Get all 6 ACLU Benefit releases available on Bandcamp.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Suicide: The Best of, For True Fans Only, LOVE and FAME, Live with Amanda Palmer, ACLU Benefit Awkwardly Performs with his Ex-Girlfriends, Live, May, 2010, at Silent Barn, Ridgewood, NY, and ESKEMO.
1. |
I Love You So Much
03:33
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(C-G)
I can't draw
(C-G)
I can't paint
(C-G)
I can't write
(C-G)
I'll never be a saint
(F-A)
But I can sing
(D-E)
and I can say
(Asus up an octave)
I love you so much (3)
Em
D
E-D-C
I can't read
your favorite philosophies
I can't sculpt
something beautiful for you to see
(chorus)
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2. |
Love Your Family
03:18
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F-Dm-Bb-C
How old do you have to get
before you're honest with your parents
and can tell them about the time Kate
broke your heart without getting embarrassed?
How old do you have to turn before you see you're no longer a teenager,
take your anger, burn it up, and leave those grudges forever?
How old do you have to grow
before you see your mom's an old lady
who's probably all alone
and definitely misses her baby?
How old do you have to get
before both your parents die
and you're left saying
I wish, I wish, I wish, I...?
How old do you have to get before you see yourself in your family
and start to love them for it
as your closest connection out of all humanity?
How long has to pass by
before you tell your dad and mom
"I'm sorry. I love you. Thanks for the things you did right.
You're forgiven for what you did wrong."
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3. |
Saying Goodbye
03:18
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B
E:4
A:2
G:4
E:2
A:2
G:4
Em
Saying goodbye
I'm saying goodbye
Goodbye to you
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4. |
Katie
02:48
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Katie
Verse:
E-3--------3--------3---------3-----------3-------3-------3------3
B-------0-------0--------0----------0--------0--------0------0
G---0----0---------0--------0----------0-------0-------0------0
D-2---2-----0---------0-----------------------------------
A----------------------------------3---------3--------2----2--
E
Interlude:
E3
B3
G0
D:X
A3-2-0-2-3-2-0
E-----------------3
Katie (3)
War in iraq
Katie (3)
Genocide in darfur
Katie (3)
The destruction by wal-mart
Katie (3)
The loss of the American family
Katie (3)
The mistreatment of the disabled in this country
Katie (3)
Lack of rights for children
Katie (3)
The aids epidemic
Katie (3)
Lots of ovarian cancer
Katie (3)
And cigarettes are still legal
(interlude)
Katie (3)
too many cars on the highways
Katie (3)
increasing global warming
Katie (3)
low voter turnout
Katie (3)
slavery in china and india
Katie (3)
millions of homeless
Katie (3)
unnecessary pollution
Katie (3)
farmers abusing chattle
Katie (3)
female circumcision
(interlude)
Katie (3)
You’re all that’s on my mind right now
Katie (3)
How I want your breasts in my mouth
But Katie (3)
That’s so boring to listen to
So Katie (3)
I pretend this song’s about problems and not you
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5. |
Walter's Regrets
09:33
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(G-D-Am-C)
I’ve been down
For a while
On the ground
Looking down
At this hole
In the clouds
At the people
Who are beneath me
Like my friends
And my little family
(G-F-Am-C)
Cuz I’m stuck here
In heaven
All alone
And I wonder
if I will
ever be happy
Without my friends
And wife with me
Why did I
Decide to be good
When all I love is my wife
And my friends from the neighborhood
When all of them
Were destined for hell
Maybe I’d be satisfied if I fell
(chorus)
Maybe I wasted my life
Doing what is right
All my friends
Are together tonight
(chorus)
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6. |
Dead
01:31
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(DG-CF-BE-CF-DG-CF-BE)
I saw a guy and he looked like he was pretty cool
So I walked up said hi one day in school
And we became very very very very good friends
But it doesn’t matter now
(AD-GC)
Because he is dead
I had a teacher who taught me everything I know
But I never got to tell him all this though
And now he’ll never get to see
How much he meant to me
Because he is dead
I saw a girl and said she’s a dumb slut
and I don’t care about her at all but
I can’t tell anyone how I feel
or they’ll get real mad at me
Because she is dead
Every so often I’m haunted in my dreams
I’m really tired of my screams
Please leave me alone, Brad, I wish you would
Go away now because
You are dead.
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7. |
Love of My Life
01:25
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(Love of my life, I'll never get over you)
When I get lonely, I call up my ex-girlfriend and say
"I need to kiss someone named Kate Ferencz.
It matters who.
I know by now it needs to be you."
In the two things that I love,
there is power from your blood.
You're the prettiest girl in the world,
but you only date mice and worms.
Can't make you love me,
and I'm sorry, so sorry
you'll never come back to me
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8. |
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(G em c)
William Moloney
(G em c)
your songs are so lonely
(d-am?)
but no one listens
(d-c?)
to old table
(d-am?)
a poetic drunk
(d-c?)
whose heart's too full
William Moloney
you live with your family
You got fired from
the grocery store
They think you're dumb
when you pour
(G Em C)
piss out the window
William Moloney
You have the only
true artist's life,
But it's too much
to market right.
You just wanna touch
our souls
then go
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9. |
Riding
01:57
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10. |
Marie
03:36
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(CG-CF)
Oh Marie,
Why didn’t I make you kiss me, oh Marie?
It would have been so easy oh, Marie
You were lying in bed right next to me, sweet Marie,
Your body was nestled right into me Marie,
The liquor has worn off, sweet Marie
But you’re still just as hot, oh Marie
(FA-GB-AC)
And now the sun is up
Oh, Marie
Why didn’t I kiss you, oh, Marie
Now there’s nothing I can do, oh, Marie
One night stands look so easy to me, oh, Marie
But I miss chances too easily, Marie
Now it’s too late for you and stupid stupid me,
It’s too late for us gorgeous Marie
Because the sun is up
Oh, Marie
Why didn’t you kiss me, oh, Marie
Why didn’t you take me, oh, Marie
Chances go once we sleep, so, now, Marie
I can only regret everything so deeply, Marie
It’s too late for us, stupid me,
It’s too late for us, not my Marie
Because the sun is up
The sun is up
Oh, Marie
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11. |
Summer
03:24
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ACLU Benefit Boston, Massachusetts
Noah plays guitar and sings. Now known as Request Freebird.
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