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We danced naked outside of your bathroom Until our bare feet sweat tracks in the tile As you came you moaned about loving them Such convenience in regret after the fact While our hitch breaths trip on false moves We both know we’ll be right here again So by now I know where the door is I’ll wait outside until you call me back in Future love, don’t fall apart Future love, don’t fall apart We purged on the milk of new treason As we clung to our warp weighted loom By the time we were done we were woven in Such constriction from a self made trap And on these antlers dry-rot cracks through I left myself too open for you So by now I know what decay is And I’ll lay on waves until the night channels end Future love, don’t fall apart Future love, don’t fall apart

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No one knows me like the piano in my mother's home You would show me I have something, some people call a soul And you drop-topped the sky, oh you arrived when I was three years old No one knows me like the piano in my mother's home You know I left, I flew the nest And you know I won't be long And in my chest you know me best And you know I'll be back home An angel by her side, oh, all the times I knew we couldn't cope They said that it's her time, no tears in sight, I kept the feelings close And you took hold of me and never, never, never let me go 'Cause no one knows me like the piano in my mother's home In my mother's home

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Take me to the apple tree Take me to the scarlet sea I need to hear you say to me that you wanted it this way That you know me and I know you Take me to the garden floor Take me to the iron door And even though I knew before, I need to know again That you hear me and I hear you Take me to the river bed Take me to the water's edge And I'll remember what you said as I wade into the stream That you see me and I see you Take me to the final page Take me to an empty stage And I will tell them why I play as the curtain starts to fall That you love me and I need you

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Say something awful as if fucking the world is your right And I watch you stumble drunk out into the night. To catcall ladies, you're thirsty for blood you're picking a fight And I wanted to ask you "Man, what do you do in the daylight?" So bum me a cigarette, Buy me a beer, 'Til I'm happy to be here, Happy to be here With all of my family Hookers in heels and the men who watch them like hungry black eels Run into me Sunday Tell me you had one hell of a time And through the haze and the gunsmoke I'm forced to believe you're probably right And someone lies bleeding Someone got violent and did not think twice And I watched you my brother Making a fool of the moon tonight So bum me a cigarette, Buy me a beer, 'Til I'm happy to be here, Happy to be here With all of my family Hookers in heels and the men who watch them like hungry black eels Am I just a spark?

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I went with you up to The place you grew up in We spent a week in the cold Just long enough to "Walden" it with you Any longer, it would have got old Singing "Ace of Spades" when Lemmy died But nothing's changed LA's all right Sleeping in my bed again And getting in my head And then walk around the reservoir You, you must have been looking for me Sending smoke signals Pelicans circling Burning trash out on the beach One of your eyes is always half-shut Something happened when you were a kid I didn't know you then And I'll never understand why it feels like I did "How Soon Is Now" in an '80s sedan You slept inside of it because your dad Lived in a campground in the back of a van You said that song will creep you out until you're dead And you, must have been looking for me Sending smoke signals Pelicans circling Burning trash out on the beach I want to live at the Holiday Inn Where somebody else makes the bed We'll watch TV while the lights on the street Put all the stars to death It's been on my mind since Bowie died Just checking out to hide from life And all of our problems I'm gonna solve 'em With you riding shot-gun Speeding, 'cause fuck the cops And you, you must have been looking for me Sending smoke signals Pelicans circling Burning trash out on the beach I buried a hatchet It's coming up lavender The future's unwritten The past is a corridor I'm at the exit looking back through the hall You are anonymous I am a concrete wall

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Would you lie if I asked you Close your eyes if you have to For reasons I can't explain I'm here still Run and hide when I have to Wanting more, but I want you Terrified I can't go through The space between us two Don't leave just yet ,dance with me love one last time, slowly. Drown me again, just like you did One last time, lovely. Phantom you lay, across my bed one last time, If only, for a moment we could Not too sure that I know you Think you left when I left you And now were fading away Drifting as we end our stay Don't leave just yet ,dance with me love one last time, slowly. Drown me again, just like you did One last time, lovely. Phantom you lay, across my bed one last time, If only, for a moment we could ..

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Polly won't you kick in my teeth? Burn all my songs, leave me out on the street Polly won't you stand on my neck? Do what you have to, I'll write you a check Tell me my words are a waste of no's And I said "do you love me?" You say you don't know And I'll live my life like a man on the ropes When I say "do you love me?" Say you don't know Polly won't you put out my eyes? Tell me you're sleeping with those other guys And Polly won't you bite off my tongue? Make me feel heartache like when I was young Drive me out of my mind I'll be yours and you'll be mine Baby haunt me when you die Just give me time, just give me time I need pain for my art Take my lungs, break my heart Just don't leave me Baby stay here I can't bear to be apart Baby stay here Please don't leave me I can't bear to be apart

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For what it’s worth, There’s nowhere else that I belong, Dust and earth, Feeling weak where I felt strong. And all these days, I spend my seconds foolishly, For through my gaze There’s only so much I can see.

So here we are Though I can barely tell at all, In heat and dark Lying low where I stood tall.

And still, I wait For total pitch, or clarity. Spinning straight Through crushing heat and cool release. And I’ll be here To watch the passing of the days, Not calm, not clear, Just time to settle in my ways.

So here we are Though I can barely tell at all, In heat and dark Lying low where I stood tall.

To wait, now, And forfeit all I’ve gained For this? Well it just feels too familiar, But somehow The places I have been All stay the same.

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No man is an island, this i know. Or maybe you were the ocean, when i was just a stone.

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Because of her, because of her Her eternal summer smile is breaking my defences, I know damn well won’t find no peaceful sleeping with no her up in my head. Caught me by the collar at the graveside ‘neath a sky of royal blue. Like you’re saying 'I’m here now’

Loving thoughts living in my young mind. Give this boy a beautiful view. And tell him 'without fear, now’

I never questioned I was accepting Until she stepped in, moving like beautiful truth If there were others in that room I didn’t see 'em babe

Darker than amber Staring right at her The first full laughter Asking six days into June Spending my evenings on the roof

Can’t tire of thinking 'bout you.

I wonder if this’ll all work out.

The summer’s shown where we should go. You smile in the winter, let summer show. I’m moving on a feeling here, I don’t know. Never hide baby, always grow.

I wanna do something for you. But I can see it now. You’d smile and tell me not to. Feel like I’ve gotta run a heart coup. Will there be demons when we come through.

What would it do if I told you

When all of this is over.. Love me like there ain’t another day. Lead with the heart ain’t that the only way. Keep thinking 'bout how much I changed today.

Now I really think you’re heavensent. 'Cause you’ve been forcing all these hollow hearts to feel again.

Now I really think you’re heavensent. But there’s a beauty being broken, I’ve been seeing it.

Can’t tire of thinking 'bout you.

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My mind folding in the mirror, There's no way I'm seeing any clearer, Can you taste, taste it on your tongue now, It's all that I can do to get around. My time is getting shorter, I see I'm changing in a photograph, My mind folding in the mirror, My mind, my time. Last gate shifiting in my memory, Old kings taking up the territory, It's not nothing but it's not a lot, I'm not nothing but I'm not a lot. My time is getting shorter, I see I'm changing in a photograph, My mind folding in the mirror, My mind, my time. You're the quiet in the violence, You're the stranger at the door, I don't wanna let you down, But I don't wanna do this any more. You're the quiet in the violence, You're the stranger at the door, I don't wanna let you down, But I don't wanna do this any more. I don't wanna let you down. I don't wanna let you down.

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sometimes I hear your voice in the garden I feel the ripple I see the stone sometimes I see your face in the dark in my dreams and when I am alone there is a feeling when the light hits the water it's just fleeting but I see it I'm still looking for some kind of sign some way of knowing some way to define when the light hits the water on the horizon when the light hits the water on the horizon we can't go on living in reflection I don't want you to feel alone but that loss it left a shadow and I can't seem to let go we swam out into the lake and the cold was all we could take we'll paint the rooms with living in we'll fall in love in this place again when the light hits the water on the horizon when the light hits the water on the horizon when the light hits the water on the horizon when the light hits the water and we wait for the daughter

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Broken by the back of it It was hard enough without the loss Hanging on a thread of it It was hard enough without the cause Dancing to your lover's beat Beating on heavy feet Working on a dream you make When you made enough to ride the wave Elijah, you're too young to be lost Elijah, don't fade out on the cross Elijah, I don't know What it is you need to do Wish you could have talked to me Found another way to be Living hard don't sound so good It's hard to get out of the woods Elijah, you're too young to be lost Elijah, don't fade out on the cross Elijah, I don't know What it is you need to do The radio was playing all day When I heard you singing Fingers strom the sound through delay It echoes to me Wishbones' hidden in the residue Someday they'll find you Just a little piece of good for two It won't forget you Elijah, you're too young to be lost Elijah, don't fade out on the cross Elijah, I don't know What it is you need to do.

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I could be something You believe something Something you can believe in

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No this is not my guitar I'm bringing it to a friend And no I don't sing I'm only humming along Up here in the air I'm just mumbling at the clouds Wanting to be known While I pass the lonely hours I came down from the room I saw you in the rain Laughing with some people Hair dripping down your face Your calm hypnotic eyes Your Scandinavian glow I felt them like a flame Candle in my cold bones Tonight you were my muse As I belted and I strummed Trying not to drown In the helicopter drone Alesund From the crowd I heard You sing a pretty line Was it there so much longer That I wanna cry I thought about it long Had you repeated in my ear "I couldn't place a thought Without you being so close" Alesund Should've played it then From the intro to the end When they offered me the stage At the bar we landed in But I turned and walked Away from all the fun And back into the black Seaside night of Alesund Alesund

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The time has come for us to pause And think of living as it was Into the future we must cross must cross And I'd like to go with you And I'd like to go with you You say I'm harder than a wall A marble shaft about to fall I love you dearer than them all them all So let me stay with you So let me stay with you And as we walked into the day Skies of blue had turned to grey I might have not been clear to say to say I never looked away I never looked away And though I'm feeling you inside My life is rolling with the tide I'd like to see it be an open ride Along with you Going along with you The time we borrowed from ourselves Can't stay within a vaulted well And living turns into a lender's well So let me come with you And let me come with you And when we came out into view And there I found myself with you And breathing felt like something new Along with you Going along with you

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And believe in all your fucked up lies