1. |
Bend
03:28
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Bend
I’ve been several times around
You’d think that I should’ve learned by now
But every time she lifts her skirt
and dances for me til it hurts
I’m at the lost and found
Girls are women from the start
Men are little boys until the end
With too little room
in their little hearts
But just enough space to bend
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2. |
Let it go
04:02
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Let it go
Shout it out with the light of day
and let it go
breath it in oh come what may
and let it go
take life as it comes
when it comes so hard
let it go
choke up your pride
kiss the rain outside
let it go
when everybody’s on your trail
let it go
when your world seems like a jail
let it go
the times that ‘ve said goodbye
are never coming back
so let it go
look yourself in the eye
take a moment and then
let it go
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3. |
Better
03:50
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Better
There was always something to talk about
The children that played, or the weather
There was always someone to see us laugh
To see you smile
So who’s looking now when I’m standing alone in the rain
Where are you now
Does he treat you the same, or better
There are so many things I would like to say
I would like to do with you now
But I know there’s someone new in town
And that he stole your heart away
So who’s looking now when I’m standing alone in the rain
Where are you now
Cause I’m going insane
And there’s an empty room instead of my heart
And it hurts and aches
And mending it takes so much time
There are things that I would like to talk about
Like the children that play or the weather
Please let someone hear me now
I’m wasting away
Where are you now when I’m standing alone in the rain
I hope you’re happy now
I hope he treats you the same
Or better than me
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4. |
Your sky
03:08
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Your sky
Late in the evening when I come home
I’m relieving you
and in the morning when I’m alone
I believe in you
and it’s an all different feel
and am I being real
cause when I wake up next to your face
I find myself in a shameful place
and is it all worth the crime
of being with you being so fine
I don’t know but
when you smile I see strawberry fields rising up in the sky
when you smile I see you and I and gold wheels rushing by
when all your highclass friends have failed
and you want to differentiate
well if it’s meaningful to your world
you are my girl
and then the earth stops moving
your my baby on a saturday night
when you smile I see
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5. |
Let go
02:43
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Let go
Where were you last night
taken by the fire
I went to look for you
but something took you higher
and when i found you out
I should’ve stayed at home
baby, I’m so tired of letting go
Where were you last night
taken by desire
I went to look for you
but someone took you higher
and when I found you out
I wish you’d been alone
honey, I’m so tired of letting go
So now here we are
meeting eye to eye
and you try to speak of love
but the words don’t come out right
and it hits me like a light
I think it’s time to say goodbye
cause baby I’m so tired of letting go
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6. |
Things we lost
03:49
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Things we lost
I’ve spent so much time
fishing for the moon in the water
only to find the deep blue sky
but look at the stars
God must be a pretty bad shot I say
You call him a liar
I’ve been up all night
but I’ll go all day if you ask me to
look for the things that we lost
You look at me
like it’s the last time
I just won’t succumb to that
I tried so hard
to lead every step of the way
but I can only follow in this dance we dance
I’ve been up all night
but I’ll go all day if you ask me to
look for the things that we lost
in the fire
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7. |
Inside
03:28
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Inside
Last summer's faces and last summer's dresses
faraway places, at times she just guesses
makes her feel alright
and she closes her eyes
she lies besides me and pulls up the covers
she doesn’t sleep, no, she thinks of her mother
will she be alright
at least not tonight
and I feel like the best is yet to come
and she feels like she’s not the only one
I just close my eyes
then I feel it inside
can’t help but stare at her when we walk past her
casts me a glance and I think I just left her
it ‘ll be alright
she just wants tonight
everyone wants to have love filled with passion
but once you have it you cannot hold on to it
So I laugh and cry
didn’t know I could do that at the same time
and I feel like the best is yet to come
and she feels like she’s not the only one
we just close our eyes
and keep our secrets deep inside
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8. |
Here & now
04:14
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Here and now
Slowly
she slips into a state of mind where she’s
sinking
in the flood of all she’s left behind and she’s
drifting
trying to make a turn this time
trying to bend the branches into a straight line
It’s like twilight
stuck between night and day
it’s a foggy
ally where you can’t find your way
a conversation
where you cannot find the words to say
I’m sorry it didn’t turn out your way
You want to mend
every wrong decision you ever made
your body’s bent
backwards so you cannot escape
and cannot
is a mantra that won’t go away
well here and now is where you’re at
today
the slowest cut you make
can’t mask the scars of your last mistake
The air gets thicker with every breath you take
It will budge but it just won’t break
It’s like twilight
stuck between night and day
it’s a foggy
ally where you can’t find your way
a conversation
where you cannot find the words to say
I’m sorry it didn’t turn out your way
You want to mend
every wrong decision you ever made
your body’s bent
backwards so you cannot escape
and cannot
is a mantra that won’t go away
well here and now is where you’re at
today
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9. |
A breeze like you
03:40
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A breeze like you
I never needed anyone like you in my life
Was always full of sketches of pain
And you were much too pure to hold inside me
You always tried to get away
But something changed and now you’re here beside me
Standing in the rain
And you can say what you want but don’t deny it like me
You can tell me to leave but do it softly
Because the slightest breeze will break my love in two
A breeze like you
When I saw you sitting there my heart skipped a beat
This fool, this life, these words, a lie you say
Well, if that’s the way you feel
Until now I used to be so strong
But watch me bow, fall, kneel
And you can say what you want but don’t deny it like me
You can tell me to leave but do it softly
Because the slightest breeze can break my heart in two
A breeze like you
She says she wants to be free
I say you can be free with me
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10. |
4-11-2008 (Chicago Lady)
03:58
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4-11-2008 (Chicago lady)
They had just finished saying grace when she saw the men outside her house
After they’d shot her father and brother they lit it up and burned it to the ground
She banished all her anger and hate that night
Since there wasn’t nothing that would ever make it right
Instead she took the first train north and left her past behind
A lady on the Chicago streets tonight.
Now she and her man ran into hard times but a colored man could never get no loan
So he and some friends they turned to theft
To feed the hungry mouths they had back home
Well the cops they caught him on one of his nights out
She rode the back of the city bus to bail him out
She buried all of her tears that night ‘cause there was nothing left to say
A lady on the Chicago streets today.
But tonight she’ll put her best dress on, tonight she’s going out
Tonight she’ll bring her tears and hurt, she’s gonna let it all out
‘Cause tomorrow this might all be a dream
But she don’t care tonight
They put a black man in the white house tonight.
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11. |
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You will always play that part
It won‘t be long before you’ll find a home
just swallow your pride, swallow it whole
don’t think of tomorrow
leave it alone.
but I saw her face, remember her name
and it drew me back, back to that place
where nothing had changed
where we were the same
Marilyn you might not know this
Marilyn, you might not even notice
But Marilyn you always do this to me
how am I supposed to make a start
when I cannot let you go
and why do you always play this part
is it just cause I loved you so
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12. |
Three
02:06
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Three
It’s funny how the mind works
strangely twisting facts
into fiction that slowly fills the cracks
that caused all of this hurt
I didn’t want to say anything
about what was you plus me
cause now it seems that the sum of us
always added up to three
the first one being me of course
the second one being you
and the third being the pain I caused
I guess we couldn’t love each other through
so here we are; two islands
and in between the deep blue see
filled with all the outcome
of what will never be
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