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Control

By: Hazel English

Every little thing that you want Lead by desire You know this is all your fault Work a little harder

What are you searching for Someone to admire You want to feel in control You do what you like

Got to break this wall That you've been constructing You can't find a reason to try Can't you see what's happening to you You're building a prison Can't find my way into stay

I just want to know you more Lead by desire I'm just leveling the score Work a little harder

What are you searching for Someone to admire You want to feel in control You do what you like

Got to break this wall That you've been constructing Can't find a reason to try Can't you see what's happening to you You're building a prison Can't find my way into stay

Say what you want Do what you want Say what you want Do what you want

Got to break this wall That you've been constructing Can't find a reason to try Can't you see what's happening to you You're building a prison Can't find my way into stay

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California Stars

By: Billy Bragg and Wilco

I’d like to rest My heavy head tonight On a bed Of California stars I’d like to lay My weary bones tonight On a bed Of California stars I’d love to feel Your hand touching mine And tell me why I must keep working on Yes, I’d give my life To lay my head tonight on a bed Of California stars

I’d like to dream My troubles all away On a bed Of California stars Jump up from my starbed Make another day Underneath My California stars They hang like grapes On vines that shine And warm the lovers’ glass Like friendly wine So I’d give this world Just to dream a dream with you On our bed of California stars

I’d like to rest My heavy head tonight On a bed Of California stars I’d like to lay My weary bones tonight On a bed Of California stars I’d love to feel Your hand touching mine And tell me why I must keep working on Yes, I’d give my life To lay my head tonight on a bed Of California stars

I’d like to dream My troubles all away On a bed Of California stars Jump up from my starbed Make another day Underneath My California stars They hang like grapes On vines that shine And warm the lovers’ glass Like friendly wine So I’d give this world Just to dream a dream with you On our bed of California stars

So I’d give this world Just to dream a dream with you On our bed Of California stars Dream a dream with you

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Dark Side of the Gym

By: The National

The first time I saw you, you were walking out I wanted to ask if you could stay But you were on something with your friends around There was nothing I could say

But I'm gonna keep you in love with me for a while I'm gonna keep you in love with me

The next time I saw you, you were breaking down A million years had gone away You looked right at me, and I just turned around There was still nothing I could say

But I'm gonna keep you in love with me for a while I'm gonna keep you in love with me I'm gonna keep you in love with me for a while I'm gonna keep you in love with me

I have dreams of anonymous castrati Singing to us from the trees I have dreams of the first man and first lady Singing to us from the sea

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About Today

By: The National 

Today You were far away And I Didn't ask you "Why?" What could I say? I was far away You just walked away And I just watched you What could I say?

How close am I To losing you?

Tonight You just close your eyes And I just watch you Slip away

How close am I To losing you?

Hey Are you awake? Yeah, I'm right here Well, can I ask you About today?

How close am I To losing you? How close am I To losing?

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The Stable Song

By: Gregory Alan Isakov

Remember when our songs were just like prayers Like gospel hymns that you called in the air Come down, come down, sweet reverence Unto my simple house and ring And ring Ring like silver, ring like gold Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio Ring like clear day wedding bells Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell We’ll never tell Come to me, clear and cold, on some sea Watch the world spinning waves, mad machine Now I’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell Now I’m covered up in straw, belly up on the table Well I drank and sang, and passed in the stable That tall grass grows high and brown Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground And you sent me back to where I roam Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know Now I know

And I ran back to that hollow again The moon was just a sliver back then And I ached for my heart like some tin man When it came, oh it beat, and it boiled, and it rang Oh it's ringing Ring like crazy, ring like hell Turn me back into that wild haired gale Ring like silver, ring like gold Turn these diamonds straight back into coal Turn these diamonds straight back into coal

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That Moon Song 

By: Gregory Alan Isakov

The tail lights burn red They were hotter than hell And I've been long gone, couldn't you tell The smoke in the air Couldn't hide my shame Saw it lit up on that silver screen And ahh that full-bellied moon, she's a-shinin' on me Yeah she pulls on this heart like she pulls on the sea And you came on strong like some running wave And your beauty left me broke and hungry Left me begging to the birds for a bone or an offering Left me saying nothin', nothin', like I always say And ahh that full-bellied moon, she's a-shinin' on me Yeah she pulls on this heart like she pulls on the sea And those broken-hearted lovers They got nothing on me

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These Days

By: People Press Play 

These days are moving fast ahead And one more day like this Could change everything that we Ever thought would keep these days We're always in and out of everything I feel like someone is turning tricks on me And we're losing our grip So why did you deny it There really isn't time for it No time for it So why did you deny it It's all a strange, a strange act of things We can't postpone it any longer

It's all around From mouth to mouth We can't ignore this consequence Shifted in between All of these Twisted thoughts that we had Could it turn out that we've lost what we had? So why did you deny it There really isn't time for it No time for it So why did you deny it

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The Desperate Act

By: Owen 

You were right, babe None of this means anything There’s so much more for us to be than seen

Somehow all of the sudden I find myself struggling Two lives are too much and not enough I concede this childish need for attention It’s the desperate act of a disappearing man You'd better catch him while you can

What a mess Past and present stitched together, perilously tethered I ain’t fooling anyone (least of all, me) I'm calling in sick forever And I’m calling bullshit on everyone This is a test and I’m failing it

You were right, babe I love how you know me I know how you love me I know you long for this song to end

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Sweet Avenue 

By: Jets to Brazil 

Tasting you in rain, I walk down to the train Try not to look down This day could someday be an anniversary Everything is light and sound

Facing forwards, going slowly, wait for you to show me Where this train wants to go Living by the hour, I stop for every flower Everything is soft and slow

Now all these tastes improve Through the view that comes with you Like they handed me my life For the first time, it felt right

Thank you for making me see there's a life in me It was dying to get out Holding you, we make two spoons beneath an April moon Everything is soft and sweet

This cigarette, it could seduce A nation with its smoke Crawling down my tired throat Scratches part of me that's purring Softly stirring

I'm a captain of industry, smoking famously Feet up on the windowsill Looking at all these trees I feel affinity with Everything so soft and still

Budding at my fingertips Touching you, I start to bloom Alive with trains and passing ships Soft and sweet along your lips now I go "oh wow"

Thank you for taking me from my monastery I was dying to get out With tears of gratitude, I like my latitude Cross town train to you

Now all these tastes improve Through the view that comes with you Like they handed me my life For the first time, it felt worth it Like I deserved it

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Reconstruction Site 

By: The Weakerthans 

I'm lost, I'm afraid A frayed rope tying down a leaky boat To the roof of a car on the road in the dark And it's snowing If I'm more, then it means less Last call for happiness I'm your dress near the back of your knees And your slip is showing I'm a float in a summer parade Up the street in the town that you were born in With a girl at the top wearing tulle And a Miss Somewhere sash Waving like the queen

Beauty's just another word I'm never certain how to spell Go tell the nurse to turn the TV back on And throw away my misery It never meant that much to me It never sent a Get Well card

I broke like a bad joke Somebody's uncle told At a wedding reception in 1972 Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home And he thought about how everyone dies someday And when tomorrow gets here where will yesterday be And fell asleep in his brand-new winter coat

Buy me a shiny new machine That runs on lies and gasoline And all those batteries we stole from smoke-alarms And disassembles my despair It never took me anywhere It never once bought me a drink

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Generationals

By: Ten-Twenty-Ten

When I need it so badly I come to defend Is there any way to tell me that you're gonna be a terrible friend You remind me of a distant constellation The way you cover it up but don't let me touch So now you want to know is that important Baby now well it just depends, it just depends

And when you come back uptown remember not to look for me there I give you one more chance to make it better but you don't seem to care You pretend to be accosted by tradition And now you cover it up and tell me you don't Well now you want to know is nothing sacred And I don't want to have to compare, they don't compare

When I see your friends they say it's in my head All my friends seem to think you might leave me for dead Don't remember if it's cost or complication It keeps leaving it out and cover it up And if you want to know I won't confront you With all the stupid things that you said

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There Can Be Only One

By: Cass McCombs 

All that which is that which shall be done They say it’s nothing new I give my heart away to just one And it could be only you

Like a master’s baptism of fire I know you have your ways And two masters at once, no man can acquire You set my heart ablaze

There's nothing new under the sun Who owns my heart? There can be only one

Broken down for days at a free motel Under the Oregon Ridge Broken hearts, a lifetime in this hell I hope it’s water under the bridge

With love it’s either all or none Who owns my heart? There can be only one

To saints and martyrs, lovers now and foregone We are forever committed But as even martyrs are taught by an Imam At least we’re grown enough to admit it

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Alone but not Alone

By: Great Lake Swimmers

The wire is mended, awaiting the deep Out on the water we will be set free Ready to receive There could be a great glow if the conditions are right Shot through with light Moving fast through the swell of the night

I am alone but not alone I am here but hardly at all I am alone but alone I am here waiting for your call

I contemplate the measure of the sea I think about the work ahead of me And figure it must be its own reward And you would be right to call me wide-eyed Heart open wide

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I’ve Been So Lost for So Long

By: American Football

I’ve been so lost for so long Every street’s a dead end Every sign points behind me If you need me, don’t You can’t trust a man who can’t find his way home My impaired intuition is telling me just to give in

If you find me Could you please remind me Why I woke up today?

I feel so sick Doctor, it hurts when I exist This isn’t the pain I’m usually in I hope it’s not contagious

Maybe I’m asleep and this is all a dream I can’t believe my life is happening to me

If you find me Could you please remind me Why I should wake up tomorrow?

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Desire Gets in the Way

By: American Football

Desire gets in the way You can’t hide such an ugly trait I know it’s not easy When everything you want’s within in your reach But better the bed you know than the bed that you don’t

This fire burns incessantly I can’t lie, I kind of like the pain I know you’ll put it out You always put it out before it consumes me

For you, I’ll remain Chained to the bed we made But I get to choose your lingerie We’ll lie here forever like condemned criminals on trial I’m down for whatever The uglier, the better

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Leave it Alone

By: Amanda Shires

Careful there, you're gettin' too close What you think you're feelin' is crushin' at most But I already know I can't leave it alone Can't leave it alone

Hands find the places where they've never been To know for themselves new surfaces and mine They've got a mind of their own I can't leave it alone

Oh, let the night start unfoldin' Get to the part where the space between us closes Where we lean into the gold-blue sky of mornin' With the words we can't find like bees inside us swarmin' I can't leave it alone

Storm rock the window panes every day Shades of neglect in fishtank-green And I envy your clothes How'd they get to be so close? I can't leave it alone

Strange as a snowfall on the plains Your eyes glitter like an eagle's cage Glitterin' Glitter in the knowing I can't leave it alone

Oh, let the night start unfoldin' Get to the part where the space between us closes Where we lean into the gold-blue sky of mornin' With the words we can't find like bees inside us swarmin' I can't leave it alone

I can hear you thinkin' in the dark The noise of your nerves are all question marks And I I can't leave it alone I can't leave it alone

I can't leave it alone, I can't leave it alone I can't leave it alone, I can't leave it alone I can't leave it alone, I can't leave it alone

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Old Wounds

By: John Moreland

I wanna fall asleep forever I wanna learn to disappear Can you take away the mess, that’s been building in my chest Drowning out the song I used to hear Love’s a violent word, don’t you forget it I ain’t saying that you ever could I’ve seen my seasons change I was crying out your name Remember when we used to feel so good

So don’t forget to love me in damnation For the living I have earned on love gone wrong And we’ll open up old wounds in celebration If we don’t bleed, it don’t feel like a song

You got your honest intuition You got your cigarette smoke And I’m all your oldest fears, the black mark on last year But I got the hope you let me hold So let them judge and shove us under And let them do the devil’s work Let them calculate the crimes in all our broken rhymes But let us find the heaven following the hurt

So don’t forget to love me in damnation For the living I have earned on love gone wrong And we’ll open up old wounds in celebration If we don’t bleed, it don’t feel like a song