Devendra Banhart - Some People Ride The Wave

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some people ride the wave of generosity

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some people ride the wave of mediocrity

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me i ride the wave of never gonna drown

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oh just fooling around

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now i gots the balloons

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and you you gots the mud

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and me i gots the snail

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and you you gots the stuff

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well you got so much more than i figure was in store

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oh i ain’t foolin no more

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now some people ride the cat when asleep or when awake

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some people ride a cat for riding a cat’s sake

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me i ride this cat cause its claws have got my eyes

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i’ll get ’em back in a few more tries

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oh i’ll get ’em back in a few more tries

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some people write the books that tenderize their names

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some people write the books that bastardize our claims

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me i ride the book that’s sifting in the sand

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aw , some day i’ll understand

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aw , some day i’ll understand

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some people write the songs that stay inside our souls

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some people write the songs that really ain’t songs at all

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me i ride the song that ends right when it starts

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they’ll split before they part

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oh they’ll split before they part