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| 1. |
| 4:51 | 
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Well what starts out as a warm breeze
Turns into something more Like the lightning that burns down houses Or the wind that blows down doors Oh I see it in the distance It moves much faster than I think Yes this storm will wreak much havoc Bring my sanity to the brink Once I was so young and careless Never strayed much from the path Now I find myself in trouble Never knowing when to laugh And as my eyes sink into my skull I am wired to the max Gonna pull myself together You can see I'm coming back If the storm is coming, the storm is coming The storm is coming It's gonna make a beautiful sound I hope it turns your life upside down Now the wooden gate is creaking And the windows loudly rattle Yet I still venture towards it Like I'm marching into battle Oh I could heed your good advice And stay in comfort back at home But there it is in it's splendor And it's chilling me down to the bone Once I was so young and careless Never strayed much from the path Now I find myself in trouble Never knowing when to laugh And as my eyes sink into my skull I am wired to the max Gonna pull myself together I'm gonna pull myself together And if the storm is coming, the storm is coming The storm is coming It's gonna make a beautiful sound I hope it turns your life upside down If the storm is coming, the storm is coming The storm is coming It's gonna make a beautiful sound I hope it turns your life upside down Down, down, down I hope it turns your life upside down |
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| 2. |
| 3:15 |
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I was born the year punk broke
Days before the king was dead It was the year of the snake I was a red-faced child Who stumbled where he tread Was kept in orderly file My parents name me Ed I tried my hardest to smile And like my daddy said I've tried to be myself Sometimes daydreaming for hours Wishing for a dangerous life Cut the leash some slack Run into the morning light Race the trains by the track Until my mouth feels dry But can you count on me? I might let you down In a world that is so sensational No you can count on me I'm living for the now Up against the older generation's wall Born in the '70s Born in the '70s After a length of time You're this parody Just like the record's stuck Always repeating the past That never liked you before You had no reason to last We're in a silent war A telepathic blast And like my daddy said These are exciting times The future grabs my throat And let's me know it's alright If I believe in love Then I believe in hate too I'll taste the darker stuff To find some lasting truth |
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| 3. |
| 4:49 |
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I feel so far away from love
'Cus I can never get enough Like the kid with the cookie jar And if I came back from the grave for a while Would you, could you make a dead man smile I´ll wear you on my arm like a brand new scar My oh my oh my I've had a few My oh my oh my this one's for you My heart is on it's sleeve I need you to believe that the dark times will fade So crack the shell of the hardest heart Slip inside when they're caught off guard Kill all the urgent lies that stain their blood And if you think that you know everything Don't give me this chance to sing I'm not a fool, a fool to lighten up My oh my oh my I've had a few My oh my oh my this one's for you My heart is on it's sleeve I need you to believe that the dark times will fade And I can't stop staring at you And your expression looks a little confused This little story will end so well |
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| 4. |
| 3:30 |
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Deliciously
I drink up all your tears On a piano out of tune I sit and persevere Deliriously I eat up all your words And jumble them around 'Til they become absurd Remember how it was They said it wouldn't last You proved them wrong Took on everyone Ferociously We fumble in the dark Two lovers acting like strangs Society won't cage Remember how it was They said it wouldn't work You proved them wrong Took on everyone Like a clock that can't keep time Bad thoughts to hide Or a poem that can't ever rhyme Now strangers sing, this song for her mao mao mao (ect) Oh remember how it was They said it wouldn't last You proved them wrong Took on everyone Remember how it was Remember how it was |
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| 5. |
| 4:19 |
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Let love not weigh me down
Let the cursed air be clean When you`ve lost faith in the human race Let love not weigh me down Let love not cause me pain Let it all seem like a dream And I won`t regret wnat I can`t forget Let love not cause you pain So let your beaut blid my vision Let it move me `til I die And the seeds of despair won`t be fruits that I bear Let the beauty blind my vision So shed all the tears that you want Run from the places you haunt If you think you`re lost Or just double-crossed Don`t try to make sense of it all Let the music and words take you back To the times when your heart wasn`t cracked We won`t be suffering with drugs and bad medicine We`ll drink `til the curtain calls Let love not weigh me down Let its weakness be my guide And all this intesity makes perfect sense to me Let love not weigh you down So shed all the tears that you want Run from the places you haunt If you think you`re lost Or just double-crossed Don`t try to make sense of it all Let the music and words take you back To the times when your heart wasn`t cracked We won`t be suffering with drugs and bad medicine We`ll drink `til the curtain calls |
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| 6. |
| 2:32 |
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She's moving like a forest fire
Leaving no part unscathed Too young to be as jaded as I am But old enough to feel the strain I hope that I can hold on to The beauty that I'll never match The never-ending open wound That started from a simple scratch I want to save us from being saved Before we get too old and waste away Like some lovers destined to die young And so through all the loss we've seen Of friends who sit and think too much Too fragile for the cold outside Too proud to say what's on their minds This is for the broken fools Whose flames are gone before their time And if you see me trip and fall Save me from my swift decline I want to sink beneath a drunken sea Look in your eyes when you take the breath from me There's always something to live for |
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| 7. |
| 4:49 |
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On a summer night I took a walk
Out in the fields where the grass snakes hide Six years old, tall as a chair Found the trapdoor hidden from sight Fell into the blackness, seemed like hours I hit the ground on a sea of skulls There was no treasure, just stolen souls Taken years ago, down this endless hole Man must kill to live or quench his thirst Let's go back to the source where it first came from Looked death in the eyes, falling stalactites Then burnt by a light as angels flew by Who pulled me back up to the moonlit sky Covered in dust, it was hard not to cry Man must kill to live or quench his thirst Let's go back to the source where it first came from Falling through trapdoors wherever I go Kicking and screaming 'cause nobody knows There's always a trapdoor wherever you step Keep your eyes open, you deserve what you get Keep your eyes open, you deserve what you get Keep your eyes open, you deserve what you get |
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| 8. |
| 3:26 |
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The music box is all that's left in the empty house
Must've left it when they moved out In a hurry to flee the town Armoured tanks broke through all of the soldier's ranks You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks From bodies laid out on the ground There's a song your father had sung When you were just knee high Now a soldier plays the same tune From the toy you left behind Something to remind you Something to remind you Burnt to black there's a face you don't recognize Just a doll with hollow eyes And a feeling you can't describe In factories, toys are made by the companies Who create our killing machines So the planet can rest at ease There's a story you had to hear When you couldn't sleep at all Now the pages are burning In some sad unholy war Something to remind you Something to remind you Something to remind you The ones you left behind you Something to remind you Something to remind you Something to remind you The ones you left behind you The music box plays a song that I used to love But now I can't remember what it was For my memory has faded |
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| 9. |
| 2:53 |
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In an empty cinema (loneliness)
When your old friends drift apart (loneliness) Wandering round the house in the dark (lonelines) Faded glory of a broken star (loneliness) Loneliness Loneliness What would I do without you? Stays around, won't let you be (loneliness) Corners me in dead-end streets (loneliness) To bring unwanted memories (loneliness) That find their way into my blood stream (loneliness) Loneliness Loneliness What would I do without you? Loneliness Loneliness Is this all you have to give me? Your love is a place for a lonely man With too much in his head The liars and thieves who cramp your style Won't be there for your last breath Be there for your last breath Loneliness! Loneliness! What would I do without you? Loneliness! Loneliness! Is this all you have to give me? To give me? To give me? |
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| 10. |
| 4:39 |
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It's clear to us this love affair
Has self combusted everywhere And I don't feel so debonair My piano collects dust A funeral with no mourners I wish that I'd turned corners To see the signs that warn us But I didn't make a fuss Well, my life keeps on spinnin' It's this drunken procession I can't learn my lessons These plates that I'm spinnin' Soon they'll smash on the ground Make a loud crashing sound And I am still an open book And you can have a secret look Inside Inside As children make their way to class I sit and raise another glass 'Cause you don't dwell much on the past When it keeps haunting you Oh, the marching band stomps down the block And makes the babies' cradles rock And my keys, they don't turn the lock Perhaps I don't want them to Well, my life keeps on spinnin' It's this drunken procession I can't learn my lessons These plates that I'm spinnin' Soon they'll smash on the ground Make a loud crashing sound And I am still an open book And you can have a secret look Inside Inside Well, my life keeps on spinnin' It's this drunken procession I can't learn my lessons These plates that I'm spinnin' Soon they'll smash on the ground Make a loud crashing sound And I am still an open book And you can have a secret look And I am still an open book And you can have a secret look And I am still an open book And you can have a secret look Inside Inside |
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| 11. |
| 4:31 |
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Kids you're our only hope
Save us now we need an antidote Kids get out on the street Through this smoke rise through the city heat You loved me like a friend But now I can't pretend The time we used to spend Was wasted on you Police sirens make me deaf As I run trying to catch my breath What's the world afraid of now We are taught to clap our hands and bow Rise from the ashes with a song to remember Kids you're our only hope... |
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| 12. |
| 3:17 |
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For days I've searched for the words
So I don't make a mess of this I'll trade my eyes for a fleeting wish I woke at 7am The cold air was not becoming This tune I started humming And you lay there so still With dark eyes shut and whiskey breath You hadn't taken off your black dress The curtain fell from it's rail I shut the window so it wouldn't shatter But it was nothing it didn't matter To me our lives are barely built to last How did you creep up on me so damn fast my dear? I sat in the kitchen and thought I've had a few knocks here and there Was mostly my fault so I don't care You said I have a bad side It comes when all the clocks have stopped I feel my heart begin to drop To me our lives are fast approaching death So lets go out in my suit and your black dress |
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| 4:22 | 
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