Rug Shredder
  1. Smelly Shoes
  2. Happy Song
  3. Happy Hour
  4. Sunflower Song
  5. Picking Nothing
  6. Covert Operation
  7. Stories
  8. Breathing

Info

Darryl Sweet played guitar and sang lead
Thomas Csicsman played bass and sang back up
Don Grigsby played drums
   
Recorded live in Santa Barbara 1990
Soul Kitchen Studio

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Lyrics

Smelly Shoes

Don't let me go away
I've got nothing left in my brain
Looking thru my eyes
Not through any disguise
the only thing I see is salty rain
   
Don't let me go away
I don't want talk
or pretend to pray
I am cold again
And without a friend like you
to wash my salty rain down the drain
   
Chorus 1:
From the first time I told you my name
I knew both of lives wouldn't be the same
you were the first person I ever loved
and now we're apart and I miss you
   
So, please think of me once in awhile
and let those memories bring a smile
of weekend morning blues
and my smelly shoes
and Winter Park
with Bonnie and Lyle
   
Chorus 2:
All year long you were my song
whenever I was down you would come along
It's hard to think and just keep moving on
   
So, please think of me once in awhile
and let those memories bring a smile
of weekend morning blues
and my smelly shoes
and Winter Park
with Bonnie and Lyle
   
All year long you were my song
whenever I was down you would come along
It's hard to think and just keep moving on
without you.
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI

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Happy Song

I'm so lonely and I don't know why
I'm so lonely now
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI

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Happy Hour

I wish I had your hair
I hate to see you alone there
blowing your smoke into the air
   
hold my hand
if you want to
I wish you would
I think about it often
   
come to happy hour with me
have some drinks and maybe then you'll see
I really like you
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI

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Sunflower Song

I'm dead, I'm dying
I'm underground with worms
I'm underground with the dirt
   
Chorus:
I'm buried with sunflower seeds
   
I'm under the ground with the worms
I'm under the ground with the dirt
under the ground
music by Darryl Sweet/BMI & Thomas Csicsman
lyrics by Darryl Sweet/BMI

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Picking Nothing

Picking Nothing from the hairy head
Laying down the law
painting pictures of television
and tracing family trees
   
Chorus:
Picking Nothing, Picking Nothing
Frying eggs
Furnace hot
Boiling Water
   
Picking nothing
but I'm singing with you
You sing high
I'll sing low
Painting Bricks on flower walls
Laying down to see the stars
   
Chorus
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI

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Covert Operation

It was a covert operation
that tore apart the time
it wasn't at all beautiful
or happy in my mind
I do not believe in hope
or in promises
listen to me now
see what I have missed
   
Chorus:
Missed in and out of happiness
My flyer-covered bedroom wall
does all it can to make me smile
but still I miss you
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI

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Stories

Listen to me
I'm telling stories
   
about the places I seen
about the places I've been
about myself
   
Listen to me
I'm telling stories
   
about the places I want to know
about the places I want to go
about myself
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI

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Breathing

Instrumental
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI

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