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| 2:34 | 
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Thinking out loud
Is all I'm doing Trying to raise my love Above the ruins With each song I kick it around, Thinking... My love I can tell There's a load on your mind If we poured ourselves Like this bottle of wine And let it flow, We'll figure it out Thinking out loud But it's hard to think with all the racket Going on inside our heads All this worrying is getting us nowhere Let's go somewhere instead Just thinking out loud Is it all we're good for? Trying to raise our love But always falling short Heaven knows What it's all about Thinking out loud With each song I kick it around Thinking out loud |
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| 2. |
| 3:42 |
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She was not the girl next door
But the girl from 'round the corner It was at the tail end of grade four When she came to school one morning And all eyes were upon her as she took her seat Her name was Amanda with pretty eyes of green And hair of blonde, strawberry blonde Springtime and dandelions And summer 'round the corner Was at the tail end of age nine With a million dreams before her She lived with her mother in an old decrepit house If there was trouble she kept it to herself All summer long, the strawberry blonde And by her face there was no way to tell It seemed like all was well in her world But the neighbours said Her mother had lost her will To gin and sleeping pills It was no life for a little girl Still I see her face framed in blue sky At the top of a slide coming down And when the sirens wailed (her mother had failed to rise) All the neighbors stood outside As Amanda just stared at the ground Time flies and years are piled I'd forgotten all about her When I saw her down the aisle Of a streetcar with her daughter Then I heard Amanda say as she got up "See'mon Samantha, girl, this is our stop" And they were gone Two strawberry blondes |
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| 2:18 |
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Tour bus rolling down Broadway
Says "nobody you would know" In all the store front windows I see my face And the lame expression of this average Joe Lord, a fool and his money parted ways To a con artist at the bus depot Oh now who would've thought such an honest face Would make a monkey of this average Joe I'm a walking disaster I'm an accident waiting to happen I can't walk any faster, no If I could I'd be tap dancing, yeah Oh I see the porch light of my home Where my love lies waiting for me No we don't have much but this I know You've made a king out of this average Joe |
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| 3:32 |
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Under every sky of baby blue
Is an undercurrent of rain Under every trial life puts you through Is an undercurrent of change Though the sun now is shrouded in grey It's pulling the wool over my eyes When it looks like hell I tell myself It's a thinly veiled disguise I feel a dark wind blowing through my hair Blowing through my dreams at night It's tearing me from all that I hold dear As I hold on for dear life Through the dark hours we stumble and fall And fumble around for the light As far as I can tell, the dark as well Wears a thinly veiled disguise Under every sky of baby blue Is an undercurrent of rain Under every trial life puts you through Is an undercurrent of change Through the noise and the poisonous words That lead us to believe otherwise I can hear the bells, they're ringing out Through a thinly veiled disguise |
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| 2:55 |
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He sees it coming from a mile away
He knows all the rules by heart and so the game is played He's trading love for this sordid night of bliss Though nothing good, nothing good could ever come from this Nothing good, nothing good could ever come from this You've seen how people rise in times of need Forget all their pettiness, forget all their greed But he can't rise above this warm and reckless kiss Though nothing good, nothing good could ever come from this From this only sorrow From this no future, only tomorrows And when the morning comes tumbling down No trace of the night before, it's still the same old town But deep inside now hides a stranger in his midst And nothing good, nothing good could ever come from this Nothing good, nothing good could ever come from this |
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| 2:34 |
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Pretty little cemetery on a summer's day
Walking with my family, stopping on the way To read the epitaphs and wonder at the graves Pretty little cemetery on a summer's day Pretty little monument beneath a shady tree For a little boy who died in 1943 But still in the air this lingering grief Pretty little monument beneath a shady tree There's an old couple on the bus Sitting next to us, my boy and I And pointing to the graveyard My boy turns to the old man And says "this is where you go to when you die My papa told me so" The old man said "yes, we know" Pretty little cemetery, hear the bells ring When the night falls it's a very different thing Outside the gate there's a woman looking in Pretty little cemetery, hear the bells ring |
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| 2:16 |
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Oh it never fails, anytime I start
To speak my mind I break her heart Oh it never fails Every time I feel my faith is strong This doubt appears and steers me wrong Oh it never fails This world is not the one we used to know and love Can't help wondering if it ever was This world is not the one we used to know and love Can't help wondering if it ever was Oh it never fails, in times like these I hold you and my soul's at ease Oh it never fails Oh it never fails |
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| 2:27 |
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Standing on the side of the road near the overpass
With a sign around his neck that says "Car wash, free balloons", he's a clown in broad daylight He's waving at the people in cars who do a double-take And goad him on with their horns outside the car wash Ike a cartoon, he's a clown in broad daylight Raising eyebrows and emotions He don't phase some people at all For everyday the circus is open Everything is alright It's just a clown in broad daylight Everything is alright For against the backdrop of ordinary life it's the easy laugh That gets you through your working day and the hogwash Sad but true, he's a clown in broad daylight Yeah he's waving at you He's a clown, a clown in broad daylight |
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| 3:05 |
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In the midst of all this welcome change
I can hardly wait Oh, to welcome all that was estranged To my life again I thought I was on my own At different times Just a voice on a cold pay phone At different times Now I'm taken by these thoughts of how We found you and I In the midst of it all, in a northern town Between the earth and sky These thoughts of you come around At different times We watch as the sun goes down At different times At different times I've been tempted by these open doors You turned and I was gone Now I pray that I was spoken for In my absence, in my song I thought I was on my own At different times Like a stranger in my own home At different times At different times |
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| 3:08 |
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Child star, child star
You've reached the end of the road They only wanted you When you were good as gold Child star, child star You've had a pretty long run Go back to the real world While you're still young Did you think this love would last Did you think this love was true It came and went so fast They loved somebody but it wasn't you Child star, child star This is where we get off Stay on and ride awhile Till the road gets rough They loved somebody but it wasn't you Child star, child star Live and learn and move on Go back to the real world While you're still young |
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| 2:30 |
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Sometimes in anger we seem to forget
All the wrongs that have been done to us We've done to others and regret Pull back You'll see the picture that much clearer Anyone Anyone can make an honest mistake Anyone Anyone can make an honest mistake To err is human and all you can do Is to tell it to your wounded heart Forgiveness is human too Go back Accept each other for who we are Anyone Anyone can make an honest mistake Anyone Anyone can make an honest mistake Few can admit it when they're wrong, I know Few can forgive and then move on, I know it's hard An honest mistake Anyone Anyone can make an honest mistake Sometimes in anger we seem to forget All the wrongs that have been to us We've done to others and regret |
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| 2:42 |
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So young
So young at the start So strong that it left its mark Upon our hearts So young So strong So strong we had no choice We're pulled along by the ancient voice Of girls and boys So young So young So young at the end Of a long day that was spent Just being friends So young |
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| 3:27 | 
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| 14. |
| 2:41 |
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It's really coming down
Raining cats and hounds It's falling on parades And on the plans we made But there'll be other days And things will turn our way The rain has got to fall It's April after all Even the longest night Will lead you to daylight It's the way May leads to June And it's how I've come to you The world goes spinning round Life goes up and down And rain is bound to fall It's April after all They'll be other days Darling come what may The rain has got to fall It's April after all Tears are bound to fall It's April after all |
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