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We’ve Got Everything

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We’ve Got Everything Lyrics

[Chorus 1: Isaac Brock]
We've got everything
We've got everything

We've got everything
Down to a science, so
I guess we know everything

[Chorus 2: Isaac Brock, James Mercer, Both]
We know everything (We know, we know)
We know everything (We know)
We know everything was built to expire, so
I guess we've done everything

[Verse 1: Isaac Brock]
If we carried it out to sea
Pushed it over the edge, we'd have all been through
Well, "First off," Gary got drunk
Fell asleep in his car 'til about noon
Awe! "Flat top." Tony got all messed up
Split his lip chasing cheap perfume
Well, look at our boat in the bay
It looks like some sad-ass little canoe


[Chorus 3: Isaac Brock, James Mercer, Both]
We've done everything (We've done, we've done, we've done)
We've done everything
We've done everything, like trial by fire, so
I guess we'll stop tryin' now

(And never try it again)
[Chorus 4: Isaac Brock, James Mercer, Both]
We've tried everything (And now we [?], so—)
We've tried everything (We've tried)
We've tried everything, half-assed, and as liars, and that's
How we got everything (How we got it all)

[Verse 2: Isaac Brock]
If we carried it out to sea
Pushed it over the edge
We could have all been through
Well, no one even bothered showing up
But we still did what we should have thought through

[Bridge: Isaac Brock: Isaac Brock, James Mercer]
We crashed in like waves into the store
Didn't want it, didn't need it
But we knew that we could see it
So we opened up the door
We receded, like waves out of the store
Didn't want it, didn't need it
But we knew that we could steal it
Left you dying on the floor

(We weren't that lucky!)
We've got, we've got, we've got, we've got, we've got
We've got, we've got, we've got, we've got, we've got
We've got (Well, everyone had one, oh, gah, dah, kuh, huh)
[Chorus 5: Isaac Brock: Isaac Brock: Isaac Brock, James Mercer, Both]
We've got everything, (We've got, we've got, we've got)
We've got everything
We've got everything down to a science, so
I guess we know everything

[Outro: Isaac Brock: Isaac Brock: Isaac Brock, James Mercer, Both]
We've got everything, we've got everything
We've done everything, we've got everything
We've tried everything, we've got everything (We've got—)
We've got everything, we've got everything (We've got, we've got, we've got, we've got—)
Oh, we've got every thing

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Genius Annotation

Presumably one of five songs about a ship crew that builds a robot. This song is told from the perspective of the crew when they are deliberating over how to procure and program the robot. It appears to be a story of when they arrived in the town where they were finally able to complete the project, without any regard for how they were treating the locals (and their storefronts).

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Bass Guitar
Upright Bass
Recorded At
Sweet Tea Studio, Oxford, MI, U.S.A.
Release Date
March 20, 2007
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