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| 1. |
| 3:55 | 
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How could I stay
How could I breathe There had to be more for me Promises gone Plastic and stone I'm doing fine all alone So you're having a breakdown So you're losing the fight So you're having a breakdown And I'm driving and crying Unraveled and flying I'm coming to your breakdown tonight I cannot run I cannot hide It came with me locked inside The bough will break Cradle will fall It only takes one call So you're having a breakdown So you're losing the fight So you're having a breakdown And you need me tonight I found my place in this downtown Salt air and yellow street lights So you're having a breakdown And I'm driving and crying Unraveled and flying I'm coming to you're breakdown tonight |
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| 2. |
| 4:40 |
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The rope that's wrapped around meIs cutting through my skin And the doubts that have surrounded me Are finding their way in I keep it close to me Like a holy man prays In my desperate hour It's better that way So I'll come by and see you again I'll be such a very good friend Have mercy on my soulI will never let you know Where my mind has been Angels never came down There's no one here they want to hang around But if they knew If they knew you at all Then one by one the angels Angels would fall I've crept into your temple I have slept upon your pew I've dreamed of the divinity Inside and out of you I want it more than truth I can taste it on my breath I would give my life just for a little death So I'll come by and see you again I'll be just a very good friend I will not look upon your face I will not touch upon your grace Your ecclesiastic skin I'll come by and see you again I'll have to be a very good friend If I whisper they will know I'll just turn around and go You will never know my sin |
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| 3. |
| 4:09 |
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So you closed your eyes in the morning You said you want to start smoking again You said you had that dream last night Of the stranger in your room You said you want to start making new friends Well I'd found some peace You want release You must be stron |
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| 4. |
| 4:59 |
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There were stairs they were steep I was falling falling deep You were there you were small There was screaming down the hall I've been here sleeping all these years There comes a time we all know There's a place that we must go Into the soul into the heart Into the dark There was fire there was death There was lying on your breath I turned away I would pretend But the burning never ends I've been here sleeping all these years There was a wave over the house There was fear choked in my mouth You were there you left your mark As I stumbled in the dark |
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| 5. |
| 4:40 |
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We were all wounded in some domestic war
I found you to settle my score You looked like father You felt like mother My mind told my heart There is no other And I gave you my soul And every ounce of control I gave you my skin And my original sin I gave yo |
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| 6. |
| 4:31 |
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I hear your questions
I see your face Your life before you Is full of grace What can I tell you To let you know Your angel's eyes Will watch you grow Come listen close And I'll try to let you know It's all I know There is no magic There are no secrets W |
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| 7. |
| 4:29 |
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What's this little lie
They keep on telling me It's just another high They keep on selling me I was only five They fed me so much jive They said just have a ball Just be a Barbie doll They churned and burned me out Until they turned me out Over and over again Mama I'm strange The thoughts and the wants are the locks On the back of my brain I'm descending pretending I'm blending I'm going insane And they want me to change Mama I'm strange I'm on a shaky wall I'm tripping down the hall And all the king's men can't Can't sew me up again I've got a leaky head Don't know the full extent I'm drowning in my bed I'm just an accident They chewed and blew me out Until they threw me out Over and over again If I could tranquilize I might just vaporize They couldn't supervise They couldn't criticize I have no evidence I have no reverence It makes no difference I have no innocence Help me mama help me now |
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| 8. |
| 5:22 |
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Showers of your crimson blood
Seep into a nation calling up a flood Of narrow minds who legislate Thinly veiled intolerance Bigotry and hate But they tortured and burned you They beat you and they tied you They left you cold and breathing For love they crucified you I can't forget hard as I try This silhouette against the sky Scarecrow crying Waiting to die wondering why Scarecrow trying Angels will hold carry your soul away This was our brother This was our son This shepherd young and mild This unassuming one We all gasp this can't happen here We're all much too civilized Where can these monsters hide But they are knocking on our front door They're rocking in our cradles They're preaching in our churches And eating at our tables I search my soul My heart and in my mind To try and find forgiveness This is someone child With pain unreconciled Filled up with father's hate Mother's neglect I can forgive But I will not forget Scarecrow crying Waiting to die wondering why Scarecrow trying Rising above all in the name of love |
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| 9. |
| 4:16 |
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You say you don't feel like yourself
Does that mean you're somebody else How would I know Oh you say you just don't feel quite right today Does that mean that you're slipping away How would I know You might believe there's a paradise In the next hello How would I know If you don't tell me so If you wanted to go How would I know You say you don't know what you're doing here Does that mean you might disappear How would I know You might feel that there's something real In the next hello |
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| 10. |
| 5:46 |
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No one conceals me like
No one reveals me like My lover No one can disconnect No one can resurrect Like my lover My lover makes me weak Gives me breath to speak My lover takes me home Cools the rolling stone My lover's thorny kiss The reason to exist I w |
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| 11. |
| 4:39 |
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After your laughter like thunder
After your skin like coffee and cream After it takes our bodies into the night After we've come to the extreme I want to lay down on your shoulder Just inside your arm I want to listen to your heart beat And your breathing on and on I want to lay down on your shoulder Surrender to your peace And go to sleep And when we've gone a million miles Made true our dreams with sweat and bone After we've built it up with our bare hands Made strong a place we can call home And when the light in my eye is fading When running water becomes too deep Finally angels turn my fire to dust And when my soul's no longer mine to keep I want to lay down on your shoulder Just inside your arm I want to listen to your heartbeat And your breathing on and on I want to lay down on your shoulder Surrender to the peace And just go to sleep |
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