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She Don't Stop Running
03:53
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She Don't Stop Running
If I'm looking for her
Then I'm where I belong.
Can't stay home and think straight
when she's been gone so long.
(Chorus)
I'm not trying to keep her
I don't miss her at all.
It's more how it feels on the outside
how she don't stop running when I call.
She don't need beautiful clothes
because she turns heads all the same.
When I take her back home
she's gonna dress like a man again.
(Chorus)
I'm gonna let her run now.
That's when she always returns.
If she comes back looking funny
you know it's gonna be my turn.
(Chorus)
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Give Me The Freedom Of Choice
I'm blown decayed inside let my heart feel the ride
I just died can I hide?
I'm grown but my bones feel small
within us all I know we're tall
(Chorus)
Give me the freedom of choice
I can use my own voice
Got a head and a shoulder to lean it on
And if the maid asks me
I'll say I'm trying for peace
she can clean up the blood on the floor
I'm hell my brother as well
he's got something of an appetite for raising it
and I know that if he doesn't show
I'll have to entertain on my own
(Chorus)
I'm dead I know that you said
It's better to bend with ones who don't tend
to shoot their mouth all over the house
their words can kill I'm so small
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
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The Comfort Of Lies
04:18
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The Comfort In Lies
I see madness and rage and the fear in the face of my reflection
and I wonder sometimes why I bother to stand in its way.
I mean, looking at all of the things that I've left unaccomplished
If I weren't a child I could have anything my own way
But it's true when you're true to yourself you've got to be happy.
I prefer the comfort in lies any old day.
(chorus) oooh, everything's all right
I'm here for a reason
ooooh, no need to get uptight, everything's all right
ooooh, everything's all right
I'm here for a reason
Just wasting my time - thinking of the fate of the nation.
What can I do when nobody knows what to expect?
Just a child of the wild, I can be king of the world now making my way to the gold mine, yeah.
I may just be a good boy
Gotta be happy.
I prefer the comfort in lies any old day.
(chorus)
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Anytime You'll Find Me
02:39
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Anytime You'll Find Me
Nobody wants you as much as I do
Nobody can treat you every day as someone new
when you're so happy remember I'm the man
anytime you'll find me
Let me hold you later someday when you have the time
You'll never regret it
I'm just another next in line
Give me the freedom I'll do what you do
Anytime you'll find me
Anytime you'll find me
love will never blind me
Anytime you'll find me
that'll be the day
When you search for somebody
you can hear me speak your name
when you're down on the corner
I'm always on the road you're playing
Clearly it's hidden
you don't know what I'd do
anytime you'll find me with you
anytime you'll find me with you.
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The Tour
07:37
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The Tour
You can give me your hand
you can close your sad eyes
keep that lock of hair danging
from your small pocket chain
give regards to my friends
give a kiss to my cheek
and if you want me stay
at least I'm ready to leave
Show him our room
you can hold him so near
you go make him a meal
tell him I'm gone
you can passionately kiss
dance our jukebox all night
you can go and be happy
like the way we knew how
Show him the door
and you'll get my new postcard
I'm heading back from the tour
playing my heart out for you
I can come back unknowing
I can come back still hoping
I can give you my hand
I can close my sad eyes
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So Deeply Inside Of You
04:21
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So Deeply Inside You
No one told me when I was alone
I'd meet someone who I loved and turned around
but it's happened before and I'm facing the floor
hoping that this gets off the ground
Last time I met somebody so fine
it fell apart like a tall ocean wave
and it came in so fast
and it never went back
and I never felt so high again
(Chorus)
Do You feel like I do -
do you feel me so deeply inside of you
Do You feel like I do -
do you feel me so deeply inside
Now I'm waiting for the lonely days to come and take you away again
will I ever feel the same
doesn't anybody care anymore?
(Chorus)
No one told me when I was alone
I'd meet someone who I loved and turned around
but it's happened before and I'm facing the floor
hoping that this gets off the ground
(Chorus)
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Once Upon A Time
02:41
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Once Upon A Time
I have waited in the darkness to see your sunlight shine
remembing the tender touch you often left behind
but no matter where you're going
who you are or who you'll be
you'll know in your tomorrows
yesterday there was me
oh you'll see it in your mirror
in your eyes and in your smile
our lives touched together
once upon a time.
When it's time for going and for following your dreams
you can look back to yesterday's smiling memories
and whenever the dark corridor seems hazy, hard, and long
you can listen through the evening
and hear me sing your song
you can look back from tomorrow
and see me wave goodbye
our lives touiched together once upon a time.
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The Wind
02:53
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The Wind
I'm trapped inside myself
and I'm not broken.
I'm talking to myself and I feel open.
I am like the wind sometimes
I feel I'm ready to blow.
I should know to where I'm blowing
but I don't know.
I hear birds flying by
singing a storm is near
but I'm feeling quite insane
I'm going to stay right here.
Wait until the storm comes
absorbs me in its cold.
I should know to where the sun shines
but I don't know.
I'm trapped inside myself
and I'm not broken.
I'm talking to myself and I feel open.
I am like the wind sometimes
I feel I'm ready to blow.
I should know to where I'm blowing
but I don't know.
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Nikki
02:59
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Nikki
You left your footprints in the sand
you left your childhood on the road
you never needed no one's hand
you could find your way alone
every word was like a puzzle
you could take apart and see
I could imagine all your life
past and present and future dreams.
You ran with all the nightmare gangs
felt the chills to your bones
you robbed yourself of virginity
innocence was never shown
you spoke in circles and echoes
your vision crying to be seen
I could imagine all your life
past and present and future dreams.
You could try your hand at kinship
try to love life like it was
try to understand life's hardships
what was underneath its cuts
but Nikki spoke with a wistful vengeance
and Nikki'd grumble when she'd breathe
I could imagine all her life
past and present and future dreams.
I could imagine all her life
past and present and future dreams.
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The Ballad Of Jerome Cornelius
In 1628 two ships
left Holland and were caught in a storm
bound for the East Indies islands
and the two ships swung off course
The merchant ship Batavia
with 300 people onboard
struck a coral reef in the Wallaby
near the west Australian shore
These islands were short on water
Captain Paelsaert went for aid
Planned a month long journey
in a dinghy up north
for the sake of the castaways
and tired and torn they reached the shore
of the East Indies islands
the governor sent them back
on a rescue yacht
he lent them the yacht Sardam
The Batavia's survivors carried jewels and gold
and 12 chests of money onto land
and a greedy young thug named Cornelius
quickly took command
He planned to seize the rescue ship
he and many a man
and escape with the money and the gold and the jewels
and kill who betrayed his plan
he ordered a brutal massacre
150 men and women died
Cornelius and his men watched the sea everyday
for the Sardam was due anytime
Cornelius knew of an island
3 or 4 miles away
with a team of survivors led by a man
whose name was Webeye Hayes
Hayes was warned by refugees
of Cornelius's plan
Hayes alerted the captain when the ship hit the shore
that Cornelius would seize the Sardam
Pealsart seized Cornelius
he was tried and put in a cell
they cut off both his hands and hung him on a stand
and to his men the same fate was dealt.
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Long Sleeved Shirt
02:34
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Long Sleeved Shirt
I was getting bored with the world one day
So I said "I'm gonna go on a shopping spree"
I went to the dress-up shop
picked me up a brand new top
it was a long sleeved shirt
just an ugly old thing anyone would wear
It was black and red and green and orange
too bad nothing rhymes with orange
I slipped the shirt on and walked out on the street
but the shirt hung right down under my feet
I looked like a multi-color bowling pin
I fell down
I went back in the dress up store
asked the clerk for a shirt that don't hang to the floor
he pointed to the tag on the collar of the neck and said
"pure cotton - what the heck!
just wash it a couple times!
you'll see it'll shrink!"
So I tripped on down to the laundromat
threw in a few loonies and left it at that
after some time I took a peek to see
shirt looked pretty damn good to me
so I tried it on
and it hung to my navel
belly button
I wore it all the time and no one seemed to care
as much for my shirt as for my belly button hair
pretty soon things weren't looking so bad
I'd started up my own little belly button fad
no one wears long shirts anymore
not unless you're the old fashioned kind
hide the belly button.
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