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Singing praises was never a feature
Encouraged in me or my kind. Every time they remain with my hand to my mouth, The crowded borders leave me colour-blind; Pushing me for the death warmed up And the flowers and fur to parade, In the time that it takes for the ritual wake They've broken all the promises they made. I was driven away to distraction and Couldn't see we were all laid to waste, Never sleeping, I saw my abduction from Solid areas fallen with grace. I come drifting through the draughting Dropping out of sight, I'm not begging for love, I'm empty as I am. I'm beginning to wonder is the ability too weak? If this stark interior surrounds me, am I so unique? Little blue souvenir to remind me of Restless days when I should have said No, And you know that I've nothing to share with you For the chance of the love that we save: I wanted to be magnificent For the less-than-a-lifetime of mine, I forget where I came in, All I know there's no discipline now. ==================================================================== ======= |
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| 2. |
| 10:28 |
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If I won't live a lie it's in my self defence
That I remember hiding then If I'm eroding all the innocence Am I running rigid once again? And he won't hear me now in the darkest hour I'll never see him now Oh I can take the mystery in the darkest hour And he won't hurt me now If we are lost in paradise Our recollection all but gone We will make the only sacrifice For the strength to carry on In spite of everything I recognise the end And feel the scars that never heal I keep the purity, buried as I am In an effort to conceal Don't underestimate what I've retained All my souvenirs, forget-me-nots, I'll pretend all you want me to I won't believe it if you don't Burn it up again, it's here and I've Let it live through other stolen lives Save your hollow breath Feast your tired eyes You need protection as well as I Nothing any good ever came from me Thought I could run you in the ground What do I do, what kind of fool Covers you like an animal? Out of the way, I'm anyone wilder than you are Anyone who ever had a heart Wouldn't deny me Woe betide the one, not to be outdone, Who will remember all that stuff, Didn't I say it then enough? If I could let it be, I would Start it again, when does it end? I'm in there somewhere Nobody can carry me over Now the dead winds have blown With the cold rains If I should fall from your side Keep it in your mind How I tried to keep him here How I promised he'd be safe And he never said a word And he never cried Another day leads me on And I will follow Whatever it takes now, I'll do If it's over And he won't hurt me now, I know When I'm losing all the power And he won't hurt me now In this darkest hour |
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| 3. |
| 9:33 |
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> Garden over me, the secret I love most,
God and Man agree to giving up the ghost, High above the moon, the sun has left the sky, I would love to know if you're the reason why. Garden under me, the naked and the dead, I can still remember everything we said, Higher, higher now than I have ever been More than meets the eye than mine have ever seen. Garden over me, you never know the grief, Hide this side away to satisfy belief, I can't stand the agony of nothing new, When the soft white belly enters into you I go down The ribbon wrapped a gun, I blinded everyone, Collected underground, now I'm up I'm down It isn't how you lie, it's in the way you're mine, How was I to know the nerves would overflow? I want to see you, I want to touch you I want to feel the breathing changing. I want to be you, to be inside you, To pull you under, get you fighting. Unsodden even the water leaking, Don't want to hear the widow speaking, And just to know if there could be something, You couldn't get that, yeah... Ah, you fools, don't you see? He's darker than he's going to be, The state I'm in, hollow bone, Diamond hard heart of stone. Lost in love, senses flown Diamond hard heart of stone. |
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| 4. |
| 5:17 |
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Out of a time when way back when
Disregarding discipline Should have never given in And I really should have known Some are born into their lives With a need to be destroyed It's the wrong thing on my mind The only thing we can't survive Standing in the line of fire Innocently dumb They're in my head and still they come Out of nowhere Is there something Something more than this? Inner tension settled with a kiss What a time to bump and grind What a daydream, looking back Never a worry in the world For the cutter in the pack I don't understand this pain And I never will The scene is gone and here they are Out of nowhere Is there something Something that I've missed It's going to happen and I can't resist If I believed a single word I would hesitate as well Making Heaven out of Hell All it takes is everything I want to raise you up and see There's something in your eyes But every time I try, they come Out of nowhere Is there something Something more than this? Inner tension settled with a kiss Is there something Something that I've missed? It's going to happen and I can't resist |
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| 10:50 | 
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| 6. |
| 4:07 |
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Across the plateau no clouds storm the sky,
Above the riverbed the world's run dry, I beat the air, for those who hear, And through the night my call goes out unheard, I cry for company and get no word, The silent groan, God only knows, I stand alone. The wind devides the empty shells below, Deep in the valley night begins to grow, The memory, the best of me, From out the shadows something takes my hand, To lead me homeward through a foreign land, The silence grown, the palest eyes, I'm the only one. A mother's son, a father's pride, How can I run and where to hide? I close my eyes and hope tonight, My healing flesh will be all right; A baby cries, another ghost, A different side to claim the most, My blood gone black and down to dust, So save my soul or let me die, I'm still alive. I'm on the other side, Shaken down, lovely but cockeyed, No wonder I feel nervous, Lord, they don't deserve us anyway. I want to burn these wings, You can see how it's happening, Still they're telling me to smack the enemy, It's killing time! I should have known before, Only bad's half as good as dead, I can't go any faster, stuck like alabaster, White as I know. We stand in lines of old, staying cold, Swallow all the anger, Releases get away, coming down, Across the fields of amber, To the water, ocean far below. As the mirror to the sun, The colour of the evening, never let go, Hold my stomach, keep it tight, They're pulling out the breathing, let it go; If you ever change your mind, Don't be caught alone, no, it's only me, With all the hopes and fears combined, It's hard to care for living anymore, I wouldn't let you down again. Inspired by hunger, fired by lust, I sold the children's faces, painted gold, Something moving taking hold, Is gathering but never growing old, I did everything I could just to say, Believe me, you're not alone, But with the winter in my bones, Oh what else can I do now? It's only me, I wouldn't let you down again. Break back to back lately, Oh and how they moved when I was younger than this, Get my spirit caught beneath the surface, SDee me play dead today, I love my daydreams, leave my doldrums, Armies of priests All come to practice their party pieces, Pounding like metal from side to side, To shoot, to save, And risk that horizon, No smoke can shield, it stays unhealed, Safe in our stillness, At last we see him rise from out the earth. I set the silhouette that leaves me scarred, Lost my condition from the perfect star, I caught the fire, can't help but see, There's none to carry on. I knew these plains before the world was mine, With no escape in mind, I'll be resigned, Inside alone, I know for sure, The future's all gone |
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| 7. |
| 6:56 |
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i) After all
Following everything I've known I was wondering all alone Waiting for a time that might have been My own way down Suddenly everything is wrong have I really been gone so long? Hanging by the nails Across my idle eyes so wide And after all the days of fading senses This has taken more Than I had to give If we face the one we've been avoiding And I'm out of all control again Let me go Gathering comforting remains I was unprepared, running scared Faltering, and why do I hold on? It's gone, I know And after all the days of fading senses I don't feel the same And I want to live The insecurity of never knowing Has the race been run And is the long day done? ii) Fading senses (instrumental) |
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| 4:21 |
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I may be wrong
But the miracle that I prayed for is here, Could be illusion, maybe some trickery, I don't know why I'm scoring the angels, Counting all the thousand days, There were so many tears So many times, wasting away, So what about the thousand days? We miss the reason because of what we are, I fall silent with you, The gash I know is getting obvious The blood of ages from Scoring the angels, Guaranteed for all we know There were so many tears So many times, wasting away So what about the thousand days? I swerve the engine, the balance disappears, While i'm sleeping I'm scoring the angels Counting all the thousand days There were so many tears So many times, wasting away. So what about the thousand days? ==================================================================== ======= |
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| 9. |
| 7:09 |
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Though you may be now
A long way from home All your hand-me-downs Live on in their dreams I can see something in that smile In the way they play They're passing down the line Opening the tears And the emptiness No danger signs features unrecognised until now So soon winter brings The first fall of snow There are secret things In all the whitest worlds I can see something in that smile In the way they play They're passing down the line Opening the tears And the emptiness No danger signs Features unrecognised until now Time enough when old sensations Won't remind anymore unaware of all the children Running rings without a care Joining in their games When I hear pale horses riding See them fly as they go Then I know to free the reins Of Unquiet thoughts |
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| 10. |
| 10:10 |
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Free as the wind
Tall as a tree Wide as a mind Deep as a sea You crawled on my land Now I grow in your hand Always like the first time Unlike the others They're so-so So called lovers Theirs is the push that comes to shove But not in our evolution It's natural From great to grand True love is never really planned And wipes the memory of those who came Before our evolution It's natural And with you see me walk on air I know that I can do it When you're holding tightly to my sleeve The one with my heart upon it Hard as a mountain range Bright as a harvest moon The set gets rearranged But there's still time to join our show Every dog must have its day Everyone's a winner And every time the lights go down on us I'm the beginner How lady luck has changed "So long Salem" The set gets rearranged But there's still time to join the show Free as the wind Tall as a tree Wide as a mind Deep as a sea An interlude With haunting melodies of nursery rhymes Singing the changes, singing the changes, singing I hear talk of classroom drama Maybe it's a kind of psychodrama Children, the mirrors of our yesterdays On the land out of the sea Blowing in the breeze Mind over metaphor Fall in love with innocence Don't dally long with diligence Stand up choose me Don't refuse me They pawned our world of peace A flock of sheep to fleece Our flood of love won't cease No harm can come our way And it's easy to see what sets us apart From the creatures still on the ocean bed Our evolution it's natural It goes from great to grand Falls into place like something that we planned When you curl your arms around my frame Or curl your lips around my name And do just what comes natural The first thing on your mind Do just what comes natural I prefer your kind of human nature |
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| 11. |
| 15:59 |
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Helplessly held by the weeds, we are grown,
I tried talking sense to you, leave it alone; I give in to the weight of the kick, So weary of waiting and hoping for this, The two of us alone, no-one else to see, I promise not to miss you and no more jealousy. Careful of my gender, it comes, how it goes, Love me tender so nobody knows, Nobody knows the trouble I seen, Each time they asked, I said something obscene, The splinters shower down, I shelter from the rain, Against the grain, against the moon, I waxes and I wanes. No ecstacy sent for taking a line, Right through the tokehead they rip, run and shine; I awake and the feeling won't drop, Each time they slam down, I swear I will stop, The two of us alone, no-else to see, The damage brings us closer to murder, can't you see? Here in my rocking-horse house, I keep the curtains drawn; Inside my little head, I hear them screaming out my name. Here in my rocking-horse room, I keep my syes shut tight: Inside my peeping-holes, I know that if they're empty I can sleep. Don't you believe her, deliver a shiver to me, Is this what you wnated? I'm haunted, my eyes grown cold. I still got second sight, I still can see at night. Here comes the enemy, the beast in me, Alive a little more, On my hard shoulder, The warning goes deeper than before. I still got second sight, I still can see at night. |
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| 12. |
| 7:41 |
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I'm here,
The ragged burden come to nothing, comfort go, We drift I talk with you and hear you though you're never here, Hovering above me like a net, I'm terrified to look beyond the threat, I kill ambition while I can. I'm cold, I drag the beauty, black confetti swept away, Stumbling, we go blindly marching on, Bursting like a dream and now all gone, In time I know we'll fly again. Frail as ever, still the most severe, Haven't I surrendered everything now? Naked in my cruellest waking fear From the rages of the weightless sleep. "Who will catch him falling?" called the wind, "I will claim him," volunteered the grave, "Marry me forever," cried the bride, Said the orphan, "Who'll remember me? Anyone at all? Are you coming back?" From the moment we were torn, Thrown into the tunnel, we withdrew, Whiter colours then untied, Don't desert me now I'm coming through, I fought the memory of beautiful things, Imaginings, The only strength I got from wanting you, All the love I've been needing, The hunger is feeding on me, Spirit, bear me away to the place of birth. You, you put the fear in the fear of flying, The breath of dying, You want a sign, you want a sign, It's already there. ==================================================================== ======= |
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| 13. |
| 8:00 |
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Across the plateau no clouds storm the sky,
Above the riverbed the world's run dry, I beat the air, for those who hear, And through the night my call goes out unheard, I cry for company and get no word, The silent groan, God only knows, I stand alone. The wind devides the empty shells below, Deep in the valley night begins to grow, The memory, the best of me, From out the shadows something takes my hand, To lead me homeward through a foreign land, The silence grown, the palest eyes, I'm the only one. A mother's son, a father's pride, How can I run and where to hide? I close my eyes and hope tonight, My healing flesh will be all right; A baby cries, another ghost, A different side to claim the most, My blood gone black and down to dust, So save my soul or let me die, I'm still alive. I'm on the other side, Shaken down, lovely but cockeyed, No wonder I feel nervous, Lord, they don't deserve us anyway. I want to burn these wings, You can see how it's happening, Still they're telling me to smack the enemy, It's killing time! I should have known before, Only bad's half as good as dead, I can't go any faster, stuck like alabaster, White as I know. We stand in lines of old, staying cold, Swallow all the anger, Releases get away, coming down, Across the fields of amber, To the water, ocean far below. As the mirror to the sun, The colour of the evening, never let go, Hold my stomach, keep it tight, They're pulling out the breathing, let it go; If you ever change your mind, Don't be caught alone, no, it's only me, With all the hopes and fears combined, It's hard to care for living anymore, I wouldn't let you down again. Inspired by hunger, fired by lust, I sold the children's faces, painted gold, Something moving taking hold, Is gathering but never growing old, I did everything I could just to say, Believe me, you're not alone, But with the winter in my bones, Oh what else can I do now? It's only me, I wouldn't let you down again. Break back to back lately, Oh and how they moved when I was younger than this, Get my spirit caught beneath the surface, SDee me play dead today, I love my daydreams, leave my doldrums, Armies of priests All come to practice their party pieces, Pounding like metal from side to side, To shoot, to save, And risk that horizon, No smoke can shield, it stays unhealed, Safe in our stillness, At last we see him rise from out the earth. I set the silhouette that leaves me scarred, Lost my condition from the perfect star, I caught the fire, can't help but see, There's none to carry on. I knew these plains before the world was mine, With no escape in mind, I'll be resigned, Inside alone, I know for sure, The future's all gone |
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| 14. |
| 5:52 |
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[Shaq]
Believe it or not, I love all playa hatas (bring it) Ha ha ha ha Cause ain't no love lost here baby Say what you gotta say [Tariq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across There ain't no love lost [Shaq] Exuberant, change, cross, exilhurated Flomboyant, but boncey on beat breaks, I'm animated Now it's been stated, I'm lyrically enthusiastic I'm dope like all east coast CDs wrapped through plastic What's the meaning of life, why'all should know In my lifetime I need a whole lotta dough, bro No need to get zealous, you jealous, say you jealous I spike on that like Monica Seles I split a divine rhyme, exsquisite like some elegant wine Here's a toast, the world is mine I promise I'm a keep it punk I represent the real hip-hop, I ain't no freakin' country bumpkin Hooparistic, freakaristic, poetic frenzy with conception I got more flavor than a mystic Fringe benfit-ic, urging why'all to get wit it Style postulates, now pause while you gets splitted I'm not just taco, I'm the whole enchilado Enter any center blowin' up like Desperado [Tariq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across It ain't no love lost [Shaq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across Ain't no love lost [Tariq] L.A. to Bronx to Bekailen Together we provide a ton of better on the way and We rhyme related Very under-estimated, that's why I'm winnin' In this world of sins, steady grinning, money boss spendin' Distanced from dirty women, Lord, I'm quite influential Spirtualy and mental, what you into I'd a been through Preachin' my words and don't know it, you owe it It shows you want to be me but won't show it Ain't nothin' changed but the playas The game remains the same I had a ten year run, hey, I can't complain Took the next step see, from Coke to Pepsi From the B.X., we ridin' to South Beach on jet ski Play to survive, you ain't live, you just livin' You breathin' a good one, but where I'm from why'all forbidden Come around, bad decision, you'd rather be in prison Ain't no duckin' when I'm delivering, won't be forgiver-in' Layin' there shiverin, half the night You gotta walk towards the light, everything is aight Make sure, everything you endure stays tight Big Shaq, Lord Tariq, Jay-Z outta sight [Jay-Z] People know me on these streets and the towns I been through Looking at me, stay focused, I'm givin' 'em straight focus Surprise, what I do is already legalized Analyze how I floss across Of course there ain't no love lost [Shaq] People know me on these streets playa I ain't new Lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money Surpise What I do is already legalized Analyze what I toss across There ain't no love lost [Jay-Z] Fo' sho', everything's for dough now I flow, why'all gotta pay a little mo' now It's platinumn, nowadays we put the gold down We stepped it up, why'all don't ever want to showdown Get wetted up by the sleeve that leave the bets wild Why'all don't like it, sue me Got settled out Ghettoed out, in the vehicle bent These days I mellowed out See, success make a fella content Un huh You know, this rap stuff, pop a ??? Jay-Z hugo, course playa, you lost playa I know you rappers want to see me fail But quick to see a six-hundred S.L. be |
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