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Selling Dreams
03:04
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Everyday you’d fall for someone or something
Living in Berlin
This city got my ears ringing
The same old tune
Just don’t ask me what school that I went to
We always tremble alone, but we move together
never settle on sacred ground
they don’t see what I see now
Your selling dreams
and walking paths
kissing cowboys
building houses that you know will fall apart
viewing screens and drawing graphs
between romance and betrayal from your past
building houses that will one day fall apart
Listening to the stupid things they say like
there's only right or wrong, it's only black or white
I can’t keep no promises, but I won't tell lies
I can promise you anything, for tonight
We always tremble alone, but we move together
never settle on sacred ground
they don’t see what I see now
Your selling dreams
and walking paths
kissing cowboys
building houses that you know will fall apart
viewing screens and drawing graphs
between romance and betrayal from your past
building houses that will one day fall apart
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Somewhere in the city
in a nowhere part of town
I pictured your shadow
beside me on the ground
give you time, get loneliness
this ain’t easy for either of us now
It ain’t easy for either of us now
Somewhere from the other side
you call my name
you’re wanting answers
I guess I want the same
found old letters that you wrote
they don’t make it easier
but you got letters of your own
It ain’t easy for either of us now
It ain’t easy for either of us now
Somewhere in the future
at the end of the show
I don’t want you thinking
that I didn’t know
when the lights go out
and the stage in clean
I hope you know that I know
you were aching just like me
It ain’t easy for either of us now
It ain’t easy for either of us now
It ain’t easy, It ain’t easy, It ain’t easy
It ain’t easy for either of us now
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East Side
03:40
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There was Hannah and Krissy, Ally and Chloe
always covered in perfume fumes
Elly & Julie, Hanging with the rich boys
Polo shirts and jeans dark blue
Lucy & Charlotte, Sally & Stacy
I only ever saw from a far
Sophie & Clancy
they never stopped dancin'
around that champagne bar
You were born on the East Side Honey
I could never change that
Well you were born on the East Side Honey
spending all of daddy's pay
Well you were born on the East Side Honey
It's a matter of fact
You were born on the East Side Honey
what you gonna do about that
Lily & Laura, Kelly was boring
Never read much philosophy
Holly & Helen, Anna & Abby
and the one who always wore sequins
I never could remember her name
Lauren & Maddy, were almost sisters
they lived on the same avenue
Amy & Eleanor
were always on the East End
Acting all righteous
like there so much better than you
You were born on the East Side Honey
I could never change that
Well you were born on the East Side Honey
spending all of daddy's pay cheque
Well you were born on the East Side Honey
It's a matter of fact
You were born on the East Side Honey
what you gonna do about that
You could be laughing
I wouldn't care
Fixed up in fashion
just to make them stop & stare
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Buried my lover in the spring street station
hailing from the southern states
met in the warmth of the subway car
I forgot to get off the train
talking to much we got carried away
nothing could have pulled you back
‘cause you’re walking out now to the fashion week crowds
where they tell you all the things that you lack
so you spend more money
I’ll never know your name
When I was a boy papa played cassettes
and he only wore second hand shoes
there was a speaker in the living room
singing don’t think twice to you
I’m not the kind of guy to be polite
if I really don’t need to
when you living your life as a vagabond
there’s some people that you have to choose
for now I’m tangled up in you
I’ll never know your name
I remember eyes light up like Santa Monica Pier
I’ll never know your name
My My My
Times like these they come like California rain
I’ll never know your name
Having something to prove can’t take so long
when you finally make the choice to be alone
Living your life walking down a oneway road
'cause you can't buy your courage from the grocery store
I’ll never know your name
I remember eyes so bright
I’ll never know your name
My My My
Times like these they come like California rain
I’ll never know your name
I’ll never know your name
I remember eyes, I remember eyes
I’ll never know your name
My My My
Times like these, oh times like these
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5. |
Blood & Wine
03:32
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I fell off the train with a hole in my head
a dead folk musician and a dry bottle of red
there’s a drunk on the street singing nursery rhymes
he got the missiles, but the man can hardly stand
he gonna let ‘em fly tonight
as a cocktail of blood and wine pours down my cheeks
My life is like an empty parking lot
its made to be fulfilled
but you just can’t find your spot
Much like a country counter shop
take what you can get
but it’s never what you want
A country singer shouts to those who only like the disco
the bartenders in the bathroom sniffing on snow white
while the dogs keep on barking at the nightclub door
They’re howling for forgiveness, they only want forgiveness
I hate the way these places never let you leave
I wind up every night beside a guy who looks like Jesus Christ
My life is like an empty parking lot
its made to be fulfilled
but you just can’t find your spot
Much like a country counter shop
take what you can get
but it’s never what you want
No one gave you all the things you ever wanted
your siblings always got their way, didn’t they
no one gave a damn about your prestige college
while you were hoping that they would some day
My life is like an empty parking lot
its made to be fulfilled
but you just can’t find your spot
Much like a country counter shop
take what you can get
but it’s never what you want
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Yours For Life
03:07
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I fell alone
from a sky no longer fit to call a home
for a man who wonders how imagination
leads to his desires
you need not to view upon fields of stars forever
to see them changing
So if you see me tumbling, tiresome
still alive with tears for wiping
shake them off
and if you feel me fumbling, frightened
from this day forward I’m yours for life
we’ll make it up
you can bathe me in whatever you got
I went to hold you
just as I held them away
from streaming down my weary face
you dressed in lace I hardly recognised you
walking down, grandmothers gown
it was hanging from your precious shoulders
So if you see me tumbling, tiresome
still alive with tears for wiping
shake them off
and if you feel me fumbling, frightened
from this day forward I’m yours for life
we’ll make it up
you can bathe me in whatever you got
So if you see me tumbling, tiresome
still alive with tears for wiping
shake them off
and if you feel me fumbling, frightened
from this day forward I’m yours for life
we’ll make it up
you can bathe me in whatever you got
while your picture sits a shrine upon my wall
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Pavlova
04:33
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Pine needles perfume hanging in the air
well I took a tram to the city square
decorations line the streets
chalk dust underneath my feet
I walked through chinatown alone
The televisions cheering from the other room
I ran inside to see who bowled who
while the uncles where playing darts
I got talking to the aunts
I don't know how but I guess they knew
Don't cancel christmas this year
I'm saying I need you here
when wish list morning comes
and all the carols have been sung
I know there's things I'd have done differently
they soon become my new years resolutions
all I feel is dissolution
I want my christmas red and green and with you
don't make it blue
Red and white of a candy cane
thoughts roll back that I can't explain
like when I tied the tinsel to the patio
where I swung you round to and fro
pavlova, paper crowns
there ain't no tinsel now
and they've just called stumps on day two
Don't cancel christmas this year
I'm saying I need you here
when wish list morning comes
and all the carols have been sung
I know there's things I'd have done differently
they soon become my new years resolutions
but all I feel is dissolution
I want my christmas red and green and with you
don't make it blue
Pavlova, paper crowns
there ain't no tinsel now
and the uncles started singing
“blue, blue, blue suede shoes,
blue, blue, blue suede shoes,
you can do what you want but lay off of my blue suede shoes”
Don't cancel christmas this year
I'm saying I need you here
when wish list morning comes
all the carols have been sung
I know there's things I'd have done differently
they soon become my new years resolutions
but all I feel is dissolution
I want my christmas red and green and with you
don't make it blue
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Stuck In Amsterdam
02:19
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I guess she’ll never leave this town
she was busy saying something about
how she was cursed and tired of letting sweeter people down
European lifestyle meltdown
getting away from the regular crowd
you’re gonna need some space, need some time, gonna need your pills
Sometimes things don’t work out how you plan
stuck in Amsterdam
Sometimes things don’t work out how you plan
stuck in Amsterdam
She's a wanderer or probably lost
she's to centred on the cost
would it be a little different if we hadn’t crashed the car that night
One more cheap hotel
would give me reason to leave this hell
I only need a reason, I only need one more reason
Sometimes things don’t work out how you plan
Stuck in Amsterdam
Sometimes things don’t work out how you plan
Stuck in Amsterdam
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9. |
A Different Side To You
04:17
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