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| 4:35 | 
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I didn't know when I was lucky
Discontented feeling bad Filled with envy For possessions other people had I found my pride had always hurt me Fought the world to gain control Not realising I was sitting on a beach of gold Oh lord I'm a poor man With all the riches I can hold I'm a beggar And I'm sitting on a beach of gold The problems I encountered Gave me strength helped me sustain To know the pleasure First I had to cure the pain When I was searching for solutions I found the answer lay in me I'm a drifter But I'm drifting on a silver sea Oh lord I'm a poor man With all the riches I can hold I'm a beggar And I'm sitting on a beach of gold I didn't have courage My life was as dark as night When alone in the darkness I saw the brightest light Let the light shine down Are you out there now on empty Feel you've nothing left to give Sick of trying Have you lost the will to live? Don't be drowning in the shallows With the beach so near at hand Hear the voice say Stand up get up And join me on the gilded sand Come and join me on the beach With all the riches I can hold Cause I'm a beggar And I'm sitting on a beach of gold Oh lord I'm a poor man With all the riches I can hold I'm a beggar I'm sitting on a beach of gold My children my salvation The father to this man They're my teachers Playing on the golden sand With my family all around me I've all the riches I can hold I'm a beggar Sitting on a beach of gold Oh lord I'm a poor man With all the riches I can hold I'm a beggar Sitting on a beach of gold |
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| 2. |
| 4:42 |
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And she pours herself another cup of coffee
As she contemplates the stain across the wall and it's in between the cleaning and the washing That's when looking back's The hardest part of all And she always did her best to try and please him While he always did his best to make her cry And she got down on her knees to stop him leaving But he always knew one day he'd say goodbye Where are your friends Where are your children Is this your house Is this your home Does nothing ever last forever Does everybody sleep alone And he tears the business tags from his old suitcase As he packs away the pieces of his life They all love him but they always try to change him That's what happens when a girl becomes a wife And she pours herself another cup of coffee As the pictures leave a clean space on the wall and it's in between the leaving and the loving That's when looking back's The hardest part of all Where are your friends Where are your children Is this your house Is this your home Does nothing ever last forever Does everybody sleep alone Don't look back Don't give up Pour yourself another cup |
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| 3. |
| 3:29 |
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Just a minor indiscretion
No need to apologise I don't want this to become an obsession But I just can't believe my eyes Evidence in my posession Points a finger straight at you Every day I'm closer to a confession If only I can face the truth Every mistake that you make Drives the knife into my heart Twisting down deeper and deeper Still tearing me apart I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies You swear to god you're on the level And you've nothing more to hide Then I turn around and |
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| 4. |
| 6:20 |
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You can't forgive
And you won't forget We did something That we both regret mea culpa I held my breath while you Took your time To tell the world What's yours is mine mea culpa You don't need me You don't need anyone at all You've got what you desired You lit the fire And watched the rise and fall And in your eyes I could see my face A non believer In a state of grace mea culpa I see no reason for your complaint You got the sinner And not the saint mea culpa I can't say much I can't say anything at all You tell the story well Then you retire to watch the rise and fall You never know what's in your heart Until you look You never know what's in your heart Until you look Take a look Just take a look Just take a look Just take a look Ad libs to fade |
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| 5. |
| 3:37 |
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Looking back over my shoulder
I can see that look in your eye I never dreamed it could be over I never wanted to say goodbye Looking back over my shoulder With an aching deep in my heart I wish that we were starting over Oh instead of drifting so far apart Everybody told me you were leaving Funny I should be the last to know Baby please tell me that I'm dreaming I just never want to let you go Looking back over my shoulder I can see that look in your eye Turning my heart over and over I never wanted to say goodbye I don't mind everybody laughing But it's enough to make a grown man cry Cos I can feel you slipping through my fingers I don't even know the reason why Every day it's a losing battle Just to smile and hold my head up high Could it be that we belong together Baby won't you give me one more try One more try Looking back over my shoulder I can see that look in your eye I never dreamed it could be over I never wanted to say goodbye Looking back over my shoulder Oh with an aching feeling inside Cutting me up, deeper and deeper Fills me with a sadness that I can't hide Looking back over my shoulder I can see that look in your eye I never dreamed no no it could be over I never wanted to say goodbye Looking back over my shoulder I can see that look in your eye |
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| 6. |
| 3:42 |
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Last night I shook hands with the devil
In a dream that I can never lose He laughed when he saw me cryin' At the pictures on the evening news He said it's not really a dilemma You're just a little out of touch Don't think of the situation Cos it'll make you think too much Someone always hates someone Someone always hates someone Someone always sells a gun Cos someone always hates someone A child will be born tomorrow As open as an empty cup And we'll fill it with hope and sorrow The very things that messed us up We'll ask him to join the congregation A hindu moslem christian or jew Pretty soon he'll recognise his brothers But soon he'll know the enemy too Someone always hates someone Someone always hates someone Someone always buys a gun Cos someone always hates someone I died and I went to heaven In a dream I never had before A good friend who had gone before me Had kindly left my name at the door I looked on the face of the almighty Couldn't help myself I started to shout How come you made a mess of things How come you didn't work it out He said Someone always hates someone Someone always hates someone There's so much love for everyone But someone always hates someone |
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| 7. |
| 6:24 |
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It was an unbelievable night
She was an unremarkable girl You may not call it poetry But it changed my world It was an unforgettable dawn She was an indisputable fact Even if I could have I might not have it back It's an unexceptional day She's an unavoidable truth Uncompromised elation Suspended since my youth It's an unforgivable lie I have nothing in my defence There can be no forgiveness To caution this descent It wasn't in a dream A film or on TV This was really happening Happening to me Though I may protest Suggest I never knew The ghost comes back to haunt me The ghost of sex and you I held her hand outside the hotel Kissed her mouth in the back of the car Whether fact or fantasy I knew we'd gone too far I feel her breath on the back of my neck She's lying naked here on the floor Wrap the sheet around her Disappear beyond the door It wasn't in a dream A film or on TV This was really happening Happening to me Though I may protest Suggest I never knew The ghost comes back to haunt me The ghost of sex and you It was an unbelievable night She was an unremarkable girl You may not call it poetry But it changed my world The ghost of sex and you It was an unforgettable dawn She was an indisputable fact Even if I could have I might not have it back Sex and you It's an unexceptional day She's an unavoidable truth Uncompromised elation Suspended since my youth Sex and you It's an unforgivable lie I have nothing in my defence There can be no forgiveness To caution this descent The ghost of sex and you |
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| 8. |
| 5:38 |
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Just a minor indiscretion
No need to apologise I don't want this to become an obsession But I just can't believe my eyes Evidence in my possession Points a finger straight at you Every day I'm closer to a confession If only I can face the truth Every mistake that you make Drives the knife into my heart Twisting down deeper and deeper Still tearing me apart I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies You swear to god you're on the level And you've nothing more to hide Then I turn around and "speak of the devil" You're both together side by side Every mistake that you make Seems more careless than the last I'm just amazed that you try to cover The tracks of your past I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies Have you got me in your pocket? Am I eating from your hand I think we need to shed some light on the matter So I can really understand Darlin' there's no perfect crime That's left without a trace And right now I'm judge and I'm jury Till I can rest my case I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies |
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| 3:58 |
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I'd like my life to be simple
I need my life to be straight I'd like to see my existence Going great going great Going great great great I want my life to be easy Need my life to be pure I want to see my success is Guaranteed that's for sure That's for sure sure sure Give me the simple life The plain and the simple life You've got to give me the simple life The plain and the simple life Don't want my life to be anxious Don't need my life to be tense I'd like to see my existence Making sense making sense Making sense sense sense I'd like my life to be simple Like my life to be plain So don't you say that I ever Live in vain live in vain That's insane sane sane Give me the simple life The plain and the simple life Give me the simple life The plain and the simple Give me the simple life The plain and the simple life Give me the simple life The plain and the simple |
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| 4:18 |
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There's a silver moon
Shining in the room Where we sleep like spoons together Lying in the dark I can feel your heart And it beats with mine forever Coming from the street You can feel the heat As the city sleeps In the silence And the perfect light Of a summers night Is broken by the violence Then a woman screams And a baby cries And someone's dream is shattered When the nightmares dance Before your eyes They can leave you bruised and battered Then I realise That I'm by your side And I'm listening to you breathing And in this room With the silver moon You're something to believe in There's a boy out there With a crazy stare And a gun to make a living In a sea of hate Where you can't think straight In a world that's unforgiving And it's all gone bad In a world gone mad And you're scared that you'll discover That the one you love And the one you trust Is like all the others Then I realise That I'm by your side And I'm listening to you breathing And in this room With the silver moon You're something to believe in You're something to believe in And in this room With the silver moon You're something to believe in |
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| 11. |
| 5:39 |
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There may be some things about me
Things you don't want to hear For the rumours that precede me May be very true I fear They tell you I will deceive you I don't know how to care Though my intentions might be good There's another darker look beware When you walk through the door Hang on to your senses At best you must assume It's a house of many rooms Some rooms are filled with pleasure Laughter and love and light All the things you never see I keep under lock and key at night When you walk through the door Hang on to your senses At best you must assume It's a house of many rooms If you love me in the light Love me in the shadow I'm afraid you must assume It's a house of many rooms A house of many rooms It's a house that's so unstable There are those who recommend If they'd the strength and they were able It ought to be condemned I don't agree but I will warn you At best you must assume I live in a house of many rooms Here I'm in the library Trying to understand What empowers this behaviour Degenerates the man The same apartment later With the bottle half consumed I see a house of many rooms In the parlour I'm your father Who could ask for more The bedroom compromise me With your best friend from next door In the kitchen being honest The lounge a lying tongue Locked in the bathroom Pretending to be young The chapel finds me kneeling Praying for my soul The painting in the attic Can't prevent me growing old Help me live forever Silent as a tomb I live in a house of many rooms Join me at the dining table Join me at the feast Join me in the stable I'm laying with the beast You're walking in the garden Oblivious who'd know? I'm in the cellar ready to explode |
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| 3:11 | 
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| 4:30 |
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