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The original Ugly Stick release was sloppy, full of energy and most of all – it was raw. (Released: August 8, 2001).

Raw Song Lyrics

Swimming With Sharks

VERSE 1
Keep on walking because no one was talking to you
Anyway I know you’ll miss me some day soon
You will see, I’ve carried on my dreams
Whether it is with or without you here

CHORUS
Wishes granted I’m out of your life for the night
Take me with you, don’t leave me behind
Because I can’t swim
In this cold misery called life

VERSE 2
High school antics, unknown semantics
Bands won’t stop because you’re out of the game, away
It’s just your way to make me think that I can’t carry on
You’ll miss me once I’m gone

REPEAT CHORUS

Midnight Wagon

VERSE 1
Wish you’d recall the last time that we here
It’s was February 6th and my heart had skipped a beat
But I have to leave shortly after midnight
So please don’t forget me when I’m gone

CHORUS 1
Because the happiness has all gone away
Yeah so have the friends

VERSE 2
Choose your words ever carefully
But the lyrics come so easy when you’re down in this rut
Speaking in drunk tongues can hurt the ones you love
Especially when you’re not drunk enough

CHORUS 2
Take what I have got to give and learn from the rest
Maybe then you’ll pass this test

BRIDGE
Thought you said you’d wait forever and a day
Took my life, you quickly went away
And sometimes sun don’t shine on this side of town
No reason for you to parade around

CHORUS 3
Speeding cars and falling stars are all the same
As long as she, she will never care
People miss their trains everyday
As long as she, she will never care

Best Friends

VERSE 1
We walked down to the old beach house
Where we used to laugh and play
Some dreams are worth one thousand memories
If you can hold on to just one
I wish that summer could last all year
But the fall comes soon, goodbye to friends

PRE-CHORUS
But sometimes you have to keep dreaming for yourself
Even if there’s no one else
Because times can be so tough when you’re all alone
Even if it’s not your fault

CHORUS
Best friends don’t grow on trees anymore
I so sick of everything
You can’t walk if you don’t know to crawl
It’s getting depressing

VERSE 2
I had the time of my life this year
Pretending you’re not even here

REPEAT PRE-CHORUS
REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE
But I plan on drinking all night to forget you
Forget you right now
I know somehow that you still believe in me
And everything I want to be
You can’t keep treating me as though I’m lost
Within random thoughts of her
Because one day, you’re gonna lose it all
You’ve already lost me

Do you recall when everything felt numb?

Floodgates

(Hello? This song sounds a little bit like Glycerine, Glycerine)

VERSE 1
I’m gonna try and forget the last time that we met
And rain poured like an 80’s movie
You were the star in a major casting call
While everyone else played a minor role

CHORUS
Because planes can’t fly and these cars can’t drive
Fast enough to stay with the changing of time
Do cigarettes still smoke if you don’t have a soul?
Someones floodgates were let go

BRIDGE
The director of the set would gladly forget
His responsibilities for a minute or two
You had the thought, I would forget
I can’t let this die

VERSE 2
Now the floodgates have closed and you’re waiting alone
And nothing else compares, you don’t care
The set has been drawn and you’re singing along
And nothing else compares, compares to you

Weak

VERSE 1
Just go with the flow because you can’t go sleeping here
Sometimes you have to watch the hurtful things you say
I’ve learned so much from you I can’t believe
That you’ve gone away from me today, I’ve got nothing to say

CHORUS
Too far away from me to see you
Too close for you to even care
I’m glad you said that you were doing this for me
Because I’m doing this for you

VERSE 2
One thousand tears can lead to…
On our road to there we know what you’re going through
Phone bells don’t ring to challenge what I know
And the past six years have been a mix of their own

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE
Pass six a.m. you can’t come back sleeping here
Sometimes you have to watch the hurtful things you say
I’ve heard so much from you I can’t believe
That you’ve gone away from me today, I’ve got nothing to say
And I don’t know what to say
So if you care at all, you’ll return my phone calls
So maybe I can know
What’s going on in your life

REPEAT CHORUS

Alopecia (Home Away From Home)

VERSE 1
Our heroes don’t fly any more as something has changed
In this heartless world
We wish for these roles to all change
But they all seem to remain the same

CHORUS
Did you find someone else
To take the pain away from this endless day?
Did you find a new place
To call your home away from home?

VERSE 2
The seasons all change as does your heart
I wish we could go back to the start
To change what was wrong to wrong what was right
Maybe then we could sleep at night

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE
They all slip away…

Did you find the walk home most uncomfortable?
Did you wake up in a cold sweat?
Did you make the most of our days?
Or did you get by? Did you just get by?

How could you? Why would you let me walk away?
From everything that we’re going through today
How could you? Why would you let me feel this way about
Everything that we have said?

Is this what we’re aiming for?
Then I’m not sure I want you any more
They say it’s best just to forget
But I can’t seem to get over the facts

They always say that the quitters never win
So I guess they were right