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Beautiful The Freak
05:13
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Welcome back, feel happy to stay
If things look different I'm sorry, so sorry to say
I've made love to your ghost, while you were away
Somethings never change
Watch your back, there are people who want you to leave
Nobody wants you, nobody, nobody but me
So for your good you better go
Somethings never change
All feelings aside, I think it best
That we try, we try, at even feeble attempts
It's just a matter of time till we want what we get
Somethings never change
Somethings, never, never...
You're too beautiful a freak to want someone like me
I need everyone to like me...
You have too beautiful a mind to bottle up it inside
It costs to be great...
Somethings never change
Don't hold your breath, I've made up I've made my mind
Without you, I've turned my penny into a dime
So it can't be that bad, so bad without you
Somethings never change
Somethings never change... for people like me and no one like you-
Who got somewhere to be who got something to do-
About things I'm afraid of, I don't want to lose
I'm just a coward
This awkward coward... wants to be you.
But you're too beautiful a.....
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Holiday Bust
05:07
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HOLIDAY BUST
It's all good, I feel fine
I've been down, I've been down like this before
Could you stay? I've got more to say
I've been down, I've been down
Have you been there too?
All that was said, haven't you heard
I haven't done yet, I've been here waiting for you
All that was seen, I'm wanting to go, still never been
and i was just waiting for you
It's all good, I feel fine
I've been down, I've been down like this before
Could you stay? I've got more to say
I've been down, I've been down
Have you been there too?
The countryside blows, but I'll give a chance and give it a go
I'll be there waiting for you
Got nothing to wear for nothing-to-do
But i won't go on running off just because your gone
Got nothing better to do
It's no ideal state
Ain't no holiday
And you know that i won't tell a soul but you
The business hits everyday
Feel free to validate
It's all good, I feel fine
I've been down, I've been down like this before
Could you stay? I've got more to say
I've been down, I've been down
Have you been there too?
One more time, I had a better time pacing the ceiling
Don't be kind, whatever' s on your mind, I want you to say it
Smack to the head
look spots and the dots
I wake up in some random empty parking lot
and you're Lord-knows-where to be found....
You're just like a bust, you break up the party-don't go
I'm just a commercial/a gimmick now back to the show
It's all good I feel fine
I fine feel.....
I've been down
But you've been there too
Still everyone loves you
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3. |
Dying Unaware
03:36
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DYING UNAWARE
Henry used to talk of people how society would never learn to never live without...
The love
And he used to say that we could be a family but not without...
The love
Then he went to nowhere I know...
The picture-picture perfect memories they don't mean nothing till you die
I pick up the phone but I nobody's home still i try
Honey I can't pay the bills
We're all out of money, I've lost all sanity
Go take the kid to the park, or perhaps on a walk
I've something to do
But always remember my love, I loved
Was careful not to touch the broken glass and cigarette ash paving the floors
I wish I was informed, before all this
You take the good from the bad...
Any minute now I'm gonna cave you can tell by lines on my hands
I turn the corner to steps of young lovers where they... stand in each other
Honey I've run out of reach and I'm sick of this sympathy
I'm falling straight up in a whirl
I've tried my best for a while
(A whisper goodbye)
I've somewhere to go
But always remember my love, and your...fathers and sons
You take the good from the bad
Happy from sad
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Parade In My Head
03:36
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PARADE IN MY HEAD
I was your best pull-him-aside-and-divide-his-heart-in-a-mess
I try to forget the rest
I was trying to understand things that you said
Oh well, they parade in my head
As I lie awake in my bed
And oh, a hundred to one
It's hard to believe
You'd pocket sunday offering
But maybe I'm just seeing things
Parting pending, wait for the ending reprise
I sign off in disguise, a sad wave/silent goodbye
And oh you love what you want
And hate what you need
Things are not quite happening
How we thought it was meant to be
Fare thee well and I'll miss you most
When I travel alone or sing a two part song
I hope you find what you won't
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Push
03:35
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PUSH
And I need something today
I'm drunk on cheap wine
The man on the tube pushing the something that
I could go for a girl who'd light up my sky
And you look just right
And I know what to do
And I hate how's it's been
And you just won't believe when you see me again
Today could turn dark to light
Even at night
And everyone's singing the blues
I just look at the girl who stares in my eyes
Sit back and unwind
And I know what to do
When I hate how's it's been
And you just won't believe when you see me again
She was around when I needed most
Someone to touch that I dare wouldn't lose
And I saw something the world could not offer
I found it in you
And I know what to do
When I hate how I live
And you just won't believe when you see me
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Parable
05:12
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PARABLE
Light up a parable or read us a poem
Or say nothing at all again and again
As long as you're breathing I hear you just fine
Lose all power of speech, I'll read in your mind
The room is all candlelit, but you can't see the glow
But you're feeling the heat blood to the bone
I never noticed this hum of machinery
I stand reminded when you're not around
One day I'm gonna be like you are today
Then I'll wanna be like you are then
If the money runs out and we're living out on the street
We could go for a walk that'll always come for free
To walk like you do and never die like you'd never
To think what you had in mind
I was just hoping, if you had the time...
I could be in good company
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Taking a trip to forget where I live, off the avenue
I wanna go where the people are not their degree
I'll leave it at home in New York City
We had fun in the sun, we had fun acting dumb by the swimming pool
The love of a place where strangers relate to the golden rule
Then it was the last day of the season
Where did it go? The time? the feeling?
I got this funny feeling, but the good kind, I'm feeling like I'm high
I am some kind of happy, yeah the good kind I'm feeling like I'm high, but I ain't
We were crazy about, all the screaming the shouts and the altitude
Remember the time, when we waited all night to get in
It was the last day we could see them
He used to believe he could do anything he had wanted to
Who would of thought, such a cynical side could prevail in you
You've got to shake this anti-feeling
Make it the last day, cash day, out the door to the street
I got this funny feeling, like a good time I'm feeling like I'm high
I am loving the fever, these are good times I'm feeling like I'm high, but I...
I'm on something and I struck a natural high
I don't want to get down
I've been around I've been making a round way downtown again
Singing a song, while walking along to the beat
This is the last day that you'll see me
I'm flying way back to western cities
Where I get this funny feeling- but the good kind when feeling like I'm high
I'll never leave here, these the good times I'm feeling like I'm high, but I ain't
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THE GIRL BY THE BRIDGE (SILENT FILM)
There's a girl by the bridge, she is passing out fliers
To old dirty liars like me
She makes me feel younger, smarter, fitter I swear
Without pity she smiles, "we've got pictures of places
Where beautiful faces exist
We'll find a private place
Where there's plenty of sun and plenty to waste"
It's such a long way to down
But don't go that way, long face
Why not look forward to falling up upwards
We'll make our own very first rule
When watching silent film
We'll throw in the words
I'm just half a mile, the catch of the mystery
My favorite and least favorite part
"Does the girl loves me?" then maybe, I could be fine
Plan an obstacle dinner, like one in the pictures
And ask her to marry me
And all through that errant night
We'd walk every street and talk till it's light
It's such a long way to down
But I've got more in me somehow
There's a boy wearing me, who's dying to meet
The girl that is singing in you
We'll watch some silent film
And throw in the words
It's such a long way to down
But you won't spread my ashes not now
Cuz the girl on the bridge is going away
She's going away with me
To watch some silent film
We'll throw in the words
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9. |
Everything-Always
07:22
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EVERYTHING-ALWAYS
So happy to meet you
I know it might seem a bit trite
But it's all that I worked hard for
I hope you enjoy tonight
Everything always what seems to be good enough
Everything always it falls too short
And I'm so damn nervous, look-see I fuck it up
But everything always, You don't seem to mind
Took the part less than perfect
I know I've got far to go
Read a written review about it
Still I hope you enjoy my-the show
Even though that...
Everything-always what seems to be good enough
Everything-always it falls too short
And I'm so damn nervous, look see I fuck it up
But everything-always, You don't seem to mind
It's
All
In
Your
Mind.
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10. |
Everything-Always
04:35
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EVERYTHING-ALWAYS
So happy to meet you
I know it might seem a bit trite
But it's all that I worked hard for
I hope you enjoy tonight
Everything always what seems to be good enough
Everything always it falls too short
And I'm so damn nervous, look-see I fuck it up
But everything always, You don't seem to mind
Took the part less than perfect
I know I've got far to go
Read a written review about it
Still I hope you enjoy my-the show
Even though that...
Everything-always what seems to be good enough
Everything-always it falls too short
And I'm so damn nervous, look see I fuck it up
But everything-always, You don't seem to mind
It's
All
In
Your
Mind.
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