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Maybe it's just me
03:27
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Maybe it’s just me
It used to be I touched you
You melted and you sighed
But now you wince with muscle pain
I wish I hadn’t tried
It used to be a certainty
Now we’re quite near the edge.
And everything’s a gamble
And all our bets are hedged
And all you tell me is how happy you think I must be.
Perhaps we’re dying on our feet,
Or maybe it’s just me.
Maybe it’s just me.
I used to be I saw you
You twinkled and you smiled.
Now you give me the world weary
While I sail up denial.
We’re riding on the past
Around an old well trodden course.
I’ve nothing left to sell you
So I’m flogging this dead horse
And all you tell me is how happy you think I must be.
Perhaps we’re dying on our feet
Or maybe it’s just me
Maybe it’s just me
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2. |
Perfume
04:03
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3. |
Calming me down
03:19
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Calming Me Down
Far away, and I don't hear you laugh I don't watch you worry,
I'm OK, but you see me in too much of a hurry.
Stay with me and I'll polish up my finest behaviour,
No wonder she winds up just calming me down.
You can leave any time at all, it's your silent option
And I'll believe that I should have been put up for adoption,
Wait with me, create who I didn't know was inside me
And I can see she's wound up just calming me down
Familiar tales, somebody saved a loved one from danger
Watch me fail, relying upon the kindness of strangers
Break my heart, you know you’re the only one who can do it
Watch us start and I’ll wind up just calming you down
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Marie Elizabeth
03:45
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MARIE ELIZABETH.
Look at the birds they've been charmed right out of the trees.
Is that the scent of jasmine on the summer breeze?
Hey all these baby animals they weren't here before.
Oh now I understand look who just walked in the door
Marie Elizabeth, She's the girl, she's the girl
worrying me to death, Marie Elizabeth.
Is that laughter or the babbling of a brook?
Is that Mozart or her voice that I mistook?
Hey look at the fountain all that water's changed to wine.
And isn't that humankind in harmony sublime?
It's celestial there never was a hell,
are you laughing or screaming? I can't tell.
How could anyone come and take these things away?
How could anyone not believe the things you say?
When life is simple lots to eat and one more drink,
and if you shout loud enough you can't hear yourself think.
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6. |
I don't like you
03:14
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7. |
Billy
04:36
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Beautiful day
02:55
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Beautiful Day
It’s a beautiful day
I don’t know why you’re not here to watch the sun come up.
I’ve been meaning to say
To tell you no lie
It’s the truth you couldn’t make this up
Standing stock still and staring
A silent smile.
What a surprise.
It’s a beautiful day
I don’t know why you won’t get to see them all grown up.
I don’t know what to say
A clear blue sky
Someone’s god or guru sure fucked up
I don’t know what my point is.
Here now you’re gone
I could cry
It’s a beautiful day.
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9. |
Walking away
04:49
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10. |
Cool clean air
03:59
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11. |
Collapsing
03:22
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COLLAPSING
Treading water's getting harder every day.
Keeping life and soul together.
Rape and slaughter just don't want to go away.
And what about this weather?
The great big suits that be are whistling in the dark.
They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Stuck behind side impact bars with nowhere left to park.
Gridlocked on the road to ruin.
Life and liberty,
faith, democracy,
watch it all collapsing around you.
Failure and success,
health and happiness,
watch it all collapsing around you.
Itchy trigger fingered children on the streets.
Greed to powerful to mention.
Immune deficiency and nothing left to eat.
Another miracle invention.
Someone's selling you life everywhere you look.
Make a decision make it snappy.
Compact discs can burn almost as well as books.
We were never poor but happy.
Will we make it now?
who cares anyhow?
have you got somewhere else to go?
looks like the future's clear,
what's the odds on twenty years?
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12. |
Already mad
03:53
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13. |
Keith and Joe
02:51
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My Lesson
03:00
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My Lesson
I won’t make you make me cry,
I’ve learned my lesson.
I won’t fall for that look in your eye,
I’ve learned my lesson.
I won’t get alone with you,
I’m not that arsehole you once knew,
I’ve wiped your number off my phone,
I can live my life alone.
It might take a little while,
I’ve learned my lesson.
I don’t need you and your smile.
I’ve learned my lesson.
And if I hang about that’s fine.
I can leave at anytime.
I won’t follow you around.
Look at the new me that I’ve found.
And if I drink a tad too much,
Hey, don’t kick away my crutch.
I won't believe the things you say,
Baby, that’ll be the day.
I might cry a little bit,
I’ve learned my lesson.
Don’t worry I can handle it.
I’ve learned my lesson.
I’m older and I’m wiser now.
Who needs words and wedding vows.
Those twelve steps’ll see me through
As soon as I can stop thinking of you.
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15. |
Fade it out
06:51
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FADE IT OUT
I thought you loved our record,
you were dancing
looking in my eyes.
Singing all the good parts,
biting your lip,
it was undisguised
pure joy, pure love, pure wedding cake.
Until you found that awkward frown.
And said I've got a splitting headache
can we turn the volume down?
Oh don't you fade it out,
no don't you dare.
Left alone to listen
Tap my fingers, hum the melody.
But I can’t find the rhythm,
Ad I’m screwing up the harmony
I can’t say I expected
this karaoke solo spot.
Lost and unprotected.
Keep it playing now, it's all that I've got.
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Frank Finighan Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Frank Finighan is from Newport in South Wales now resident in County Durham.
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