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Emptied Out
04:07
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In the nighttime you go out from your doorway,
Your nightmares find you tripping over shards,
They fall from your eyes it burns like touching stars,
You wait to find yourself clinging to something far.
Pull up the sheets, as though they might offer some comfort.
And find it, when your eyes give 'way to a slumber.
Let them sleep - Let them dream.
The daylight returns & retreats back.
I know - I know - It's a goddamn slow caravan
It's painful but the night you're running from
it is never quite as black as a feeling that's left,
swallowing the barrel of a gun.
Pull up the sheets, as though they might offer some comfort.
And find it, when your eyes give 'way to a slumber.
Let them sleep - Let them dream.
Give me excuses, for why you're losing the fight.
No I didn't listen, you know I was too busy dreaming this time.
But believe me when I tell you that I've got eyes all over this land.
When I shoot aeroplanes from my mouth.
And hummingbirds come flying out
I guess what I really mean to say
Is I'm not the sort of guy to tread, lightly in some shadow or a wake.
Least of all, when the nighttime finds me,
Out in the doorway singing in my sleep.
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2. |
Worth a Second Look
02:31
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We've all grown up inside here,
We just can't find a way, to fight against the clock
We're focused on our reflections,
They compel us & tell us, look the other way
And I guess..
I can't keep looking, up & to the south & around at the sight of this town - letting me down
I can't keep looking, but this is worth a second look.
This is the way that it is,
but I just feel so, boxed up in this room!
This is the way that it is...
I tell you, I said it with a word that won't get no replies
I can't keep looking, up & to the sound & around at the site of this town
I can't keep looking, but this is, this is worth a second look.
woo!
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3. |
Dancing Floorboards
05:33
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I take a dose of you, it helps get me through the day.
Everybody gets their's too, they just take it in different ways.
You give & you get & you get what you give, and you take it in.
Who takes the blame, simply the one who can't push it away.
I get up next to you, you just push me 'gainst the wall.
I wake up next to you, you just wipe me 'cross the floor!
You give & you get & get what you give, and you take it in!
There's no blame when you are the one, who gives it away...
~Coda~
It's that old familiar, It's that old familiar, It's that old familiar
way you wash it down
way you move it around
We've been here before, I remember the floorboards.
We've been here before.
Making love on the floorboards.
~/Coda~
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4. |
Onward
02:10
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Suddenly her hand broke the silence, staring queerly at one another.
A coarse hand form a one time lover
The sun setting behind her, somehow forgetting how it used to remind me of her.
Time to recover.
Never lower my eyes to yours, & I won't sink down no more sulking now
Never louder have my cries been heard, & that's all done now
Footsteps break the pavement, crumbled past but a wide terrain.
Staring around in front of me and you.
Can't stop dreaming - Can't stop dreaming
Can't stop dreaming impossibly relieving
Never lower my eyes to the floor,
And I won't sink down, no more sulking now..
Never louder have my words been heard,
And I'm hearing others now, I'm loving others now, I'm having little doubts this is what it's all about!
This is, what it is, all about.
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5. |
The Real Question
02:15
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Do you remember the first time that you feared death?
Do you ever feel it creeping up again?
You've got no expectations
You don't know what to think
But you'll be damned if you let it stand in your way.
Is there something bigger that makes you strive for your best?
Can you hear the calling, will you answer it?
No, I'm not a father, but I've wept for others' sons
I am a man of the world.
How can my guardian angel look after me?
She doesn't even have a copy of my social security number.
Would you trade your kingdom for a crown upon your head?
Can you feel the breeze that's coming over the bay
And the stench that comes with it?
Rich kids are daddy's girls and poor boys belong to mamma.
The middle child is left to fend for themselves again.
I am quite well-versed in missing a piece of the puzzle
But this time I think I've got it all figured out.
Just don't ask me how I got there.
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6. |
Good Thank's I'm Fine
03:44
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Keep gettin' these heart attacks, and I can trace them back to you
But truly what's holding me back is uncertainty, and that's true
And I move and I sing & I move and I sing - it comes oh so naturally
And I move and I sin & you're letting me in, intermittently
And it's all that I'll ever have, it lies within me within you
Carry it with me, with you too..
Chorus:
No you can't take them with you, but you don't push them away
Everything that is within you, don't you know that it will stay.. today
Not the black, the white but the grey's and this can't be erased.
This is a good day, one to get things done she said!
I'm lifting off the brakes, so we can move ahead instead.
And I move and I grin & I move and I grin. you keep smiling back at me
And I move and I sin, and you're letting me in - intermittently, yeah
And I move and I grin - you keep letting me in
This is a good way to spend today
This is a good way to spend tomorrow and yesterday she said
And it's all that I'll ever have, don't take it away
And it's all that I'll ever have....
(Repeat Chorus and grin)
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7. |
Black Dog
06:44
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A cough from the sick
Of high society's pick
Resonates through the window.
And you tell yourself
That he'll suffer in hell
But still you let him get to you.
"If only they could see
What this world means to me
Well I bet I'd be among the best."
And to hell with all the rest of those
Who fit neatly in
To this world made of sin
They can all fend for themselves.
Yeah, I know what you mean
The salt water, the steam
Oh, but if I can dream it, it's real.
While I sit and pine
O'er an old friend of mine
We don't know what we're getting into.
But who would be the one
To take the fire from
The only memory left of him?
A metal heart must get cold
But you're the best, as I've told
So I have one thing left to ask of you;
Find me someone with hatred deep enough
To bite down on the neck of love
Cause I cannot do it alone.
No brother don't call on me now
Cause I can't do it alone.
Yeah I know what you mean
The salt water, the steam
Oh, but if I can dream it, it's real.
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8. |
Skin On Fire
05:07
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Beginning anew, and devoid of stutters
I'm opening up the drapes, viewing vibrant colours
My skin feels like fire, has climbed inside
My me and you, us they and I
Who are they to you, and does it include me?
Those you refer to, as everyone but thee (you)
Your hair stands on end, when I pose this question
Are you afraid as I am, about your true intentions..
Your at the center of my world, You've been here long before
Speaking in riddles, gives me superiority
But often I lose the truth myself, truth myself, truth myself, truth myself
my friend.. my friend .. my friend.. my friend yeah
Music is the answer
It's expressive and always new..
Let it overwhelm me
I can let you in Let it overwhelm me
I can let you in
(Repeat first verse)
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