EELS - Rags To Rags
There's a spider crawling on the bathroom mirror
Right on top of my right eye
And i can't stop staring back
How did i get this way?
Take a big look at a living lie
Rags to rags and rust to rust
How do you stand when you've been crushed?
So rags to riches was a bust
Sometimes i dream about it
What it's like back home
The railroad tracks and the pussy willow
But i had to leave it
Now i go back
Whenever my tired h
Rags to rags and rust to rust
How do you stand when you've been crushed?
So rags to riches was a bust
Busted once again
Well i'll show them one day
That i can buy and sell the world
And one day i'll come through my american dream
But it won't mean a fucking thing
Rags to rags and rust to rust
How do you stand when you've been crushed?
So rags to rags and rust to rust
Don't let me go
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<br />Souljacker can't get my soul<br />Ate my carcass in a black manhole<br />Souljacker can't get my soul<br />He can shoot me up full of bullet holes<br />But the souljacker can't get my soul<br /><br />Souljacker can't get my soul<br... EELS - Spunky
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<br />There she goes down in my head<br />Saying things she never said<br />E.e. cummings coming soon<br />But she'll be reading on the moon<br /><br />And i don't know why she's gone<br />I'd welcome her in my arms<br />But she'll alway...