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I came as soon as I could I didn?t know then but I knew that you would You were born in disguise I?ll only go if I must I?ve got an itch can?t wish it away Pick me up like I wear it always Not the feeling I starved But I?m making it mean I won?t wait...

Listen to the silence growing louder A whisper can sometimes be louder than a scream Even in your wildest dreams Oh growing louder And then I am Never more alive than when I am Lying in your arms again Some say that each and everyone is dying They don'...

I make no promises, I make no guarantees, it makes no difference when you're all at sea. Try me for money, you can try me for days, I'll be indifferent when you've none you can't pay. Say something good to me, say it's not always. You've got the powe...

The close of night with elegant poet And talks truths from your decks he lay But the words that he gave They were all back to back The boy sat under the sun with the natives And tore strips from their chest here in hope All threw wreaths for their gods...

Gone and gone for good, Grown up and slipped away. Passed from now to then like a river going by to rush headlong into the sea. She hears the band and play "Ave Lolita". She sees her future coming to her in a flash- starts counting hours, starts...

Lately we've been acting like strangers We never show our feelings Or say the things we mean It's hard to admit That maybe it's time to quit pretending ?Cause we both know It's better letting go There's no point hanging on To what used to be (?Cause w...

We sat and talked for hours Around the ragged table Giggling like crazy We fell about like little children Helpless with laughter We must have laughed for hours It must be time for homework It must be time to sleep Time to end this birthday evening Th...

After the parties when I'm more drunk than lonely Sinking down into only sweet thoughts of you I see you waltzing in slow, slow circles With your hair hanging down like a waterfall I'm aching to hold you Wrap and enfold you And make you mine My black ey...

She's the kind could clean you out And strip your cloths, blow-up your house Stand you naked in the rubble Blonde trouble Making promises with your fingers crossed Counting the cost of the things you've lost Count the cost of the things unfound Blonde t...

It's time to shout, It's time to let them know what we're about As winter kisses Frosty cold and hard to hands I'll waste not an ounce of my time Now that summer's in time To hold back the night Keep me up from the fire Back to the wheel Don't look do...

You play to win No looking backwards Just throw the switch and step back Looking like you're innocent Do I have to let you know That the game begins with you When I know that somewhere There is a blue sky for us On the outside from the outside looking...

Tired Of This Done With That Never Satisfied With Where I'm At I Sit And Think What To Do Just A Motherfuckin' Bore Without A Clue Shot My Drugs Drank My Booze Tired Of Joy And Self Abuse Eternally Jaded Through And Through Just A Self Loathing Dic...

It?s the silence makes you crazy Find the action Need the thrill I know you will Amusing smiles, familiar faces The perfect fiction The easy pill I know you will I know you Each tick off your heartbeat Find you further from the point You make it eas...

I don't scream aloud I don't stare myself The dream is real Or the dream is not The image is clear Its colours are bare It is in my head Or it's is not I don't scream aloud I don't spare myself It is in my head Or it is not Have I awoken? Can I or...

Out in the napalm scorching heat Dry like a Kerouac dusty street Crawling to a fate that lies in the dark And musty shadows The call of the Narc Smeared like an insect on the glass Each day like a drip dry New Orleans That drains you of your strength Your ever...

Now and again an innocent shines out from the crowd and scenes that roll down the streets the inhuman streams, down from the trees, and up from their knees. Jump overboard, strike for the shore, leave your clothes to the fire. Counting the days your...

Blind barking Bobby he can rage The red mist come down and take centre stage And if he could see he’d knock you down And he may yet if you stick around The sunlight only happens when he dreams The cold light of day is how it’s gonna stay Some thing’s only hap...

We walked on out to the tip of the sound And we roll in the surf like seals there And she sang songs to the dolphins and whales That moved through the deep water We?ll run and laugh till tumble over each other Sprawl in the long grass And you kissed my hand An...

Shirt’s all torn and I’m lame If I try to smile (it) hurts my face All I hear is complaint but who left this mess on my plate? Oh I will fade away on…watch my hair turn grey on cold chicken skin and dog tail soup Tell me is that all I’m worth to you? Cold chi...

Who do you run too And you do I wasn?t born yesterday Why O? why did I ever let you go? It?s a cold hard road And you walk it alone I can?t learn to live Everyday as it comes And each time you stray I slip further down Down into dreams Of walking tightropes an...

Angel with your head down in a storm I know the lonely place you’re running from So have I got to tell you It’s alright to start again Say when and baby come out of the rain You’ve been inside your head for far too long Come live inside your life before it’s...

Am I the only one Strung out and smiling in your shadow When I dream it?s always you In black seams And touching up your lipstick good And it?s alright I?m free I can stay all night With you I?m hungry I can?t sleep I?d ride the breath out of an angel No cure...

When I was seventeen I did what people told me I did what my father said And let my mother mould me But that was long ago Control, control, never gonna stop Control, control, to get what I want Control, control, I like to have a lot Control, control, 'cause no...

It's just a trick of the night How you set me alight On the edge of the shadows curve I've been learning to be Like the people you see Who get all the love I deserve No, you won't be sorry I want you to feel me It would be so cool to be your girl It would be s...

We come and rise again Shake off the chains of sleep that dreams again And again Hold back their hands (Hold back their hands) Hold back their tiny plan (Hold back their tiny plan) When your days are glowing They seem to fade away And again Away, away Was your...

All the way from America holding out your hand. You pinned your colours to the mast, pinned them high up in the sky. Look what you do to me, my hands keep thumping waltz in triple time. She wrote, all the way from America arriving just as planned, pas...

To win this scene I all but leave her Here I am Got no horizons Stuck with my eyes And where I am I never wanted too like the others do I never want to think like you want me too I do anything I want to Don?t ask why when the sun don?t shine I do anything I ha...

Who needs something that?s inside you We all need false idols the ones that can?t reach you Each religion you hide it in laughing Who sees yourself and others also laughing Don?t want to live in a world with doubters Don?t want to join the electric church Who...

What a mess of your face You?ve started to make It started as fun now this has begun Now this has begun You laugh in my face You kiss in my ear You stumble about This happy is fake This happy is fake It temps and it steals And it robs me of friends Now everybo...

see you leave in the morning As fresh as the day Then return in the evening Stooped in that tired kind of way you have When the fight's kicked out of you (You move it to the left) Every waking hour (Every day) (You move it to the right) Every minute, every day...

You don't believe me I can tell it by your eyes There's a kind of magic to be had from your lies. I used to say that today is like tomorrow Don't sell it short for truth. I should have known I should have known should have known how I should have kn...

I should be a star Driving all the girls insane Shower me with oysters Swimming in the best champagne I'd never lift a finger Just be the biggest swinger I, I should be famous Oh I, I should be famous Wear the finest clothes Have a brand new nose A c...

Everything changes when you think about it, there's not much you can do about it. But another broken Irish sat on park bench, Feel his life like a gut wrench, like it's passing him by. So I feel like change, I feel like walking out and standing in the ra...

Baby, once more I won't ask again, don't tell me I should count to ten. Think freely. I won't attempt to curb your speech, it sounds like something out of reach. Oh, it's crazy, when I think of how I feel so free, maybe there is something wrong with me...

Gonna fly up to the moon, raising all of my money. Can't make it too soon, I am sick of it down here. Gonna rise up to the moon. So this is how the world ends- Not with a bang but with a wimpy. Don't laugh too soon- I am sick of it down here. Gonna ri...

Heroes are falling Ghosts in crimson And screaming flashes Of thunder guns The birds are flying In sad formations Of missing persons And passing time No more reunions No more parade grounds In silent houses The heroes fall 

Fake diamond rings on every finger And purple shadows around my eyes I show Americans Del Norte The best of Paris's underside I worked the dirt in Oklahoma and ate my crow and humble pie Though I walk through the Latin quarter It's still a dust bowl in m...

We could sit in here and drink right through the night Hear the tails of drugs and alcohol and fights Where the stories go around the car park in the snow But it?s a black and white world to live inside Marx was wrong and Groucho?s gone Give chance apiece...

All (And all, and that?s not all) I have (Is all, and that?s not all) I have is all (And nothing more) You see Now tell me (And tell and tell me all) That, that (And that and nothing less) Is the way it should be (And not that I lie) Should be (S...

I used to hide, I used to cry a lot, but now I don't It's you, you. When you smile the whole world's sky, when you smile I'm a star in that sky It's you, it's you. And we're barely friends, we're hardly star-crossed lovers, but who cares? It's you,...

Will I always feel this way Looking over my shoulder to yesterday And I still miss her so And I still want her so And her eyes shine like stars in the dead of night Yesterday is dead and gone But its dying embers linger on and on And I still want her so...

Restless in the pale moonlight The scratching of the stars Like the growing pains of TV heroes That fade away like scars so slow To a pin-drop spec of cobalt blue From a rainbow From a rainbow Headstones as far as the eye can see Let the heartache begi...

Here we are, between the towers of love and devotion. Why can't we seem to be what we want to be? Always placing obstacles in our path, in our way. I try to ride the chill in me, but here it comes again. (Here it comes again, here it comes again, p...

If I was to say to you that I don't care about anybody That I don't care about houses or money Would you, could you Tell me this is what your life is for? Tell me this is what your body's for? Hey presto Hey presto You've said it I'm backwards All I d...

I was right You were wrong Who's picking holes in who? Hey, hey what you say just might be true But I still can't take a chance on you if it's true Oh if it's true We've had our problems just trying to make the whole thing last You thought that we might...

Showered with offers at twenty-one By the age of twenty-two She is nearly long gone They keep calling her the heir To the rock and roll crown Now the weights so heavy It was dragging her down Wants it till she?s got it Then tries to run away A hunger...

Deep in our heart The thought that lies Alien attraction On this skeleton Began the flood Words spill out of my mouth Don?t be an idiot to jump and twist until I have to fight you Retain my My human features My human Feed my mind The blood runs fast...

I can laugh about it now, but couldn't then you made me ache, so I went for a run in the driving rain through your neighbourhood streets and then there you were, a shilouette in the wet night air. Me in my pumps in the pouring rain in a kind of despair upon fi...

It was so right It was so wrong Almost at the same time The pain and gain A heart can take No one really knows When the memories cling And keep you there Till you no longer care Then you cannot go now It?s wrong for me To cling to you But some how...

But would you believe us? Here I am together Or stable as you say But shacking at the inside That woman did follow me Jokers here I am again Draw the bloody curtains Now nothing is said now I want to see the outside This happened before One year ago...

So many problems, so many dreams, so many hangdog faces. So many ways to say "oh! I'll never see another day with you in it". So listen while you can, the first time that you ever have. I just grew tired, grew tired, grew tired of it. I just grew tire...

Breaks her vows and keeps the ring Buys a car and steals a gun and tries to run Stares ahead and drives the night And when she's run the country line She looks behind With angry eyes "Your bloodless hands, Your stupid friends, You vicious lies I'll gi...

The cotton is high The field is still full It?s dust is drifting everywhere A harvest moon comes up in the sky The blues to shake me, wake me It's a long way down to the birth of the blues I haven't very far to fall since they were born And came to haun...

Who pulled me clear And free from the wreckage? As I drew near to spinning and freefall Out of view Who laughs through the tears And stands in the wreckage? Scorning fear make?s the good times seem Over due Who if not you? Tell me who if not you? Who...

I?ve got a smile I Wear upon my Face Pasted there in place And every expression Has a different name Every line?s a winner In some other suckers game You wouldn?t know it They never show it What can you make of yourself? Over and over and over and ov...

You should see my world how it crumbled inside. You should see my world from the inside. Walls can have ears but what about you. It's not over, it's not over yet. Oh, I'll hold you in my arms, I'll hold you in my heart, I'm holding out for love. Oh,...

I gave you houses, I gave you furs, I gave you them before you had the first. I gave you kisses, I stroked your fur, I love a woman now that you've had the first. It's not you, I won't give you all. It's not you, I won't give you all. Get out of my face....

Seeing you, I knew why I'd come so far, and I thanked the stars for leading me to you. Your fairy tale prince, I'm trying so hard to make like an orchard in my own back yard. Oh the rain dribbles down me in my beatitude, my collar and shirt, down le...

Rubber band, you're like a rubber band- You keep on snapping back at me, so this is jealousy. Hollow vase, you are a hollow vase, and when you talk to yourself you hear an answer back. What type of world are you living in? What type of sweet thing woul...

Not for nothing at all, not for nothing did I call, reason is: you're often appalled. Hold on now John, you never seemed cold! I thought you were in love, then I guess that you're not, ah, but then the first thing you wrote was: Hold on now John, hold...

Hand me my five and dime, pass me my shirt hung on the line. I'll polish up my boots and then take the first plane stateside I can find. It's a handicap to try to see this far, when this place seems so cramped and small. In the streets they whisper legen...

Sometimes I wonder at this shame I hide, pare away the man and find the worm inside. Your mind's unclear and instinct is a lie, I hear what you say you'd do and I wish it was true. How can he take you when you give yourself? All the old lines just t...

Little queen beware, fashion tempers flare, and they light up with a brilliant glare page after page, after page, after page, after page. A hollow vase only costs ten pounds but an empty vessel makes the loudest sound, and you have to get heard in this l...

Listen to the money while it talks, makes you feel used up and small. You're caught between its hands. Why did you try at all? I listened and remembered what he said- "What's good for me is good for you. Be careful what you wish for- It might come true....

The walls are closing in And who will drive you out? Who will clear your dreams of your heart's debris? There's no-one, none, nothing In the fullness of time But oh such a stupid boy To wear his pain like a badge I though I mattered My mistake The...

Well now, you wouldn't stay and there's not much more that I can say but your lips that I kissed will never go away from my memory they will remain with me. You were tied, now you're gone, there was time, now it's gone. Is this the best we can do?...

You know you're where it's at but you don't know where that is, when your friends come round smiling and greet you with a kiss, Then push you in the dirt from behind. There's no time like the right time when the now times wearing thin for their silver...

It's late an I'm drunk and my stomach sounds like the hot water pipes in the attic room, and who'd have though the sky could hold so much snow inside of it just to let it go. So? The stars may shine and the moon may be blue, but what comes, comes from y...

Now it's complete, Ravel is in the rain standing in my dream street. I'd like to meet Ravel in New Orleans, hold out my hand to his. I was warned, now I'm old, still searching for what I'm told Is gone, is God, is not. Don't try to leave, I've tried...

I run at things too fast, only give them half a chance- Say what you want, what you will, but it's true. I'm far too lazy, I do enough but nothing more. I like to drink, I like to play- Do you too? You never know just what the blues are like until yo...

You don't follow me now, ribbons in hair searching for answers when there's none there. Then follow me round, up my stair into my bedroom if I'm in there. Hoping for something because it seems the right thing to do. You know what to do then (Yeah, y...

Sometimes you laugh, sometimes we smile at each other, sometimes you give a lot when really you'd rather not. And sometimes you pray, sometimes you tell a lie, sometimes you take a hold of this your living day. So many dreams for the asking and I'll w...

Hey baby, love the way you walk- Got a knock-kneed swing goes back and forth. I could lose myself in the curve of you hips aching to kiss your sweet lips. Yeah baby, I love your eyes- They're sea green but they seem twice as deep. Like a man crossing the...

I think my heart must be made of clay, 'cause everyone said it would be broken someday. And now I've come to that fateful day, so I sit on the floor with my head in my hands. And don't tell me how to make it pay, I write a new song every day. I just wis...

Too many souls are lost, so many dreams lie broken. Will you try to help them chase the night away, turn on the booming silver day. We do it in swingtime, we don't count the skinny seconds passing by or wonder why. We do it in swingtime, make the mome...

It is true maybe you never ask for much but when your heart's been broken into tiny little pieces, who will pick them up? You know who'll pick them up. (That's just like love to see you through) You know who'll pick them up. (That's just like love to s...

Do you remember the way things used to be? Our lives untainted by memory, and we laughed, and we cried, and we played, and we fought, never stopped to think, oh, never stopped to think that this could be (this could be the big one) oh, this could be t...

If your lonely heart is aching, think you can't take any more, you have to cup your hands to keep the light. I will lean across your shoulder and whisper in your ear that this is life. If you're old enough to face it, you are old enough to fake it, to...

I want you, I want you, for everything you do, you do to take a piece. I need you, I need you, 'cause everything you do is right on cue to take a piece. You're my find but I'll take my time until your eyes have dimmed from hot to soft and mellow....

There've been too many times when I never said what was on my mind. How was I to know you'd go so soon? Your God would come to take you home leaving me stumbling over stupid lines on a shabby page. Daddy, sometimes I'm filled with rage. I lost the only...

I never courted suffering, never valued paid, I'm not cruel, or a fool just not used to it! And now our fingers stay where once they hurried past. We've the time and the place, let's get used to it. And never feel lonely (I don't want to) and never st...

Your life is like free to fly, if feeling it is wrong I don't ever want to feel it right. It could almost be so, it is sure to be so sensational. My prayer is seldom heard ease into my arms and whisper liquid words of love. It could give you everyth...

Yes, I believe I'm not trouble sent to haunt you. Tell you for truth or did no one ever warn you til we stop these silly games. I can't believe what you say. I see your face across the miles and miles between us. Do they separate, do they separate or join...

Here I go out to sea again The sunshine fills my hair And dreams hang in the air Gulls in the sky and in my blue eyes You know it feels unfair There’s magic everywhere Look at me standing Here on my own again Up straight in the sunshine No need to run and hid...

You're a big girl now with a big girl's needs and a big girl's dreams and promises. Why don't you accept yourself, accept your desires and meet your needs, deny your problems? And don't cry, cry, don't cry, oh, you're a big girl now. It's so hard to...