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Saw you walking on your velvet lawn
Is it lonely on the moon? You took a dive and swallowed all you could Did you drink too much too soon? Nothing left for you to fight about And noone wants to see you try The nearest neighbours are a mile away Does the ocean hear you cry? Punching at the sky They say the King is losing his grip again They said you're bulletproof, they said you feel no pain It seems the hero is misunderstood again Is it love or is it surgery Makes her feel so ill at ease? As she's begging you to please calm down In her silk Armani on her knees Did you carry out those threats I heard Or were you only playing macho? And the stains on her Versace scarf Were they really just gazpacho? They say the King is watching his back again They say the King is losing his grip again Raging like a bull to an empty ring D'you think they will forgive a hero anything? Now the ring is just a band of gold And your wife needs police protection While you're sparring with the journalists You're trying to win back her affection Is this what it means to be a man Boxing up all your emotion? So now she's gone and you're alone at last You can tell it to the ocean They say the King is losing his grip again They say the King is countin' his numbered days You never lost a fight in your whole life You never had no trouble sleepin' through the night The bottle and your doctor get you through the day The boys who run the house'll make it all okay You think they will forgive a hero anything? Maybe Hollywood... but maybe then again... Now the ring is just a band of gold... Drive the road |
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Let's meet up
And get beat up Well, she tied me to the headboard with a surf leash And her wet hair hugged her body like a long-lost friend And I really tried my best to get across to her But nothing she would say could be defended Well, her birthday suit it was her only present When I looked into her eyes - no history And I told her eating people wasn't pleasant But she laughed a snake-eye laugh and walked away from me And I watched her as she walked across the coals I watched her as she walked across the coals She was singing: I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird And I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? So I really tried my best to get across to her I said, "One day every pebble hits the beach" And I kissed her face and held her like a long-lost friend But she was too far out there to be reached She was singing: I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird Mister Wilson, I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? And the sun came up over the mountain And the waves rolled in from across the bay And the fabulous brightly coloured birds flew up out of the forest And she said, "Well! We're all just heaven's beautiful children together in Paradise "Lie down, my dear, you're going to enjoy this." She looked like she'd had sex With a tyrannosaurus rex She was singing: I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird Mister Wilson, I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird Mister Wilson, I'm your nightmare surfer babe, old man Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? And I watched her as she walked across the coals And I watched her as she walked across the coals |
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Well I gave up cocaine and I gave up smack
I gave up drinking alcohol and smoking crack I gave up living on the never never But I can't give up believing that I'm going to live forever Well I gave up computer games, I gave up meat I gave up watching TV in my favorite seat I gave up wearing fur and I gave up wearing leather But I can't give up believing that I'm going to live forever Give it up, give it up Don't you know you've got to lose? The desires you were born with And your talent to abuse Give it up, give it up There's a better life to live Give it up, give it up Give it all you've got to give Well I gave up sugar and I gave up spice I gave up everything that feels alright 'Cause I feel that these addictions are a chain you have to sever I'm addicted to believing that I'm going to live forever |
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| 5:02 |
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Everybody knows that we live in a world where they give bad names to beautiful things
Everybody knows that we live in a world where we don't give beautiful things a second glance Heaven only knows that we live in a world where what we call beautiful is just something on sale And the leaves turn from red to brown To be trodden down To be trodden down And the leaves turn from red to brown Fall to the ground Fall to the ground We don't have to live in a world where we give bad names to beautiful things We should live in a beautiful world We should give beautiful a second glance And the leaves fall from red to brown To be trodden down Trodden down And the leaves turn green to red to brown Fall to the ground And get kicked around You strong enough to be.. Have you the courage to be.. Have you the faith to be.. Honest enough to say.. Don't have to be the same.. Don't have to be this way C'mon and sign your name You wild enough to remain beautiful? Beautiful All the leaves turn from red to brown To be trodden down Trodden down And we fall green to red to brown Fall to the ground To be kicked around You strong enough to be.. Why don't you stand up and say Give yourself a break They laugh at you anyway So why don't you stand up and be Beautiful. |
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| 7:54 | 
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| 6. |
| 6:50 |
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Dressed in black, no turning back
We blanked out on the Great White Way Fingers in desire's crack We'd bridge and tunnel into day Abandoned to the salt of skin Abandoned to the highway Sand running in the hourglass Heat of leather and mirages So how do we now come to be Afraid of Sunlight So how do we now come to be Afraid of Sunlight Dayglo Jesus on the dash Scorch marks on the road ahead Friendly fire in hostile waters Keep the faith, don't lose your head Don't lose your head Afraid of Sunlight So how do we now come to be Afraid of Sunlight Agave flower Sleeps beside me Drivin' on Nevada's burnin' Phoenix rising Drivin' on Into sunrise Dayglo Jesus on the dash Scorch marks on the road ahead Friendly fire in hostile waters Keep the faith, don't lose your head Don't lose your head So how do we now come to be Afraid of Sunlight So how do we now come to be Afraid Afraid of Sunlight |
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| 6:11 |
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If you were a baby I would take you and run
I could hide you in the folds of my heart There's a truth in the madness I can't get beyond And a fever that won't leave me alone I don't want my heart Don't want my head Don't want my friends Don't want my bed I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I try to want to But I can't get beyond you I will stare from the window At the shapes in the rain As the space between us Drives me insane I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I want no one else If I was a child I would refuse to leave I would sit down on the street Kick my legs and scream I'm not much of a man But I know how I am I know this won't fade away I will pretend and be strong But I wonder where I belong And the feeling comes in waves Hole in my body, aching Like a heart dying Or a soul crying Exhausted and insecure I took all you have and I still want more And so I reach out to hold you But all I do is hurt you I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I try to want to But I can't get beyond you If I was a child I would take you and run And I say I don't know, but I know And I say I'll let go But I don't let go You just spent the whole day Driving away |
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| 7:03 |
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Three hundred miles an hour on water
In your purpose-built machine No one dared to call a boat Screaming blue Out of this world Make history This is your day Blue... bird At such speeds... Things fly... What did she say? I know the pain of too much tenderness Wondering when or if you'll come back again Wanting to live for you And being banned from giving But only love will turn you round Only love will turn you round Only love Only love will turn you round So we live, you and I Either side of the edge And we run and we scream With the dilated stare of obsession and dreaming What the hell do we want Is it only to go Where nobody has gone A better way than the herd Sing a different song Till you're running the ledge To the gasp from the crowd Spinning round in your head Everything that she said |
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Let's meet up
And get beat up Well, she tied me to the headboard with a surf leash And her wet hair hugged her body like a long-lost friend And I really tried my best to get across to her But nothing she would say could be defended Well, her birthday suit it was her only present When I looked into her eyes - no history And I told her eating people wasn't pleasant But she laughed a snake-eye laugh and walked away from me And I watched her as she walked across the coals I watched her as she walked across the coals She was singing: I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird And I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? So I really tried my best to get across to her I said, "One day every pebble hits the beach" And I kissed her face and held her like a long-lost friend But she was too far out there to be reached She was singing: I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird Mister Wilson, I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? And the sun came up over the mountain And the waves rolled in from across the bay And the fabulous brightly coloured birds flew up out of the forest And she said, "Well! We're all just heaven's beautiful children together in Paradise "Lie down, my dear, you're going to enjoy this." She looked like she'd had sex With a tyrannosaurus rex She was singing: I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird Mister Wilson, I'm your nightmare surfer babe Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? I was born in nineteen-sixty-weird Mister Wilson, I'm your nightmare surfer babe, old man Mister Wilson, where's your sandbox and your beard? Are you still looking for the perfect microwave? And I watched her as she walked across the coals And I watched her as she walked across the coals |
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Drive the road to your surrender
Time comes around... out of my hands Small boats on the beach at the dead of night Come and go before first light Leave me running in the wheel King of the world How do you feel? What is there to feel? So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight? Tell me girl why you and me Scared of sunlight? Been in pain for so long I can't even say what hurts anymore I will leave you alone I will deny I will leave you to bleed I will leave you with your life So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight? Tell me girl why you and me Scared of sunlight? All your spirit rack abuses Come to haunt you back by day All your Byzantine excuses Given time, given you away Don't be surprised when daylight comes To find that memory prick your thumbs You'll tell them where we run to hide I'm already dead It's a matter of time So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight How do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight Day-Glo Jesus on the dash Chalk marks on the road ahead Friendly fire in hostile waters Keep the faith Don't lose your head So how do we now come to be |
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Three hundred miles an hour on water
In your purpose-built machine No one dared to call a boat Screaming blue Out of this world Make history This is your day Blue... bird At such speeds... Things fly... What did she say? I know the pain of too much tenderness Wondering when or if you'll come back again Wanting to live for you And being banned from giving But only love will turn you round Only love will turn you round Only love Only love will turn you round So we live, you and I Either side of the edge And we run and we scream With the dilated stare of obsession and dreaming What the hell do we want Is it only to go Where nobody has gone A better way than the herd Sing a different song Till you're running the ledge To the gasp from the crowd Spinning round in your head Everything that she said |
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If you were a baby I would take you and run
I could hide you in the folds of my heart There's a truth in the madness I can't get beyond And a fever that won't leave me alone I don't want my heart Don't want my head Don't want my friends Don't want my bed I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I try to want to But I can't get beyond you I will stare from the window At the shapes in the rain As the space between us Drives me insane I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I want no one else If I was a child I would refuse to leave I would sit down on the street Kick my legs and scream I'm not much of a man But I know how I am I know this won't fade away I will pretend and be strong But I wonder where I belong And the feeling comes in waves Hole in my body, aching Like a heart dying Or a soul crying Exhausted and insecure I took all you have and I still want more And so I reach out to hold you But all I do is hurt you I can't live with myself I can't live with myself Can't take no help I try to want to But I can't get beyond you If I was a child I would take you and run And I say I don't know, but I know And I say I'll let go But I don't let go You just spent the whole day Driving away |
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How long can you stand
Tightening up Avoiding the fight Avoiding the truth Tighten the smile Tighten the lie Will you get what you want To be cursed with your dreams I hope for your sake Something gets in the way How long can you stand Living under the lens The kiss of success The ensuing, all consuming mess Message of love They arrive everyday People you touch Wasting away People you don't know Give you no choice And you're sick to your stomach At the sound of your voice And the shape of your face And the sound of your name They send you pictures of yourself It's someone you don't know And they call you a genius Cause you're easier to sell But the fire in your belly That gave you the songs Is suddenly gone And you feel like a fake Is that what you want? I hope for your sake You've got what it takes You've got what it takes You've got what it takes To be spoilt to death. |
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Absence makes the heart go mad
All the solid things become mirages The certain things Sand running in the hour glass Running away I scream along the ledge As the windows back and close I run around try to prove the sunrise I believe in belief But it's proof I need Can you show me it's me Can you show me it's me Traveling makes the mind go vague All the special faces fade away Spinning like a heat haze Shimmering Please send Polaroids Or an ear in the post A map to the treasure A key to the closed I need you like hell Can you help me again Can you show me it's me Can you show me it's me I run dry I run out I run cold I need help Trying to prove the sunrise Trying to prove the tides Trying to prove the blue moon sky And is it you? Is it you? |
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Even if the good old days were good
Even if the old days were golden days Even if the good old days were good The past is a terrible place The past is a terrible place to live Misguided missiles Skin creams and cars Loaded with dreams Loaded with dreams Computer games Pretty faces Loaded with life Loaded with live ammunition Even if the good old days were good The past is a terrible place The past is a terrible place to live Saving up for Linda Saving up for Pam Saving up for Naomi Icon therefore I am Saving up for Mary Saving up for Jane A thousand pieces all over the room Let쨈s do it all again Icon therefore I am Loaded with dreams Loaded with life I쨈m loaded with live ammunition Loaded with dreams Loaded with stories Loaded with life I only wish I knew you How hard it is for me to spare This kind of thing for you If you sense a smokescreen here A trick of dry ice A trick of the dry eyes |
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Drive the road to your surrender
Time comes around... out of my hands Small boats on the beach at the dead of night Come and go before first light Leave me running in the wheel King of the world How do you feel? What is there to feel? So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight? Tell me girl why you and me Scared of sunlight? Been in pain for so long I can't even say what hurts anymore I will leave you alone I will deny I will leave you to bleed I will leave you with your life So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight? Tell me girl why you and me Scared of sunlight? All your spirit rack abuses Come to haunt you back by day All your Byzantine excuses Given time, given you away Don't be surprised when daylight comes To find that memory prick your thumbs You'll tell them where we run to hide I'm already dead It's a matter of time So how do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight How do we now come to be Afraid of sunlight Day-Glo Jesus on the dash Chalk marks on the road ahead Friendly fire in hostile waters Keep the faith Don't lose your head So how do we now come to be |
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