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Poptop Bonus Tracks EP

by The Thing Of It Is

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Ordinary Weird (Cottage Groove Live) 02:52
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Well my phone it’s got no number but it charges in the sun And it listens to my every new idea As I sit inside the family room of a corn crib built for one And I wonder what in the hell I’m doing here Well I left that town when the villains outnumbered the heroes ten to one And I set off east for to find a new frontier A like-mind populace just my kind with a taste for thought and puns Yet it looks like I’m the only one ‘round here What do you do   When the wild west grows its fences What can you say   When the coast has all been cleared What will you want   When your desert sand’s Kentucky grass And the cities make the ordinary weird Well I grew my grapes and I put down stakes on a rented plot of ground Thinking that I’d camp out here a little while Then I sold my stocks and broke my brakes out past the hills at Pilot Mound And this outcast bin became my adopted child What do you do   When the wild west grows its fences What can you say   When the coast has all been cleared What will you want   When your desert sand’s Kentucky grass And the cities make the ordinary weird Well my phone it’s got no number but it charges in the sun And it listens to my every new idea As I sit inside the family room of a corn crib built for one And I wonder what in the hell I’m doing here
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Sad Old World (Shellac Attack Remix) 02:41
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It's a sad old world and it always was And you sometimes do what you never does You spent your money and you took your chance But it all ran out through a hole in your pants Take a whirl Ridin' 'round the sad old world It's a sad old world like it's always been And it's beat-down broken like the shape you're in And you drown your hopes in a gunny sack In an oil slick river by the railroad track Ain't no pearl When you open up the sad old world It's a sad old world like it always am Makin' T-day dinner from a 2-buck ham Wife left bangin' out your old screen door With your last sad sawbuck gone to pay for the war Baby girl 'Sa cryin' in your sad old world Well it's a sad old world til you sand it down Then you paint it all green where it once was brown You could moan all night as the day is long Or change your tune into a brand new song It's a sad old world if you let it be If you cage your mind 'stead of set it free One step forward 'stead of turn and run Can't cure it all, but you can fix it some Maybe you'll Make y'self a glad old world
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Moonlight On The Prairie (Live On The Prairie) 01:58
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Moonlight on the prairie As I'm riding out alone I've got all that I can carry And I'm very far from home Yes, I'm very far I'm very far Yes I'm very far from home Moonlight on the prairie As I'm riding out alone I've got all that I can carry And I'm very far from home Yes, I'm very far I'm very far Yes I'm very far from home On the prairie On the prairie Far from home
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Manifest Destiny (Box-O-Vox Remix) 02:24
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More Poptop fun for you: four different versions of songs featured on the Poptop album.

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released March 4, 2021

Produced by Mark Heggen
©2021 Mark Heggen, All Rights Reserved

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The Thing Of It Is...is: a collective of Pacific Midwest songmakers, based on the idea that the slow-drip method often yields the tastiest results.

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