1. |
I don't want to sleep
02:50
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I don't want to sleep
I just want to hold you and dream
I don't want to sleep
I just want to hold you and dream
At the end of any day
When you're tired and it's late
Fall into my arms
Lay your head upon my shoulder
the hard part is over
My love will keep you safe from harm
I don't want to sleep
I just want to hold you and dream
I don't want to sleep
I just want to hold you and dream
After the rain clouds become pretty photographs
Once we cried and now all we can do is laugh
Everything will look better by morning light
I don't want to sleep
I just want to hold you and dream
I don't want to sleep
I just want to hold you and dream
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2. |
les fleurs du Malbec
03:58
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3. |
drive like an Italian
03:17
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I drive like an Italian
Yeah look out I’m coming through
Drive like an Italian
That’s where I learned my moves
The day is fine
The road is mine
Drive like an Italian
The lights are always green
If I see something I shouldn’t have
I’ll pretend I didn’t see
Leaving town
I put my foot down
To a heart like a dessert
We are falling rain
All the girls go raving
How it drives them crazy
Drive like an Italian
Both feet on the gas
Drive like an Italian yeah
I celebrate my past
Into third
Hugging curves
To a heart like a dessert
We are falling rain
All the girls go raving
How it drives them crazy
I drive like an Italian
Yeah look out I’m coming through
Drive like an Italian
That’s where I learned my moves
The day is fine
The road is mine
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4. |
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I’ve been running all my life
Where’d I go, what do I know?
Learning takes it’s own sweet time
All my lessons swing in slow
Everybody’s rushing around
Racing towards the sunset
But I move better when I move slow
The hurrier I go
The behinder I get
I’ve been working all my life
What I get for what I gave
I reach to keep my head up high
If Monday sinks, Friday saves
Everybody’s rushing around
Racing towards the sunset
And I move better when I move slow
The hurrier I go
The behinder I get
I’ve been loving all my life
Who’d I help and who’d I hurt
In the end it all worked out
I got more or less what I deserve
Everybody’s rushing around
Racing towards the sunset
And I move better when I move slow
The hurrier I go
The behinder I get
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5. |
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We your friends are here to say,
We're sorry you were lead astray,
Everyone's so glad that you've come home.
All of us have been heart-broken,
Some of us can be outspoken,
Darling girl you know you're not alone.
No more politics and working hard
and holding onto everything you've got
Oh lord what's the use of hiding it
you're stuck in a rut, can't get out
Thought that you'd be happy but you're not.
We never liked him anyway
We kept quiet because we love you
and our influence could sway
We never liked him anyway
You're beautiful and smart and fun
And absolutely anyone
Is lucky to be spending time with you.
It really isn't all that hard
to look and see how great you are
There's nothing to proove so give him the big ADIEU
No more politics and working hard
and holding onto everything you've got
Oh lord what's the use of hiding it
you're stuck in a rut, can't get out
Thought that you'd be happy but you're not.
We never liked him anyway
We kept quiet because we love you
and our influence could sway
We never liked him anyway
Anyway
Choose your life, choose your love,
As if they both would last forever
Choose your life, choose your love,
What do you mean? What's that you say?
Well I never... you're getting back together...
We will always love you anyway,
We'll keep quiet because it's best,
and our influence could sway
We will always love you anyway
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6. |
beneath your eyes
04:17
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Beneath your eyes your cheeks are flushed
Your nose detects the rain.
Always late, you never rush
It's good to see you again,
All my blues capsize
The boat of your smile
Takes me floating for miles
Beneath your eyes
I like the way you look at things
It feels like waking up
Anytime the clouds roll in
You’re going to stir it up
All my blues capsize
The boat of your smile
Takes me floating for miles
Beneath your eyes
Don't blink away the veil of dreams
Blink because they're bright
We cannot be afraid of dreams
They might just be the one thing we get right
Beneath your eyes, your mind's at work
It wants you, not to blush
You look around, seek and search
I know you're nervous when you talk too much
All my blues capsize,
The boat of your smile takes me floating for miles
Beneath your eyes.
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7. |
dog song
03:08
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Dog song (Dogged)
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
Tired and hungry
Crying out to be fed
They want to warm up
Want to sleep on the bed (instead)
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
Once I kicked them hard to send them away
But they ran right back to me
with that puppy dog face
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
Wish I had something to give them,
How, I’d like to see them grow
Wish I had something to give them,
How, I don’t know
I don’t know
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
My feelings for you follow me around like a dog
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8. |
Almost light
03:47
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Colours melting down the day towards evening
Someone watches them fade
Through an open window on the second floor
Up there where it’s safe
Other girls step out so far
Flying their hearts like kites
They kick up their heels
And float through the bars
Almost light
Crowds gather on uneven pavements
Chatter fills the air
Flowers of conversation poke through the window
At the girl sitting in her chair
Cigarette smoke twists up like vines
Billowing into sight
Breathing it in she remembers and reclines
Almost light
Come down from the balcony sweet Juliette
Get up put of your chair
Get down from the balcony fair Juliet
You won’t get what you’re looking for
Sitting up there
Though we know she’s fond of her silences
Hear the creaking wooden boards
Puts a silver key in her flowered pocket
Descends the steps, goes outdoors
Where there's music people and their laughter,
Here are signs of life
Stay here ‘til the moon disappears and after
It’s almost but not quite
It’s almost light.
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9. |
without Her
02:37
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I spend the night in a chair thinking she'll be there
But she never comes
And then I wake up and wipe the sleep from my eyes
And I rise to face another day
Without her
Do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Do-do-do
It's just no good anymore
When you walk through the door of an empty room
And then you go inside and set a table for one
It's no fun when you spend a day
Without her
Do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Do-do-do
We burst the pretty balloon
Took us to the moon
Such a beautiful thing
But it's ended now
And it sounds like a lie
If I say I'd rather die than live without her
Do-do-do
Do-do-do
Do-do-do
Love is a beautiful thing
When it knows how to swing
And it grooves like a clock
But the hands on the clock tell the lovers to part
And it's breaking my heart to have to spend a day without her
Do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
I spend the night in a chair thinking she'll be there
But she never comes
And then I wake up and wipe the sleep from my eyes
And I rise to face another day
Without her
Do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
Can't go on without her
Do-do-do
Do-do-do-do
There's no song without her
It's all wrong without her
Can't go on without her
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10. |
to the sea
04:04
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We were born to wander
Wander all our days
Searching eyes and thirsting hearts
Lead the way down every path
We were born of wonder,
Wonder what it’s like
Tender words and trembling hands
Reaching over foreign lands
To the sea
To the sea
All roads lead
To the sea
Everywhere we wander
From shore to shining shore
Blue that beckons, green that flowers
The whole wide world is ours
Everywhere there’s wonder
Hope is bursting forth
Winter has passed, summer’s come
Now at last we rise and run
To the sea
To the sea
All roads lead
To the sea
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11. |
where the sugar grows
03:45
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I want to go
Where the sugar grows
In the arms of the coffee trees
Under the shade of banana leaves
It’s a thousand miles
To the nearest rose
Where the sugar grows
We take it slow
‘coz it’s too warm to pose
There’s a Northern girl
Melting in the arms
Of a Southern guy
Oh, those Southern charms
Hot, so hot in the afternoon we doze
Where the sugar grows
Now I’m tired of the busyness
And the daily grind
I want to go
Where they got nothing
but time
It’s been a month
Since the river froze
My hair is brown, my skin is dry
There are palm trees swaying in my mind
Consider this a warning
When I’m ready, I’ll just go
Life is sweeter where the sugar grows.
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I heard a strange kind of music
It followed me around all day long
A kind of sobbing and sighing, like somebody crying
A sad and familiar old song
The sound of love when it’s gone
Night birds have their own tunes
The beats and the bass shake the ground
Dancing with strangers, ringing in the changes
But there’s no love in the longing downtown
When love’s gone, this is how it sounds
I thought I was hungry, so I ate a little food
Thought I was thirsty, so I had a drink or two
But nothing does the trick,
There’s still something missing
When I think of you I realize
I’m just learning how to listen
Learning how to listen
Now the phone won’t be ringing
Your keys won’t turn in the lock
One broken heart beats in the darkness
One girl wishes it didn’t belong
To the sound of love when it’s gone
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