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Spectator
03:45
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I can’t move the needle for you
even if you’re truly not where you want to be
You’ll have to find your own way out
I can’t make you be ready
I’m just a spectator
and I’ve already seen too much
You want it all too soon
I have to stay out of your clutches
Too many others have made the same mistake, of getting too close
You’re too entrenched with too much to lose...
this is what you chose
I’m just a spectator
and there’s nothing I can do
I’m not your anesthesia
even if she isn’t good to you
And I want you but I won’t help you cheat
So I’m waiting back here in the cheap seats
I’m just a spectator
and I’ve already seen too much
You want it all too soon
I have to stay out of your clutches
I’m just a spectator
and there’s nothing I can do
I’m not your anesthesia
even if she isn’t good to you
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2. |
Rewrite
03:51
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I may stammer when I speak/ or have an imperfect physique
What if I just love me anyway?
I may not be the sharpest knife / Or lead the most exciting life
What if I just love me anyway?
The thoughts we have aren’t really real / They’re the words of someone who tried to make us feel
Like we weren’t enough
Or we were just too much……yeah…yeah……..
(la la la la la la…) What if I just love me anyway?
Maybe my loud voice resounds/ but maybe I don’t need to tone it down
What if I just love me anyway?
Maybe this song ain’t so clever/ but I don’t care so yeah, whatever
What if I just love me anyway?
All that noise is just a story / Let’s escape from purgatory
Our demons scatter in the light
This chapter’s getting a rewrite…yeah….
(la la la la la la…) What if I just love me anyway?
SOLO
All that noise is just a story / Let’s get out of purgatory
Our demons scatter in the light -
This chapter’s getting a rewrite…yeah….
(la la la la la la…) What if I just love me anyway?
Maybe this song ain’t so clever/ but I don’t care so yeah, whatever
What if I just love me anyway?
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Truth Tellers are often rejected
Many fear going to that place
Pulling back the curtain and showing us
What we're not ready to face
Suddenly we're dealing with the things that you're revealing
we buried deep inside
Suddenly we're dealing with the things that you're revealing
we just learned to abide
It's ok to say it's not ok - you don't have to love it or leave it
Fractures don't magically fade - you don't have to love it or leave it
We're well past the point of trying to pretend
we're not on the verge of disaster
But we busy ourselves trying not to see
the consequences coming even faster
It's ok to say it's not ok - you don't have to love it or leave it
Fractures don't magically fade - you don't have to love it or leave it
It's ok to say it's not ok - you don't have to love it or leave it
Fractures don't magically go away - you don't have to love it or leave it
You don't have to love it or leave it
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4. |
I Know You Know
04:03
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I’m not gonna be your little secret
A piece of your life in a small compartment
Show me that this is real for you
We’re not spending every Friday night in my apartment
I can’t go back in time so you can have that girl who didn’t know her worth
And I won’t wait around for you to covert into the kind of man I need
Don’t you know baby; Don’t you know baby, I deserve better
From the rooftops, shout that you’re taking me out
And then go write me a love letter
Don’t you know; I know you know; I deserve better
So proclaim as you call my name; if she gets away, I’ll regret her
Your excuses sound to me like noise pollution
And I’ve got no space for that inside my day
Whatever’s in the way, find a solution
You need to show up for me like I do for you, always
You’re running out of time
I won’t dwell and I won’t linger
Best make up your mind before I slip right through your fingers
Don’t you know baby; Don’t you know baby, I deserve better
From the rooftops, shout that you’re taking me out
And then go write me a love letter
Don’t you know; I know you know; I deserve better
So proclaim as you call my name; if she gets away, I’ll regret her
You’re running out of time
I won’t dwell and I won’t linger
Best make up your mind before I slip right through your fingers
Don’t you know baby; Don’t you know baby, I deserve better
From the rooftops, shout that you’re taking me out
And then go write me a love letter
Don’t you know; I know you know; I deserve better
So proclaim as you call my name; if she gets away, I’ll regret her
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From the coast of gold, across the seven seas
I'm traveling on, far and wide
But now it seems I'm just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone else
I close my eyes and I think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain't it funny how it is? You never miss it til' it's gone away
And my heart is lying there, will be 'til my dying day
So understand, Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years
Too much time on my hands, I've got you on my mind
Can't ease this pain so easily
When you can't find the words to say, hard to make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry, and throw my hands up to the sky
So understand, Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years
So understand, Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years
So understand, Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years
Face up, make your stand
Realize you're living in the golden years
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6. |
Warm Body
04:40
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I could be anyone
I could be anyone
I could be anyone beside you, tonight
I’m a convenient girl from just around the way
So you think you’ll drop your standards for a temporary stay
Even your seduction hints disdain
6 months in, you still mispronounce my name
All you know of me is what I gave
and you find no fault in the way that you’ve behaved
Yes, I know I own my share
I tried to see something that just wasn’t there
I guess I forgot I was stronger than this
But now my path is clear
You won’t even shrug when I disappear
I’m all done being blind - so you’ll just have to find
a new warm body to entwine
You’ll have to find a new warm body to entwine
(and) she could be anyone
she could be anyone
she could be anyone beside you, tonight
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7. |
Limbo
03:42
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I thought that we had fire
I never knew our love was so demanding
When everyone around us broke apart
I thought what kept us together was an understanding
Then there came new influences
and with them your new restlessness
and one night when I reached for you
you turned from me, so comfortless
You keep using words like compromise
Well forgive me if I find it all a little hard to swallow
But when I look into the void that's in your eyes
I see no feeling for me and it makes your words ring hollow
Now I sit alone, in this kind of waiting room
To wait for the results of these tests you put me through
Scary how somehow think you have the right to judge
whether or not I'm good enough for you
Sign your name and let me be released
Or fight for our love's last chance to survive
More than anything you know I want to believe
The good that I first saw in you can be revived
You keep using words like compromise
Well forgive me if I find it all a little hard to swallow
But when I look into the void that's in your eyes
I see no feeling for me and it makes your words ring hollow
So leave and you won't have to lie anymore
about going all those places where I'm not welcome too
But just know, once you have thrown us away
you can never talk me into coming back to you
Even if it's complicated, you still have a choice to make
If I'm not your priority, it's time to make one last clean break
You keep using words like compromise
Well forgive me if I find it all a little hard to swallow
But when I look into the void that's in your eyes
I see no feeling for me and it makes your words ring hollow
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8. |
Downer
03:01
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Did you come here just to knock me on my feet
Were you hoping you could leave me incomplete
(Well) I don’t have to listen to you
(No) I don’t have to listen (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Cause dragging me down baby is all that you ever wanna do (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Do you think you’re something no one can surmount?
Do you think you’re something I can’t do without?
(Well) I don’t have to listen to you
(No) I don’t have to listen (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Cause dragging me down baby is all that you ever wanna do (ooh-ooh-ooh)
(You) think you’re so incendiary
When all you are is ordinary
You’re just tired baby
And I’m so tired, so tired, so tired of you (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Just beneath the surface waiting
Used to be so debilitating
But now you’re tired baby
And I’m so tired, so tired, so tired of you (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Did you come here just to knock me on my feet
Were you hoping you could leave me incomplete
(Well) I don’t have to listen to you
I don’t have to listen (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Cause dragging me down baby is all that you ever wanna do
(ooh-ooh-ooh)… (ooh-ooh-ooh)
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9. |
Night Visit
03:46
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Who are you, my pretty little maid (and)
Who are you, my honey?
Who are you, my pretty fair maid (and)
Who are you, me honey?
She answered him modestly
“I am me mammy’s darling.”
With your too-ry-ah
Fol-de-diddle-dah
Dai-rie fol-de-diddle dai-rie-ohh
So he went to her house in the middle of the night
When the moon was shining clearly
He went to her house in the middle of the night
When the moon was shining clearly
She opened the door and she let him in
And divil the one did hear them
With your too-ry-ah
Fol-de-diddle-dah
Dai-rie fol-de-diddle dai-rie-ohh
She took him by the lily-white hand
She took him by the lily-white hand
And she led him to the table
Saying “There’s plenty of wine for a soldier boy
to drink up if you’re able.”
With your too-ry-ah
Fol-de-diddle-dah
Dai-rie fol-de-diddle dai-rie-ohh
She got up and she made the bed
And she made it nice and easy
She got up and she made the bed
And she made it nice and easy
Then she took me by the hand
Saying “Boy, I hope you're able”
With your too-ry-ah
Fol-de-diddle-dah
Dai-rie fol-de-diddle dai-rie-ohh
There they lay till the break of the day
The divil no one did hear them
There they lay till the break of the day
The divil no one did hear them
She arose and put on me clothes
Saying “Darling, you must leave me”
With your too-ry-ah
Fol-de-diddle-dah
Dai-rie fol-de-diddle dai-rie-ohh
He said
Oh, when will I return again
and when will we be married
He said
Oh, when will I return again
and when will we be married
She said
When broken shells make Christmas bells
We may well be marriedWith your too-ry-ah
Fol-de-diddle-dah
Dai-rie fol-de-diddle dai-rie-ohh
With your too-ry-ah
Fol-de-diddle-dah
Dai-rie fol-de-diddle dai-rie-ohh
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