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May Showers
03:57
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Because clouds are forming
Give up and hide your heads
The frown that you made for shore in
Makes dawn and the nation forgets
The road is getting harder
Pressed with these footfalls of ours
Its charms are faint and fading
As may says shedding her showers
May showers
May showers
May
Boring old
Because we're getting older
And strangers become old news
The light that leads to wisdom
The puddles and pretty little shoes
May showers
May showers
May
Boring old
Our hands are gripping tighter
The masses are crowding in
The clear and present pleasure
Its the that we start to sing
May showers
May showers
May
Boring old
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2. |
Salt in your Veins
03:36
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I know your eyes I’ve watched them
I know your lips I’ve kissed them
God knows I’ve tried to put them out of site and mind
But that’s not helping me
That is not how it started
Brings us to where we parted
Lets push the hollow hearted out of site an mind
Helping me forget you like I’d never met you
'cause facing these days is not what i wanted to do
Let me tell you tales
Let me fill your sails
I can hear the sound of the salt in your veins
Let me have the helm
When you're overwhelmed
I can take the strain
Yeah
They say I’m bound to bounce back
They say that life is like that
They think that I have out you out of site and mind
But that;s not helping me
That is not how it started
Brings us to where we parted
Lets push the hollow hearted out of site and mind
Helping me forget you like I’d never met you
'cause facing these days is not what i wanted to do
Let me tell you tales
Let me fill your sails
I can hear the sound of the salt in your veins
Let me have the helm
When you're overwhelmed
I can take the strain
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Frostbite
02:59
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Taking footsteps in the dawn brings
Very little but waiting for frostbite
First you feel it then you see it
Then it's got you; waiting for frostbite
But if you never move
Then you never move on
If you never move on
You freeze and never go home
Fist it bites down then it tears you
Then it eats you; be in no doubt
Nothing helps it, nothing soothes it
Your only hope is to cut the frost out
But if you never move
Then you never move on
If you never move on
You freeze and never go home
Failure lies out in the sun
And yet undaunted they come
And if you never move
Then you never move on
If you never move on
You freeze
And if you never move
Then you never move on
If you never move on
You freeze and never go home
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Keep Me Posted
01:26
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Sent with complicated issues attached
I got her letter saying I have been scratched
There is guilt, there's regret, there is pain but to cut it all short
I have been dispatched
Wrapped up in cardboard and then thrown in a van
Hauled into Europe and then shipped to Japan
There are stamps for Tibet and a train going via Beijing
I have been dispatched
You keep me posted and always on route
Through Arctic tundras and the plains of Peru
Through dune swept deserts and mountainous slopes
A brown paper parcel addressed anywhere but home
Sent with nothing but a label to say
Do not return to sender ticket one way
There’s a world going by everyday but I’m stuck in a box
I have been dispatched
You keep me posted
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6. |
Aprés Pilates
02:36
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This dance is like the tango of life
You dance, then you go home to your wife
You like the way they sway their hips
You like to hold them and watch their lips
But it leaves a bitter taste
In Tokyo
This game becomes much more than a dream
They play the folly deeper than it seems
You like them breathing in your ear
You like the longing when they are near
But it leaves a bitter taste
In Tokyo
Deep in the shadows there's safety in numbers
Till dawn brings the light into breakfast number one
This dance is like the tango of life
You dance, then you go home to your wife
You like the way they sway their hips
You like to hold them and watch their lips
But it leaves a bitter taste
Apres Pilates
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7. |
Speaking Ill of the Dead
02:39
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I thought I’d try to upset you by speaking ill of the dead
I want to try to forget you but I can't get the sound of you out of my head
We've both been here before
I thought I’d be wiser and stronger
Breaking down at your door
Despite my best efforts
This hopeless endeavour
This match made in heaven
You might consider it foolish to speak ill of the dead
I think I’m cool, well coolish; the way that its going I’m losing my thread
We've both been here before
I thought I’d be wiser and stronger
But I'm still here at your door
Despite my best efforts
This hopeless endeavour
This match made in heaven
Speaking ill of the dead
As I hold my head in shame
Speaking ill of the dead
Speaking ill of the dead
I thought I’d try to upset you by speaking ill of the dead
I want to try to forget you but I can't get the sound of you out of my head
We've both been here before
I thought I’d be older and wiser
But I'm still here at your door
Despite my best efforts
This hopeless endeavour
This match made in heaven
Speaking ill of the dead; as I hold my head in shame
Speaking ill of the dead; as I try to shift the blame
Speaking ill of the dead
Despite my best efforts
This hopeless endeavour
This match made in heaven
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Living needs beer
And living needs wine and happy times
And living needs fear
And dry times because real life is hard
Well life needs fun
And living needs quiet times alone just to get things done
And someone to tell you “you're right”
As much as “you are wrong”
You've got it
Hey pretty one
You can't get rid of me yet 'cause I want you along
And it doesn't take much though or searching my heart
'cause I’m sure
You've got it
Well living needs beer
And living needs wine and happy times
And living needs fear
And dry times 'cause real lives are hard
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There's an effigy of Gandhi with a greasy bag of chips
Stacy on her knees wiping blood from her lips
A portrait in a café from the turn of the war
Time slips through her fingers no matter how tight she grips
Don't let it slip -You'd better write this down
There’s black in the roots on her head of dyed hair
She's lost in the crowd she could be anywhere
There’s a patient in a bath chair on the promenade
Her third rate mortgage goes the whole nine yards
Don't let it slip - You'd better write this down
Now here in the real world with explosives in her shoes
Dancing in the fountain on the nine o'clock news
There's a clansmen in her garden burning a cross
He's the television preacher that she won't let through
Don't let it slip - You'd better write this down
With all the noise in here, oh there will never be a better chance to make it out
And while the jitter goes on the voice of reason stops singing the song
Trouble in the garden; Adam says to Eve
“There's maggots in this apple like you would not believe”
There's a janitor in the jungle looking so old school
Well the serpent's telling Stacy “I have nothing up my sleeve”
Don't let it slip - You'd better write this down
A Coup d'etat in the morning but nothing has changed
By lunchtime she was happy so we disengaged
But the citadel thinks sleeping is the seal of power
But Stacy knows the key is never being afraid
Don't let it slip - You'd better write this down
With all the noise in here, there will never be a better chance to make it out
And while the jitter goes on the voice of reason stops singing the song
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The Ice Cream Fox
And she really is quite cute
Will she see the real monkey in me?
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11. |
Silvia in Space
02:30
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I saw Silvia in space
I caught a glimpse of grace
A glimpse of fleeting grace
Her style, a little formal, yes but
Her frame finely drawn, sweetly cut
And longing for your touch
I saw her floating on by
Words failed me
Its too late to say goodbye
In time, another world and space
In time but perfectly out of place
A less than perfect place
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12. |
Katie Says
02:47
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You've got your reasons and you're holding on to them
One is one but you get so uptight
You've got bad habits and you're holding on to them
But Katie she sees things in a different light
She's got a life that is unpredictable
She don't pay fines she don't got the time
She don't vote she is unelectable
Am I just wasting my time
Katie says
Katie says
She's got a memory and its photographic
Well she likes to use it to overexpose
She never prints them but I’ve seen the negatives
And Katie she sees things in a different light
She's got a life that is unpredictable
She don't pay fines she don't got the time
She don't vote she is unelectable
Am I just wasting my time
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