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| 1. |
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The whole town nearly died
When rocks flew from the sky The stray dogs whined and howled At dark foreboding clouds The mayor screamed and fled The priest hid under his bed Uprooted trees did spin To the sound of a merciless wind Will you love me when I'm old? I'm still hoping I can get that far No one escaped the whirlwind's hold Except the jailer and his pack of cards And I sit outside watching falling stars Playing D minor chords on a Spanish guitar Well clothes blew through the streets And so did cinema seats Their souls could not be saved I dug a thousand graves Will you love me when I'm old? I'm still hoping I can get that far No one escaped the whirlwind's hold Except the jailer and his pack of cards And I sit outside watching falling stars Playing D minor chords on a Spanish guitar |
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| 2. |
| 3:04 |
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Got a visit from the dead dog
He slept at the end of my bed last night He could tell I was fading And somehow fighting against the light And everyday when I open my eyes I see unwanted funerals Maybe I'll be buried alive But I've never seen you so beautiful Oh, I'm staying in today And watch the others play Oh, wash my sins away Like all good children, I mean what I say I guess God has the last laugh From up on high he lets us kill And his people die for their faith And we call it triumph of the will All the theories in my own head Fragment and bump into themselves I'll run instead of taking a walk Instead of sixes I see twelves Oh, I'm staying in today And watch the others play Oh, wash my sins away Like all good children, I mean what I say Run where you've never been before Lest the dead dog chases you home Run where you've never been before Lest the dead dog chases you home Oh, I'm staying in today And watch the others play Oh, wash my sins away Like all good children, I mean what I say Run where you've never been before Lest the dead dog chases you home Run where you've never been before Lest the dead dog chases you home |
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| 3. |
| 4:29 |
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You only call me when you're drunk
Deplorable old friend, somewhere in the East end I guess you have me on speed-dial For your eyesight is too blurred, to text me any words I've got no bone to pick with you Don't be a mournful dog, I just want it to stop As dreamers we'd scream all the songs That we'd known all our lives off the roofs of the city bankers Break in the windows, burn all the documents Rich daddy's boys bunch of... You only call me when you're drunk Cursing down the phone, you can't stand being alone I picture you asleep on a bench Half frozen in the snow, someone I used to know Give all your sadness a last embrace Turn up sober at my place, we'll talk about it face to face As dreamers we'd scream all the songs That we'd known all our lives off the roofs of the city bankers Break in the windows, burn all the documents Rich daddy's boys... Rich daddy's boys! You only call me when you're drunk... |
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| 4. |
| 3:30 |
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Found his memoirs in an old junk shop
Dated from 1916 Sentenced to death while still shell-shocked For deserting the infantry Blindfold on and one step back No need to get upset Don't be hasty with the trigger boys Let him smoke his one last cigarette Down in the hospital on the 9th ward An old man scratches his head Reaching into his bedside drawer He waits 'til the nurse is downstairs 'I'm nearly cured I've been so brave And there's no need to fret I'm gonna really quit this time Let me smoke my one last cigarette' Straight as a corkscrew As bright as the night Blind to the horror Blind to the very horror of this sorry life The awkward girl with a broken heart Smashes her mirror until it fractures Leaning down she picks up a shard And ponders to question her actions A selfish act, she's full aware But the best one she's done yet With tired eyes and steady hands She'll smoke her one last cigarette Straight as a corkscrew As bright as the night Blind to the horror Blind to the very horror of this sorry life |
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| 5. |
| 3:23 |
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Hanging off the bridge by a fingernail
Trapped in the harbour when the ship set sail Boy you're one card short of the pack Begging for your baby to take you back Stubbed a cigarette out on his hand Scrawls her name across the sand But it disappears like King Canute The tide didn't like his attitude Always shadowboxing Face up and throw your gloves in Lose your imaginary friends Always good for nothing She can't ever love him No man is ever innocent Bouncing off the walls with no wish to land Erase your fingerprints and your retina scan 'Cause there's no point in the life that he should lead Chain his leg to a piano and sink through the weeds Gone are all the dreams that last forever He towed the line when never meant never They had something better than the cynical beast Weren't sucked in by the popular disease Always shadowboxing Face up and throw your gloves in Lose your imaginary friends Always good for nothing She can't ever love him No man is ever innocent |
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| 6. |
| 4:40 |
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Be my late night partner
Oh pull me from the crowd With all of your old records We'll drink 'til we pass out Where are the moments that I feel so alive? I've lost everyone I need But music slays my heart and soul Every hour, day and week I'm on the edge of something beautiful I'm on the edge of something beautiful Sing with me 'til the end of time I love the way you read my mind Laughter makes you live so much longer Don't know if the pain makes you stronger Give me something that burns inside To make me shiver, to shut my eyes Late night partner don't bother sleeping Tell me all the secrets you're keeping I'm yearning for the good times So why don't you get up Do you feel like a teenage runaway Whose eyes are never shut? Where are the moments that I feel so alive? I've lost everyone I need But music keeps on saving me Every hour, day and week I'm on the edge of something beautiful I'm on the edge of something beautiful Sing with me 'til the end of time I love the way you read my mind Laughter makes you feel so much longer Don't know if the pain you stronger Give me something that burns inside To make me shiver, to shut my eyes Late night partner don't bother sleeping Tell you all the secrets I'm keeping Late night partner |
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| 7. |
| 4:21 |
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To the Marxists and the police
To the junkies in the streets To the gangsters in our towns And the others underground To the prostitutes and whores To the self-admiring bores To the drinkers in a drought And the writers steeped in doubt To the bailiffs and their bills To the child whose thoughts could kill To the veteran who fights All his demons late at night To the bloody and unbowed Fanatics and their vows All the taxes we don't want To the idiot savant There's a revolution in my heart To the indier than thou To the stadiums of crowds To the vultures circling near A new kingdom of fear To the skinheads and the Sikhs To the rich and the elite To the serious dilettante To the idiot savant There's a revolution in my heart |
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| 8. |
| 3:56 |
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If the world did end
Would you be my apocalyptic friend? Until tomorrow then If the skies did fall Would you pick up my last call? Until tomorrow then Navigate to the moon Flee the planet this afternoon Until tomorrow then With the waves rising high We'd be the first most likely to die Until tomorrow then I guess, it's you I miss 'Cause I just stare at the ceiling My stomach knots and twists You've created this feeling And I may be out of style But do you know what true love is? I'll make this all so worthwhile So let's rise above this Let's rise above this So I dug a tunnel underground And waited patiently to be found Until tomorrow then All my ideas make them laugh But in the end you will see they're not so daft And we'll have sorrow to spend I guess, it's you I miss 'Cause I just stare at the ceiling My stomach knots and twists You've created this feeling And I may be out of style But do you know what true love is? I'll make this all so worthwhile So let's rise above this Let's rise above this Let's rise above this |
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| 9. |
| 2:47 |
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Scatterbraine, they smoked you out of the foxhole
Scatterbraine, you act like a priest in a brothel Naive charm, the idiot boy from the farm Father tried to save you with prayers and psalms Grace and Lydia and Dorothy The village idiot sent them to sleep Policeman O'Riley cannot believe That someone so dumb could be still On the run from the law Scatterbraine, the strength of an ox on cocaine Scatterbraine, are mother and father to blame? He's not insane, just a boy who goes searching for treasure Sunshine, rain, he'll find it whatever the weather Grace and Lydia and Dorothy The village idiot sent them to sleep Policeman O'Riley cannot believe That someone so dumb could be still On the run from the law This ain't no fairytale for you to cheer Some thing's ugly in the atmosphere This ain't no fairytale for you to cheer Some thing's ugly in the atmosphere And his name is Scatterbraine And his name is Scatterbraine |
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| 10. |
| 4:18 |
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I'm the hunter, who's killed by his dog.
I'm the statue, burned down into lead. I'm the problem, you don't want to solve. I'm the lover, who dies in his bed. So rain on the pretty ones. Your useless lifes don't speak to us. Rain on the pretty ones. You leave no footprints in the dust. Adventurous, you used to be. But now you seem so dead to me. I'm the doctor, with a needle in his arm. I'm the cartoon, that makes you feel sad. I'm the secret, that everyone has. I'm the cancer, that never turns black. So rain on the pretty ones. Your useless lifes don't speak to us. Rain on the pretty ones. You leave no footprints in the dust. Adventurous, you used to be. But now you seem so dead to me. I'm the actor, who's scared to perform. I'm the sunshine, that hides in the clouds. I'm the father, that couldn't be found. I'm the cuckoo, that never flew south. I'm the Christian, that cannot forgive. I'm the dreamer, who jumps off the bridge. I'm the sinner, who hates how he lives. I'm the liar, who gets what he gives. |
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| 11. |
| 3:19 |
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Oh, to have a pristine claw
These hands are old and sore The knuckles they ache, the bones they do break Oh, to have a youthful frown Bleed on the surgeon's gown Put plastic in me, I'm perfect you see Don't look older than 43 But really I'm 70 Now run young man and get my pills from the pharmacy Rearrange my face for a hefty fee I can't change the inside of me I'm a vampire of the 21st century Oh, to have a pristine claw Marry the doctor when I'm poor A face I can love, a cut that's above If, the aliens landed here They'd see why we're so weird We're destined to die, we're destined to die Don't look older than 43 But really I'm 70 Now run young man and get my pills from the pharmacy Rearrange my face for a hefty fee I can't change the inside of me I'm a vampire of the 21st century That's me, that's me, that's me, that's me... |
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| 12. |
| 3:35 |
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Once I was a shadow of a man
Most dark nights my head was in it's hands I begged God to cure my aching limbs But he did nothing, he gave me no advice Didn't this God abandon Jesus Christ? Oh if it comes to you, I'll die for your sins I am the drug that you've been waiting for An urgent craving you cannot ignore I am the fix that you come back for more I am the drug Bring out the dead, I'll show them how to live Free their souls and watch them slowly drift Like feathers of a wounded bird I was wrapped up in a wooden box Ball and chain, head out on the block Oh, I wonder if you could say the final word? I am the drug that you've been waiting for An urgent craving you cannot ignore I am the fix that you come back for more I am the drug This is not a flash, a figment of your imagination I am much more then a first degree of separation Without me all the lines of reality will blur And the wall will breathe, close in like some forgotten curse I am the drug that you've been waiting for An urgent craving you cannot ignore I am the fix that you come back for more I am the drug |
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| 13. |
| 5:33 |
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Fingertips are all I have
Have you heard the sea? The water's edge is all I have Have you heard it breathe? An endless sigh I cannot hear Here I cease to run Arid mouth so hard to speak Speak? Cat got my tongue Describe to me how I look Look what I've become Describe to me how I look I'm not scared of dying I'm not scared of death I'll keep a smile 'til my last breath I've loved 'til I've lost I've lived how I felt One day I will find peace within myself Boyish grin, it bears me well Where can I begin? Don't forget I'm still around How the wind feels free Behind the smile I fade away The wayward days are gone I love this power I love this power I love this power that's crushed so easily I love this power I'm not scared of dying I'm not scared of death I'll keep a smile 'til my last breath I've loved 'til I've lost I've lived how I felt One day I will find peace within myself I want to take all the sadness Of the world from your shoulders I want to take all the sadness Of the world from your shoulders I want to take all the sadness |
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| 14. |
| 3:53 |
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I wish you the most success
More than I could ever have I wish you the most happiness And good friends are hard to find Don't make the mistakes I've made And if you do don't be afraid The greatest lie that there is Is to believe what they all say Social loners and deadbeat hacks I open my arms for you Cynical romantics want their money back And you know much more Than I ever knew Even though I pretended to Churchgoers wait for the bells to chime And I'm in a non-defeatist state of mind I know you'll shine in the limelight God knows you've done it before All the girls who dig all your mental scars And the boys who pat you on the back You and I may take a different path But I'll still be cheering you on You know much more Than I ever knew Even though I pretended to I wish you the most success More than I could ever have I wish you the most happiness And good friends are hard to find Good friends are hard to find |
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| 3:20 | 
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