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I thought I had pulled this weed
but there was always some roots beneath
somebody dig it all out of me
I don't want it

I see it growing in the back of my head
crawling up parts of my brain delicate
I thought I had buried it too deep to live
I didn't water it

a respected man once spoke to me and a crowd
saying to "bloom where you're planted,
grow where you are"
he was later convicted of real estate fraud

one foot planted in the 9-5 
and the other's still buried in a different life
so I'm leaning all crooked off to one side
I can't balance

but this seed seems persistent to grow where it is
i'll let this melody's vine crawl out my lips
i'll get this garden song sung 'till it's totally killed

i won't weed it/weed it/not yet



jackie stem/garden song


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meet me on the corner, meet me on the street, 
meet me where the cement cracks under your feet

all worked up for a midday brawl
or a daylight gunfight
push and shove till we both can't crawl
rough and tumble

am i a rock you lean on, or a pebble in your shoe
a hook to hang your hat on or a thorn dug into you

all worked up for a midday brawl 
or a daylight gunfight
push and shove till we both can't crawl
rough and tumble 


jackie stem/rough and tumble


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jackie stem/cover/you're nobody till somebody loves you


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serpentine both of us bit by the same state of mind
and the poison gets you going just right

freeze-dried words in your mind pushed to the side
prepackaged for the masses when they ask this

"how did you get those two little pinholes
right on the back of your neck?"

serpentine all twisted inside
repeating the line "the tension is good"

if you say it enough you start believing that stuff
it's a poisonous bluff, call it if you want to just

don't show your snake bite in the broad daylight
it's hard to explain right

serpentine both of us bit by the same state of mind
and the poison gets you going just right 


jackie stem/serpentine


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glue more days on my paper chain
reality starts when i'm dead
i got some and you got some
but what matters is that we're both fed
reality starts when i'm dead

i got a paycheck, a clean neck, a permanent address
it's hard to beat it all out of my head
the naive parts won't listen

a pin prick gets me deflated and suddenly back to the start
dragging around a half-heart

i got a paycheck, a clean neck, a permanent address
it's hard to beat it back into my head
the logical parts can't stand it

i'll hold my breath for an easier hour, i'm confident it will work somehow

my cement, it still feels wet
maybe it won't ever dry
maybe it'll crack in good time

i got a paycheck, a clean neck, a permanent address, 
somebody beat it all out of my head
somebody beat it all out of my head...

jackie stem/beat it all out of my head

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leave luck to the mad man
burn chance in a trash can
just, just make it happen
leave luck to the mad man

"what (what) are the chances?"
don't wait for an answer
the odds are no better
leave luck to the mad men

rig, rig your own hand
burn chance in a trash can
load your own dice, then
leave luck to the mad men


jackie stem/leave luck to the mad man

ain't nobody, nobody like you, 
you're all I need to get me through
oh there ain't no, ain't nobody,
ain't nobody, ain't no ain't nobody
like you, nobody like you

ain't no, ain't nobody like me
how strange my heart beats
oh there ain't no ain't nobody
ain't nobody, ain't no ain't nobody like me

nobody like you, nobody like me...

ain't no ain't nobody like us
all we need's the simple stuff
oh there ain't no ain't nobody, ain't nobody, 
ain't no ain't nobody like us
nobody like us 

jackie stem/nobody like us



diggin in your subconscious
i came across it honest
look what i found, look what I found, look what I

two pennies in the dirt, copper
 2 flecks of lone  metal
look what I found, look what I found,  your own two cents

nothing but paydirt

if you keep me in your back       pocket
i’m your sharp knife    when you want me
we can cut out, we can cut out, we can cut 

we’ll ride this gold rush
till it overcomes us
look what i found look what i found your own two...

nothing but paydirt

keep me in your sub     conscious
nothing but brutally honest
cut to the quick
spend it on me
your own two   cent


paydirt

consider this a first draft 

enough is as good as a feast
we don’t need to eat eat eat
swallow only what you you need
then heave ho, heave ho, heave ho, heave  

oh, you weren’t built for this it’s
digging at your confidence
you were meant to scale scale some higher cliffs
jeronimo

if you wanna be be a freeway freak
that’s just just fine with me
i’m not attached anywhere particularly
give it a go give it a go give it a  heave heave heave heave heave
give it a go give it a go give it a heave heave heave....

jeronimo, jeronimo 

we can cut cut all the strings we keep
parachute-free follow me

we can cut all the strings we keep
parachute-free-fall oh mee

if any of this is turning your chin
look back at me again
sorry bout my studdering but

jeronimo 


jackie stem - jeronimo

a dark/jazzier version of "favorite things" from sound of music 

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad

jackie stem

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