly falling apart and back up to eden park getting higher and higher hearts open wider and wider fists clinched real real tight if we see cop lights i deny three times just like you and i we were born to get paid naked skyping a state senator's aide you said "babe, we've gotta start somewhere!" and hey, look how far we've come whispering whispering whispering in hotel rooms real bad headaches choking on exhaust fumes if you see those fuckers tell them: TAKE THIS PACKAGE (DON'T YOU DARE PEEK) UP TO HARTWELL GOLF COURSE AND DROP IT IN THE MILL CREEK i've got the mayor deep in my pockets as a matter of fact i got him right here in the walk in closet so i'm not afraid of anything they can do to me because hope floats like ivory soap on down to the river where we put it on the boats from the paducah docks to the louisiana coast if i am seeing cop lights i am denying three times, & i am denied if we see cop lights adonai adonai adonai and then the cock crows about what a cock i've been and everybody knows it meanwhile: rain takes the river bank then the basin then this very basement and when the police come to get us i can hear them joke about how we're just skin and bones but what they don't really know is that underneath these clothes it's just muddy water and i feel like i was born on the business end of a bloody bathtub i didn't mean to drag you into this love i guess you didn't mean to drag me into it either i guess we had each other pegged for true believers with lilacs in my hair and stumbling down the street we can be blue stars for red states going woah woah woah oh oh with lilacs in my hair and stumbling down the street we can be. we can be the ones who go woah woah woah oh oh i want to bed america's best and brightest iron my shirt and they all see the light it's a real swinging party down on ludlow tonight and we all go: i want to bed america's best and brightest open my shirt and they all see the light it's a real swinging party down on ludlow tonight and we all go:
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Planes In August 06:24
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the weather in urbana is as nice as you could ask for: cool and easy & here in the gaslight we dream of atlanta or new york but the city won't release me but the good news is i'm over it completely over everything just staring down the avenue wondering what the day will bring i'm a villain, i've got a cape and a kitten i'll make a killing i'll sing along to this lonely late summer song given the money i'd pack my bags tonight and steal out at first light past homeowners with leafblowers under the watchful eye of the great unknower and in the chilly phoenix terminal call friends, tell em i'm still alive but this is goodbye see you guys in 2025 we don't need to make this harder than it is. in the 6 am darkness we feel like CEOs boarding planes in august just waiting for the proud rooster to open and you said it's not enough to watch the world go by but here you are and here it goes by we don't mean to make this harder than it is. we're far off the route love into something we can't get out of fish the size of cities beaching in the aleutians we are torn beyond any tailor's power to patch as bad as elvis but at least he made some scratch to show for it we're just starving wedding singers real small and afraid still hoping to get paid while the world outside bares its fangs to say it's not alright it's not alright it's not alright it's alright.
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Kettering 04:07
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"do me a favor - hang onto the check til monday" the bandleader says the guy on my right in the cavernous tux shakes his head he doesn't look well-fed. at a country club in kettering stranger's wedding brought us a great distance and i thought you were in catering our eyes met for a moment you looked like you might say something but you just smiled and turned away i'm getting married in the bright august sun the preacher has a booming voice we both look eager to have it over and done just smile real wide and hold your poise at a country club in kettering we dance for the first time to a song i don't like you have the most beautiful face i've ever seen but i could swear we've never met before in my life and maybe i should say something but i just smile and turn away

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recorded summer of '15.

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released September 1, 2015

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jon is a normal guy who is a clerk at a normal type of store. he likes new age music and the beach. he has long hair, for now, but that could change, for instance if his hair were to get burned on the stove. that can happen at any time. he plays music.

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