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Con Artist
03:42
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Ain't it strange I must find a way
To convince you to convince myself
I can have the same conversations with my friends
They don't seem concerned
I see you constantly try
To continue to connect our lives
You conjure up my world
And construct it in a different light
What if my walls turns grey
What if it falls, this masquerade
What will be my contents?
What if I change my shape
What if it's a whole charade
What will be the consequence?
Ain't it strange I must find a way
To console you
To console myself
I need a contact to confide in
Now I'm slowly feeling more content
You can be so condescending
But I tell my friends you're misconstrued
Though my confidence it grows
You keep me too well contained
What if these walls turns grey
What if it falls, this masquerade
What will be my contents?
What if I change my shape
What if it's a whole charade
What will be the consequence?
What will be the consequence?
Hum dum bim baa do
Hum dum bim baa do
Hum dum bim baa do di
Hum dum dim baa do
Hum dum dim baa do
Hum dum dim baa do di
What if I concede right now?
What if it's contagious doubt?
What if it's the concept?
What if I finally consign?
What if my contrast dies?
What if it's convention?
What if I concentrate?
What if I confess mistakes?
Would you miss the conflict?
What if my need for tight control
Leads me to contrived results
What if it's subconscious?
Am I too self-conscious?
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2. |
Shapes & Sizes
03:20
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You're so much more than my little one
With wide eyes to admire parental walls
Like ivy clings and ivy grows
You think there mustn't be a thing these walls don't know
They come in many different shapes and sizes
Taking tiny steps you'll tumble older
Build your hunger pushing bricks bound to fall
You'll find a means and find a voice
You'll begin to question just how much to place your trust in some
Who come in many different shapes and sizes
Through time you'll keep changing
With all of my words over your shoulder
When I stop changing
Consider me too far, too gone, too old
If you fear the years as they flow faster
Time is the river it twists you 'round the bend
'Cause life can be both wide and narrow
You must decide the times you swim or find something you can hold onto
They come in many different shapes and sizes
Some may stay
Some may drift away
When I'm gone you may meet me in your mirror
As you watch your saplings navigate the undergrowth
Their eyes will seek the lattice that they may soon cling onto
But you mustn't tell them everything we know
And they will one day trust the walls
As they come in many different shapes and sizes
Through time you'll keep changing
With all of my words over your shoulder
When I stop changing
Consider me too far, too gone, too old
When I stop changing
Consider me too far, too gone, too old
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3. |
Hold On You, & Me
03:07
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2am on a golf course
Thought I'd never get bored
We've been together forever
Now I'm wondering if there's anything more
Walking into the wind
Slipped in a salt spray
Felt the shade of a Norfolk pine
The light lasted longer
Even on the dark days
Sitting in the cinema
Looking up, looking up
Thinking that'll never be us
But now
It's gotta hold on you
It's gotta hold on me
It's gotta hold on every, every, everything we used to be
In our exhaust, feels like we've tried
Yeah I'm sure we've fought harder
Weather gets better
Stuck in a rug
I'll be director of the bed
I took a knife and cut the kite string
To see how high the wind would take it
Looking up, looking up
While it was rolling in the dust
Because
It's gotta hold on you
It's gotta hold on me
It's gotta hold on every, every, everything we used to be
Can we ever go back?
Do you think that you could love me like that?
If we can never go back
Do you think that you can love me like that?
Do you think that we can ever go back?
Do you think that you can ever love me like that?
Think that you can love me like that?
Even if
It's gotta hold on you
It's gotta hold on me
It's gotta hold on every, every, every, every
Hold on you
Hold on me
It's gotta hold on every, every, every, everything
Hold on you
Hold on me
We gotta hold onto every, every, everything we used to be
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4. |
Eraser
04:03
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There's something on this page I can't erase
To say I've tried too many times
I cannot overstate how many different ways
I've tried to tear it out, I've tried to start again
But slowly I know only I'm to blame
I relive time like I'm in yesterday
But it seems there is no spare room, the words won't dare fit
The plot it just gets thinner
You're the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
You're the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
There's a look upon your face I can't shake
I've seen you smile too many times
Floating further into space I cannot look away
Tried to turn I only see your face again
Quickly you fall swiftly in the gaze
Of your new found love while I begin to fade
Now I'm standing on a new stage and I haven't learnt the bit
Spotlight getting dimmer
You're the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
You're the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
You're the ink unto my paper
I'll admit it's feeling strange
That we believe a friendship may still remain
An optimistic fool
Wading in the deep end of an endless pool of doubts.
Just swimming, swimming under clouds
Well there's something in how light creates the shade
How fast the dark adapts our sight
A call from you today in such a sorry state
It's hard to hear you're heart broke apart again
Being lonely shows you know a better place
One to leave makes space for one to gain
So let's say there's more to us than words no longer dimly lit
And build upon a glimmer
You're the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
You're the ink unto my paper
You're the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
You're the ink unto my paper
You're the ink unto my paper
I've tried, I've tried, I've tried
You're the ink unto my paper
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5. |
Childish Things
02:52
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A simple slip of the tongue
A sad sentence
Send in the clowns
Just my painful cry
Such dire defences
An ornamental gun
But it's only when it cuts that one of us gets down
If it changes the way you think about me
I hope it doesn't change the way you feel
Forgive me
'Cause sometimes in the heat of the moment
I can say such childish things
A time for turning numb
A new penchant
To blend in the crowd
Mistakes multiply
Such trifle trenches
For sentimental ones
Yeah, it's only when it cuts that one of us gets down
If it changes the way you think about me
I hope it doesn't change the way you feel
Forgive me
'Cause sometimes in the heat of the moment
I can say such childish things
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Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When it hurts so bad
Are you governed by the sky?
Tell me why you love, tell me why
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When it turns you sad
And it took so long to find
Tell me why you love, tell me why
In these arms you crawl and cry
A better start then to run and hide
In your grasp, you try
But this won't hold forever, ever
Everything you have to measure
And it just ain't long enough
It's strange what it does to us
When it just ain't long enough
So strange, so strange what it does
When love ain't long enough
It's strange what it does to us
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When the guilt comes in
And it's no respite to close your eyes
Tell me why you love, tell me why
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
When the fade begins
Nobody's made for surrendering
Tell me why the love gives in
In the past I'd laugh or sigh
I never read it as a warning sign
In your heart, you pry
Yeah this won't hold forever, ever
Everything you have to measure
And it just ain't long enough
It's strange what it does to us
When it just ain't long enough
So strange, so strange what it does
When love ain't long enough
It's strange what it does to us
So strange, so strange, so strange
Tell me why you love
Tell me why you love
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7. |
Everybody Wants
03:09
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Everybody says things ain't what they used to be
You remember how the world worked better
But can't remember where you put your keys
Tell me now
Life, does it all seem better as a child?
Everybody got a theory what's right, wrong, good or bad
I guess the mormons at my door will never know about the call I said I had
Tell me now
Life, does it all work better without lies?
Everybody wants their freedom
Everybody wants control
Everybody thinks if you give it all you get it all returned
Everybody wants to feel, feel like the original one
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
What everybody wants
Everybody wants a life of love and a love life but you can't have both
Plan it out, make it perfect, love my life, drink more wine just so I can cope
Tell me now
Life, does it all seem better on your side?
Everybody wants to leave a good impression or a legacy
But won't admit mistakes, saving their confessions to be dumping on the clergy
Tell me now
Life, does it all seem better when you're right?
Everybody wants their freedom
Everybody wants control
Everybody thinks if you give it all you get it all returned
Everybody wants to feel, feel like the original one
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
What everybody wants
Everybody wants, what everybody wants
What everybody wants
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8. |
Too Many Words For Us
03:21
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If I was an author
I may have a chance
Or a poet for a start
The words tumbling from the palms of my hands
I know how it feels
But I don't dare explain
Or articulate in inferior ways
I can't count the times we've butt our heads
Nor the many times that you've stopped me in my tracks
When I look back on all the years
At the stories in the dust
There's too many, too many
Too many words
There's too many, too many
Too many words
When I'm on the road
I dream of being home
I wonder the warmth you find
Along that limestone coast
Hope we're thinking the same
From foreign towns
I won't pretend it's ever green
But we've seen enough of each other now
I can't count the times we've butt our heads
Nor the times that you've stopped me in my tracks
When I look back on all the years at the stories in the dust
There's too many, too many
Too many words
There's too many, too many
Too many words for us
Well we've been through a lot I'd say we've been through it all
But there's still so much I'd love to see in this world
I want to say something but it don't say enough
There's too many, too many
Too many words for us
There's too many, too many
Too many words
There's too many, too many
Too many words for us
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9. |
Soothsayer
03:21
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Let the past be the past
& let the future go
Let the path be the path
Let others do what others do
But don’t let the subtle glue
Of temptation take hold
Why I wanna be a soothsayer
Twisting fate a different way around
Why I wanna be a soothsayer
Guess I gotta wait and see how it all plays out
Take what you have and watch where you go
Take note of all of the things
You've had the privilege to hold
Get what you need and speak what you know
Check once in a while all that you’ve got
And know where it all came from
Why I wanna be a soothsayer?
Twisting fate a different way around
Why I wanna be a soothsayer?
Guess I gotta wait and see how it all plays out
The years pass by like a friend that you saw
At the end of an aisle in a grocery store
You wake up at night in a frozen sweat
With all of the old conversations and faces
Still looking over the bed
Why I wanna be a soothsayer?
Twisting fate a different way around
Why I wanna be a soothsayer?
Guess I gotta see how it all plays out
If I knew now how it all turns out
Could I make it change somehow
If I knew now how it would all turn out
Would it all be different right now
Why I wanna be a soothsayer?
Could I make it change somehow
Why I wanna be a soothsayer?
I just gotta wait and see how it all plays out
How it all plays out
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10. |
The Answer
03:18
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I'm tired of keeping up appearances
Trying not to let you down
But finding out your fierce facade
Is only made of glass
Makes it easier for me to ask
The questions heavy in my weary grasp
They slip between my fingers
Like little pebbles wear to dust
And fill my damaged cup
It's time to breath as I have to bring it up, and
I don't want to know
I don't want to know the answer
No, I don't want to know
I don't want to know the answer
I can't compare myself to everyone
Many mirrors make a madman
We'll forget the little light thats left
In our winter sunset
I'll finish speaking and pray for silence
I can't imagine what you think of me
This heart departed so long ago
We farewell the frightened leaves to grow
But still remains the cold
I'm on my knees and I'm afraid, 'cause
I don't want to know
I don't want to know the answer
No, I don't want to know
I don't want to know the answer
If I don't want to know
I don't want to know
If I don't want to know
I don't want to know
If I don't want to know
I don't want to know
But finding out your fierce facade is only made of glass
It makes it easier for me to ask
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11. |
Is Everything Alright?
03:43
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It’s okay to let it out
I’ll hear every word you say
As a river catches every leaf of doubt that falls
Throughout a rainy day
When the candles out
And you have no torch to shine
There’s a starlit sky speckled in the lake
On a clear night
I'm holding on so tight
I'm splitting at the seams
I'll tear myself to rags ‘cause I don’t always, remember my dreams
I only want to know
I only want to know
That everything’s alright with you
I only want to know
I only want to know
That everything’s alright with you
When I hear that melody
It's like you wandered in the room
How memories get bottled up
In songs and old perfumes
If you ever need reminding
If you ever need a friend
To sit with you in darkness
Or to fall, not knowing where it ends
Or to hold on so tight
Like the branches of a tree
When the storm's outside and you're wrapped up
Remembering dreams
I only want to know
I only want to know
That everything’s alright with you
I only want to know
I only want to know
That everything’s alright with you
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