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And when I awoke from my sleeping / You'd gone away again / So I ran from my bed to the water's edge / But it's only a dream / Don't spend your life all alone / Who cares who's around anyhow / I look behind and I know / I'm not getting up / So we jumped right on in from the riverbed / And just swam away / When the winter came it froze us in / I guess we'll stay for a bit / Don't spend your life all alone / Who cares who's around anyhow / I look behind and I know / I'm not getting up / The spring's coming fast / To melt all the snow / Knock knock, is anyone there?
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Don't give anything away / Don't be shy, don't be late / Hold off, it's always best to wait / Another time, another place / Good things come to those who fake / Miss your chance, hesitate / Don't give anything away / Don't deny it never takes / Don't lie to me / You'll give away / Don't try to be / Something you ain't / I just want you to stay / Don't live any other way / Don't do pride, don't do fate / Hold on, it's always best to take / Another chance, another face / Good things come to those you hate / Take it back, it's your place / Don't live any other way / Don't be shy, don't be late / Don't lie to me / You'll give away / Don't try to be / Something you ain't / I just want you to stay / Don't lie to me / You'll give away / Don't try to be / Something you ain't / I just want you to know / I don't want you to go
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In the springtime comes the winds that carry you to me / And on those dark days when the sun won't shine on me / I don't want to have to quantify the ones I love / Don't' want to tell a reason why there's no-one else / In the meantime, won't you be mine? / Because it's all decided before we cited it / And everything that comes, it comes in twos / In the mornings through the curtains hung, nothing comes / And only fabric hangs between my room and the sun / I don't want to have to question why it is I want / Things that I am always told that I should not / In the meantime, won't you be mine? / Because it's all been sighted before I liked it / And everything that comes it comes for you / And when they decided I know I'm far behind / The ones I've lost and all the ones I've got / I don't want to have to wonder what it is I've got / Don't want to question when it's 2 AM and you're gone / In the meantime, won't you be mine? / Because it's all benign — sometimes it takes its time / To break out into just what it is / And in all this time I knew you'd still be mine / And hopefully the whole time you knew it too
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I Live a Lot of Places
05:19
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If only I recognized my time's coming up / Then I'd make notions to save better time / And don't you mind anything I've got inside / My heart's across the ocean, but I'm just fine / I know I'm done up all uptight / Gone through all of the motions, on your thin line / If only I recognized my life / I've lived a lot of places, but none are mine / My only one shame / Holds 'round onto my back / Speaking my whole name / My only one claims / That the love that grows inside us / Is not the same / The only fire that I've ever really liked / Burned down 'round all the houses next to mine / The only mount that I've ever really climbed / Fell down into the ocean on its tallest side / My only one shame / Holds 'round onto my back / Speaking my whole name / My only one claims / That the love that grows inside us / Is not the same / The only fall I'll show / Down the West I'll go / Down the West I know / I know / I know I'm done up all uptight / Gone through all of the motions on your thin line / If only I recognized my life / I've lived a lot of places but none are mine
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Cities of Weather
03:25
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I go the whole way home / Wishing I'd known you better than that / And I know the way it goes / Never once shown you better than that / Told 'no', I don't want to go / I don't want to know no better than that / So just go on your own / write the story down much better than that / It's in the way I've made you up inside my mind / It's just the way cities of weather decide / I take all that I know and save it / It's better now to go / I go the whole way home / Wishing I'd shown you better than that / And I know the way it goes / Never going to know you better than that / Told 'no', I don't want to go / I won't ever know no better than that / So I go on my own / Write the song down much better than that / It's in the way I've made you up inside my mind / It's just the way cities of weather decide / It's in the way I've made you up inside my mind / It's just the way the cities of weather decide / I take all that I know and save it / It's better now to go / I gave just enough to show it's waiting / But we're never going to know
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7th Fret Over Andres
04:44
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If I were an aeroplane / And all you had left was pocket change / I would fly the whole wide world for you / Like a bird takes to the skies of blue / But I'm just a simple guy / And I didn't wave when your train went by / Because I really didn't want to believe / That you were speeding away / Away from me / If I were a diplomat / I could live wherever I put my hat / And I'd build an island just for you / And me / Total population: 2 / But I'm just an ordinary man / Whose silly dreams just don't fit the plans / Of a border town run by guards / Between two countries and / Between two hearts / I thought I'd change it if I could / But now I'm not so sure I ever would / It's when you find / That life is not a movie show / And in your mind then it really smarts / In all this time / I thought perhaps you'd want to know just / What it's like to be in love / If I were a novelist / I'd write a book for the best-seller lists / And in it I'd never have to let you go / And by the last page everyone would know / That I'm just a silly boy / Whose words are a little shy and a little bit coy / But they're not meant for anyone but you / And all that matters is you knowing it's all true / I thought I'd change it if I could / But now I'm not so sure I ever would / So should I love and lose or just not love at all? / It's up to you to try it / Because up above / I'd like to hope and think and know that / You and I / We could make it / You and I / We could make it / You and I / We could make it
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Dog-gone so it goes / I don't want to go back home / Back home / Where nobody knows / Grey comes and it snows / Virtuous eyes get cold / So cold / And nobody phones / Oh don't you know / I've got it all / Figured up too strong to fold / And don't you go / It's all been told / Once I'm done / I won't take 'No' / God-damn so it goes / You don't realize I know / I know / We're so alone / Night-time summer glows / But we're staying in at home / Back home / Where nobody goes / Oh don't you know / I've got it all / Figured up too strong to fold / And don't you go / It's all been told / Once I'm done / I won't take 'No'
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I had no idea at all / Just how long you would go / I give up sleep and watch all night for you to come home / I've got nothing at all / This tower's getting cold / The money's gone, the heat's run off, I'm all alone / Keep searching for your boat / That's never sailed before / There's dangers in these waters boy, that you can't know / The clock it goes and goes / Keeps ticking on the nose / It's the only count I've got of time spent on my own / For all I know you're lost on the ocean / For all I know you're gone / No trace at all in the face of the tower / God bless / Please don't leave me / For all I know you're lost on the ocean / For all I know you're gone / No trace at all in the face of the tower / God damn / Please don't leave me / God damn / Please don't leave me / God damn / Please don't leave me / I had no idea at all / Just how long you would go / I give up sleep and watch all night for you to come home / I give up sleep and watch all night / You never come home
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The Hamilton Academicals
03:41
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17 years gone by / 21 days I've cried / 100 more reasons why you wanted out and lately / 1,000 more ways I've tried / To shake up my old insides / My head's looking down / The soul in books is not quite mine / 850 miles / Borders of wood and wire / Just counting the bathroom tiles / Seeing faces, little smiles and / 2 corners left / In a while / We'll be back in rank and file / It doesn't add up / There's no real answers / Is there, baby?
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I don't cry for the setting sun / Tomorrow there'll be another one / Take your time it's all a milk run / I'm just being a tease / All along I figured I'd done / Something off to tie you undone / Didn't think you were the wandering one / That's just always been me / Says to me: "You got it all wrong" / Says to me / Sings to me somebody else's song / Sings to me / "I'm tired of waiting so long" / "I'm tired of waiting so long" / Took your leave and pedaled along / Packed your bags, my ties are all gone! / This burning bridge will still let you cross / My back on the beams / Just because we've let this become / Something less than we thought it was / Doesn't mean I wouldn't be up / To re-do everything / Says to me: "You got it all wrong" / Says to me / Sings to me somebody else's song / Sings to me / "I'm tired of waiting so long" / "I'm tired of waiting so long" / And don't think I'm not breaking up / "I don't want you to go back home" / And once you go I'm so in love / "I don't want you to go back home" / And all you have to tell me so / "Buddy, please don't go!" / Those 8 damn words I'll never know / "I don't want you to go back home"
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Emma et Hampus
04:49
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You told me once that he's always waiting back inside / Truth be known, he's always on the other side / On Rue de la Folie Regnault nobody minds / The sight of our love come down outside / You'll never hide / And if your baby's gone back / He's gone for good / And if your baby's gone off / You know you should / Track down your baby / It's like that / He knows you would / Take back your baby / You always know / It's understood / And you know you got it good / If I'm on my back then I'm not falling down / Take the train underground, we all arise downtown / The months go on, I don't even know where this ground / Really belongs / All I notice these days is old sound / It's coming back around / And if your baby's gone back / He's gone for good / And if your baby's gone off / You know you should / Track down your baby / It's like that / He knows you would / Take back your baby / You always know / It's understood / And you know you got it good / Only wished you could
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Now You Like Me How?
03:38
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I don't really feel I'm on my own / Because nobody here ever leaves me alone / To blink now would be wrong / I might define you in this song / And I don't know if you'd really like the things that I've become / I don't think I'll write another act / The first one was too long and now in actual fact / All my money's in this play / But the actors ran away / Now I'm working on a re-write that re-tells it all for one / In the battle between book smarts and fright / There's no telling who's the winner / Here tonight / Tear the tickets up and throw them all away / There's nothing new you haven't heard me say / I'm not giving up but this won't last / Audition's done but curtain call is coming fast / To run now would be cheap / And I hope you're losing sleep / But you know there's only one of us who'll make the cast for good / In the battle between book smarts and fright / There's no telling who's the winner / Here tonight / Tear the tickets up and throw them all away / There's nothing new you haven't heard me say / And carved into my door is "How you like me now?" / And written on my wall is "Now you like me how?" / And carved into my door is "How you like me now?" / And written on my wall is "Now you like me how?"
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Bad News Brown
03:50
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I don't fall easily / It seems I know / You'll bugger off / I don't want to set the scene / I don't want a love / So far gone / He says to me / "You've got to come / if you want some" / I don't want to leave the peace / For Bad News Brown / I go off / Insane / I blow up / I don't want to be the same / As all those other stupid names / I bow down / Take names / All gone off / I don't want to get the blame / For all those stupid little games / I take off my bloody clothes / And close the blinds / I'm laying low / I don't want to wreck the dream / That you're still around / No-one calls / No-one in town knows I'm alive / And doing fine / I don't want to just believe / It's all Bad News Brown / I go off insane / I blow up / I don't want to be the same / As all those other stupid names / I bow down / Take names / All gone off / I don't want to get the blame / For all those stupid little games
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All the x's are / In rows left out afar / And lying / Nothing new / I've swallowed half a heart / And saved the rest to use in / Trying to give it to you / Sleepless lullabies and / Drawn-out our goodbyes / Always compromise and / Take my chances alone / Take my chances alone
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…A Given
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Ladybug Ladybird
03:27
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Matty John Chyzyk
02:30
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The Return Bus Ride Home
02:00
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The songs of Mark Andrew Hamilton. Montréal, Québec.
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