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Lights
01:11
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I tried to catch her eye at work today
To tell her something I've no words to say
But all the rest of them got in the way
And I put my head back down again
I only wanted to convey to her
A genius that's vanishingly rare
But I was forced to the conclusion that
The world isn't ready for me
It simply lacks the understanding
The subtlety and the commanding wit and grace
I'm better than this place
Best quit and leave no trace
For this world isn't ready for me
I'm slowly suffocating in the grey
Among the commonplace and everyday
I need to blaze a trail, to find a way
Like Jimi did at Monterey
I must describe a sharply upward curve
To give her everything that she deserves
She's better than the fools she deigns to serve
But I am better still, my love
It's all so undemanding
For an artist of future standing
Like myself
It's playing havoc with my health
To spend a lifetime on this shelf
Because the world isn't ready for me
I might undergo rebranding
And come back even more outstanding than before
I may be absent from this shore
Until I'm something she can't ignore
Can't do other than adore
When the world becomes ready for me
But the world isn't ready for me
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Suicide
05:23
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I am just a shadow playing
Brechtian routines
One night all the lights will fade and...
[Fold this scene]
It's peaceful and uncomplicated
Floating back upstream
On the night you only wake to walk
Into a dream
Suicide
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4. |
Tell Me
02:45
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Tell me again
How sweet it is
To be with me
Tell me again
How much you'll miss
My company
Even though I know you are a liar
I don't care I don't care
Not one little bit
Your thoughts are unimportant
Cause I'm caught up in the moment
And the words just fit
So tell me again
How sweet it is
Tell me just tell me
Just tell me again
Tell me again
You've longed for this
Tell me just tell me
Again
Tell me again how much you'd give
To sleep with me
Tell me again I want to live
This dangerously
Even though you know I am a liar
You don't care you don't care not one little bit
Your thoughts are not important
When they're swallowed in the moment
And the rest
Just
Fits
So tell me again
How sweet it is
Tell me just tell me just
Tell me again
Tell me again
And again
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Come on
You got one wrong
It's not the end of the world
You're such a sensitive girl
In the dreams
You were dreaming
In the longest night of your life
In the bed you shared with his wife
Earlier
In the hotel
Now the darkness laps at the edge
Of the waterlogged windowledge
Where you perch
Quietly alone
Above a town you've never known
And you see the lights
As the stars ignite
Can you see the lights
Can you see
On the streets the lights
Are at sea tonight
Can you see the lights
Anne Marie
See the lights
Can you see the lights
Can you see the lights
Anne Marie
Anne Marie the lights
On the sea tonight
Can you see the lights
Anne Marie
Anne Marie the lights
Those sad satellites
Can you just sit tight
Wait for me
Anne Marie
Can you see the lights
You're at sea tonight
Will you be alright
Anne Marie
Anne Marie
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Anne Marie
04:08
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Oh come on
We can do what we've never done
We could freeze out in the sun
So come on
Anne Marie
The best you'll ever be
As cold as you can be
You're the one
So come on
So come on
A hundred men are on the run
A hundred stars whose time has come
And I'm one
You can't just sit and wait for fun
You got to give it to someone
So come on
Anne Marie
A kingdom by the sea
I don't mean literally
But come on
Anne Marie
The last I'll ever see
There's only you and me
So come on
We could run
We could run
So come on
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Ghost of the Sea
03:32
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Iceland
02:32
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Come to me
My sinner sent away
Cross continents
An unfamiliar way
To Iceland
To Iceland
They sent you to Iceland
Velkommin in Iceland
But just not today
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Wintertown
03:17
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Going down
Into the wintertown
You'll wear the gown
Your wore when you last were found
And you thought you'd never get there
But you'll get there in the end
How I wish we'd never met there
Now there's no time left to spend
Just going down
Into the wintertown
You come in to say that you won't but you will but you...
Oh you lied
You say it's a bore but it's really a thrill No but
Yes you might
It's always the same when you're dressing to kill in the
Dying light
And even though you might go missing
Out of sound and out of sight
To the world you'll never listen
For permission in the night
Going down
Into the wintertown
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Ooh La La
03:29
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I've seen it all before
You and he
Clambered your way ashore
On TV
Always leave wanting more
Or is that me?
Can't say I ever saw
The irony
Oh
You shit
You went and did it
On the rug
On my
La la la la la la la la
I saw you on the floor
You and he
Reflected on Aznavour
On TV
Something about l'amour
Without me
Always leave wanting more
Didn't he?
Oh my
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
Ooh la la
La la
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Forsake Me
04:42
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Christ you're all
I ever had
And Christ you're all
So grim
The things you hid
Were very bad
The things you did
With him
Forsake me
Never my darling
Forsake me
Never mind love
From behind your caravette
I watched you walk in sillhouette
With him
With him
Just before your minuet
I saw you light a cigarette
For him
For him
Forsake me
Never my darling
Forsake me
Never mind love
Forsake me
Never my darling
Forsake me
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(Twenty years had passed since that grey spring morning)
Somehow
We're meant to be
Only we
Somehow
Are not quite real
How d'you feel
Sometimes
I don't think this
Ludicrous
Precipice
Is frightening
And all the seals
Will dance a reel
While falling
(Each was perfectly normal but together they formed a monster)
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I don't understand the meaning
Of the indiscreet thoughts and indelicate feelings I get
When you pirouette
And though I've never
Met such a group
Of talentless people in one sorry troupe
I'm a brute
Who kinda thinks it's cute
To pick forbidden fruit
I've never in my life
Considered you for my wife
I've only ever seen
Those pictures of you on the men you tattoo
In vermillion and aquamarine
And yet I'll regret
The lack of the colour I only could get
In my life
(Indiscipline was rife)
When you were someone else's wife
Ever on his arm
Though sometimes you'd slip from it only to charm
The wolves out from the trees
But only as far as the faraway bar
Where you always went weak at the knees
And oh have you heard
Of something so foolish grotesque and absurd
Yet it's true
Through all the red and blue
I think I fell in love with you
Yes it's true
Though this is not your sole virtue
...
Well I guess I fell in love with you
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Stay
04:30
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Stay there
And live
With one
Who can give
All that
All that if
Only
You forgive
The stars for being bright
The moon
For being out tonight
Too soon
If you stay there
Stay there and be
All there is to me
Stay there and live
No need to forgive
To forgive the wine for being red
The bed
For being where you'd rest your head
If you
Stayed there
If you'd
Stayed there
If you'd
Stay there
If you'd stayed there
If you'd stayed
If you'd stayed
If you stay
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15. |
Reprendre
01:18
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Forgotten History
03:59
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So
Out at sea
This could be
The forgotten history
Of you and me
Shapes in lee
The form remains
A mystery
A boy
Without a face
A girl who's there
But is always
Out of place
The shadow she
Came to be
Is our forgotten
History
Recall every place
Just remember it's December
There's no trace
Of anything
You meant to me
In the Spring of 83
Oh have you seen the state of me
Just an old man and the sea
Hide
Behind the past
Because the present
Incandescence
Cannot last
Take sanctuary
You and me
In the fog's security
We will be
Swept out to sea
A forgotten history
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