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What can I compare you to, a favorite pair of shoes?
Maybe my bright red boots if they had wings Funny how we animate colorful objects saved Funny how it's hard to take a love with no sting. But come on take it, come on take it, take it from me But come on take it, come on take it, take it from me (we've got a good life). What can I compare you to, a window the sun shines through? Maybe the silver moon, a smile rising The magic of the fading day, satellites on parade A toast to the plans we've made to live like kings. I lose my breath despite the air When the rain falls down I give in to despair Pink magnolia in winter she doesn't care if you don't show up to have another cup. What can I compare you to, when everything looks like you? I get a bit confused with every Spring Flowers that bloom your eyes, hummingbirds side by side My heart won't stay entirely in this rib caging |
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| 2. |
| 3:19 |
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Gray, quiet and tired and mean
Picking at a worried seam I try to make you mad at me over the phone. Red eyes and fires and signs I'm taken by a nursery rhyme I want to make a ray of sunshine and never leave home No amount of coffee, no amount of crying No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine No, no, no, no, no, nothing else will do I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you. The road gets cold, there's no spring in the middle this year I'm the new chicken clucking open hearts and ears Oh, such a prima donna, sorry for myself But green, it is also summer And I won't be warm till I'm lying in your arms No amount of coffee, no amount of crying No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine No, no, no, no, no, nothing else will do I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you. I see it all through a telescope: guitar, suitcase, and a warm coat Lying in the back of the blue boat, humming a tune... No amount of coffee, no amount of crying No amount of whiskey, no wine No, no, no, no, no, nothing else will do I've gotta have you, I've gotta have... No amount of coffee, no amount of crying No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine No, no, no, no, no, nothing else will do I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you. I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you. I've gotta have you. |
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| 2:45 |
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I woke up and wished that I was dead
With an aching in my head I lay motionless in bed I thought of you and where you'd gone And let the world spin madly on And everything that I said I'd do Like make the world brand new And take the time for you I just got lost and slept right through the dawn And the world spins madly on I let the day go by I always say goodbye I watch the stars from my windowsill The whole world is moving and I'm standing still I woke up and wished that I was dead With an aching in my head I lay motionless in bed The night is here and the day is gone And the world spins madly on I thought of you and where you'd gone And the world spins madly on And the world spins madly on And the world spins madly on and on and on |
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| 4. |
| 4:13 |
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Citywide rodeo, you set on the stage
Where all the clowns will go when they feel their age I know that you think you're not good for anything The world makes you feel so small Get on your wooden horse This is a ride, not a fight No need to save face, say goodnight, Grace "Good night, Grace." There's dust on the stadium seats, there's dust in your hair You wonder how fast you'll go when you hit the air I know that you think you're not good for anything The world makes you feel so small Get on your wooden horse This is a ride, not a fight No need to save face, say goodnight, Grace "Good night, Grace." And oh, isn't it strange how things can change you? And oh, isn't it plain that some things unname you So don't ask anybody else. Citywide rodeo, step into your car Look up at the indigo and pick out your star. I know that you think you're not good for anything The world makes you feel so small Get on your wooden horse This is a ride, not a fight No need to save face, say goodnight, Grace "Good night, Grace." |
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| 2:36 |
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Are your friends really your friends?
Are you still waiting for the end of the day? Hey, hey, when will you learn to love what's sent from up above? Riga girls go like this Make me wish I was someone else Oh, Riga girls, are you sad? Oh, I wish I had someone Just a little bit of snake oil, tin foil It takes so little charm to keep you hanging on But it's a facade like the sky, like the moon, like your eyes Riga girls like to kiss Make me wish I was someone else Oh, Riga girls are you sad? Oh, I wish I had someone Who would want you as you are? What can you give they couldn't get from someone else? What life of ease, what wedding bells, what pretty stones, what precious wealth? Don't be lonely, why don't you call me? It's called a come on, come on, come on baby Does your heart echo like a hall 'Cause there's no one there at all |
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| 1:36 |
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You know the way you look makes everyone hungry
You got the ways and means to make it all right Dye your hair suicide blonde Dye your hair suicide blonde Lose your identity, wander in any direction Yeah, that's the road to heaven's door Dye your hair suicide blonde Dye your hair suicide blonde Been so long since you're gone Yeah, you turn me on You know the way you look makes everyone hungry Are you a key to heaven's door? Dye your hair suicide blonde Dye your hair suicide blonde |
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| 3:57 |
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Thunder rumbles in the distance, a quiet intensity
I am willful, your insistence is tugging at the best of me You're the moon, I'm the water You're Mars, calling up Neptune's daughter Sometimes rain that's needed falls We float like two lovers in a painting by Chagall All around is sky and blue town Holding these flowers for a wedding gown We live so high above the ground, satellites surround us. I am humbled in this city There seems to be an endless sea of people like us Wakeful dreamers, I pass them on the sunlit streets In our rooms filled with laughter We make hope from every small disaster Everybody says "you can't, you can't, you can't, don't try." Still everybody says that if they had the chance they'd fly like we do. |
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| 2:00 |
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When I was a child everybody smiled, nobody knows me at all
Very late at night and in the morning light, nobody knows me at all Now I got lots of friends, yes, but then again, nobody knows me at all Kids and a wife, it's a beautiful life, nobody knows me at all And oh when the lights are low Oh with someone I don't know I don't give a damn, I'm happy as a clam, nobody knows me at all Ah, what can you do? There's nobody like you. Nobody knows me at all I know how you feel, no secrets to reveal, nobody knows me at all Very late at night and in the morning light, nobody knows me at all Nobody knows me, nobody knows me, nobody knows me at all |
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| 3:35 |
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Scattered shadows on a wall, you watch the long light fall
Some impressions stay and some will fade Tattered shoes outside your door, clothes all on the floor Your life feels like the morning after all year long. Every day it starts again You cannot say if you're happy You keep trying to be Try harder, maybe this is not your year. Movies, TV screens reflect just what you expected There's a world of shiny people somewhere else Out there following their bliss living easy, getting kissed while you wonder what else you're doing wrong Breathe through it, write a list of desires Make a toast, make a wish, slash some tires Paint a heart repeating, beating "don't give up, don't give up, don't give up." |
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| 2:59 |
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You look darkly on the day
With memories to light your way A little sad but it's all right We are always living in twilight No one knocks upon your door Until you don't care anymore A little alone but it's all right We are always living in twilight Living in a dream, walking in between the sunrise and sunset Living in a dream, walking in between sunset and sunrise You get tied up in your day, so I let go and walk away And now we're loose ends of the night We are always living in twilight So it goes, though no one knows you like they used to do Have a drink the sky is sinking toward a deeper blue And you're still all right Step out into twilight So I stumble home at night Like I've stumbled through my life With ghosts and visions in my sight We are always living in twilight |
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| 3:02 |
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Tangerines are hanging heavy, glowing marigolden hues
Teasing a half-pale moon And I feel a pull to the blue-velvet dark and stars. Pink Magnolia, blushing and coy Savors the sun while she shines You've got yours and I've got mine Together we glide through the blue-velvet dark and stars All it takes is a little faith, and a lot of heart Back and forth we ply these oars They move in time and get entwined Green with joy then gray with sorrow Ripened fruit that falls tomorrow Filling us with brilliance Branches are bare with a pulse underneath Flowering slowly inside Your hands are warm and my body is wide To hold all the promise of blue-velvet dark and stars All it takes is a little faith and a lot of heart Sweetheart |
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| 2:46 |
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I watch the sun go down, I watch the sun go down
Then I wander around, then I wander around It's here then it's gone Love doesn't last too long I didn't even have time to get it straight in my mind To catch up from behind, to see that I was blind And I wish I was wrong But love doesn't last too long All you lovers in the dark can forget what I said 'Cause it still goes on in my heart And it still goes on in my head Rivers to the sea, rivers to the sea How it is right now is how it's always gonna be It's here then it's gone Love doesn't last too long I watch the sun go down, I watch the sun go down Then I wander around Then I wander around Then I wander around |
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| 4:11 |
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It's the second September I have known you
Four years or so ago, I rode a pony, called him "Truth" We didn't know the way so it took us till today to get here And all that time, I felt just fine I held so many people in my suitcase heart I was glad to let the whole thing go It was taken by the wind and snow And I still didn't know that I was waiting For a girl on a slow pony home I can remember when I first saw you You said in my photograph I looked more far away I laughed and smiled and didn't say "I am a bit afraid to be here." And all that time, I felt just fine I held so many people in my suitcase heart That I had to let the whole thing go It was taken by the wind and snow And I still didn't know that I was waiting For a girl on a slow pony home Setting free the anchor and looking past the shore It's a sea of horses on ships with no sails, no motors, no oars Now we're cleaning the windows between us two Funny, you do it once, and then again, and pretty soon the fingerprints and dust... But I've begun to trust the view here. And all this time, I felt just fine I held so many people in my suitcase heart I was glad to let the whole thing go It was taken by the wind and snow And I still didn't know that I was waiting For a girl on a slow pony home |
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