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Tow the line
Tow the line Wake up your time is nearly over No more the supernova No action guaranteed Wake up you've had an operation Ideals above your station Too much reality Think about the wasted time spending Watching Mother Nature's knees bending Everybody loves a happy ending Wake up you're on your own agenda Give up the great pretender With baby eyes of green Wake up you're holding on to nothing You know you're only bluffing As dead as autumn leaves Think about the wasted time spending Watching Mother Nature's knees bending Everybody loves a happy ending Don't you just love a happy ending? Oh yeah well so do I And all your love will shine on everyone The darkness of the day A curse in every way You try to see the light But you don't know why Don't know why They tell you on the phone To give your God a bone And grow a set of wings like a butterfly The guardian at the gate Reminds you that you're late You try to take your time But you tow the line Tow the line To children of the world And daddy's little girl The grass is always green on the other side So stay and breathe new life Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up Wake up, wake up Everything is moving faster than you think (Wake up, wake up) Your pen is running out of ink (Wake up, wake up) Fill up your bath and kitchen sink (Wake up, wake up) They're really kicking up a stink (Wake up, wake up) You never found the missing link (Wake up, wake up) You should be happy in the pink (Wake up, wake up) You're in demand but out of sync (Wake up, wake up) A nod is as good as a wink (Wake up, wake up) Once more my dear friends to the brink All your love will shine on everyone |
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| 2. |
| 3:37 |
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28 days of rain
Flashfloods in Feburary Back in our boats again Bathwater and the baby What am I gonna do? There's been a lot of drinking Looking at ghosts of you While all the world is sinking Ten thousand miles into the atmosphere My body shakes, is there a welcome here? Closest thing to heaven How do you do it? Closest thing to heaven, to heaven Throw your arms 'round the world Make love your destination Here we go, boys and girls Act like a generation Give me that ball and chain By now it must be hurting Dragging your feet again Just like a beast of burden When one and one and one make two I know I'm high because I've captured you Yeah Closest thing to heaven Yes, you Closest thing to heaven, to heaven Look the world right in the eye Eat the countries that are making millions Sweet as homemade apple pie Save the crumbs for all the starving millions Closest thing to heaven Closest thing to heaven How do you do it? Closest thing to heaven Hey Closest thing to heaven |
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| 3:37 |
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Fill the sky with love
Fill the sky with love I wouldn't mind but she just turned up on the doorstep Wistfull and ashen, slightly bedraggled Last time I saw her she was howling at the moon Roaming the forest, lupine and rabid Woah, is she wild? Does she see my inner child? But then she knows it's like a curse To find our chosen roles reversed To unify my universe To call me mellow If I was only half my age and she was older We'd live on ice cream on Coney Island And though it's gravity that drags down my balloon She stays in orbit way after midnight Woah, slip and slide - does she go all dewey-eyed? But then she knows it's like a curse To find our chosen roles reversed To unify my universe To call me mellow She'll dress down for us She'll break new ground for us Watching me cracking up She'll hang round fellahs With all the ground swellers Driving me like a truck But then she knows it's like a curse To find our chosen roles reversed To unify my universe To call me mellow |
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| 4:44 |
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Bathe in another man's grave
In time we'll follow Save all your thoughts for these days Don't steal just borrow Well a high wire Is a dangerous game But a hard act to follow If I fly high like a moth to a flame Would you eyes be the size of sorrow? Pain, I can understand pain Sometimes you just swallow Say we can make it OK Don't steal just borrow With the high wire Is a dangerous game But a hard act to follow If I fly high like a moth to a flame Would your eyes be the size of sorrow? |
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| 5:33 |
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What you gonna choose the poison or the knife?
Lived with crazy paving all your life Something in her eyes just tells you no Hoping conversation starts to flow Stuck inside a wheel inside a wheel Wondering everyday is it all for real? Aching every time a cold wind blows My love don't fear the mighty rose Tangerine, Tangerine What you gonna do when the old man bleeds you dry Step down from the plane and pluck the eye Slide in deeper closer to the bone Don't you just wish your heart was made of stone Waxing like an old cracked forty-five Counting out the ways you can stay alive Placed in body bags and filled with stones My love won't bleed her waves are foam And when you think it's all over It's not over, it's not over Who killed Tangerine? Prettiest girl I've ever seen And when you think it's all over It's not over, it's not over |
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| 4:22 |
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It's always the quiet ones
Who are stranger than fiction They hide under tables like a child What kind of chemistry is it? Leaden or golden? Nobody sees them driving us wild It's your life Don't just collide with the waves Oh look into her eyes You'll see such silent calling Nothing seems to matter in this life Wake up your majesty there are Thieves in the temple Picking the sunspots out of the sun Looking for symmetry in man Another dead Beatle Down through the path we see how they run It's your life Don't just collide with the ways Oh look into her eyes You'll see such silent calling Nothing seems to matter in this life Oh so many reasons why You hear the silence calling Nothing seems to matter in this life Oh salvation shine a light on a different world And carry out thoughts on golden rays |
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| 3:41 |
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Someone's drinking all alone
Someone's left the TV on I don't suppose, no I don't suppose Someone's sleeping in my bed Someone's let the genie in I don't suppose, no I don't suppose You know who you are Who you are, who you are today Baby's gone and died again Taken by the tide again And it's no surprise She hates goodbyes Someone's folding paper planes Someone's on the line again Someone's crying at the sonnet Someone's hiding from someone I don't suppose, no I don't suppose You know who you are Who you are, who you are today |
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| 3:30 |
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The devil, take me now
Before I'm ushered out 'Cause you are like me But I can bleed And I can die But I can't hide From you Prisoners of course Taken by force To smother my streams Tonight in my dreams 'Cause I can die But I can't hide The way is clear Away from here And you |
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| 5:12 |
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This is a garden, this is a steeple
I hear the crowd before I ever see the people Yours for the making, and for the taking There is a power in the vacuum we are making You and I have a secret world And we can keep it unfurled And pay no attention to the cradle or the grave And when we're crossed, We can say that we're lost In the middle of nowhere think you'll like it a lot And if we're wrong and we end up alone We'll light a candle for their innocent bones You and I have a secret world And we can keep it unfurled And pay no attention to the cradle or the grave You and I have a secret world And we can keep it unfurled And pay no attention to the cradle or the grave And when we're crossed, We can say that we're lost In the middle of nowhere think you'll like it a lot And if we're wrong and we end up alone We'll light a candle for their innocent bones You and I have a secret world And we can keep it unfurled And pay no attention to the cradle or the grave And when we're crossed, We can say that we're lost In the middle of nowhere think you'll like it a lot And if we're wrong and we end up alone We'll light a candle for their innocent bones |
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| 5:25 |
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Don't cry for me my baby
Don't say a word Everyone knows you're a dangerous bird Fly like a golden eagle Sleek like the snow Ticking your time bomb where ever you go You're sinking a line without a trace With elegant crimes against the state Killing with kindness yeah Making the most of the mess oh yeah You're mother and childless yeah, yeah Just kill them with kindness yeah, yeah Bye cruel politician Now you've been caught Came from behind It's a dangerous spot Green are the seeds of envy Watch how they grow Everyone knows there's a fire down below You're sinking a line without a trace With elegant crimes against the state Killing with kindness yeah Making the most of the mess oh yeah You're mother and childless yeah, yeah Just kill them with kindness yeah, yeah Killing with kindness Raising the ghost from the flesh oh yeah Don't blind them with science yeah, yeah Just kill them with kindness yeah, yeah Turn your back And you might understand Become your destiny And you'll be a lucky man Don't let anything stand in your way |
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| 4:49 |
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Tell me a story of mind over matter
The hope and glory of life ever after The sound and the fury the cloak and the dagger Days when we sink like a stone Porcelain portraits and silver medallions Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions Angels of mercy and lifelong companions Days when we sink like a stone There a room somewhere with a different look Where your secret life is an open book Where the love we made was a chance we took Days when we sink like a stone Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire Let us be lovers we'll melt after midnight Hoist up the mainsail we'll coast through the daylight Twisted like candles that fade in the half-light Days when we sink like a stone Well we die sometimes to begin again When the same old dreams have the same old end When we lose our mind or we lose our friends Days when we sink like a stone Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire Your friends have gone Porcelain portraits and silver medallions Your friends have gone Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions Your friends have gone Angels of mercy and lifelong companions Tell me a story of mind over matter The hope and glory of life ever after The sound and the fury the cloak and the dagger Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire |
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| 5:41 |
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Tired of this elegant life
With the best will in the world It's a thorn in your side Dazed, not a little confused Let the patient do the work They got nothing to lose I told you I'd hold you 'til the last days on earth Ties that are tested and tried Like the crushing of the waves We'll be lost in the tide Talk away the pain for the very last time Like an echo in a cave Let it die in your mind I told you I'd hold you 'Til the last days on earth If you should fall into these opened arms You would be blessed not just bemused Wake up their mind love is alonely world Where nothing on earth lies like a truth Ties that are tested and tried Like the crushing of the waves We'll be lost in the tide Talk away the pain for the very last time Like an echo in a cave Let it die in our mind I told you I'd hold you 'Til the last days on earth |
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