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Shame

by monkeyheaven

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John Cook Excellent hook and clever lyrics, what's not to like? Favorite track: Hold Me.
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You watch the world turning Turning against you You planned so much You lost your touch But watcha gonna do When women worship you They gotta learn That passion burns And love is never true Adieu Adieu Hey Karen Do you know Sharon In Family Planning I manage Mandy My Monday rendezvous But Tuesday's Betty Blue I took them all in lieu They planned a family Those willing ingenues But what you gonna do When dreams do not come true Oh how they yearn so much To regain my former touch Watcha gonna do Watcha gonna do?
2.
How can this be true She said she loved me dearly Albeit only nearly Half as much as you She never even picks up the phone But then again she's never alone Half as much as you Especially now you're forty And nowhere near as naughty As once you used to be Remember all those times at the beach So coy and yet so ever in reach How can this be true Half as much as you I trusted in those things That I would call neanderthal But you'd call wedding rings She doesn't need me, true Her arms they never cling She never stumbles, never falls But she calls… Through her eyes so blue She says she’s twenty twenty But half as much is plenty For what we want to do We’re only making fools of ourselves And after all you’ve still got your health And half of this is true Half as much as you I trusted in those things That some would call nothing at all But you'd call
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Mary 03:08
Oh Mary What you got to lose Always standing In someone else's shoes Always looking At someone else's news Never finding A let up from the blues Oh Mary
4.
What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen? For me it was that picture of you Standing in the middle of the village green That all the gypsy horses rode through And what’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen? For you it was that picture of me Waltzing through the site of a bucolic scene That no-one else will ever see I know you were never far away But somehow I just never got to Say what I wanted to the woman who waltzed with me Be what I wanted with the one who once wanted me Until the waves freeze on the sea In 1999 The year we had the summer of the lazy swine Like 1944 We lay where we had fallen just the year before So what’s the most amazing place you’ve ever been? For me it’s the museum of you Seeing all the things that I had rarely seen All laid out in public view Here's a frozen tableau of exotic things Feelings we once thought were true Now the dried up remnants of a one-time fling We had when all the world was new Even though you’re very far away I know you will always come and Stay in the middle of the mess that became of me Live in the centre of the fossilised shell of me Now that the waves freeze on the sea So goodbye Tennessee My natural history Goodbye Tennessee
5.
I've fallen into an abyss Of pretty emptiness Is that all that you took me for I've fallen into this Pitiful tenderness I don't think I can sink any more I've fallen fallen fallen through so many bars While drinking your weight in wine Where jukeboxes wait with a thousand guitars To tell me that you're not mine I've fallen Marianne You know you can Have me anyway If I'm calling you with this This cynical carelessness It's because you bewitched me to call If I'm crawling up to this The pinnacle of your kiss It was only so that I could fall But I'll only be falling into your boudoir While she makes the bed in mine She'll look to the door at the moment we are Making disgrace sublime I've fallen Oh Marianne I'm a married man Maybe another day
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Chancy 01:55
I always knew you were chancy But when I saw you for sale To anyone who took your fancy A fool wrote the rest of the tale The nights you left unslept Your promises unkept Under the flowers and the veil I just thought there'd be A better chance for me Once all your bets had been laid Cos I always knew you were Chancy
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Lovers 03:12
Two faded lovers Alone on a ledge Says one to the other My love we should pledge That I'm never ever gonna hurt you any more That we'll be as happy as we once were long before You were my love Love's loveless lovers All fall to their deaths With so many others' Last words on their breath Oh I'm never ever gonna hurt you anymore I will be as happy as I once was long before you were Oh I'm never ever gonna hurt you anymore My love You will be as happy as you once were long before you were You were my love
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X 02:58
Somewhere There's a wonder That's absent From this world And sometimes Don't you wonder What is up With this girl Sometimes you just gotta get away You gotta get away Now's the time you gotta get away Your summer getaway When you were young You dreamt the sky Your love would never die So long my lover I won't be back Until the winter Paints your heart black I'm yours forever But not like that
9.
Hold Me 04:02
Like a rocket from a bottle You went off at full throttle In the dark I’m surprised you barely missed em When they were out walking in the park And she looked up and she failed to see How this must have seemed She looked up when she kissed him and she didn’t see a spark And she said Baby I’m lonely please hold me And she said Baby I’m lonely please hold me Like a rocket from a bottle You went off at full throttle In the dark And the fact that she’s your sister Your lover’s secret tryster Must have left its mark And he said ‘I think of you every time I’m with her’ And she said And she said Baby I’m lonely please hold me And she said Baby I’m lonely please hold me You are the world’s worst lover You are the world’s worst sister So you say ‘My life’s a mess’ Then you say ‘Here’s my address’ And you say Baby I’m lonely please hold me And you say Baby I’m lonely please hold me
10.
Shame 05:06
I always joked so well Freezing in your flat above the shop Waiting for the rain to never stop You never coped so well Living in a squalid rented room Smoking in the cobwebs in the gloom Watching out the window for the moon That never came Yeah I never came I’m the one to blame For the lack of shame That dogged you to your grave And it’s such a shame That I didn’t care We were going nowhere It's such a shame It's such a shame Yeah I didn't care Not enough to spare A single strand of hair When you were so threadbare Cos of all the shame You hesitate to name That penetrates the rain It's such a shame And in the morning I'll love you less than I used to Even less than I used to And in the morning We'll get up like we used to Just like how we used to Oh how we used to I'll never change Yeah I'll never change You're still the same All the friends you kept Attracted by your starving artist kitsch Moths who suicide inside your fridge A drink and then some sordid sortilege Will never change It's such a shame
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When In Rome 05:40
I could make you make you I could take you take you to my home And then who knows Cos when in Rome Amarti mi amore Mio squallore Ci porterà lontano Prego Mio fascino È supremo I could make you make you Something sweet I'll bake you Ice cream cones Just gis a go On your sweet bones I could make you make you Feel the sweet heartbreak you've Never known The slow trombone When no-one's home You might just enjoy it It's not a toy it Even glows Morrow I might wake you Oh my angel cake with Kisses thrown Across your groans Like cheap cologne I like what you shown In my ancient home The disco zone Potrei farti farti AH! potrei portarti a letto Ma non lo so Quando quando
12.
Government 02:46
Who could object to anyone Telling you you're their only one But if he tells you that I'm gonna have to go And get my gander on Cos honey don't you know That you could object to anyone I once had a job with the government Just telling the folk where their money went But if I tell you that You'd only have to go And get your glad rags on Cos honey I dunno If you could object to anyone
13.
Turn 04:14
Turn your grey eyes into blue The one who once was you Into an ingénue The tide Might turn to follow you Your cast away canoe Yet you Still say you're true Cos true The sun becomes the moon The summer follows gloom And you Are changing too Summer How I missed you Hey Hanna How's your sister Grey eyes into blue The one once was you Into an ingénue You turn As you embrace the new An old flame burns for you But you're just passing through Your time Will fade the grey and blue Will give you old for new The tide will turn And swallow you Your lover swallow you The sun becomes the moon The crush becomes a swoon And you don't know What to turn to
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Everything's getting ready To go away Will you miss me oh Will you miss me When I'm far away? Will you miss me? No, you say Am I an artist Or just a man With a longing That overran The shaky vessel The mortal frame You used to wrestle To such acclaim? Will you miss me though? Will you miss me though? Will you miss me? Will you miss me? No? But will you miss me though Will you miss me - no? Will you miss ME? Will you miss me though

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released August 30, 2014

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