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All I ask
03:15
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You're gonna read until your eyes are dry
the pages fall away into another lie
If this isn't real, then how can we provide
all the simple things in life to feel alright?
How can we run away from all of this?
This sinking feeling finds me my abyss
I'm going to a town with empty streets
this cacophony of sound is just our feet
This is all I ask of you, just like all the stupid things I say and do
I swear I won't go away from here
I promise not to run away, my imperfections and the rest are just a sweet charade
You are all I need for now
I don't wanna see no other ghost
Won't you be my Queen, be my host?
So I will be a jester and a clown,
oh we're dancing and we're singing on a cloud
Let me be a joker and a thief
Let my logic drown all my belief
So I can hide with words what's underneath
Oh, I'm falling down from heaven like a leaf
This is all I ask of you, just like all the stupid things I say and do
I swear I won't go away from here
I promise not to run away, my imperfections and the rest are just a sweet charade
You are all I need for now
If love is blind, why then do I see you all the time?
Could this one by mine?
This is all I ask of you, just like all the stupid things I say and do
I swear I won't go away from here
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Eternal light, it glows inside me,
it opens wounds, and heals them slightly
and you can see me if you open your eyes, if you'd be so kind
Endless dark, it drowns me nightly
I close my eyes and it holds me tightly
and you won't know me with your eyes wide open
Why don't you close your eyes?
and now she's falling asleep
brown river flowin across her cheek
and the ruffled pages and cold coffee sat there ages
when the wind gave up its job for a week
When light gave up, we made our own source
exchanging whispers, taking heaven by force
We are all Gods, we built our own throne
and we witnessed the forging of the first stone
and now she's falling asleep
brown river flowin across her cheek
and the ruffled pages and cold coffee sat there ages
when the wind gave up its job for a week
Now she's gone, the ash will settle,
instead of following the bird of flame
Is this the word of God or the Devil?
Is this the reason I don't know your name?
and now she's falling asleep
brown river flowin across her cheek
and the ruffled pages and cold coffee sat there ages
when the wind gave up its job
when the wind gave up its job
when the wind gave up its job for a week
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Melissa
03:50
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Melissa tried to move a mountain
but the mountain moved for her
Melissa sang inside her mountain
She sang alone but no-one heard
She sang 'til the sun closed her eyes
and when the day was done, in the moonlight she was baptised.
She did things to you you'll never know
Far away from all you'll ever cling to
The birds around the tree call their name, in a different language
All the things you do will come to nothing,
until you open up and sing.
The moonlight sky we paint with eyes will be a memory
in Melissa's mind
Melissa loved the noisy city
Lights playing on her hair
The music she heard was real pretty
Metallic romance and smoke in the air
and when the City sleeps, the silence creeps into your veins
Oh, the moon hides 'til you open your window pane
She did things to you you'll never know
Far away from all you'll ever cling to
The birds around the tree call their name, in a different language
All the things you do will come to nothing,
until you open up and sing.
The moonlight sky we paint with eyes will be a memory
in Melissa's mind
in Melissa's mind
In Melissa's mine mine mind
In Melissa's mind
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4. |
OK now
03:12
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I've had enough of ghosts, I don't wanna see no more
and I ain't gonna be your host, not even gonna try no more
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
with their distorted faces and cruel humerous taste
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
distorted faces, let's pretend to be wasted
Mama's not a sinner but I heard her angry cry
when I turned and I saw it there in her eye
Yeah, I saw that the truth is OK now
She looked away and laughed away the tremors of the past
'cause the things that we value much rarely last
longer than it takes for us to realise that it's OK now
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
with their distorted faces and cruel humerous taste
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
distorted faces, let's pretend to be wasted
Mama's not a shower but she showed me all the things that she knew
insignificant, yes, but true
and I learned that it's absolutely OK now
She showed me how to laugh away the things that I had done
so I could go so super far away and see how far to run
before I realised that it's far away but it's OK now
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
with their distorted faces and cruel humerous taste
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
distorted faces, they never end right now
His Mama was an author and his Papa was a thief
he lived her life in pages and he lived his underneath
the web of indecision, and the paper and the ink are OK now
He saw her lean away from the shadows of the page,
he stole her love away and he lives with her today
Now she writes about his smoky hair and life is OK now
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
with their distorted faces and cruel humerous taste
Say hello to time and all his little friends,
distorted faces, they never end
We're not the future but we're gonna get used to
We're the future but we're gonna get used to it
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5. |
This is not a love song
03:14
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It was only a game, and it all felt good
it was only a name, and I forgot it like I should
It was only a truth, and a silver tongue
it was only the difference between right and wrong
You know the others wanna see you on the other side
tell the others that I'm coming along for the ride
It's complicated but I'm implicated
Oh God, I celebrated love first
This is not a love song
Not a love song
Not a love song
Not a love song
It was only a test of solemn tragedy
but not the best, that one you saved for me
It was only a home, a pile of bricks
it was only a chemical reaction from a lovely kiss
You know the others wanna see you on the other side
Tell the sisters and their brothers that it's not alright
It's a revolution, not an evolution, please don't take away my contribution
Finish with the persecution so I can own my own evolution
This is not a love song
Not a love song
Not a love song
Not a love song
This is not a love song
Not a love song
Not a love song
Not a love song
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When I saw you in the corner of the floor
all that I wanted but I wanted nothing more
It's mine to see but not believe at all
oh it's you, it's you, it's you that I adore
When I kissed you in the middle of the street
the moon burned funny pictures on our feet
like someone else's story, soaked in glory,
bubbles filled with silver still remain so I can't see tomorrow's pain
Hold on, the truth is never comfortable to hold
Well don't run, the sea will take me in before I'm old
Well don't go, I'm wiser when I'm young enough to grow
well let go, we'll rise up from the earth before you know
You say "it's forever", I'll be here through any weather
She'll breath the sunshine into her lungs
I'll sit and smile for nothing, you'll do nothing if it's not for something more than me
Thank God I don't believe
When I walked with you along the cobbled road,
you can bet your ass she's talking in a funny little code
It's mine to know but not to seek abode,
though I know that it's your hand I wish to hold
Well don't run, the truth is never comfortable to hold
Well let go, the sea will take me in before I'm old
Well let go, I'm wiser when I'm young enough to grow,
Well don't run, we'll rise up from the earth before you know
You say "it's forever", I'll be here through any weather
She'll breath the sunshine into her lungs
I'll sit and smile for nothing, you'll do nothing if it's not for something more than me
For nothing more I see,
Thank God I don't believe
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7. |
The Fire
03:07
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It's not very easy, and you're not the only one
I'm feeling queasy, being here's just our fault
We can get away, we can get a place,
rent a fancy car, go somewhere real far
Here is my pillow, here is my dream,
here is my torn sleeve, here is me.
Here is my blindness and here is a hand for yours,
here is my kindness and you'll be mine and I'll be yours
You be mine and I'll be yours,
you be mine and I'll be yours
She's not always laughing, sometimes a breath away,
Oh, but she holds the fire in for some kind of rainy day
We can get away, keep the fire at bay,
you can be a girl and I'll be laughing while you twirl
Here is my pillow, here is my dream,
here is my torn sleeve, here is me.
Here is my blindness and here is a hand for yours,
here is my kindness and you'll be mine and I'll be yours
You be mine and I'll be yours,
oh you be mine and I'll be yours.
and I'll be yours,
and I'll be yours
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8. |
She
03:59
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Oh, do you know our life is inconsequential light,
painted pictures in a stranger's hallway
and I, I am a boy without a toy. I am a man without a boy.
I am a question for you and your fellows
She, she is a twisted hourglass,
she, she loves the breakfast tear gas.
Sleep is not an option to the damned.
Oh she is not afraid to whisper,
he breathed in the smoke that kissed her cheek
all these colours are absolete
I am time, I am life, I am anything you like
but I don't know anything at all, don't know anything at all
I am hushed, I am quiet and I am holding our for a riot,
but I don't know anything at all
don't know anything at all
(know anything at all)
Or do you seek our truth, or do you sit beneath the roof?
wrapped around a layer of youth
Or do you have the soul to roar? Taking less whilst giving more?
and make an island of the shore
She, she is a frozen sculpture,
she, she eats the poison culture,
I, I'm not afraid to sleep.
Oh they, they seem a million miles away,
so keep your billion dreams at bay until I falter
I am time, I am life, I am anything you like
but I don't know anything at all, don't know anything at all
I am hushed, I am quiet and I am holding our for a riot,
but I don't know anything at all
don't know anything at all
(know anything at all)
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9. |
Young and dumb
04:29
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When I look inside the door I know that I could probably do anything
If I look a little more around at the pretty colours in the painting.
Who knows if it's you that I'm looking for?
The dust keeps dancing around the entire floor
If I begin to drift, won't you build a rift and sail away with me?
If I need a little lift, won't you show your face and save the day with me?
Who knows if it's you that I'm waiting for?
The dust keeps dancing and I just can't see anymore
I know I'll see away from the dream again,
I know I'll fall away until another one goes (until another one goes)
I know I'll blink and I'll be 17 again,
too young to drink and dream around the river bend
dreaming around the river bend ghost
Who knows what it's like?
Who knows what it's like?
Who knows what it's like to be young and dumb?
How we celebrate but looks don't indicate the lining of our cloud,
how we celebrate, don't look, don't complicate the structure we allow
Who knows if it's you that I'm waiting for?
The dust keeps dancing and I just can't see anymore
I know I'll see away from the dream again,
I know I'll fall away until another one goes (until another one goes)
I know I'll blink and I'll be 17 again,
too young to drink and dream around the river bend
dreaming around the river bend ghost
Who knows what it's like?
Who knows what it's like?
Who knows what it's like to be young and dumb?
Dumb
Dumb
I know I'll see away from the dream again,
I know I'll fall away until another one goes (until another one goes)
I know I'll blink and I'll be 17 again,
too young to drink and dream around the river bend
dreamy around the river bend ghost
Who knows what it's like?
Who knows what it's like?
Who knows what it's like to be young and dumb?
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10. |
New horizon
03:54
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Hush, hush hush ...
I'll keep your secrets when you blush for me
Rush, rush, rush in circles
when you're dancing in the breeze
Think, don't think,
close your eyes if you just can't stand the view
Remind me, and release me from the older avenue
You'll do nothing and you won't get far
so take your chances where you are
Those are words I won't permit,
those are words we must omit.
Breath in the City, the colours are so pretty,
my eyes are so wide open and clearly in love with a new horizon
Look to tomorrow, the narratives we borrow,
our minds are so intertwined with the sorry we have today
Hush, hush hush ...
I'll keep your secrets when you blush for me
Rush, rush, rush in circles
when you're dancing in the breeze
Think, don't think,
close your eyes if you just can't stand the view
Remind me, and release me from the older avenue
You'll do nothing and you won't get far
so take your chances where you are
Those are words I won't permit,
those are words we must omit.
Breath in the City, the colours are so pretty,
my eyes are so wide open and clearly in love with a new horizon
Look to tomorrow, the narratives we borrow,
our minds are so intertwined with the sorry we have today
Bring me up,
bring him up
Bring him down.
Bring him down to the ground
Breath in the City, the colours are so pretty,
my eyes are so wide open and clearly in love with a new horizon
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11. |
Be repaired
04:26
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Smile free, there's nothing that I really want
there's nothing that I really need, except breathing.
Eyes closed, 'cause beauty is a dirty word
and ugly is just as absurd as not caring
Smile with me
Smile with me
These older books and worn out crooks, rusty hooks are all I know now
Yellowed pages, sit for ages, time's a fire that always rages
The fields I roam, childhood home, distant memories that I proudly own
Expired colours, sisters, brothers, blurry faces on younger mothers
There's no reason to be lonely,
there's no reason to be scared.
Your life is yours, and yours only.
Deal in love and be repaired please.
Live now, 'cause everything will come to pass,
entropy will have the last laugh, will you notice?
Ask how, 'cause questions are a divine right,
and you know that you could own the night if you want to.
Cry with me
Cry with me
These older books and worn out crooks, rusty hooks are all I know now
Yellowed pages, sit for ages, time's a fire that always rages
The fields I roam, childhood home, distant memories that I proudly own
Expired colours, sisters, brothers, blurry faces on younger mothers
There's no reason to be lonely,
there's no reason to be scared.
Your life is yours, and yours only.
Deal in love and be repaired
Deal in love and be repaired please.
Deal in love.
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