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Best Laid Plans

by Moses Guest

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1.
Best Laid Plans 09:20
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Best Laid Plans Big Southeast Texas city I’ll tell you where I’m from Some say, “What a pity” But we shall overcome Escape to Colorado Steamboat to Winter Park Coming down the Mountain Detour ‘round Utah So happy when we travel Rolling in my van Watch it come unraveled So much for best laid plans The moose is loose in Wyoming And we love the old Trap Bar It’s 3 o’clock but who’s counting You can never go too far What do you say in Montana? Man, I’ve got to get it done There’s an eagle in the sky And the burning of the sun So happy when we travel… Cascading out in Seattle In a state of Washington From Boise back to Eugene And Portland, Oregon Up in Northern California I’m hangning with my friends Down Geary Street in Frisco The good times never end So happy when we travel…
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Bird 05:16
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Bird Talk, talk, talking about it It was a conversation And it’s a little like I’m making you up the way I want to But we’re having some fun The meaning is whatever it is, the way you want it It’s not a competition though it’s Certainly not perfection, but it’s automatic Like your own reflection The words are not connected But I can understand Because I do respect it This bird in my hand Walk, walk, walking around it Do we have translation? ‘Cause it’s a little like We’re making it up the way we want to But we get the job done The feeling is whatever it is whenever you have it And the words always come ‘cause it’s Certainly not perfection, but it’s automatic Like your own reflection The words are not connected But I can understand Because I do respect it This bird in my hand
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Colorado 10:33
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Colorado Take a train, loco ride Through the rain down, up and down For the mountain; it’s a higher place to fly Well who am I? You hit the disco; dance ‘til two Take the el camino and a couple of friends with you You hit the city, and you’re floating beneath the lights You get the low-down, just for coming here The big ol’ man with the band giving money out The cellophane, take a train ride runaround You disappear for a year like a little mouse Life is good Life is good in a box out in Colorado… You lie down, like everybody You lie ‘round, like everyone You saw what you are – you’re everybody You saw what you are… ‘Cause you live with the steepness of gardens across your shoulders You saw what you are You hit the Kingpin half past three Stars crash gently on your sleeve It’s time to take jesus on a way one-way ride Heaven help him, just for coming here The big ol’ man with the band giving money out The cellophane, take a train ride runaround You disappear for a year like a little mouse Life is good Life is good in a box out in Colorado… Take a train
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Burnin' Around The Sun 04:32
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Burnin’ Round The Sun How can the words out my mouth Let you know what I mean When everything I start to say Stumbles into a dream Everyone I’ve come to know Is like a rabbit on the run Never know who might stop by Burnin’ around the sun You go out running around because You wake up lying down You leave out from the house To see what you are To see what you’re trying to do Do what you try to get through But what’s the point of it Might as well slow down Because the bad day’s coming on its own It’s going to find you all alone And you’ll be one tight brother on the fly
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Bi-Polar Express 03:12
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Bi-Polar Express Oh, how I wonder why you make me want to kill myself so badly I thought I had a warm heart, but the evidence in this event is nasty When your voice sounds, well my heart pounds, and I shut down my head Everything you say must be the truth in every way, no doubt about it But from where I stand, you’re bluffing on your hand but wouldn’t know it When your voice sounds, well my heart pounds, and I shut down my head So you feel around, with your pants down, for a helping hand But I fly… Away from you And you lie… Away from me It’s been a fine free day without you here I’ve got this lovely space within my ear Where once the sound of bullshit rang I now can hear most everything And someone kicked your crutches down He kicked you there upon the ground But sadly, you would not know about it Oh, how I wonder why you make me want to kill myself so badly I thought I had a warm heart, but the evidence in this event is nasty When your voice sounds, well my heart pounds, and I shut down my head So you feel around, with your pants down, for a helping hand
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Shine 05:44
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Shine It’s been a long sleepless dream. Do you know what I mean? Then no one knows better than you. And however I try, not even I can put it all together right. To wake up and discover the longing for my mother is through. The immutable connection, this manna of affection, is true. If only I could have known, before I was grown, I would have been there by her side. To help things along, to give them a song, to sing three sweet babies goodnight. To wake up and discover, not only has my mother come true; to three sisters, I’m a brother. Now just how does that sound to you? Well it suits me just fine, and it’s about time. I am beside myself with this love. I cried for a sign, and I cried through the night until finally it did shine. So who is this guy with a bird in his eye, who cannot be bothered with love? Now he’s built us a home, but he’s always alone, ’cause he just can’t get nothing right. To wake up and discover, not only has my mother come true; to three sisters, I’m a brother. Now just how does that sound to you? Well it suits me just fine, and it’s about time. I am beside myself with this love. I cried for a sign, and I cried through the night until finally it did shine.
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NOLA 04:33
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NOLA I used to live ‘N’ ‘O’ ‘L’ ‘A’ When I was in my younger days Off Fontainebleu and Rue Vincennes I rode the Green Wave to old Tulane I got the boot uptown from Jean Lafitte’s downtown So I stumbled home by the St. Charles line And at the break of dawn, I reached the Audubon Oh such a crazy night! Oh such a night! Yo! Hey o’ ‘N’ ‘O’! The show must go On as before. But with that change Can’t stay the same Your future twin Is New Orleans But they was not upon that hill It was more like things in Waterville Fighting for air with dirty hands This town was hanging by old rubberbands Et tous les nez that day sont etoufee that day Avec Le Ponchartrain and the rain And when the flood subsides, amidst the terrified I heard the music die, with no refrain.. But yo! Hey o’ ‘N’ ‘O’! The show must go On as before. But with that change Can’t stay the same Your future twin Is New Orleans
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Mario, The Offender 06:49
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Mario, The Offender Innocence, in a sense, is a security You hop the fence to the land of opportunity Through city streets or mountains of obscurity With every step you’re shaking with identity Petulance is alive in the community You jump the gun at the promise of prosperity And on the run in the shadow of identity Your self is broken glass in the menagerie Hell no. You can’t beat that. Just look in the mirror. What you see. Well that’s not me. They call him Bartolomeo, but he’s actually Jon. They say he’s got things for sale. Now won’t you give me one. A cold day in winter can’t hide it A warm day in summer won’t make you come down The bluebirds are breaking the window Then drown the sea The offender Mario. He’s blowing shit on my lawn. And I want to kill hee-o. I’m want to give him some. Everyone is somebody or so it seems Like rabbits on the run or maybe you and me In your shoes, you’re planning your prosperity But nothing seems to work the way it’s supposed to be Hell no. You can’t beat that. Just look in the mirror. What you see. Well that’s not me.
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Mario's Untimely End 04:43
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Wheel 07:12
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Wheel The world is swinging It’s suspended by the things that we say Despite all our inventions We can’t keep things from slipping away We seek peace out in the East And do our best out in the West All with the sneaking apprehension That things will never come to rest So put your guns down And take a look around you today So long… Got my hands on the wheel and I won’t come back… I was young, but now the middle Has just split up my invincible ways Despite all my retention Of everything about the old days I did freeze up in the North Now I roll about the South And all those words that I once spoke No longer flowing from my mouth So I bring my voice down And take a look around me today

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released January 3, 2007

2007 Moses Guest

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