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Good Morning Love
08:49
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Good morning love, time to arise
Time to open up, open up those big blue eyes
Good morning love, time to forget
Everyone else that's ever been in your bed
Good morning love, it's time to seize your days
Time to light the world with your pretty face
Good morning love, how do you do?
Did you sleep well even without me next to you?
Good morning love, take me away
Into your arms, tell me everything's okay
Good morning love, let me feel your heart
And know that we'll never be apart
Big sky shining in your eyes and I'm so in love with you
Engulfed by the clouds so white and I'm so in love with you
Bright soul, let me take you home so I can be close to you
A chokehold with a phrase so bold but I swear that I love you
Good morning love, rest assured
You'll be the only one, only one to light up my world
Good morning love, now is the time
To get ready for the next day of the rest of your life
Good morning love, throughout your long, soft sleep
You will still be right next to me
Good morning love
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Goodbye Light
04:23
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Goodbye light, say goodnight to all that you love
Feel the dark black fright flowing through you
Goodbye light, you were a sight for the sorest of eyes
And I think I might wish I never knew you
I gave you a chance, you swept it away
I gave you another change, you swept it away again
I'm trying to resist the urge
To give you a third chance, 'cause maybe it will
Finally work out, but now it's too hard to tell
Let my heart binge and purge
Goodbye sun, you reminded me a lot of myself
Like sometimes how I'd explode into a big burning ball of flames
Goodbye sun, I'll remember you until I go down to Hell
Where the temperature's really not that different
And the people aren't as evil as they are up here
The look in your eyes, so big and so bright
The curve of your smile still curves so right
I'm trying not to screw this up for good
'Cause we both know no matter what goes
On between us, we can't ever be alone
And it's hard not to think about what I'd do if we could
So give me a shock, like ten thousand volts
Straight to the heart and hope that I'll learn to cope
As my head spins and my tongue bends
So used to feeling bad I never wanna feel good again
So goodbye light, and goodbye sun
Goodbye everything and everyone
I'll go out with this emptiness
Left on my lips from all the ones that I never got to kiss
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27
04:32
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There's a girl, standing on stage
Singing Bowie to the cats in the bar
There's a big time record executive
Telling her that she's gonna go far
Now she doesn't quite know what to do yet
Because she's only just turned twenty-four
But she's been waiting to get out her desk job
And try to find something a little bit more
She knows that the brutalization of the
Industry's gonna kill her inside
But she can't spend another night
Drunkenly semi-singing 'Rock & Roll Suicide'
Until she becomes one of her own
Well she signs her pretty new contract
Guaranteeing fortune and fame
And she meets the hot young producer
And five years from now no one will know his name
'Cause he'll crash and he'll burn just like all of the others
And she's gonna come down with him
'Cause she is just his little android obeying
To every promise with a grin
And by the time that she turns twenty-five
She's got four big number one hits
She's selling out concerts in giant arenas
Where 10,000 screaming fans sit
Give her two more years and then she'll be gone
She's recording her follow-up effort
Getting guest spots from all the big stars
And the day before the release date
She was found dead in her car
She went to her big release party
And did a few lines of cocaine
Then she did a few more and fell down on the floor
Started twitching like she was insane
Said some incomprehensible words as her friends
Tried to hold her and pick her back up
And they threw her in the backseat of her BMW
To join the 27 club
I can't wait wait to meet her, just ten years to go
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Baby let's go repent tonight
Then maybe everything will be all right
Cause lately i can't go to sleep at night
And frankly some days I miss the light
Lover lets start a revolution
Another way to make us more abusive
Take cover, hide behind the sacred music
Our mothers will be quite sore if we lose it
Baby, lets die for each other's sins
Cause we've been way too innocent to live
The feelings gonna punch my heart right in
But I'll pull it out for you if you want it
Lover, I'd hate to see you crying
So if you think you'll do it ill be the first to try it
If it bothers you ill be sure to keep it silent
Cause I know how you hate to hear me whining
Baby, leave me alone tonight
Cause if you're here it doesn't seem quite right
Although you know how much I loved our fights
Even much more than I used to love your type
Lover, this is our final discourse
Of our feelings that we love to distort
But I am just way too excited for
The moment when you finally walk out my door
And I start to forget.
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Chasing Amy
05:37
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I've got these sharp pains in my stomach
They're not from you I swear
I've been looking for someone like you
Wish I could run my fingers through your light brown hair
I am so in love with you, I can't contain myself
I know you'll never hear this song but it's something that I must get out
If I could just tell you I loved you everything would be okay
But I get so caught up in the thoughts that I try to keep away from my mouth
I've got these black circles around my eyes
Stay up nightly thinking about you
"The way the world is, how seldom it is that you meet that one
Person who… just gets you.
It's so rare." Rare it is, You're the rarest girl I've ever come to know
Your eyes are like crystals reflecting the sun
There must be something to be said about the fact that I still feel this way
After almost two and a half years of knowing that you are the one
And if I tell you everything, and we get in a huge fight
And then we never talk again, until another year from then
We run into each other by some fate-inflicted incident
You tear up after small talk knowing that you'll still be more than a friend to me
I fucking love you, that's what it comes down to
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Why Go Dancing?
05:37
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Why go dancing
When you can sit and write songs about not going dancing?
Why go steady when you can go stag?
Why see movies
When you can sit and write songs about not seeing movies?
Why be happy when you can be sad?
Why spend time with a lover
When you can spend time by yourself?
Why only rely on each other
When you can rely on somebody else?
Why buy her flowers
When everyone else is buying her flowers?
Why try to keep her when she will stray?
Why buy her chocolates
When everyone else is buying her chocolates?
Why be committed when she won't stay?
Why spend money and time
On someone who'll only dismember your mind?
Why go messing around
With girls and clichés that'll just you bring you down?
Why go dancing?
Why play her music
When she doesn't care about any of your music?
Why write her poems that she won't read?
Why draw her pictures
When she doesn't care about any of your pictures?
Why give her things that she doesn't need?
Why go dancing?
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Weird Science
03:42
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Once I woke up, the sun was in my eyes
And you were right next to me
Then I woke up again a few hours later
And I seemed to find that that was only a dream
One night I sat, staring out the window
Waiting for you to come
But then I realized and remembered
That you would never show up
So I must create you, bring my vision to life
Just because you don't exist yet doesn't mean you're not a sight
To be seen, and whether our future is tragedy or comedy
I'd still love you for all your quirks and flawing qualities
Cause who needs perfection?
Yeah, who needs perfection?
I spent many a days planning you out
Making sure that my blueprints were right
Then I stopped myself, mid-measurement and took some time and thought a bit
About the repercussions that might
Come about so easily and cannot be prevented
And if I would end up regretting what I had invented
But I breathed and said "Screw It" and put the ruler to the page
Then scanned it in and then waited for my mind to be represented
In physical form, and then shined a light
You appeared, and you existed right in front of my eyes
And I danced with you and I sang to you and you cooked us a meal
I always knew that someday you'd end up being real
You stepped out of the kitchen, for just a quick minute
Then the pot started to boil over
To tried to turn the oven off, but in the process of
You slipped on the floor and hit your head on the toaster
And fell to the ground
Well I guess I won't be seeing you around
Ah, well who needs more people?
Yeah, who needs more people?
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Love My Problems Away
05:03
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Love my problems away
Make the sky not seem so gray
When you hold me I lose my stress
And when you kiss me I feel the best
Love my problems away
Clear my mind with the words you say
Make my work load disappear
By simply just being here with me
A love like our's is bound to make me see
Past all the things I don't care about and you
Make me feel so alive when I am blue
You can do so much with your love
So love my problems away
Heal my wandering mind
Keep me on track and on time
Steal my averted gaze
And keep it till the end of days
Love my problems away
'Cause you make everything okay
When I'm beat and when I'm down
You always come around to make me smile
A love like our's is bound to last for a while
So let's make the best of now and just diverge
From what we have to do and let's converge
You can do so much with your love
So love my problems away
Love my problems away
Make the sky not seem so gray
When you hold me I lose my stress
And when you kiss me I feel the best
Love my problems away
'Cause nothing can motivate
Me to do what I must
Except for you, you're the only one I trust
A love like our's is bound to shine through dust
I love when you're around 'cause I feel free
An overwhelming sense of aeipathy
You can do so much with your love
So love my problems away
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I read all of your signals wrong
Or maybe there were no signals at all
I could've sworn you smiled at me
I just got wrapped up in what I thought I could see
You found me, made me tell you secrets
Now I wish I could take back all that I said
If I came on too strong, you should've let me know
Instead of causing my useless efforts to grow
I don't hate you 'cause you're beautiful
I hate you for the way you used it making me so
Hopeful that I had a fighting chance
But you stripped that away from me like all the rest
I don't think you have a boyfriend
I think you think I'm too obsessed
With you but that's not exactly true
You just made it easy to attached to you
I don't hate you 'cause you're beautiful
I hate you for the way you used it making me so
Hopeful that I had a fighting chance
But you stripped that away from me like all the rest
I don't hate you 'cause you're beautiful
I hate you for the way you used it making me so
Hopeful that I had a fighting chance
But you stripped that away from me like all the rest
I don't hate you 'cause you fucked up my brain dial
I hate you for the way you managed to make me smile
With all your codes and your deceit
Next time just be up front that's all I want you people to be
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Alone, Drowning
03:34
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The ocean's thick upon my bones
Disintegrating as I'm floating here alone
The ocean's thick upon my skull
There's endless water in my ears that will not go
The ocean's thick around my neck
I lost my grip, I couldn't hold on to the deck
The ocean's thick, I won't survive
There's not a chance in Hell I'll make out alive
The ocean's thick upon my heart
I'm drowning slowly never going to restart
The ocean's thick upon my soul
An open stage and I am in the dying role
The ocean's thick deeper I drop
Look towards the surface, see you laughing at the top
The ocean's thick, I won't survive
There's not a chance in Hell I'll make it out alive
The ocean's thick, my body's numb
The feeling in my fingers removed one by one
The ocean's thick, my lungs collapsed
I haven't ever felt so lifeless in the past
The ocean's thick and I would know
Still cursing you at 20,000 feet below
The ocean's thick, I won't survive
There's not a chance in Hell I'll make it out alive
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Hal Melvin
10:25
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Standing outside the theatre in the blistering cold
It's just me and another guy roughly fifty years old
He's telling me all these stories and dropping facts about Mr. E
Well after an hour of conversation he finally introduces himself to me
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin" puts out his hand
"Man, I'm really excited to see the band"
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin, how do you do?
Is the c-c-c-c-cold getting to you?"
He's setting up deals with me, telling me where to go
He's moving his arms around like a madman throughout the whole show
He whispers in my ear telling me the name of every song
I'm just enjoying myself, just playing along
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin" puts out his hand
"Man, I'm really excited to see the band"
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin, how do you do?
Is the c-c-c-c-cold getting to you?"
He's telling me to stay after, says there'll be a third encore
Well, whether there was or was not, I couldn't stand with him anymore
He's just a little too eccentric, he's well-mannered but he's a little insane
Taking everything so seriously, oh it's oh so strange
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin" puts out his hand
"Man, I'm really excited to see the band"
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin, how do you do?
Is the c-c-c-c-cold getting to you?"
I say, "Mr. Hal Melvin, it's really been fun
But I gotta get home 'cause I got work in the morn'"
I say, "Mr. Hal Melvin, it's really been fun
But I gotta get home 'cause I got work in the morn'"
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Standing outside the theatre in the blistering cold
It's just me and another guy roughly fifty years old
He's telling me all these stories and dropping facts about Mr. E
Well after an hour of conversation he finally introduces himself to me
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin" puts out his hand
"Man, I'm really excited to see the band"
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin, how do you do?
Is the c-c-c-c-cold getting to you?"
He's setting up deals with me, telling me where to go
He's moving his arms around like a madman throughout the whole show
He whispers in my ear telling me the name of every song
I'm just enjoying myself, just playing along
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin" puts out his hand
"Man, I'm really excited to see the band"
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin, how do you do?
Is the c-c-c-c-cold getting to you?"
He's telling me to stay after, says there'll be a third encore
Well, whether there was or was not, I couldn't stand with him anymore
He's just a little too eccentric, he's well-mannered but he's a little insane
Taking everything so seriously, oh it's oh so strange
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin" puts out his hand
"Man, I'm really excited to see the band"
He says "I'm Mr. Hal Melvin, how do you do?
Is the c-c-c-c-cold getting to you?"
I say, "Mr. Hal Melvin, it's really been fun
But I gotta get home 'cause I got work in the morn'"
I say, "Mr. Hal Melvin, it's really been fun
But I gotta get home 'cause I got work in the morn'"
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