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Red Jacket
02:06
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we own the night
hopping down the river
with a skip in our step
and wine on our breath
there's stars in the sky
the winter makes me shiver
but here it's alright
and I've got on my
red jacket, red lipstick
I'm going out tonight
we're lost in the night
bathed in all the alley's
kebab shop lights
your hand in mine
you whisk me away
another bar another party
somewhere else to arrive
with glittering eyes
so let the woman upstairs
pour down another bucket
of water and ice
'cause I feel alive
I'm used to the sight
of shoulders cold as kelvin
but you, you're alright
and I keep on my
red jacket, red lipstick
I'm going out tonight
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oh, how're you gonna travel around the world?
don't you know how big it is?
don't you know how sad it is?
don't you know how lonely it is?
oh, Antonio
left the sweet shores of home
like everybody else who's ever needed dough
for now, the hostel's home
London pizza's no Rome,
not close to New York
this world makes folks come and go
so he takes a hit of hash
and he leans against the wall
is there a sickness in the streets
of this sick city after all?
and it's come down to that
but we're silent
all he's got is slipping-
oh, the night still goes
I catch some rest well-knowing
that pretty soon the bed I'd be in is my own
with him I don't know what to say
'cause he can't say the same
he misses sleeping on the beaches miles away
so I take a hit of hash
and I lean against the wall
is there a sickness in the streets
of this sick city after all?
and it's come down to that
but we're speechless
all we've got is slipping from us
heaven's on earth and earth is hell
there are flowers and fruits for you to sell
you can be homeless in paradise or a genius in a cell
that's how I know heaven's on earth and earth is hell
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3. |
Promise
02:48
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summer breeze
stumbling towards nothing I
am in no place to make a
deal with god
tonight
so if you know the guy
tell him I've not much to say
but I can't lie
I'll tell you
how the sun supplies the night
oh, you and I are honest when the time comes to decide
we're so tired we feel reluctant saying this is the time of our lives
kids today,
we're so serious and why?
if you make your bed this morning
you'll have somewhere for the night
but there's nothing that you can't lose
to someone who knows the price
those first hawks, they swooped down
but now we fall from the sky
oh, you and I are honest when the time comes to decide
is it wrong to feel reluctant during the time of our lives?
I'll be one to break a promise when that promise wasn't mine
but it grows larger in our headspace all the time
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4. |
I Got You
03:22
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do you feel we're more than just dreamers?
not just losers?
something more than comfortable?
I've seen the summer sweat when you cry
I sure that ours is a long life
but I've got this feeling someone's watching our lives
I wish that yours were the only eyes
I know I've got to fight for what I want,
but I've got what I want, I've got you
poison is rushing through the rivers of the land that I love,
but I've got what I want, I got you
when it's gone
hell yeah, it's gone
why stay?
I know I've got to fight for what I want,
but I've got what I want, I've got you
poison is rushing through the rivers of the land that I love,
but I've got what I want, I got you
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5. |
More Than This
03:21
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fated to the times we're in
working at the gas station
I've seen just how they try to
rope you in
but it's not the 50s,
it's not so so saccharine, yeah
I feel we're made for more than this now, aren't we?
living lonely
in every town and suburb, farm and city
someone's
fading from the times we're in
breaking bread and talking friend to friend
like people did
or they will do someday
is it a lull, is it a roar, or where we turn the page?
I feel we're made for more than this now, aren't we?
living lonely
in every town and suburb, farm and city
someone's trying
we're growing older as the clock keeps ticking
hoping, wishing
I feel we're made for more than this now, baby,
I'm just saying
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6. |
Dance With Me
04:10
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oh the songs we'll have saved when the day rolls around
catch the lights on your face in the back of the crowd
oh the nights that we lost when the loneliness won
oh the things that are gone, oh the things we'd have done
all the souls that succumbed never saw past the dark
died by policy changes or killed by the cops
to those who didn't make it, this is your song
to those who are dedicated, you won't be forgot
oh the pain that we'll bring when the day rolls around
under hugging and kissing and hitting the town
when the guilt that we're bearing just isn't our fault
wherein love and forgiveness mean nothing at all
it's the government's business to laugh while we fall
to those no longer living, this is your song
so dance with me, but you can't forget all that time that we spent alone
and when you dance with me you just can't forget all those lives that we'll never know now
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7. |
Future 2
03:15
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I don't think there's anything better than the springtime
I get excited when I see that green
and this time of year I'm by your side
there's always something new in you for me
so I drove you home and you put on the radio and
someone else was on there singing our song
he changed the words, for a minute it got on my nerves
but really what is the point of being so bitter for,
if it's better than before?
the drink isn't courage, I know that now
your far away stare let me know somehow
and I've seen the future a hundred times
and I know that the sequel is gonna be better, yeah
so I drove you home and you put on the radio and
someone else was on there singing our song
he changed the words, for a minute it got on my nerves
but really what is the point of being so bitter for,
if it's better than before?
so I drove you home and you put on the radio and
someone else was on there singing our song
and when he changed the words, just like that he broke the curse
cause you can't fit life in a song
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8. |
At the Light
02:04
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cold roads through the woods
I coughed it up, still don't feel good
it's hard when you're young
the world's so small, you just give up
I've seen it
you go
repeat it
to find out yourself
driving back to the house
the snow falls hard, the lights go out
I sleep reluctantly
and you show up in my dreams
I know it
we're all
born hopeless
you find that yourself
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9. |
The Dam
06:22
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I know most folks feel that way
when they're teenage,
but you were
you were invincible
your heart was overfull
taught me what the word was like
if you liked yourself as you were
confident and vulnerable
I wanted a river full
so when we drove over the dam
I wanted it to break
to build a new life as ourselves
on the other side of the lake
you said I'm that forever friend
that we could always hang like we did back then
but I wanna show you it's different
'cause now I'm strong like you've always been
I texted "can I come over
to the place you work?" and I did
tears fell in the coffee cup
off the clock, you cleaned them up
I told the story all meek and stuff
and you shared from what you had lived
first time and the condom broke
a tragicomic tale I know
teenage souls haunt every town there is
we marched over graves without looking
you opened up my world
showed me the seedy, the beautiful, gay cherubim
that we were
so when we drove over the dam
I wanted it to break
to build a new life as ourselves
on the other side of the lake
you said I'm that forever friend
that we could always hang like we did back then
but I wanna show you it's different
'cause now I'm strong like you've always been
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10. |
Dreams
03:29
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oh aren't dreams
just such silly things?
'cause when I wake up they go?
and I'd give up
almost any dream
just to see you live and grow
and I know that you'd do the same, so
why's it so hard waking up
if all that we say is true?
there's so much in our lives changing up
so why's every day tinged blue?
oh, your head
is so inhabited
by the ones who've done you wrong
and when we wake
it's all in your face
where your wandering mind has gone
but dreams aren't much to build a life on
why's it so hard waking up
if all that we say is true?
there's so much in our lives changing up
so why's every day tinged blue?
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