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Lala lala-la Lala lala-la Lala lala-la Lala lala-la Lala lala-la Lala lala-la There's nothing like a cool autumn breeze Sending the past up with the leaves Watching all the clothes on the line In a sidestepping dance With the neighbouring trees Lala lala-la...

Daylight Let it stir you Let it kiss the sleep out from your eyes Feel this weight now Lift into the sky On and on and on On and on and on Cradle So deeply So sleeply when I close my eyes Sprinkle morning All over you and I On and on and on On and on and on Sl...

bAnd no more shall we part It will no longer be necessary And no more will I say, dear heart I am alone and she has left me And no more shall we part The contracts are drawn up The ring is locked upon the finger And never again will my letters start Sadly, or...

Anyone who ever loved Could look at me And know that I love you Anyone who ever dreamed Would look at me And know I dream of you Knowing I love you so Anyone who had a heart Would take me in his arms and love me, too You couldn't really have a heart And hurt...

What a beautiful collision Things that go bump in the night With such beautiful precision Fate could create you and I Do you know what it means To abandon your dreams? To leave with the storms rolling by How the clouds on this day Come to take you away Til yo...

Belle, tu es si belle Qu'en to voyant je t'ai aimée Belle, que j'aime tant Depuis longtemps, je t'attendais Souveins-toi du temps où tu venais Chaque soir pour me rencontrer Tu passais si belle que j'en rêvais Tu le sai, mon amie, je t'aimais Belle,...

Take your time Make peace with the day Lie on the ground and think of me Nevermind what people will say Talking is thoughtless and cheap I only said it to be kind I wont pretend to be naive And thoughts arrive... Like leaves on the page Trying and hoping to b...

Minute you wake from a bad day dream, alone, as the bird play dawn. A little chink from a reverie, it pulls at my blue, blue heart. CHORUS Ooh la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la So you said you were leaving but I don't feel a thing at all, Til the...

I'm counting stars Lying under, watching you through my walls All the lights have gone out I know you're listening now You've been spinning around, turning slowly Orbiting round my house And it's a feeling I get I know you're listening now Warm me today, wa...

I want you when you are close to me I want you never to be far I know you have laid a trap for me Yes, I know you, but not as who you are Black on the ground, I am still as a stone Whatever changed my love to despair Light through the clouds trapped the...

Close the door Put out the light Come sleep Till tomorrow comes creepin' Talk some more Till I grow tired don't leave Till you know that I'm sleepin' Don't say goodnight Just slide away into the dark And take with you my heart Close the door Put out...

Counting the days on the calendar Strange how they bleed into each other All that I need Is a day with you Pencil me in on your Saturday Taking my leave Should I be waylaid please wait for me On a day with you Maybe for now an hour will do Remember m...

It's time to sleep and walk out It's far too late to talk about We took a night of absence now We walk among the town At dawn a mist approaches There's not a soul to speak of It's time to change the map now And sail upon the seas A storyteller told me There'...

Anytime that you fall asleep I'm wide awake Anytime that you leave your house I'm waiting at the gate I'm not angry anymore Come on and show your soul I'd love to hang it on the wall Framed for me Anytime that you smile I know that's really you Anyti...

Falling free An opportunity A place to get away A holiday Lucky me I've made an enemy I've made one, two or three Lucky me Suddenly I could hear the harmony Beneath the apple tree Violent eyes that fire apple green Devil on tambourine Quietly A serpent foll...

I know it's late now I know I Ought to go Ride in your car now But please don't drop me home My head's so heavy Could This be all a dream Promise me Maybes and say things You don't mean Rain fall from concrete colored skies No boy don't speak now Y...

Blades of grass That shiver as I pass The worlds asleep but I'm awake I'm walking home again Morning stars Left my shoes back at the bar Didn't know my house was quite this far So far from anywhere Strange how the ground Tips upside down And morning...

Come around for tea Dance me round and round the kitchen By the light of my T.V On the night of the election Ancient stars will fall into the sea And the ocean floor sings her sympathy Drive me miles away Escape the sky that we lay under Of all the dreams we...

I see houses filled with colored light Trees and mountains bowing to the sky I can tell my loneliness to you Everything is beautiful and new Clouds like horses rushing at the sea Grasses leaning, learning to be free Things that left me puzzled in my youth Ev...

From here to there to everywhere And back to Union Square Where do I get some sleep? Anywhere the sleep dust lies It decorates your eyes Where do I get some sleep? Stranded in June Whistling the same old tune But I do believe I might be having fun I...

Deadbeats in the hall Lost souls in the back room Where do I find a good love Looking out for a good love Where do I find a good love round here Rich men want to own you Find a way to control you But how do I find a good love Looking for things I shouldn't ha...

Getween an overload of information and a striving for a pure dedication I find myself looking for the exit sign see your pretty face in the sunshine in the morning after staying up all night I want to wake you just to hear you tell me it's alright and a...

Gracie takes the bottles from the porch where you had left them There are age old drinks of wine you never shared Drivin' down the motorway with all the best intentions She's a picture of perfection with her cut and colored hair But it's you she thinks of...

If gravity let us go We would all go flying And I'll meet you somewhere in the milky night Away past the satellites The breeze is dressed so lightly And it breathes onto this fire escape Where all our secrets melt like ice Leaving only water Night wi...

Don't forget me Bring me down Don't let me promise you things I cannot do This infection Adds to my collection Hoard my pain And show it to you one day You alone indeed You sing so adamantly And it fills my mind With thoughts so fine Don't ask me...

Hello hello, I'm comin' down the wire, I know, I know You think that I'm a liar, But I'll be home, and soon my darlin' you'll be here with me. I draw the blinds and make a cup of coffee, Across the line, I know you tried to stop me But truth be known a...

You were on the second floor Hanging out the window watching the cars Passing by With that look in your eye I was hanging round below Waving to ya from the road I was calling your name You were miles away Hey You've been wondering What's it to ya You've been q...

Sink with the tide Rescue me if you like I'll be leaving it all up to you Think how we tried It's o.k. to be lied to As long as it's only by you People say to me it's best that we've parted 'Cause you know I'm better alone Don't explain to me how you'...

Don't make me laugh I'm not sure I feel it now Believe in a reason Straight from your heart What you gonna tell your friends When they ask you about it I guess that's alright l'll say that I don't mind And I say it all the time I don't mean it Don't...

If I had you What in the world could be better? A crazy love that waits for you Why must it wait forever? If I had you Key to hidden treasure A ruby heart that hides from you Don´t hide for long Cos' in the warm, warm night There´s nothing...

Bah, bah, dub, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah Bah, bah, dub, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah Love me If you really do It's never black or white But everyday we try Love me If you really do If it's written in the stars Why does it have to be so...

Everything that we make has long been overrun thought our love could be safe but know now I was wrong I tried and tried and tried again cos honey now I had a long day in the sun and baby now it's over and nothing can be done and nothing can be done...

Listen, this stands to reason, Sure are the season, you know you and I can’t be wrong. When you walk into the room like a song, This can’t be wrong. Tender, long as the leavin’, I promise you this evening, and it’s moving me along. But a day away from y...

So I'm listening for the weather to predict the coming day Leave all thought of expectation to the weather man No it doesn't really matter what it is he has to say 'Cause tomorrows keep on blowing in from somewhere All the people that I know in the apartments...

Lonely Lola Cherry Cola girl How much did they pay you for your smile Alone in your own creaming soda world Maybe you were happy for a while Lola you're a star tonight Don't let them Pluck you from the sky Lonely Lola everybody knows Everybody calls themselves...

Making a scene I'm coming clean Thought I'd like to put you in your place My drink in your face Wouldn't look so bad Now I'll live this down Let me know if I'm talking much too loud Drawing a crowd I don't mind if you don't mind I'd like to see you I...

Love's a walk on a wire I tripped on the stairs Makes you feel like a fool If you're not aware And it may not be wise to show how you feel And it may not be what I thought to be real Dance your way to my room I need you to stay It sends my head in a ruin When...

If gravity let us go We would all go flying And I'll meet you somewhere in the milky night Away past the satellites The breeze is dressed so lightly And it breathes onto this fire escape Where all our secrets melt like ice Leaving only water Night wi...

I met my darling last night I've never seen him before He put his warm hand in mine There'll be no crying,On no more And in a flutter of bees And in a whisper of trees I've never seen him before There'll be no crying, no more There is no rest for the...

I'm just an ordinary Same old nothing new I can tell you ordinary Same old nothing things Say something funny Or say something smart Say something clever I would but you know I can't I've got no intellectual inspiration way Wish I had some entertaining things...

And all the stargazers bloom Throw the stars around the room I was waiting for the day For you to lull me And all the elements conspire With shiny things that catch the eye I was waiting for the day For you to lull me Precious, precious thing You are...

If I could make you mine We could spend some time Maybe you could come around in the weekend Summers rolling by And we don't have much time Tell me all about what keeps you ticking We could sit in the sun Let the days all roll into one How could you ta...

The last that I saw With eyes filled with rain A waterfall of gold It flickered on his face Flickered on his face He rode to the summit And waited at the bridge I waved him goodbye He vanished over the ridge Vanished over the ridge My face to the h...

Moon glow White light will bathe your pillow Loneliness leaves no shadow Where did you go? Be cool now Quietly up and leave you Must I be your fool and lead you How gracious we go Love ends in a fire Fire through the streets Set them alive Don't s...

She left on a Monday She's a siren down the road In your herringbone overcoat That you don't expect to get back And it's an ordinary sky Today's like any other day When all of the aeroplanes Write her name in the clouds And nothing's wrong But it's...

Just wanna know ya Just wanna talk to ya I wanna hear about your day I'd never leave ya never be mean to ya I'd always let you get your way Something good will come our way And maybe this good thing's gonna happen today If I were honest I'd tell you...

Somewhere in the night your voice is miles away Rendered from the dust it will be dust again Spoken like a lullaby Infinite as sky on sky Somewhere in the night how sweet you sing for me Tender as the smile that drifts across your face Fleeting as the wind th...

Wring out my guilt and hang it on the line it's been raining all week it won't get a chance to dry i've been looking around the pantry for a box of sorries i'm all run out yeah I'm all run out its not that hard to say I know its not that hard to say I k...

Fire, inside my shoes Still walking forward but back to you I s'pose I must be stuck with you again This joke is wearing thin I know its time I know its time to go And just so you know This secret part of me never showed And when you run around like yo...

Mir wird der Boden langsam heiß. Ich gehe vorwärts, ja. Aber das führt mich nur wieder zurück zu Dir. Ich hab" Dich offensichtlich wieder mal am Hals. Macht aber bald keinen Spaß mehr. Ich weiß, daß es Zeit ist, zu gehen. Und Du weißt das auch. Du kennst...

Don't stray, don't ever go away I should be much too smart for this You know it gets the better of me Sometimes, when you and I collide I fall into an ocean of you, pull me out in time Don't let me drown, let me down I say it's all because of you And here I...

This frame of mind Young hollow man Said all I've got to say Done all I can Won't even try Won't even show Don't tell me things I don't want to know Swim through me Make me More than whole Come see what I mean Make me feel secure And in these days...

Wide Wider than the cut that's through my pride That I'm locked inside a box And I will hide Under my bed So I can take it out sometimes Take it out sometimes Be All I want to be But do I see That I'm only half a person All I need Is a good night's...

It brings you down It gets the better of you She's not around And yet it stays with you Nobody told you It was a waste of time You're heading home Through all the streets you know You're on your own Don't wanna be alone Nobody holds you tonight Tha...

Flogging a rocking Horse Getting nowhere We are a pair to behold You like a funeral me like a fair Nobody cares for the show These days the rapids may drag us from here And I do not care where we go And you say that love is what we are my dear But I j...

All the nights I spend, waiting Time moves so slow Leaning on my friends, complaining Why it's so hard This girl's prepared for war And as for love, who knows what it's good for Except for crying yourself to sleep at night And for blowing down, your little he...

You thought you'd blown out my candle Cause I cried so much then I just pretend You only took a tiny little piece of my heart I had to find a good reason Just to crawl out of bed Now I've fixed my head You only took a tiny little piece of my heart It'...

Welcome to my kitchen I will just about be dishin' Up as much as you can take Scoop my heart into a plate Step into the light And my eyes are open wide Let me flash at you a smile That I've been practising a while As much as you can take If I fall off...

When I see you smile It feels like I’m falling It’s not for anybody else to know The way your face could light the bitter dark of every street In every town I’ll ever go It’s not for anybody else to know For anybody else to know When I see you smil...

There is a love There is a life that we share Hand in glove They won't separate us Climb once again Cast off your sorrows The long night will end Dance on the morning dew Casting a line to you Safe from a slinging arrow Think of the love we knew H...

I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a dream To follow what it means I'm wishing on a star To follow where you are I'm wishing on a dream To follow what it means And I wish on all the rainbows that I see I wish on all the peo...

Walk around the bathroom fill the sink wander round the kitchen and make a drink to occupy my times my only wish i've rearranged the magnets on my fridge without you now without you now without you now without you now just can't make decisions thi...

It's now become the saddest story I was never worth the worry Not that you would notice anyway But when I'm walking in my sleep The floor is cold beneath my feet And as I step You're with me everyday You oh you You've gone and started something That you won't...

She's painting her face now, she's choosing her shoes and stockings She's tying her lace now, but you don't want to know, you don't want to know She's coming around now, she's catching a bus to see you But you won't be home now, 'cause you don't want to kn...