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from Friends (프렌즈) [ost] (1995)
*it's hard to rely on my good intentions
when my head's full of things that i can't mention seems i usually get things right but i can't understand what i did last night it's hard to rely on my own good senses when i miss so much that requires attention have to laugh at myself sometimes and i can see that i'm not blind **there's little relief give us reprieve for all the things i've left behind i'm positive that i'm not blind i'm not afraid things won't get better but it feels like this has gone on forever you have to cry with your own blue tears have to laugh with your own good cheer *repeat **repeat i can't be hard on you 'cause you know i've been there too learned a lot of things from you but life gives little relief give us reprieve and when everyone is cold as ice i clinch my fists and close my eyes imagining the world outside but i can see that i'm not blind |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
there's almost nothing left
you eat my kind for breakfast what did i expect? to come here and find anyone? find open arms to greet me and friends to feed me i sicken myself so much and you eat my kind for breakfast you eat my kind whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whatever i have been given, whatever i have been seeing myself this way i am a monster i believe and seeing is believing is there no doubt left when i poison myself and poison leaves no appetite i sicken myself so much i sicken myself so whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whatever i have been given, whatever i have been did we expect these things to change by waking up and suddenly there they are and all i need's a starting place and nothing ever seemed so hard... whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whenever i let my guard down, whatever i was ignoring whatever i fear the most is whatever i see before me whatever i have been given, whatever i have been |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
open up and let me in
i was lucky to live, don't need to win forgave myself and if that's a sin it's not enough you'd even know it you did right to call my bluff 'cause i won't say when i've had enough and i worked so hard to need this stuff and you tried so long to just ignore it won't you come down where i am words are hidden, understand i won't repeat myself again i will not repeat myself again it's another promise d.o.a. and despite my every hope there is no truth behind my best intentioned oath won't you come down where i am words are hidden, understand won't you come down been away to long, i know i have won't you come down, help me stand there is healing in your hands won't you come down where i am words all leave me been away too long i know i've been away too long i know i have |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
are you the plane
that shapes the board part of a history smoothed and worn and oh, the windy weather dry spells, brushfire isn't it strange to see my life you must cut me down to look inside and oh, the simple pleasures this ring tells of rain and this one summer good years, nightmares how is it i remember knowing that i would live forever isn't it strange how truth can change and oh, the windy weather this ring tells of rain this one, summers dry spells, brushfire |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
is it this place that makes me fall from you
forget the words that once rang so true did we expect that life was ever fair, my god... i sowed a field of rose and reaped a whipping rod and everything i've held too tight inside could make a part of me die and if my lips could only speak the name the dam would break what is this ice that gathers round my heart to stop the flood of warmth before it even starts it would make me blind to what i thought would always be the only constant in the world for me and every hours of every day i need to fight from pulling away and if my mind could only lose the chain the dam would break for all the things i hid away and all the words i could not say the dam would break |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
i want to be clean, i want to be whole
i want revenge, i want control i want to give up, i want to give in destroy all i have been i want to be cruel, i want to be cold i want a chance to sell my soul i want to break out, i want to dive in to lose myself in sin i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting desire all desire is desire feeds desire desire all desire is desire breeds desire i want to scream, i want to shout i want to have faith and never doubt i want to bend, i want to break to sleep and never wake to break down walls and to escape be alone and hide my face i want to feel, i want to touch want to stop wanting it so much i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting i don't need anything i'm just wanting just wanting desire all desire is desire feeds desire desire all desire is desire breeds desire |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
lead me well, don't clear my way
it's fascinating how the pallor can stay upon your face when you are light like a little boy flying kites and shouting to the world you're shouting to the world your joy don't fade, you're staying here with me don't fade, i need to know that someone still believes look around, see for yourself he led us down and at the water's edge we knelt petals in the lake and red upon my face she's crying as we pray and it all comes down to money, again how could you forsake the love of god that way don't fade, you're staying here with me don't fade, i need to know that someone still believes. |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
little man big man who came first
what is the measure of our worth if there was a storm rolled in who'd run inside who'd go walking little man big man what's inside it's all in the places where we find our pride if there was a soul lost by the road who'd pass by who'd take it home where is the beast lying is there a beast hiding little man big man who is who it's all in the damage that our toys can do if there was a rock and a window pane who'd throw stones who'd walk away where is the beast lying is there a beast hiding are we learning are we moving little man big man fade away it's all in the in the violence of the games we play it's all in the in the violence of the games we play it's all in the love we give today |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
take your cautionary tales
take your incremental gain and all the sychophantic games and throw 'em all away burn your tv in your yard and gather 'round it with your friends and warm your hands upon the fire and start again take the story you've been told the lies that justify the pain the guilt the weighs upon your soul and throw 'em all away tear up the calendar you've bought and throw the pieces to the sky confetti falling down like rain like a parade to usher in your life take the dreams that should have died the ones that kept you lying awake when you should've been all right and throw 'em all away with the time i waste on the life i never had i could've turned myself into a better man 'cause there ain't nothing you can buy and there is nothing you can save to fill the whole inside your heart so throw it all away won't fill the whole inside your heart help me empty out this house the wool i've gathered all these days and thought i couldn't do without and throw it all away |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
here, i need your help
deliver me from myself take me where i'm wanted or make me someone else never mind what they said forget about the things you read it was something you'll never know never see, never understand just leave it now if you can tell me when they come for you who will there be to speak and when they come for you who will there be left to speak for you? the final solution's back in style we are the ones letting it ride i never knew we were so blind amnesia in comfort, so unkind tell me when they come for you who will there be to speak and when they come for you who will there be left to speak for you? |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
life is suffering
tee-hee, ha-ha life is suffering tee-hee, ha-ha cold and shuddering tee-hee, ha-ha cruel and pummeling tee-hee, ha-ha smile on little buddha, smile on little buddha, smile on it's only illusion then it's gone lost and struggling tee-hee, ha-ha life is suffering tee-hee, ha-ha smile on little buddha, smile on little buddha, smile on it's only illusion then you're gone maya |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
anyway now, it don't seem right
he is in there and you're on the outside over pine ridge to wounded knee there's blood on the ground as far as you see crazy life in the air i'm sensing a change in the weather in the end the path is clear does anyone remember here did you all think he'd just disappear crazy life what have you done with Peltier who did you think you'd taken away crazy life in the air i'm sensing a change in the weather in the end the path is clear burying won't stop it breathing forever underground it takes to root anyway, it don't seem right he is in there and you're on the outside what have you done with Peltier who did you think you'd taken away it's not over... |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil (1997)
call me up when you need
strangers often deceive and there's something so freeing to call out a name and someone's believing i've been changing my mind through with looking behind it's a crash course in life the best you can do is get by no getting out alive i'll hold a light for you to see all things in time, all you'll ever need something i can't explain keeps me running, afraid and every day looks me in the face and says "who'd you think you were, anyway?" if you'll hold a light for me to see all things in time, all we'll ever need well, you told me so that we'd seen all this before so what is it that keeps us coming back for more? i'll hold a light for you to see all things in time, all you'll ever need all things in time, all we'll ever need |
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from So I Married An Axe Murderer (나는 도끼부인과 결혼했다) by Bruce Broughton [project, ost] (1993)
There she goes
There she goes again Racing thru' my brain And I just can't contain This feelin' that remains There she goes There she goes again Pulsing through my veins And I just can't contain This feeling that remains There she goes There she goes again She call my name Pulls my train No one else could heal my pain And I just can't contain There feeling that remains There she goes There she goes again Chasing down my lane And I just can't contain This feeling that remains There she goes |
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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (2006)
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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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
i fear nothing besides myself please don't touch me love like an infant trying to stand up am i two souls one hard, one whole am i real i don't want to feel anything anymore i feel nothing besides this pain please don't watch me love like an infant scared and crawling |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
i've come here a thousand times, some things never change "yes i will, anything you say" i've quit this a million times, can't quite stay away just one more time...i'll be ok but i'm so damn tired when i come back down though i'm crazy to anything you want from me i'll do "hey joe, could you spare a buck i could use some food" what a laugh, one more fool two hours and it's back again, lapping at my heels stop yelling..i'll get through but i'm so damn tired i've come here a thousand time some things never change lay me down...take me away god, i'm so damn tired |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
> we were sharing so many words and feelings
age is heavier, it seems, than years alone but, i told you things i wouldn't dream of telling anyone are we drifting out, like flowers from a forgotten someone don't go away i can't feel the same without you we were making so many plans and secrets we would both be millionaires or kings or presidents but like everything those little dreams just kind of came and went hard now just to make end meet how soon we al forget |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
Why try
When everything I do feels half right? I wander through my life Everything I say seems half right Sometimes I'm standing here High on a riverbed And light breaks through And everything feels good for a while High on a riverbed Where am I When everything I do feels half right? How can I be satisfied Writing words from someone else's lies? Sometimes I'm standing here High on a riverbed And light breaks through And everything feels good for a while High on a riverbed Light breaks through I see myself sometimes Vision is a mystery half blind I keep missing all the time Seeing what I could be if I... If I... Sometimes I'm standing here High on a riverbed And light breaks through And everything feels good for a while High on a riverbed Light breaks through And everything feels good for a while High on a riverbed Light breaks through And everything feels good for a while High on a riverbed Light breaks through And everything feels good for a while |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
watching me
a bird upon a roof with coal-black feathers cocks his head to catch my eye wandering and unfocused i cannot meet his stare he takes to wing silhouette against the sun surrounded by the glare funny how the days go by invisibly and faster than i realize the things i think about strange to find the calendar my enemy and scared that when i die so will the things i think about i believe in so many things i know that none of them are true and my feet firm upon a pathway i am far too blind to see leading me funny how the days go by invisibly and faster than i realize the things i think about scared to find the calendar my enemy and when i die so will the thousand things i think about on and on and on... |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
corporal brown was tall, boy! and likes to go and fish corporal's wife was quite fat and was raving like a bitch and i'm a bit drunk as i watch they are yelling loud, he throws a punch oh lord, what am i gonna do? corporal brown was quite scared when he looked down at her corporal's wife was quite dead so he carried her and took her outside dug a grave and placed her inside i was amazed oh lord, what am i gonna do? |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
one more time he says good-night turns out the door and off the light cursing low as if she didn't know one more time he'd comfort her as if a word could break through her she's so quiet and he's sick of it too long, too late this time too far, too great in my mind one more time a run-around nothing meant by anyone fine with them, such a quite din says he wants to leave a while she just sits and tries to smile "that's ok, it was boring anyway" too long, too late this time too far, too great in my mind says she needs a worshiper someone who'll do anything at all for her wishful thinker he don't need this schizo bull each one misses by so far they don't see it come, but who ever does |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
Be who you are If it fits in the system Say what you want But you might die if they listen They think in the politics Of gasoline and torture Please only talk to me in the dark Please only talk to me in the dark Write what you will If you write it in a prison Sing how you feel But you might die if they listen They think in the politics Of rosaries and chains And it's hard to tell the right from the wrong When the right is protecting the wrong Be who you are But not where there are people Reality is taught Right and wrong, there is no middle We think in politics Of money and ourselves And it's hard to tell the right from the wrong When the right is protecting the wrong And it's hard to know the right from the wrong When the right is protecting the wrong |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
here in my mind is a wall i can't climb don't listen now there are liars everywhere deep in my heart is a stone i must cut don't listen now there are liars everywhere liars are everywhere |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
something rushes over me
and i find myself standing here lift my eyes up to the sky and offer a silent prayer sometime all the shouting stops and the restlessness loses hold and i cry out to everything that nothing is alone if the winter won't turn me then the summer can't burn me and the rain will never fall upon a restless soul nothing is alone |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Pale (1990)
solitaire, such a fateful game
she turns her cards and writes her name on the napkin mow she turns another card she dreams about the house and romance he promised but won't deliver she waits alone with dried out hopes and dormant phone she waits for years and fantasies melt new ones appear but they won't help and again she catches him eye pulls away with light too dim she calls his name and runs around but he was faster all alone in a bad part of town she waits again with dried out hopes and things made for him a little ride, a little fun was all he held her tight, got tired and then let go the strain on her heart she believed a lying blackheart painted with promises then he left her on the floor with only the mirror to curse ""should've known better"" but how she cried... |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
We spotted the ocean at the head of the trail Where are we going, so far away And somebody told me that this is the place Where everything's better, everything's safe Walk on the ocean Step on the stones Flesh becomes water Wood becomes bone And half and hour later we packed up our things We said we'd send letters and all those little things And they knew we were lying but they smiled just the same It seemed they'd already forgotten we'd came Walk on the ocean Step on the stones Flesh becomes water Wood becomes bone (x2) Now we're back at the homestead Where the air makes you choke And people don't know you And trust is a joke We don't even have pictures Just memories to hold That grow sweeter each season As we slowly grow old |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
Through the door, What do I see? Bradley says it's haunted The house upon the hill And if we meet at 4 a.m. Then we could know for sure We carried the ladders And leaned them against it And climbed them as we looked Someone kicked the ladder Bradley took a spill Said his leg was broken so we Dragged him down the hill And through the door What do I see? (it happens) Something is happening Is it for me? Mom found out the whole thing Mine was first to call Bradley's leg healed badly At least he still can walk We leave in the morning and No one will hear us and Meet in the clearing and I'll bring the sandwiches David, come quickly You're missing the whole thing Now open your big eyes Take in the sunrise And through the door What do I see? (it happens) Something is happening Is it for me |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
spoken]We saw something gigantic floating on the water I asked my dad what it was But he wouldn't tell me anything In time I will collect the world The eggs (I love) and wings (the wings) Of butterflies A man drove up in an ugly car And he flashed his lights at everything he saw And his eyes were red and his stereo was So loud you couldn't hear the engine's roar He yelled at everybody in the road And did not notice all the moths he'd massacred Spread across the open road [spoken]His skin flashed open, and all of a sudden there it was, And I still couldn't tell And you know when you get so close to something that big You can't see anything at all In time I will collect the world You who fall on calvary The eggs (I give) and wings (my children) Had you wings of Butterflies A moth had settled upon his arm and he looked at it with a lazy eye And he lifted up a gigantic hand and he Spread his fingers towards the sky He nudged the moth to make it fly away But moths are fragile things and He just wiped its body (x3) Down across his shoulder blade He's a wonder, he's a little black-wing boy Oh, my daughters, he'll fill you with joy In time I will collect the world You who soar o'er calvary The hearts (Oh father) and limbs (I offer) of Had you wings of Butterflies |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
We sing the nightingale song alive Streets never border further than my eyes We sing the nightingale song alive We might be different but our hearts won't lie And little ever changes if anything at all But the song rings loudly through these halls We sing the nightingale song alive We might be different but our hearts won't lie And little ever changes when you view it from the sky The damage we encounter, earth just passes by Little ever changes, if anything at all Just remind ourselves how small we are |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
Take her arms and hold her down, hold her down, hold her down, hold her down Until she stops moving Take her arms and hold her down, hold her down, hold her down, hold her down Until she stops kicking And they don't know her but what the fuck They've got nothing else they can do And they've no reason but still they come And I'd have a hard time facing you This crime, I've seen what a man can do Take her arms and hold her down, hold her down, hold her down, hold her down Until she stops screaming Take her arms and hold her down, hold her down, hold her down, hold her down Until she stops breathing And they don't know her but what the fuck They've got nothing else they can do And they've no reason but still they come And I'd have a hard time facing you This crime, the shame of what a man can do I would've died from all the hell that you've been through Take the night back, all they've stolen All we took from you |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
I will give the secrets you request And you will be the one to sacrifice So lay your olive arms upon my breast Sing the poems, free the butterflies Pray your gods who ask you for your blood For they are strong and angry jealous ones Or lay upon my altar now your love I fear my time is short There are armies moving close Be quick, my love I feel my body weakened by the years As people turn to gods of cruel design Is it that they fear the pain of death? Or could it be they fear the joy of life? Pray your gods who hold you by your fear For they are quick and ruthless punishers Or lay upon my altar now your love I fear my day is done There are armies moving on Be quick, my love Dona nobis pacem |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
How can it happen that every time You ask us this question the answer seems like a lie? You know what we're saying and you know what it means And it's always sincere, God knows But it never gets through to where you need Before you were born someone kicked in the door There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong Before you were born someone kicked in the door You are not wanted here anymore God damn the people who left you in pain God damn the father, without face, without name God damn the lovers who never showed up And God damn the wounds that show how deep a word can cut Before you were born someone kicked in the door There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong Before you were born someone kicked in the door You are not wanted here, stay back where you belong And how can it happen, now that you know the cause That nothing is changing and everything's wrong? But pain is the healing, and the tears sting like alcohol Just keep on their breathing, We'll help you down the long, long road back home Before you were born someone kicked in the door There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong Before you were born someone kicked in the door You are not wanted here anymore |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
he's got a thing about losing control carries it a mile just to see how far he'll go and he brushes up his chops as he tries to fake a smile a friend indeed but what i need's someone who'll stay a while someone to stay a while you can bend my ear we can talk all day just make sure that i'm near when you've really got something to say he drops hints but he won't tell you what's really on his mind but i know if i look that it's easy to find and he's got a way with his anger and the way he lets it show like the smoldering smoke when the fire's left the coals when the fire has left the coals you can take me down to show me your home not the place where you live but the place where you belong you can bend my ear we can talk all day just make sure i'm around when you've finally got something to say and what are you meaning by "i don't deserve this life?" his door is always open and he's always got the time to give a little something even though he gets behind and your trips become his and your lives are intertwined but like the horse with the junkie it's all in your mind it's all in your mind you can take me down to show me your home not the place where you live but the place where you belong you can bend my ear we can talk all day just make sure i'm around when you've finally got something to say and what are you meaning by "i don't deserve this life?" |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
Didn't know they were a part of it, I can't tell It would seem there's a lot that I don't know But here I am and I'm Standing with a perfect view, I could not go far enough away from you I've seen it all before and I know it's only words Hello, I can't hear it's in my ear Hello, hello Never meant half of the things I said to you So you know there's a half that might be true And here I am and I'm Standing with a perfect view I could not go far enough away from you I've seen it all before and I know it's only words Hello, have you heard a single word Hello, hello |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
nothing's so loud as hearing when we lie the truth is not kind and you've said neither am i but the air outside so soft is saying everything everything all i want is to feel this way to be this close, to feel the same all i want is to feel this way the evening speaks, i feel it say nothing's so cold as closing the heart when all we need is to free the soul but we wouldn't be that brave i know and the air outside so soft, confessing everything everything all i want is to feel this way to be this close, to feel the same all i want is to feel this way the evening speaks, i feel it say and it won't matter now whatever happens to me though the air speaks of all we'll never be it won't trouble me all i want is to feel this way to be this close, to feel the same all i want is to feel this way the evening speaks, i feel it say and it feels so close let it take me in let it hold me so i can feel it say |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
Don't give me answers or I would refuse 'Yes' is a word for which I have no use And I wasn't looking for heaven or hell Just someone to listen to stories I tell What is a blessing and what is a dream Caught between portraits and none's what it seems Why is it people expect there's a change When I feel I'm a part of something I can't see I feel the same Don't offer questions or I will retreat Fame is a cancer and ego its seed And I wasn't looking for Heaven or hell Just someone to listen to stories I tell Do we ever wonder? Did you ever care? Stories I tell (x3) Subtle salvation in poems and prose Hiding our heads in some shadow of home And I wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells Just someone to listen to stories I tell Stories I tell Stories I tell |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear (1991)
One part of me just wants to tell you everything One part just needs the quiet And if I'm lonely here, I'm lonely here And on the telephone, you offer reassurance I will not take these things for granted I will not take these things... How can I hold the part of me that only you can carry? It needs a strength I haven't found But if it's frightening, I'll bear the cold And on the telephone, you offer warm asylum I'm listening, flowers in the garden Laughter in the hall, children in the park I will not take these things for granted (x3) I will not take these things...anymore To crawl inside the wire and feel something near me To feel this accepting That it is lonely here, but not alone And on the telephone, you offer visions dancing I'm listening, music in the bedroom Laughter in the hall, dive into the ocean Singing by the fire, running through the forest Standing in the wind, the rolling canyons I will not take these things for granted (x3) I will not take these things...anymore |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Paul is making me nervous Paul is making me scared Into this room he swaggers, like he's God's own messenger Change the name of my brother Change the things that he said Says that he speaks to him But he never even knew the man I'd give my life for him Like water through my hands You'd give him any ending But if he's all you say Would he fly from Heaven To this world again To this world again... Take whatever you're needing Take whatever you can We're broken from within Run to another land Like water through my hands Or is it just beginning But if he's all you say Would he fly from Heaven To this world again To this world again... They took my brother They ripped him from me To twist his words as they did his body Denied his family, denied his beauty To lay him down at the feet of Those he couldn't save Couldn't save, couldn't save Will it be the end? Or is he still ascending? But if he's all you say Would he fly from Heaven To this world again |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Say what I need I kick you down No I'm fine, and don't you hang around And I find myself here in another home Where everything moves so slow So tired Take the longest day, throw it all away I can't stand it but I can't do anything Everyday's the same, nothing ever change I can't stand it but I can't do anything You should know by now we're all liars Take me where you go, only higher Take the longest day, waste it all away I can't stand it but I can't do anything Everyday's the same, nothing ever change I can't stand it but I can't do anything Can't do anything Anything you want Anything you want Anything Take the longest day, throw it all away I can't stand it but I can't do anything Everyday's the same, nothing ever change I can't stand it but I can't do anything (x3) Here in another home Where everything moves so slow So tired |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Another day I call and never speak And you would say nothing's changed at all And I can't feel much hope for anything If I won't be there to catch you if you fall Again (oh again) It seems we meet (meet and mend) In the spaces (spaces safe) In between (between intent) We always say (say too much) Won't be long (long been gone) Oh, but something's always wrong Another game of putting things aside As if we'll come back to them sometime A brace of hope, a pride of innocence And you would say something has gone wrong Oh again (again we fail) Seems we meet (make amends) In the spaces (wend our way) In between (between each end) We always say (looking back) Won't be long (moving on) Oh but something's always wrong And again (again we fail) Seems we meet (meet amends) In the spaces (spaces safe) In between (between each end) We always say (say too much) Won't be long (long been gone) Oh, but something's always wrong Something's always wrong Something's always wrong |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Four times he came by, I did not look Talked about the reservoir, his thumbs were hooked On his carpenter's belt, and he squinted in the sun Smiled wide many times, I think I smiled back once And it's frightening, oh, I didn't expect that from you It's blinding Serious, are you seriously I am feeling really stupid now Last time on the fly, work had all been done Sanding down the ceiling so it ends up in the rug We were waiting in the bedroom till he finished up One short hi and no goodbye She said she knew him once And it's frightening, oh, I didn't expect that from you It's blinding Serious, are you seriously I am feeling really stupid now Stupid now And it's frightening, oh, I didn't expect that from you It's blinding I can't see a thing I see I see And I am really feeling stupid I am really feeling stupid now I am feeling really stupid now |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Been waiting to find You could've been happier, given the time If he'd make up his mind You'd give yourself to anybody who would cross that line And it was never a question He was crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection But you couldn't keep him there Get over regret While you were sleeping with angels He was under the bed And the more skin you shed, The more that the air in your throat will linger when you Call him your friend [chorus] Staring at a cold little hand Reading fault lines of a shell of a man You were waiting for a word from above Wouldn't you know it, no answer ever did come And it was never a question You were crowing for repair You'd give him love and affection But you couldn't keep him there |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Well I wonder, do we learn? Seems we're making the same wrong turns Call you sacred, call you obscene Call you faithless, call you anything Call and you listen Listen (x3) I'm a liar, so it seems My desire could justify anything So is there nothing that lies in between This cold silence and a scream? Scream, listen Listen (x3) Caught in headlines We are frozen and cannot hide There's no break, no time If you can, I might Call and you listen Listen (x7 |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
I spend too much time raiding windmills We go side by side, laugh until it's right There's something that you won't show Waiting where the light goes Take the darkest hour, break it open Water to repair what we have broken There's something that you won't show Waiting where the light goes Maybe any way the wind blows It's all worth waiting for Pull on the borders to lighten the load Tell all the passengers we're going home I spend too much time seeking shelter World without end couldn't hold her There's something that you won't show Waiting where the light goes Maybe any way the wind blows It's all worth waiting for Any way the wind blows |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
I can't believe you You bend your words like Uri Geller's spoons Not quite safe here When every judgement seems to smack of doom Are you ok? I'm just fine You take Nanci, for me Loretta's fine A legal precedent could set us straight But no one's brought up suit And I'm assuming if they did, The point would still be moot Are you joking? No I'm just fine You take Nanci, for me Loretta's fine No, I've changed my mind I'll take nanci, for you Loretta's fine And still we walk without quite seeing things And I'll admit there's not that much to see I will follow through And expect that you will follow suit And I can't believe you You bend your words like Uri Geller's spoons Not quite safe here When every judgement seems to smack of doom Are you ok? I'm just fine You take Nanci, for me Loretta's fine No, I've changed my mind I'll take Nanci, for you Loretta's fine Loretta's fine Loretta's fine |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
She said "I'm fine, I'm okay" Cover up your trembling hands There's indecision when you know you ain't got nothing left When the good times never stay And the cheap thrills always seem to fade away When will we fall When will we fall down Jump back, gotta get out of here Been too, too long this time Jump back, gotta get out of here When will, when will we fall down She hates her life, she hates her skin She even hates her friends Tries to hold on to all the reputations she can't mend And there's some chance we could fail But the last time, someone's always there for bail When will we fall When will we fall down Jump back, gotta get out of here Been too, too long this time Jump back, gotta get out of here When will, when will we fall down When will we, when will we fall down When will we fall She said "I'm fine, I'm okay" Cover up your trembling hands There's indecision when you know you ain't got nothing left For the last time conscience calls For a good friend, I was never there at all When will we fall When will we fall down Jump back, gotta get out of here Been too, too long this time Jump back, gotta get out of here When will, when will we fall down When will we, when will we fall down When will we fall |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Free my heart to feel again Free my mind to understand To run unfettered Pull the blinders from my eyes Let me see these endless skies And drown here where I stand In the beauty of the land And all my life It lay inside For all my life Tear this anger from my soul Wash me clean and leave me whole Leave me higher Work my hands to make them strong Lift my arms to carry on That anywhere I go, to never be alone And all my life It lay inside For all my life We were always leaving Since we started breathing And running back, no wonder We are torn asunder To give me life To give me life To give me life |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
Are you given vision, are you second sight? Are you older than your life? Eighty days of sorrow, endless more in sight Still you, child, burn bright And you see me crying again And you hold out your little hand Led me shaking to his room I thought I'd never see again Close the door behind you, turning out the light Press a flashlight up against the wall You say "This is how we knew him In a little egg It opened up and this is daddy now." Now you're stepping back towards me Till the room is bathing in light And the answer there before me There's no ending when we die Are you sleeping here beside me? Are you shining bright as the sky? Are you breathing now inside me? There's no ending when we die |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea (1994)
I thought I'd be alright today Thought I'd be alive today Give me your eyes, I'll show you things You never dreamed you thought you'd see I find myself in light I'd seen In sleep sometimes or mescaline And like the sun, you can't stare into For too long without it blinding you I thought this light would comfort me I thought it would be easy There's a tugging at my sleeve And so much baggage I brought with me to leave Something so big I can't understand From trying to I would go mad So I hurry back to little earth For another life, another birth Another life, another birth Mother |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
we spotted the ocean at the head of the trail
where are we going, so far away and somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better, everything's safe walk on the ocean step on the stones flesh becomes water wood becomes bone half and hour later we packed up our things we said we'd send letters and all those little things and they knew we were lying but they smiled just the same it seemed they'd already forgotten we'd came walk on the ocean step on the stones flesh becomes water wood becomes bone now back at the homestead where the air makes you choke and people don't know you and trust is a joke we don't even have pictures just memories to hold that grow sweeter each season as we slowly grow old |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
One little girl Told to know her place Told she must believe And do what he says One little girl Taught that she is small Taught that she is less And man's decree is law One little boy who'd know her too well But that one little boy could send her to hell One little man who'd care if she cried But that one little man would leave her And then she'd die One little girl Is beaten 'till she faints Told that this is love Told that she will have to take it One little girl Is just a bit confused Thought that she was human too CHORUS One little girl Couldn't run away Anywhere she'd go The rules and men the same One little girl Couldn't take the pain Numbed herself 'till none remained CHORUS |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
High on a wire Poised for an imminent fall Clowns always smile Greasepaint and lust in their pores Start to sway and I hold your hand Fall, the smile surrounds his head Hot ashes, clay Hot ashes fade To lean, to err, too far along for me To wait around, to smile is to accept In center ring Rolling in sawdust and hay Covered in paint Damn everything but the circus Damn the men and the women who stare At the freaks in the cages and snares Hot ashes, clay Hot ashes fade To win, to err, to fall too far for safety To lean, to wait a while is too easy To lean towards, to fall too far for me To wait a while around is too easy To lean too long, to fall too far for safety To seem to smile, to lie is to accept |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)
Nothing's so loud As hearing when we lie The truth is not kind And you've said neither am I But the air outside so soft Is saying everything Everything All I want is to feel this way To be this close, to feel the same All I want is to feel this way The evening speaks, hear it say Nothing's so cold As closing the heart when all we need Is to free the soul But we wouldn't be that brave I know And the air outside so soft Confessing everything Everything All I want is to feel this way To be this close to feel the same All I want is to feel this way The evening speaks, I feel it say And it won't matter now Whatever happens will be Though the air speaks of all we'll never be It won't trouble me All I want is to feel this way To be this close to feel the same All I want is to feel this way The evening speaks, I feel it say And it feels - so close Let it take - me in Let it hold - me so I can feel - it say |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
one more time he says good-night turns out the door and off the light cursing low as if she didn't know one more time he'd comfort her as if a word could break through her she's so quiet and he's sick of it too long, too late this time too far, too great in my mind one more time a run-around nothing meant by anyone fine with them, such a quite din says he wants to leave a while she just sits and tries to smile "that's ok, it was boring anyway" too long, too late this time too far, too great in my mind says she needs a worshiper someone who'll do anything at all for her wishful thinker he don't need this schizo bull each one misses by so far they don't see it come, but who ever does... |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
how can it happen that every time you ask us this question the answer seems like a lie you know what we're saying and you know what it means and it's always sincere god knows but it never gets through to where you need before you were born someone kicked in the door there's no place for you here, stay back where you belong before you were born someone kicked in the door you are not wanted here, stay back where you belong god damn the people who left you in pain god damn the father without face, without name and god damn the lovers who never showed up and god damn the wounds that show how deep a word can cut before you were born someone kicked in the door there's no place for you here, stay back where you belong before you were born someone kicked in the door you are not wanted here, stay back where you belong and how can it happen now that you know the cause that nothing is changing and everything's wrong but pain is the healing and the tears sting like alcohol just keep on there breathing we'll bring you down the long, long road back home |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
spoken]We saw something gigantic floating on the water
I asked my dad what it was But he wouldn't tell me anything In time I will collect the world The eggs (I love) and wings (the wings) Of butterflies A man drove up in an ugly car And he flashed his lights at everything he saw And his eyes were red and his stereo was So loud you couldn't hear the engine's roar He yelled at everybody in the road And did not notice all the moths he'd massacred Spread across the open road [spoken]His skin flashed open, and all of a sudden there it was, And I still couldn't tell And you know when you get so close to something that big You can't see anything at all In time I will collect the world You who fall on calvary The eggs (I give) and wings (my children) Had you wings of Butterflies A moth had settled upon his arm and he looked at it with a lazy eye And he lifted up a gigantic hand and he Spread his fingers towards the sky He nudged the moth to make it fly away But moths are fragile things and He just wiped its body (x3) Down across his shoulder blade He's a wonder, he's a little black-wing boy Oh, my daughters, he'll fill you with joy In time I will collect the world You who soar o'er calvary The hearts (Oh father) and limbs (I offer) of Had you wings of Butterflies |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
i fear nothing besides myself please don't touch me love like an infant trying to stand up am i two souls one hard, one whole am i real i don't want to feel anything anymore i feel nothing besides this pain please don't watch me love like an infant scared and crawling |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
Be who you are If it fits in the system Say what you want But you might die if they listen They think in the politics Of gasoline and torture Please only talk to me in the dark Please only talk to me in the dark Write what you will If you write it in a prison Sing how you feel But you might die if they listen They think in the politics Of rosaries and chains And it's hard to tell the right from the wrong When the right is protecting the wrong Be who you are But not where there are people Reality is taught Right and wrong, there is no middle We think in politics Of money and ourselves And it's hard to tell the right from the wrong When the right is protecting the wrong And it's hard to know the right from the wrong When the right is protecting the wrong |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
we sing the nightingale song alive streets never border further than my eyes we sing the nightingale song alive we might be different but our hearts won't lie and little ever changes if anything at all but the song rings loudly through these halls we sing the nightingale song alive we might be different but our hearts won't lie and little ever changes when you view it from the sky and the damage we encounter the earth just passes by and little ever changes if anything at all and we remind ourselves how small we are |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
i find my brother in there
deep in my heart i find my brother in there hold in my arms i love you and if I seem too quiet now there are no words to tell you how i love you i often feel like the prodigal son take all I need giving back none our beauty shows in such different ways you're like the light behind the fog so soft but still you burn my eyes away i find my brother in there deep in my heart i find my brother in there hold in my arms i love you and if I seem too quiet now there are no words to show you how i love you so much has changed and so much has happened these years but still I find that you are waiting here we have a bond that nothing can change and still I find a peace of mind whenever I hear your name and if I seem too quiet now there are no words to show you how i love you |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
Take her arms and hold her down... Until she stops moving take her arms and hold her down... until she she stops kicking And they don't know her But what the f**k They got nothing else they can do And there's no reason But still they come And I Would have a hard time facing you This crime I've seen what a man can do Take her arms and hold her down... Until she stops screaming Take her arms and hold her down... Until she stops breathing And they don't know her But what the fuck They got nothing else they can do And there's no reason But still they come And I Would have a hard time facing you This crime The shame of what a man can do I would have died From all the hell that you've been through Take the night back All they've stolen All we took from you Take the night back All they've stolen All we took from you |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
i've come here a thousand times, some things never change "yes i will, anything you say" i've quit this a million times, can't quite stay away just one more time...i'll be ok but i'm so damn tired when i come back down though i'm crazy to anything you want from me i'll do "hey joe, could you spare a buck i could use some food" what a laugh, one more fool two hours and it's back again, lapping at my heels stop yelling..i'll get through but i'm so damn tired i've come here a thousand time some things never change lay me down...take me away god, i'm so d**n tired |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
don't give me answers for i would refuse
""yes"" is a word for which i have no use and i wasn't looking for heaven or hell just someone to listen to stories i tell now what is a blessing and what is a dream caught between portraits and none's what it seems and why is it people expect there's a change when i feel i'm a part of something i can't see i feel the same now don't ask me questions or i will retreat fame is a cancer and ego its seed now i wasn't looking for heaven or hell just someone to listen to stories i tell do we ever wonder? and do you ever care... subtle salvation in poems we know hiding our heads in a shadow of home now i wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells just someone to listen to stories i tell stories i tell |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
Should I have believed I was still a boy
Naive and sane, protected wholly Tongue-tied and restless Breathing of futures Know me; I am not a child 'Though you have age You have not felt the pain... Should I have remained obedient and docile So far restrained The hands that hold me back Could break my bones As each one snaps I hate my home Far on my way I should know, I was born here Know me Am I just some fool? Am I far from ready? Just let me fall and I'll believe you. Chained up and pampered I strain until I crack Know me before you kill what I want to be And leave me cold Bled white And feeling old Far on my way I should know, I was born here Know me--know all I am Far on my way I was cold then I exploded Know me |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
Line of people to pass you by Posing sympathy with its whitewash eyes With the ladies feigning their mourning cries And the men shaking hands: Weigh away Way away All the pictures in your mind As you're passed the thousandth time Thousandth photograph Listen to sympathetic lies As their reasons change under mourning guise With the gentlemen feigning sorrowed sighs And drinking champagne: Weigh away Way away As all the people pass and pose You hold back the tears And hold onto memories Small talk hangs like a dirty cloud Saying nothing real but deafening loud An urge to run away from the crowd And mourn all alone: Make a promise to no-one Wondering if you'd been worthwhile Turn away from the chatter And the hungry smiles |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
bradley says it's haunted the house upon the hill and if we meet at four a.m. then we would know for sure we carry the ladders and lean them against it and climb them as we look someone kicked a ladder bradley took a spill said his leg was broken so we dragged him down the hill and through the door what do i see? something is happening is it for me? mom found out the whole thing mine was first to call bradley's leg healed badly at least he still can walk we leave in the morning and no one will hear us and meet in the clearing and i'll bring the sandwiches david come quickly you're missing the whole thing now open your big eyes and take in the sunrise and through the door what do i see? something is happening is it for me? |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
Send "Fall Down" Ringtones to Cell
She said "I'm fine, I'm okay" cover up your trembling hands There's indecision when you know you ain't got nothing left When the good times never stay And the cheap thrills always seem to fade away When will we fall When will we fall down chorus: Jump back, got to get out of here Been too long this time Jump back, got to get out of here When will, when will we fall down She hates her life, she hates her skin, she even hates all her friends Tries to hold on to all the reputations she can't mend And there's some chance we could fail But the last time someone was always there for bail When will we fall When will we fall down chorus She said "I'm fine, I'm okay" cover up your trembling hands There's indecision when you know you ain't got nothing left For the last time conscience calls For a good friend I was never there at all When will we fall When will we fall down |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Welcome Home/ Live (2005)
one part of me just wants to tell you everything
one part just needs the quiet and if i'm lonely here, i'm lonely here and on the telephone you offer reassurance i will not take these things for granted how can i hold the part of me that only you can carry it needs a strength i haven't found but if it's frightening, i'll bear the cold and on the telephone you offer warm asylum i'm listening flowers in the garden laughter in the hall children in the park i will not take these things for granted anymore to crawl inside the wire and feel something near me to feel this accepting that it is lonely here, but not alone and on the telephone you offer visions dancing i'm listening music in the bedroom laughter in the hall dive into the ocean singing by the fire running through the forest and standing in the wind in rolling canyons i will not take these things for granted |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
Line of people to pass you by Posing sympathy with its whitewash eyes With the ladies feigning their mourning cries And the men shaking hands: Weigh away Way away All the pictures in your mind As you're passed the thousandth time Thousandth photograph Listen to sympathetic lies As their reasons change under mourning guise With the gentlemen feigning sorrowed sighs And drinking champagne: Weigh away Way away As all the people pass and pose You hold back the tears And hold onto memories Small talk hangs like a dirty cloud Saying nothing real but deafening loud An urge to run away from the crowd And mourn all alone: Make a promise to no-one Wondering if you'd been worthwhile Turn away from the chatter And the hungry smiles |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
High on a wire Poised for an imminent fall Clowns always smile Greasepaint and lust in their pores Start to sway and I hold your hand Fall, the smile surrounds his head Hot ashes, clay Hot ashes fade To lean, to err, too far along for me To wait around, to smile is to accept In center ring Rolling in sawdust and hay Covered in paint Damn everything but the circus Damn the men and the women who stare At the freaks in the cages and snares Hot ashes, clay Hot ashes fade To win, to err, to fall too far for safety To lean, to wait a while is too easy To lean towards, to fall too far for me To wait a while around is too easy To lean too long, to fall too far for safety To seem to smile, to lie is to accept |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
I am taught but I Never learn a thing I'm not deaf but I Can't hear everything A quiet world Unquiet I am strong but I Never move a thing I have words but I Lack the voice to sing A quiet world Unquiet I would sell the world Would I... I am fast but I Never move at all I have sight but I Never choose to show A quiet world Unquiet I would sell the world Would I... A quiet world Unquiet |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
Should I have believed I was still a boy
Naive and sane, protected wholly Tongue-tied and restless Breathing of futures Know me; I am not a child 'Though you have age You have not felt the pain... Should I have remained obedient and docile So far restrained The hands that hold me back Could break my bones As each one snaps I hate my home Far on my way I should know, I was born here Know me Am I just some fool? Am I far from ready? Just let me fall and I'll believe you. Chained up and pampered I strain until I crack Know me before you kill what I want to be And leave me cold Bled white And feeling old Far on my way I should know, I was born here Know me--know all I am Far on my way I was cold then I exploded Know me |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
So suddenly Where was my mind What was I thinking of I lost control You could have died I could have killed you But when we recovered I only thought of you And when you saw my hands You shuddered I realized How much I cared for you I slip sometimes I can be cruel I can say stupid things But after crimes Pardoned And pride follows behind me But when we recovered I only thought of you And light remaining after thunder I realized How much I cared for you |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
Wouldn't know any more than home And couldn't see much further And light won't help A wound untended grows And never heals Standing face to east Waiting for an answer But the only sound is desert wind And when the wind was cold Bundled up and packed away we shiver still Finding more than one wind blows I couldn't sleep Something kept me still and wide awake And gnawing at my breast Something I don't know I couldn't shake it Laying face to wall Plaster tells me nothing But I sense a movement somewhere else And 'though it's far away Bundled up in safety here I shiver still Finding more than one wind blows He walked alone Facing wind and snow Moving slowly He staggers, moves again Somehow stronger now The wind won't touch him CHORUS |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
Azul palido As death it waits for me After storms And after pouring rain Vainest thunder Pale blue remains Azul palido As death it follows me Mocking weather An attempt in vain Weakest thunder Laughing at the rain Azul palido As death it comforts me After storms And after pouring rain Crashing thunder Pale blue remains |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
I wanted to follow you
Down to your well-furnished cave And to laugh at your art I wanted to tell you the truth But I'm always afraid That you'll be torn apart Oh, say the word And I'll tell you you're wrong Oh, say the word I've been waiting too long But when you talk There's nothing to hear I'm always changing You're too far or too near I wanted to tell her the truth But I'm always afraid it's not in her heart I wanted to say how I felt But I'm always afraid That she'll stop when I start Oh, say the word When we're there at her home Oh, say the word 'Cause I don't want to be alone But when she talks She's all that I hear How can I help it You are always too near |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
One little girl Told to know her place Told she must believe And do what he says One little girl Taught that she is small Taught that she is less And man's decree is law One little boy who'd know her too well But that one little boy could send her to hell One little man who'd care if she cried But that one little man would leave her And then she'd die One little girl Is beaten 'till she faints Told that this is love Told that she will have to take it One little girl Is just a bit confused Thought that she was human too CHORUS One little girl Couldn't run away Anywhere she'd go The rules and men the same One little girl Couldn't take the pain Numbed herself 'till none remained CHORUS |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - Bread And Circus (1989)
Covered in roses No-one deserves it all Covered in roses What are they looking for Take me for what I am Not something more When this boy Becomes a man Then you will know Covered in roses And no-one deserves it all Covered in roses Always before a fall |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
i find my brother in there
deep in my heart i find my brother in there hold in my arms i love you and if I seem too quiet now there are no words to tell you how i love you i often feel like the prodigal son take all I need giving back none our beauty shows in such different ways you're like the light behind the fog so soft but still you burn my eyes away i find my brother in there deep in my heart i find my brother in there hold in my arms i love you and if I seem too quiet now there are no words to show you how i love you so much has changed and so much has happened these years but still I find that you are waiting here we have a bond that nothing can change and still I find a peace of mind whenever I hear your name and if I seem too quiet now there are no words to show you how i love you |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
Music by: Todd Nichols, Glen Phillips, and Toad
Lyrics by: Glen Phillips opened my eyes the fire had come not for the end of days not for the faithless ones not for vision understood burns because it has to burn change'll happen whether we are still or moving breathe in waves of doubt bitter in your mouth you will exhale cinnamon clouds when it is quiet and still i can feel older here change what i can and pray the hope will not disappear when we are not denying anything nothing is an enemy delicately balancing the perfect world ride these waves of doubt bitter in your mouth you will exhale cinnamon clouds little heaven riding waves of doubt turns me inside out i will exhale primal shout little heaven i understand the fire will come not for the strength of will or passion of anyone i understand the fire will come not for the end of days not for the faithless ones |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
Music by: Glen Phillips and Toad Lyrics by: Glen Phillips it's hard to rely on my good intentions when my head's full of things that i can't mention seems i usually get things right but i can't understand what i did last night it's hard to rely on my own good senses when i miss so much that requires attention have to laugh at myself sometimes and i can see that i'm not blind there's little relief give us reprieve for all the things i've left behind i'm positive that i'm not blind i'm not afraid things won't get better but it feels like this has gone on forever you have to cry with your own blue tears have to laugh with your own good cheer it's hard to rely on my good intentions when my head's full of things that i can't mention seems i usually get things right but i can't understand what i did last night there's little relief give us reprieve imagining the world outside i'm positive that i'm not blind i can't be hard on you 'cause you know i've been there too learned a lot of things from you but life gives little relief give us reprieve and when everyone is cold as ice i clinch my fists and close my eyes imagining the world outside but i can see that i'm not blind |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
Music by: Glen Phillips and Toad
Lyrics by: Glen Phillips There's an old Virginian vibraphone With a calculated gait And a man who thinks he's Al Capone With a cumberbund and cape Don't criticize what a vicar would prize in you And talk to the man if you feel he needs talking to And the hobbit on the rocks is crying And the fish upon the docks are dying There's an orchestra in rococo and an insulated dwarf And the ships are sinking in the sea As they sail from the shores Don't criticize what a vicar would prize in you And the hobbit on the rocks is crying And the fish upon the docks are dying And the hobbit on the rocks is crying For the grunion in the sand entwining Don't criticize what a vicar would prize in you And talk to yourself if you feel you need talking to |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
Wasn't it hard
And did we want penance Summer's so long Colder men when their ice prayer never came Didn't we fight it And weren't we hard Holding back a friend of mine All the way coming home Aren't we the ones who never got tired? Wasn't it magic The flames rolled and I said OK Were we just asking For something to come our way Are we another, were we afraid? Is there a hope that we'll wait To walk a time? He's a long road... And I feel like a newborn again But the night holds on Hello, I'm coming home Don't we mind waiting And are we ashamed Coming here in the black dark night And I don't feel so strange Are we the lady? Were we afraid? Are we the summer... |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
Music by: Todd Nichols, Glen Phillips and Toad
Lyrics by: Glen Phillips Soft between these sheets I shiver I move in time My thoughts collide and body whispers Am I alive This place will speak its language to me I slip inside A breath escapes and I fly with it I'm so alive I'm alive (3X) Moving in waves Caught in a slow landslide Sleeping still but so alive (break) I'm alive (3X) Moving in waves Caught in a slow landslide Sleeping still but so alive Breathing in waves Pulling away, rising Running scared but so alive (plus mystery lyrics not on the recording:) I see you on a road I travel I move in time The earth forgives my trespass And I'm alive... |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
all in all it's just as well
water moves, earth is still time is slower still half an hour is 30 days nothing moves at all this way hold on, i can wait life lies burning, i am only just as much as i can make myself and i lie burning, life is only just a part of it i can't help myself all in all it's just the sun catch the wind, hold it down cold when evening comes all in all it's just as well catch the river, make it still water turns the mill life lies burning, i am only just as much as i can help myself and i lie burning, life is only just a part of it i can't help myself all in all it's just as well water moves and earth is still time is slower still half an hour is 30 days nothing moves all this way hold on, i can wait but i can't wait i can't wait i can't help myself |
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from Toad The Wet Sprocket - In Light Syrup (1995)
Losing my aim losing time And after Ten in the morning I find It matters But it's all right this time Pulls from the tether to rise And shatters Caught in the wind far and wide It scatters If I hear the call Of the lorelei No I will not fall It's all right this time Never patterns But for the loss of things Gaining Catching up with me And these ladders Rising and endlessly Leading Nowhere I can see If I hear them cry That it's killing time No I will not fight It's all right this time |
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