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If I'm down in the dumps tonight, well it's not because of you
Try to look at life objectively, what good does it do
You reached for the telephone, I was out at work in some dance hall
You can't have everything, sometimes you can't have anything at all
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Felt the heat in my cheeks, went to sleep dreaming of her
Daylight began easing through my window, like a whisper
A conspiratal glance, an untroubled voice, a contrivance
You don't return my calls anymore, my saviour or my successor
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Cries of the night, the times we used to sleep together
Guess I was indignant, grow clumsy at your girlish pleasure
I've quietened down a bit, doesn't mean I like the idea at all
Desperate as I am, my miserable state is just comical
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die
Everybody get to heaven
Everybody's gettin' to heaven
Everybody get to heaven
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2. |
My Willingness
04:24
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Roll that rock up to the top of the hill
I watch it roll away from me
Someplace I took a wrong turn
Bad direction poor vocabulary
I was reading an Italian magazine
Pretty pictures of young madonnas
Do you want to give me a broken jaw?
Well what for?
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
What language are you speaking?
Oh you make me feel tired
I was at that bar, I wanted to quench these doubts
I want to feel desired
Well the radio was playing
Something sad and blue
It's hideous isn't it
The things we'll talk ourselves into
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
Watching it roll away, away from me
Willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)
My willingness (my willingness)...
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I don't expect you to do anything
Just answer the telephone when I ring
My sense of humour was diminishing
Send love COD
If you don't want my love
I'll get drunk and melancholy
If you don't want my love
The bottle's been a good friend to me
Who have you been sleeping with, keeping company
Mathematics might make sense, but not to me
There's no guarantee, that my sparkling repartee
Might be full of irony but you might disagree
If you don't want my love
I'll get drunk and melancholy
If you don't want my love
The bottle's been a good friend to me
If you don't want my love
I'll get drunk and melancholy
If you don't want my love
The bottle's been a good friend to me
Oh girl you're just twenty one
So pretty so cynical for one so young
I've been thinking child
It's you not the traffic
That's been making me feel faint
Yeah so sarcastic
It simple as ABC
Send love COD
If you don't want my love
I'll get drunk and melancholy
If you don't want my love
The bottle's been a good friend to me
If you don't want my love
I'll get drunk and melancholy
If you don't want my love
The bottle's been a good friend to me
If you don't want my love
I'll get drunk and melancholy
If you don't want my love
The bottle's been a good friend to me
If you don't want my love
I'll get drunk and melancholy
If you don't want my love
The bottle's been a good friend to me
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When Trouble Comes
03:34
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What fools we make of each other
At the end of the world, at the close of the day
I don't believe all this nonsense
The loaded words that ricochet
And when I open my eyes
Conscious of sin
It's not a betrayal
It's a blessing
When trouble comes
When trouble comes
Two idiots in an act of defiance
My lover and I, seems like years ago
Things happen quickly, sometimes not at all
It's sideshow, it's touch and go
And when I open my eyes
Conscious of sin
It's not a betrayal
It's a blessing
When trouble comes
When trouble comes
When trouble comes
When trouble comes
Yeah when trouble comes
Everybody's gonna run
Yeah when trouble comes
Turn and walk away
Put it off to another day
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Where Are You Going
03:49
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You cornered me at a party
I was so nervous
The flowers on the wallpaper
Matched the flowers on your dress
I had it now I've lost it
I'll see it gets back to you
You say you don't need me
And maybe that's true
Where are you going?
Can I come for the ride?
Wherever you're going
I want to be there at your side
When you think you've had enough
Of being such a wise guy
Well search for knowledge is a search
For love to modify
I had it now I lost it
I'll see it gets back to you
Well you alone remained constant
Everyone else just withdrew
Where are you going?
Can I come for the ride?
Wherever you're going
I want to be there at your side
And I said don't cry baby
Crying won't do any good
You can blame this or that
Say you're misunderstood
You can say anything you like
I had it now I lost it
I'll see it gets back to you
Well you say you don't need me
Yeah maybe that is true
Where are you going?
Can I come for the ride?
Wherever you're going
I want to be there at your side
Where are you going?
Can I come for the ride?
Wherever you're going
I want to be there at your side
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6. |
You Jane
04:23
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I had three drinks with a fellow that I barely knew
And we began talking to the waitress like you do
Do you think she's pretty, my new friend said to me
A neon sign behind that bar it flickered intermittently
Well my new friend had to go on home to his wife and his family
So I bought the waitress a stinger while I had a gimlet and a daquiri
And she said that her name was Jane, she asked me where she fitted into my misen scene
And she said you know in this half light you look a little bit like Kris Kristofferson
You Jane (yeah you)
And all the Janes that I never knew
You Jane (yeah you)
Sacred night, wild desire, delight
I want you to consider well what if you were me
And before you answer think about this carefully
Everything possible is exhausted
What you've never had, you'll never miss
And you can't even remember when you had your last little kiss
You Jane (yeah you)
And all the Janes that I never knew
You Jane (yeah you)
Sacred night, wild desire, delight
I give her my wrong name and of course she'd done the same to me
So we went and had some bad food and coffee at a bowling alley
When we emerged into dawn's light, no wiser
Just tired and cold
I said Jane you know, in this light
You look a little bit like Genevieve Bujold
You Jane (yeah you)
And all the Janes that I never knew
You Jane (yeah you)
Sacred night, wild desire, delight
You Jane (yeah you)
And all the Janes that I never knew
You Jane (yeah you)
Sacred night, wild desire, delight
Sacred night, wild desire, delight...
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Well that's my breath against the window
Between a sombre, murky blue shadow
Nothing works, everything seems to happen to me
I feel no weariness, I try to avoid your scrutiny
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Well I haven't quite made my mind up about you
Probably I won't return for a day or two
Hands in my pockets and the room stunk of dead flowers
It was an unavoidable connection that just went sour
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Well that's my breath against the window
Between a sombre murky blue shadow
All aglow
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answered unexpectedly
From time to time
Some prayers are answers
Some prayers are answers
Some prayers are answers
Some prayers are answers
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I pushed the button
Somebody opened the door
Her name was Monika
And Monika was mine ever more
She said I can't be held responsible
For all the guilt in this world
Seven years is enough for any boy or girl
She set fire to the house
And watched it burn down to the ground
The house was in darkness
Monika made me insist
If you want to stay that's alright
But it's at your own risk
Keep your mouth shut
Keep it bottled up inside your head
Love is disappeared
Love is vanished all hope is dead
She set fire to the house
And watched it burn down to the ground
She set fire to the house
And watched it burn down to the ground
Pretty flames
Illuminated the night
Monika's face was snow white
If she was ever unfaithful to me
Well I didn't notice
Especially
There are murders
That aren't murders
And they happen every single day
We break our promises
We find it hard to break away
Only Monika she left first
And in that cold clear dawn light
An empty can of kerosene
Helped that house of love burn down so bright
She set fire to the house
And watched it burn down to the ground
She set fire to the house
And watched it burn down to the ground
She set fire to the house
And watched it burn down to the ground
She set fire to the house
And watched it burn down to the ground
Watched it burn down to the ground
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Ah, night traffic hums
Your boyfriend telephoning me again
Full of hurt and anger, no I can't explain
Where there's sorrow there's desire, words that misfire
Flawless beauty to admire
Closing the distance between us she said
I'm sick of this life
Really is that how you feel?
I think you enjoy all this
One perfect kiss to dismiss me
I push it up all falls down
I push it up all falls down
I push it up all falls down
Everything that you see is just a memory
Your pouting mouth and lips, your caress
You try to flee you're dispossessed
You lied to me, I lied to you
If you deliver, then you're overdue
Cars and radios and nights
Drunks sway on Fitzroy street
Under neon lights
My every ounce of energy
Holding hands in the back of some taxi
I push it up all falls down
I push it up all falls down
I push it up all falls down
Everything that you see is just a memory
I push it up all falls down
I push it up all falls down
I push it up all falls down
Everything that you see is just a memory
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10. |
Viva Las Vegas
02:35
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Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn
So get those stakes up higher
There's a thousand pretty women waitin' out there
And they're all livin' devil may care
And I'm just the devil with love to spare
So Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas
How I wish that there were more
Than the 24 hours in the day
And even if there were 40 more
I wouldn't sleep a minute away
Oh, there's black jack, and poker, and the roulette wheel
A fortune won and lost on every deal
All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin'
And your one arm bandits crashin'
All those hopes down the drain
Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime
And turnin' night into daytime
If you see it once, you'll never be the same again
I'm gonna keep on the run, I'm gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke up well
I'll always remember that I had a swingin' time
I'm gonna give it everything I've got
Lady luck, please, let the dice stay hot
And let me shoot a seven with every shot
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vega, Viva, Viva Las Vegas
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