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Peace
03:38
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All out of sleep, watch the moonlight take its feet,
the night will be long it will be lonely.
Everything in this tense, takes too much significance,
so I pin everything on the morning.
Give me my peace tonight, a window to the white,
lay it out by my side.
Give me my joy in here, a darkness less severe,
keep the morning near.
What have I done, since the last surrender of the sun,
no amount of love will make this easy.
All who come through here, take their piece of atmosphere,
so it can hardly breathe out its warning.
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Island
03:50
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You were an island, floating just too far away,
I had to turn my back.
Started running, about a thousand miles from here,
hoping I would not crack.
But tonight, you floated back into my sight,
suddenly the world seems alright,
you floated back into my sight, tonight.
You were the night bird, flying just too high for me,
I had to close my eyes.
Started sleeping, just to hide away from here,
living in different skies.
Oh, oh how it all works out,
look what the world brought round,
look what the world brought round.
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3. |
Don't Need A Rescue
04:37
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Sleep tonight, leave your lying till the morning time.
Hard to find, looking for you in a hundred lines.
Don’t need a rescue, just need to know you could do.
If you wanted to tonight, if you wanted to tonight.
Time to fight, I’ve been bleeding since I took that
flight.
Out of sight, but they tell me you’re around alright.
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4. |
Guardian
04:22
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Pieces, picking up the pieces, broken by the story, I was trying to tell.
Should have minded my own business,
knowing you would not buy what I had to sell.
If this was my one chance, then this will be my last dance,
I will not be leaving buried in the sand.
You did not believe me, but as I go you will see,
some amount of victory held in my hand.
I’ve given it all away, guardian, guardian.
Not in my own way, guardian, guardian.
There’s nothing left to take, guardian, guardian.
I gave it all away, guardian, guardian.
Circus, should have left the circus, that I had created all by accident.
Should have never started speaking,
knowing you would not take things as they were meant.
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5. |
Santa Barbara
03:04
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Give me something special Santa Barbara,
I know that you won't let me down.
It could be the two of us forever,
oh that I could carry you around.
Patch up my bleeding heart and help me get back.
That long lost state of mind, I was trying to remember,
and its so, so hard to find,
anywhere but Santa Barbara.
Going to leave as quickly as I came to you,
taking everything I can away.
Who'd have known I'd fall for you so suddenly,
everything within me wants to stay.
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6. |
Bitter & Sweet
03:19
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Don’t need your love, don’t need your sympathy.
Just need some blood, running through me.
The bitter and the sweet go hand in hand,
time on the rock and time in the sand.
Life worth living don’t go as planned,
when the bitter and the sweet go hand in hand.
Don’t need your faith, don’t need your energy.
Just need some face, shining down on me.
And the silence, speaks its own reward,
and the pain felt, helps to move us forward,
the aloneness only will ensure,
you’re complete my love.
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7. |
Glass Hearts
04:09
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How many times can a man realise that he’s broken, that he’s broken?
And how many times can a heart take the lies that it’s spoken, that its spoken?
Such is the danger of pain in the air,
but whatever is won without courage to dare?
We are two glass hearts,
trying not to break each other as we come together.
We are two glass hearts,
trying not to break each other as we come together,
at the start.
How may times can a heart be deceived by its breaker, by its breaker?
And how many times can a man cry in vain to his maker, to his maker?
Such is the storm of this life we receive,
that my soul should be stone but a stone couldn’t see.
One more break and I’ll be done forever,
there’s nothing on the earth that could put me together.
One more break and I’ll be done forever,
there’s nothing on the earth that could put me together.
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Sunlight
05:26
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Sunlight, can I get a little sunlight, if I’m going to die today,
I’d like to die with the sun upon my back.
Sunlight, can I get a little sunlight, well I gave it all away,
for a fight I might just loose here in the rain.
The sky’s about to open up, and rain so heavy on my back,
that it feels like it might break sometimes but,
I’ll carry all my burden, just so long as I can find,
oh that little bit of sunshine, little bit of sunshine.
Sunlight, things look better in the sunlight,
and now I’ve got nowhere to hide,
so I’ll keep fighting till my fists give up on me.
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Eleanor
04:22
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Leave, come on leave, you’ve convinced yourself,
you’ve been here too long,
you can’t even just stay one more night.
Don’t you dare turn around, you can’t see for the trees,
but you feel, yes you feel it right.
Step back, let it go, you’ve gotta love somebody else now,
watch that baby go, you’ve gotta get yourself to the show.
Eleanor will be alright, she’s got the sun upon her face.
Tomorrow she’ll be out of sight,
you’ve gotta love that thing you chase.
Run, on the run, you have no longer, ground beneath your feet,
you’re in deep, you’re in deep alright.
Don’t you dare give it up, you have got somewhere to be,
you can’t sleep until you arrive.
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10. |
Style & Pain
03:54
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So nearly happy, looking for some help from above.
You’re so loved and pretty but its funny how its not
enough.
But you don’t have to go it alone no longer.
You don’t have to go it alone.
Tonight, tonight, this is the end of the world, as we
know it,
You and me, we’ll get through this together, together.
You’ve got style like a lady but the style doesn’t ease any
pain.
You’ve got a heart like the ocean but the ocean’s going to
need some rain.
But you don’t have to go it alone no longer.
You don’t have to go it alone.
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11. |
Like A Drug
05:37
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Something about this place,
can't think of anywhere, that I'd be.
The dusk hits your face, can't think of anything I'd rather see.
You're look like a drug,
just one look is not enough, how could it be. You're look like a drug,
just one look is not enough, easy to see.
Looks like I'm addicted to,
the thought of seeing you,
so please don't stray too far away from here.
Can't believe my eyes,
of all the places you could be,
you're sitting right here.
You're face like the night,
lit up by a sunny moon,
that's creeping in here.
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12. |
Carolina
02:19
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Don’t want to talk about Carolina,
don’t wanna hold that smoking gun.
Why go there with this before you?
A little heaven in the sun.
I left the grey sky to lie in the blue,
and you could too,
so won’t you come, lay with me,
here in Lucca.
We could talk about whatever,
we could never make a sound.
I’d just be happy we’re together,
on borrowed time and borrowed ground.
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Chris Lawson Jones Greater London, UK
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