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Sweetest Game
03:12
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A thousand people cheering in a stadium
For men who kick the balls and score the goals
But that is not for me
The only game I want to see is love
I know it is the sweetest game
I know, I know love is the sweetest game
I’m not the kind to be seen at the roulette wheel
But when it comes to loving you can bet I’m for real
So when your chips are down
Your luck may always turn around for love
I know it is the sweetest game
I know, I know love is the sweetest game
A thousand people waiting for the matador
And some of them are rooting for the bull
But when blood starts to pour
The only thing worth dying for is love
I know it is the sweetest game
I know, I know love is the sweetest game
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2. |
The Saviors
02:35
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Some might say I’m a sucker
And some might say I’m a hack
I stand proud to be your lover
Even when you don’t love back
I’m not embarrassed of your beauty
So why should you be?
Let me save you from the saviors
And their hidden jealousy
Just outside your window
I can strain to hear their laughter
Cooking breakfast for you on
Obligatory mornings after
And your designated driver
Wouldn’t be caught dead with me
I will save you from the saviors
And their hidden jealousy
They may say that I’m as useful to you
As a dull knife
But they always concentrate so hard
On messing up your life
As if they can just pluck you
Like some pear from a tree
I’m amazed at how you
Tolerate them constantly
Be my only friend and save me
From my hidden jealousy
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3. |
Bar-Code Trees
04:54
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Spirits in the basement speak to soccer moms
With an ancient, good witches code
There’s a general store
Hey, don’t bust the screen door
What’s your hurry for?
You’re only ten years old
City boy on a train ride through the country
Where the rivers are as wide as his eyes
Side by side, the chapel with the forbidden apple
And the weeping willow only sighs
Paint the yellows and the reds of autumn
Convey the stillness of bar-code trees
Or that Bonnie & Clyde car
Rusting in the shade
Where they swerved off the road
So long ago
There’s a green blanket that rolls over the hills
And valleys of this heartbreaking land
She left metropolis
To make a home here
But one day
She’ll paint the desert sands
City boy on a train ride through the country
Where the rivers are as wide as his eyes
Side by side, the chapel with the forbidden apple
And the weeping willow only sighs
Don’t let it bug you that you’re not behind the wheel
New England hugs you like a real grandfather
And you know you’ll never stay here - It’s way too nice
Try and find a place where you belong
So all aboard the choo-choo
You know it behooves you
They say love is on the loose
Broke out of the caboose
All the way through New Haven
With the yankee doodle dandies
Commuters headed further
Than the Amtrak goes
There are no tracks there
I bet you can relax there
Neath the swaying palms
With the boom boxes on
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Euphoria is all you know
Wild, wild seeds you had to sew
All of the good and the bad times
You ride like a see-saw
While love’s prisoners all played charades
You wore a belt of their accolades
But if you get caught with your pants down
You really shouldn’t care
‘Cause everyone on earth is so beautiful, even you
Oh no, no he did not say that
Yes, its true
You say I need a dose of reality
Make no claims of neutrality
But I’d rather make friends than enemies
And I want all my allies to come and dance with me
All through the valleys and the mountains too
Swim through rivers and oceans blue
Even the crusties out on the avenue
Spare a little change for me one time
‘Cause everyone on earth is so beautiful, even you
Pity that you can’t get to know them all
I know it sounds like just another cliche, but it’s true
Everyone on earth is so beautiful
So take your thinking caps off right now and get down
I know you wanna get a little bit crazy right now
Heavenly bodies keep on moving, keep on moving
Heavenly bodies keep a moving on
Heavenly bodies keep on moving, keep on moving
Heavenly bodies keep a moving on, Keep moving on
Heavenly bodies keep on moving, keep on moving
Heavenly bodies keep a moving on, Keep moving on
Everyone on earth is so beautiful, even you
Everyone on earth is so beautiful
And we all have to die someday
(And we all have to walk in the rain)
Everyone on earth is so beautiful
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5. |
Summer In Her Hair
04:02
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I barely know her
But when I touch her shoulder
There’s a warmth there that lingers
Like the summer in her hair, it lingers
With the winter in mine
Gentle as the breezes that carry me home
Heavy as my heart that sinks like a stone
I know it ain’t wrong
I know it ain’t wrong
Afterparty at the station
We struck up a conversation
I was telling her all about England
On my mind, it’s always there in England
Lost in Leicester Square
I’ll be going back to London
With a fist full of sunlight
Hand it out for free up in Willesden
Hand it out for 50p in Hampstead
Spread it all across the heath
Gentle as the breezes that carry me home
Heavy as my heart that sinks like a stone
I know it ain’t wrong
I know it ain’t wrong
Tomorrow's lips will say
They want to be kissed today
So in my passenger seat she may linger
Like a song, you can’t forget the singer
Singing things I dare not say
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6. |
Sideways Findways
02:48
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Sideways and upside down
Find ways to be a clown
And when the circus leaves
I’ll stay
I wanna be important
To you and your whole crew
And when they’re laughing at me
I become a part of you and it’s
Sideways and upside down
Find ways to be a clown
And when the circus leaves
I’ll stay
You see my work ain’t over
I got a job to do
I wanna be your rover
Don’t you wanna be mine too?
Sideways and upside down
Find ways to be a clown
And when the circus leaves
I’ll stay
There ain’t enough time in the day
To show you all my thoughts
I have to jump through so many hoops
To get from A to Z, tame the lions in me
Loving you is sweeter than cotton candy
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7. |
When You’re Sad
03:39
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When you’re sad it all seems mute
Pretty girls ain’t even cute
When you’re sad
When you’re up it all falls down
Your smile turns into a frown
Soon you’re down again
But I know the Happy Day Brigade
And they charge into my life like a gay parade
And I know the risk you take
By making changes in your life that ain’t so safe
When you’re in you get kicked out
No holding on to the clout
When you’re out
Those who are hip, so full of conceit
Are soon to be obsolete
And uncool again
But I know the day will come when we see more
Than what you wore last night at a show
And our love so precarious
Will be there to protect us when we’re low
When you’re down, I’m down with you
You’ll find a heart that’s true
When you’re down
Don’t give up, you just have to give in
So we can begin
To begin again
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8. |
Porcelain Frog
00:50
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I was devilishly happy
I had not a cent
A lover too poor to buy a ring
But I did get mine
Further down the line
Strung out and too tired for loving
So when they fired the cannons
I knew it was my turn
But they only put a hole in the wall
If you ask me for the time
I’d say I don’t know
This is nowhere and there’s no where left to go
Oh nowhere and nowhere left to go
I was brutally dishonest
I was mercilessly fair
I was always trying to make things work out
You can’t find a place to settle
By moving to and fro
This is nowhere and there’s nowhere left to go
Oh nowhere and nowhere left to go
There were brief times
I could almost see you spending your life with me
Now they put us in pods
Made of flesh and bone
And they make us write our own eulogies
So I write about euphoria
That I once did know
This is nowhere and there’s nowhere left to go
And they lead you down the aisle
And they march you through the snow
This is nowhere and there’s nowhere left to go
Oh nowhere and nowhere left to go
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9. |
My Brother Woody
02:33
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10. |
Nowhere Left To Go
03:33
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11. |
Tee
02:26
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She painted a rainbow around the moon
The train whistle blew in tune
I told her I’d be back soon
But that was so long ago
Idle hands grow wild in summer
She’s a mess without her lover
Speaks to me in tongues of truth
Speaks of love without the proof
From the shelter of a phone booth
But I hear it in her voice
Waits for me like grains of sand
As if I held the hour glass in my hand
I never forget everything that she did for me
Wanna be there and I will when I get what I came for
She will be understood like she wants to be
For she is a miracle and I call her Tee
If you should find yourself in my shoes
Take it easy, don’t defy love
Get an endless supply of
Red telephones and roses
Happy endings in the setting sun
If you’re lucky enough to find someone
I never forget everything that she did for me
Wanna be there and I will when I get what I came for
She will be understood like she wants to be
For she is a miracle and I call her Tee
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12. |
Intertwine
02:58
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You call it an odyssey
I’m on a train to old Lime Street
Where you would be the golden boy
Sans the sawdust on your feet
I could never be you
No matter how many Snickers bars I eat
When you leave you take away
A little magic from the land
Pour it into a Ryder Truck
Drive strait into quicksand
Maybe you’re gonna find yourself by
Changing the scenery
And its funny how you become
Just what they say you are
You can be the albatross
Or you can be the star
They can tell you your life story
And they will tell you mine
Your life story and mine
Intertwine
People moving, always leaving
It fills me with such grief
That sometimes when I think of you
In my mind I picture a chess piece
Makes me hate the American way
I have never felt so free
And its funny how you become
Just what they say you are
You can be the albatross
Or you can be the star
They can tell you your life story
And they will tell you mine
Your life story and mine
May they always intertwine
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