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Freeway Special

by The World Record

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    It's the mighty double LP! Pressed on high-quality heavy vinyl. Includes liner notes & photos with complete lyrics in a beautiful tip-on gatefold sleeve. Features She's Not a Liar, Be Nice, A Little More Time, I Met the Girl, Say Sayonara, and the entire Come On Summer EP on side IV. 23 songs in all.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Freeway Special via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The 18-song juggernaut from 2012. Comes in a digipak with liner notes & photos, and looks mighty nice on your shelf next to Guitars Forever. Features She's Not a Liar, Be Nice, A Little More Time, I Met the Girl, Say Sayonara, and 13 more. Also grab the Come On Summer EP, which contains the 5 bonus tracks from the double-LP version.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 6 The World Record releases available on Bandcamp and save 40%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Headaches, Christmas Treat, Peppermint, Come On Summer EP, Freeway Special, Guitars Forever, and Everyone's All Right. , and , .

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1.
One Knee 00:35
One knee down in the dirt Lane lines around the curve Ready to make it hurt Clearing your head Chalk powder fingertips Lungs tight and tendons tense Uncomfortable suspense Waiting for it BANG
2.
We heard a jet engine scream Nobody knows what it means Nobody knows what it means What it means We all got up and looked out Nobody knows what you're about Nobody knows what you're about What are you about And now you're out on patrol Nobody knows where you go Nobody knows where you go Where do you go Tell all your secrets to me in your freeway special I just want to be in your freeway special Your freeway special At cocktail hour sits silent rusting in place Someone says they’ve seen you in the carpooling lane No, we know not where you go and not where you’ve been Secret goings on And now you're up on the lawn Nobody knows to whom it belongs Nobody knows to whom it belongs To whom does it belong? Tell all your secrets to me in your freeway special I just want to be in your freeway special Give up the mystery of your freeway special Your freeway special
3.
Candy 03:42
Dawn comes on too late Another episode in the dark Another tiny death on a date Tell me what you think How do I decide where to start You're getting old and I'm getting late Candy, candy, won't you take some advice Don't let him wrinkle your brow Candy, candy, you're looking so nice Don't let him deepen your frown You're turning up when you should be turning down Sold but not convinced I'm getting pretty tired of the fair I don't imagine you're gonna quit So get on with it An evening in a classic embrace And waiting for the end of it Candy, candy, won't you take some advice Don't let him wrinkle your brow Candy, candy, you're looking so nice Don't let him deepen your frown You're turning up when you should be turning down Candy, candy, won't you take some advice Don't let him wrinkle your brow Candy, candy, you're looking so nice Don't let him deepen your frown Candy, candy, won't you take some advice Don't let him get you down Candy, candy, you're looking so nice Don't let him mess you around You're turning up when you should be turning down
4.
Buy us just a little more time We don't want to leave Living in this sort of life Doesn't come easily Lying on the road Planets, stars explode Echoes through the trees Chasing falling leaves You and me Find us just a little more time There has got to be A way to live this sort of life It doesn't come easily Driving up the road Losing heavy loads Singing hopes and tales Bound by when we fail After hours dance Passing on romance Taking the chance Find us just a little more time There has got to be A way to live this sort of life It doesn't come easily Buy us just a little more time We don't want to leave Living in this sort of life Doesn't come easily
5.
Be Nice 03:13
Minding my own business on a hot afternoon Forget about it Got a long long list of things that I've got to do Forget about it Day's been dying, I'm still trying to get myself from here Not worried about it Then with an officious knock you two appear Be nice, it's time to be nice Be nice, let's try to be nice Screen door cuts your faces into tiny squares I see you through them Doorway faces south to let in the hot air I see right through you Ants are busy marching up the frame of the door Where are they headed Will it ever end oh no here comes some more Be nice, it's time to be nice Be nice, let's try to be nice Be nice, just take a deep breath and dive In the end audition takes its toll on me I want to sit down You're only just warming to your litany I'm gonna sit down Two inches on hinges and the door will close I'm gonna push it But instead I wait till you decide to go Be nice, it's time to be nice Be nice, let's try to be nice Be nice, if only for the exercise
6.
Trouble on a stormy sea You and all our things and me We jettisoned our inventory Swallowed by a stormy sea Sea legs on the earthquake deck Soon to be a splintered wreck The monsters of the deep came up to check We were clinging to the earthquake deck Try to embrace an ocean And end up holding no one Lonely souls up on a wave Throwing away the stuff we saved A history of the path we paved Saw you on a widow's peak, like a daredevil About to make a big mistake if you were not careful There's much yet to be done You were just the queen of side I And I'm moving on
7.
Shaken awake, under attack A pounding shaking the foundations in the back More bump and thump than pit-a-pat So stick a toe out in the cold mumbling be right back The lightest step to find there's nothing to look at And then it's back to bed good luck with that Now introduce a little doubt A seed of worry creep across a wrinkled brow The mind is on, the lights are out Without a positive ID no telling what's about So up again in an attempt to flush them out And now there's no mistaking It's the truth, yeah yeah Cats on the roof, yeah yeah Ok and now the gauntlet's down Rush out with just the boots on swinging You new people think you're tough You left the left-side window open just enough For me to do my stuff If it's a war you want I'll be the first to call that bluff Stop when my position becomes clear enough And now you can't deny it It's the truth, yeah yeah Cats on the roof, yeah yeah We've been here for years you'd best steer clear Or just revise your thinking Woke up from protracted sleep, the ice was melting Stretching limbs I thought of dreams and what they might mean A thousand things I put on hold for the time being Time to rise and tend to them or go back to sleep It's the truth, yeah yeah Cats on the roof, yeah yeah Let's call a truce, yeah yeah Cats own the roof, yeah yeah And now the wire paying out Press down the plunger hard and look out
8.
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What a nightmare at your party Who invited? Yeah I'm sorry Opinionated and disliking Passing out now, yeah it's frightening Call the doctor Asking questions Taking pulses It's getting darker Now you mention Where's the doctor Is he coming? So what if you don't begin to get her She falls apart as you come together Upset the last time she didn't make it Here she is now and you can't take it Call the doctor Asking questions Taking pulses It's getting darker Now you mention Where's the doctor Is he coming? Is he coming? This isn't fun anymore Can you hear me? She's coming to Making theories Missing pieces Call the doctor Asking questions Taking pulses It's getting darker Now you mention Where's the doctor Where's the doctor Making theories Missing pieces Seeking reasons It's not too late now To call the doctor Call the doctor
10.
Fell out of this bed and didn't wake until the dawn A voice inside my head was you and you were going on And down the hazy halls and through the walls Some syllables made contact Must be something else to witness your words take effect Alas it isn't due to what I expect you expect I'm high on happiness and less and less While cutting this connection Oh I've learned so much more Since I met the girl I'm gonna leave you for There's things that will not be ignored Now I've found the girl I'm gonna leave you for Been floating out inside a space suit kissed by solar winds Been idly eyeing all the world as down below it spins But now I'm splashing down and climbing out To turn around your skeptic Oh I've learned so much more Since I met the girl I'm gonna leave you for It's time for you to learn the score That I found the girl I'm gonna leave you for Oh yeah I met the girl I'm gonna leave you for I'm gonna stop interrupting the stories you tell Spend less time doing nothing, biting my nails I'm gonna straighten my slouch, not camp out on the couch Stop talking about things I know nothing about Gonna consider those around me a whole lot more I'm gonna put by my grudges as I head out the door Now I've found the girl I'm gonna leave you for Yeah you could not have been forewarned That I met the girl I'm gonna leave you for Oh I, I found the girl I'm gonna leave you for
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12.
Driving with the windows down With the heater on our feet And the cold wind blowing our hair around It's too late to be out Thinking I can read your mind Or maybe we are one With the radio playing our favorite song The one that goes na, na na, na na na na na We'll talk 'em into stopping somewhere Talk 'em into stopping somewhere 'Cause we don't want to go home It’s folly to rely on fate We’ll take it as it comes And then when it comes we will procrastinate And try to slow the rate Ruthlessly the second hand Makes another sweep And another sweep makes certain to drive us mad Nothing can hold it back Unless we talk ‘em into stopping somewhere We'll talk ‘em into stopping somewhere We'll talk ‘em into stopping somewhere 'Cause we don’t want to go home We get bits of conversation from the front two seats We’re huddled up together with the heater on our feet We panic when we find we’re driving down your street And we rail against the inexorability Can we talk ‘em into stopping somewhere Talk 'em into stopping, talk 'em into stopping somewhere 'Cause we don’t, no, we don't want to go home
13.
Say Sayonara 05:57
Going grey on holiday And seeing no end to the stay Nothing aches like a mistake And time on your hands to rehearse it again With brand new blood so average And diverting thoughts all solved for us What we crave is a new wave We are sirens all calling out Hey you laborers Down on God's green earth Come and take your place with us Everybody does It's hard to tell; that ne'er do well Paints pretty pictures of prison cells Sweep and dust, you can't fool us We've heard it before, echoing Hey you laborers Down on God's green earth Come and take your place with us Now everybody Say sayonara to the bad times Say sayonara to the bad times Say how are ya to the good times
14.
Monday in the supermarket Blocked in every lane It’s too average to remark it Nobody complains Killing idle seconds and brain cells Staring at the tabloid headlines Babies in the supermarket Rocked by wobbling wheels Reaching for the nearest object Squealing their appeals Trying to slow the slippage of decades Catching at the tail of an eel Black veins remain the things Indelibly inked on my mind Just outside the supermarket Petitioners with pleas They don’t stop when they get started They’re down on their knees Cooking up a batch of excuses Plotting out a path of escape Black veins remain the things Indelibly inked on my mind Daily in the supermarket Waiting patiently It’s too average to remark it That ain’t stopping me No that ain't stopping me No no that ain't stopping me
15.
Marsha don't be fooled by semiprecious jewels I came upon an email, spelled it out in detail Something's going on you'd better cotton on to Marsha don't you be fooled Marsha don't you be too cool, if you were me You'd think it best you might be extricated lightly Would my words could wake you, nobody can make you Marsha don't you be fooled So get going, don't be lonely Think it over, think it over For the taking, time's a-wasting Think it over, think it over Marsha just for practice, try another tactic There might be someone who's standing right in front of you The world is full of prospects, don't you be an ostrich Marsha don't you be fooled So get going, don't be lonely Think it over, think it over For the taking, time's a-wasting Think it over, think it over And over Though I told myself I wouldn't go there And knowing all along I'm getting nowhere Oh wouldn't you just take some and maybe Think it over Marsha listen to me honey it's the truth He only cares about the things you'd do without A word and I will step in, give him what you're getting Marsha don't you be fooled So get going, don't be lonely Think it over, think it over For the taking, time's a-wasting Think it over, think it over What's it look like from the inside Take a picture So you can look back and sigh at the time that went by Before you finally decided you would think it over
16.
Heavy lead marks like crayons on the driveway Cast into miniature cannonballs More precious than pocket change Black canyon range to spend them One by one white puffs of smoke dissolve Then the man in charge says All actions open When we wave our arms he says Black powder OK you can smoke it Everybody crowds back behind the line Ancient rules enforced with cool control Breathing out with all eyes upon the target You're the coolest man I'll ever know I'll try to keep it contained Here at the Black Canyon Range OK Line it up and wait Remember to be patient Let the system take Every chance is dear try not to waste them I'll try to keep it contained Here at the Black Canyon Range I'm gonna keep it contained Here at the Black Canyon Range OK
17.
We'll be wrapping up in a minute or two; so sorry we're running late We've blocked off the exits according to the forced exposure postulate If you would kindly return your attention to the stage And pipe down, pipe down, pipe down No she's not a lyre, but she plays one in the band Writing songs for hire that all you liars can understand The lyrist making lyrics says it's time, time, time To get down, get down, get down Gold circles and bars appearing Faster than the stars when the sun goes down Say goodbye as they are disappearing Faster than the sun when your ship goes down Well it's a mystery to me why you should grind down all your teeth And render yourself harmless as a squid without a beak There's an ocean's worth of options for the fleet But not down, not down, not down So anyway we'll pursue the pirates just as soon as you awaken Murder every mother's son, take back what they have taken But for now you'd best stay off your feet, feet, feet Lie down, lie down, lie down Here come the gold circles and bars appearing Faster than the stars when the sun goes down Say goodbye as they are disappearing Faster than the sun when your ship goes down Gold circles and bars appearing Faster than they can be gathered when the word gets out Say goodbye as they are disappearing Faster than your friends when the shit goes down
18.
Thank you for the invitation We're sure your show will be very nice Gonna see if we can make it but hey maybe We can offer you some advice No, we're not trying to talk down at you It's from the goodness of the whole of our heart But we can tell just by looking at you That you better quit before you start And in the meantime I need some mean time To wipe out any good will building up Check the score, we're #1 Turn 'round now back where you're from Wrote this tune, soon everyone's gonna Check the score and see that we're #1 Yeah you make a decent stand-in Typically boring of course And anyone who asks yeah well we feel We've got to give them our full report And in the meantime I need some mean time To break down the defenses of our enemies Check the score, we're #1 Turn 'round now back where you're from Wrote this tune, soon everyone's gonna Check the score and see that we're #1 One less person in dress rehearsal One less hopeless dreamer Check the score, we're #1 Turn 'round now back where you're from Wrote this tune, soon everyone's gonna Check the score and see that we're #1

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released October 9, 2012

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