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Tall Tells & Modern Lies

by Jesse M. Moore

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1.
Ophelia 03:41
I was Ahab's first mate Long before 'ol Ishmael I was lying in that belly of a whale For years before and after Jonas tale I was Christ's first born son My mother Mary named me Dharma I was there when Jerusalem fell and I was Virgil's guide in Dante's Hell Ophelia don't you judge me from what you see Ophelia don't you judge me I hauled stoned for the pharaohs tumb I fought sharks with the Indy doomed Got my revenge back in '86 With Mundus and Braddick killing a Monster on the Cricket I sung songs with the Chicago 8 and We were still singing when the bomb blew I was there in the square free but helpless As I watch the hangman tie each noose Ophelia don't you judge me from what you see Ophelia don't you judge me I've been a pauper I've been a general's son I've been a slave picking cotton I've bled the hate and caressed the love But it's all just for nothing if for you it's not enough Ophelia don't you judge me from what you see Ophelia don't you judge me
2.
the tires screeched to a halt no ones going anywhere at all so rose button up your door and tell me what your doing this for? i was running through the park bones where tired yeah everything was off just then out of the sky i decided i was done working for some boss so i took the dough i had bought me a .9mm from a Haitian who drove a cab call it karma, call it luck my dear sweet rose was the first darling i held up i think at first she didn't like me so i kept her tied up in the back seat then one night some men while i was robbing an A & P tried to take her so i killed them in the street rose came and kissed my cheek we hit texas we hit kansas memphis, vegas, old LA man was she kind to us we hit trouble north of san fran from some old mexican and 50 of his closest friends all the while we talked of getting out buying a ranch having kids and settling down but man the money was just too easy then one day rose started feeling kinda queasy we were busting cross the hudson putting black top between us and a dead man in tucson out of no where came the lights a goddamn black and blue smiling in my rearview rose she told me to slow down pull off the tar she said maybe they don't know who we are i just looked at her with a stare two years on the run and now she didn't care but oh rose why was i so dumb we could have bought that ranch and raised that baby right but now the both of you are gone and all i've got is this prison cell in folsom
3.
well i'm running i ran from travis county booking bled the stripes off my back the crime was on me searching for symphathy with my black eye still in tact i've tried to hide from the anger inside but blames such a hard thing to find when the burden of victums you've wronged from their right burn winter set with God's awful sigh i'm a damn man, i'm a damned man coming out of a black out with all of my limbs tied down and i'm cursed with addiction vengence in vein horrors of a perfect day i've tried to hide from the anger inside but blames such a hard thing to find when the burden of victums you've wronged from their right burn winter set with God's awful sigh so throw me a torch MAN free me from this chain drench all YOUR skies in GASOLINE and lets set the heavens aflame with your discontent and my mourners rage well i'm running i ran from travis county booking bled the stripes off my back
4.
Son 02:38
speak form the heart son mean what you say use your brain everyday your fists are reserved for protection your pride is not some valuable possession let it go, son let it go the masses are not always right don't let fools do your chores for you if you want something done right and take care of the ones that you love don't go to sleep angry cause it's not that important let it go, son let it go speak from the heart son mean what you say use your brain everyday
5.
Born to Die 03:32
it's not the first time i've found myself here standing in the same backwards line surrounded by fear i like when the rains fall hard on crowded city streets it's like we're all riding in the same boxcar both rich man and thief bored now and wronged you see the truth i see your lies you count your days well i count my hours blessed my we're all BORN TO DIE i like when she comes by like lovers estranged all the noise from the world outside disappears with the rain but it seems around here the storms don't leave the sorrow never quits well i bought an umbrella last year now it's covered in shit old now and bored you see the truth i see your lies you count my days well i'll count my hours blessed my we're all BORN TO DIE
6.
Sallie-Mae 03:30
been bankrupt since twenty-three i got my references i got my degree i come from the generation was fed the lies of higher education as meaning something more then debt and decay all that money and now there's no pay sallie-mae, sallie-mae why do you treat me this way? call me fifty times a day well i ain't got your money honey sallie-mae so i borrowed more then the worth that i am just following the footsteps of dear old uncle sam and the lies that we were sold when capital crack killed the american soul tell me is that now the worth of a man? an apathetic number in some greed driven scam? sallie-mae, sallie-mae why do you treat me this way? call me fifty times a day well i ain't got your money honey sallie-mae
7.
LYRICS WRITTEN BY JON PETTIS divine lessons are all that i see it wasn't my eyes that read it to me it wasn't for clothes or even for food it was realizing we are all good this mind has met my every need it built my body to never breed and i'll never want for anything because i only have everything there's no more crimes to suspect cause every man was made perfect there's no sin thats unforgiven there's only love for all men and women the angels they dance around me setting my soul free and the shephard guides with his staff teaching us all to laugh - to laugh

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released July 19, 2011

Recorded at @ The Shelter Studio
Engineered and Mixed by Eric Lopez
Mastered by Chris Seyler
"Divine Lessons" Lyrics By Jon Pettis
Cover Art By Adam Kilss & Joby Cummings

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