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Chris Flannery – Page 7 – I'd rather be the pauper of Scranton than the King of Wilkes-Barre

No Place Like Home – Charlie Mars (with lyrics)

it’s so hot here inside
this mountain of questions
reasons why
we pour it over with a fine-toothed comb
it gets so hard to do it
to do it alone
alone

oh i long to sing that old song
in the house where i belong
oh there is no place
no place
no place like home

tonight i wanna leap tall buildings in a single bound
when i’m feeling like a stranger in this here town
it’s a great divide between a house and home
it gets so hard to do it
to do it alone
alone

oh i long to sing that old song
in the house where i belong
oh there is no place
no place
no place like home

is there a silver lining to the cold
is there a silver lining to the cold
a silver lining to the cold
to the cold

oh i long to sing that old song
in the house where i belong
oh there is no place
no place
no place like home

there is no place
no place
no place like home

<lyrics as transcribed by me>

volume 74: it’s the night time that flatters

  1. Eddie Hodges – (Girls, Girls, Girls) Made To Love
  2. J.J. Cale – Devil In Disguise
  3. Faron Young – Live Fast Love Hard Die Young
  4. Billy Joe Shaver – Black Rose
  5. Dillard & Clark – Why Not Your Baby
  6. Dark Dark Dark – Bright Bright Bright
  7. The Bloodsugars – Self-Control
  8. Broken Bells – The Ghost Inside
  9. Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up
  10. Clarence Carter – Too Weak To Fight
  11. Rocky III – Ding Ding
  12. Jerry Butler – Mechanical Man
  13. The Mountain Goats – 1 Samuel 15:23
  14. Rory Gallagher – Bad Penny
  15. Felt – Penelope Tree
  16. R.E.M. – Nightswimming
  17. Patrick Watson – Big Bird In A Small Cage
  18. The Band – King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
  19. Loch Lomond – Wax and Wire
  20. The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself
  21. Bobbie Gentry – Fancy
  22. Greg Brown – The Poet Game

Born Again

I had a dream last night where I wanted to fool someone into believing that I became a Scientologist. I borrowed Dianetics from the library and started reading so that I’d have some good talking points. I became enthralled with the book and started believing it. Got scared and decided I needed to go to church. Became a born-again Catholic.

volume 73: when opportunity knocks

  1. Humble Pie – 79th And Sunset
  2. Dillard & Clark – Out on the Side
  3. The Flying Burrito Brothers – Christine’s Tune (Devil In Disguise)
  4. Richard Swift – Lady Luck
  5. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – 40 Day Dream
  6. John Cale – Big White Cloud
  7. The Dutchess & The Duke – Hands
  8. Busty Brown – To Love Somebody
  9. Darwin Deez – Bad Day
  10. Boston Spaceships – How Wrong You Are
  11. Frederick Knight – Trouble
  12. Eddie Bo – Getting To The Middle (instrumental)
  13. R. Dean Taylor – Gotta See Jane
  14. Timber Timbre – Magic Arrow
  15. Dark Dark Dark – Wild Goose Chase
  16. Alela Diane – The Pirate’s Gospel
  17. Loudon Wainwright III – Ode To A Pittsburgh
  18. Eddie Floyd – Big Bird
  19. Sam Phillips – Don’t Do Anything
  20. The Kills – Superpowerless
  21. Scout Niblett – Just Do It
  22. Tocotronic – Im Zweifel Für Den Zweifel

The results are in…

I am going to hell.

Chris is:

  • more arrogant.
  • less compassionate.
  • more mathematical.
  • less moral.
  • less loving.
  • less old-fashioned.
  • less pure.
  • more desiring of sex.
  • less spiritual.

Happiness

Happiness is like LSD: It’s something I dabbled with in my youth and every now and then I’ll have a brief flashback.

Lost in Translation

Heard an interesting song in German, thought it my be poignant… still not sure.

Tocotronic’s “I’m Zweifel Fur Den Zweifel” via Google Translate:

When in doubt, for doubt
The hesitation and anger
When in doubt, for breaking
The own uniform

When in doubt, for doubt
And for the puberty
If in doubt against togetherness
And normativity

When in doubt, for doubt
And against all restraint
in doubt for the devil
And the unbridled urge

When in doubt, for the bitterness
And my hot tears
Leaden is my time
And yet I must mention:

If in doubt for aimlessness
My people, hear me call!
If in doubt for discord
And for the intermediate

When in doubt, for doubt
The hesitation and anger
When in doubt, for breaking
The own uniform

If in doubt for pampering
And for my crack
For the extreme fragility
For a will like wax

When in doubt, for the hybrid
From distant spheres
When in doubt, for trembling
At the sight of the chimeras

When in doubt, for the bitterness
And my hot tears
Leaden is my time
Remains for me to mention:

If in doubt for aimlessness
My people, hear me call!
If in doubt for discord
And for the intermediate

When in doubt, for doubt
The hesitation and anger
When in doubt, for breaking
The own uniform

When in doubt, for doubt
And the Incomprehensibly
For the inner contrition
If you show the teeth

When in doubt, for folding
Prior entire room
My life is disruption
My existence scandal

When in doubt, for the bitterness
And my hot tears
Leaden is my time
And yet I must mention:

If in doubt for aimlessness
My people, hear me call!
If in doubt for discord
And for the intermediate

When in doubt, for doubt
The hesitation and anger
When in doubt, for breaking
The own uniform

When in doubt, for doubt
The hesitation and anger

When in doubt, for doubt
The hesitation and anger