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Things You'll Keep
03:26
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Sat outside the darkened house
Reading one of your old letters
I'd carried it from town to town
I sometimes hoped for you
Things got better
It says" We'e got a place by the river now
The rooms are full of light, it's still our town
If there's such a thing as a second chance...
I want it now."
That's what it says
Things you keep
Some things you were never meant to lose
The things you keep
Some things the world cannot refuse
The things you keep
You thought there was a way out
So you took it on your hands and knees
Oh what if your best days are gone
How do you plead?
And if day to day is a hurting thing
You're even tired of all beauty now
And you said goodbye to your baby face
You said it to just about everything
Things you keep
Some things you were never meant to lose
The things you keep
Some things the world cannot refuse
The things you keep
Everybody was skinny then
Nobody said you wouldn't win
You said goodbye to your baby face
And just about everything
Things you keep
Some things you were never meant to lose
The things you keep
Some things the world cannot refuse
The things you keep
Everybody was skinny then
Everybody was skinny then
And they said you wouldn't hear
You said goodbye to your baby face
And just about everything
How do you plead?
How do you plead?
How do you plead?
How do you plead?
How do you plead?
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The failure of love is like a brick wall
You prayed for me to hit it
Said you'd like to see me fall
That's like a lesson you'd give to a kitten
So quiet now and lonely
So quiet now
You thought you'd be the girl Rimbaud
Your voice was full of longing
The clubs you played died years ago
Now you only sing for children
No one can turn the old clocks back
They closed us down, they killed our act
We' re not the same
Life full of farewells ...
Failure came and took your hand
You always meant to miss it
But someone likes to see you fall
It' s like a lesson you give to a kitten
You' re so tired now
You' re so tired now
So tired
No one can turn the old clocks back
They closed us down, they killed our act
We' re not the same
I'm not the same
They closed us down, they killed our act
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You Became My Big Excuse
05:27
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One time you couldn't dream,
couldn't see past this life
Something like defeat
floated in the evening light
If you land in darkness,
no one will keep up...
You kept your place,
I moved through a world of strangers
Where's your tenderness?
Everything gets rearranged
If it's all revealed
as treachery and deals
Where's your grace?
You became my big excuse
The poison that I drink
when I sink my teeth in you
You became my big excuse
People that were friends,
something cames along-it changes
Fog just doesn't lift,
old hotels and railway stations
Where's the good in that?
You just rush away and pack
You became my big excuse
The poison that I drink
when I sink my teeth in you
You became my big excuse
You don't get my name,
all you get's my reputation
Always been the same,
played it close or isolated
But just around the bend,
something's gotta end
I keep too much in,
know I'm not much company
If you land in darkness,
no one can keep up
Nobody could
You became my big excuse
The poison that I drink
when I sink my teeth in you
You became my big excuse
Could be a long, long, long time
Getting over this
Could be a long, long, long time
Getting over...
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End of Some Fear
03:40
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Things are changing all around here
I'm a stranger to this life
Still it's not so very far to fall
Used to skip up to your steps
Far from sorrow, still in wonder
I'm so grateful now that you've reappeared
It's the end of some fear,
the end of some fear
Well I know the story the evening brings
The blonde women, the drunken swing
But I want you and the world
that cames with you
I want to fill you up with laughter
It's the end of some fear
I'm a stranger to this life
Things are changing all around here
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They're gonna bury you here
when the apples are in season
I knew the same taste and the fear for a while
Not everyone can write like you do
Not every clown can be in the circus
Who will remember your tunes when you're gone?
Once was mine, now it's yours
You'll learn to live from door to door
And that road you never travelled-this is it
That hole in your life, who'll fix it?
That hope that you had, what killed it?
What killed it?
The season has came to an end,
all the boats are leaving
The shoreline seems so far
Not everyone can write like you do
Not every clown can be in the circus
That kitten that purrs in your soul,
you'll never drown.
Once was mine , now it's yours
You'll learn to live from door to door
And that road you never travelled-this is it
That hole in your life, who'll fix it?
That hope that you had, what killed it?
What killed it?
Once was mine, now it's yours
You'll learn to live from door to door
And that road you never travelled-this is it
That hole in your life, who'll fix it?
That hope that you had, what killed it?
What killed it?
I wanna slow everything down. I want back.
Who will remember your tunes?
I will
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Here's to the losers.
Some get away, some fall behind
We're not getting any younger
How could I ask you to be kind?
All of us failures here, we're staring down the past
Where the good times rolled
I get tired of living
or maybe I'm just tired of who I am
All I've done adds up to nothing.
It's not a thing you'd plan
Well thank you for making me beg
New I'd like to get out of my head
Here's to the losers who have given up their ghosts
Who have lost all their connections
Who go missing every boat
People say "Are you glad to be here?
How dumb can you get?"
Oh I can get that dumb
I get tired of living,
or maybe I'm just tired of who I am
Failure blows away all your childish plans
So thank you for making me beg
Now I'd like to get out of my head
I spent a long stretch in Dullsville
just trying to get on
All the lights went rushing past me.
Something good, gone
All of us failures we're staring down the past
Where the good times rolled
I get tired of living
or maybe I'm just tired of who I am
Tell me-are you tired of who I am?
Are you tired of who I am?
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Paint the Days White
05:30
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Will we ever make it to shore?
Who will follow you down?
Who will follow you there?
Your demons fade... you drift all day
You say you don't know what it is to be happy
You hide behind your little girl voices
And baby doll noises
Nothing could poison, poison you now
I will paint the days white
Fill them with light
Cos I know there's nothing left for you
I know there's nothing left
Know there's nothing left for you in that life
Your demons fade, they go away
You say you don't know what it was that once mattered
Your eyes
Your little girl dresses, baby doll guesses
All the worlds yeses followed you round
I will paint the days white
Fill them with light
Cos I know there's nothing left for you
I know there's nothing left
there's nothing left for you in that life
You're at the bottom of nowhere on a Spring day
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She Sings to Forget You
06:25
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You can't get in, you're forgotten
Because you've never had to fold
You tbought your luck would always hold
You're just a shadow,
you walk the old familiar streets
You count the friands you never meet
The goodbye train,
some of us went on it for a while
The goodbye train,
come along and took you for a ride
The goodbye train
You're not lost or broken yet
you're not lost or broken yet
Through bitterness and on through chaos
You visit all the crummy rooms,
stale sweat and old perfume
Kiss off the past, your dead illusions
Now tell me Pussycat, what's new?
Tell me where your hopes went to
The goodbye train,
some of us went on it for a while
The goodbye train
You're not lost or broken yet
you're not lost or broken yet
You can't give in, you can't give in
Not you, not you Sunny Jim
You can't give in...
When I met you, you wore black stockings
You liked your powder white,
it was such a pretty sight
Give nothing away, no dark confession
But if you came walking through the door I could be
Desperately Yours
But the goodbye train
come along and took you for a
The goodbye train, the goodbye
You're not lost or broken yet,
You're not lost or broken yet
You can't give in, you can't give in
Not you, not you Sunny Jim
You're not lost or broken yet,
You're not lost or broken yet
Where are you now my dark obsession?
I walk the streets in dead man's shoes
Through smoke & rain...
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Your working days are over now
You were on the road almost forty years
Every Monday morning you'd disappear
The children lie there in their pyjamas
Then rush outside to wave goodbye
But you were gone, you and your nightmare
That we'd grow up and grow apart
It was your job, there was no way around it
You've never known any other life
And now you've got
All the time in the world now
How are you gonna kill it?
All the time in the world
Your working days are over now
So now you're painting all the empty rooms
You're always barefoot, gave away your suits
You can play Sinatra any time you like
A vanisbed world surrounds you as you close your eyes
Let me say, you're such a good man
I wanted te turn out as good as you
I cut my teeth on disappointment so far
What is it that makes us who we are?
All the time in the world now
How are you gonna kill it?
All the time in the world
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