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I Did It
When the World Ends
The Space Between
Dreams of Our Fathers
So Right
If I Had It All
What You Are
Angel
Fool to Think
Sleep to Dream Her
Mother, Father
Everyday

I Did It

I’m mixing up a bunch of magic stuff A magic mushroom cloud of care A potion that'll rock, the boat will rock And make a bomb of love and blow it up I did it Do you think I’ve gone too far? I did it Guilty as charged I did it It was me right or wrong I did it Yeah I never did a single thing that did a single thing To change the ugly ways of the world I didn’t know it felt so right inside I didn’t know it all I opened up the curtains I heard sirens there, the lights flash and crawl But I did it justice I just did it for the buzz, oh It’s a nickel or a dime for what I’ve done The truth is that I don’t really care For such a lovely crime I’ll do the time You better lock me up I’ll do it again I did it Do you think I’ve gone too far? I did it Guilty as charged I did it It was me right or wrong I did it Yeah I never did a single thing that did a single thing To change the ugly ways of the world I didn’t know it felt so right inside I didn’t know it all I open up the curtains I heard sirens there, the lights flash and crawl But I did it justice I just did it for us all, you know All you people are the skewers of our dreams Like the cat that collared me: Oh, what I gotta say to you You got love Don’t turn it down Turn it loud Let it build We got a long way to go But you, ya gotta start somewhere Go door to door Spread the love you got You got the love You get what you want Does it matter where you get it from? I for one Don’t turn my cheek for anyone Unturn your cheek to give your love Love to grow I did it Do you think I’ve gone too far? I did it Guilty as charged I did it It was me right or wrong I did it Yeah, yeah, yeah I did it I told you, I told you I did I did it Guilty as charged I did it I told you, I told you I did I did it Yeah I never did a single thing that did a single thing To change the ugly ways of the world I didn’t know it felt so right inside I didn’t know it all I open up the curtains I heard sirens there, the lights flash and crawl But I did it justice I swear I did it for us all, you know

When The World Ends

When the world ends Collect your things You’re coming with me When the world ends You tuckle up yourself with me Watch it as the stars disappear to nothing The day the world is over We’ll be lying in bed I’m gonna rock you like a baby when the cities fall We will rise as the building’s crumble Float there and watch it all Amidst the burning, we’ll be churning You know, love will be our wings The passion rises up from the ashes When the world ends When the world ends You’re gonna come with me We’re going to be crazy Like a river bends We’re going to float Through the criss cross of the mountains Watch them fade to nothing When the world ends You know that’s what’s happening now I’m going to be there with you somehow, oh... I’m going to tie you up like a baby in a carriage car Your legs won’t work cause you want me so You just lie spread to the wall The love you got is surely All the love that I would ever need I’m going to take you by my side And love you tall, ‘til the world ends Oh, but don’t you worry about a thing No, 'cause I got you here with me Don’t you worry about a Just you and me Floating through the empty, empty Just you and me Oh, graces Oh, grace Oh, when the world ends We’ll be burning one When the world ends We’ll be sweet makin love Oh, you know when the world ends I’m going to take you aside and say Let’s watch it fade away, fade away And the world’s done Ours just begun It's done Ours just begun We’re gonna dive into the emptiness We'll be swimming I’m going to walk you through the pathless roads I’m going to take you to the top of the mountain that’s no longer there I’m going to take you to bed and love you, I swear Like the end is here I’m going to take you up to I’m going to take you down on you I’m going to hold you like an angel, angel I’m going to love you I’m going to love you When the world ends I’m going to hold you When the world is over We’ll just be beginning...

The Space Between

You cannot quit me so quickly Is no hope in you for me No corner you could squeeze me But I got all the time for you, love The Space Between The tears we cry Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more The Space Between The wicked lies we tell And hope to keep us safe from the pain But will I hold you again? These fickle, fuddled words confuse me Like 'Will it rain today?' Waste the hours with talking, talking These twisted game we play We're strange allies With warring hearts What wild-eyed beast you be The Space Between The wicked lies we tell And hope to keep us safe from the pain Will I hold you again? Will I hold... Look at us spinning out in The madness of a roller coaster You know you went off like a devil In a church in the middle of a crowded room All we can do, my love Is hope we don't take this ship down The Space Between Where you're smiling high Is where you'll find me if I get tickled The Space Between The bullets in our firefight Is where I'll be hiding, waiting for you The rain that falls Splash in your heart Ran like sadness down the window into... The Space Between Our wicked lies Is where we hope to keep safe from pain Take my hand 'Cause we're walking out of here Oh, right out of here Love is all we need here The Space Between What's wrong and right Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you The Space Between Your heart and mine Is the space we'll fill with time The Space Between...

Dreams of Our Fathers

Oh, I’m choking, I’m choking On the smoke from this burning house I claw and I scrape But I can’t seem to get out But who then, who is this That’s scratching from the ground Oh, it’s my world, too But whose gold is this I’m digging out? When we go, where we go When we’re dead Is the verdict still out? Do we get into line To line up with those long dead now? With the muffled tears of sorrow Bones underground Is this time our time? Yes, it is Without or with this shadow of doubt I don’t want to wake up Lost in the Dreams of our Fathers Oh, it’s such a waste child To live and die for the Dreams of our Fathers Though I must confess, yes My view is a wonder about this This love I possess, love Must be the Dreams of our Fathers I wanna go, I wanna run We turn, so sure someone’s looking down It’s haunting me, haunting me Leaves us here to get out Though I don’t believe, I don’t believe This flavor in my mouth Is from my tongue alone So bitter I wanna spit it out I repeat these words They come out Under the blue light in the sky My empty pages are filling up With these wicked lies But I hear deep in myself An echo, an echo Of empty, empty emptiness Comes up and swells inside I don’t want to wake up Lost in the Dreams of our Fathers Oh, it’s such a waste child To live and die for the Dreams of our Fathers Though I must confess, yes My view is a wonder about this This love I possess, love It must be the Dreams of our Fathers Rain on my head Rain on my head Rain on me And then give me air Rain on my love Again and again Why can’t I dream you away from me? Look here, look here Bloated, floating Go belly down Belly up in the water But who is this here that’s drowned? We followed a drunken man He got us all spinning round But it’s like he swallowed himself And didn’t leave us a way out I don’t want to wake up Lost in the Dreams of our Fathers Oh, it’s such a shame child To live and die for the Dreams of our Fathers Though I must confess, yes My view is a wonder about this This love I possess, love It must be the Dreams of our Fathers This love I possess, love It must be the Dreams of our Fathers This love I possess, love It must be the Dreams of our Fathers This love I possess, love It must be the love of our fathers The dreams The dreams The dreams This love I possess love

So Right

Roll out down to midnight Then roll on downtown 'til it's light Because tomorrow we may die Oh, but tonight we're dancing in the faint light Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling Don't rob yourself of all that you could be Roll hard 'til midnight Roll 'til it's light Come on now Stay up and make some memories Yeah, with us now Roll the red carpet out with friends To whom, to love and roll on Our love is so right I won't waste a minute here tonight Our love is so right And tonight my dance is all about you To midnight love you, Roll on and run the red lights You know the game now is keep it tight Oh, how I love your pretty rock-roll kisses Come on and stay with me Roll on and run the red lights Come on, this love is so right Stay up and make some memories Yeah, with us now To roll the red carpet out with friends Oh, to love and roll on now Our love is so right I can taste We're in it here tonight Our love is so right And tonight my dance Is all about you I'm going crazy And it's all 'cause of you (it's all 'cause of you) I'm going under, over you, over you... This time is so alive Everybody's tranced, dancing tonight Oh so beautiful, and so strange Oh, it was empty until you came... Our love is so right Forget the clouds that rain on your light Our love is so right I'll not forget how you look right now Our love is so right Remember let's just move together Our love is so right I swear it would last forever Our love is so right Forget the clouds that rain down on you Our love is so right...

If I Had It All

Sometimes I can't move my feet it seems As if I'm stuck in the ground somehow like a tree As if I can't even breathe Oh, and my screams come whispering out As if nobody can even see me Like a ghost, sometimes I can't see myself Sometimes, then again, oh If I were a king If I had everything If I had you and I could give you your dreams If I were giant-sized, on top of it all Then tell me what in the world would I sing for If I had it all Sometimes I feel lost As I pull you out like strings of memories Wish I could weave them into you Then I could figure the whole damn puzzle out Then again, oh And if I were a king If I had eveything If I had you and I could give you your dreams If I were giant-sized, on top of it all Then tell me what in the world would I go on for If I had it all I could take anything If I had no greed to bring Only the poison that's tainting the clean Oh, then nothing Remembering times much younger than me now When my breath was light When the world raised me up kind And here mother comforts child Every moment was waking up But now I've grown tired... out If I had it all, you know I'd fuck it up If I were a king If I had eveything If I had you and I could give you your dreams If I were giant-sized, on top of it all Then tell me what in the world would I sing for... If I were a king If I had eveything, piece by piece If I had you if i could give you your dreams If I were giant-sized, on top of it all Then tell me what in the world would I go on for If I had it all If I had it all If I had it all

What You Are

I walk into this room Oh, all eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside They look straight through me, these eyes Seeking more wisdom than I have to give away Realize, realize what you are... What you've become, Just as I have Are you and I so alike? I don't hear you Just as I am Afraid if we dance we might die Mock the world Live safe, say why Don't you know if you live life Then you become what you are The seasons sparing We're all drifting away Away from you I pray for you now Hoping to God on high Is like clinging to straws While drowning, oh Realize, realize what you are... What you've become Just as I have Are you and I so alike? I don't hear you Just as I am Afraid if we dance we might die Mock the world Live safe, say why Don't you know When you live life Then you become what you are What you are Is the beast in a lover's arms What you are Is the devil in the sweet, sweet kiss What you are Is missing a piece What you are Is a puzzle to me What you've become Just as I have Are you and I so alike? I don't hear you Just as I am Afraid if we dance we might die What the world gives to you Don't you know When you give life Then you become what you are? Don't trust me Trust you... Up to you... Trust you...

Angel

I call you up You pick up You call my bluff On the card to love You hold too close Your hands to your chest I can read your eyes But I confess It's lonely far from you, oh Even when you're right by me It's only why I wait for you To take my hand Why do I beg like a child for your candy? Why do I come after you like I do, I love you? Wherever you are I swear You be my angel You I play my cards the best I can But I lose my luck when you're not here My darling heart Won't you please give in? I may be strong But I want you back again When you're not here it's hard to pretend It's all alright again When you're not here love it's hard to pretend It's all alright but still Why do I beg like a child for your candy? Why do I run after you like I do, I love you? Whatever you are I swear You be my angel, you Watch the deck Count your cards Makes no sense That I'm always losing When you're gone Why do I beg like a child for your candy? Why do I come after you like I do, I love you Whatever you are I swear You'll be my angel, you When you're gone

Fool to Think

Look at me dreaming of you All I could hope is to have you To have you walking with me Laughing so in love, we two Almost drunkenly I did imbibe of this Fantasy of you and me Was I a fool to think? The way you looked at me I swear you did But you looked away too quick Was I a fool, was I a fool to think That you would take me home As if I was yours Was I a fool to think at all? I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by I smile, you do not notice me Treat me recklessly All you do is toss me pennies out But the silence in me is screaming Won't you come and get me? Was I a fool to think? The way you looked at me I swear you did But you looked away too quick Was I a fool, was I a fool to think That you would take me home As if I was yours Was I a fool to think at all? Was I a fool to think? The way you looked at me I swear you did But you looked away too quick Was I a fool, was I a fool to think That you would take me home As if I was yours Was I a fool to think at all? You make a mess of me here I dance a thousand steps for you If you say yes to me I'll be whatever gets you through You make a mess of me here (was I a fool?) I dance a thousand steps for you (was I a fool?) Was I a fool, was I a fool to think? Am I a fool, am I a fool for you?

Sleep to Dream Her

I know I'll miss her later Wish I could bend my love to hate her Wish I could be her creator To twist her arms now She stares up at the stars when The stars fell from her hair then I bent down to collect them And then she was gone Oh, I sleep just to dream her I beg the night just to see her That my only love should be her Just to lie in her arms Oh, I came there to find out Find out she'd made up her mind, oh My arms are all tied up To me she was blind This space between us Where wingless dreams fall earless Will you not bear me witness With your back to me now It seemed so unnerving Still somehow deserving That she could hold my heart so tightly And still not see me here, oh Oh, I sleep just to dream her Beg the night just to see her That my only love should be her Just to lie in her arms I know I'll miss her later Wish I could bend my love to hate her Wish I could be her creator To be the light in her eyes

Mother, Father

Mother, father please explain to me Why a world so full of mystery A place so bitter and still so sweet So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad... Mother, father please explain to me Why forests march to desert speed While snowcapped mountains melt away What do we tell our babies, when do we say, oh Mother, father please explain to me How a man who rocks his child to sleep Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred Mother, father please explain to me How it could be so this world has come to be A precious balance in between Such cruelty and such kindness please Mother, father please explain to me How this world has come to be Unequaled in her blessings, oh, I see Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me Mother, father please explain to me How this world has come to be so Twisted between time and dreams Oh, mother, father please explain to me Oh, what's all this talk about? All this talk about it Spinning down, down, down, down, down All this talk about Endless words without Nothing's done Mother, father do you know Why one man's belly overflows Another sleeps in hunger's bed Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread Oh Mother, father please explain to me How this rare world's come to be A place so full of color yet overflowing Always in black and white Drowning in the waters of our... Mother, father please explain to me How this world has come to be While still blessed in all the things we see Such a sad, sad home for you and me Come out, and hold, Come on out you Come on out you Come and save yourself Come on out you Come on we're taking the water We're taken the water We're taken the water But you know We got the freedom We got the freedom There's no God above And no hell below Oh, it's here with us It's up to us To keep afloat How this sweet world has come to be Oh to keep afloat Mother, father please explain to me How this rare world has come to be Oh, let the blue planet Let the blue planet Mother, father please explain to me Mother, father please explain

Everyday

Pick me up, love! (Pick me up, love) Hey, how long, how long, how long (Everyday) Everyday, ah Pick me up, oh, from the bottom Up to the top, love, everyday Pay no mind to taunts or advances I take my chances on everyday Left to right Up and down, love I push up love, love everyday Jump in the mud, oh Get your hands dirty with Love it up on everyday All you need is All you want is All you need is love. All you need is What you want is All you need is love. Everyday Everyday Oh, Everyday... Pick me up, love, from the bottom Up onto the top, love, everyday Pay no mind to taunts or advances I'm gonna take my chances on everyday Left to right Up and up and inside out right Good love fight for everyday Jump in the mud, mud Get your hands filthy, love Give it up, love Everyday All you need is All you want is All you need is love. All you need is What you want is All you need is love. Oh... What you’ve got Lay it down on me What you’ve got Lay it down on me All you need is All you want is All you need is love. All you need is What you want is All you need is love. Everyday Everyday Oh, Everyday... Pick me up love Lift me up love Pick me up love Everday... Up from the bottom, everyday Up to the top love, everyday Pick me up love Lift me up love Pick me up love Everyday


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