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On a television screen
Like a technicolour dream I watch the crowd surround you And you act so nonchalant As you pass the debutantes Who know you as they found you So what is it like on the inside? You live the high life... You walk in the room with your attitude You've got an awful lot to prove At the end of the day When you walk away Are you on the darker side of blue? You used to be Someone just like me Do you wonder what you're missing? And when the paparazzi stare At your face and clothes and hair Do you wonder what they're whispering? So what is it like on the inside? You live the high life... Repeat So what will you say When you've had your day And it all fades away? Repeat lf you read the signs, maybe you'll find You will accept my point of view Now how do you feel Now that you've seen it? Are you on the darker side of blue? |
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| 2. |
| 3:45 |
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she's blood flesh and bone
no tugs ore cilicone she's touch smells i taste inside but somehow i can't believe that anything will happen i know where i belong and nothings gonna happen cause she's so high high above me she's so lovely she's so high like cleopatra jean of arc or acradid she's so high high above me first class fancy free she's high cecaetie she's got the best of everything what will a guy like me ever really offer she's perfect than she can be why shud i even bother cause she's so high high above me she's so lovely she's so high like cleopatra joan of arc or acradid she's so high high above me she comes to speak to me i freeze amendiently cause what she saids sounds so onreal but somehow i can't believe that anything will happen i know where i belong and nothing is gonna happen cause she's so high high above me she's so lovely she's so high like cleopatra joan of arc or acradid she's so high high above me |
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| 3. |
| 4:42 |
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Figure of divine perfection
No one's loved with more affection Soul to soul we've breathed Oh, I won't let The Fates succeed Worried hours of contemplation Whispered bits of conversation Unaffected orderlies Disinfected rooms and hallways And if you sleep, you sleep with God And if I cry, it's for my heart Why should I hope to make it through? 'Cause if you sleep, I'll sleep, too Jagged thorns and pretty petals Butterflies and stinging nettles Sunny days and nights of blackness But where's the joy to cure my sadness? (Chorus) Gleaming cars and covered faces Teary eyes in hallowed places Grass and granite stone No one's been more all alone (Chorus) |
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| 3:55 |
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I'm a difficult manI admit I'm not easyAt the drop of a tearI can turn right awayAnd all the heartaches I've seenOne after anotherCan make a man mean enoughTo feel afraid*And nobody cares, no one really knows me And nobody shares the other side of me But you love like nobody loves meI was there all the timeEven I couldn't find meSo how did you see, what made you believe?(*repeat)You delivered my heartOne beat at a time after time after time ...(*repeat)So how did you see, what made you believe?
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| 5. |
| 4:16 |
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And if you could, you'd climb atopThe Eiffel Tower now, wouldn't you?You'd stare at the sun, or lay yourselfDown six feet under, wouldn't you?And if you could, you'd tie me upAnd make me yours now, wouldn't you?*Are you strong enough to love me? Are you lost in love or crazy? Are you strong enough, Strong enough to love me?And if you could, you'd walk through fireOn tightrope wire now, wouldn't you?You'd fly up across the skyJust to prove your point now, wouldn't you?* RepeatYou'd take me in hand, higher and higher, overland But I'd slip through the cracks, and higher and higher Take you backAnd if you could, you'd tie me upAnd make me yours now, wouldn't you?You'd tie me upBut are you strong enough to love me?Are you lost in love or crazy?Are you strong enough to love me?
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| 3:07 |
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Fortune frowned on meShe's a big girl, and she got meNow I'm down the hallI'm the last door, on the east wing*You don't know what it's like to be like me You don't know what it's like to go between I'll write a weekly letter And keep you wondering what it means To be like meSomeday I'll be strongI'll find a nice girl and a new carEscape my destinyI'm gonna break out, I'm gonna shake out* RepeatI'll move to a strange and distant landAnd change ever after who I am* RepeatI'll never get much better, but I don't mind
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| 4:38 |
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Dad says it's striking
How I look like you And how we share the same eyes Yes he swears I'm just a smaller form of you But brittle bones and a wisp of white hair Are all I see in that old rocking chair Tell me how long have you been around And how long til you're underground Tell me how can a son be a father A mother a daughter And I be a man someday Well I wonder Yes I do I really wonder Could I belong to someone so old who Can only speak in whispers And who cannot hear a single word I say You're a man with a quivering hand How we're connected I just can't understand Tell me how long have you been around And how long til you're underground Tell me how can a son be a father A mother a daughter And I be a man someday Well I wonder Yes I do I really wonder But when I think of how you smile And the way you look at me It isn't hard to recognize That you belong to me that you're a part of me Tell me how can a son be a father A mother a daughter And I be a man someday Well I wonder Yes I do I really wonder |
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| 8. |
| 3:13 |
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Throughout the passing years
As all the world seems ever changing We share the same smiles and tears Of life, with love that's so far ranging And after all is said and done I'll be the one beside you I'll be your love and loyal friend Until the end, beside you Each flower bends with time Each leaf descends with every autumn But you and I will find Our love won't die or be forgotten (Chorus) When you and I are grey When youth has gone and life is dimming I promise that I'll stay Beside you, like we were beginning (Chorus) |
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| 3:23 |
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Another grand surprise
Your rapier wit cut me down to size You love to pass your time Looking for ways to play the thorn in my side It's dejavu one more time Whoever said to take it on the chin Whoever said that good guys always win Has never seen the sorry state I'm in A victim of romanticide again My little atom bomb This is the last time you'll do me wrong So listen when I speak I can't go on forever turning my cheek Your whipping boy's about to speak Whoever said to take it on the chin Whoever said that good guys always win Has never seen the sorry state I'm in A victim of romanticide again I've paid my bills and cleaned out my closet, Slammed the front door tight I can't believe that I ever thought This all would work out right Whoever said to take it on the chin Whoever said that good guys always win Has never seen the sorry state I'm in A victim of romanticide again Whoever said to get down on your knees Give your ground, or try your best to please Has never seen my lonely misery A victim of romanticide, that's me |
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| 10. |
| 3:29 |
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Your aspirations glew like flies
You took the planet by surprise You truly believed But of course you'd been deceived It's an age of alienation Of a downbeat generation So much for liberation It looks like rain to me In a drug infected haze You attacked the bourgeois ways And felt so relieved But consider what you leave It's an age of alienation Of a downbeat generation So much for liberation It looks like rain to me I loved but knew not who Belonged, but not to you I'm a man of modern hue Like an Indian summer sky I can kiss this dream goodbye So long to the blue There's a shadow over you It's an age of alienation Of a downbeat generation So much for liberation It looks like rain to me It's an age of your creation Of a disunited nation So much for your invasion It looks like rain to me |
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| 11. |
| 3:15 |
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Every time that I look in your eyes
I know love never dies Oh, baby... Love is blind, and I can't see Cupid's aimed his bow right at me I love you and adore you, you're all that life could bring Baby, you're my everything Cynics sneer at fairy tales They mock love and all its details But we've got something magical those fools will never see Baby, you're my everything I can only stand for a moment or two Being without you Oh, I know it sounds extreme But baby you're my dream come true Yes, we've got something magical those fools have never seen Baby, you're my everything |
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| 12. |
| 5:22 |
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Sea, sand and stone
Wreath 'round this ground I call my own While dark, concrete sky Blacks out the sun with icy night Even though the ocean roars And the storm is bold, and the rain is cold Here I was born Though winter winds have blown And bitter seeds been sown I gave you all I am and all I hope to be Now I am free Wind fill my frame Fire me with your immortal flame Even though I am poor Through the looking glass, I watch unfold What can't be told Though fortunes rise and fall It's no concern at all I gave you all I am, and all I hope to be Now I am free Even though I am poor Through the looking glass, I watch unfold What can't be told And bitter seeds been sown I gave you all I am and all I hope to be Now I am free Though fortunes rise and fall Though winter winds have blown It's no concern at all I gave you all I am, and all I hope to be Now I am free |
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