The Rooster
Atmosphere

Blue collar Eddie and his better half Delores used to be mantel pieces down at the Black Forest.
And I don't know if that bar still exists, but when it did, so did they, a couple bleeding heart kids.
Everything volatile, every night rocker style. Hop a stool, be discrete and just watch a while.
But do your best to keep the level observational, drama is attractive so push it when it takes a pull.
And each night's a random when you pay a ransom for the right to sing along with them drinking anthems.
And these fools paid so many dues that everybody stops to salute.

But one night after another fight a couple from an opposite table offered an invite.
Dolores didn't want to join 'em, wasn't feeling social.
But Eddie was so aggravated that he had to poke holes.
He walked over, sat in the dialogue and called at Dolores like some kind of dog (hey girl come here)
She can't believe it, she's done, she's had it, but she doesn't want to make another scene in this establishment.
She got up and mosied over, and put her arm up around Eddie's shoulder.
Nobody's sober the song is the same; sometimes you stick out your chin to catch the rain.

You can be a winner, you can be a loser, gotta wake up when you hear the rooster.
Sometimes it's just too simple to live your life wrong, gotta do what right for you when the time comes.
You can be a winner, you can be a loser, gotta wake up when you hear the rooster.
Sometimes it's just too simple to live your life wrong, gotta do what right for you when the time comes.

The clock keeps drinking, they keep ticking. There's two more people who get to play positions.
Samantha and Chuck; not a couple, just roommates; out having too many shots on a Tuesday.
Who knew they'd be tools for the duo, put a little bit of fire on the fuel.
It's a kinda blue, intentions ain't cruel, but everybody's so ready to bend up the rules.
Now there's Chuck, staring at Delores.
Eddie is distracted by Samantha so he doesn't notice.
And everybody's too fucked up to even asses the mess, much less care enough.
More whiskey, a pitcher of Premium, Eddie's getting tipsy, he didn't see it comin.
On his way back from a visit with that urinal, tryna straighten out his thoughts and the vertigo.
Weaves through, stops when he's seen em.
Picture perfect, it looked just like freedom.
Dolores on Chuck's lap kissing him hard. Eddie dipped into the winter left them all at the bar.
Sometimes ya gotta follow what's felt inside; between the power struggle and the selfish pride.
No one's allowed to cry unfair because now they both get to drink alone somewhere.

You can be a winner, you can be a loser, gotta wake up when you hear the rooster
Sometimes it's just too simple to live your life wrong, gotta do what right for you when the time comes
You can be a winner, you can be a loser, gotta wake up when you hear the rooster
Sometimes it's just too simple to live your life wrong, gotta do what right for you when the time comes
You can be a winner, you can be a loser, gotta wake up when you hear the rooster
Sometimes it's just too simple to live your life wrong, gotta do what right for you when the time comes


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  1597   1957   3.2 Red Dog   4: 30 Am   4:30 AM   52 Pick Up   7th St. Entry   7th StEntry   A Girl Named Hope   A Heave And A Ho   A Long Hello   A Song About A Friend   A Tall Seven & Seven   A Tall Seven & Seven   Abusing Of The Rib   Abusing The Rib   Adjust   Advanced Communications   Ain't Nobody   Ain't Nobody   Alive   Always Coming Back Home To You   Angelface   Angelface (multiples 5 Vs Travel 4)   Anterlude   Anybody that i v known   Anybody That I've Known   Apple   Arrival   Arrival (The Baby Farmer)   Arthur's Song   Arthur's Song   As The Rain Falls   Aspiring Sociopath   Bad Bad Daddy   Bam   Bam (Eventually Suddenly)   Bar Food   Bass And The Movement   Beautiful   Became   Besos   Between The Lines   Bid Sings Why The Caged I Knows   Bird Sings Why the Caged I Know   Bird Songs Why the Caged I Know   Bitter   Black Culture   Blak Culture   Blamegame   Bleed Slow   Bob Seger   Body Pillow   Bodypillow   Breathing   Brief Description   C'mon   Caged Bird Know Why Sings   Camera Thief   Can't Break   Can't Break   Cashier In A Convience Store   Cats Van Bags   Caved In   Chasing New York   Clay   Color In The Snow   Crewed Up   Cuando Limpia el Humo   Current Status   Cut You Down   Dead Wolf   Deep Fried Frenz - MF Doom   Denvemolorado   Dirty Girl   Domestic Dog   Don't Ever Fucking Question That   Don't Stop   Don't Forget   Dreamer   Dubs   Dungeons And Dragons   Edie Brikell   Everything   F*@k You Lucy   Famous   Fashion Magazine   Fear   Feel Good Hit Of The Summer 2   Fireflies   Fireflies (feat. Grieves)   Fishing Blues   Flesh   Flicker   Fortunate   Free Or Dead   Freefallin'   Freefallin\u2019   Fuck You Lucy   Full Moon   Funny Colors in My Mushroom Trails   Get Fly   Get It To Get Her   Give Me   God Loves Ugly   God's Bathroom Floor   God's Bathroom Floor   Godlovesugly   Godlovesugly Reprise   Good Times (Sick Pimpin')   Good Times (Sick Pimpin')   Gotta Lotta Walls   Guarantees   Guns And Cigarettes   Hair   Hell   Hidden track (seven's travels)   Higher Living   History   Hockey Hair   Hockey Hair (you Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're ...   Holy Schnikes   How I Won The War   How I Won The War (Slug)   I Don t Need Brighter Days   I Don't Need Brighter Days   I Don't Need No Fancy Shit   I Don't Need No Fancy Shit   I Don’t Need No Fancy Shit   I Love You Like a Brother   I Love You Like A Brother   I Wish Those Cats @ Phobia Would Give Me Some Free...   I Wish Those Cats at Fobia Would Give Me Some Free...   I Wish Those Cats At Phobia Would Give Me Some Fre...   Idiot   If I Was Santa Claus   If I Was Santa Clause   If You Can Save Me Now   In Her Music Box   In My Continental   Industrial Warfare   It Ain't The Prettiest   It Ain't The Prettiest   It Goes   January On Lake Street   Jason   Jewelry   JOY Division   Just For Show   Just For Show (Single)   Kanye West   Keep Steppin'   Keep Steppin'   Lambslaughter   Lambslaughter (Slug)   Less One   Let Me Know That You Know What You Want Now   Lift Her Pull Her   Lifter Puller   Like a Fire   Like The Rest Of Us   Like Today   Liquor Lyles Cool July   Little Man   Little Man (i Love You)   Little Math You   Los Angeles   Lost And Found   Love   Lovelife   Lyle Lovette   Makes the Sun Come Out   Makeshift Patriot   mama had a baby   Mama Had a Baby and His Head Popped Off   Me   Millennium Dodo   Millennium Dodo 2   Millie Fell Off The Fire Escape   Minnesota Nice   Mirror   Modern Man's Hustle   Modern Man's Hustle   Molly Cool   Mother's Day   Mrs. Interpret   Multiples   Multiples (Reprise)   Musical Chairs   Musical Chairs (stop The Fucking Music)   My Best Half   My Key   My Lady Got Two Men   My Lady Got Two Men   My Notes   My Songs   National Disgrace   Never   Next to You   No Biggie   No Biggie [Explicit]   Nothing But Sunshine   Ode To The Modern Man   Ode To The Modern Man (Lightning Blend)   One Of A Kind   Onemosphere   Oooooooh   P.O.SIs Ruining My Life   Painting   Panic Attack   Panic Attack (the P.a.)   Party For the Fight To Write   Party Over Here   Perfect   Pour Me Another   Pour Me Another (another Poor Me)   Prelude To Hell   Pride's Paranoia   Prides Paranoia   Primer   Princess Spoken Word   Princess Spoken Word (Slug)   Prom Quiz - Grayskul   Puppets   Pure Evil   Reflection   Reflections   RFTC   Rhythm of Rain   Ringo   Road To Riches   Road to the Riches   Round & Round   Round & Round   Running With Scissors   Sad Clown   Salma Hayek   Saves The Day   Say Hey There   Say Hey There (gotta Go To Mexico)   Scapegoat   Secret   Seismic Waves   Sent   Sep Seven Game Show Theme   She Don't Know Why She Love It   She Don't Know Why She Love It   She's Enough   She's Enough   Shh   Shh...   Shhh   Shoes   Shoulda Know   Shoulda Known   Shrapnel   Smart Went Crazy   Smart Went Crazy (the Beauty Pill)   Snuggle   Something So   Sound Is Vibration   Southsiders   Southsiders Explicit   Star Shaped Heart   Step by Step   Stick Up   Still Be Here   Substance Abuse   Sugar   Suicidegirls   Summer Song   Sunshine   Takin' Ova   Takin' Ova   Taking Over   Tall Seven and Seven   Tears For The Sheep   That Night   That's Not Beef, That's Pork   That's Not Beef, That's Pork   The Abusing Of The Rib   The Arrival   The Bass And The Movement   The Bird   The Jackpot   The Jackpot/Swept Away   The Jackpot\/Swept Away   The Keys To Life Vs. 15 Minutes Of Fame   The Keys To Life Vs15 Minutes Of Fame   The Last To Say   The Ocean   The Old Style   The Outernet   The River   The Ropes   The Shit That We've Been Through   The shit we ve been through   The Skinny   The Stick Up (feat. Eyedea)   The Things That Hate Us   The Waitress   The Woman With The Tattooed Hands   The World Might Not Live Through the Night   The X Has Come   The X Has Come.   They All Get Mad At You   They Always Know   They're All Gonna Laugh @ You   They're All Gonna Laugh At You   They're All Gonna Laugh @ You   This is How the Story Goes   This Lonely Rose (feat. Blueprint & Aesop Rock)   Threemosphere   To All My Friends   To The Break Of Sean   Tonight's Man   Tonight's Man   Tracksmart   Trailer Park Chicken   Travel   Trying to Find a Balance   Until The Nipple\u2019s Gone   Vampires   Verse From...   Vowel Movement   Watch Out   Watch Out (Hey You)   We Ain't Gonna Die Today   We Ain't Gonna Die Today   We Ain't Gonna Die Today   What They Sittin For?   What They Sitting For?   When the Lights Go Out   White Noise   Who I ll Never Be   Who I'll Never Be   Who I'll Never Be   Wild Wild Horses   Windows   WND   Woman With The Tattooed Hands   Won't Look Back   World Might Not Live Through The Night   Write Now   Write Now (Multiples #4)   Yesterday   YGM   You   You Played Yourself   Your Glasshouse   Your Name Here

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