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| 1. |
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Lost again, lost again
I closed my eyes and kept on going Now I'm gone and nothing's gonna endure Unless I love you even more Found again, am I found again By your hands, my home is in your hands But that's a touch I don't deserve anymore Unless I love you even more A stubborn heart can stay broken forever But someday the tightrope's gonna break Will I fall into a cool cool river Or will I fall into a frozen lake Saved again, am I saved again By your eyes, the tears in your eyes Your tears are the only thing that makes me sure I've got to love you even more And your tears are the only thing that'll endure Unless I love you even more |
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| 2. |
| 4:35 |
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The eyes of the world see what they want to see
People always boil things down to nothing They'll see your love as worthless and wrong They eyes of the world leave you with nothing It's your birthday baby Here's a gift you should take it It's your birthday baby Here's a gift you should unwrap it It's your birthday baby Here's some luck you should grab it It's your birthday baby Here's a smile you should unwrap it There's still a few drinks between you and closing time If you break her heart you'll break your own Are you afraid that all her roads led right you Are you afraid that all your roads led right to her It's your birthday baby Here's a gift you should take it It's your birthday baby Here's a gift you should unwrap it It's your birthday baby Here's some luck you should grab it It's your birthday baby Here's a smile you should unwrap it No matter how long you stay with her You know she loves you You could make her pain count for something Even though she hasn't been a girl for very long Her heart is beautiful, beautiful and strong It's your birthday baby Here's a gift you should take it It's your birthday baby Here's a gift you should unwrap it It's your birthday baby Here's some luck you should grab it It's your birthday baby Here's a smile you should unwrap it |
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| 3. |
| 3:12 |
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I tried to run away but i was frozen in place
My body was mad of sawdust and my heart just split My old friend rigor mortis started to breathe in my face The air started to drain out of my spirit Help me, can you help me? A century of my tears wouldn't even fill a thimble The war of the class clown is never won But nothing makes me laugh anymore And nothing makes me craw And nothing makes me feel like i belong Help me, can you help me? I can't believe all the stupid things i'm saying now Either i've shaken the world off my back Or else i've gone senile I thought your love was just a great big lie Now love you is the only thing that's gonna get me by Help me, can you help me? All i have to offer you is archaeology and christmas And we'll turn our backs on what the world has in store And twist the light so that it shines down on us And wait together for the touch of something more Help me, can you help me? |
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| 4. |
| 4:22 |
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An agony waiting for someone to tell you to shut up
But don't stop even if there's no moon to hold you Or any other lifeless rock I can tell you put all your hopes into the shoes you buy Your loneliness has feet that walk it's got wings that fly And it does sing a song Love doesn't belong to anyone They don't see the coffin only the nails their lights Too bright for your home movies They'll set you adrift disappointed and starving But never as hungry as the sharks Your desperate suit made out of puppet strings doesn't last very long Desperate in the quiet you're sinking below mouthing the words to some Old sixties song, a quiet song Love doesn't belong to anyone When you're finally silenced and led into alleys And led into dark corners where no one can hear Where what you say doesn't lead anywhere but darker corners of your fear There must be more to it than the pilgrim's hateful dream of love and peace I know I've had that vision too An old key on a rusty chain of keys A key that turns you your whole life long Love doesn't belong to anyone |
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| 3:11 |
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I don't need anyone's love
I couldn't afford it anyway With my penny's worth of hope It's not funny but it's a joke And I got a good one for the collection agency It's a wish That I could wish the world away Don't watch TV it's all lies I watch TV day and night I believe everything I see And I can't turn it off The only thing that held me together in the good old day Was a wish That I could wish the world away Where's the message in the bottles Where's the miracle in the pills Where's the nurse with that needle Where's all of my free will Count down backwards from ten and everything's okay You can wish the world away |
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| 6. |
| 4:15 |
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I never had a lot to bring to the party
But a self-importance far beyond vanity And a manic depression that just wouldn't go away Like peckinpaw with a bouquet of poison ivy How many six packs does it take to screw in a light It's good to be alive baby, sometimes it's alright Nothing like a little vacation once in awhile At the cable car hotel san francisco style For three nights and three days Jesus hung on a boom box while it played Every single song ever sung by billie holiday How many six packs does it take to screw in a light It's good to be alive baby, sometimes it's alright Afterwards I'm on california street looking at the sky The sun is going down pouring salt into my eyes Like he said: when the light goes out so does fear And you only see beauty as it begins to disappear How many six packs does it take to screw in a light It's good to be alive baby, sometimes it's alright |
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| 7. |
| 5:04 |
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I should trade my heart in for a watch
'Cause all I do is watch the numbers slip away My lips silently repeat the countdown 'Cause it's too hard to say I always knew that you would leave Do you know where the hell we are All the birds are too quiet in the trees Frightened by the sweet things we say to each other Frightened by the things we make them see I always knew that you would leave Like hunger that you always have to feed Like when Don Rickles' spotlight goes blue The countdown tells me I'm better off alone And so empty without you I always knew that you would leave |
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| 8. |
| 3:29 |
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Hello Amsterdam my name is Fernando
Hello Amsterdam I bet you've seen my kind before Another sad tourist with his eyes rolling in his head Another sad tourist who never had a drink before Hello Amsterdam you didn't like my Waterloo Hello Amsterdam I wish I had something to offer you Tail between my leg I crawl back to the canal All alone with my eyes rolling like the moon Superstar There once was a white elephant that escaped from the zoo Got to the big city and didn't know what to do Had a sticker on his shirt that said, 'Hello my name is unclean' I swear they would have liked us if we'd played Dancing Queen Hello Amsterdam don't I look cool in my white shirt Hello Amsterdam don't I look hip in my red tie We came from America so you could share in the pride Guilt, greed, and genocide Superstar |
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| 9. |
| 4:48 |
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The revolving door
I'm stuck in it, my love Your cold cold heart that never opens And never tires What chance do I have? Your meteor shower, my love Did you want to wish on some lucky star Or did you just want to watch them fall And burn out What chance do I have? Your disappearing act my love That's an old stand by And I just want your touch To never tire What chance do I have? |
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| 10. |
| 6:30 |
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I gave up my cynicism I gave up my hard shell
I gave up everything that would cause you the least pain I'm immodest as a child old before it's time Why should I hide something I've no chance to see My night was sleepless so all through my day I took the next shade of weariness down to LA I'm off like a shotgun out of your reach My self-importance my mind-numbing haze No I don't want to know about my life No I don't want to know what I'm thinking or feeling Ignorance is bliss but babe we won't stay that way We'll escape heaven somehow down in LA I can make your future easier to predict Hot as a devil and cold as an addict People usually just make me tired The plague of always deserving something better God save me from the rewards I deserve The one for giving up hope the on for the love that I serve If I opened my heart then you'd be washed away Down the bone-dry rivers that drain LA My nights are all sleepless so all through my day I like to take shades of weariness all through LA |
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| 11. |
| 4:46 |
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The wind pulls me around
and everything it touches turns weak An antique or an eyelash stuck to your cheek The paper thin skin of a crowd chasing you Down a long and dead-end trail With a guilt no alibi can curtail The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowlands' hair Land ahoy I fill my weak lungs with this joy Dizzy on the deck I hope I last until we land With an envelope burning a hole in my hand Bearing the names of the winners who walked away From the games that the slaves love to play To replace the air and the sea Leaving you no way to fly to me The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowlands' hair Through the window the warm summer air does a two-step I wish there was some way I could keep it And clear away the Mission Street in my head that Keeps this watery weariness in our bed and Sets up more windmills that I'll waste my time missing When it should just be your lips that I'm kissing Don't tell me that you don't hear The clock ticking on the shelf by our bed it's near There's a light turning green just like fear There's a light that turns green and leaves us without a prayer The world is held together by the wind That blows through Gena Rowlands' hair |
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| 3:37 |
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I broke my promise
That I wouldn't write another song about you I guess I lied, after twelve years I still love you On the phone you sound happy but a heart can cry And you don't see the tears I'm glad you went back The california sun always shines but San francisco is a cold place To have a run of bad luck People like to shine their little flashlights in your face I'm glad you went back The blue blue sky is made of butcher knives And everyone you meet is wearing some stupid disguise In columbus there's not spotlight to dazzle your eyes I hope you find someone who loves you 'cause only love can save you I broke my promise 'cause I've missed you for so long I can feel you in my life when you're happy No matter where you are I'm glad you went back |
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| 13. |
| 4:42 |
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The thorn in my side is gone
It was too sharp for the laws of the world Like my need for you It doesn't register on the scale of the world When they talk about the strength they usually mean The way blood sticks to the hand When they talk about strength I know They don't mean a touch that only love understands I'll never leave you Love never lies I swear you could see me If you could open your eyes There's a beast in the trees Dogging my heart, step by step I begged it to leave me with something 'Cause my fear was like a wind Tearing the song from my breath I'll never leave you Love never lies I swear you could see me If you could open your eyes |
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| 3:57 |
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It was a long hot summer day
We're in the living room watching the light drain away Too tired to read what your cards foretold inside of a yawn When she said, "The first time you show me your true heart I'll be gone." The numb ringing after the bell was rung Playing red light green light, such timeless fun There was no way to kickstart any conversation It was like the beginning of 2001 when she said, "I'll be gone." The air isn't moving and the women have nothing on their lips But the kind of breath that you keep for the hospital bed Pregnant with the timeless drop and the wind How the air leaches the gold out of everything elusive and stolen I'll be gone |
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| 15. |
| 2:35 |
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Lost again, lost again
I closed my eyes and kept on going Now I'm gone and nothing's gonna endure Unless I love you even more Found again, am I found again By your hands, my home is in your hands But that's a touch I don't deserve anymore Unless I love you even more A stubborn heart can stay broken forever But someday the tightrope's gonna break Will I fall into a cool cool river Or will I fall into a frozen lake Saved again, am I saved again By your eyes, the tears in your eyes Your tears are the only thing that makes me sure I've got to love you even more And your tears are the only thing that'll endure Unless I love you even more |
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| 2:36 |
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All the leaves are brown (All the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (And the sky is gray) I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk) On a winter's day (On a winter's day) I'd be safe and warm (I'd be safe and warm) If I was in L.A. (If I was in L.A.) California dreamin' (California dreamin') On such a winter's day Stopped into a church I passed along the way Well, I got down on my knees (Got down on my knees) And I pretend to pray (I pretend to pray) You know the preacher liked the cold (Preacher liked the cold) He knows I'm gonna stay (Knows I'm gonna stay) California dreamin' (California dreamin') On such a winter's day All the leaves are brown (All the leaves are brown) And the sky is gray (And the sky is gray) I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk) On a winter's day (On a winter's day) If I didn't tell her (If I didn't tell her) I could leave today (I could leave today) California dreamin' (California dreamin') On such a winter's day (California dreamin') On such a winter's day (California dreamin') On such a winter's day |
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