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Leave a light on
04:04
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I’m just a car crash waiting to happen
Spinning out of control and falling into the ditch
Cars roll by and no-one looks
The engines on fire but no-one stops
Just another entry on the casualty list
You’re just a wounded spirit in freefall
Run down in action fighting on the front line
Trying to make your way in the world
Jumping hoops and doing somersaults
You’re up against the day and defying the night
I need I need I need
To know that you’re alright
I need I need I need
To know there’s a light at the end of the line
I will leave a light on for you
I’ll walk into the darkness
So we can make it through
If you leave a light on for me
We can get through this together
I’ll pick you up and you can take my hand
We’ll break down barricades
Climb the walls that we face
We’ll find our place in the promised land
I need I need I need
To know that you’re alright
I need I need I need
To know there’s a light at the end of the line
I will leave a light on for you
I’ll walk into the darkness
So we can make it through
If you leave a light on for me
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2. |
The love out of you
04:43
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You were you young and pretty and happy and free
You soared above the storms You dived through the wind
Your heart was a book waiting to be written
Your love was a bug waiting to be bitten
Your eyes glistened in the morning sun
You and your heart and the world were at one
Your slippers were silk, the streets paved with gold
Warm hands came to hold you when you were cold
You cherished the moments with the friends that you had
The laughter and the the tears the happy and sad
Then the devil’s own luck came as someone you knew
He came on in and kicked the love out of you
One throw of the dice
How everything can change
It’s not your own fault
There’s no-one to blame
One throw of the dice
now nothing’s the same
You did everything right, you know that is true
Still life came along and kicked the love out of you
Your friends remain silent when you call out their names
Your face is twisting bittered and strange
There’s no one to turn to when you’re feeling the pain
You look in their eyes but they just turn away
The wheel of fortune got jammed on “you lose”
How life came along and and kicked the love out of you
One throw of the dice
How everything can change
It’s not your own fault
There’s no-one to blame
One throw of the dice
now nothing’s the same
You did everything right, you know that is true
Still life came along and kicked the love out of you
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3. |
Closing Time
03:49
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The shutters shake
It’s getting late
The barman unties apron strings
The last bell has rung
Last orders are drunk
It’s time to head into the night
The flames die down
There’s just embers now
The cold creeps in under the door
jukebox unplugged
The music’s lost
Theres no dancing anymore
I wish I could stay a little bit longer
Keep warm by the fireside
I wish I could stay a little bit longer
And not leave my friends behind
I wish I could stay a little bit longer
But I know it’s closing time
Another round of laughter
And a happy ever after
Is served on the table nearby
I can’t stay here
The sky becomes clear
I can see my blackstar rise
I wish I could stay a little bit longer
Keep warm by the fireside
I wish I could stay a little bit longer
And not leave my friends behind
I wish I could stay a little bit longer
But I know it’s closing time
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4. |
Today was a good day
04:59
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I dont remember one day from another
Because they’ve all become the same
each day is just a little more bitter
And a little bit harder to take
I liked living in the past
When I knew the future was unknown
But today’s tomorrow is just another repeat
Of the day before
the day before
the day before
written in stone
Hope wasn’t built in a day
Today was good day
Everything can change
Everything can change
Nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same
But today’s tomorrow is just another repeat
Of the day before written in stone
But today’s tomorrow is just another repeat
Of the day before written in stone
Hope wasn’t built in a day
Today was a good day
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5. |
Out of control
03:52
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I’m all burnt out I got nothing left to give
I’m doing time for crimes that don’t even exist
I fake that I’m happy in this simulated bliss
Love crumbles like desiccated bones
I’m always surrounded but forever alone
A house without a heart is never a home
I’m waiting for the day that i feel good
I’d love to love you baby if only i could
I can’t wait for no more tomorrows
One times nothing equals sorrow
I open my eyes but there’s no reason to wake up
I’m cloaked in a darkness that I can’t seem to shake off
I try to work it out but nothing seems to weigh up
Not everyone gets that happy ending
Told in the story books that seemed so tempting
The happy ever after on the day of the wedding
I’m waiting for the day that i feel good
I’d love to love you baby if only i could
I can’t wait for no more tomorrows
One times nothing equals sorrow
I’m all washed up with nowhere to go
Love’s hunger abandoned me and it did it so slow
The watch she gave me stopped a long time ago
Love’s gone out of control
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6. |
Normal Service
03:58
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I got this thing in my head that I keep thinking
The circles broken and the center’s missing
Everyone’s shouting, no-ones being heard
Everything’s taken and nothing’s returned
We’re living in a shitstorm that never never ends
Words and truth are twisted and bent
It’s warped and debased and made to comply
The past is changed & then the ink is dried
The echo chamber repeats and repeats
Til we only hear what we already believe
The signal fails its sanitized news
I’m waiting on normal service to resume
Rich men who have never known pain
Present themselves as benevolent kings
They’re toxic and baleful and corrupt and foul
They’re here and they’re staying and they’re spewing out bile.
He points his finger with the urgency of hunger
At the man he says is dragging you under
The narratives not new we’ve heard it before
Doctrines of blame and hate and horror
If you’ve got no money it's the foreigners fault
While the kings stashing more cash is his vault
The braying crowd is so easily seduces
I’m waiting on normal service to resume
I’m waiting on normal service to return
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