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1. |
I'm On To You
03:10
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and to the west
always knows best
it knows the truest you
and i am right before your eyes
and still without a clue
oh i can see your mind go
it's mapping every road for you
the only one where you don't win
is staring back at you
(chorus)
give my love a chance tomorrow
give my love a snowball's chance to see this through and i will
fix our life again tomorrow
you know there's nothing i won't prove
i can't be the life that you made up
i can't be what you left behind
i can't see the traps that you're making
i'm just shaking off peace of mind
(chorus)
give my love a chance tomorrow
give my love a snowball's chance to see this through and i will
fix our life again tomorrow
you know there's nothing i wouldn't prove
no one can be everything to you
(solo)
(chorus)
give my love a chance tomorrow
give my love a snowball's chance to see this through and i will
live my life again tomorrow
but i'm on to you
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2. |
I Would Cry
04:13
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i want my brooklyn city girl
to save me from my life
only if you can't be the girl
who's living in my mind
(prechorus)
who you once were a different place in time
but lately you're just trying to survive
and i'm still caught on your last call each night
no i don't know what i would do without you
(chorus)
i'd cry
i would only stay here for the night
then i'd die
i would only hang on for a night
i want my brooklyn city
to love me for these lines
only if you can't be the girl
to keep me up at night
(prechorus)
but lately you're just trying to survive
and you've no time for selfish thoughts of mine
and they'll all love you from the day you die
no i don't know what i would do without you
(chorus)
(bridge)
<ooo ooo ooo ooo>
that's the way that you'll let go
that's the way that they will call
that's the way that I'll lose my life
(solo)
(prechorus)
now lately you're just trying to survive
but all i want are selfish thoughts of mine
and they'll all love you from the day you die
no i don't know what i would do without you
(chorus)
X2
+
that's the way that you'll let go
that's the way that they'll find out
that's the way that I'll lose my life
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3. |
Key's In the Car
02:53
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i'll pack the key's in the car
don't you worry bout' that
go meet your lifelong friends
i will keep all your dreams
if you ever look back
least i can give you that
(chorus)
at least all the work is done
at least i'm here if they're gone
at least i can offer you that
at least i am still good for that
once in the sea
there were monkeys that dreamed on the bed
tell me again bout them
how they got there
or breathed these were secrets you kept
would never betray your friends
(chorus)
at least all the work is done
at least i'll rise with the sun
at least i can offer you that
at least i am still good for that
(bridge)
lucy's on the telephone
she's saying that she just got home
if you wanna come around
you cried when i caught her
and she spilled all the water
now i can't breathe it out
so why's it so dry
i guess i love by now you only call me when you are down
i'll pack the key's in the car
don't you worry bout that
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4. |
Sweet Release
05:06
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i've been awake
throughout every disaster
i started and watched as they'd take
but you're stranger to me
while i'm pulling alarms
you followed the smoke so calmly
i couldn't say
whether we were worth saving
or left at the floor of the lake
you wouldn't need
any promises written
to keep waking up next to me
(chorus)
my sweet release
is waiting for me
to pick up every piece left of me
my sweet release
is waiting on me
and turning every cheek all for me
things i believe
are the sounds of my voice
and that clock that won't quit chasing me
my fall from grace
it's never measured in hours
my friends see it worn on my face
you wouldn't see
all the bad blood
i kept inside me
you wouldn't say
all the bad days that broke you
and told you to look other ways
(chorus)
my sweet release
is waiting for me
to pick up every piece left of me
my sweet release
is waiting on me
and turning every cheek
yeah my world always handles the worse sides of me
yeah my love is the plot that's not worth following
you can't stop wanting something that you'll never need
you're just talking yourself out of the air you breathe
(bridge)
just stay close to me
and we'll lives in the weeds they won't see
just stay close to me
sooner or later
yeah sooner or later
we'll settle on something
we'll settle on something
let's settle on something
on something that we'll never need
(chorus)
my sweet release
is waiting for me
to pick up every piece left of me
my sweet release
is waiting on me
and turning every cheek
yeah my world always handles the worse sides of me
yeah my love is the plot that's not worth following
you can't stop wanting something that you'll never need
you're just talking yourself out of the air you breathe
for the record you'll never be lonely with me
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5. |
You Shoot
03:36
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you read my mind, you can't be that far behind
i know my rights, you changed nine worlds with a light
(chorus)
you shoot
i'll write
this lie means everything
all right
you're right
but if you're away from me
you know it'll be all right
you speak your mind, they color it left or right
we fall behind, the needle moves for a time
and in a minute we'll forget we're fine
can't fight for what we cannot find
(chorus)
X2
but if you're away from me
you know it'll be all right
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6. |
Days I Made You Laugh
03:08
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a pair of lights they slowed outside
you'd think that after all this time
i would know you
but still i have to check the blinds yeah well
i still need fuel for all this fire
that rewrote you
and i've heard every voice meant to sway
but i'm perfectly happy to stay
(chorus)
on the days i made you laugh
on the days i made you laugh
i won the days i made you laugh
i want the days i made you laugh
a song come on the radio and you
found you start to write a note
as you smiled
but you caught yourself in time and you
stopped you from sending a line
i might construe
and you've turned those well meant words away
and you fought every instinct to stay
(chorus)
x2
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7. |
Can't Afford to Lose
03:50
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someday i will get too high
on all the life and lines that we been drinking
but we aren't mine
we fly through the night
with no regard for everything beneath it
(prechorus)
i'm seeing less the warnings i've been letting go now
i'm seeing more the stars that guide me straight to you
but i
(chorus)
i can't afford to lose
can't afford to sing the blues
can't afford to fall for you
so leave those
sweet reminders home with you
reminders of what we can do
one day i will fill my life
have time enough for one last look inside it
there were places i knew better by far
so why's your room the part that won't stop showing
(prechorus)
i'm seeing those anomalies that they been selling
i never asked just once to raise the curtain
(chorus)
(bridge)
we bend the light to coincide with
with everything we think
no know is right
i kind of think if we had broken
there'd never be a point we'd know it
(chorus)
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8. |
Carry the Water
03:47
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walkin down the line
i must have seen you once or twice
so i
sat alone with space and hopes that you could waste my time
and i
held an extra can i must have been an awkward sight
and you
you saw right through but played and asked me what i'm doin now
and you
told me out you warned at every turn for my own sake
but i
can't walk away from you
because i know what it would take and i
know the water
only water
only water
now i see you walking through me
yeah i see you walking through
(chorus)
and i'll carry you over
the dunes by their house
and i'll carry you over
if words won't come out
and i'll carry you over
you never found out
and i'll carry you over
the world we couldn't live without
ignoring all the signs
but you must have seen me once or twice
while i'm
sleeping in my best waves handing down my worst advice
and you'd
never known a dream could leave you out of reach and dry
but i
i see that look in you
yeah i see you looking through it all
and you
come around to me
you tried to feign some sympathy
but you can't walk away from me
because you know what it would mean
and we're
only water
only water
all the water now
yeah it sees us coming through again
it sees us coming to
(chorus)
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9. |
You Wouldn't Fit
03:21
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grace
start over new
in the absense of a better man
i work my hands to bone all for you
faith all but failed you
with the patience of a bitter man
you held the words you don't make your move
and she's the prettiest drug
there will ever be
and she just walked out on that movie screen
all for you
all for you
and you carry that weight
you stack it up in you
to prop up that smile
it's all that you can do
almost blue
almost blue
and the rain is closing in
it's just a matter of time until you're free from your sins
so pad it out with days all spent in
our life is simple if not predictable
here it goes now:
friday night
one more try
you try to fit a red in blue
friday night
one more time
you try to fit a red in blue
friday night
you are overjoyed
you try to fit a red in blue
friday night
i will watch you try
i am this time half pulling for you
hopeless for you
grace
won't walk out for you
and i can't wait
to learn which way you'll lose
i can't go this way
so finally truth
all of the whispers i shouted were not meant for you
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10. |
From Brooklyn
03:33
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ami wears her childish fits
like a star that walks to violins
while i been
raising hell just at the sight of me
just kinda thought that it'd be different
(chorus)
but i've been
days away from brooklyn
and i can't feel the light that shined on me
but i can
see now how a life ends
without two rooms where one still asks for me
ami takes her vitamins
and she stumbles to the party
and in a sea of shaking heads
she's now my responsibility
(chorus)
ami tastes like violets
and she can't be more than a memory
but she just
missed the last bus heading west
and she turns her hopeful eyes to me
(chorus)
but i've been
days away from brooklyn
and i can't feel the light that shined on me
but i can
feel well how a life ends
inside these eyes that are staring back at me
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going out or staying in
the pop scene's where we start and end
we're gonna live in 22
and when that day comes to take
we'll look the other way
or call it in for a drink or two
cos i
want you to feel this too
it's all i want from you
but in the end
you'll crush me
with that look like i'm crazy
and i'll double down
before i'll join you
(chorus)
race the day i wanna see your heart break
race the day i wanna see you cool
race the day i wanna feel your heart break
it's your only move
it's your only move
come on "friends to the end"
i wanna drink until the sunrise
i wanna see the way you move
cos i stayed in bed on the days
that you conquered something
that something that i couldn't do
and i'm driven by the day
that we'll feel different
when a week is too much time
for us to lose
and i know there's a distance
that we won't say exists
'til one of us makes it formal
and moves
(chorus)
(bridge)
and with her i swore so sure i did the right thing
but it just drove me farther from you
so if there's no use to think straight
i'll drink the walls you made
no consolation
at hiding those clues
(chorus)
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12. |
Cold One (Bonus Track)
04:35
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it's a cold one
when you will that pride away
with a tail between some knees
you'd sooner find your head and aim
it's a problem
that i can't find the remedy
always let's talk about it one more time
and i'll find a melody
when that cold wind sang
it froze you some place
made of worlds and distant memories
that since changed a million ways
but you stood in place
and you drank in faith
that you'd find yourself that missing clue
in a life that don't remain
it's a game
you're a drunk man
who's never seen for sure she's gone
you just repeat the words until the world just hums along
or an old man
in that honest kind of way
wouldn't blame it on the reverie
sooner blame it on the rain
(chorus)
it's a cold one
when it brings you round my way
never said out loud you needed help
never set the traps you made
it's a cold one
and there ain't no other way
when you found something worth waiting for
you never thought it was your place
in the time since you put you away
we found that love that filled and covered up that drain
we found your chance was never gauged in months or days
it's a shame
(chorus)
you're a cold one
who never found another way
had a year or two of better luck
just enough to keep you trained
you're a slow song
with a heart to love and blame
when you heard that distant melody
it took you too far away
you're a cold one
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