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| 1. |
| 4:43 | 
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I know it's wrong
I know it's selfish YOU'VE SUCH A SHORT LIFE You've so little time You know this pattern Patchwork of any direction Cobbled together In odd shape and size Take my hand, we'll walk through this together But my hand gets sweaty You somehow slip away Try to call you, but I don't call too loud, no Try to love, and never look that hard *Cos this blue's a swirling ocean The green, the ambition The red is the guilt There's a lot of red I know it's wrong I know it's selfish Such a short life So little time Try to call you, but I don't call too loud, no Try to love, but never look that hard * Repeat The yellow is my sunshine Comes out on odd occasion Barely enough to keep you around |
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| 2. |
| 4:37 |
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Her haircut, she looked virtually naked
In that dress growing ever tighter It was saddening the lengths she had gone to To appear more attractive In the process losing something We never knew but still missed You knew you were lost as soon as you saw her You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally Together you squirmed and wriggled And I could only jerk along behind *They're going to hurt you They always will She is now with me, inside of you And I could only stare wide-eyed As everything closed in around the three of us Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue The blood rushing through our body,it was good * Repeat She opened the door his face bruised and swollen Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs Our message lost and our plans forgotten Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes Moving in, kicking, stamping Bland expressionless faces A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin Memories, memories * Repeat In a northern town there were amazing [ ? ] stones arranged on the southern slope They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who make the desert island I saw you in a tin bath in red water Were the ones who went to Washington to do their laundry They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane I never believed in New York, or where you intended to stand But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked I just had to go They came |
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| 3. |
| 2:53 |
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Scared of my shadow
Afraid of myself Never thought I could be so shallow Resort to playing a man It's a thin line that I walk for her A thin line that I walk Between myself and what I have to do The action and the thought *Oh her, her, it's her Oh, her, her Feel like I've been dancing The lights have finally come on Just waiting for my eyes adjusting To see how ugly I've become She asked me for no promises I made them to myself I've given myself no choices now It's the only way out She tied back her hair Wrapped the band around Pulled off her rings And dropped them in a jar I'm not there, not waving my arms round I've gotten the `flu It's blocking my heart To her * Repeat |
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| 4. |
| 4:01 |
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I'm crawling, don't know where to or from
The centre of things from where everything stems Is not where I belong And the city sickness, growing inside me So this is where I ran for freedom Where I may not be free *I have these hands beating with love for you And you're not here to touch Sent you away, what else can I do When I need something that much? I'm hurting babe, in the city there's no place for love It's just used to make people feel better It's not like us I got this sickness as I got off the train Now it chafes away at my heart Until nothing remains I'm okay afterwards Afterwards lasts for minutes only I'm okay during You kind of fill up my mind It's just that before, may last forever It's just that before, may just fuck my mind * Repeat |
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| 5. |
| 4:42 |
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There are places I don't remember
There are times and days, they mean nothing to me I've been looking through some of them old pictures They don't serve to jog my memory I'm not waking in the morning, staring at the walls these days I'm not getting out the boxes, spread all over the floor I've been looking through some of them old pictures Those faces they mean nothing to me no more *I travel light You travel light Everything I've done You say you can justify, mmm you travel light I can't pick them out, I can't put them in these sad old bags Some things you have to lose along the way Times are hard, I'll only pick them out, wish I was going back Times are good, you'll be glad you ran away Do you remember, how much you loved me? You say you have no room in that thick old head Well it comes with the hurt and the guilt, and the memories If I had to take them with me I would never get from my bed There's a crack in the roof where the rain pours through That's the place you always decide to sit Yeah I know I'm there for hours, the water running down (my) (your)face Do you really think you keep it all that well hid? No but I travel light You don't travel light Everything I've done It's just a lie, you don't travel light I'm travelling light No you don't travel light I'm travelling light No, no, you don't travel light I'm travelling light You don't travel light |
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| 6. |
| 5:10 |
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I've been loving you too long
Should stop now You're tired and you want to be free My love grows stronger as you become a habit to me I've been loving you a little too long I can't stop now With you my life has been so wonderful I can't stop now You're tired and your love is growing cold My love grows stronger as our affair grows old I've been loving you a little too long I can't stop now I've been loving you a little too long I can't stop now Don't make me stop now Don't make me stop now |
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| 7. |
| 3:52 |
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Plus de liaisons
Plus de trahisons Plus de liaisons Comment devineras-tu ? Si je tremble dans tes bras Si je soupire dans tes cheveux Cette derniere liaison Maintenant plus de trahisons Plus de liaisons Comment devineras-tu ? Si mes bras tremblent Si j'evite ton regard Cette derniere liaison Plus de liaisons Plus de trahisons Plus de liaisons Non, plus de trahisons Plus de liaisons Comment devineras-tu ? Si je tremble dans tes bras Si je soupire dans tes cheveux Cette derniere liaison Quelque part dans ma tete Je sais ce qui se passe Mais tout ca a grandi Ne me laisse pas le choix S'amuser seulement Ca me semble un tel crime a present Va jouer, jouer sur la route Et tu mourras ecrasee Plus de liaisons Plus de trahisons Plus de liaisons Comment devineras-tu ? C'etait spontane Mais on a rappele les autres On s'est amuse avec nos precedents amants Il y a foule la-dedans Plus de liaisons |
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| 8. |
| 4:26 |
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I was dressed for success
But success, it never comes And I'm the only one who laughs At your jokes when they are so bad And you're jokes are always bad But they're not as bad as this *Come join us in a prayer We'll be waiting, waiting where Everything's ending here And all the sterile striking it Defends an empty dock you cast away And rain upon your forehead Where the mist's for hire If it's just too clear Let's spend our last 1/4 stance randomly Go down to the outlet once again Painted portrait of minions and slaves Crotch mavens and one night plays Are they the only ones who laugh? At the jokes when they are so bad And the jokes are always bad But they're not as bad as this * Repeat And all the Spanish candles unsold Have gone away to this And a "run-on piece of mount on" Trembles, shivers runs down the freeway I guess she spent her last quarter randomly I guess a guess is the best I'll do |
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| 9. |
| 5:28 |
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You've been lying in bed for a week now
Wondering how long it'll take You haven't spoken or looked at her in all that time It's the easiest line you could break She's been going (about) around her business as usual Always with that melancholy smile But you were too busy looking into your (affairs) head To see those tiny tears in her eyes Tiny tears make up an ocean Tiny tears make up a sea Let them pour out, pour out all over Don't let them pour all over me How can you hurt someone so much your supposed to care for Someone you said you'd always be there for But when that water breaks you know you're gonna cry, cry When those tears start rolling you'll be back Tiny tears... You've been thinking about the time, you've been dreading it But now it seems that moment has arrived She's at the edge of the bed, she gets in But it's hard to turn the opposite way tonight Tiny tears... |
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| 10. |
| 3:59 |
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There's a city filth that lingers
All over my naked hands Deep into the weave of the clothes I wear And every step brings another Every hour adds some more Till I'm on the other side leaning on your door Are the taps running, darling? Is the air thick with steam? Can I find some place to cry these tears of shame? Every step brings another Every hour adds some more Till I'm on the other side leaning on your door There's a smell so sweet it's sickly It follows me into the room Hangs in the air like rotting perfume I never bathe in it, darling Got down on my hands and knees Got in so far, I became, well, a part of it all I've been wading through it Don't you know it's up to my neck? And it won't be long 'fore it's over my head And it's the thought of you in my mind, keeps me. . . Thought I knew these streets, and how they turn Could always find my way home There's something there, can't leave it alone The trains they run all night We could leave everything behind Just bring that dress you bought when we first met I know it's faded, darling I know it's tattered and worn In that dress, I could never love you more I've been wading through it Don't you know it's up to my neck? And it won't be long 'fore it's over my head And I can suck it into my love, breathe it in |
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| 11. |
| 5:15 |
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She fell in love with my singing
She knew the bells started ringing She thought there was only her there But, me, I just live for the clapping A hand delivery of an invite to my premiere When he fell in love, I was acting I sent her flowers, asked her to marry me But all I heard was their clapping Now she cries with a cigarrette at the window He croons and moans like he's hurting She cries so well He croons and moans, just croons and moans Now, I never thought [I had no idea] she needed direction And he was at the mercy of his writers For the songs I needed [for me] to touch her Those sad, sad songs to make me happy Now she cries with a cigarrette at the window He croons and moans like he's hurting She cries so well He croons and moans, just croons and moans We re-enact the love scenes from her/my movies But I never thought, but she uses a stand-in His voice is croakier every day now And she cries so well |
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| 12. |
| 5:01 |
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Two hours twenty minutes
To one, five past Now it's laying somewhere out there in the ground And I've lost you I was cheated It was something belonged only to me And now it's gone through my own stupidity And I lost you I was cheated Two whole years spent earning your love Now it's hanging around in the clouds Well I've lost you I was cheated I'm cheated by my own vanity Whispering rumours, bullying me Well I spent it It wasn't worth it And for those who are not so beautiful as her Not giving excuses, but oh... When it's originally tossed away It can easily be reclaimed by her By her All those years spent building myself up Trying to stop my staring And start taking two steps instead of one But they're so gone now chorus |
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