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Tell your friends not to think aloud
Until they swallow
Whisper things into my brain
Your voice sounds so hollow
I am not a leader of men
Since I prefer to follow
Do you think I could have a drink
Since it's so hard to swallow
So hard to swallow
So turn the television off
And I will sing a song
And if you suddenly have the urge
You can sing along
I touch your hand, I touch your face
I think the fruit is rotten
Give me lessons on how to breathe
Cause I think I've forgotten
I think I've forgotten
One day, up to a cliff
That overlooks the water
I jumped in to save a girl
It was somebody's daughter
And now the ring is on my hand
It was given to me by her
To this day we all sit around
And dream of ways to get higher
To get much higher
Tell your friends not to think aloud
Until they swallow
Whisper things into my brain
Your voice sounds so hollow
I am not a leader of men
Since I prefer to follow
Do you think I could have a drink
Since it's so hard to swallow
So hard to swallow
Until they swallow
Whisper things into my brain
Your voice sounds so hollow
I am not a leader of men
Since I prefer to follow
Do you think I could have a drink
Since it's so hard to swallow
So hard to swallow
So turn the television off
And I will sing a song
And if you suddenly have the urge
You can sing along
I touch your hand, I touch your face
I think the fruit is rotten
Give me lessons on how to breathe
Cause I think I've forgotten
I think I've forgotten
One day, up to a cliff
That overlooks the water
I jumped in to save a girl
It was somebody's daughter
And now the ring is on my hand
It was given to me by her
To this day we all sit around
And dream of ways to get higher
To get much higher
Tell your friends not to think aloud
Until they swallow
Whisper things into my brain
Your voice sounds so hollow
I am not a leader of men
Since I prefer to follow
Do you think I could have a drink
Since it's so hard to swallow
So hard to swallow
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I don't know anything else about this, but that it's a fact he saved a drowning girl..have heard something about 'magic mushrooms', but whatever it is isn't true. And p.s....Chad is hott!
I don't know anything else about this, but that it's a fact he saved a drowning girl..have heard something about 'magic mushrooms', but whatever it is isn't true. And p.s....Chad is hott!
he prefaced this song w/ a lil speach, too. it went something like:
"This next song . . . this next song is about SHROOOMS!!!!! ::: appears to gag ::: Yeah, SHROOOOMS!!! Ya like that, don't ya? SHROOOOOOOMMMMMSSSSSS!!!! ::: falldown+vomit ::: Where am I, again?"
kinda ruined Nickelback for me. I was hoping to hear some of their newer stuff. instead I got Chad Sings Karaoke While Gargling Battery Acid (which actually might have been an improvement). it was like going to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show, only to discover that the Time Warp number has been cut and replaced with William Shatner's spoken word version performed while Ron Jeremy churns butter.
or like casting Nicolas Cage as the lead in Jesus Christ, Superstar.
or learning that the Scientologists were right.
X-Fest sucked that year. nothing like the year before with SR-71, the Union Underground, and a dozen other good bands, all capped off with Disturbed headlining. that was sick. this was just sickening.
"I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them!"
Also of interest, a previous line in the play spoken to the same character...
"When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back."