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| 1. |
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This is how it works
It feels a little worse Than when we drove our hearse Right through that screaming crowd While laughing up a storm Until we were just bone Until it got so warm That none of us could sleep And all the styrofoam Began to melt away We tried to find some words To aid in the decay But none of them were home Inside their catacomb A million ancient bees Began to sting our knees While we were on our knees Praying that disease Would leave the ones we love And never come again On the radio We heard November Rain That solo's really long But it's a pretty song We listened to it twice 'Cause the DJ was asleep This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again And on the radio You hear November Rain That solo's awful long But it's a good refrain You listen to it twice 'Cause the DJ is asleep On the radio (oh oh oh) On the radio On the radio - uh oh |
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| 2. |
| 4:01 |
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It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song You can't believe it You were always singing along It was so easy and the words so sweet You can't remember You try to feel the beat Eet eet eet eet Eet eet eet eet You spent half of your life trying to fall behind You're using your headphones to drown out your mind It was so easy and the words so sweet You can't remember You try to move your feet Eet eet eet eet Eet eet eet eet Someone's deciding whether or not to steal He opens the window just to feel the chill He hears that outside a small boy just starting to cry 'Cause it's his turn but his brother won't let him try It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song You can't believe it You were always singing along It was so easy and the words so sweet You can't remember You try to move your feet It was so easy and the words so sweet You can't remember you try to feel the beat |
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| 3. |
| 3:26 |
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Come and open up your folding chair next to me
My feet are buried in the sand and there's a breeze There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes And the sea is just a wetter version of the skies Let's get a silver bullet trailer and have a baby boy I'll safety-pin his clothes all cool and you'll graffiti up his toys I've got a perfect body, though sometimes I forget I've got a perfect body cause my eyelashes catch my sweat Yes, they do, they do Now i've been sitting on this abandoned beach for years Waiting for the salty water to cover up my ears But every time the tide come in to take me home I get scared, and I'm sitting here alone Dreaming of the dolphin song Maybe one day you will understand I don't want nothing from you but to sweetly hold your hand Till that day just please don't be so down Don't make frowns, you silly clown Just come and open up your folding chair next to me My feet are buried in the sand and there's a breeze There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes And the waves are just a frothier version of the skies There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes There's a shadow, you can't see my eyes, eyes |
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| 4. |
| 3:14 |
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She will kiss 'til your lip bleeds
But she will not take her dress off Americana, tropicana All the sailor boys have demons They sing "Oh Kentucky why did you forsake me? If I was meant to sail the sea Why did you make me? Should've been another state Oh state.. 'cause Mary Anne's a bitch Mary Anne's a bitch <i>[x5]</i>" Does it matter that our anchors Couldn't even reach the bottom Of a bath tub? And the sails reflect the moon It's such a strange job Playing Black Jack on the deck Still, atop this giant bottle dressed in white We quietly huddle with our missiles And we miss the girls back home Oh home sweet home 'cause Mary Anne's a bitch Mary Anne's a bitch <i>[x5]</i> She will kiss until your lip bleeds But she will not take her dress off Americana, tropicana Americana, tropicana Americana, americana |
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| 5. |
| 3:28 |
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He stumbled into faith and thoughtGod, there is all there isThe pictures in his mind aroseAnd began to breatheAnd all the gods and all the worldsBegan colliding on a backdrop of blueBlue lips, blue veinsHe took a step but then felt tiredHe said I'll rest a little whileBut when he tried to walk againHe wasn't a childAnd all the people hurried fast, real fastAnd no one ever smiledBlue lips, blue veinsBlue, the color of our planetFrom far, far awayBlue lips, blue veinsBlue, the color of our planetFrom far, far awayHe stumbled into faith and thoughtGod, there is all there isThe pictures in his mind aroseAnd began to breatheAnd no one saw and no one heardThey just followed the leadThe pictures in his mind aroseAnd began to breatheAnd no one sawAnd no one heard they just followed the leadThe pictures in his mind awokeAnd began to breedThey started off beneath an olive treeAnd they chopped it down to make a picket fenceAnd marching along the railroad tracksThey smiled real wide for the camera lensAs they made it past the enemy linesJust to become enslaved in the enemy linesBlue lips, blue veinsBlue, the color of our planetFrom far, far awayBlue lips, blue veinsBlue, the color of our planetFrom far, far awayBlue, the most human color [x3]Blue lips, blue veinsBlue, the color of our planetFrom far, far away
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| 6. |
| 4:37 |
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I (uh) must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours I (uh) must go on standing I'm not my own, it's not my choice Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood Apres moi le deluge, after me comes the flood I (uh) must go on standing You can't break that which isn't yours I (uh) must go on standing I'm not my own, it's not my choice Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood Apres moi le deluge, after me comes the flood Apres moi le deluge, after me comes the flood Fevrale dostat chernil I plakat Pisat O Fevrale navsnryd Poka grohochushaya slyakot Vesnoyu charnoyu gorit Vesnoyu charnoyu gorit Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood Apres moi le deluge, after me comes the flood I (uh) must go on standing You can't break that which isn't yours I (are) must go on standing I'm not my own, it's not my choice I (uh) must go on stan-stan-ding-dong You can't, can't break that, that Which isn't, isn't yours, yours Which isn't, isn't yours, yours I'm not, not my own, own It's not, not my choice, choice |
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| 7. |
| 5:07 |
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You are so sweet
Dancing to the beat There's a meat market down the street The boys and the girls watch each other eat You are so sweet, so sweet Dancing and moving to that beat, that beat There's a meat market down the street The boys and girls watch each other eat The boys and the girls watch each other eat When they really just wanna watch each other Sleep They want to watch, to watch each other Sleep, sleep sleep Sleep They want to watch, to watch each other Sleep, sleep, sleep You are so sweet You are so sweet I'm walking through the city Like a drunk, but not With my slip showing a little Like a drunk, but not And I am one of your people But the cars don't stop And I am one of your people But the cars don't stop And it's been a long time since before I've been touched Now I'm getting touched all the time And it's only a matter of whom And it's only a matter of when An addiction to hands and feet There's a meat market down the street The boys and girls watch each other eat When they really just wanna watch each other sleep An addiction to hands and feet There's a meat market down the street The boys and girls watch each other eat When they really just wanna watch each other sleep Sleep They want to watch, to watch each other Sleep, sleep, sleep They want to watch, to watch each other Sleep, sleep, sleep They want to watch, to watch each other Sleep, sleep, sleep You are so sweet You are so sweet |
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| 8. |
| 2:43 | 
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| 9. |
| 2:23 |
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Bobbing for apples in Somalia
The man with the iron curtain is following you No one's coming for tea-time Except my own holy ghost You're somewhere far, probably drinking a whiskey I dating jack daniel's and caleb?with miss nicky?tea, Nachos with cocoa?hey, to each his own Lovely people, lovely places I can't remember names and I can't remember faces Someone next door's fucking to one of my songs Hey, light fixture, you are much too bright Oh, won't you stay with me through the night Just grab a pillow tight And wait for the dizziness to pass Rock and roll, you ate my soul You sucked dry my bones but you spit out my mole I'll always opt to fall down these stairs in the end Lovely people, lovely places Drunken faces, slurring their phrases I'll always opt to fall down these stairs in the end You so jealous, I'm so lonely You'll never forgive me but I love you only I'll always opt to fall down these stairs in the end You so jealous, I'm so lonely You'll never forgive me but I love you only Someone next door's fucking to one of my songs Someone next door's fucking to one of my songs Someone next door's fucking to one of my One of my So-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-aww Someone next door's fucking to one of my songs |
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| 2:13 |
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I found a wallet
I found a wallet Inside were pictures of your small family You were so young Your hair dark brown You had been born in nineteen fifty-three Your winter birthday Was stamped on the plastic Of a license so recently expired I was so tired As I walked through my door I laid all the contents of your wallet on the floor And like a holy relic Or a mystery novel I thumbed them in the dim light Searching for a clue A blockbuster card An old stick of juicy fruit A crumpled receipt For a pair of leather boots I have no wallet I have no wallet I keep my cards together with a blue rubber band And with a free hand I search in my pockets For pieces of, pieces of paper and change I'll take your wallet To my local blockbuster They'll find your number In their computer You'll never know me I'll never know you But you'll be so happy When they call you up |
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| 11. |
| 3:36 |
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The food that I'm eating
Is suddenly tasteless I know I'm alone now I know what it tastes like So break me to small parts Let go in small doses But spare some for spare parts There might be some good ones Like you might make a dollar I'm inside your mouth now Behind your tonsils Peeking over your molars You're talking to her now And you've eaten something minty And you're making that face that I like And you're going in, in for the kill, kill For the killer kiss, kiss for the kiss, kiss I need your money, it'll help me I need your car and I need your love <i>[x2]</i> So won't you help a brother out? Won't you help a brother out? Won't you help a brother out, out, out, out, out? So break me to small parts Let go in small doses But spare some for spare parts You might make a dollar Dollar, might make a dollar So won't you help a brother out? Won't you help a brother out? Won't you help a brother out, out, out, out, out? So break me to small parts Let go in small doses But spare some for spare parts There might be some good ones You might make a dollar (There might be some good ones) There might be some good ones (You might make a dollar) You might make a dollar (There might be some good ones) There might be some good ones |
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| 12. |
| 2:38 |
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Do you remember the time when I found a human tooth down on Delancey?
Hey, remember that time we decided to kiss anywhere except the mouth? Hey, remember that time when my favorite colors were pink and green? Hey, remember that month when I only ate boxes of tangerines? So cheap and juicy Hey, remember that time when I would only read Shakespeare? Hey, remember that other time when I would only read the backs of cereal boxes? Hey, remember that time I tried to save a pigeon with a broken wing? A street cat got him by morning, and I had to bury pieces of his body in my building's playground I thought I was going to be sick Hey, remember that time when I would only smoke Parliaments? Hey, remember that time when I would only smoke Marlboros? Hey, remember that time when I would only smoke Camels? Hey, remember that time when I was broke? I didn't care; I just bummed from my friends Bum... Hey, remember that time when you OD'ed? Hey, remember that other time when you OD'ed for the second time? Well, in the waiting room while waiting for news of you I hallucinated I could read your mind And I was on a lot of shit too, but what I saw, man, I tell you it was freaky |
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| 13. |
| 2:54 |
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You went into the kitchen cupboard
Got yourself another hour and gave Half of it to me We sat their looking at the faces Of the strangers in the pages Until we knew them mathematically They were in our minds Until forever But we didn't mind We didn't know better So we made our own computer Out of macaroni pieces And it did our thinking While we lived our lives It counted up our feelings And divided them up even And it called our calculation Perfect love Didn't even know That love was bigger Didn't even know Didn't even know that love was so, so Hey hey hey hey Hey this fire, hey this fire I'm burning us up Hey this fire, hey this fire I'm burning us Oh, oo oo oo, oo oo oo oo So we made the hard decision And we each made an incision Past our muscles and our bones Our hearts were little stones Pulled 'em out they weren't beating And we weren't even bleeding As we lay them on our granite counter top We beat 'em up against each other We beat 'em up against each other We struck 'em hard against each other We struck 'em so hard, so hard til they sparked Hey this fire, hey this fire I'm burning us up Hey this fire, hey this fire I'm burning us up Hey this fire, hey this fire I'm burning us Oh, oo oo oo, oo oo oo oo Oo oo oo oo oo oo <i>[until song fade]</i> |
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| 14. |
| 3:49 |
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My eyes are bifocal
My hands are sub jointed I live in the future In my prewar apartment And I count all my blessings I have friends in high places And I'm upgraded daily All my wires without traces Hooked into machine Hooked into machine Hooked into machine I'm hooked into hooked into Hooked into machine Hooked into machine Hooked into machine I'm hooked into Hooked into machine I collect my moments Into a correspondence With a mightier power Who just lacks my perspective And who lacks my organics And who covets my defects And I'm downloaded daily I am part of a composite Hooked into machine Hooked into machine Hooked into machine I'm hooked into, hooked into Hooked into machine Hooked into machine Hooked into machine I'm hooked into Hooked into machine Everything's provided Consummate consumer Part of worldly taking Apart from worldly troubles Living in your prewar apartment Soon to be your postwar apartment And you lived in the future And the future It's here It's bright It's now |
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| 3:34 |
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No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war No one's laughing at God When they're starving or freezing or so very poor No one laughs at God when the doctor calls After some routine tests No one's laughing at God When it's gotten real late And their kid's not back from that party yet No one laughs at God when their airplane Starts to uncontrollably shake No one's laughing at God When they see the one they love hand in hand With someone else and they hope that they're mistaken No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door And they say "We've got some bad new, sir," No one's laughing at God When there's a famine, fire or flood But God can be funny At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or When the crazies say he hates us And they get so red in the head You think that they're about to choke God can be funny When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way And when presented like a genie Who does magic like Houdini Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus God can be so hilarious Ha ha, ha ha No one laughs at God in a hospital No one laughs at God in a war No one's laughing at God When they've lost all they got And they don't know what for No one laughs at God on the day they realize That the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes No one's laughing at God When they're saying their goodbyes God can be funny At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or When the crazies say he hates us and they get so red in the head You think that they're about to choke God can be funny When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way And when presented like a genie Who does magic like Houdini Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus God can be so hilarious No one laughs at God in a hospital No one laughs at God in a war No one laughs at God in a hospital No one laughs at God in a war No one laughing at God in a hospital No one's laughing at God in a war No one's laughing at God When they're starving or freezing or so very poor No one's laughing at God No one's laughing at God No one's laughing at God We're all laughing with God |
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| 3:01 |
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The man of a thousand faces
Sits down at the table Eats a small lump of sugar And smiles at the moon like he knows her He begins his quiet ascension Without anyone's steady instruction To a place with no religion He's found a path to her likeness His words are quiet like stains are On a tablecloth washed in a river Stains that are trying to cover For each other Or at least blend in with the pattern Good is better than perfect Scrub till your fingers are bleeding And I'm crying with insight I tell others to do without crying He used to go to his favorite bookstores And rip out his favorite pages And stuff 'em into his breast pockets The moon, to him, was a stranger Now he sits down at a table Right next to the window And begins his quiet ascension Without anyone's steady instruction To a place with no religion He's found a path to her likeness He eats a small lump of sugar Smiles at the moon like he knows her |
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| 17. |
| 3:19 |
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Come in, come in
Come into my world I've got to show Show, show you Come into my bed I've got to know Know, know you [Chorus] I have dreams of Orca whales and owls But I wake up in fear You will never be my... You will never be my fool Will never be my fool Floaters in my eyes Wake up in a hotel room Cigarettes and lies I am a child; it's too soon [Chorus] A little bag of cocaine A little bag of cocaine So who's the girl wearing my dress? I figured out her number Inside a paper napkin But I don't know her address; I wade downstairs The porter smiles to me a smile I've bought With a couple of gold coins A sign that I've been caught I have dreams of Orca whales and owls But I wake up in fear You will never be my... You will never be my dear Will never be my dear, dear friend Dear, dear friend, dear, dear friend A little bag of cocaine A little bag of cocaine So who's the girl wearing my dress? I figured out her number Inside a paper napkin But I don't know her address Come in, come in Come into my world I've got to show Show, show you Come into my bed I've got to know Know, know you I have dreams of Orca whales and owls But I wake up in fear You will never be my... You will never be my dear Will never be my dear, dear friend Dear, dear friend, dear, dear friend |
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| 18. |
| 4:03 |
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They made a statue of us
And it put it on a mountaintop Now tourists come and stare at us Blow bubbles with their gum Take photographs have fun, have fun They'll name a city after us And later say it's all our fault Then they'll give us a talking to Then they'll give us a talking to Because they've got years of experience We're living in a den of thieves Rummaging for answers in the pages We're living in a den of thieves And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious We wear our scarves just like a noose But not 'cause we want eternal sleep And though our parts are slightly used New ones are slave labor you can keep We're living in a den of thieves Rummaging for answers in the pages We're living in a den of thieves And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious They made a statue of us They made a statue of us The tourists come and stare at us The sculptor's mama sends regards They made a statue of us They made a statue of us Our noses have begun to rust We're living in a den of thieves Rummaging for answers in the pages Were living in a den of thieves And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious And it's contagious |
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| 3:41 |
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I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground And by protecting my heart truly I got lost, in the sounds. I hear in my mind All of these voices I hear in my mind All of these words I hear in my mind All of this music And it breaks my heart And it breaks my heart And it breaks my heart And it breaks my heart Suppose I never ever met you Suppose we'd never fell in love, Suppose I never ever let you, Kiss me so sweet and so soft Suppose I never ever saw you Suppose you never ever called Suppose I kept on singing love songs, just to break my own fall Just to break my fall Just to break my fall Just to break my fall Break my fall, break my fall All my friends say that of course its Gonna get better, gonna get better Better x7 I never loved nobody fully Always one foot on the ground And by protecting my heart truly I got lost, in the sounds. I hear in my mind All of these voices I hear in my mind All of these words I hear in my mind All of this music And it breaks my heart And it breaks my heart I never loved nobody fully Always one foot on the ground And by protecting my heart truly I got lost, in the sounds. I hear in my mind All of these voices I hear in my mind All of these words I hear in my mind All of this music And it breaks my heart And it breaks my heart breaks my heart Breaks my heart x8 |
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| 3:06 |
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You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth I have to go, I have to go Your hair was long when we first met Samson went back to bed Not much hair left on his head He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us The bible didn't mention us, not even once You are my sweetest downfall I loved you first, I loved you first Beneath the stars came falling on our heads But there just soft light, there just soft light Your hair was long when we first met Samson came to my bed Told me that my hair was red He told me I was beautiful and came into my bed Oh I cut his hair myself one night A pair of dull scissors and the yellow light And he told me that I'd done alright and kissed me till the morning light, the morning light and he kissed me till the morning light Samson came back to bed Not much hair left on his head Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one And history books forgot about us And the bible didn't mention us, not even once You are my sweetest downfall I loved you first |
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| 3:09 |
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The Call - Regina Spektor - Prince Caspian It started out as a feeling Which then grew into a hope Which then turned into a quiet thought Which then turned into a quiet word And then that word grew louder and louder 'Til it was a battle cry I'll come back.. When you call me No need to say goodbye. Just because everything's changing Doesn't mean it's never Been this way before All you can do is try to know Who your friends are As you head off to the war pick a star on the dark horizon And follow the light.. You'll come back When it's over No need to say goodbye. You'll come back When it's over No need to say goodbye. Now we're back to the beginning It's just a feeling and now one knows yet. But just because they can't feel it too Doesn't mean that you have to forget. Let your memories grow stronger and stronger 'Til ther're before your eyes. You'll come back When they call you No need to say goodbye. You'll come back When the call you No need to say goodbye.. |
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| 3:16 |
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Was a bright, and sweet, and hot summer day
The day I didn't love you anymore Some little key wound up my poor heart which had stopped As I walked to the grocery store All the people lingered although they didn't know And they smiled at me as I passed 'Cause they've been there before And they come back again And they always go right back for more Love, love, love You're a whore You're a whore You're a whore Love, love, love, love 'Cause we beat you and mistreat you But time after time You take us back And kiss us hard on the mouth Oh, kiss us hard on the mouth Yeah Kiss us hard on the mouth Ohohohohoh Kiss us hard on the mouth Yeah Kiss us hard Hard on the mouth Was a bright, and sweet, and hot summer day The day I didn't love you anymore Couldn't see your face Couldn't taste your taste Couldn't hallucinate your embrace All had vanished without a trace Love, love, love You're a whore You're a whore You're a whore Love, love, love, love 'Cause we bruise you and abuse you But time after time You take us back And kiss us hard on the mouth Oh, kiss us hard on the mouth Yeah Kiss us hard on the mouth Ohohohohoh Kiss us hard on the mouth Yeah Kiss us hard Hard on the mouth Was a bright and sweet and hot summer day The day I didn't love you anymore Some little key wound up my poor heart which had stopped As I walked to the grocery store All the people lingered although they didn't know And they smiled at me as I passed 'Cause they've been there before And they've come back again And they always go right back for more Love, love, love You're a whore You're a whore You're a whore Love, love, love, love 'Cause we cheat you and mistreat you And beat you and bruise you And use you and abuse you And cruise you and lose you But time after time You take us back into your bed and Kiss us Harder Hard on the mouth Kiss us harder Harder Hard on the mouth Kiss us hard, ha, hard, ha, harder on the mouth Kiss us hard on the mouth Yeah Kiss us hard on the mouth Ohohohohoh Kiss us hard on the mouth Yeah Kiss us hard Hard On the mouth |
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