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| 1. |
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So long ago I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease As I listened through the cemetery trees I seen the sun comin up at the funeral at dawn long broken arm of human law Now it always seemed such a waste She always had a pretty face So I wondered how she hung around this place Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight She said it's cold It feels like Independence Day And I can't break away from this parade But there's got to be an opening Somewhere here in front of me Through this maze of ugliness and greed I seen the sun up ahead At the county line bridge Sayin all there's good and nothingness is dead We'll run until she's out of breath She ran until there's nothin left She hit the end it's just her window ledge Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight Well this place is old It feels just like a beat up truck I turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn Well it smells of cheap wine n cigarettes This place is always such a mess Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn I'm so alone and I feel just like somebody else Man I ain't changed but I know I ain't the same But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin dreams I think of death it must be killin me Hey Hey Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight |
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| 2. |
| 5:40 |
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Sirens ring, the shots ring out
A stranger cries, screams out loud I had my world strapped against my back I held my hands, never knew how to act And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache Below me was a homeless man Singin' songs I knew complete On the steps alone, his guitar in hand His fifty years, he stood where he stands And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache Now walkin' home on those streets The river winds move my feet The subway steam, like silhouettes in dreams They stood by me, just like moonbeams And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache Looked out the window, down upon that street And gone like a midnight was that man But I seen his six strings laid against that wall And all his things, they all look so small I got my fingers crossed on a shooting star Just like me- he just moved on And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache |
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| 3. |
| 5:00 |
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Alone tonight in somebody's bed
She gone and dyed her hair red She only went and did what she did 'Cause he would drive her home then There's lipstick on her new dress She hadn't even paid yet But it doesn't matter where the money went It wasn't how she paid her rent One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us Now lookin' out across the city lights She thought they'd be a good pair Now he could make a living sellin' cars Maybe she could work there She's gonna pick a star in the night And pray to make it all right She tried so hard not to pick a kite She always prayed to heaven lights One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us One, two, three Marlenas It's see no, speak no, hear no evil about us The three Marlenas Man, I think I'm gonna buy myself a Rolls Maybe a Chevrolet One where I can pull that top down Just let my radio play Now I'm headin' out on that highway I'm goin' right out of state Now I ain't lookin' back until I'm gone Right through heaven's gates One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us One, two, three Marlenas Ya see no, speak no, hear no evil among us The three Marlenas Three Marlenas Three Marlenas |
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| 4. |
| 3:51 |
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One, two boys by the river Down by the water Tellin' riddles in the dark With fireflies under the moonlight Carvin' the insides of a tree with a knife Ever hear the one about the boy's big sister His best friend come along He tried to kiss her (CHORUS): The only difference That I see Is you are exactly the same As you used to be One boy lives in a tower With bow and arrow And the artificial heart With his girl Late in the summer He loaded the cannon With a jealous appetite They say that children now They come in all ages And maybe sometimes old men die With little boy faces (CHORUS) You always said that you needed some But you always had more, more than anyone (CHORUS) |
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| 5. |
| 4:51 |
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Lookin' back at the crash site I don't see me by the roadside Well this heart is on wheels tonight Straight through the ghettos And without lights Now every heart has a blind side Where it learns how to improvise Well this place is a whorehouse tonight Cheap lovers make expensive wives Chorus: But all of these horses That you chase around In the end they are the ones That always bring you down This invisible city Where no one sees nothing We're touching faces in the dark Feelin' pretty is so hard Now all of these voices And all of these noises With all their illusions of choices They've come to my door With one dozen roses The imitation of good faith Is how you stumble upon hate It may have been the first of mistakes When we held on too loosely Then opened the gates (chorus) Now I try not to tell lies But there's pressures from inside So I've learned how to compromise Good people for alibis (chorus) |
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| 6. |
| 4:33 |
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Now coming down Out of this swandive to your arms I make no sounds WhenI move thru your reservoirs I wake up quick I wake up sick As you abandon me Into these fields of rank and file Thru this cloudI hear you breathing Thru these barsI watch them bring more in NowI send back letters from the wasteland home Last slowdance to this romance on my own May take two to tango, but boy it takes one to let go It just takes one to let go. Now boy keep still Don't spread yourself around Get back in line Eat your bread And just work the ground 'Cause you're not through They're not done with with you Did you think you were The only one who's been let down So sleep tight little boys of the new dam Let them drop in the quicksand NowI send back letters from the wasteland home Last slowdance to this romance on my own May take two to tango, but boy it takes one to let go Now another bad idea gets thru Down they send me unto you Every bridgeI should have burned Every lesson i've unlearned When the smoke give way to ruins Incarcerated lovesick fools I wait for you to cut me loose But until then NowI send back letters from the wasteland home Last slowdance to this romance on my own May take two to tango, but boy it takes one to let go NowI send back letters from the wasteland home From whereI slowdance to this romance on my own |
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| 7. |
| 3:40 |
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Whatever I know too much You won't be anyone Now tell me what you are thinking of How could think you'd be enough It's not that you've stayed too long It's not that you've done something wrong It's not your fault But you embarrass yourself Hand me down It's better when you're not around You feel good And you look like you should But you will never make us proud You've been used by a army of cues You've been touched by the lips of a queen Now we've all made good use of you But you won't be needed again So don't you move and let someone else in Make some room for a new harlequin It's never enough So don't disappoint us again Hand me down It's better when you're not around You feel good And you look like you should But you won't ever make us proud Hand me down It's better when you're not around You feel good And you look like you should But you could never make us proud Hand me down So look at you with your worn out shoes Livin' proof evolution's through We're stuck with you This revolution's due Hand me down It's better when you're not around You feel good And you look like you should But you could never make us proud Hand me down It's better when you're not around You feel good And you look like you should But you won't ever make us proud |
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| 8. |
| 3:32 |
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Maybe I could be the one they adore That could be my reputation It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore I'm an educated virgin Sleepwalker, don't be shy Now don't open your eyes tonight You'll be the one that defends my life While I'm dead asleep dreamin' Cupid, don't draw back your bow Sam Cooke didn't know what I know I'll never be your valentine The sleepwalker in me And God only know that I've tried Let me in, let me drown or learn how to swim Just don't leave me at the window I could be the one to be your next best friend You may need someone to hold you Sleepwalker, take this knife You may see someone tonight You'd be the one that saves my life When I'm dead asleep dreamin' Cupid, don't draw back your bow Sam Cooke didn't know what I know I'll never be your valentine The sleepwalker in me And God only know that I've tried I'm in your movie and everyone looks sad But I can hear you, your voice, the laughtrack But you never saw my best scene The one where I sleep Sleepwalk into your dreams Now, sleepwalker, what's my line It's only a matter of time Until I learn to open up my eyes When I'm dead asleep dreamin' Cupid, don't draw back your bow Sam Cooke didn't know what I know I'll never be your valentine The sleepwalker in me Now, the sleepwalker in me Now, the sleepwalker in me And God only know that I've tried |
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| 9. |
| 5:02 |
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I could break free from the wood of a coffin if I need But nothin's hard as Gettin' free from places I've already been I've been waste-deep in the burnin' meadows of my mind In the engine In cold December shootin' fire from the hose Now turn off your lights 'cause I'm not comin' home 'til I'm delivered for the first time I was first-born to a parade that follows in rows down a narrow cold black river faceless shadows movin' slow I would move swift when the sounds of a trumpet would blow I've been the puppet I've been the strings I know the vacant face it brings Now the bells of curfew They may ring before I'm through But soon I'll be delivered for the first time You might keep clean in the back of an angel motorcade It doesn't matter who walks in you know, the joke is still the same You'll just wake up like a disposable lover decomposed I've been gone I've been remembered I've been alive I've been a ghost So now, if downtown explodes I'll still be on this road 'til I'm delivered for the first time I have drawn blood from the neckline when vampires were in fashion You know I'd even learn to cut my throat If I thought I could fit in 'Cause I, I once heard that you gotta learn how to blend in to this mess Where nothin's hard nothin's precious and nothin's smooth or flawless Now, no more amused just screaming to be delivered for the first time Now I'm 10 miles in the deep and mighty blue sea Looking back, towards a long white beach burnin' up into yellow flames And I just wave back like a little boy up on a pony in a show 'cause I can't fix something this complex any more than I can build a rose So just keep on letting go 'cause I must be close to being delivered for the first time Now I'd rather bleed out a long stream from being lonely and feel blessed Well than drown, laying face down in a puddle of respect I was once lost in the corridors of the arena in blindfolds I've been the bull I've been the whip I just pulled down the matador So now, turn on your lights 'cause I'm comin' home I've been delivered for the first time |
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| 3:57 |
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I need a bed
That nobodys slept in I need some air Nobodys been breathing I need a thought That I can believe in Is this fog Or is the building really burning I need you Much more than ever Im making new friends But none of them matter Maybe now We dont fit together But youve got your arms around No one but strangers I feel fine With the sun in my eyes The wind in my hair When Im falling out of this sky Im doing better than I thought I would But nothings ever as good As when youre on top I want to wake up And just start running Into a ditch Or straight up a mountain I want to get Where no one been gettin Make it deeper than hell Or make it higher than heaven I need someone whose price hasnt been met When everybodys disappearing By the minute There isnt anyone left I havent meet yet Well I remember When they hadnt gotten to you yet [chorus] Half way up And over this rainbow I heard a shot Fire up from a ghetto As I drop I didnt think youd follow Just didnt know The sky was this shallow I need a garden Where nothings forbidden I need an apple That no ones been eatin I want to start again Back at the beginnin I had a vision That this feeling maybe has an ending |
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| 4:14 |
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Slow down
Youre breaking up Use your words Dont yell so much I dont understand a word That youre saying Now move in Come up close You look like Youve maybe seen a ghost Tell me Has someone gotten to you baby Now open your arms Pick up your head Open your eyes So you can see What happens next You wont believe Just how good it can get Well make a lover Out of you yet The fog is so thick I cant see my hands It got much worse Soon as I got in And I know youre somewhere Here in the water Its ten feet deep And the river wont stop Ill tell you whats in it When I make it across You could make it too If you let someone help you But you gotta give in And you gotta let go Then you can begin To come up slow Like a desert rose [chorus] Take a deep breath And hold it in tight And put your face up Right into the light Cant you feel that full moon Shining down on you Help is coming From the great unknown Just maybe not When you needed it most Cause I can see you already Know that youre leaving But I wish youd stay And just let me in Cause everything can change But you gotta be ready Cause you wont know when [chorus] |
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| 3:17 |
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How soft a whisper can get
When youre walking through a crowded space I hear every word being said And I remember that everyday I get a little bit closer to you How long an hour can take When youre starting into open space When I feel Im slipping further away I remember that everyday I get a little bit closer to you These are the days That I wont get back I wont hear you cry Or hear you laugh And when its quite And I dont hear a thing I can always hear you breathe You know theres nowhere else Ive wanted to be Than be there when you need me Im sorry too But dont give up on me And just remember that when you get asleep I got a little bit closer to you |
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| 4:02 |
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Tomorrow is gonna make you cry
It's gonna to make you kneel Before it breaks you from inside Still pressing on Arm over arm Still trying to get both feet back onto the ground They are harvesting these fields in autumn. We're different now than when we started I am ready to wake up There in the exodus On the beautiful side of somewhere baby There on the pavement Underneath the yellow moon I think of you And just how easily we bruise The folded address in my pocket i have stuffed Trying to believe for you That the bottom didn't drop I am on the platform Covered with dust I pray they take the both of us I am ready to wake up There in the exodus On the beautiful side of somewhere baby I am ready to come down To see us both somehow On the beautiful side of somewhere someday |
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| 4:47 |
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Seems like the world's gone underground No gods or heroes Dare to go down Tear drops from a hole in heaven come Overhead like ravens Dropping down like bombs Through the mornings silver frosted glow God says nothing back But I told you so I told you so God bless the void Of my daydreams Back in the snow Making angel wings Slow motion dancing lights have gone Sail beneath the burning yellow sun I'm calling out to the deep ends of my bones Time says nothing back But I told you so I told you so Still waters rising in my mind Black and deep Smoke behind my eyes Last night I could not sleep at all I hallucinated that you were in my arms To be in your heart I filled my own Love says nothing back But I told you so I told you so I'm still here And climbing every rung If someone saw something Now Someone speak up Back over the rotted bridge I cross Open up these graves Let these bodies talk I'm Burried under leaves blood red and gold Death says nothing back But I told you so I told you so.... |
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| 4:33 |
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Seems like the world's gone underground
No gods or heroes Dare to go down Tear drops from a hole in heaven come Overhead like ravens Dropping down like bombs Through the mornings silver frosted glow God says nothing back But I told you so I told you so God bless the void Of my daydreams Back in the snow Making angel wings Slow motion dancing lights have gone Sail beneath the burning yellow sun I'm calling out to the deep ends of my bones Time says nothing back But I told you so I told you so Still waters rising in my mind Black and deep Smoke behind my eyes Last night I could not sleep at all I hallucinated that you were in my arms To be in your heart I filled my own Love says nothing back But I told you so I told you so I'm still here And climbing every rung If someone saw something Now Someone speak up Back over the rotted bridge I cross Open up these graves Let these bodies talk I'm Burried under leaves blood red and gold Death says nothing back But I told you so I told you so.... |
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