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| 1. |
| 3:47 | 
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China gets broken
And it will never be the same Boats on the ocean Find their way back again I am weaving like a drunkard Like a balloon up in the air I am needing a puncture and someone To point me somewhere I'm gonna keep my head on straight I just hope it's not too late Open up the gate I go straight on, steady on Steady on! I was feeling imploded A wooden smile, a wooden heart Then things exploded Like rockets in the dark Now I'm pulling out splinters And off to hibernate somewhere For the nuclear winter Of another love affair 'Cause he seemed like a miracle I ate it up like cereal But it was something like shrapnel Steady on! It's like ten miles of two-lane On a South Dakota wheat plain In the middle of a hard rain A slow boat or a fast train I'm gonna keep my head on straight I'm gonna keep my head on straight I'm gonna keep my head on straight Steady on |
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| 2. |
| 5:01 |
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As a little girl I came down to the water
With a little stone in my hand It would shimmer and sing And we knew everything As a little girl I came down But in a little while I got steeped in authority Heaven only knows what went wrong There is nothing so cruel than to bury that jewel When it was mine all along I'm gonna find it You're shining I can see you You're smiling that's enough I'm holding on to you Like a diamond in the rough Every now and then I can see that I'm getting somewhere Where I have to go is so deep I was angry back then and you know I still am I have lost too much sleep But I'm gonna find it You're shining I can see you You're smiling that's enough I'm holding on to you Like a diamond in the rough Like a diamond in the rough In my dreams I go down by the water With a little girl in my arms And we shimmer and sing And we know everything In my dreams I go down You're shining I can see you You're smiling that's enough I'm holding on to you Like a diamond in the rough Like a diamond in the rough |
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| 3. |
| 5:02 |
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I'm riding shotgun down the avalanche
Tumbling and falling down the avalanche So be quiet tonight the stars shine bright On this mountain of new fallen snow But I will raise up my voice into the void You have left me nowhere to go I love you so much and |
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| 4. |
| 4:02 |
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Was it really two summers ago
Or was it outer space We both had nowhere to go In search of a state of grace All in all we never had time When we met each other we stopped on a dime Floating nowhere Suspended in dreams That we were side by side We both had to see what it means Whenever two worlds collide All in all the pieces were scattered A world so small that nothing else mattered Was it really two light years past We left the atmosphere We both had to catch our breath Somewhere way down here All in all and by and by The tears for forgiveness Will hang out to dry |
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| 5. |
| 3:44 |
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If losing sleep were any indication
Of the loving that I've missed I would wrap myself around you But how likely can that be when I feel like this And if life were not unfortunate And reason blew like summer through the trees I would stop to let you catch me But I think that you would find me on my knees And it's gonna be another long one tonight It's just me and my well-intentioned spite I said someone did this to me But no one did, there's no injustices I just can't afford to be right no more I bought myself another bad dream tonight With these little boys in my head sleeping tight It's gonna be another long one tonight There is comfort in a memory And in roses just before you cut them down There is danger in most everything That's all the better when it's not around And the last time I had the sense to notice You were right here being kind But if I think that you are with me Then I know that you can always change your mind And it's gonna be another long one tonight It's just me and my well-intentioned spite I said someone did this to me But no one did, there's no injustices I just can't afford to be right no more I bought myself another bad dream tonight With these little boys in my head sleeping tight It's gonna be another long one tonight |
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| 6. |
| 4:50 |
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The streets of my town are not
what they were They are haloed in anger, bitter and hurt And it's not so you'd notice but it's a sinister thing Like the wheels of ambition at the christening So I went out walking on the streets of the dead With a chip on my shoulder And a voice in my head It said you have been brought here Though you don't know what for Well the mystery train is coming right to your door And I hear you calling, you don't have to call so loud I see you falling and you don't have to walk so proud You can run all night but we can take you where You can cry like an angel There were high school night dances When we played stump the band We were raising each other In a strange land There were hard pills to swallow But we drank 'em all down Oh the nights were too short then And now they're a little too long I hear you calling and you don't have to call so loud I see you falling and you don't have to walk so proud You can run all night but we can take you where You can shout out in anger You can laugh like a fool You can cry like an angel So look homeward baby Keep your eyes on the sky They will never forgive you So don't ask them to try This is your party, I know it's not your ideal May we all find salvation In professions that heal I hear you calling, you don't have to call so loud I see you falling and you don't have to walk so proud You can run all night but we can take you where You can shout out an answer You can laugh like a fool You can call up to heaven We'll be listening to you You can sing hallelujah You can fly like a bird You can cry like angel When there are no words |
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| 7. |
| 4:09 |
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You will wander around
And it won't be the same All the signs will be down And it's starting to rain out It's a lonely place That you've brought it to now You wanted to love You didn't know how but There will always be something to believe in Do you believe in a miracle Or just the things that you heard Do you believe in a lover Or just the curve of the world Another stab every morning To make sense of it all Now you can go home To nothing at all There will always be something to believe in There will always be stars in the wind Little lines on your face when you grin When it looks like you've done it again And you just don't know where to begin There will always be something to believe in |
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| 8. |
| 3:59 |
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Well we pounded the pavement between
dotted lines But we always belonged to the fugitive kind We were never the best but we were better than this To be made to bow down among princes I got thrown around hallways and bedrooms and towns And you run from that voice and it drags you around It don't matter the ruse or the weapons we choose There is only one thing that can free us Oh so here I am The lion and the lamb I was born to be telling this story I could only be telling this story I will always be telling this story Well our father married our mother too young And he took on a world like a fortunate son But in the cellar downstairs waiting for the bomb scare He would hide from us under the kitchen Where she simmered so soft with her weapons of tin And like so many suppers she just gave us to him And he never did guess in her cast iron dress She was burning beyond recognition Oh it's not over yet I can't forget I am going to be telling this story I was born to be telling this story I will always be telling this story Sometimes I feel so reckless and wild Sometimes I feel like a motherless child I gave nobody life, I am nobody's wife And I seem to be nobody's daughter So red is the color that I like the best It's your Indian skin and the badge on my chest The heat of my pride The lips of a bride The sad heart of the truth And the flag of youth And blood that is thicker than water I was made to be telling this story I was born to be telling this story I am going to be telling this story I could only be telling this story I will always be telling this story |
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| 9. |
| 3:09 |
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I've been sleeping fair
Lately I could swear I'm thinking clearer and clearer And I've been working hard Looking at my punch card and my mirror, my mirror But I daydream in my room I'm baying at the moon Ricochet in time to the the music You just pick a day and I'm in a new destination I take too many planes I know too many names and I forget them I wanted to know if dreams would lie You said they would try and I said let them You just let them But I kill dreams in the chase I slap love in the face Ricochet in time to the music You just pick a day and I'm in a new destination I crawled up from the sewer For something that was truer than I intended I ended up on my knees In this big city I was befriended I transcended But I bruise my friends for more I rail at heaven's door Ricochet in time to the music You just pick a day and I'm in a new destination |
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| 10. |
| 5:03 |
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It is the dead of the night
On the dead of the night I live on a dream, it came to me When I was young I brought it here, and now for years The streets of London keep it safe and warm Every morning it dies and is reborn In the dead of the night I keep a pencil and a book I say this is how a life can look Russian roulette, French-kissed cigarette And the silence like an anvil The things that you learn, but now all that burns Is a candle And the fog melts over the night, and it softens the edges I begin to write in the dead of the night A bead of sweat runs down my arm And I drink it from my skin It is the most real thing that I feel It is communion Bless the meek Heal the sick Protect the weak In the dead of the night |
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