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Jens
03:49
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jen don't wear my diamond ring
and she don't come round when i sing
and she don't think the things i think
and i'm in love with her yeah
they're all joking you're with me
you played along talked family
and now you're sleeping next to me
we're seeing I 2 I yeah
(prechorus)
jumping ahead
said i'm the only one left
i hadn't seen you in 2 years how could you see me like that?
can't believe she don't get it
so far off there's nothing left
save for a little voice that's screaming somewhere deep in my head
it's asking why are you so set on killing you?
(chorus)
cos now she wears his diamond ring
i can't escape her when i sing
and it's been six years to the day
since i spoke with her yeah
and other girls they took your place
but you're the one that got away
i went up north one saturday
and took a call in the hallway
and now i'm bleeding in the street
though it was only two weeks
saw just enough to ruin me
and made my mind up that i'd leave
i walked away so you'd miss me
but that's a losing game
(prechorus)
jumping ahead
said i'm the only one left
i hadn't seen you in 2 years how could you see me like that?
can't believe she don't get it
so far off there's nothing left
save for a little voice that's screaming somewhere deep in my head
demanding why are you so set on killing you?
(chorus)
(solo)
(chorus)
cos now she wears his diamond ring
i can't escape her when i sing
and it's been six years to the day
since i spoke with her yeah
you're sleeping in the space between
you'll stop at two like me someday
and now i'm driving on that street
why did you run after me?
and other girls they took your place
but you're the one that got away
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2. |
Right to Leave
03:39
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so i made my way to you
battled through a sea of fools
while their eyes sealed on you
caught every move
seems i was captured too
fought a star bright but confused
though his light would find her soon
and i reached your threshold
with my blindfold
made you laugh i was doomed
now the road looks gold and green
since they came to drink for free
and my fears have set in
strong still selfish
lights aren't ours to keep
and the time's reminding me
through the years so stubbornly
we're too young for staying
old for leaving
time won't remember me
so romantics would assume
that the sun should set with you
now i tread so lightly
hold so tightly
don't know what else to do
and i know i'm right to leave
yes i know i'm right to leave
we're too young for staying
old for saving
time must remember me
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3. |
Find Us East
03:43
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i was selling salt
to lonely you
i was hiding out
in your bedroom
with the colors
somewhere on the water
i'd save you
heard a second voice
and i lost you
i'm a setting sun
who fears the moon
with just time enough
to watch you bloom
it's only natural where you've been going
and you'll say things i never knew
and they took all the lights from round me
they were for you
(chorus)
shanny can we find us east tonight
say it's all right
say it's all right
shanny can we find us east tonight
say it's all right
yeah it's all right
i was selling salt
and got the news
i've dying out
so far from you
(chorus)
(post script)
the time will come and we'll be erased
nothing to keep
nothing to save
but these last few days have woke me up
they keep me going
they keep me strong
they keep me hoping
and i know
that in the end
it'll be you and me on top of it all
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4. |
You Drew a Line
03:24
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the moon is coming out for us
a witness as she slips away
but no one comes along to take her place
and to the stars in vain i say
i'm afraid i'm going to stay
there's a shop we'd meet on the corner
i've passed 97 times at least
but a desperate situation is better than none
just give me a reason to breathe
<you look rested
you look better
you look all right
since you left me
and i was holding
on for something
what an end for you and me>
(chorus)
tonight you drew a line through me
and made it clear for all to see
tonight i'll take what you will leave
and ride it to obscurity
now you could say it's all for sympathy
the victim as she slides away
or stocking up in vain for a rainy day
well that's for you to say
it's left for me to lead
and i could give at least a million reasons
of why you are the girl and this the scene
and one by one they'll fall away all on their own
just give me something i can need
<you look rested
you look better
you look good
since you left me
and i was hoping
you'd be something
i got right just once to keep>
(chorus)
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5. |
Indoor Living
02:48
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she is not used to indoor living
she is not used to living for anyone
i have a wallet with her number
i call her up maybe once a month
(prechorus)
and she is not my girlfriend
i am not her boyfriend
and she is not my good friend
she is not my girlfriend
(chorus)
lay me on the table
put flowers in the window
cos i've been dying off in the sun
save me all the trouble
of trying hard for something
if i'm not gonna be anyone
she is not used to this attention
i write her songs but they are never enough
she's always falling on her problems
she comes around maybe once a month
(prechorus)
and she is not my girlfriend
i am not her boyfriend
and she is not my good friend
do i even know her
(chorus)
lay me on the table
put flowers in the window
cos i've been dying off in the sun
save me all the trouble
of trying hard for something
if i'm not gonna be anyone
and she could solve all my problems
without her even trying
but it's not worth it for her to come
and we know we're good for nothing
an awful pair my darling
but i can't function when you are gone
(solo)
(chorus)
lay me on the table
put flowers in the window
cos i've been dying off in the sun
save me all the trouble
of killing me for nothing
if i'm not gonna be anyone
and she could solve all my problems
without her even trying
but it's not worth it for her to come
and we know we're good for nothing
an awful pair my darling
but i can't function when you are gone
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6. |
As a Man
03:46
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knew a man
always said
just get out while you can stand
and his words always hung round my head
that was fine
until when
you rushed in i'm on my head
now you're playing the victim again
(prechorus)
and i know you get off
to sympathy
and i know that you're wrong
about why i came
but i couldn't pick out
why you have stayed
close to me
every day
up til now
(chorus)
baby
sorry
i know
i let you down
but don't go thinking i could change now
baby i'm
sorry i
know it now
i let you down
over and over til now
as a man
always said
i'd get out while i can stand
but the water's been sealing both ends
thought it best
up and left
without words i never said
and i left you here guessing again
(prechorus)
but i know you don't live
and die by me
maybe you don't get off
at the sight of me
but i keep going back
still insisting
that we play
this roulette that takes
everything
(chorus)
(bridge)
someday has come between us
someday is all i need
someday has come and it's left me
wondering
everything
(chorus)
baby
sorry
i know
i let you down
and the word has been getting around
baby i'm
sorry i
know it now
i let you down
and won't stop until we hit the ground
we hit the ground
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7. |
Their Wedding Day
04:44
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their wedding day
has been in vein
lost in that planning it seems they
forgot something
the phone will ring
we've been away
her father's savings are all gone
lost in a day
(prechorus)
i never had
much more than you
(chorus)
go on beauty queen
you're less with me
so take your leave
cos they need you
they need you too
somewhere in between
you'll smile at me
and then i'll see
that i need you
i need you too
it's not you me
you said to me
i'm lonely, stoned, sacrificing
won't back away
(prechorus)
we danced too slowly
like we knew the end
(chorus)
(bridge)
there'll never be another
you and me like that
you'll take yourself
to someone and i can't come back
we can't go back
(chorus)
so long beauty queen
you're less with me
so take your leave
cos they need you
they need you too
somewhere in between
you'll smile at me
and sad i'll see
that i need you
i need you too
yeah i need you
i need you too
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8. |
We Headed Home
03:10
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so we headed home
passed the sites we saw last night
passed what made the world we used to know
and we lost each one
every sign that meant something
one by one was gone lost to the dark
(chorus)
i am not ready
to see the world this way and in this light
i feel me slipping
don't care if it's all in my mind
the ground is getting softer with each mile
and while heading home
passed the point of no return
following the guide we've used before
and it's not your fault
to want something that you can hold
the difference in a closed and open door
(chorus)
i am not ready
to build the world without you on my own
i hear you breathing
that buys me time to think of how
if i've a chance to turn this all around
(solo)
(bridge)
let's take this slowly
to make this last while we have us alone
fell short this evening
just smart enough to know the words
not strong enough to say them in a line
(chorus)
i am not ready
to build the world without you on my own
i hear you breathing
that buys me time to think of how
if i've a chance to turn this all around
stay awake this once to see the road
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9. |
No One is Killing You
03:07
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there's gotta be
some kind of beautiful speak
to say i'm not the one for you
there's gotta be
some words to hold you in your sleep
that say i don't love you in the least
(prechorus)
but she
leads me all the way home
and she
doesn't mind my way home
but i gotta let you know
(chorus)
no one is killing you
no one is saving you
no one will make or break your day
no one is calling now
no one is laughing now
don't want to make or break a day
i was a kid
in the 1990's
with hand drawn backgrounds in my sleep
and i always hid
in 8-bit rock n roll dreams
don't know exactly what that means
(prechorus)
but she's
not the one that i saw
and she
floats to close to this earth
now i gotta let you go
(chorus)
(bridge)
but she
leads me all the way home
and she's
not the one that i saw
now i gotta let you go
(chorus)
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10. |
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it's never gonna happen
so put that thought out your head tonight
but i know that won't happen
so let me hear your plan this time
i do this thing where i think of you
when a song or drive catches my mood
something takes me to a better time
but here's the rub not one frame's true
we had some time and then you grew
still i could chase your ghost for my whole life
while knowing nothing real is worth my time
(chorus)
so if it's never gonna happen
then the thought of you
will have to get me by
and if it's never gonna happen
then the way you look tonight
could end my life
no i'll be fine
nothing really matters
when you're on boot jack at night
you don't know i always meant to
have you see it through my eyes
me and my friends we're something else
we put a record on and we paint the town
a different drug to make me see the light
then i wake up a rested fool
and relapse right back into you
i say i don't want this for my whole life
but for the moment this will do me fine
(chorus)
(bridge)
no one's gonna bring me back to this earth on their own
without telling me why anyone would want to come back down
we're gonna hang around until
we know there's nothing else
i guess that's going to have to do for now
(chorus)
so if it's never gonna happen
then the thought of you
will have to get me by
and if it's never gonna happen
then the way you look tonight
could end my life
yeah the way you look tonight
will end my life
no i'll be fine
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11. |
Last Ditch (Bonus Track)
02:35
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i was alone
i wasn't broke
but i knew something would fall
when my vast imagination
it was my only hope
reading more from distant letters
and that color scheme bait
the fine in time's have all been fine
so long as nobody waits
i can savor all the memories
and i can wait 'til they come back to me
it's a curse when i confide
(chorus)
i wrote a little song
but then it went a little long
i think i lost you somewhere there
between the fourth chorus and last bridge and
this is a last ditch and
it didn't take did it?
you can take me home
i guess i thought i was alone now
was getting close
or so i'm told
but i knew they'd never know
all the weight of expectations putting on a show
keeping time by those ahead of me
and no accounting for tastes
the fine in times
worked at the time
if no one thought to retrace
all the touched up tinted memories
and i'll sing if they don't come back to me
it's for worse when i confide
(chorus)
i was alone
i wasn't broke
but i knew something would fall
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