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A large part of The Scallions' first release, Mud Pie, is instrumental, but there are some tracks that feature vocals. Here are the lyrics for those tracks. (Feel free to sing along at home!)


innocence denied

I saw a face
Combined with an expression
Frail as you looked
Outward to light

Pale was your skin
As you confessed the truth
Fingers of blame point East
As you sit all alone

I heard a voice
As words escaped your breath
No alibi was expressed
As you fell apart

mike
shawn

falling

Irrational concepts buzz about
In a shattered kind of way
Stop all this madness from creeping around
I see too many shadows of the after life

Falling

I see too many horizons of a lifeless ground
Strange proportions circle below
Crawling though strangled air
I've seen too many lost thoughts

Falling

gladys

Stop animation, let me comfort you
As you weep in the month of June
Words of bliss can console all your strain
Ease all the mental anguish that's insane

Proposed an idea, a new thought in your mind
Words of color leave a dead man that's blind
Cynical ideas are not what you need
Release all pressure, let your thoughts...bleed

Gladys, I need you
Gladys, I need you now

mike
shawn

calling from the sky

Motionless I take a breath
And reminisce about my death
So fast that I had to go
But time was up and now I know

Calling was coming from the sky
A mortal man can only try
To escape the ending of his life
Missing his children and his wife




soldiers' loss of strength

So sits a man in a field of haze
"I wait for the end, I have been here for days"
Waiting to hear the blast in the night sky
"The feeling I have is I've already died"

So lays a man as the stars sparkle bright
"I hear more engines as the men jump in flight"
I just laugh at the whole scene that I see
"For now I will pass on and all let me be"

mike
shawn

memories are made of this

Valentine
Bittersweet mine
My heart is beating fast
For days lost in the past

That's a long time ago
Such a long time ago
I'm going down
I'm going down

Complication
Tangled in frustration
Harsh words, softly spoken
Mending hearts never broken

That's a long time ago
Such a long time ago
I'm going down
I'm going down
Going down, Going down
Going down, Going down
Going down, Going down

I didn't want to waste your time
How I want you taking mine
There's so much I would say and do
If I could only find a way back to you
Yeah, back to you

mike

I didn't want to waste your time (Waste your time)
How I want you taking mine (Keep this in mind)
There's so much I would say and do (Say to you)
If I could only find a way back to you
Yeah, back to you

I hope your fine
Bittersweet mine
The silver, blue and gold
In the memories I will hold

That's a long time ago
Such a long time ago
I'm going down
I'm going down
Going down, Going down
Going down, Going down
Going down, Going down



All lyrics and music by Mike and Shawn Franklin
All material ©2002 Onionhead Muzak


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