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1. |
Too Well
03:22
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I'm not so weak
or so you seem to think
you walk right by
the words trip on my pride
there was a time when nothing went my way
feels like that now
but really I feel ok
I ran right in
to a storm inside your eyes
pick up the keys
and then just start to drive
the road blurs by
every tear is like a clue
I pick them up
and follow them back to you
i do
Really I feel ok
I'm fine
this is gonna make me strong
I'm not so strong
or so I seem to think
you walk right by
and I make my knees get weak
this time, stand tall
see what it does do you
you walk right by
and nobody has a clue
i do
Really I feel ok
I'm fine
this is why I'm moving on
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2. |
Picking Up
03:22
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I'm picking up pieces
little bit by little bit
and I haven't done this in a while
I'm seeing old places
take a hit of small town news
don't want to be here tonight
I'm dealing with ghosts
I guess we're gonna find out now
nobody here to catch my fall
I'm playing house host
to a different feeling every night
I've never been so alone in a bed.
and there's nothing new to see
just new eyes to cry with
losing her's like pulling teeth
we both know
this lovesick life has got to go
but I don't want to be alone
I'm staying out later
blurry eys make brand new thoughts
shouldn't be driving tonight
faces fade faster
if you don't see them every time
you turn a corner in this place
and her name takes forever everytime I think it
it leaves a little trail of thoughts behind
lover to friend seems easy when you say it
I think we made it work last night
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3. |
6:45
04:36
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white moon in December skies
the cold air makes it inside
street lamps leave no suprise
but help me get deep into your eyes
something about the way you disappear
6:45 on a Saturday
everytime that train takes you away
I go blind until the next time you stay
missed the bus another time
keeping you away seems like a game
he came and left a note in my hands
I wonder, can this man feel the same?
something about the way you never came
6:45 on a Saturday
this time you say the train just never came
so I'll wait until the next time you say
blue eyes, dark nights, take me away
let me be alone inside your arms
weekdays, weak knees leave me tired
and you're gone until the next time....
March or April I always forget
doesn't matter spring will never come
sat alone in a subway again
just want to go back home
something about the way we ended here
6:45 on a Saturday
this train takes me deeper underground
and I'm alone and you can't call and say
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4. |
Mexico
03:45
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and the wind outside is painful
and there's that man I used to know
drumming buckets like it's Friday
I guess he doesn't know
that time stands still for no one
not on a bright December night
it's funny how this winter sky
makes me wish that you were right
And you know me well enough
to know I don't want to go
but I know the winter snow
don't fall
down the coast of Mexico
and sometimes I feel like fighting
all this frost on my mind
it's hard to remember
the cooling rain in hot july
but nothing seems as easy
as saying you'll say goodbye
and nothing comes so hard
as when you start to cry
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5. |
Impossible
03:37
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i know it seems impossible
everything's impossible these days
i know it seems like it's been years
since I saw you--maybe it has
i know I said I'd never forgive you
I'll never forgive you, at least not yet
now it's easy to let go
and now it's easy to say no
and everything gets clearer now
but strange enough I can't get out and you
and it hardly seems unfair to say
you broke my heart and I'm walking away
I know I said I'll never love you
I'll always love you, that's why I hate tonight
now it's harder to let go
and now it's harder to say no
and now I'm in I can't get out
but strange enough it's clearer now and you
and i know it seems impossible
everything's impossible these days
know I said I'll never love you
I'll always love you, that's why I hate tonight
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6. |
Funny How
03:05
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so here we are into what seems like forever
look how this goes
so here I am in what seemed like it'd never
look how no one knows
so are we gonna prove em wrong all over again?
one year so close
I wouldn't give you up for anything you know
unless of course you chose
it's funny how nothing ever comes out the way I plan
it's funny how you always come out right in the end
and it's funny how what's foggy now will never
be this clear again
so everything that I thought that I knew
nothing to lose
and everytime that I turn around to face you
I thought that this was true
so is everything just gonna stay the same?
sometimes these things just go away
I would've done it all over this way
unless of course you'd changed
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7. |
Letters
02:43
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so I read all your letters
I read every word
I took all the best ones
circled every word I heard
if I'd heard it in a phone call
or heard it in a song
and as I walked to your apartment
I tried to figure what went wrong
and I remembered her voice
and I remembered what she said
and I remembered how it killed me
with every tear I bled
with every breath came a memory
and every step sang along
and when I got to your front door
I knew where I went wrong
there was a party that night
I walked in uninvited
there was a girl in the corner
who looked like she liked me
and I didn't know her name
but she said she knew mine
and nothing really mattered
and that was the first time
(the next time)
(the last time)
remembered every word she said
remembered everything I'd left
and her eyes are clear like the tears that she left me
and so it starts over again
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8. |
Here's A Love Song
03:15
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sleeping in saturdays
taking time to get to know your face
breathing in your smell on me
I'm addicted you know, to vanilla these days
butterfly kisses
and the promise you'll spend all night this time
i just want to say thank you
for taking a chance on a feeling inside
so here's a love song
for all the times that you've felt second place
here's a love song
for all the smiles that come when I see your face
here's a love song
walk into the wind tonight
city lights take the place of stars in your eyes
I lost the moon again
or I stopped looking I think when love
caught me by suprise
you're gonna be hard to get over
so I won't I don't think for a very long time
and in the summer
I'll warm your bed if your promise you'll warm mine
here's a love song
for all the times I fell into your eyes
here's a love song
for all the things you taught me last night
here's a love song
here's a love song
for all the things that you've never said
here's a love song
for the night you left your bracelet at the end of my bed
here's a love song
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9. |
Build Me Up
02:47
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taking time from the sweet sleep
slide down, I'd fall right to me knees
she holds on tight now
let the whole world spin right into me
you build me up inside
turn around take the face off
don't gotta like what you see
walking here turns my heart round
her hand keeps the whole world steady
better watch what you wish for
trust me, it comes before you know
I can't remember
ever wanting to say no to you
cuz you build me up inside
build me up
don't you let it
get you down because
you build me up inside
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10. |
Summer
04:12
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I've been holding my breath because you told me to
if the summer's gonna come then me and you
better get in the car we'll just drive out
far enough away so they can't find out
what it means to be alive
sun soaks in and your skin smells warm
like the last time I tried to move on
game plays on, standing outside our door
but we stand strong, don't need this anymore
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Syd Sidney Ojai, California
Producer of Mia Dyson's "The Moment" which debuted #1 in Australia, co-writer with Zac Clark (Andrew McMahon), partner at Echo Magic.
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