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Champions of the Heart
04:09
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Spring is not a lie
That leaves you with your pain
Won’t you help me, won’t you try
To find your smile again?
Good times, why did you leave us all this way?
Gonna bring you back, back again to stay
We belong together not apart
And I want to be the champion of the heart
Head is full of fear
My hand is made of glass
It was an awful year
Time to put it in the past
This day, let us promise to be kind
Think most, act best, and free your cloistered mind
This one time the horse rides in the cart
And I want to be the champion of the heart
If you ever need a friend
Look towards center field
I’ll be there to catch you
And the truth will be revealed
We’re the champions of the heart
Both of us, champions of the heart
And his majesty
Astride his rocking horse
Yells, “Treason! Heresy!”
And files for a divorce
But that’s him; things don’t have to be his way
We still don’t know the ending of the play
It could be that we restart
And I want to be the champion of the heart
You’ll awaken to find that it was just a dream
Our boat floats calmly, rocking in the stream
Even drifting is an art
And I want to be the champion of the heart
Let’s meet at the park
The time for fear is done
We’re shrugging off the dark
Blink your eyes and greet the sun
Feel the wind on your face without a mask
We never knew how much that was to ask
And all our dreaded demons now depart
I want to be the champion of the heart
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After the World Series
Of 1924
McGraw brought Alexander
To Great Britain's ivory shore
He said, "This ain't Cleveland, Grover,"
And homered over the white cliffs of Dover
George Bernard Shaw would never be the same
Just two decades later
This time without McGraw
We landed on new beaches
Called Utah and Omaha
And sailor Yogi Berra
Was heard to say, "Surrender, I dare ya!"
His rockets set Potsdamer Platz aflame
It’s the American Game
And it was a good day
Some would say it was the greatest day
It was a good day
It was def'nitely a very good day
In the twilight hours
Of Joe DiMaggio
He wed a girl named Norma Jean
And joined the USO
They went to South Korea
Said, "Hey there, boys, so happy to see ya
"If the right’s behind your back the left’s to blame"
In secret Houston councils
They dared all costs to win
"Get thee beside me Satan
"'Cause I don't believe in sin
"We'll satiate the fans,
"Clatter pans and tap-dance on garbage cans
"Don't know 'bout you but I don't feel no shame"
It's the American game
And it was a good day
Some would say it was the greatest day
It was a good day
It was debatably a very good day
Decades on they'll tell of us
When heroic tales are spoken
The cussedness and hell of us
And the windows that we’ve broken
With bat and glove, and bombs and balls
Unmasked, alarmed, awoken
Come on, now!
Answer freedom's call!
In some distant orbit
Two-thousand light years far
The USS Lou Gehrig
Drops its bombs on foreign stars
Now-unknown alien races
Are told who's boss and put in their places
And every world regrets the day we came
It's the American game
And it was a good day (yes, it was a good day)
Some would say it was the greatest day
It was a good day
We insist it was a very good day
It was a good day (yes, it was a good day)
Some would say it was the greatest day
It was a good day
It was ostensibly a very good day (everybody sing it now!)
It was debatably a very good day (shout it out loud!)
It was def'nitely a very good day (everybody's sayin' it was!)
We insist it was a very good day.
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Opening Day
03:56
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Two ghosts who pace the floor
The "we" we were before
Maybe we still love each other
We just don't say it anymore
Now's now and then was then
Those shades can live again
Believe, if for a moment
This feeling is your friend...
There's a wall that's falling before me
There's a sun that's laughing where I used to be
There's a hope growing everywhere that I can see
Last year was black, but there's no turning back
Don't believe a word they say
It's opening day…
Maybe it was just a dream
We both had made the team
They held practice up on Venus
Where it always rains ice cream
And sure, fantasy's a curse
But know reality is worse
So let's celebrate together
While the wolves distract the nurse…
There's a wall that's falling before me
There's a sun that's laughing where I used to be
There's a hope growing everywhere that I can see
And the pull of the past has released me at last
Follow me! It's over here, this way!
It's opening day…
All I ever wanted was you
And a reason to keep dreaming
All I ever wanted was you
It's a ripple, it's the ocean,
It's a miracle that's true…
So play a glad refrain
And may a new day have its reign
You ask if we'll be all right
And you know I can't complain
There's a wall that's falling before me
There's a sun that's laughing where I used to be
There's a hope growing everywhere that I can see
In the darkest of nights, there's always a light
Shining bright, a fireworks display!
It's opening day…
There's a wall that's falling before me
There's a sun that's laughing where I used to be
There's a hope growing and you know it's going to stay
It's opening day
It's opening day…
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4. |
The Infinite Man
04:54
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Casual Observer New Jersey
We’re Steve and Rick from New Jersey. It’s weird, but we like it here.
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