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::White Ladder


White ladder 
Water and wine 
Forever crying 
Oh time 
Don't wanna feel tonight 
There's no rhyme or reason to life 
This sweet life 

White river 
Thunder and war 
Forever crying 
Oh no 
Don't wanna feel tonight 
Ther's no rhyme or reason to life 
This seet life 

To the night another body 
To the night another name 
To the night another valentine 
A burning flame 
To the night another body 
To the night another name 
To the night another valentine 
A burning flame 

White ladder 
Water and wine 
Don't wanna feel tonight 

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::Please Forgive Me


Please forgive me if I act alittle strange 
for I know not what I do 
feels like lightning running through my veins 
everytime I look at you 
everytime I look at you 

help me out here all my words are falling short 
and there's so much I want to say 
want to tell you just how good it feels 
when you look at me that way 
when you look at me that way 

throw a stone and watch the ripples flow 
moving out across the bay 
like a stone I fall into your eyes 
deep into some mystery 
deep into that mystery 

I got half a mind to scream out loud 
I got half a mind to die 
so I won't ever have to lose you girl 
won't ever have to say goodbye 
I won't ever have to lie 
won't ever have to say goodbye 

Please forgive me if I act alittle strange 
for I know not what I do 
feels like lightning running through my veins 
everytime I look at you 
everytime I look at you 
everytime I look at you 
everytime I look at you 

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::Nightblindness


A million to one outsiders 
Nightblindness 
Can't see 
Your bright eyes are what 
The time is 
Twenty five past eternity 
Hear you listening 
To the silence 
Coming closer 
Now further away 
What we gonna do when the money runs out 
I wish that there was something left to say 
Where we going to find the eyes to see the bright of day 
I'm sick of all the same romances 
Lost chances 
Cold storms 
Propping mountains up 
On matchsticks 
Dragging baskets full of bones 
And honey please don't stop 
Your talking 
Cause there's a feeling 
Won't leave me alone 
What we gonna do when the money runs out 
I wish that there was something I could say 
How we going to find the eyes to see the bright of day? 
What we gonna do 
When the money runs out 
I wish that there was something left to say 
How we going to find the eyes to see the bright of day? 
The bright of day the bright of day 

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::My Oh My


What on earth is going on in my heart 
Has it turned as cold as stone 
Seems these days i don't feel anything 
Unless it cuts me right down to the bone 
What on earth is going on in my heart 

Cause my oh my you know it just don't stop 
Its in my mind i want to tear it up 
Been trying to fight it trying to turn it off 
But its not enough 
It takes a lot of love it takes a lot of love my friend 
To keep your heart from phrasing to push on to the end 

What on earth is going on in my head 
You know i used to be so sure 
You know i used to be so definite 
Thought i knew what love was for 
I look aroudn these days i'm not so sure 
No na na 

My oh my you know it just don't stop 
Its in my mind i want to tear it up 
Been trying to fight it trying to turn it off 
But its not enough 
It takes a lot of love it takes a lot of love my friend 
To keep your heart from phrasing to push on to the end 

My oh my you know I just cant win 
I burn it down it comes right back again 
What kind of world is this we're livin in 
Where you never win 
It takes a lot of love it takes a lot of love these days 
To keep your heart from phrasing to keep your spirit free 

My oh my 

My oh my you know it just don't stop 
Its in my mind i want to tear it up 
Been trying to fight it trying to turn it off 
But its not enough 
It takes a lot of love it takes a lot of love my friend 
To keep your heart from phrasing to push on till the end 

My oh my you know it just don't stop... 

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::Babylon


Friday night I'm going nowhere 
All the lights are changing green to red 
Turning over TV stations 
Situations running through my head 
Well looking back through time 
You know it's clear that I've been blind 
I've been a fool 
To ever open up my heart 
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule 

Saturday I'm running wild 
And all the lights are changing red to green 
Moving through the crowd I'm pushing 
Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream 
Only wish that you were here 
You know I'm seeing it so clear 
I've been afraid 
To tell you how I really feel 
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made 

If you want it 
Come and get it 
Crying out loud 
The love that I was 
Giving you was 
Never in doubt 
Let go your heart 
Let go your head 
And feel it now 
Babylon, Babylon 

Sunday all the lights of London 
Shining, Sky is fading red to blue 
I'm kicking through the Autumn leaves 
And wondering where it is you might be going to 
Turning back for home 
You know I'm feeling so alone 
I can't believe 
Climbing on the stair 
I turn around to see you smiling there 
In front of me 

If you want it 
Come and get it 
Crying out loud 
The love that I was 
Giving you was 
Never in doubt 
And feel it now 
Let go your heart 
Let go your head 
And feel it now 
Let go your heart 
Let go your head 
And feel it now 
Let go your heart 
Let go your head 
And feel it now 
Let go your heart 
Let go your head 
And feel it now 
Babylon, Babylon, Babylon 

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::Hold on to nothing

Hold on to nothing
hold on to coldest steel
it chills you down inside
when you see just what is real
paste it up and tear it down
move it on along the rushing road
seventeen Fahrenheit
feel the winter grow

There's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it down
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it down
nowhere to write it down
write it down

Step down the alley
walking against the stony crowd
trying not to listen
but they shout so loud
chew you up and spit you out
crush you between its finger and its thumb
the world in all its anger
oh and there's always more to come

There's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it down
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it down
nowhere to write it down
write it down

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::Sail Away

Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now

Crazy skies all wild above me now
Winter howling at my face
And everything I held so dear
Disappeared without a trace
Oh all the times I've tasted love
Never knew quite what I had
Little Darling if you hear me now
Never needed you so bad
Spinning round inside my head

Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now

I've been talking drunken gibberish
I've been puching at the bars
Trying to find some explanation here
For the way some people are
How did it ever come so far

Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now

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::This Years Love 

This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
And I've been waiting on my own too long
But when you hold me like you do
It feels so right
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like you can't go on

Turning circles when time again
It cuts like a knife oh yeah
If you love me got to know for sure
Cos it takes something more this time
Than sweet sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
And when you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last
This years love had better last

So whose to worry
If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't you know this life goes on
And won't you kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet

This years love had better last
This years love had better last
This years love had better last
This years love had better last

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::Silver Lining

Take this silver lining
Keep it in your own sweet head
Shine it when the night is burning red
Shine it in the twilight
Shine it on the cold cold ground
Shine it till these walls come
Tumbling down

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope
Now can you tell me why
Time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools in their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep

Step into the silence
Take it in your own two hands
And scatter it like diamonds
All across these lands
Blaze it in the morning
Wear it like an iron skin
Only things worth living for
Innocence and magic-amen

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope
Now can you tell me why
Time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools in their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope
Now can you tell me why
Time after time
They drag you down
Down with talk so cheap

Fools in their madness all around
-Know that the light don't sleep
-Know that the light don't sleep
Time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools in their madness all around
-Know that the light don't sleep
-Know that the light don't sleep

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::We're Not Right

Feel the weight if this passing time
All those crazy faces run through my mind
And that song has brought a teardrop to my eye
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No we're not right

I see this world but I can't relate
Hey that everything must accelerate
Betty Ford oh won't you be my valentine
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No, we're not right

Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
And now my hands are shaking
But i just can't stop
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No we're not right

Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
And now my hands are shaking
But I just can't stop
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No we're not right

When I'm weak and my head is sore
And I feel like I can't go on no more
I come in here where normal rules do not apply

Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No we're not right
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No we're not right
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No we're not right

Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah

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::Everytime 

Down from the doorway 
and into the street
I hear the morning bell
over and over the pattern repeat
I hear the morning bell
and all the faces cold as stone
in the January chill
you have led me into worlds unknown
and I'm walking there still

Everytime now
everytime now
I think of you mine now
I just can't contain
I'm seven feet tall and
there's nightingales calling
shooting stars falling
like jewels in the rain

I ask myself I ask myself
can this life be the same
that spun me round and put me down
and fill me up with shame
and all the heads are turning now
down the Tottenham court road
cause I just can't help but sing it out
case I just might explode

Everytime now
everytime now
I think of you mine now
I can't comprehend
the saxophones blowing
cherry trees growing
right here in my hand

A dance in the moonlight
so high on a June night
magazines strewn right
over the chair
your spine a white ladder
your eyes singing sadder
nothing else seems to matter
as soon as you're there
and everytime now
everytime now
I think of you mine now
I just can't contain
I'm seven feet tall and
there's nightingales calling
shooting stars falling
like jewels in the rain
everytime now
everytime now
everytime now
everytime 
and la la la na etc.

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::Only The Lonely 

I'm raising up my voice
to the walls and to the sky
it seeks no explanation
it waits for no reply
really it is nothing
just a cry to the wilds

I'm delirious with chaos
I'm wonderstruck with awe
in my soul I'm dreaming only
of your velvet shore
when I'm walking there my face
untangles like a child

And only the lonely
only the lonely
lonely could know me

I've been talking all night long
There's nothing more to say
So I'm searching every mirror
for a trace of yesterday
but the air it holds no traces
where the eagles were flying

I'm haunted by the skyline
the concrete and the rain
the window speaks of winter
so I’ll set my heart again
somewhere in the dust 
a curlew is crying

And only the lonely
only the lonely
lonely could know me
I'm talking all night long
talking all night

There's a copper moon that's buried
where solitude expands
and distant planets moving
they're weighing on my hands
they're darkening my pages

and there's daylight in my fingers
but it's snowing in my bones
been sucking on the echo
of a thousand telephones
and when we meet again
we will be strangers

And only the lonely
only the lonely
lonely could know me
and only the lonely
only the lonely
lonely could know me

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::Faster Sooner Now 

hey now, you got me by the tongue
I feel like there's nowhere I belong
and they're working it pretty hard
and they're selling it by the yard
but its more than I can afford
that's all that I know

leader, it comes as no surprise
see now, these are coins that were his eyes
silver dollars and hoods of steel
tell me nothing can be revealed
the more you get it the less you feel
that's all that I know
starts a shivering in my spine
and a fever I can't define
it gets colder the higher you climb
that's all that I know

you kill me with every word you say
I’m dead now, along with faith and chivalry
silver dollars and hoods of steel
tell me nothing can be revealed
the more you get it the less you feel
that's all that I know
colder the higher you climb
colder the higher you climb
colder the higher you climb
that's all that I know

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