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Artist: Dj Shadow
Canonical path: /dj-shadow/stemlong-stem
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Stem/Long Stem
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Stem/Long Stem
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Then go
Back
Head
There
Decide...
I cooked a [flame(?)] right downI
I tell you children i can lay right down
I say parking tickets! you're crazy, i don't...
He says well, they have some outstanding warrents left on you
and they want to just solve them you know, whatever it'll be.
So they take me in on a chain down to long beach
and now they lock me up in the cell behind the courtroom in long beach
while i'm awaiting to be heard on my traffic offences! parking tickets!
I paniced, i'm thinking, oh my god, man, while i'm here, what's to stop them?
I mean what's really to stop them, oh, i assumed that maybe some day
my mother would realize that i should have gotten out! yeah,
she was nice, she would have known but still, what's to stop them?
and finally they called, so, they called, oh, man....scared
** Transmission 2
...not a dream
We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver
We are unable to transmit due to conscious neural interference
You are recieving this broadcast as a dream
We are transmitting from the year 1-9--...
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