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Kneel So Low
04:50
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Kneel So Low
Take a leap out on my ocean
Swim as far out as you can
Until you lose sight of the shoreline
Your feet no longer touch the sand
When the white caps breaking over
Are the last thing that you see
Well your lungs are filled with water
And may your last thoughts be with me
You’re unforgettable, unlovable, unlivable
I never thought I’d see
You kneel so low for me
Friendship become disease
You kneel so low for me
Begging scraps of love from me
They say bygones should be bygones
Judge not lest you shall be judged
But you forget what I remember
Yeh I’m the type that bears a grudge
Just as I’m sure you had me figured
Just another chapter in your life that’s gone
Well I guess I’m like the kind of dream
That you find you can’t wake up from
It’s unforgettable, unlovable, unlivable
I never thought I’d see
Such perfect symmetry
Love broken on it’s knees
You crawl out of the sea
To beg scraps of love from me
Please extend all sympathy
Find enclosed
The blade you buried in me
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Kiss Him (he's history)
05:48
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Kiss Him (he’s history)
Kiss him and if you’re gonna kiss him
Leave him gasping for air
Twist him if he fits around your finger
Leave him dangling there
Tease him never leave him knowing
If you’re going somewhere
Leave him, when you come home
He’ll always be there
Well if you really want to know
How to break his heart
It’s easy as sin just listen to me
And get it right from the start
Kiss him, he’s history (history)
Kiss him, he’s history (history)
I don’t really want to know
Take him, take him to the places
Where the pleasure is best
Make him, make him feel he’s special
Just like all of the rest
Drive him but if you’re gonna drive him
Drive him all the way home
Leave him (sleeping)
When he wakes up he’s gonna wake up alone
Well if you really want to know
How to break his heart
It’s easy as sin just listen to me
And get it right from the start
Kiss him, kiss him
He’s history (you’re history)
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3. |
Second Nature
03:15
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Second Nature
Did you dream of this loneliness
Or is this what we’ve travelled so far for
Close your eyes, open them again
Is the way things are the way things always were
The way things always were
Oh Jesus made a promise
He kept to it as best as he could
But as things turned out
We didn’t burn out the way
The good lord thought we would
It’s second nature to hurt someone
Simplest thing is to treat them like dirt
Comes in the blood it’s in the water supply
Second nature second nature to hurt
Sleep in a little too late
By the time you get to work
Your boss is in such a state
Turn on the radio there’s nothing going down
Your lover gets his kicks just kicking you around
Just kicking you around
The sun upon my knees
The rosary clutched in my fist
I’d give all my money search my bag
But it’s getting so hard to be a good woman
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4. |
Lucky For Some
04:18
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Lucky For Some
Some get branded
Some get hung
Some keep their hands clean
Lucky for some
Yeah some get loaded
Some even go on the run
Some keep their little mouths shut
Lucky for some
I heard your step
On the hospital tiles
And the thought of your arms around me
Kept me warm for a while
I heard your voice saying
Baby look twice
When you start seeing
Shadows move by your bed
Better reach for the light
When you wake up
No step will you hear
It’s just as if no one
Had ever been there
Now I lie awake nights
Staring up through those fan blades
Warm wind in my face
And my nerves sharp as pins, pins, pins
Some get reckless
Some take to their guns
Some cover their tracks well
Lucky for some
Yeah some get loaded
Some go on the run
Some keep their mouths shut
But that’s lucky for some
Now here come the morning again
Nothing touches my skin
No one sees me move here
As the sunlight creeps in
Some get branded
Some get hung
Some keep their hands clean
Lucky for some
Yeah some get loaded
Some go on the run
Some keep their little mouths shut
Well that’s lucky for some
Well that’s lucky for some
Yeah lucky for some
Lucky for some, lucky for some
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5. |
So Good To Be Home
05:03
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So Good To Be Home
My plane is descending
And the ground is rushing up
All the rows of cabin lights shaking
As the under-carriage makes touch
Thread of traffic lights on the highway
Leading back to my home
Green lawns are cut so neatly
You feel the skin tight against your bones
Well well you feel the skin
Tight against your bones
Cool breeze comes off the river
Blowing into my face
All the streets are just as clean as I left
When I left I didn’t leave a trace
No when I left I didn’t leave a trace
And they’re pouring out of the house to greet me
Greet me as their son
They’re all keen to know exactly
What is is I’ve done since I’ve been gone
What is is I’ve done since I’ve been gone
Where it is I’ve gone
Since I’ve been gone
All night long staring at the ceiling
All night long the same damn feeling
Such a fine, such a fine feeling
And the feeling, and the feeling goes like this
Well its so good to be home
Crawling up inside my old bed
Pulling up the sheets around my head
Crawling up inside
Take it easy now
Its so good to be home
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6. |
Look Out For Yourself
03:26
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Look Out For Yourself
I want you to look around the room you’re in
Tell me do you see someone else
And if there’s someone you can turn to now
In your sickness and you health
Look out for yourself
Nobody else will
Look out for yourself
Take time for yourself
Don’t look over shoulders
Find out for yourself
You know your number baby
Why look up my name
You know how bad it feels when you fake it
I want you to turn off everything
Feeding into your veins
Just listen out for the sound you’re making
Look out for yourself
Nobody else will
Look out for yourself
Take time for yourself
Don’t look over your shoulder
Find out for yourself
So step lightly off the kerb now
There’s no-one left to catch your breath
You’ve only got one skin to save now
I know you’ve said as much yourself
Look out for yourself
Nobody else will
Look out for yourself
Take time for yourself
Don’t look over shoulders
Find out for yourself
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Make Believe We’re Not Here In Hell
It’s a long dim trail
And the stars are milky streaks
And we’ve drifted so far
Your secret signals getting weak
Maybe they’ll never burn again
Those damn stars dim
And I can’t believe its you
When your voice is so thin
Maybe its time to make believe
And to sing those songs
If it stops the pain
But I don’t mind
And I won’t tell
If we make believe we’re
Not here in hell
Now when I look at you
I can feel your age
You don’t recover
Once you’ve reached this stage
I look at you
I see I need to hold you tight
Coz you’re shaking so hard
You just might fall apart with fright
Maybe it’s time to make believe
And to say those words
If it covers the shame
Cause I don’t mind
I won’t break the spell
If we make believe that we’re somewhere
You don’t have to kiss and tell
Now there’s demons in soft focus
And a fragrance in the wind
Is just the sweetest taste of poison
That will kill us in the end
But we’ve been so fucking sober
For the longest time
Won’t you please give me permission
To take just a little wine…
And to jump right in to where the water’s calm
And fall right back into each others arms
For the feel of love and some kind of sleep
It would taste so fine to sink so sweet and deep
Maybe it’s time to make believe
And to sing those songs
If it stops the pain
But I don’t mind
And I won’t tell
If we make believe we’re
Not here in hell
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This Whole World’s About To Slide
I have to yodel, I have to moan
Loss of heart and hearth and home
Petrol stolen from my car
Money missing from my kitchen jar
Suspect my neighbour
I search his house
Follow his every movement about
Even spying on his kin
Taking note of every place he’s been
Photographing every place he’s been
Now my love can’t meet in your eye
Fearing that which you might hide
I can see through the soles of my feet
This whole world’s about to slide
Yeah, this whole world’s about to slide
The well you poisoned befalls another
First your friend, and, then your brother
Soon you cannot trust one face
Every drink you take might be laced
Prayed the sidewalk remained my friend
No matter break nor twist nor bend
And the voices following me
Stop talking so I may sleep
Stop chattering so I may sleep
I’m calling you all over this world
Dialing every ear that can be told
I can see through the soles of my feet
This whole world’s about to slide
Yeah, this whole world’s about to…
Alright now, but it’s alright now
Yes, it’s alright now
Tell me, how much lucky I got?
Tell me, how much lucky I got?
Tell me, how much lucky I got?
Tell me, how much lucky I got?
Need a truckload of sky to hold me down
Need a woman called a killer to shut me down
Need a truckload of sky to hold me down
Need a woman called a killer to shut me down
Growing something strange in the back of my eye
Have to hold me down with a truckload of sky
Pray your not planning shutting me down
This whole world’s about to slide
Yeah, this whole world’s about to slide
So tell me, just how lucky I got?
Tell me, just how lucky I got?
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9. |
No Desire
03:22
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No Desire
Take one look at you they say this girl is sick
Somebody strap her down get the ambulance quick
They gave you medication in a paper cup
Blue ones to let you down red ones to lift you up
No desire, no no desire, no desire x2
Ordered you infected while the wound was fresh
The pleasures of the tongue the pressures of the flesh
Baby check your pulse there must be something wrong
Every acceptable vice and still you won’t respond
Chorus
Now the orderly takes your elbow
Now the angels want back their halo
Everybody is telling you I told you so
Opportunities pass you by
Your fountain of youth is running dry
Even your lovers they can’t think why you have
Chorus X2
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10. |
Thanks For Everything
03:39
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Thanks For Everything
I answered your advertisement
I was so obedient
Thanks for your encouragement
You were so intelligent
Ch:
Thanks for everything
Everything you’ve done for me
Every song you’ve sung for me
And every war you’ve won for me
It’s all been too much fun for me
It was just an accident
I knew it wasn’t permanent
It was just indifferent
I was so incompetent
Ch: x2
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11. |
Somewhere In The Shadows
02:39
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Somewhere In The Shadows
Somewhere in the shadows
There’s someone waiting for me
Sometimes I imagine they’re standing right here for me
But they disappear as quickly as they came
And you’re left holding nothing
And no-one you can blame
On every street corner they are advertising lust
Tranquillisers for your heart
You can buy them on the cheap
You can drink yourself to sleep
But they disappear as quickly as they came
And you’re left holding nothing
And no-one you can blame
Somewhere in the shadows
There’s an answer to your prayer
There’s a maiden who is there
There’s a knight upon his mare
There’s a burden you can bear
Somewhere in the shadows
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