LYRICS

Balance

  1. Debasement in the Basement
  2. Runaway
  3. Jjjoe Mamma's Struttt
  4. Brett's Jam
  5. Abu's Karma
  6. Tank Attack
  7. Pound
  8. Up to You
  9. Deed

lyrics by Mike Kemmlein except:
track 1 by Rich Bozek
track 2, 6, and 7 by Dan Noonan
track 5 by Mike Kemmlein and Dan Noonan
track 9 by Mike Kemmlein and Rich Bozek

Debasement in the Basement

What were you looking for stuck in a daze?
Are you wasting all your time being polite
saying you don't want anything anymore?

I want to...orbit
But it's ok
Walking around like nobody knows it anyway

Is this what you were asking for?
A way to lose?
You'll never be bored again
and you won't care about anything anymore

I want to...orbit
But it's ok
Sneaking around so nobody notices anyway

Oh yes I'll pine away my time
and burn down the trees and waste my days
Oh, lately you can see that we were meant to be
Still you smother me

I want to...orbit
But it's ok
Walking around like nobody knows it anyway

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Runaway

Glint of light in your father's eye
Strung him up when they say he lied
Only one who thinks that you're right
Nothing more than another crime

Wait

Hint of life in the brother's eye
Save it all for another time
Only one who thinks that you're right
Nothing more than another crime

Wait

I run away

Twist the knife in your neighbor's side
Live or die...his time to decide
Save it all for another time
you're the one who thinks that you're right

Wait

I run away

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Jjjoe Mamma’s Strut

I’ve got a little strut in my stride
Strut in my stride

Walkin’ my walk in a good way
Getting funky on a sunny day
We are all here right now where we are
All we have to do is get funky
Hit the beats and the funky sound and you ve got no where to go but down
There’s one thing that I always say it's that I got some funk for y'all

I’ve got a little strut in my stride
Strut in my stride

Once you get all those funky beats you’ve got nothing to but boil
Plus the water and you pour and you got something more
When you get the funky beats you have got nothing to do
This is what I call it baby

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Brett’s Jam

You always told me how to open your eyes
The world is wicked now but it ain’t no surprise
So chew your bubblegum as the days keep passing by
What are you going to do with your life?

Just sweet talk, sweet talk
Sweet talking your mind

Raindrops fall from a cloud as a boy jumps in a puddle
Mama yells out loud while this boy gets into trouble
Many years are passing now, the boy still don't know how
It’s a good thing his mama showed him how

Just sweet talk, sweet talk
Sweet talking your mind

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Abu’s Karma

Strap on your blue velcros, I’m gonna take you for a ride
Get yourself a hang glider we're gonna get you high
Another Sunday traveler with nothing left to lose
You're gonna find out for yourself that what he said ain't true

It's got to be karma, meditate it for me
It's got to be karma, metaphysically
It had to be karma, meditated for me
It had to be karma

Oh Abu its easy once you see
All you ever do don’t me a thing to me
So live your life and say your last goodbye
All you find leaves nothing to surprise

Like those have gone before you are so quickly to deny
Follow the leader like a careless passer by
Short on these equations...y the x? and what the y?
Never saw the reason y the purpose had to die
Strap on your blue velcros, I’m gonna take you for a ride
Get yourself a hang glider we're gonna get you high
Another Sunday traveler with nothing left to lose
You're gonna find out for yourself that what he said ain't true

It's got to be karma, meditate it for me
It's got to be karma, metaphysically
It had to be karma, meditated for me
It had to be karma

Oh Abu its easy once you see
All you ever do don’t me a thing to me
So live your life and say your last goodbye
All you find leaves nothing to surprise

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Tank Attack

When I see them waving on
What I see when looking from the outside of town
Ed was a man who'd rest his head on my door
He thought that it was tied but he never knew the score

One more time for old time's sake
Help or heal or steal this place
One more time for old time's sake
Say...

What could be went way beyond
what would be when turning from a smile to a frown
Tank was a man who'd rest his head on my floor
who thought that it was tied but he never knew the score

One more time for old time's sake
Won't help or heal or steal the place you used to call your own
but now you see it all
One more time for old time's sake
Won't laugh or smile or find the place you used to call your own
by what could be...

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Pound

The weight is fleeting
A light debate in meaning
Fortunes made in being
Portion of the whole

For
what
pound

Fortunes made in meeting
One without a soul

For
what
pound

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Up to You

Sometimes I wonder is it going to last?
I think she wonders but I let time pass
Shady eyes look at me and I look right back
You won't find the answer in the bottom of a broken glass

She made me laugh
She made me cry all night
Why did I start at all?
I want to live girl
You know I don’t want to die
Can't even think at all

She don’t understand
She don’t know at all
She don’t understand
Quick to the fall

My shirt is blue, my heart is black
My game is tired
I ain't never coming back
I see this girl
She sits and cries
I cannot help but feel her pain

She made me laugh
She made me cry all night
Why did I start at all?
I want to live girl
You know I don’t want to die
Can't even think at all

She don’t understand
She don’t know at all
She don’t understand
Quick to the fall

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Deed

Nothing like stating the obvious
Take you right down to the bone
Telling me what I’m coming here to see
While you say that and it's your fault
Overstating and outside outside
Outside of the box
Coming way out of left field
Never known at all

She sees clearly black and white
but its grey down in the hole.

Nothing like stating the obvious
While your bricks try to catch your falls
Telling me what I’m coming here to see
About what’s already known
Insecurities are obvious
Going on and on
Never coming raw

She sees clearly black and white
but its grey down in the hole.

Wait, in time you will find all our time

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