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Cutting through the darkest night with my two head lights
Trying to keep it clear, but I'm losing it here, to the twilight There's a dead end to my left, there's a burning bush to my right You aren't in sight, you aren't in sight Do you want me Like I want you Or am I standing still Beneath the darkened sky Or am I standing still With the scenery flying by Or am I standing still Out of the corner of my eye Was that you Passing my by Mother's on the stoop, boys in souped up coupes, on this hot summer night Between fight and flight is the blind man's sight and a choice that's right I roll the window down, feel like I'm, I'm gonna drown, in this strange town Feel broken down, I feel broken down ,I feel broken down Do you need me Like I need you Or am I standing still Beneath the darkened sky Or am I standing still With the scenery flying by Or am I standing still Out of the corner of my eye Was that you Passing my by A sweet sorrow is the call tomorrow A sweet sorrow is the call tomorrow Do you love me Like I love you Or am I standing still Beneath the darkened sky Or am I standing still With the scenery flying by Or am I standing still Out of the corner of my eye Was that you Passing me by Are you passing me by Passing me by Do you want me Passing me by Do you need me Like I need you too And do you want me Like I want you (Passing me by) Are you passing me by Or am I standing still |
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| 2. |
| 3:21 |
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They say that Jesus loves you
What about me And they say that money breaks you Well, I still wanna see They say that you're only half-alive Till you give extra whitening a try Well I wanna see I wanna see What can you do for me Showin' ta-ta's on the tv is ok I wanna be ok too And having my picture in a magazine makes me special How special are you They say if i don't hate Even I can buy a space in heaven before i die Well I wanna see I wanna see What can you do for me I want someone else to pack my lunch Gonna get someone else to pull the punch Oh, pay a psychic for romance Gonna pay a priest for a will-you-give-me-a-second-chance? They say abortion will send you straight to a fiery hell That is if the fanatics don't beat Satan to the kill It's not what i can do for anybody It's what their body can do for me So I wanna see I wanna see What can you do for me They say that Jesus loves you But what about me |
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| 3. |
| 4:09 |
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Mary heard boys talking in voices low
Said she weren't no spring chicken Like she didn't already know So she called up Jack from a few years back She turned him down once in his one room shack She said now baby You don't look that bad *Cuz everybody needs someone sometime Everybody needs someone can't you see Everybody needs someone sometime Spivy Leaks was a drip of a man He looked like a potato shoved into jeans He recollects it wasn't that long ago That he could walk by Make the young girls scream But he thought he'd just let it all slide Let it all pass Cuz he thought love was best on the run He said now baby it don't seem that fun *Repeat Hey there honeybee Will you give me...sugar And if you shake real cute, I might give you some sugar I was doin' alright on my own Now I might just take you home sugar Sister Mary used to be a nun She thought that she'd retire and have her some fun Mr. Joe of the Philadelphia Joes Well he walked in the post office one night (this is the only line I'm not sure of) He said hey sweetheart you know you look all right I said **Everybody needs someone sometime Everybody needs someone can't you see Everybody needs someone sometime **Repeat **Repeat |
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| 4:04 |
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I will meet you in some place
Where the light lends itself to soft repose I will let you undress me But I warn you I have thorns like any rose And you could hurt me with your bare hands you could hurt me using the sharp end of what you say i'm lost to you now & there's no amount of reason to save me *So break me Take me Just let me feel your arms again break me take me just let me feel your love again Feels like being underwater Now that I've let go & lost control Water kisses fill my mouth Water fills my soul *Repeat Kiss me once or maybe twice Oh, it never felt so nice *Repeat Just let me feel your love again |
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| 2:56 |
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Met her on a Friday afternoon
In a neon day glow pink chiffon satin room She never looks back She always looked good dressed in black O-oooo-OO-ooo You're so special O-oooo-OO-ooo Who gives a do you want to play She lived beneath the disco discount store With pictures of Randy Newman scattered all across the floor I said this place looks sort of desolate She said are you only half-alive or have you always been this inarticulate *O-oooo-OO-ooo You're so special O-oooo-OO-ooo Who gives a O-oooo-OO-ooo Do you want to play Do you want to play aOHaOH Don't think too hard Don't think too fast Don't ever give away What you can't take back Don't try and understand what you can't comprehend Underneath the disco neon daylight chandelier Disco deity or the chivalry I said.Take it back Take it back Take it back *Repeat |
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| 4:46 |
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It's leavin' time again
I'm headed out with all my friends It's a roll of the dice I've never thought twice about the way I've been spending my time Trying my guts out for every dime Working in an office building tall Don't know who's next to you at all But being out here The blood, the guts, the beer is a test Only time will tell Brings you close, man Closer than hell *We're leaving, we're leaving again Can't recall where all we've been Guess we'll just go Go till we're too old Or we run out of road The other day I talked to Lou He quit back in '92 Says he misses it bad Those were the best times we ever had He said, "Give it hell till the end 'Cause once you quit you can't get it back again" *Repeat Expensive cabs and shitty food Washed down with cancelled flights Missed wake-up calls Missed holidays You miss your boy and wife All the late night drives that cause the dawn to strike you like a knife Hey man, this is a beautiful life *Repeat |
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| 4:58 |
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Mirror mirror
Do you like what you see? I'll dance for you And you'll dance for me Who says a woman cnannot serve? It would be my pleasure Who says it is not my destiny To let you control me *Underneath the disco light Everybody's feeling alright Get on your hands and knees And praise the new deity Serve the ego, serve the ego Two ships sailing on a neon sea Eat the flesh, split out the seeds Feathered hair and lame heels What turns me on is so surreal *repeat Tutt tutt To discover Oh no Yesterday's lover *repeat |
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| 8. |
| 4:17 |
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Love be still
Love be sweet Don't you dare Change a thing I want to photograph you with my mind To feel how I feel now all the time *Say that you'll stay Forever this way Forever and forever That we'll never have to change Don't move Don't breathe Don't change Don't leave And promise me Say you'll stay We'll stay This way I get afraid Don't thinkg ahead Let's just stay This way in bed Feels so good inside your arms Home is everywhere that you are *repeat Don't move Don't breathe Don't change Don't leave promise me We'll always be This kind, this sweet This good to me Promise me We'll always be *repeat |
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| 4:10 |
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Went walking underneath the shadows
Where dark and suede secrets lay When night's knife falls gently down Hearts helplessly fall to the ground Underneath a velvet sky Only words can lie *I wanna tell you everything I wanna make your toes curl You'll be my only boy And I'll be your only girl There's not much I can say You're in Cleveland today You're in Cleveland today Stewardesses like Cosmo magazine Vogue makes me nervous, I feel so plain I could face the world fearlessly If you would face it here with me With just our four hands and four eyes Traffic cops will compromise *Repeat Daffodils and roulette wheels and rusty automobiles Somewhere our things share the same windowsill Somewhere our hearts exist independent of time Somewhere we are whole One body, one body and one mind From the air things look so ridiculous Our fears so small, our fights so vain I want to pilot a plane with you So all our problems look small too It's just an inch from me to you Depending on what map you use *Repeat |
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| 4:47 |
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A lonely street lamp
I'm out on the street walking home A small pale blur Leaving trails like a snail I move so slow Time can bruise Violent indigo Rush home to your arms You soothe my weary soul *Wrong or right Be mine tonight Harsh world be damned We'll make a stand Love can bind But mine is blind Others stray but I won't Walk away Walk away The clubs are full Of couples resisting being one They wear their youth Like badges that tarnish all too soon We'll be a team Our two will be one Love will be our fortress When all else comes undone *Repeat Sometimes the world don't make sense Small children filled with violence Let our light shine through the night *Repeat |
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| 3:48 |
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I saw you standing there
You had gold dust in your pocket And you combed barbed wire through your hair You thought I didn't notice The skin on your teeth had a tear To make me notice you started to shout Then you and all your minions Started flapping your tiny arms all about They said you were a wise man When did they teach wise men to pout? I tried to forget you But you tied bells to your name They jingled every time I thought of you Without shame I tried to be unlovable Why couldn't you do the same? *What's the matter? Does your love need a home? Alright then Love me, just leave me alone Your mother was a wolf bite Your daddy was a cigarette Your brother was a rosebud Crossbred with a car wreck Your sister was a stockbroker But you ain't nothing but a turtleneck *Repeat It's not your little boy smile It's not your little boy name It's those big boy hands that are the ones to blame I tried to be unlovable Why couldn't you do the same? *Repeat |
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| 5:06 |
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You see the ghost of the buffalo moving both fierce and slow
Like glittering prophesies on the edge of the horizon As you drive glittering highways and beaten-up byways That straddle and girdle our great and many-faced nation You see the lambs in the ghettos who worship their Gepettos Believing in, never seeing, the strings they think bind them So we write to our congressmen with bleeding pens of the sorrow within And in return, they just send tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show *Welcome to the new wild west Each man for himself A nation of civilized steeples And lonely people Welcome to the new wild west There are so many factions and cue-card reactions It's hard to keep clear the possibilities here 'cause there's no force to unite them Privilege has ruled for thousands of years Wars have been fought with bibles and tears Yet liberation can't deny the temptation and soon becomes the oppressor Show me a leader who's fit to lead Who don't sow his seed in anything wounded enough to breed Because after all, what fun is power if you can't act like a rock star? *Repeat As for me, I've been petty Oh, and unkind, but I know my own mind And since it seems clear there's no one leading us here The only thing left it appears is to task ourselves to be better each time, than those before us We'll be an army of thieves, of self-freed slaves, of mild-mannered maids We'll fight with whispers and blades So get ready, a new day is dawning *Repeat |
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| 4:41 |
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I hate you
I love you Leave Don't go away I can't decide if I like your face Or if I wish it would stray You're a child but you're malicious You're sweet but don't remember my name Heads you win and tails I'm lost Love equals pain *I am drifting without an anchor Through your ambigous region A strange continent immune to all reason And I'm flattered by your grey matter Inside my skin, I feel your tongue It's telling me I'm dirty and licking my bones A scrape against silence; a knife against a plate Makes the sound of need on hate *And I do not understand Why a woman can't just love a man You're amusing, you're a real cool show With your meat hooks and barbed wire carnival You got gold dust in your pocket You got moth holes in your soul From too many false teeth amd greasy flashbulbs *Repeat |
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| 4:24 |
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Night with its shattered teeth attempts to speak
My pen is present but courage left via the sink And I'm sorry I snuck up on you from behind Sorry not all my love letters did rhyme And I'm sorry that Jesus died for my sins And I swear to God it won't happen again And I'm sorry if it was my swerve that tempted you to sway Oh well, sometimes it be that way And Romeo was a very nice man He said, "Jewel, I don't think you quite understand" And I'm sorry if you had to explain it like this Sorry I was a point you were destined to miss And I'm sorry I spoke to you irreverently Down in the hollow by the old olive tree And I'm sorry if my heart breaking ruined your day Oh well, sometimes it be that way *I said, "Oh well, I got nothing left to sell" This love was a bell that rang unheard in the air I was bound to find out that you didn't care Oh well, sometimes it be that way And Aphrodite with her neon lamp Kissed Neptune, they put her face on a stamp And I'm sorry I used it to mail a letter to you Sorry I'm glue and the rest bounces off of you And I'm sorry not even this jet's metal wings Could get across these simple things And I'm sorry if I ever sang your name in vain Oh well, sometimes it be that way *Repeat Now flame licks the air with its silver tongue Night has many hands but I have just one And I'm sorry I walked in on you unexpectedly I'm sorry I never served you chamomile tea And I'm sorry I didn't always have a match That could start a fire big enough for your heart to catch And I'm sorry if it was my heart breaking that ruined your day Oh well, sometimes it be that way Oh well, sometimes it be that way |
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