1. |
The Sickness
04:39
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curse the cold
curse this heat
bless the earth underneath my feet
as I cross this city
with its insanity
I bless the sickness
that is haunting me
ah...
the more we are in number
the less of each other we see
bless this sickness
that is killing me
I am sick to my stomach
and I feel I cannot breathe
But bless the sickness
for awaking me
Ah... (x2)
[ah, awakening me
ah, all I see]
we are counting our blessings
but coming up short
do you have time enough aplenty
to wither and get bored?
if we all just keep on moving
keep busy, you believe
we will dodge the sickness
we call insanity
curse this city
choking the land that it calls home
curse a life lived among people
and yet so alone
for it will not go on forever
without cutting a few veins
may we all get sick together
maybe then we will change
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2. |
I Got Nothing
04:15
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I got nothing
I'm out of ideas
I’ve tried, and I’ve failed,
and I'm out of tears
Guess I'll be going
You won't let me in
I won't sit on your doorstep
Til the rain comes in
I got nothing
I can't be of no use
You won't draw me close
So just cut me loose
I can’t try to save you
If you won’t be saved
And I’m truly spent
By this game that you’ve played
I got nothing
But love, for you, babe
I got nothing
I'm out of ideas
Can't help you now,
I'm facing my fears
We're all alone
In the dark all our lives
That's just the way it is
That's just a fact of life
I got nothing
But love, for you, babe
I got nothing
But love
I got nothing
You won't let me reach out
But if you need me
You'd need only to shout
Once, and I'd be there
But I know that you won’t
So I’m turning out the light
And I’m closing that door
I got nothing…
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3. |
Predictable
05:07
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It’s late
and I can’t sleep
I’ve got swollen eyes
sad and restless feet
There’s a flood
Covering half the street
And the cars keep flying down
and sailing off into the deep
I’ve got you on my mind
Isn’t that so… predictable?
Ah, so this is the song I write
Isn’t it so… original
Now I know you’d never lie
Though at times we all stretch the truth
I’m sorry it’s taken me
so damn long
to trust you
We’ve all got low self-esteem
It’s the modern curse
When I was young I got told I loved myself too much
I thought that must be worse
I found it so hard to believe
That love could truly be
…unconditional
So I had to run away
Again and again
Guess I became
Predictable
Is this my story?
Coz it’s not quite
What I thought it would be
Somewhere I got distracted
Somehow lost conviction
It isn’t you, it’s me
Ah, so this is how I fight
Isn’t that so… reprehensible?
You’d think I could hold my own light
Well, at least my weakness is dependable
Yeah, you can depend on me to cry
Isn’t it understandable?
I’m trying to build my own belief
That some day I’ll be capable
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4. |
It's You I Love
04:08
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I live in a looking-glass house
nowadays
But there ain’t no warmth left in these windows
Not since you went away
My hair is getting longer
And I count each passing day
I think you’d like where I am at now
If you’d be proud, I couldn’t say
Do you find me in your eyes
When you close them at night
Coz I think I finally realised
You are my light
Wish that I could paint a picture
Strong enough to crawl inside
Trying to make it all seem real for you
Just how much I feel for you
But my poetry has suffered
Since I packed my books away
And you had warned me this would happen
Why do I never listen, to what you say
Coz it’s you I love
It’s you I’m thinking of
Ah, it’s the simplest of things
That’s all I want
Ooh
I learned too late
Ooh
You were my fate
Ooh
Now only time will tell
If it’ll heal the cuts I made
How could I make them so well
When it’s you I love
It’s you I love
I won’t just let you slip away
I can’t wait another day
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5. |
Around It Now
05:25
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Baby when you’re with me
We ride the waves
You build me up then let me breathe
I pull you back in
You follow me out
I fall in that endless place
And you pull me back down
We are around it now, around it now
We have found it now, found it now
We are surrounded now, surrounded now
We are around it now, around it now
Baby when I’m alone
One just ain’t enough
I think of you and I
Am lost in love
My breath is for you
I am here and now
The tide comes in and out
At the same time somehow
We are around it now, around it now
We have found it now, found it now
We are surrounded now, surrounded now
We are around it now, around it now
Should time pass me by
If I was a fool
If I stayed focused on myself
And never opened to you
They would find me years from now
With nothing to lose
But nothing gained
From self-imposed loneliness and blues
We are around it now, around it now
We have found it now, found it now
We are surrounded now, surrounded now
We are around it now, around it now…
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