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ladies and gentlemen it's time
for all the good that's in you to shine for all the lights to lose their shade for all the hate that's in you to fade ladies and gentlemen it's time for the maracas and the tambourines to play them until they break or until day break don't hide anymore its time to be seen ladies and gentlemen it's time for you to flash like a dancer who aims to please time to unbutton every button of your embarrassment time to be warm in the dark don't let the dancer freeze ladies and gentlemen it's time the bartender is looking you right in the eye says I’m going to replace all that weak blood with my wine if you can’t live with the truth go ahead try and live with a lie |
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Nothing ever seems to make you happy
Are you miserable babe or are you just plain mean? Is there no joy in you? Well come on, don't keep me waiting Your broken heart might bring you heaven - to heaven but it will not bring you another morning, another morning with Kathleen Someone does you wrong you give away your whole life to prove it You wear your pain with pride, you refuse to remove it You become the evil that plays with you like a doll Big rules only make our lives small Was your voice never heard? Well come on, you know we're all listening Justice will only bring you a prison - a prison And it will not bring you another morning, another morning with Kathleen Now you're the big expert with the truth Now you're all apple pie and you're bulletproof There must have been a short 5 minutes somewhere in your youth But when you laughed like water breaking over the broken land When you laughed like the wind burning the sun blind on your face When you laughed like water breaking over the broken dam When you laughed like the starting gun at the start of a race I wanna smash the violins at the symphony I wanna see you smile with a real simple melody It's when you wake up and you're glad that you're breathing It's when you wake up and you're glad that you're living Well, that's another morning another morning with Kathleen. |
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love is only
a light in the sky the shadow of a star flying by were so small compared to our hearts were so small compared to - a lullaby i didn't mean to makes you cry i'm sorry that that I made you cry did i make you throw away all the lives you had and the songs all the moons all the lovers in your bed were so small compared to our hearts were so small compared to - a lullaby i didn't mean to make you cry I'm sorry i made you cry did i take what you couldn't really give and it drained your soul through your eyes I'm sorry i didn’t mean to make you cry I'm sorry I made you cry |
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i cross the street to avoid her
no i cant live with her eyes would it stain my hands to touch her would her smile take me the way gravity takes the skies some of us were born to run some were born to smile on you everyone's got a job to do i see her every day she’s got a silver lining that i cant break she's like something i threw away a voice in a dream that says oh love come awake some want to show you where the light is some want to stare at the view everyone's got a job to do god is on my side he’s a prisoner that stares that stares out of my eyes and the prisoner don't care some only live inside walls some want to paint the horizon blue everyone's got a job to do |
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you think that weakness is only
a way to give your heart to the enemy but if the blow that knocks you out is the one you don't see then why are you fighting Listen before you lose the ocean from your tears before they carve your fists out of stone before they finally force you to your knees only love can set you free you were no civilian you fought every war but now you don't want to fear your heart anymore you always did what was right and it was no good now you stay awake in the dark and think your no good Listen: takes a baby years to know what's making it cry but what it wants aint no mystery only love can set you free and I've been so lucky i’m just a normal man that's true and i got nothing to brag about or maybe i do that once i was loved by someone like you that once i loved someone like you Listen: i was happy to live with a lie cause then i’d have nothing to deny except a face ruined by vanity only love can set you free swept under the bridge and out into the ocean |
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Mantovani the Mind Reader wears a blind fold 'cause
He thinks no one'll see the truth in his eyes How he used to float like the breeze over postcard seas Now it's a lifeboat that leaks his alibis Knows what's in your wallet Knows what turns your keys Knows what heats up your lover Knows what makes them freeze Knows the fine reasoning of those who offer grief And never touch forever and take pride in relief They say you can be anyone that you want to Under the sun anyone you want to Well I'm sure it's true, I'm sure it's true You can be anyone that you want to He gets drunk from the thoughts Of the sinners he entertains And ends up feeling nothing just seeing others' pain And the blind fold is off, his justice has become A whiskey heart all daggers And a frozen tongue They say you can be anyone that you want to Under the sun anyone you want to Well I'm sure it's true, I'm sure it's true You can be anyone you want to What kills your soul Is the pain you make The fights you throw The love you fake And at the end of the show He has a marvelous goodbye A shot glass melody For a tympani sky They say you can be anyone that you want to Under the sun anyone you want to Well I'm sure it's true, I'm sure it's true You can be anyone you want to Well I'm sure it's true, I'm sure it's true You can be anyone you want to |
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It's easy to leave
It's hard to stay behind and rest With all the stupid things I believe and watch my life drift like dust I hope I make it to a warm heart I hope that's where I belong I hope I don't end up out of breath Wherever the washed up are hung I'm afraid of my own shadow because it's what I've become Why do I waste my time with people who'll never love anyone? My only sin, my only sin: I started hating my own skin Home Home Home I hope I make it home I got lost and the road dragged on and on I couldn't remember what I was chasing No, or what I had become I always thought my life looked much better at a distance Now I'm just another set of eyes lost in the blur and the only thing left in this world that bothers to hate me is my pride No one sees me, they don't need to to know I slipped away with the tide Home Home Home I hope I make it home I got lost, I started hating my own skin |
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one day i left my room
in the evening it was freezing the sidewalk shining but it was ok i wasn't lonely i wasn't no one i was just hoping for a bookstore like the one i prayed for and the music they play there would be dinosaur jr and the people who worked there would be super skinny and super unfriendly and that would make me happy what really kills me is I'm only lonely when i talk to you yeah i should have told you i just cant handle your endless sorrow all i wanted from you was some tomorrow but its ok I'll find a bookstore and buy Saul Bellow & one about old ruins for my mother you never met her she liked manhattans they taste like mouthwash she understood how to be alone all alone all alone maybe the worst is over maybe the worst is over maybe the worst is over maybe the worst is over i left my room one evening the sun had just gone down but the sky still shining and not even the stars up in heaven could throw their ashes on the blue still burning over this ugly city and that makes me happy and that makes me happy and that makes me happy and that makes me happy |
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my life is a sham,
i pretend that I'm me. my life is a sham, i pretend that I'm free. wake up, wake up, it's time for me to go america loves the minstrel show i don't wanna hurt you, but if I do I'll pay, i don't wanna hurt you, but if I do I'll pay. i live in the dark where nothing can ever grow america loves the minstrel show it's the thief who's the first to accuse others they steal it's the fake who claims to always know who is real and millions all want to bathe in his glow america loves the minstrel show america loves the minstrel show they love me babe, there's a line around the block. they love me babe, compared to that, what have you got? wouldn't it be a crime to just let it go? america loves the minstrel show they'll never forget me and the funny faces I make, they'll never forget me and the funny faces I make, I make them forget that they'll reap what they sow. america loves the minstrel show america loves the minstrel show america loves the minstrel show |
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here's the story of the incredible shrinking man
of fatal disappointment met with a frozen margarita grin blinking in time to the hour hand funny red nose, Rudolph jokes, memory failing if you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day a pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver all scratched away see him face the manageress he feels her bright disdain watches as she yawns all the way through his final scene she makes it clear my dear in no way does she wish him ill says there's no justice there's just this bill 10 years at the Columbia Hotel for that there should be a fabulous prize a lifetime room for a life that slipped away to hide his asphalt and tarmac eyes if you buy lottery tickets you’ll win one day a pile of dead scratchers with the gold and silver all scratched away and i’m sure my horseshoe wreath will surely bloom if I wait in the hotel bar all afternoon just wait in the hotel bar every afternoon Ed McMahon and the models will emerge from the gloom with big thanks for the life you lead and the joy you made give up a wad of paper and all my favorite balloons I’ll make a kick ass speech how you never let the bastards kill your soul how those who pound sun to dawn you pound of the walls of doom and fight the vacuum in a world without supermen how a star must never cast a shadow across the room I’m a king i know i wrote it on my tomb.. |
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Once you rode a tide, it was always flowing out towards the sky
It was like a dancer who followed your steps It was like a lover who could take you to the dawn It was like a history you could throw away yeah... Now the sea is throwing back all the voices who don't want to drown Every wave is like a soldier who will fade back into the fear where the soldiers are made trapped with your first class papers on a lonely dock where the future is a luxury to mock You can laugh, you can cry, you can even bitterly grieve But you can't deny that it's time to leave your indecision is poison, worse than broken bones or the coffin your either standing still or your running out You're like a safety door that's stuck and won't open for a fire or a summer day All you do is tire But you don't have to try - everyone wants to be deceived But you can't deny that it's time to leave I swear you want to say goodbye even more than you want to breathe But you can't deny that it's time to leave The enemy always lies Hides like a match in a lump of coal He won't use his eyes He hates you for your soul He hates you for soul.. |
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You take the high road
I'll take the low Don't ask me for direction All I've got is for show You're beautiful And I hope the devil Never tries to free you Never ever needs you You wanna show me heaven You assume that's what I have lost You go home sing hymns with your wife I'll stay here and carry your cross You're beautiful And I hope the devil Never tries to free you Never ever needs you What possesses you Is what you deny I don't wanna save your soul I just don't wanna see it die I don't wanna see it die |
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