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Pills
03:01
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Pills (Lyrics by David Diers)
I’d do anything to get me some cheap thrills
Doctor says “that’s easy son, I’m knee deep in pills”
I start my hour long rant about my affliction
Doctor stops me five minutes in and gives me his prescription
Pills, pills, pills, Pills, pills, pills
Gimme gimme gimme gimme, gimme gimme gimme, gimme
Pills, pills, pills, Pills, pills, pills
Gimme gimme gimme gimme, gimme
Verse 2
Pills to make me you tall, Pills to make you blue
Pills to make you smart and spell things out for you
Pills to make you sleep, pills to make you talk
(And the ones that mother gives you – don’t do anything at all)
And the ones that Grace Slick gives you - they don't do anything at alls
Chorus
Bridge
Pill is a four letter word
Or haven’t you heard
The doctor says I am cured
But I am not sure
There’s a cure for medicine
Verse 3
Gimme the best dope you got I want to feel great
Doctor says the only dope I see is standing 5 foot 8
Gimme the best pills you got, my life’s a mess
I don’t want to feel anything, not even nothingness.
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Reported Missing
04:08
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My Very Short Life
03:53
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My Very Short Life (Lyrics by David Diers)
Chorus:
Everyone I went to high school with has a rock video
Everyone with whom I went to high school has a video, and somewhere to go
V1:
I want to sell a million cds, I want to have a thousand stds
I want to have holes in my arms, shop where all the famous people are
I want to have a monkey on my back, I want a crappy song on a soundtrack
I want a cheesy expose, I want to be rumored to be gay
Chorus:
Everyone I went to high school with has a film debut
Everyone with whom I went to high school has a film debut and something to do
Everyone I went to high school with has a rock video
Everyone with whom I went to high school has a video, and somewhere to go
V2:
I want to be an overdub voice, I want to tell voters they have a choice
I want to talk the whole night thru, without saying anything to you
I want to drive without stopping, I want to go celebrity wife swapping
I want rivers of coke to flow out my nose, I want to guest on tv shows
Chorus:
Everyone I went to high school with has a record deal
Everyone with whom I went to high School has a record deal and mass appeal
Everyone I went to high school with has a rock video
Everyone with whom I went to high school has a video, and somewhere to go
Solo
V3:
I want to cameo for indie cred, I want a celtic tattoo on my head
I want a book deal for my cats, I want to sell perfeum by the vat
Chorus:
Everyone I went to high school with has a rock video
Everyone with whom I went to high school has a video, and somewhere to go (X2)
Outro:
Give me success, give me success, give me success or kill me
Welcome to my very short life (repeat until end)
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Free for All
04:46
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Free for All (Lyrics by David Diers)
So you don’t like the management, doesn’t mean you get free meal
Just because you lack the cash, doesn’t give you the right to steal
Me and Karl Marx we are the best of friends,
But you can’t have it both ways, so until this system ends
Chorus:
Free for all, something for nothing
Free for all something for nothing
Free for all something for nothing
Free for all
Free for all, until all is free
Give me something for my something
Computers make it easy, to pay without play
What if I could download your eight hour workday
You think everything you love is yours to take but tell me why
With something you love so much, why you want to bleed it dry
Chorus
So big business is exploitive, that isn’t just for musicians
True from the grape picker to the computer technician
You say down with Brittney spears, to you she’s got it made
Your waging guerilla distribution, but she’s not the one who pays
This thing will grow and grow, because there’s always more to share
Maybe when you finally kill it, maybe someone will care
Chorus
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America
06:30
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America (Lyrics by David Diers)
Open your minds bible belt, open you hearts forget all of this hate
Surely a loving God will love us all, whether we are gay or straight
America don’t let me down
Come on kids let’s clean up
America don’t drag us down
Come on kids there is something left
Turn off the greed corporate kings, how many zeros do you need?
Money doesn’t travel well in the after life, and your estates won’t matter if there is nothing left to breathe
America. Don’t write me off
Come on friends we are growing soft
America don’t drag us down
Come on kids there’s something going on
Bridge
Things won’t remain the way they are
The can’t return to yesterday
The only thing we can be certain of
Is things will always and ever change
Stop the wars, you fine-suited elects, can’t you tell blood from oil?
And if freedom could be bought and sold, you’d drain every last drop from our soil.
America don’t sell me out
Come on freaks you know what I’m about
America don’t drag us down
Come on kids there is something left
Bridge Outro
Things won’t remain the way they are
The can’t return to yesterday
The only thing we can be certain of
Is things will always and ever change
America, your golden age is gone
You have the power and the things you lusted on
You can still be somebody to someone
Oh, America find the strength to carry on.
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David Diers Austin, Texas
David Diers and his band are a love letter scrawled in lipstick on a Stratocaster: "I want to dance, I need to rock".
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