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Artists and Poets Run Amok! Lyrics by Andrew Lawrence Jackson We’re an intangible asset Like an executive gift An indecision in the making We are the cause of the rift I am an endless disaster Caught in the continental drift Baking incongruous batches All the executives are miffed I know it doesn’t add up We’re an incongruous bunch An impervious collection Artists and Poets run amok (2x) And we will never get over it And you can’t wrap your brain around it We’re breaking all the unwritten rules And we are not your average fools We are supposed to be learning We are expected to improve Although it’s all in transition And we are always on the move We take a picture at breakfast We’re tracing money round the clock We’re an uncertain collective Artists and poets run amok! I know it doesn’t add up We’re an incongruous bunch An impervious collection Artists and Poets run amok (2x)
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Things Are Better With You Lyrics by Andrew L. Jackson There’s things I want to say that I don’t know how to say There’s things I want to do that I don’t know how to do Yet even though these words are only pointing the way Somehow these these things are always better with you When I started on my way I didn’t know where I would go I got up the nerve to talk to you I didn’t dare to think about some distant future day I only knew that things were going better with you Mmm- mmm… I only knew that things were better with you Oh, oh… I only knew that things were better with you Ah… here comes the drifting, drifting I… can’t seem to focus, focus I… am always dreaming, dreaming You… put a hook in me and pulled me down to earth There’s things that I need that I don’t know how to ask Places I’ve been I had to fight my way through Through all this I wasn’t a puppet on a string I did my own thing and it was better with you Oh, oh… I’m happy to report that things are better with you!
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Little Yellow Pills Lyrics by Andrew Lawrence Jackson Ah – aah – aah – aah – oh – oh I’m in the middle of a curve And the shadows are falling I made my bed in a memory I took a bath in golden leaves I was alone in the village There was a monk on the hill A little ballerina elevated She took a little yellow pill I was driving in circles In a kaleidoscopic city And it was getting to be dangerous But the lights were so pretty Spare parts were falling off of me Lost my voice, lost my head Little pieces of what used to be Leaving something else instead Ah – aah – aah – aah – oh – oh I’m in a battery of elephants I hunger deeply for a thrill I am an absent inhabitant All blank and ready to be filled I stumble on an oasis Looking for an empty lot I used to always be thirsty Now I’m a waterfall of thought I wore a wire on my heartstrings Rode in a magical machine Until I woke up in an armchair But it was such a lovely dream I’m in the middle of a fall With baby phantoms all around Moving in fast-and-slow motion To that modulating sound Ah – aah – aah – aah – oh – oh I lingered long in the marshes Fell into another stream I was barely unconscious Hanging in the golden mean I’m on the outskirts of Anywhere I’m on a bench in the park I’m in a capsule floating out in space Driving backwards in the dark Ah – aah – aah – aah – oh – oh I’m in the middle of a life Testing my fate against will Change my head, change my mind Don’t need your little yellow pill Change my head, change my mind Don’t need no little yellow pills Mmm hmmm Mmm hmmm
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The Once and Future Me Lyrics by Andrew Lawrence Jackson I’m going back to my A B C s I’m going back to what I know to be true I’m harking back across the mountains and the seas I’m looking back to find the once and future me I’m on a bridge between the old and the new I’m on a ridge looking out at the view I’m looking up to see the clouds in the sky I’m crossing over to find what I can do Remember, I can’t seem to remember Whatever, it doesn’t really seem to matter ‘Cause what was true then is even more true today What was true then is even more true today What was true then is even more true today And nothing has changed except nothing is the same I’m starting out, relearn my A B C s I’m taking off learning a new point of view I’m harking back across the mountains and the seas I’m looking back to find the once and future me Ay-ay-ay – What was I going to say? Oh-uh-oh – What was I going to do? Ah-ah-ah – Maybe it’s better this way Say O-kay to the once and future you I’m on a bridge between the old and the new I’m on a ridge looking out at the view I’m looking up to see the clouds in the sky I’m crossing over to find what I can do Remember, I can’t seem to remember Whatever, it doesn’t really seem to matter ‘Cause what was true then is even more true today What was true then is even more true today What was true then is even more true today And nothing has changed except nothing is the same I’m going back to my A B C s I’m going back to what I know to be true I’m harking back across the mountains and the seas I’m looking back to find the once and future me
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Say It To You By Andrew Lawrence Jackson I’ve got something to say And no one to tell it to So I’ll say it to you So I’ll say it to you I feel a little lost Like I lost my way But then I remember I never knew where I was going anyway It’s kind of funny that way It’s kind of funny that way It’s kind of funny that way It’s kind of funny that way I’ve got nothing to say And no one to say it to So I’ll sing it to you I will sing it to you It doesn't matter anyway Not one way or the other And if you’d had your druthers You’d know I’m not like the others No, I’m not like the others I’m not like the others Oh, I’m not like the others You’d know I’m not like the others I will say it to you Oh, I will say it to you I will say it to you I will say it to you…
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Self-Improvement Lyrics by Andrew Lawrence Jackson I can better myself I can better myself I collect up my dream I come apart at the seams I pick up the pieces I am aware of the shift I paste them into a book A picture coming together I am aware of a dream But I don’t know what it might mean I am aware of a dream I don’t know what it might mean I come apart at the seams; and I glue myself together I make a different version; a newer, better me I come apart at the seams; and I glue myself together I make a different version; a newer, better me I come apart at the seams; and I glue myself together I make a different version; a newer, better me I pick up the pieces I am aware of the shift I paste them into a book A picture coming together I am aware of a dream But I don’t know what it might mean I am aware of a dream I don’t know what it might mean
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Experimental, back-to-basics indie rock from singer-songwriter Andrew Lawrence Jackson (co-founder of Zru Vogue).

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released January 9, 2012

Written, recorded, and produced by Andrew Lawrence Jackson

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Alternative singer-songwriter, recording artist, Zru Vogue founder, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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