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Spontaneous Combustion (Lyric) by wilco
Yesterday’s future is tomorrow’s past and they say the good times never last. They’ll kill those dreams they’ve never seen just to watch them burn away from your soul like the days they say were a waste. All my erstwhile friends and lovers hide their heads beneath my cover. They haunt my dreams, reminding me, that I’m the one who’s wrong. I guess that’s why I haven’t called in years. Believe that it’s better when we are small; There’s not such a long way to fall. On your knees, babe. Genuflect, babe. It’s really not this bad. Stay with me, I’ve been on the ground for years.

Up the ladder: The Dreamhole
Down the ladder: Lake Michigan

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Arithmetic Mean: 5.25
Weighted score: 5.029801
Overall Rank: 7293
Posted: May 23, 2005 3:39 PM PDT; Last modified: July 5, 2005 7:41 PM PDT
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Comments:
[8] Dovina @ 69.175.32.185 | 23-May-05/3:47 PM | Reply
Sounds like a Willie Nelson wail.
[7] deleted user @ 81.69.23.196 | 23-May-05/4:42 PM | Reply
the repetition works very well.
[n/a] wilco @ 24.165.207.93 | 23-May-05/8:27 PM | Reply
So, what happened? I leave for a while and Rockmage comes back filled with old hippie hatred for everything and plasters everyone with zeroes? I'm a little confused.
[4] Bankrupt_Word_Clerk @ 71.130.9.187 > wilco | 6-Jul-05/1:35 AM | Reply
he didn't give you a zero. maybe he's been filled the spiritual antithesis of true hippydom----- honesty.
[n/a] <~> @ 167.206.181.179 | 8-Jul-05/6:55 AM | Reply
this has a nice bounce to it until the last stanza. why did you break it?
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