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Melting Point of
01:15
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Salt
04:29
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Darkest Part of Town
04:12
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Dimma
04:16
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Staring at cracks in the wall
And paint from the seventeenth century
Filling up holes in the floor
With coins of an insolvent monetary
We're one step away
From living in the perfect place
You know what they say
Just let it be and come what may
We're one step away
Brush up an old gramophone
And dance to a song from the twenties, alone
Watched how you to leaned out the window
Your balance and glass of white wine in your hand
Your dress soaking up the downpour
We were one step away
From living in a perfect place
Two years and a day
In hope that you'd decide to stay
We're one step away
I cross my heart and hope to fly
You know what they say
Just let it be and come what may
So I invite you all
To dance in the hall
The neighbors will join the ball
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5. |
Good Fireman
03:52
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Policeman, policeman
Stay away, stay away
See cracking, back stabbing
But stay away anyway
I'm lying in the mud
A pool of my own blood
If she can't save me, no one can
Please try to understand
That, officer
From safety long I'm banned
Good fireman, good fireman
Stay away, stay away
Suffocating, death awaiting,
But stay away anyway
Sparks fly, there's smoke in the air
I'm good as gone and I don't care
If she can't save me no one can
Please try and understand
Good fireman
This time we can't pretend
Where else can we land
But in the net between
a woman and a man?
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Badwater
04:14
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In this quiet place
Know the light will blind your open eyes
Cover your face
Above all don't stare into the white
Imagine then
In forgotten days
When on horseback they set out
Days and nights on end
And this was what
They found
The invisible
It will suddenly appear
In the physical
And be present everywhere
I won't go back
I'll stay here and watch the seasons change
And drink to that
Which is far beyond my reasons' range
Another year
Happy Holidays
It's the breakaway from doubt
We should celebrate
That the jury is still out
Just relax and trust
And again the air is clear
Seems like he that does
Never drowns in a confusion caused by others
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Stuck in Traffic
04:24
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Stuck in a traffic jam, don't know what to do
Man right in front of us doesn't have a clue
It's not a limousine, we don't have a crew
Hey, maybe I could get lucky here with you
Although our driver is drunk
And though our drummer is in the trunk
My greedy kiss will taste of gasoline
Our hearts'll beat in rhythm with the drummer shaking up his tambourine
Come let me feel you up and don't be mean
We'll make this trip a pleasure so now what you say my lovely figurine
Stuck in a traffic jam, this is what we do
Waiting for everyone else to make a move
It's not a satellite, we don't have a clue
Hey, maybe we could go faster me and you
Although our drummer is drunk
And though our driver is in the trunk
It's pretty obvious you're also keen
If only our drummer would relax and stop to play the tambourine
Come let me feel you up and don't be mean
We'll make this trip a pleasure so now what you say my lovely figurine
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Passport no Passport
03:43
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The first time we met you were crawling on all fours
Looking for a bug friend in the grass roots of the lawn
You waste your time but you don't mind
You're pointing out that I waste mine
Searching for a bug friend in the grass roots of the lawn
Le - let's take a va - vacation
Le - let's take that t - t - trip
You can pick the lo - location
We might need a coin to flip
You got no passport, you can have a page in mine
We have a visa for our travel back in time
We'll do the pleasure galore and be higher than high
Last time we met you joined me on the tour
Sitting on the bus, sipping red, soaking wet to the core
How you been I don't know
But something tells me "so and so"
Cooking up a dinner on a single stove with no pot
We - we need a va - vacation
We - we need that t - t - trip
I will pick a fun location
You can do the skinny dip
You got no passport, you can have a page in mine
We have a visa for our travel back in time
Let's do the pleasure galore and be higher than high
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Lonely Birds
03:35
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Lonely birds are the last to fly
It's because they're afraid to die
This is true, I have seen it in their eyes
At the pet shop
The happy ones are the first to fall
Crash or fly against the wall
Is it because their wings never ease at all
To glide in circles
But passive and trapped inside a cage
Of massive fear of taking the chance
Fifteen seconds to steal away and climb the fence
I'd rather die alone than see another summer
Without having tried
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Careful People
03:01
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Open this box
For a glimpse into the past
At the kids at the back of the room
Our fear had no name
It could not be explained
Like a bird that went flying too soon
We were the careful children
We learned to run with a careful tread
A careful pace
And a careful step
I'll give you this dance
Come as close as the air
I won't speak till I know what to say
Don't leave it to chance
Don't pretend not to care
We won't leave all our fortune at stake
We are the careful people
We choose our words with a careful tongue
A careful rhyme
Of a careful song
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11. |
The Pond
04:31
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Now again I'm home
And maybe for the last time
I'm here all alone
Though it's been two years
Your name is still on my door
But mine's disappeared
It dissolved in thin air
From living within
To living without
I'm sorry, it's such a disappointment
I don't know where our lives went
We live them on our own
There's a plant on the floor
I know it needs water
I know it needs more
And the mail by the door
In a pile of newspapers
I've seen it before
It dissolved in thin air
From living within
To living without
I'm sorry, I'm such a disappointment
I don't know where our love went
We seek it on our own
Don't worry, despite our separation
We with all our memories
Will never be alone
We'll never feel alone
Never be alone
We'll never feel alone
We'll never be alone...
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12. |
The Lake
03:54
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Love the accident
Feel the consequence
Take the chance you get
Leave a compliment
The road to where I hide was never straight and never wide
But if you guide me to your place I will bring you here to mine
Where whirling mass and melody, the wind plays on electric lines
The fire warm when cold are feet
From wading through the snow
Through the knee-deep snow
The road to where I sleep was never straight and ever steep
And if you lead me to your sea I will dive in where it is deep
Submerge in your undertone, do weightless somersaults
Drift with your current
It carries the answers
To the accident
To the consequence
To the time we have
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