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| 1. |
| 3:21 | 
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Someone's in the back yard, banging on the door
Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor Mama's thinking family dinners weren't too much to ask for Everybody here's got a story to tell Everybody's been through their own hell There's nothing too special about getting hurt Getting over it, that takes the work Cause one way or another, we'll all need each other Nothing's gonna turn out the way you thought it would But friends and lovers, don't you duck and cover Cause everything comes out the way it should Blessed are the humble, blessed are the meek Blessed are the hungry, blessed are the weak Blessed are the ones on the other side Blessed are we for just being alive One day I stopped wanting anything at all The heavens opened up like a waterfall No use in worrying about when it ends Just for now be thankful for what I get Cause one way or another, a man's gonna suffer It makes no difference the way you wanted it But friends and lovers, don't you duck and cover Cause everything comes out the way it should in the end Seems like life is a palindrome You cry when you die, you cry when you're born In between it's all about the ups and downs Add 'em all together, they cancel each other out Cause one way or another One way or another You won't get what you wanted You'll get enough, for sure One way or another Winter pays for the summer Won't get what you wanted What you got'll be good Someone's in the back yard, banging on the door Daddy's gone away, he's coming back no more His baby's curled up on a stranger's floor Mama's thinking happy endings weren't too much to ask for |
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| 2. |
| 2:57 |
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Forgive me this sin
I'm falling over And flashing tin grins And rolling in clover So ready to get out And eager to please Well its late in the day in the middle of a life But it's early in the century I never got it I never got it before Hey, hello How do you get on So much undone It's like it was before We both got a lot to be thankful for Forgive me my tongue It doesn't know what it's doing It used to get washed out Now it's undisciplined and crude I'm losing my language And calling a truce And the shape of the thoughts in my head Aren't right for the words i've got to use I got 'em never Never got 'em before Hey, hello How do you get on So much undone And still you shine like the sun We both got a lot to be thankful for We both got a lot to be thankful for White dwarf, red giant It's empty in space And where there's matter there's violence I never got it I never got it before Hey, hello How do you get on So much undone And still you shine like the sun We've got a lot to be thankful for We've both got a lot to be thankful for We've both got a lot to be thankful for We've both got a lot to be thankful for |
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| 3. |
| 3:29 |
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At the start of the conversation
I didn't have much to say I was looking for some inspiration You just got in my way Took a shot at an easy target You were too stunned to say anything You were the unsuspecting martyr You were not the most dangerous game Bring my courage back now Bring it back to me Tired of being afraid of what I can't change And I want to be living free I don't want to be a prisoner I want to live free Well it could be I was mistaken Could be that I deceived myself But it's hard to understand somebody Who doesn't want to understand himself There's an ocean of unlatched windows And a world of unlocked homes The only reason anybody still feels safe Is most people still knock on the door Bring my courage back now Bring it back to me Tired of being afraid of what I can't change And I want to be living free I don't want to be a prisoner (x3) bound in these chains a slave to my fears Just want to be living free Though we all return to dust There's a lot of us In an awful rush to (then as before) By the end of the inquisition I was brought back from the brink Torquemada and a couple of friends got together All went out for drinks Left me here in this empty dungeon While they're living it up downtown As if they never even existed Doesn't make much difference now Bring my courage back now Bring it back to me Tired of being afraid of what I can't change And I want to be living free I don't want to be a prisoner (x3) (afraid of these chains) (slave to my fears) Just want to be living free Well some take the road to Damascus Some take the road to hell I'll take highway 1 to the evergreens And everything will turn out well |
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| 4. |
| 4:03 |
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Clouds rumble, earth will shift
Walls tumble, hearts will skip Things changing Everywhere but here Small window, tiny room Sun hits in the afternoon For one minute fills this space Beautiful, illuminated When I am released And the gates fly open before me When I am released Will you still be waiting for me? Some look and all they fin Are problems and alibis But my cup is one sixteenth full I'm getting there, but the getting's slow When I am released And the gates fly open before me When I am released Will you still be waiting for me? When I walk outside I will see the sky I will leave all this behind When I walk outside Sun to warm my skin, friends to take me in When I walk outside When I am released And the gates fly open before me When I am released Will you still be waiting for me? |
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| 5. |
| 3:57 |
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Ever since I was a kid
I've been cleareyed Cleareyed I can't forget but I forgive Did you notice Are you all right Beyond the edge of memories The shapes take form and call to me There's some things I wish I'd never seen And never been But so it is So it is If all I know is what I see Then certainty Is what you are to me Cleareyed Cleareyed Someone came and changed the words Left me tongue tied Tongue tied It's not a sky without the clouds There is no blue sky Blue sky Beyond the past beyond the fear The simple act of being here There's some things I wish I'd never seen And never been But so it is So it is If all I know is what I see Then certainty Is what you are to me Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed Blind me with love Make me blind Blind me with love Make me blind Cause I've seen too much Too much of this life I have seen too much Too much of this life I have seen too much Too much of this life I have seen too much Too much of this life Now I only see you Only see you Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed Cleareyed |
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| 6. |
| 3:13 |
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Oh my enigma, I'll never forgive ya
You have confirmed my suspicions as if they had mattered You're so removed, I can't approach With an attitude beyond reproach The constitution of a roach With skin of satin Oh you tease, you taunt, You don't you know what you want You're too cool, too hot; I'm wishing I'd forgotten But there is no bottom, no there is no bottom And I just keep on falling Oh my nemesis, I always knew you were the best The high priestess of bitterness, queen of the morning You fight me 'til the bitter end No white flags, no chance to make amends With enemies like you, well, who needs friends? They all just seem boring Oh you tease, you taunt, You don't you know what you want You're too cool, too hot; I'm wishing I'd forgotten But there is no bottom, no there is no bottom I just keep on falling Oh, I just keep on falling Are we alright? Are we still here? Are we alive? Does anybody still care? Oh you tease, you taunt You're everything I want You're too cool, too hot, I'm wishing I forgotten But there is no bottom No there is no bottom Oh there is no bottom, and I just keep on falling Oh I just keep on falling And I just keep on falling I just keep on falling |
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| 7. |
| 4:13 |
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Count down the rings, pick up the phone
But she's sure to know, you're not alone More on the side, less at the home Dust and dry earth, where a garden should grow It's your decision now, give love or just get out Don't bring another half life to this house so why did you come here, what did you want you did something right, just look what you've got you can fake it at work, you fake it for friends but not for the children or the woman you wed It's your decision now, give love or just get out Don't be another half-life in this house You'll be another half-life in this house And I know you've got it in you to Let it go, just let her into you There's dirt on your nails and blood on the floor You play for the angles, you play what you know It's your decision now, dig in or get the hell out Don't be another half-life to this house You'll be another half-life in this house Don't bring another half-life in this house But I know you've got it in you Just let 'em into you Just let 'em into you |
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| 8. |
| 3:13 |
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So how, how did I lose the thread?
When you reeled it in again I could be caught on that line Spending my time swimming with you Your love is often unkind, bitter and blind Sometimes casually cruel but it's true but it's true You give more than you would ever take Forgive the mess I leave in my wake I'm inconsistent at best Never at rest, ever the fool I'm always stumbling around knocking things down But whatever else I do I'll be true I'll be true I'll be true You're in and out of my hands Slipping like sand, passing like time Your love is brutally bold, careless and cold But it's mine, mine I won't tell you a lie, so be careful what you ask me I don't care, I don't mind if you never understand me Every day, every night I can promise you I can promise you I'll be true I'll be true True |
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| 9. |
| 3:16 |
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I was eighteen, so were you
I was that birkenstock geek rock dude You were the back-flip, doe-eyed Tree-climbing earth mama Beautiful evergreen girl I never thought that I could be Getting my grey hairs with you beside me And there's something I'm blind to But you still see And it couldn't be better, I know And it shouldn't be easier, oh I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall I want to be the toy in your cereal box I want to be carter at your peace talks I want to get almost too familiar But still notice the way that you walk And if you said you were going away I'd run on the tarmac And I would lay down in front of the plane Just to get you to stay 'Cause it couldn't be better, I know And it shouldn't be easier, oh I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall Got everything i'd ever wanted here Everything and then this constant fear Sure I'm gonna lose it all Just waiting for the other boot to fall And if you thought I could be replaced I wouldn't just stop with an ear I would cut off my whole fucking face Just to make my point clear That it couldn't be better, I know It shouldn't be easier, oh I should just stop waiting for the other boot to fall Waiting for the other boot to fall |
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| 10. |
| 3:25 |
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You opened the door and in came the night
Curled 'round a woman and turned out the light And I finally got it figured out But it's too late to go back now Proud as a lion of your new obsession Tongue of a liar, little recollection And there's no use in keeping score Cause no one plays fair anymore And the voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out Finally fading Gave all the right answers to all the wrong questions And you burned a few bridges when they raised objections And I probably shouldn't think out loud But it's too late to take it back now And the voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out Finally fading Whatever they said Just have to swallow it Whatever you did No use in bothering Get out of my head Out of my head And the voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out The voices trailing doubt Are finally fading out Finally fading Finally fading out |
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| 11. |
| 4:04 |
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I'm complication
Live wire down I'm agitation distorted sound You're celebration Girl on a swing Passion and patience Unbroken ring You're simple, simple You're simple, Simply all I need I'm jagged rock You, waterfall Your gentle touch You wear me down Till I am smooth Till I allow Till I can bend Till I can bow You're simple, simple You're simple Simply all I need Twilight sleep I want to forget Everything these last few years Take them from me Drive them away I want to be simple again 'Cause I'm complications Live wire down I'm agitation Distorted sound You're simple, simple You're simple Simply all I need |
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| 12. |
| 3:09 |
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Let us be humbled tonight
End these doubts, show us the light Give us peace, lay down the mighty In these doubts show us the light Oh God, I pray to thee I don't want to die before I'm free Dive down inside the sea Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key Let us be humbled tonight End these doubts show us the light Give us strength, lay down the mighty In these doubts show us the light I pray Oh God, I pray to thee I don't want to die before we are free Dive down inside this sea, Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key Oh God, will you hear my cry I don't want to see another innocent die I'll dive down inside these depths, Keep my faith and hold my breath We fight to hard and this won't bend Lay down your arms and gather your friends Strenghten your heart and this will end Lay down your arms, gather your friends Lay down your arms, gather your friends Lay down your arms, gather your friends Lay down your arms, gather your friends Gather your friends Oh God, will you hear me cry I don't want to see another innocent die Dive down inside this see Maybe at the bottom I'll find some key Oh God, will you hear me cry I don't want to see another innocent die Dive down inside these depths I'll keep my faith and hold my breath |
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| 13. |
| 2:36 |
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I've got gardens growing, got quiet days
Clothes on my back and food on my plate Got friends to help me if I call for them Well I don't need anything that I don't have I've got eyes to see this beautiful land Feet to take me where I want to stand If there's work to be done There's these two strong hands Well I don't need anything that I don't have I don't need anything that I don't have And some years the rains don't come Some years floods clear out the plains But if those waters wash this town away I would still have enough If she was with me I've got a roof overhead, stars if I choose But I've no need to fly, I've got no itch to move I've got almost nothing, but I understand That I don't need anything that I don't have I don't need anything that I don't have |
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