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Born on the Fourth of July
Blue in her veins she’s a highway child
There’s a spotlight fixed to the bypass
They’re searching for a baby boy
Only the strong would survive
And later she’d be the one who they call
To read them their rights
They found her in the barracks and tried to find her family all night
Without a letter or name she was starting again
She was a natural, a young-in heroine
Burning the midnight crime
In a time of the yes-men
She swore to be more than a passing babe
But a lady who would do what’s right
She was born under the badge on the other side
They found her on the side of the road
They found her in the nick of time on the side of the road
She won’t carry a gun but she talks sweet to everyone
She uses her mind for the fight
Out on her own in the dark of the night
She’s got a talent for finding the kind of evidence to go along with an alibi
She was born under the badge on the other side
Out of a rolling home
The call is early morning
She nearly died awake
Dancing on the motor
What, they really only made a dollar here and there now
Don’t matter what you do
You got the atom of love
Only the tragic pay for the world
Standing on the pillars of her only love
Shot down on her only love
Lie in the middle, lie in the middle
You got the atom of love
You wanta be strong but you
You got the atom of love
Times a friend who shows their face when you never expect them again
Every bodies taking their time in the heat
They’re leaving their phones and their heads in the street
If you can carry your own on your back and live for a while, time can get back on its feet
We’re all born under the badge
On the other side
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No one writes me letters
Just coupon slips with detergent deals
If I buy in bulk to wash my uniform
No one writes me post cards
Just taxation forms
Maybe it’s time to find myself
A friend to call my own
A pal until the end of time, you’ll be
No ones writes me emails
Just the news in a soaked plastic bag
There’s a smear campaign on General Gene on the front page of West Today
There’s a clear conversation, it’s just what I need
A palindrome to throw some shade with me
A simple love to show you, all of my guts and my kidneys I’d give
All for your love and your company too
I want to spend my time with a girl like you
When you’re loving me baby
I want to stand beside your when you’re out in pursuit
when you’re loving me girl
That’s the life that I wanta live with you on my side
That’s the life that you saw
Like a head on train crash ego fight
Yeah I’m ready for it
Where you going with it?
You know the time is dying down the drain
And you’ll be knee deep in the water with her
There’s a problem with your generation you think you got it all ahead
But you won’t even listen to me and I’m twice as dead
She don’t care about your heart ache or your love
She just wants to hold a gun
There’s something in the water here cause you kids are all over the place
Drifting to Friday nights down with the City saints
By the time you get done with training
She’ll be out with a captain, boy
Leaving you with the traffic and vest, directioning back and forth
She don’t care about your heart ache or your love
She just wants to hold a gun
She don’t care about your future my good son
I’m telling you she’s not the one
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The most popular girl in station 24
When the sons and daughters visit the force
There’s a lot of other people in uniform
Giving snow from out behind their chairs
When big baby thought she made herself a friend
the wrong people tried to kidnap her again
But she’s strong she’s all the muscle she needs
She’s the man but she can guarantee
Honey for you
She’s your man for the job
The most popular girl on the force
When her brother comes to check on the plants
There’s a problem with the payment advance that she sent to Butch
For later lessons to show she saw the memories that she left on the floor
With a box of dark chocolates and caramel Jesus’s
All the other prophets had skipped out and went to the show
She’s your man for the job
The most popular girl on the force
A little while in the sun
She’s the best of the sons of the law
a girl with it all in her hands
she can take them away and still show them a way to respect and she gives it and gets it from all the perps and officers too
they trust her instincts they let her go on and on and on
Baby I love you
don’t let me go
Let me be used
Such a bad girl
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Killers In The City
02:10
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Sergeant Baker arrives he takes his ketamine on his car
He don’t trust in me no more
the prospect of the pain outweighs the thought of Raquel
he says love is the only feelings I can’t live without
The bleeding starts too deep
He soaks thru his sheets at night and throws them away
No one believes their eyes when he shows up the next day
He tells his officers that they’ve done their best
But they found no one to arrest
Just a box of vacation photos
Killers in the city
Killers in city
Searching thru town
she knows when she’s pretty good looking
Killers in the city
Killers in city
Searching thru town
She knows when she’s out on the job
Taking Arlington down the blocks a barricade of broken walls he says that he never takes things quite so hard and there’s a piece of his girl in his words when he speaks of himself
He says loves the only feeling
worth a damn and I can’t just change what I don’t like about my life
Killers in the city
Killers in city
Searching thru town
she knows when she’s pretty good looking
Killers in the city
Killers in city
Searching thru town
She knows when she’s out on the job
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Tilting At Windmills
06:12
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Somewhere beyond the station
somewhere beyond the station
I’ll Leave my worries and my troubles down on the beach
Somewhere the boys won’t see
Somewhere beyond the station
somewhere beyond the station
I’ll be the one true Commisioner
Head of the fleet
Or maybe just walking a beat
Try as I may to forget them
They’ll tear me apart if I let them
A sign that the times are repeating
You open the door and I’m leaving the station for good
Till I’m understood
And times are repeating
They’re repeating them
We’re repeating them all till we stop our fall to the bottom
We’ll find ourself at the top of yeah somewhere
Somewhere beyond the station
Somewhere beyond the station
I’ll leave my time to my brothers
and give it all to my city
and maybe I’ll come out clean
Somewhere beyond the station
Somewhere beyond the station
Somewhere beyond the station
I’ll be the one for my family
and I’ll bring to all to the sea
Yeah I’ll keep em all safe for you and me
You open the door and I’m leaving the station for good
Till I’m understood
And the times are repeating
We’re repeating them all
You can take so much
and still leave some for Larer
When the time is up
Just waiting for the better
Somewhere there’s a world for me
As I the only one looking out there?
You listen to your teachers then you’ll start teach me
Tell you, you are a stallion
You’ll never need to work a single day in your life
You’re a wonder woman you’ve done the impossible now
Finds the truth in every pair of shoes
Tell the truth just tell the truth and maybe we’ll be together on the ocean and at least we’ll be
Somewhere beyond the station
Somewhere beyond the station we’ll be
Ourselves at our purest and both fall asleep
Happy that we can be we
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Pal's Heist
02:31
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When I see you
when I see you all alone
When you steal the show
It’s not a crime is what you think aloud
But you don’t see me there
It’s all I need to keep you away
When I see you
When I see you after all after all the years
Out in public with the eyes of the beast
Out of town out of the county and just
When we had it
We thought we had it for good
We thought we had it for so long
When I see you
When I see what you’ve become
When I see you
When I see what you have done
But you’ll never get the chance to turn yourself in
I can’t bring myself to take you it’s all I need to keep you away
That love was for me baby but you spent it all your nose and your teeth
That love was for me baby but you spent it all on your throne and your feet
Thought you’d get away
But you wanta go back to those days
Thought you’d get away
But you wanta go back to those days on the force
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Hunt For Girl Cop
04:40
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Let’s be new
I want to have a romantic evening with you
on the hood of your Malibu
We’ll holster ourselves
the closer we come together
You’re just the kind of man who meets my ever-growing standards
and trying to raise my confidence
You wouldn’t let me down
how could you let me down
you wouldn’t work for your bread
you’d rather stay home instead
you wouldn’t let me down
how could you let me down
they used to call me the girl who wants out
out from the body they own
as if it was theirs to know all the difference of one and the other
two can’t be all that it takes to keep an eye on the world
girl who wants out
Out from the body they own
As is if it was theirs to know
let’s be new I want to have a romantic evening with you while they search the town hunt me down
Through the worst of it you’re still who i call my friend
While we’re away
While they don’t know what to say
Just like the days somebody said they’d be
It won’t be me
I don’t know how to say it in an anymore obvious way
To the show out
California leaves what you believe at home
Stuck in between the views
And with a rosey glow of the spilling palms along the walk in love
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Death and Breadth
02:59
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You knew the truth
All the time I’m hearing your voice
I think about the things you told me
I think about you
You knew the truth before you told me
All the time I’m hearing your voice
I miss the days you wouldn’t tell me
I thought for sure that you would tell me
We had the worst luck you could have
Forgetting the dosage hard
It’s not a joke I’m waiting
For you to wake me up
There’s not a cop among us
We’re all frauds with dirty mugs
death had the most to gain
From what we keep to ourselves and who we try to blame
I like the way we used to feel
I like the way we used to feel together
I like the way we used to feel
I like the way we used to feel
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Keep On Loosening It Up
03:36
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Keep on loosening it up
keep on dancing it off
till you put all of your records on
Keep on loosening it up
keep on working it out
you’re getting better with the pressure now
keep on loosening it up
keep on tearing it down till you’re down
keep on loosening it up
keep on working it out
you’re getting better with the pressure now
keep on loosening it up
keep on tearing it down
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Sunday Dinner
04:56
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Be home for the Sunday dinners begun
They’re filling their plates
With all the mess they’ve made for a holiday
Drink more than your bright
Out there on the run
You’ll be safe here my son
Way out in the Sunday dinner we’ve come
Together
We’ll eat in the dark
We’ll eat in the dark
We’ll make up time on the countryside
And we got a brand new TV for you
Time is a golden dancer
And you’ll be a spinner
Waiting it out
Is what Sunday dinners about
A world on the tip of its tongue will be bit
But we’re over the bite
Yeah you’re a different kind of woman
You left all your Christmas gifts in the room you learned how to walk in
I can’t come to grips with your little toys and your permission slips
But it means more now than it did back then
And I can’t just can’t let it die
Back in 2025
And I’ll live just for those Sunday’s
Time is an open ocean
And you’ll be a swimmer
We’ll be waiting on the coast
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