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Mean Creek - Hands Behind Our Heads


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HANDS BEHIND OUR HEADS
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
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Surrendered years of our lives
Caring not of what I lost
Cause I fought
On my knees
Hands red
We're coming out
With our hands behind our heads

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Mean Creek - Hands Behind Our Heads (Full)


2:49 minutes (2.58 MB)
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HANDS BEHIND OUR HEADS
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

Surrendered years of our lives
Caring not of what I lost
Cause I fought
On my knees
Hands red
We're coming out
With our hands behind our heads

This was once upon a time
We thought we could learn to fly
We were settled in between
Perfect harmonies

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Mean Creek - Beg & Plead


0:59 minutes (926.49 KB)
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BEG & PLEAD
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Should've known better than to be myself
In front of no one else alone
Should've known better than to stand up tall
Should've known i'd fall alone

Tried to turn pages in a withered book
Caked with dirt and soot I man

Why you wanna rip me up
When you got me begging on my knees
Beg and plead

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Mean Creek - Beg & Plead (Full)


2:55 minutes (2.67 MB)
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BEG & PLEAD
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Should've known better than to be myself
In front of no one else alone
Should've known better than to stand up tall
Should've known i'd fall alone

Tried to turn pages in a withered book
Caked with dirt and soot I man

Why you wanna rip me up
When you got me begging on my knees
Beg and plead

Truth hits you hard drowning in its much

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Mean Creek - Not To Dream


1:08 minutes (1.04 MB)
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NOT TO DREAM
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Run Americans run
From lives filled with nothing but what needs to get done
Until you're too scared to sleep cause you've learned not to dream
And apathy splits you like a guillotine

Fly Americans fly
There's a place for you way up in the sky
In the truest land of opportunity
Where money is burned and freedom is free

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Mean Creek - Not To Dream (Full)


4:11 minutes (3.83 MB)
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NOT TO DREAM
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Run senorita run
Politicians are coming for your daughters and sons
You helped build their homes on what once was your sand
But there's no room for you in the promise land

Fly senorita fly
There's a place for you way up in the sky
In the truest land of opportunity
Where money is burned And freedom is free

Run Americans run

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Mean Creek - Radio Drought


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RADIO DROUGHT
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Hidden underneath my bed
Are all the secret things I never said
The hands we hold
As our emotions get bought and sold

Calling out
Calling out
There's a radio drought sweeping the stations

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Mean Creek - Radio Drought (Full)


3:40 minutes (3.37 MB)
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RADIO DROUGHT
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Why do I waste my time
Swimming in a sea of slime
Why do I lose control
Either way the hype machine will roll

Hidden underneath my bed
Are all the secret things I never said
The hands we hold
As our emotions get bought and sold

Calling out
Calling out
There's a radio drought sweeping the stations

I can't be a plastic doll

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Mean Creek - Who Are You?


0:51 minutes (808.18 KB)
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WHO ARE YOU?
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

Pull me in
To your ring of sin
And certain fate
Tell me how to walk
Tell me how to talk
Tell me how to hate
Give me rules to follow
Everywhere I go
Show me how to be
Someone more like you
So they don't ask me
Who are you?

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Mean Creek - Who Are You? (Full)


4:17 minutes (3.92 MB)
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WHO ARE YOU?
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

Pull me in
To your ring of sin
And certain fate
Tell me how to walk
Tell me how to talk
Tell me how to hate
Give me rules to follow
Everywhere I go
Show me how to be
Someone more like you
So they don't ask me
Who are you?

Pull the curtains open
So I can finally breathe
When their room's lit
And mine is dark
So they can't see

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Mean Creek - Money Makes Me Sad


0:46 minutes (716.55 KB)
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MONEY MAKES ME SAD
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

So I light a match inside my brain
My head explodes blood covers the train
She stares in awe
People keep on walking by
They crush my nose and poke my eye
She wards them off
She says "Money makes me sad
But I'm too sad to cry

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Mean Creek - Money Makes Me Sad (Full)


3:43 minutes (3.41 MB)
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MONEY MAKES ME SAD
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

A woman's walking with bare feet
Up and down the filthy street
She boards a subway car

Her nail polish is chipping off
She prays for saints that will not scoff
Or blow her off

So I light a match inside my brain
My head explodes blood covers the train
She stares in awe

People keep on walking by
They crush my nose and poke my eye
She wards them off

She says "Money makes me sad

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Mean Creek - The Hiding Place


0:55 minutes (863.97 KB)
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THE HIDING PLACE
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

Words that we speak
It's like we were made from a stone
Where we say things
In hopes to break them all apart

Friendships remain
We just close our eyes and
Pretend it's the same
But we can't
No matter how hard we try

This once was a hiding place
Where no-one can find
It's now where everyone shines

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Mean Creek - The Hiding Place (Full)


2:14 minutes (2.05 MB)
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THE HIDING PLACE
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

Words that we speak
It's like we were made from a stone
Where we say things
In hopes to break them all apart

Friendships remain
We just close our eyes and
Pretend it's the same
But we can't
No matter how hard we try

This once was a hiding place
Where no-one can find
It's now where everyone shines

Tied up in knots
The day we let go
Is the day we forgot
Just what we all have become

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Mean Creek - To Never Again


1:15 minutes (1.15 MB)
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TO NEVER AGAIN
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

So he took the whole world
And he swallowed it down
And it burned in his stomach
Til there was no-one around
Except him all alone
In the vacant white crying
"Jesus, where is my life?"

I hope to never again
Have to cope
with this darkness my friend

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Mean Creek - To Never Again (Full)


3:18 minutes (3.03 MB)
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TO NEVER AGAIN
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

War is a-ragin'
Don't you understand
Cause a rich man's son
took the world in his hand
He said this here is mine
To do with as I please
Get out of my way
Or fall to your knees

So he took the whole world
And he swallowed it down
And it burned in his stomach
Til there was no-one around
Except him all alone
In the vacant white crying
"Jesus, where is my life?"

I hope to never again

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Mean Creek - The Same Place


1:10 minutes (1.08 MB)
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THE SAME PLACE
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

As I walked through your hallways naked
With signs taped all across your back
You promised that I would feel equal
With rings of gold wrapped 'round my neck

My attention's now given to these characters
Who remind me of all that I lack
I can't lay in your blanket of protection
I've grown I feel old and I know

We begin right here
Always at the same place with you

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Mean Creek - The Same Place (Full)


3:18 minutes (3.03 MB)
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THE SAME PLACE
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

As I walked through your hallways naked
With signs taped all across your back
You promised that I would feel equal
With rings of gold wrapped 'round my neck

My attention's now given to these characters
Who remind me of all that I lack
I can't lay in your blanket of protection
I've grown I feel old and I know

We begin right here
Always at the same place with you

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Mean Creek - Around The Bend


1:20 minutes (1.23 MB)
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AROUND THE BEND
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

When I turn into dust
I won't know where I'm going
When I turn into dust
I won't know where I am
When I turn into dust
I won't know why I started
I'll just be mad that I made any plans

The sun is shining dark
Dark days are dying
Right around the bend

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Mean Creek - Around The Bend (Full)


3:16 minutes (3 MB)
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AROUND THE BEND
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

Why do I always seem to forget
Where I'm going
Why do I always seem to forget
Where I am
Why do I always seem to forget
Why I started
And why can't I make any plans

When I turn into dust
I won't know where I'm going
When I turn into dust
I won't know where I am
When I turn into dust
I won't know why I started
I'll just be mad that I made any plans

The sun is shining dark

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Mean Creek - Rotten Apples


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ROTTEN APPLES
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

I know I told you once
That I thought I could fly
But life's the rotten joke
That made my laughter die
And now I'm caught in concrete
Playing fucking games
Cause we're all in the business
Of becoming the same

I'd like
To know
How I
Should cope

With the lie

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Mean Creek - Rotten Apples (Full)


2:45 minutes (2.53 MB)
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ROTTEN APPLES
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

I know I told you once
That I thought I could fly
But life's the rotten joke
That made my laughter die
And now I'm caught in concrete
Playing fucking games
Cause we're all in the business
Of becoming the same

I'd like
To know
How I
Should cope

With the lie

If you don't hate me
I suggest you do
Cause I'm the rotten bastard
That ruined you
And you're the rotten bastard

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Mean Creek - Momentary


1:07 minutes (1.02 MB)
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MOMENTARY
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

Your smile
Is momentary

But don't cry
Cause your tears
Are only momentary

Gotta stop sitting starting at a screen
Watching bad TV time is passing me
Get up

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Mean Creek - Momentary (Full)


4:15 minutes (3.89 MB)
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MOMENTARY
By Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
Words and Music ©Copyright 2007 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2007 by Chris Keene and Aurore Ounjian
ASCAP

This world
Is momentary

This life
Is momentary

Your smile
Is momentary

But don't cry
Cause your tears
Are only momentary

Gotta stop sitting starting at a screen
Watching bad TV time is passing me
Get up

Your hate
Is momentary

Your love
Is the only thing that isn't momentary

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Mean Creek - The Sky (Or The Underground)


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THE SKY (OR THE UNDERGROUND)
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Is there nothing more we can do
Is this the world we were born into
Is there nothing I can write or sing
That's going to change anything

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Mean Creek - The Sky (Or The Underground) - Full


4:30 minutes (4.14 MB)
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THE SKY (OR THE UNDERGROUND)
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Is there nothing more to be found
In the sky or the underground
Has it all been a pointless waste
Or can we find what's been misplaced

Is there nothing more we can do
Is this the world we were born into
Is there nothing I can write or sing
That's going to change anything

And though I try my very best

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Mean Creek - Face Of The Earth


0:48 minutes (756.68 KB)
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FACE OF THE EARTH
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Separated our birthing ground
Built the churches and the towns
Now we lay on a bed of nails
With our thoughts locked up in jail

We live on the face of the earth
We don't know why
We live on the face of the earth
We are its heart its lungs its eyes

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Mean Creek - Face Of The Earth (Full)


2:51 minutes (2.61 MB)
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FACE OF THE EARTH
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Up from the soil
Into our blood
Just like a violent deadly flood

We came from the dirt
With open minds
Then divided ourselves with illusive lines

Separated our birthing ground
Built the churches and the towns
Now we lay on a bed of nails
With our thoughts locked up in jail

We live on the face of the earth

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Mean Creek - Light Into Dark


1:20 minutes (1.22 MB)
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LIGHT INTO DARK
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Got to find a middle ground
Got to stop burning our hands on the stars

Find somewhere to level out
Even if we've got to fly out to Pluto or Mars

Better choose a foreign name
Cut your hair dye it from light into dark

Stop burning your hards
And put it out
Stop burning your hands
Until the stars understand

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Mean Creek - Light Into Dark (Full)


3:59 minutes (3.66 MB)
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LIGHT INTO DARK
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Got to find a middle ground
Got to stop burning our hands on the stars

Find somewhere to level out
Even if we've got to fly out to Pluto or Mars

Better choose a foreign name
Cut your hair dye it from light into dark

Stop burning your hards
And put it out
Stop burning your hands
Until the stars understand

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Mean Creek - Strange Man


0:57 minutes (902.47 KB)
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STRANGE MAN
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

There is a strange man
Who hides his face in his hand
A smile cannot cleanse
A dirty camera lens

ya That's not what he intends
ya Why bother to pretend
ya

You don't want anything you need
You don't need anything you want

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Mean Creek - Strange Man (Full)


4:09 minutes (3.8 MB)
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STRANGE MAN
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

There is a strange man
Wondering why he began
Walking down the street
Looking like he's beat

Feelings subsiding
He stays in hiding
Laying on the couch
Looking like a slouch

ya Walking down the street
ya Looking like he's beat
ya

There is a strange man
Who hides his face in his hand
A smile cannot cleanse

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Mean Creek - It's Good To Be Back Again


0:32 minutes (502.57 KB)
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IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK AGAIN
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

I don't mind going down
Into the dirt underground
As long as I can hear the song
You've been singing all along
Hey hey look at you
Speaking your mind
Singing the truth
Oh my where've I been
Lord it's good to be back again

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Mean Creek - It's Good To Be Back Again (Full)


2:12 minutes (2.02 MB)
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IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK AGAIN
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

I don't mind going down
Into the dirt underground
As long as I can hear the song
You've been singing all along
Hey hey look at you
Speaking your mind
Singing the truth
Oh my where've I been
Lord it's good to be back again

Where do I go when I did
Why am I here
Who am I
Who are you to say to me

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Mean Creek - Wild Beasts


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WILD BEASTS
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

Will I know you when we disappear
Will we exist on a parallel sphere
Will we be able to think twice
Before we enter this paradise
Where nothing is cherished
Cause nothing is feared

There are no heroes and nothing with change
We've taken the world and we made it deranged
It's the end of our lifetimes a legacy of war crimes

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Mean Creek - Wild Beasts (Full)


4:16 minutes (3.91 MB)
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WILD BEASTS
By Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
Words and Music ©Copyright 2009 by Old Flame Publishing
Master Recording ©Copyright 2009 by Chris Keene, Aurore Ounjian, Erik Wormwood and Mikey Holland
ASCAP

God is a woman dressed in black
Dead is the world she colored blue
Stuck in the middle are me and you
What'll we do what'll we do

Time is the falsehood though which we judge
Our universe is broken just give it a nudge
And we'll all fall to back where we came through
Into the darkness up above

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