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Don't Listen To Me

by Zac Jr

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  • Printed on 160gsm matt bond paper with full-color gloss-laminated cover, The Lyrics Of Zac Jr is the definitive compendium of every song on the first two albums from the Captain of Yacht! Presented in convenient A4 size with square-back spine, read and sing along flawlessly to each track in chronological order, enjoy the legibility of ITC Kabel Std and take yourself back to a music-store sometime in the early nineties where a book like this may have once been!

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1.
E-Z Street 04:10
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Don't long for Easy Street Where you'll hold 'till the phone calls lost To the easy beat Others come and move along They'll see, that I don't care what I'm doing wrong on Easy Street Thought you'd Get yourself known You'd bring your own sound And go it alone, but Still get around Lasting for years but Not 'till you burned out on the Easy Street down on Easy Street down on Easy Street Hey Hey Young Suzie Turned thirty-three With a suitcase of dreams and hope To keep them sweet Others come and ask her "What's your plans immediately?" She just shrugs and her eyes don't lie "Just bury me." Thought she'd Come to the street, find Someone to meet And show what she'd got They'd like it a lot And make up for everything she had lost Back on Kill Me Street Back on Kill Me Street Back on Kill Me Street Hey Hey On Easy Street you'll question what's worse Life without love or your dreams You were incomplete when you planned to come down here And you'll just spend what's left in defeat And you'll know it was always deceit Dancers look majestic As they leap But they cry as they're made to perform In Easy Theatre And their trainers Hate to see it, but Everyone smiles when they see a paycheck And no-one can leave Thought you'd Come to this town and Show them all how, you're Getting it done By beating the ground Making it right in your Mind and your life, here on Easy Street down on Easy Street down on Easy Street Hey Hey Thought you'd Get yourself known You'd bring your own sound And go it alone, but Still get around Lasting for years but Not 'till you burned out on the Easy Street down on Easy Street down on Easy Street Hey Hey
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...And This Is Forever 04:58
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There's nothing but hope and glory An end to a shortlived story A tale of a girl who thought she could Make her life completer, someday She worked through the day, and evenings She lost all of her life's meaning She wondered aloud if someone could Help her find a reason to try When there's nothing to do but cry And this is forever And there's no way to survive And this is forever When faith has died inside And this is forever Keep yourself inside, keep inside She was once devout But the light had gone out And each time she found doubt She lost a little more to care about She worried and stressed She was losing her best And she didn't want to rest But the more she rests, the less depressed She finds herself, to be honest And this is forever And there's no way to survive And this is forever When faith has died inside And this is forever Keep yourself inside, keep inside She worked for ten years She didn't get to choose Losing herself Through the abuse Until there was no more Left to lose And this is forever And there's no way to survive When faith has died inside Keep yourself inside, keep inside
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Flashback! 03:43
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I flashback, to the early Days when I was so young I was scared, I was lonely Then it all went so wrong You and I, couldn't see clearly We have tried, and I mean really So much life, dies every yearly, baby Flashback! Flashback! We've been together the longest Didn't know you at first Then you made yourself more noticed Blessings came to a curse You and I, couldn't see clearly We have tried, and I mean really So much life, dies every yearly, baby Flashback! Flashback! Sometimes I run Sometimes I hide Sometimes I'm scared You make me cry Into my pillow at night I flashback, when it was better I flashback 'cause it's fine I pretend my flashbacks are present Flashbacks are present time You and I, couldn't see clearly We have tried, and I mean really So much life, dies every yearly, baby Flashback! Flashback!
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I'm On Meds 05:50
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Doot doot doo do do I'm on meds, do doo do doo I'm on meds yeah, Doot doot do do I'm on 66-55-4 I ain't sick so I'm on meds, yeah It's so easy to do And you'd best be strong If you wanna stay on Stay on meds, doot do I'm on meds like you know that I want to be I'm on meds and I don't mind showing I'm on meds, yeah It's like, you know that I'm always aware? That my past life has led me right to here? I'm on meds, yeah, doot doot doo They can stop me falling If I'm brave enough in my soul One day I Lay right back at my peak And you took my right to speak I wasn't looking for paradise But you came and left me paralyzed Did I cry easily? Did I cry at moments you wanted for years? Is it much easier not to fill up with tears? Now I'm on meds, yeah, doot doot do I'm on meds yeah, Doot doot do I'm on 66-55-4 And it's what I'm living for And, I was talking right out of mind (Mm hmm ooh) Was it forty minutes or was it Four weeks Was I alone? (yeah) If gOD isn't going anywhere (ooh) Maybe she receives every prayer that I've thrown If she is there at all, I don't think gOD would listen, She'd probably smile And just prescribe me on meds Doot doot doo do do I'm on meds yeah, Doot doot do do I'm on 66-55-4 And it's what I'm paying for Almost dead, yeah They helped stop the abuse They helped turn me off And you can watch me waltz As I see perceptions distort One day I Might be able to feel Like those other real people Did they get lost all those years ago? Do they wander in a hopeless fog? Gotta get up and along It's hard to tell if all that I wanted is gone Gotta use meds just to help me stay stronger Enough to take meds, ooh ooh I'm on meds like you know that I want to be I'm on meds and I don't mind showing I'm on meds, yeah It's like, you know that I'm looking somewhere? Just to share this topic with someone Then on meds Doot doot doo do do I'm on meds, do doo do doo I'm on meds yeah, Doot doot do do I'm on 66-55-4
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Days Will Last 05:07
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I cry in my sleep I never turn out the light And I think of all the things that are gone I curl up in bed Tears in my face It was never, there all along I'll never have a chance to live A simple life Like the people that I see on TV Like the world in my mind Losing time, day to another As I watch existence slipping away There's no life, to recover Days will last but you won't sail You won't discover Oh you can dream of some new friends Living there It's unlikely to happen You can't start what you have never had So much later And much longer it felt right When you were younger But you keep on wishing you were stronger Now you see, what you've been missing Days will last, they always did Somethings, don't change Won't you lie To your friends You'll still cry In your bed That's too bad I see all these folks They're growing up so old They have never wished the things they've known To stay in the past They're fine if they last Change of style, time to change it all I'll never have a chance to see A wonderful life Like the people that I see in my dreams Just leaving chances behind Losing time, day to another As I watch existence slipping away There's no life, to recover Days will last but you won't sail You won't discover I want a time machine to go back and tell myself To try so much harder Cause every month becomes another year Now you're thirty, and you'll soon be forty-five Now it's all over It's too late for you to start it all again And that's not right, but there's no other Days will last, they always did Somethings, don't change Won't you lie To your friends You'll still cry In your bed You can't try There's no end You'll just die That's too bad Won't you lie To your friends You'll still cry In your bed You can't try There's no end You'll just die That's too bad Won't you lie To your friends You'll still cry In your bed You can't try There's no end You'll just die That's too bad
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While I'm 30 04:39
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These dudes were in their youth, woah oh They were, born just before me And I don't know why, they're better than I They've got shows on the T.V. I guess you could say it bleeds, yeah My jealous heart has convinced me And I don't know why, though I try I don't have the style to succeed me I paid the piper and paid the price Now it's all gone away And they lied I want to achieve while I'm 30 We could play a different game, woah oh Pretend I'm still in my twenties And dream of a life, where I'll write A screenplay, a movie And join a local comedy troupe, after school And make love, so tender Fall in love, before I run out of time To pay the piper and pay the price Before it's all gone away And they lied I can't achieve while I'm 30 You have become my sensai You're my dream, suddenly Just tell me That I can achieve while I'm 30 I want to be, I want to be, like you (just like you) And if I wait here any longer I'll be gone, nothing left to want I want to live a fantasy The days feel so wrong Live in the scenes of a lie Come and help me feel differently The dudes were 23, woah And they were cooler than I could be A college degree, smoking weed An apartment in the city I'd make a web series, woah oh And I'd get friends to assist me Blow up over night, what a sight I'm on my way to an Emmy But! I paid the piper and paid the price Now it's all gone away And they lied I want to achieve while I'm 30 It's all far too late for me, woah oh But you can be all you want to be Keep kissing the guys You'll be fine And don't turn down the parties You may not be a jazz artiste In your sleep But things that you'll see I wouldn't trade If it had happened to me Don't pay the piper and pay the price Or it's all gone away Cause they lie You can't achieve while you're 30 Living can become so lonely When you're your only company It's a lie I can't achieve while I'm 30 I paid the piper and paid the price Now it's all gone away And they lied I want to achieve while I'm 30 Living can become so lonely Get some friends and don't listen to me You could try You could achieve while your 30 But I paid the piper and paid the price Now it's all gone away I'll still try I want to achieve while I'm 30 Living can become so lonely I don't want to make it to 40 I don't know why I want to achieve while I'm 30
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Don't Listen To Me 03:37
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Don't listen to me You'll lose yours that's free Don't care if your friends are hiding in their tree Don't listen to me Now listen to me Here's what I foresee You've going to live, to love, and then to fall Receive what you need Welcome to 22, and boy it's blue Better to lead and to feel what you do right Just listen to you Don't listen to me Don't worry about your prayers They won't come true anyway This is guarenteed I know what to wear I'm always too pretty But the fence is too high It's too far In space time You could volley it near I know this is a failed climb, but To be fair The more I need to make it The less that I care Alone you'll turn weak Don't listen to me Don't dont, here we go! Ugh! Don't let failure be a thief Don't consult the police Cos they've all got a Rolls Royce and a luxury suite And you're now 33 Faith won't lead the fervent to mountains of gold, but Lean on your dreams when the ground starts to fall Don't listen to me Don't listen to me Don't listen to me Don't dont, here we go! Ugh!
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Nothing's Done 06:28
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Come, little darling Don’t you sit on your own There’s something better Than to live on your own Deep in the morning When you’re here by yourself Just get up Make it stop Do it for no one else Hey, little darling You’ve been talking to me I’ll always lift you When your soul needs be freed Deep as a teardrop And wide as the sky Let it go You're not alone I will help you get by Oooh Nothings done Nothings done Nothings over or gone Oooh Nothings done Nothings done Nothing ever can last, that long Here, little darling You can come take my hand We’re going to beat this Cause together we’ll stand You’ll be a princess Be a ruler of this land If you try You’ll be fine I know it’s hard to pretend Don’t live shadows Through the dark of the night Don’t let the blanket Cover up this fight Take it from me, you're as strong as you see You can dream of better futures With this opportunity Oooh Nothings done Nothings done Nothings going so wrong it's gone Oooh Nothings done Nothings done Nothings nothing for ever that long Cause when you find you don't need to hide And you feel like it's time to come around Such a way that I'll help you free We can make it your destiny, yeah Come little darling Don’t your feelings deceive You’ve gotta trust me You’ve just gotta believe Deep as an ocean And wide as a smile Be the best, you can be It’ll come true in a while Just before you wake up
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When The Song Gets Played 06:01
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She's got desire to rock free With a good partner Someone to satisfy every need That's inside her When she hides her She doesn't know where to start, see Too long improving She's got to go back and party Instead of pursuing Now she's gone away And if she ever gets her bright tomorrow She won't know how to stay Cause no-one ever mentioned She's got to live in the moment She's got a friend in the city Each time she offers They get her hopes up immediately Then ignore her It's destroyed her Now she don't care if she's lonely In her own world She makes her own entertainment She knows she's disturbed She knows she's got Time to kill And a bottle with a faint solution She could lose to fulfill And if the plan just might take She'll find an absolution She lives each day expodentially She see's how she got here I think inside she might greiving What she's lost, now Can't be gotten She's got desire to fuck free With someone she loves right She don't even know just exactly What love feels like Cause she's lived in pain And as she seperates her bright tomorrows From the wake she's sustained She might cry every morning When the song gets played Cause she's gone away And she'll never get her bright tomorrow She'll just cry, 'till she fades Just as the sunshine breaks When the song gets played When the song gets played When the song gets played And as she seperates her bright tomorrows From the wake she's sustained She might cry every morning When the song gets played
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Being Famous 05:19
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That's being famous I mean, that's being known That's having everything you wanted gone Well I know it ain't easy To stand on your own, but I've decided I like it here and Won't be thrown Cause I know what it feels like And I know it ain't right Cause it's not worth the power You receive from the light They found someone yesterday They'll be corrupted cause it's part of the game I say That's being famous I mean, that's being known That's having everything you wanted gone That's having everything you wanted gone Well I saw someone young Could have been anyone It's important that she wants it While there's something to want Fame never comes easy Oh it's so hard to get on But the minute you ride it Can you be strong? It takes a lot to enjoy the time You're spending famous Just don't waste your lifeline No Don't waste time being famous Don't waste time being known Don't waste time having everything you wanted gone And when it gets so hard stay You'll numb every emotion away But with every roll of the dice You'll try to better your position Forget your own condition And there's no-one here to help you right I saw a young kid who paved the way They're taking bricks out just to make them stay I say that's being famous That's being known That's having everything you wanted gone That's being famous That's being known That's having everything you wanted gone That's being famous That's being known That's having everything you wanted gone Oh!
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The Ballad Of Lex and Eve 09:00
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Eve was a best friend who cared For Lex she'd go anywhere She'd even cut off all her hair Or maybe grow it all out And be supportive throughout She'd be with Lex on all accounts And when Eve looks for a change Eve makes it work anyway She fits around so she can stay But her best friend never sees Just what she's wanting to be So Lex just does as she would please Oh woah oh woah Why can't she see that they're much more than friends Oh woah oh woah Eve celebrates every year The day they met in square She shows her love is so sincere Lex does forget every time And Eve pretends that it's fine But she's still hurting down inside Eve tries to show her a sign She wants to prove it this time But they just never quite align Lex loves her just as a friend And knows she'll try it again Each time she smiles and just pretends Oh woah oh woah Can't she love her like the rest? Oh woah oh woah So scared to break what could be best She's had fun, now she is old And she's getting out of here But her past is starting to call How can she leave her, eyes full of tears "I've, got a feeling when you're lonely you'll have Time, to consider your choices I've, got a feeling when you're only slightly Better off than you are now You'll regret the path you chose We could have had a life, that you'll never know, baby" "I've, got a feeling that you loved me but you Have this mountain to climb, darling I've, got a feeling that you upped and left a Great, great marriage behind It's what's good, you've left behind, not What's ahead, that makes you blind, oh baby" Lex never wanted to trip They're special relationship But Evie couldn't get a grip Lex really wanted to stay But she had plans left to play And Eve would just get in the way And with all those other girls Lex spent the night with affirmed It wasn't Lex, it must be Eve Eve had enough of the game That Lex does not want to play She'll give her blessing as she sails away Oh woah oh woah Why can't she see what she's let get away? Oh woah oh woah They could have lived, a life in love with no fear But her future's finally called How can she leave her, eyes full of tears "I've, got a feeling when you're lonely you'll have Time, to consider your choices I've, got a feeling when you're only slightly Better off than you are now You'll regret the path you chose We could have had a life, that you'll never know, baby" "I've, got a feeling that you loved me but you Have this mountain to climb, darling I've, got a feeling that you upped and left a Great, great marriage behind It's what's good, you've left behind, not What's ahead, that makes you blind, oh baby" When she lives her new life, woah Will she think of the good times with the rock and roll "I'll, still be waiting for you I'll never, find another love, no" Eve keeps a frame With a photo of Lex's face On the dresser they could have shared In the home that could have been theirs "I've, got a feeling when you're lonely you'll have Time, to consider your choices I've, got a feeling when you're only slightly Better off than you are now You'll regret the path you chose We could have had a life, that you'll never know, baby" "I've, got a feeling that you loved me but you Have this mountain to climb, darling I've, got a feeling that you upped and left a Great, great marriage behind It's what's good, you've left behind, not What's ahead, that makes you blind, oh baby" She's had her fun And there's no getting out of here But her past is starting to call She couldn't go back, eyes full of tears
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Everyone Gets A Chance To Find Their Peace 06:16
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Flight or fall, the wind beneath my feet And it's going to be a dream that seems so sweet Drives me far from my old reality When I wake I'll leave the old me for new me Tides will turn, I won't stand alone Braced by hope And the cracks beneath my bones We'll decide and discover what we need, yeah Everyone gets a chance to find their peace Your's might seem tired as it treads But you've got to keep your eyes ahead Little faith in a future that seems so bleak Convince yourself if there's nothing to say, don't speak out Lightning tears at the ceiling above the sky We'll unite as the last world's left to die Oceans apart, we'll all dream a common theme, yeah that "Everyone gets a chance to find their peace" Oh, just hold on. I've lived a long, long time I can see it's right Eventually you'll find you're never all alone It takes time when you're lost to find yourself welcomed But you won't have to face it on your own, hey Flight or fall, the wind beneath my soul And it's going to be a breeze that takes me home Lifts me far from my regularity When I wake I'll leave the past behind in sleep Tides will turn and we'll change our course Laid by those who didn't Care for us the most You'll decide and discover what you need, yeah Everyone gets a chance to find their peace You just hold on. I've lived a long, long time I can see it's right There was never doubt how much I loved you It takes time when you're lost to find yourself welcomed But you won't have to face it on your own, hey I've lived a long, long time I can see it's right Eventually you'll find you're never all alone It takes time when you're lost to find yourself welcomed Everyone gets a chance to find their peace
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The Woman In The Mirror 06:20
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