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I took my time
I found it all consuming
But I took the whole thing too seriously
So I wasted all my time
Wasn’t meant to be
or was it meant to be?
I thought a rose was coming to me
But I was wrong
I was wrong
For making us feel so alone
I was wrong
Now I feel like I don’t have home
Wasn’t thinking
Wasn’t feeling
Wasn’t watching
I wasn’t truly there
I thought the walls were coming down
All the way to the ground
wrong again wrong again
But I took the wrong way down
I took the long way round
Lost in the weeds
Turning like me
Turning on a dime just like they said
I was wrong
For making us so alone
I was wrong
Now I feel like I don’t have a home
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He ran away from the past today
He didn’t like it that you called his name
He was a fool man
He was a foolish man
He wasn’t my man
He was a fool
He loved to watch you walk across the floor
He liked to lead but he would not explore
He’d call you once
He’d hang up twice
He wouldn’t act very nice
He was a fool man
He was a foolish man
He was a fool man
He was a foolish man
He used to stare at the telephone
He didn’t care that you were home
He didn’t know the rules to the game
He should have known or he shouldn’t have played
He was a fool man
He was a foolish man
He was a sad man
He didn’t know
And then the nights were a constant haze
He used to dream constantly
There wasn’t anything he could do
While his mind filled up
With thoughts of you
It was a dream man
He was a dreaming man
He was a sad man
He was a fool
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Time will decide
Won’t be left behind
Almost unforgivable
But I won’t go that far
Time waits for no man
Light will decay
Time waits for no one
But light slow decay
Slowly I’m acquired
It’s a slow grind
Slowly throw me out the door
On my way
Time waits for no one
I won’t be had again
I was a fool
But I was frightened
Running into life
The wrong way
I’m not here
I’m not here
I’m alone
Somewhere near
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4. |
Down the Line
05:37
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Change is coming down the line
like the kind we used to see
but more divine
I’ve no feeling in my mind
and that’s not the kind of feeling I want in my mind
Reaching out
try to touch me
don’t be scared
There’s not much to do
Just to plant the seed
and then stand here and watch a while
I was not afraid to dance with you
but i can’t look you in the eyes
hold on she said me
Don’t make me laugh don’t make me cry
I loved you more than I knew
You reach out to me
Will I reach out to you
Change is coming
Change has come
I’m here alone
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And he’s falling on the streets boy sliding on the subway people don’t like it that way
but it’s over now
the only thing you knew
Okay boy I didn’t mean it all but your mind might have to be altered
Still see those eyes rolling in your mind
Was it part of a desperate plot to be part of something or other
I’d end it now if I only I knew how
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Someone came
and took a risk i wouldn’t take
I was so stupid
I believed that
Things would always be that way
And now I’m feeling so lonely
I gotta call you up to say
At the moment I love you
But will i always feel that way
Trust me
i feel you
But i just can’t explain
how to copy
Emotion
toss me to the waves
I felt
desire
long before you came
and it’s hard to believe it
but yeah i’ve always been this way
Some things
Desired
are better left that way
the handle
is turning
you know i don’t think that i’ll stay
Unless you show me
a new way
i’ll go anywhere
before you
beside you
behind you i don’t care
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7. |
At My Door
02:00
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Fact is it happened
If it happens again
Well I guess then
that’s on me
Hoping the river
doesn’t feel bad
for no one when it meets the sea
Hoping
this is the last time
you come
knocking at my door
trying to express it
at the right time
in the right way
eternally
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8. |
My Other Mind
02:47
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I wasn’t ready for your poison kiss
i wasn’t ready for a night like this
it wasn’t complicated
but it became
that’s why i’m still trying to call your name
i cou;ldn’t see you but i wasn’t blind
i wasn’t running but i wasn’t trying to hide
i wasn’t fooling you but you sure got me
was i just misunderstanding life
I lied
You smiled
It wasn’t easy to see you
I wasn’t looking at the time
I only came cos you told me
I love you just the way you are
You lied
I smiled
And when the evening’s hung over me
When I receive lights that speak to me
Why would I waste my time?
How could I choose only one?
I wasn’t easy to be with
I was a beast in love
I started reading out the right passage
From the wrong book of love
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9. |
Falling Down a Well
02:53
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That was all I ever knew of life
And to decide was to deny
Haunt the path in front of me
A beast inside my mind
But holiness was waiting on the hill
Who will decide how we should light the cave
How many words will we engrave
Find the will to find the way to read the words aloud
Painted like a crime across the sky
Too many times the list was thrown to fire
And left to burn
Pulled aside by watchful eyes a feeling so divine
I’m always trying to deny
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10. |
Born Without a Smile
03:25
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Born without a smile
Can’t believe it
Came without a reason to live
Tossed into the soup unseparated
Sunk before I learnt to swim
Still getting over it
I wasn’t born with it
I think that it’s time to leave the party
can’t velieve the state im in
got an urge to re enter my body
Velvet turned from blue to green
I hope that I never forget
I wasn’t born with it
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11. |
Pink Shoes [Part II]
01:25
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Jack J Vancouver, British Columbia
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