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| 4:22 | 
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Artist: Elbow Album: Leaders Of The Free World Year: 2005 Title: Station Approach I haven't been myself of late I haven't slept for several days But coming home I feel like I Designed these buildings I walk by You know you drive me up the wall I need to see your face that's all You little sod, I love your eyes Be everything to me tonight Be everything to me tonight I never know what I want but I know when I'm low that I I need to be in the town where they know what I'm like and don't mind (repeat) The streets are full of Goths and Greeks I haven't seen my mum for weeks But coming home I feel like I Designed these buildings I walk by You know you drive me up the wall I need to see your face that's all You little sod, I love your eyes Be everything to me tonight Be everything to me tonight Be everything to me tonight |
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| 2. |
| 3:07 | 
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| 3. |
| 5:22 |
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They’re pacing Piccadilly in packs again
And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain The suns had enough and the simmering sky Has the heave and the hue of a woman on fire Shop shutters rattle down and I’m cutting the crowd All scented and descending from the satellite towns The neon is graffiti singing make a new start So I look for a plot where I can bury my broken heart No I know I wont forget you but I’ll forget myself if the city will forgive me The man on the door has a head like Mars Like a baby born to the doors of the bars And surrounded by steam with his folded arms He’s got that urban genie thing going on He’s so mercifully free of the pressures of grace Saint Peter in satin he’s like Buddha with mace He’s so mercifully free of the pressures of grace Saint Peter in satin he’s like Buddha with mace No I know I won’t forget you but I’ll forget myself if the city will forgive me No I know I won’t forget you but I’ll forget myself if the city will forgive me Do you move through the room with a glass in your hand Thinking too hard about the way you stand Are you watching them pair off and drinking them long Are you falling in love every second song ..x2 No I know I won’t forget you but I’ll forget myself if the city will forgive me No I know I won’t forget you but I’ll forget myself and the city will forgive me |
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| 4. |
| 5:03 |
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I can't undo the day
It won't go, won't go under the rug I pull all the stops And you, you pull the plug These are soberer days And I know it can't be But I'll miss you the way You miss the sea [Incomprehensible] (Don't look down) Keep staring like you've never seen the stars (Don't look down) If you need me to remind you who you are (Don't look down) Little blossom there's the shiniest soul Just behind those eyes No longer my affair Well I can't go there just yet So I've come to love and trust Those friends that are holding your net Falling off used to mean Maybe grazing a knee And I'll miss you the way You miss the sea [Incomprehensible] (Don't look down) Keep staring like you've never seen the stars (Don't look down) If you need me to remind you who you are (Don't look down) Little blossom there's the shiniest soul Just behind those eyes While I won't second guess What you're thinking of me I will miss you the way You miss the sea [Incomprehensible] (Don't look down) Keep staring like you've never seen the stars (Don't look down) If you need me to remind you who you are (Don't look down) Little blossom there's the shiniest soul Just behind those eyes |
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| 5. |
| 6:11 |
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I’m sick of working for a living
I’m just ticking off the days till I die I miss you Louise And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth Periscope up I’ve been looking for a ladder I need to see THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF And remind him what was passed onto me Your mum don’t sleep! The friends you keep! I didn’t raise a thief! But the LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD Are just little boys throwing stones And its easy to ignore ‘til they’re knocking on the door of your homes My thinking isn’t driven But the music always gives me a lift I’m so easy to please But I think we dropped the baton like the 60’s didn’t happen. Oh no. Periscope up Should be looking for a ladder I need to se THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF And remind him what was passed onto me Your mum don’t sleep! The friends you keep! I didn’t raise a thief! Passing the gun from Father to FECKLESS son We’re climbing a landslide where only the good die young |
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| 6. |
| 4:44 |
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A sky as black as regret
Is rolling aside for the blue Impossible face to forget These feelings belong in a zoo She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun So lost in the sound of her voice I don't even hear the words When she says, come on get out the past will find us out Come on get out please and don't breathe a word She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun But all this an imagined affair While sitting in a bar spilling in a bar I drink until the doorman is a Christmas tree And my speech is just a gas leak She brings the morning She, she brings the morning sun |
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| 7. |
| 4:01 |
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Shifting my weight now from foot to foot
What did she see in this man I'm not superstitious but if I can get This ball in the basket, then he'll wake up dead Your sweet reassurances don't' change the fact That he's better looking than me Yet he'd look ideal 'neath the wheels of a car Oh Mexican standoff I wish I was hard Your sweet reassurances don't' change the fact That he's better looking than me Yet he'd look ideal 'neath the wheels of a car |
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| 8. |
| 4:14 |
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All my saints have taken bribes
Singing going going gone All the angels taken dives Leaving you the only one If I lose a sequin here and there More salt than pepper in my hair Can I rely on you when all the songs are through To be for me the everthere, everthere? Slide into another book Now and then, laugh out loud Throw that very dirty look which says, 'Okay' Stop staring at me now If I lose a sequence here and there Less derring do than quiet care Can I rely on you for a good talking to To be for me the everthere, everthere? If I lose a sequin here and there And take my time on every stair Can I rely on you when this whole thing is through To be for me the everthere, everthere? |
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| 9. |
| 5:33 |
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Well, give that girl my very best
Though it never made the grade If it seems that it's just not enough to love Then love lie down And would you tell her Not to talk as if I died Though a tiny part just did And would you tell her I'm from a long line of survivors And I'll be swinging with the kids Keep your sympathy Don't need the healing to start You've gone Gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart In the corner of the room In the room we used to love Of the love we should say this There were switches never flicked Long away and far apart That's how forest fires start Start again it felt like this Fresh and simple as a kiss I bounce these feelings off the moon The echoes don't come back Keep your sympathy Don't need the healing to start You've gone Gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart Of the love we should say this There were, there were switches never flicked Keep your sympathy Don't need the healing to start You've gone Gone and made a beautiful hole in my heart Keep your sympathy Don't need the healing to start You've gone |
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| 10. |
| 5:05 |
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And if it rains all day
Call on you I'll call on you Like I used to Slide down beside and wrap you in stories Tailored entirely for you I'll remind you We exchanged a vow I love you I always will A call girl with yesterday eyes Was our witness and priest Stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir Your vow was your smile As we move down the aisle Of the last bus home And this is where I go Just when it rains Blinking and stoned Rain in your hair You only smoke ‘cause it's something to share Singing bring on the night To have and to hold The sodium light turning silver to gold Spitfire thin and strung like a violin I was Yours was the face with a grace From a different age You were the sun in my Sunday morning You were the sun in my Sunday morning Telling me never to go So I'll live on the smile And move down the isle Of the last bus home And if you're running late This is where I'll go |
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| 11. |
| 1:48 |
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I leaned on you today
I regularly hurt but never say I nearly wore the window through Where was air sea rescue? The cavalry with tea and sympathy You were there Puncture repair I leaned on you today I regularly hurt but never say You patched me up and sent me on my way |
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