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Waiting To Fall
03:57
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WAITING TO FALL
I’ve been lying right here. Forever it seems.
The dawn breaks again. I'm still caught in a dream.
The years they don't end. Cause the time never dies.
Thought my heart had gone numb. Till I saw you walk by.
One by one they come and they go.
Here I am, the last domino.
Just waiting to fall.
You think I see you. When I gaze in your eyes.
But I'm staring into space. Looking into the light.
I was feeling alive when the lines crossed my face.
And while my back was turned an old man took my place.
One by one they come and they go.
Just like night, just like the rain and snow.
I'm waiting to fall.
Just waiting to fall.
I'm waiting to fall.
I walked through a door into a pitiless room.
I stared straight ahead into the deepening gloom
I took on the world. Cause I thought I was strong.
And it left me sucking wind like I wasn't there at all.
One by one they come and they go.
I'm standing near an open window.
Just waiting to fall.
I'm waiting to fall.
Just waiting to fall.
Yes, I'm waiting to fall.
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2. |
Heart Of Hearts
03:33
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HEART OF HEARTS
You thought you were safe and warm.
Waist-deep, naked in the snow.
You thought you were in good hands.
That just shows how much you know.
I’m civilized and composed.
Shrugging off the fearful things.
Whistling in the dark.
Fending off the beating wings
Words are scarce that breathe the God’s truth.
I ease my neck into the slip noose.
Cuz here in my heart of hearts I feel the fear break loose.
Well, here in my heart of hearts I feel it.
Now that my grave’s been dug. Waiting for some news out here.
I’m not worth a coffins’ cost. No, not worth a salty tear.
Someone taught me back in my youth.
Judge not till you’ve walked in those shoes.
So, here in my heart of hearts I feel the fear break loose.
Here in my heart of hearts I feel it.
And now the cage I’ve built surrounds me.
I thought the world revolved around me.
All around me
Spirits of the pride and high proof.
Same old building’s got a new roof.
Yeah, here in my heart of hearts I feel the fear break loose.
Here in my heart of hearts I feel it.
Oh, here in my heart of hearts I feel the fear break loose.
Here in my heart of hearts I feel it.
Yeah, here in my heart of hearts I feel the fear break loose.
Here in my heart of hearts I feel it.
Oh, here in my heart of hearts I feel the fear break loose.
Here in my heart of hearts I feel it.
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3. |
Anyday
04:16
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ANYDAY
I don’t like having nothing. When my hand is empty I make a fist.
I’ve given body and soul. Now you look me in the eyes and say you want the rest.
Your face is blue from the t.v. and all I have are my memories.
I tried to tell you only true things, and found out what a mess that can be.
It’s coming. Anyday now it’s coming. It’s coming anyday.
It’s coming. Anyday now it’s coming. It’s coming anyday.
Please don’t remind me where I fall short, and scream into my ears
Now you are sleeping. I lie awake and wonder where we’ll be in twenty years.
I ask you on my bended knee. Forgiveness is all I want from you.
You smile while you’re looking at the floor and say there’s not a thing that you can do.
It’s coming. Anyday now it’s coming. It’s coming anyday.
It’s coming. Anyday now it’s coming. It’s coming anyday.
I tear down your little pink world that you built with your little girl eyes.
Then I put it all back so nobody cries. Oh.
It’s coming. Anyday now it’s coming. It’s coming anyday.
It’s coming. Anyday now it’s coming. It’s coming anyday.
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4. |
Tin Can
03:37
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TIN CAN
Playing poker with the rats. They beat me every hand.
I’d like to run away again. I can barely stand.
The train keeps clicking like a jack in the spokes.
I don’t get the punch line. I don’t get the joke.
Banging on a tin can. Banging on a tin can.
Never going home again.
Like a ding-dong ditch bell when I was a kid.
I remember everything that you and I did.
Wearing January’s clothes in the hot August wind.
The moon’s coming up. Let’s take her for a spin.
Banging on a tin can. Banging on a tin can.
Banging on a tin can. Never going home again.
Shaking off the day’s dust. Breathing in the night air.
Someone brought a bottle and we fix him with a cold stare.
I’m glazed in the rear-view of a junked Cadillac.
I beg for forgiveness. I can’t take it back.
Banging on a tin can. Banging on a tin can.
Never going home again.
Just a hop, skip and stumble to the corner barstool.
I only want to play. I don’t want to know the rules.
The engineer threw me out of boxcar number nine.
Didn’t know that I was bleeding. Didn’t know the blood was mine.
Banging on a tin can. Banging on a tin can.
Never going home again.
Banging on a tin can. Banging on a tin can.
Never going home again.
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5. |
The Road You'll Run
03:35
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THE ROAD YOU’LL RUN
Well, your life so far has been an endless maze.
And you just can’t change other people’s ways.
There’s a world outside of your bent screen-door.
There’s a sea right here. But you’re on the shore.
From this broke-down house of my father's sins.
Where the blacktop ends and the dirt begins.
I think of what I’ve missed and what I don’t know.
And watch the lights go on in the town below.
You’ll leave in the dead of night.
You’ll be good and gone.
When you set out at the start of the road you’ll run.
Just you and the wind and trees.
And you don’t look back.
When you set out at the start of the road you’ll run.
It’s a part of me that I can’t forget.
Like the small black scars from your cigarette.
Where the dishes broke and the words were flames.
And you once believed you were all to blame.
You’ll leave in the dead of night.
You’ll be good and gone.
When you set out at the start of the road you’ll run.
Just you and the wind and trees.
And you don’t look back.
When you set out at the start of the road you’ll run.
You were so quiet. Another deed done in the dark.
When the chain dragged. And down the rabbit hole you spark.
This could be the end now that you’ve begun.
And can you disappear after what you’ve done?
You’ll leave in the dead of night.
You’ll be good and gone.
When you set out at the start of the road you’ll run.
Just you and the wind and trees.
And you don’t look back.
When you set out at the start of the road you’ll run.
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6. |
Get It From You
03:53
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GET IT FROM YOU
What happened to the love we started?
The more I drink the less I care.
It’s just another conversation waiting to happen.
You’re in the corner looking beautiful as ever.
But you act like I’m not even here.
Why don’t you look at me? I’m the one you’re here to see
Ooh, I don’t want to be…I don’t want to be...
I don’t want to be caught in your game again.
Harmony…harmony’s all that I need.
But I know I won’t get it from you.
Get it from you.
I watch you leaving. You glance over your shoulder.
But I know that this is goodbye.
Half of me stays in this bar. The rest goes with you.
Ooh, I don’t want to be…I don’t want to be...
I don’t want to be caught in your game again.
Harmony…harmony’s all that I need.
But I know I won’t get it from you.
Get it from you.
Get it from you.
Get it from you.
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7. |
Anytime
03:50
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ANYTIME
That was my life - Passing by, reel by reel.
That was my heart - Slipping beneath your wheel.
That was my voice - Speaking the long goodbye.
That was my soul - You laughed so hard I cried.
Anytime. Anytime - I wait for you.
Anytime. Anytime - You steal what’s remaining.
Anytime. Anytime - Nothing is true.
Anytime. Anytime - It’s not worth explaining.
Why’s the blood so black in your veins?
Show me your eyes - See how the flames get fanned.
Show me your words - Catching them in my hands.
Show me your pain - Each time I smile at you.
Show me your joy - When I don’t know what’s what.
I heard a sound - As you tore and ripped me.
I saw a light - Just as the train hit me.
Off with my head - Now my safety lies in fear.
Shedding my skin - I’ve never seen such joyful tears.
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8. |
Kaputt (Alles Ist)
02:50
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KAPUTT (ALLES IST)
Kaputt.
Alles ist kaputt.
Tiles are broke and the birds have all choked.
There’s a stick through my spokes and I’ll probably croak.
And they’ll tear off my hide so I’m staying inside.
Where the olive trees died and the circuits are fried.
It’s...
Kaputt.
Trash on the tracks and the filthy wall’s cracked.
I got kicked in the sack, they graffitied my back.
They wrote...
'Kaputt.
Alles ist kaputt.'
No one to blame when the sheets are in flames.
And my legs have gone lame. I forgot my own name.
I’m...
Kaputt.
Chum boat sunk. They pour gas on the monk.
And then some little punk just took off with my junk.
And the car keeps stalling. The dogs keep on mauling.
Cinderblocks falling and the bugs crawling.
All...
Kaputt.
Alles ist kaputt.
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9. |
Walking On The Millions
03:34
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WALKING ON THE MILLIONS
I am standing at the ancient world.
Watching waves that crash and curl.
And the blinding sand’s gone white with sun.
And the thought of all this history weighs a ton.
The scenery is all the same. A circle through your crossed out name.
And the skeletons know why I came.
Oh, walking on the millions.
They’re under me. Below my feet.
Oh, walking on the millions.
My flesh is red as I surrender to the heat.
When the trouble came the trouble stayed.
So I pull the dirt into my grave.
You were gone as quick as any ghost.
By myself’s what I remember most.
Bodies strewn out on the ground.
The ocean pounds those bones around.
They turn to dust without a sound.
Oh, walking on the millions.
They’re under me. Below my feet.
Oh, walking on the millions.
My flesh is red as I surrender to the heat.
Spirits will crumble free. Every single day.
The wind blows all our souls away.
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10. |
Beneath My Feet
03:28
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BENEATH MY FEET
You know pigs cannot sing.
Just think of the misery it brings.
Catch an angel, tear off her wings.
I’d forgotten, you’ve done these things.
I’ve got the message. Yeah, I’ve got the shakes.
You throw out the best of what you make.
And I can run from all the fakes, but you’re my sad original heartbreak.
Gone are the nights in your arms when you asked me to love only you.
And though it’s too late now. Your whereabouts unknown to me,
I swear it was you. I swear it was you, and the fire beneath my feet.
Here I am. My-oh-me.
All alone on the Devil’s knee.
He says I’ve been a naughty boy.
“I know" I say...and drown in his tears of joy.
I’ve got the message. Yeah, I’ve got the shakes.
You throw out the best of what you make.
And I can run from all the fakes, but you’re my sad original heartbreak.
Gone are the nights in your arms when you asked me to love only you.
And though it’s too late now. Your whereabouts unknown to me,
I swear it was you. I swear it was you, and the fire beneath my feet.
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11. |
Mary's House
08:11
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MARY’S HOUSE
My father’s got a big mouth in his armchair.
But he’s quiet when the strangers pass through town.
I swore I’d never grow up wearing those boots.
Just echoing that old man’s fucked up sounds.
Well, all these things will pass. All these things will pass.
I’ll fill the car with gas and leave for Mary’s house.
I hoist the pirate flag up on my Chevy.
A dust cloud at the liquor store from me.
I guess I drove her crazy how I loved her.
And won’t my daddy be so proud of me?
And all these things will pass. All these things will pass.
They’ll come around the pass...surrounding Mary’s house.
Every time I think of her in Fairvale.
Bouncing off that yellow canvas wall.
Well, I just blame myself for how her face looks.
And if she can hear me, I’m sorry for it all.
All these things will pass. All these things will pass.
The old scars heal at last…the dark of Mary’s house.
I just had a pistol pointed at me.
Some bad men had me dead in point-blank range.
But off they went just laughing in the black night.
I could have been a headline for a change.
All these things will pass. All these things will pass.
I’m on the front porch trashed. Down at Mary’s house.
Drunk and reeling underneath a street light.
Throwing rocks through windows at the church.
The stained glass breaks in pieces just like she did.
A thousand splinters crashing to the dirt.
All these things will pass. All these things will pass.
The last request I ask, to stay at Mary’s house.
Yes, all these things will pass. All these things will pass.
I'll lay beneath the grass down at Mary’s house.
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12. |
Left Turn
03:17
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LEFT TURN
A left turn into nothingness, we’re floating out in space.
Swallowed up by charcoal clouds and gone without a trace.
Used to be if you were weak you’d be helped along.
Now if you can’t pull your weight you’re trampled by the strong.
Heavy smell of eucalyptus burning in the night.
A left turn into nothingness. Warm wind and cold, bright light.
A left turn into nothingness. I don’t even see the birds.
Can’t hear much of anything and I struggle with my words.
Fingers white on someone’s thoughts. Gold rings are gripping air.
All my things are far below. Up here it’s all heads and hair.
I want to dull this ache in me and it’s coming down the aisle.
A left turn into nothingness, I can’t pry off my smile.
A left turn into nothingness. It sounds just like a curse.
But if you try and change the course you’ll only make it worse.
And so I walk this narrow trail, led by two black hounds.
Flying too close to the sun, my wings melt over towns.
If you knew just where to look - at radios and years.
A left turn into nothingness, you might see me up here.
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