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A LIL SUMP'M SUMP'M
JON NICHOLSON
Just A Man
Jon Nicholson
Well she says everything
That I don’t wanna hear
She thinks I need to know everything
Well I’m the type of guy
Likes to let things slide
Don’t wanna spend my life thinking about
She’s the only thing I want to think about
Cause everything else works itself out
Chorus
Sun comes up the river runs
Babies cry when they need someone to hold’em
They keep fallin’ down till you learn to
fly
Then you get your wings and you face the sky
alone
Now and then were gonna disagree cause there’s
no one else
But you and me and God knows we don’t always
see eye to eye
Baby that’s alright I understand sometimes
your gonna
Feel different cause you’re a woman
And I’m just a man, I’m just a man
Every once in a while
I wanna crack more than a smile
Oh to make you laugh, well it makes me high
You’re the only thing I want to think
about
Cause everything else works itself out
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Love Is Alright
Jon Nicholson
Been accused of followin’ strangers
Looking for the girl with the flowers in her
hair
Watchin’ it fade around every corner
Wanna catch a glimpse before it all fades away
I’ve been thinking’ bout givin’ in
I’ve come to far to let go
Now that’s all you need to know
Somebody tell me love is alright, love is alright
here
Tell everybody love is alright, love is alright
here
Love is alright here
I could be the one to reach out and save you
Maybe it will come in the twinklin’ of
an eye
Maybe you could save me in return
Each of us could give the other wings to fly
You never know it might be the perfect thing
Might even turn me around
Instead of holdin’ me down
Somebody tell me love is alright, love is alright
here
Tell everybody love is alright, love is alright
here
Love is alright here
Somebody tell me love is alright, love is alright
here
Tell everybody love is alright, love is alright
here
Love is alright here
Somebody tell me love is alright, love is alright
here
Tell everybody love is alright, love is alright
here
Love is alright here
Rock N Roll
Jon Nicholson / Dean Tomasek / Adam Shoenfeld
Burnt out minds in three-piece suits
Tone-deaf monkeys trying to cut lose
Black holes where the soul should be
It’s not as jake as it used to be
I’m going to California, I’m going
to California yeah
Cause rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart again
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Never thought I would leave this place
Now I’m tired of the same old rat race
Friends say I should stick around
Nothing ever happens in this town
I’m going to California
I’m going to California yeah
Cause rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart again
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
She’s just no good
She’s just no good anymore
I’m going to California, I’m going
to California yeah
I’m going to California, I’m going
to California yeah
Cause rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart again
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart again
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart again
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Rock n roll is breakin’ my heart
Grass River
Jon Nicholson
Lordy Lordy I’m in too deep grass rivers
callin’ me
Waking me up when I should be asleep grass river’s
callin’ me
Most times I wanna do the right thing
I’m still wondering what that is
I’ll be working on the next thing
Long after I’m gone
Chorus
Grass river’s callin’ me
Takin’ me back to where I should be
Never knew a river that would run that deep
That grass river’s callin’ me
Tell me something that I should know grass river’s
callin’ me
Give me reason why I should slow grass river’s
callin’ me
I don’t wanna be the big time, I just wanna
let my light shine
It’s only worth it if I get my chance to
stand alone
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Maybe someday I’ll settle down grass river’s
callin’ me
Plant a little crop outside of town grass river’s
callin’ me
Watch it growin’ tall in the sunshine
The fruit of my labor’s gonna be all mine
I’ll be hittin’ it the next time
Passin’ it around
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7 Days
Jon Nicholson
Oh this time I’m thinkin’ to myself
I won’t worry ‘bout nobody else
Cause were all just goin’ through changes
Been down but I think I’ll make it
I don’t know how much more I can take baby
How long must I suffer
Out here on my own
7 days and I’ll be coming back home
Once again I’m running in circles
Trying to figure out which way to go
But we always end up right where we started
I been down but I think I’ll make it
I don’t know how much more I can take baby
How long must I suffer
Out here on my own
7 days and I’ll be coming back home
7 days I’ll be coming home yeah
I don’t wanna say goodbye no more
How long must I suffer
Out here on my own
7 days and I’ll be coming back home
Take Me Back
Jon Nicholson
So you thought it was love but it’s now
all a joke
Already said your goodbyes but you left your
coat behind
Now somebody’s cryin’ and you’re
sure feelin’ bad
Cause you know it was the best thing you’ll
ever have
Now it’s all in the past
And what you did now you can never do over
So shake from the cold until you reach the bar
Buy a round on your old man and charge it to
his card
Now everyone smilin’, the whole world’s
your friend
What’s gonna happen when you run out of
money to spend
Whose gonna love you then
Cause the time that you got you can never get
back
Well don’t through it all way save a little
for some day
And take me back to your door
Well I could just hide away wait for you to show
your face
And take me back to your door
Should I take you back
That’s a question you ask
I don’t know little girl, I have to think
about that
Let me know when you get back
Well I bet your thinkin’ now you should
never have left
Well don’t through it all way save a little
for some day
And take me back to your door
Well I could just hide away wait for you to show
your face
And take me back to your door
Well don’t through it all way save for
some day
And take me back to your door
Take me back to your door
Hero
Jon Nicholson
Maybe I’ll go down to the county fair
I hear that there’s a lot of freaks like
me down there
They swallow swords while the people stare
And make fun of their dreams
They make a livin’ at their own expense
Well hey that’s just like me I guess
I’ll just walk through the fire
And pray I won’t get burned
Now I’ll never be the one they expected
me to be
But I keep holdin’ on to what’s left
of this crazy dream
Chorus
I’m a little bit shy of the big time honey
Sinking in but Lord I’m standing my ground
I ain’t going any further down
If the good Lord’s willing and the time
is right
I’m takin’ back over, ‘cause
this is my life
And I won’t lose it without a fight
I’m gonna make myself a hero tonight
Maybe I’ll drive myself into town
See if any of my old friends are still hangin’ around
Talk a little bullshit and shoot some crown
Make fun of our dreams, you know we’ll
be singing
La-la-la-la-la, I don’t know, I can’t
remember the rest
Hey that’s how it goes
It’s an endless circle of to’s and
fro’s
Ups and downs and slides
Now I’ll never be the one that’s
most likely to succeed
But I keep holdin’ on to what’s left
of this crazy dream
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And this world keeps turning around
Sometimes it turns me upside down
Sometimes it’s all I can do to find my
feet again
Stereo
Jon Nicholson/ Dean Tomasek / Adam Shoenfeld
I’ve got a dirty job and I don’t
like it
Workin’ sucks but I survive it
I keep my eyes on the horizon
And what I have is mine
Just because my name’s not on it
Doesn’t mean that you can pawn it
Just because you take it, doesn’t make
it yours
Chorus
Now I could care less what you say
You didn’t let your head get in the way
Now I could care less where you go
Just give me back my stereo
I used to listen to Al Green and The Faces
Cheap Trick and The Replacements
Now I’m sittin’ in my basement
Singin’ to myself
Well if you really needed money
All you had to do was ask me
I’d have given it to you gladly
You dirty stinkin’ thief
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No it wasn’t worth a lot
But it’s the only one I got
I mean the one I used to have
Before you broke my window out
What a shitty thing to do
But I know it doesn’t matter to you
Give me back my, give back my, give me back
my
Give me back my stereo, give me back my stereo
Give me back my stereo, give me back my stereo
Give me back my stereo
How Would I Know
Jon Nicholson
Steps to the car, it slows down
For twenty dollars she’ll go down
For a hundred she’ll take you around the
world
It’s not something that she likes
She’s just trying to get by
And maybe someday she’ll be an average
girl
She takes her make-up off, pours a drink
And sits down on the couch and asks me if I’m
cool
Well how would I know
Well how would I presume to think I know
What’s wrong or right
Won’t tell you how to live your life
Don’t tell me how I’m living mine
Well how does anybody know?
You know the money it ain’t bad
Just keep lying to your dad
Got an audition tomorrow gonna be a star
But if you listen to yourself
You’re just lying to yourself
You never really thought it would go this far
So take your make-up off, pour a drink
And sit down on the couch and ask me if I’m
cool
Well how would I know
Well how would I presume to think I know
What’s wrong or right
Won’t tell you how to live your life
Don’t tell me how I’m living mine
Well how does anybody know?
So take your make-up off, pour a drink,
Confessing all the things you wish you hadn’t
done
Tell your truth and lies, go ahead and sit down
on the couch
But don’t ask me if I’m cool
‘Cause how would I know
How would I know
How would I know
Nothing
Jon Nicholson / Dean Tomasek
Oh no, time to move over
Got a knock in my motor
But I’m still movin’ on
She says, it’s a matter of nothin’
Just gotta do something
To clear my head
Chorus
And it’s hard to believe
She wrote me off with a call
Ain’t gonna think it over
I’m not gonna crawl
Keep doin’ nothing, it’s nothing
at all
It’s nothing
White lines, faraway houses
All that I know is I can’t go home
It’s not much, just a crack in the asphalt
Don’t think it was my fault
But I’ll take the fall
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Repeat Chorus
It’s nothing at all, it’s nothing
It’s nothing at all, it’s nothing
Jon Nicholson: Piano
Jerry Navarro: Bass
Elijah “DD Holt: Drums
Max Abrams: Saxaphone
Matt Stanfield: Programming
Chris Carmichael: Strings
Daniel Tashian: String Arrangement
Grandma
Jon NIcholson
Grandma’s turnin’ 92
And that’s a lot of years ahead of you
So listen close to what I say
Cause Grandma’s feelin’ old today
She says I can’t believe I’m sittin’ here
old as I am
And never been stoned
I waited too damn long
So bring it on
Grandma’s gonna fly
So I rolled it up and I passed it around
But Grandma smoked the whole thing down
Said she was makin’ up for wasted ground
Too many times she’d turned it down
She said you live your life until it’s
gone
The things you never try just slip away til there
gone too
I waited too damn long
So bring it on
Grandma’s gonna fly
Chorus
And as she talked about the old days
Said some things that blew my mind
See cause you ain’t seen a thing
Till you seen Grandma getting high
Now Grandma didn’t have much time left
But she made use of every breath
And I swear she smiled before she left
As I felt the world fell off her chest
And as the gates of Heaven opened wide
She slipped over to the other side she was singin’
I waited too damn long so bring it on
Grandma’s gonna fly
I waited too damn long so bring it on
Cause Grandma’s gonna fly
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