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Man commits to reason
03:28
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I ask for forgiveness
I don't ask permission
Now I'm a man
I'll make a statement
I won't be asking questions
Now I'm a man
I could have been a novel
I could’ve been a story or a poem
I'm a man
I could have been a symphony
A song or a tone
Now I'm a man
A man commits to reason
Like the changing of a season
Like good and bad and all that’s in between
After the fact - the decisions that go unseen
And I will get to the heart of it
By being both the equal and the opposite
With what I have and where I am
I will try to do my best, all that I can
Now I am a man
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2. |
Thinking shoes
03:52
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I took a walk through the house of regret
Just to be sure where I'd come from
And I promised that I would never forget
My way there but I must have took a wrong turn
I couldn’t get through an unopened door
And I couldn’t remember what I'd went there for
I ended up in the waiting room
But I'm not waiting for you
I got on my way down memory lane
But I'd forgotten my history
I must have paid no attention that day
That they told us about future and memory
Or I was probably sent out of that class for
Trying to kick my way through their broken glass doors
As I waited outside the headmasters room
I said I'll be the one in charge soon
Hey you there, don’t be scared
Just make sure that you bring your thinking shoes
Oh my mind is racing and I don’t want to lose
I don’t mind it up here on my own
After all it's my decision
I just wish sometimes that I could go home
But there's only one man on this mission
And he's staring deep into the black hole
And there's no directions telling him where to go
He wants to put his life on hold
And come back to it when he's grown old
Hey you there, don’t be scared
Just make sure that you bring your thinking shoes
When my mind is racing and I don’t wanna lose
Hey you there, don’t be scared
Because I'm sure, if you're wearing your thinking shoes
Imagination is running wild and you can't lose
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3. |
Lyrics for the lovers
03:52
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Now my world is bursting and blooming
Because of one wonderful woman
Who wears her heart upon her sleeve
But it’s still hard for me to believe
I could be falling in love with only you
Can we meet for tea on Sunday?
We could make believe on Monday
But now the sun is going down
And the evening's coming round
That’s when the light of your love fills the room
There could never be another you
There could never ever be another you
Darling there could never ever be another you
I don’t want to see no others
Like lyrics for the lovers
You turn me on with the words of your song
Since the day our lives have started
We've all had a need to be wanted
By a kindred living soul
Could be somebody that you know
Or someone who shows up and blows up out the blue
Though these times are hard to believe in
I spend my days in thoughts and dreaming
Of something rare and hard to find
That I may not recognise
Oh like the night you hit me right between the blinking of an eye
There could never be another you
There could never ever be another you
Darling there could never ever be another you
I don’t want to see no others
Like lyrics for the lovers
Oh the words to turn me on are from your song
Oh please say there'll be a next time
Oh baby I'll be ready this time
There could never be another you
There could never ever be another you
Darling there could never ever be another you
I don’t want to see no others
Like lyrics for the lovers
You make me live the life I love and love the life I live
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4. |
Odeon
06:08
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On the day of the night we met
When I had not seen you yet
Nothing for me to forget
Free of guilt with no regret
The step before you opened the door
At the moment you took control
The spark you lit to fire my soul
Burned out on your bedroom floor
To understand or justify
The reasons of the questions why
The secret you keep behind your eyes
The answer in your lovely smile
Like the echo of a dream that stays
Or losing something that can't be replaced
How the memory fractures and fades
The last time that I saw your face
Reveal the truth or force a lie
Emotions too hard to describe
To face yourself or turn to hide
Released or kept locked up inside
Universal laws we cannot define
When we feel the same at different times
Our hearts move on and leave behind
Broken bonds of ties that bind
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In years to come a lesson to learn
How people can change like how the seasons turn
You may ask yourself what have I done?
Oh take me back, ODEON
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5. |
Telephone ring
01:30
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Calling and no one home
Calling and nobody answering
Telephone ring…
I'm saying nothing
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6. |
Having words with God
05:09
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My head is getting crowded
I feel like I'm being surrounded
My life was lost when you found it
Caught between the Earth and stars
I can’t capture who you are
Oh and I wonder where you are
The way your fingers move across your phone
How your memory lingers after you're gone
Or when you asked me how’d you write a song?
Oh the chemicals, and the girls
Whatever you do you do it well, and never change
If you're feeling strange, will you want me?
Do you need me? Can you see what I see?
While we're making memories
Won't you save your best for me
Will you dance and slowly undress for me
You are one of the very few who impress me
Bright lights are blinding our way
You lead me to places I cannot stay
Hey little lady take me away
You relax and ask "are you having a nice time?"
And I sigh and reply "the pleasure has all been mine"
Today and for all time
Getting high and wild on your supply
Messing my mind, twinkling eyes that hypnotise
You can tranquilize the bad in me
If you need me, if I see what you see
Oh while we're making memories
Sha la la la la la la hey la
There aint nothing stranger
In all of beautiful nature
Than the sting of female danger
But we don’t talk about love
We just want to have a good time
Oh will you dance with me one time
The moonlight glimmers into the velvet morn
You wake with a smile painted by the dawn
Glowing on and on….
Close the door, cross the line, never to return
Don’t look back on what we might find
Bodies entwined, having words with god
Maybe he sees what only we see
Oh while were making memories
Sha la la la la la la hey la
Sha la la la la la la hey la
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7. |
She's got it all
04:48
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Don’t let me go
Just as I was starting to know you
Don’t let me go
Not as I was beginning to show you the real me
I feel like I was falling, I'm holding on
The darkest moments are right before the dawn
That’s when I'm coming on
But I don’t want to be alone
When everything goes wrong
I got the number for my unicorn
Don’t let me go
Just as you were getting to know me
Don’t say goodbye
Not as you were beginning to show me who you really are
I'd always believed that the future was mine
Now there's a loose thread in time
And I'm losing nines
We need to simplify
And to break it down to ones and twos
A binary code
And an easy choice for me and you
She's got it all and nothing to lose
She's got it all and nothing to lose
She who has everything has got nothing to lose
She who's got everything has nothing to lose
She's got it all - nothing to lose
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8. |
Rise and fall
04:16
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I've been blessed with the voice of an angel
But more than often I got nothing to say
I started talking with the tongue of the devil
Who tried to tell me I was born that way
I left home at the turn of the century
Took a look around and followed the sun
But pretty soon I had no sense of direction
And time is racing when there's nowhere to turn
I wake up early and set my intentions
I got a message to share with the world
Come after midnight and I'm crippled with thinking
I'm wound up and my mind's unfurled
Can I be factual in a future of fiction?
It’s hard to know if I'm right or I'm wrong
I found the answer in a beautiful moment
But in a moment the moment was gone
And I hear you say nothing at all
There’s no words so don’t speak
And you might as well talk to the wall
Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
Kingdoms rise and fall
Look in the mirror and make an impression
You tell your stories let the pictures unfold
A shattered vision from when I was younger
I’m separated but at one with the world
I’m on the line between success and failure
I get confused with what I’m trying to say
Communication is a gift and a burden
The words come, the words get in the way
And I hear you say nothing at all
There’s no words, so don’t speak
And you might as well talk to the wall
Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
Kingdoms rise and fall
I met my unicorn in an elevator
Said she was going to the 99th floor
We hit the top and then she said “see you later"
We made a memory then we closed the door
And I hear her say nothing at all
There’s no words, so don’t speak
Well you might as well talk to the wall
Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
Kingdoms rise and fall
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9. |
St. Johns
06:59
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For a while I held a unicorn
You were the wave I rode upon
But like a distant dream dissolved in the dawn
Though I look for you, you will be gone
Tomorrow
I recall when we both first saw the light
All the stars were like pinholes bursting bright
The trails we blazed through the city that night
Are now the ashes we sweep tomorrow
My heart was wide open and yours to keep
Found abandoned on the end of your street
Dreams discarded from under your feet
On the path that leads you to tomorrow
I once saw myself in front of me
Oh he tried to face reality
My sight was blinded that I couldn’t see
The eventualities of tomorrow
Oh those moments - not like now
Oh those moments - they’re not like now
And love is a rose growing on the vine
I got too close and thought yours was mine
I gotta move now I'm running out of time
Smell the flowers, keep your garden green
Before tomorrow
Now I'm back at the place where we first kissed
How it was I swear felt nothing like this
All that could be can sometimes feel remiss
And to look back contradicts tomorrow
How long do you want to be loved?
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10. |
Damned
05:08
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Lately I'm not sleeping so great
Dreams been keeping me awake
There's been too much
Stuck on my mind like an actors mask
So many questions I'm too frightened to ask
Who is this man you call you?
What are you going to do?
Do I love you?
Where is the future we're building towards?
When will you know if it's still worth fighting for?
I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't
I'll be damned for the things I've done
I have done such awful things
Such awful wonderful things
Wonder can turn into fear
Happiness can disappear
The constant changing
When realisations are hard to believe
When all that we are is what we perceive
Idle my mind let the thoughts be
Shelter the rain falling on me
Wander through the haar
To wrestle control of my restless heart
Alone as the dark inbetween stars
I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't
I'll be damned for the things I've done
I have done such awful things
Such awful wonderful things
The clock on the wall is showing one one one one
The beat of your heart is going bom bom bom bom
And I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't
I'll be damned for the things I've done
I have done such awful things
Such awful wonderful things
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11. |
Lullaby
04:14
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Lullaby every day when we rise
Lullaby, waking dreams in your eyes
Don’t wanna know about
How we would live without love
Lullaby, new moon fills the sky
Lullaby, see the light crystallised
Low evening sun slip to the sea
Good times to come for you and me
Lullaby, day is done, say goodnight
Lullaby, close the door, wave goodbye
It's too soon to end like this
So begin again and it is what it is
Lullaby, may your dreams be realised
Lullaby every day as you rise
As you rise, as you rise, as you rise
As you rise
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