1. |
Lost
04:56
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There was a time when love was mine
I had a woman I thought wouldn't leave
And with that love I traveled above
The desires that desired me
After a while and thousands of miles
That woman I thought wouldn't leave
She had enough while I traveled above
And she snuck out from under me
When I came down I looked around
For that woman I thought wouldn't leave
But she was long gone, so I grew fond
Of any lover that would love me
I just couldn't escape from that love I made
With that woman I thought wouldn't leave
Each traveling heart had bags from the start
They just rested their travels with me
They know life doesn't stop when you're lost
And death comes like a thief when you're lost
It's empty men, empty women when you're lost
But when you love something it'll carry you home
It will carry you home
I know there's somebody out there for me
She's the woman that won't leave
She will love me for the man I am
And the man I'm going to be
I just can't make the same mistakes
With that woman I know won't leave
Cause she'll take parts out of her heart
And give handfuls of love to me
I know life doesn't stop when you're lost
And death comes like a thief when you're lost
And there's only crumbs of comfort when you're lost
But when you love something it'll carry you home
It will carry you home
There was a time when love was mine
I had a woman I thought wouldn't leave
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2. |
Waiting
04:19
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I will sit here waiting until the day grows dark
Keep my candles blazing, my doors unlocked
And if you keep me waiting, I will not stop
because this heart is aching and you're what it wants
I said it's fine, maybe I'll see you soon
Oh it's fine, I'll be here waiting but
You don't have to say you'll come back home
Oooo you know where it is when you're gone
I don't really mind when you come back home
Oooo you know I'll be here when you come
You know I'll be here when you come
No I don't mind waiting, I know what I want
Gotta keep on holding to what I've got
And while I am waiting I will not stop
because this life is always taking don't you say that it is not
I said it's fine, maybe I'll see you soon
Oh it's fine, I'll be here waiting but
You don't have to say you'll come back home
Oooo you know where it is when you're gone
I don't really mind when you come back home
Oooo you know I'll be here when you come
You know I'll be here when you come
I said it's fine, maybe I'll see you soon
Oh it's fine, I'll be here waiting but
You don't have to say you'll come back home
Oooo you know where it is when you're gone
I don't really mind when you come back home
Oooo you know I'll be here when you come
You know I'll be here when you come
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3. |
Big City
04:14
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Where the grass is greener and the streets are meaner
Plants don't grow there anyway
That seed you were feeding it kept on depleting
Because the weeds they grew in the way
But you will find plenty men and well employed boys
To take you in that new landscape
And I know you'll be fooled eating forbidden food
Thinking that you made a great escape
But you won't be short of beauty, that comes easy
As you stand towering over the rest
It's a useless tool when you found an excuse
To abandon what's true with your nest
So go, hide in the big city
Where the lust is brand new and the sex it is loose
The outcomes can go anyway
Fumbling through the phone, fingering for a song
That captures the mood of the day
With that mystery man and his mystery hands
Committing crimes on a stolen body
It's nothing to you but women want to come through
Because they know I'm a treasure at sea
So don't think I'm missing out, thirsty in a drought
When you let strangers through your door
While you gave up the gold the gold gave up
Now it's worth so much more
So go, hide in the big city
So go, find what you need
Hurry hide under covers, hurry hide from the others
So that no one can see
It's my fault, I know, these sexual woes
Your tiny face, smooth skin, and weak knees
I keep my words wise, I keep honest eyes
When I'm busy trespassing
Let the pleasures unwind all through the night
A Princesses mouth on a Kings
With an experienced hand I take what I can
From a girl so tender and sweet
When one fire goes another one grows
Making the circle complete
So go, hide in the big city
So go, find what you need
You can be fooled but your heart won't be
So go, hide in the big city
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4. |
I Want To Be With You
04:04
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Broke free from a paradise
Had something so long swore it wasn't right
Now I'm a bloody mess in this freedom fight
Scraped knees and easy eyes
Some whiskey for the colder nights
Some cold nights due to lovers strikes
Try not to notice her beauty's trite
She's got no grace between the lines
It's something that used to be free but now it has a cost
With these eyes all I used to see is where I'd be if I was lost
But now I want to be with you
I want to be with you
Some nights I spent in New York
In your dirty sheets, playing hearts
Providing comfort and security
So it wasn't hard
On the other nights when we became strangers
Braving freedom's loveless bars
We were trying on others while trying not
To go back to our start
It's something that used to be free but now it has a cost
With these eyes all I used to see is where I'd be if I was lost
But now I want to be with you
I want to be with you
We were frightened that our devotion
Would find happiness somewhere else
But the traveler knows that his home
Is where the road leads when thrills where off
But it's these unknown pastures and unknown lovers
Creating wonder in the wanderer's bones
Yeah, we tried, now we see, we don't want what we seek
Just the knowledge found in the unknown
But now I want to be with you
I want to be with you
I want to be with you
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5. |
Reach For Me
03:49
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When you found me I was gone, I left sometime ago.
I left my family, my friends, and my baby behind but my vices always showed.
In a new hometown they haunt me now the same as before.
I thought I'd do something good and new but my past is always at my door.
And I swore things would change but I'm down and out again.
Life stays hard, and the truth is that I need you to...
Reach for me when I fall
And pull my back away from the wall
A lot may be wrong but it will be alright
if you just reach for me when I fall.
Money can be a great comfort sometimes but I wouldn't know.
I still sing the same songs, no cash for comfort and that's the way it goes.
So I stay out on the streets, stay falling in the gutter, but I don't understand.
You know, it's hard to get up when I lift my arm and no one grabs my hand.
And all my plans have changed, I'm down and out again.
Life stays hard, and the truth is that I need you to....
Reach for me when I fall
And pull my back away from the wall
A lot may be wrong but it will be alright
if you just reach for me...
Troubles never come alone
I'm chain smoking on the phone
I've been whispering the sweetest things
because I'm missing you
And you ask me to come on home but
I don't tell you things you shouldn't know
I've been flat on my back, down on the tracks, cause I need you to...
Reach for me when I fall
And pull my back away from the wall
A lot may be wrong but it will be alright
If you just reach for me
Reach for me when I fall
And pull my back away from the wall
A lot may be wrong but it will be alright
If you just reach for me when I fall
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6. |
Beautiful
03:38
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You can come to me, I will understand
Sometimes the things that shouldn't be are your only plans
And if you get scared I will protect you
but don't expect an easy life,
nobody has ever got that right
You can go away from me, I will understand
Sometimes the love that you believe is not the love that's in your hands
And if you get scared I will protect you
but don't expect an easy life,
nobody has ever got that right
It will be you to fall. It will be you to fall.
It will be you to fall, beautiful.
And you can give your love to me, I will understand
Sometimes the man that I will be is a different man
and if you get scared he will protect you
but don't expect an easy life,
nobody has ever got that right
It will be you to fall. It will be you to fall.
It will be you to fall, beautiful.
You can murder me, I will understand
Sometimes the end that's going to be needs a helping had
And I won't get scared, don't need protection,
never expected an easy life,
nobody has ever got that right
And it is beautiful. It's beautiful.
It is beautiful, beautiful.
And it is beautiful. It's beautiful.
It is beautiful, beautiful.
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7. |
Same Kind of Freedom
04:08
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The natural queens with their keyboard teeth
speak ardent hearted soliloquies
seeking salvation true love and recovery
Standing on the mood transformation line
with the mademoiselles and American pastimes
they all ache with the same kind of freedom
Forgotten, misled, misused and confused
dropped on a dime, stepped on by a few
looking at mirrors wishing it was someone they knew
Oh, what do they know?
Oh, what do they know?
Down the block at the vagabond bar
the wolf pack closed in on the getaway car
that was like cigarettes packed with veterans hearts
The Presidents they didn't care
the innocent brides showed their rings off
they're delirious with the same kind of freedom
Forgotten, misled, misused and confused
dropped on a dime, stepped on by a few
looking at mirrors wishing it was someone they knew
Oh, what do they know?
Oh, what do they know?
Darkness weaved around the scene
Ensuing riots and on the balcony
Lord Bacon performed Shakespeare to nobody...
Then with skinned knees under my jeans
I lost my jacket and all my money
I didn't really know why I was headed up this street
The train conductor knew I was lost
he knew somebody changed my sugar to salt
he knew I was happy with the same kind of freedom
Oh, what does he know?
Oh, what does he know?
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8. |
The Bridge To Happiness
01:55
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Once there was a mighty man
who spread his love far and wide
He had a dislocation from the world
and a secret in his crimes
His words were strong, his actions brought
sweet lovers from where they'd hide
He'd tech them all about themselves
and then he'd leave their side
(singalong and all that)
One hundred years roaming the land
One thousand lost true loves
One million girls now women
who experienced his loss
Now look back sweet ladies
and see how he did help
He was the bridge to happiness
not happiness itself
(singalong and all that, again)
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9. |
Don't Be Afraid To Stay
04:43
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Nightmares hang from the ceiling
No shape in the black of the room
Except for secrets from the window
The infinite gaze of the moon
Wide eyed or winking through curtains
Watching what you never will
Nothing that you see is certain
You can't balance on a windowsill
Springs against bones where your lying
Which lie in the autumn night?
Babies whisper through the pillows
"No fixing whats broken, no wings for your troubled life"
Now move along tomorrow's coming
There's a dawn for every day
The way is long even when running
So don't be afraid to stay
Panhandler of dreams in the doorway
The snake charmer has nowhere to hide
There's a desperation in his smile
Peeking through the pieces of light
My face is as blank as a dealers
No different than a grain of sand
Numb to the moods of the ocean
Another invisible man
Slot machines spinning no winners
Veterans twisting their arms
Images fall slow and silent
Like snow in the winter, like tears of a troubled heart
Now move along tomorrow's coming
There's a dawn for every day
The way is long even when running
So don't be afraid to stay
She lost her youth to an old man
One with no sense of time
He carries around a suitcase
That has nothing inside
Life it gets tired of living
But when she smiled it all flew away
Until sunsets dimmed before him
And he knew he was losing the race
Closed eyes weighed down by old lovers
Umbilical chord around your neck
Holes in the souls of decisions
Something in a casket, something you'll never get back
Now move along tomorrow's coming
There's a dawn for every day
The way is long even when running
So don't be afraid to stay
Don't be afraid to stay
Don't be afraid to stay
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10. |
The Man You Need
05:19
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I am not the man you need
I am the ruler of the heart
There is no card in the deck for me
but the decks always been flawed
I will provide the rule of measure
for the honorable fools
You will close your eyes when pleasured
and see the provider of the rule
I am not the man you need
I am an avalanche in wait
When I fall you cannot see
if you could you would not be safe
I will provide the heart needed
to venture up my walls
You will climb and be defeated
when I send you down to fall
I am not the man you need
I'll manipulate your love
I have no intentions to be
I will always sail above
I have the wind to my back
and a heart like a tomb
My sails gain no slack
gaining distance from you
I am not the man you need
but I will show you a great man
I will leave you in reverie
sentimental with high demands
I will provide the need to forget
one day you will see
that the further we get
is where we should be
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11. |
The Hunger
03:39
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I tightened my grip, I'm losing my feet
I'm starting to slip from reality
Lay on the left, desire the right
And reach for the day while holding the night
The taste on my lips isn't so sweet
The experience isn't what it seems
Sleep by my side and hear for my heart
That's my love applied to removable parts
A thousand hungers inside this one man
A million lovers will not understand
A thousand hungers inside this one man
A million lovers will not understand
I grant permission, take advantage of me
My every omission is your pleasures plea
I don't have to stop, you don't have to go
I do a job only lucky ones know
I exceed all expectations
My order is tall, your service is thin
Sleep by my heart not just by my side
It's immovable parts that my love desires
A thousand hungers inside this one man
A million lover will not understand
A thousand hungers inside this one man
A million lovers will not understand
A thousand hungers inside this one man
A million lovers will not understand
A thousand hungers inside this one man
A million lovers until one understands
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12. |
These Are The Days
05:08
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Nicotine tongue tied to my touch
I want to taste tomorrow in tonight's rush
I want to taste tonight in tomorrow's lunch
A pretty girl by my side never taught me much
It's trivial times and troublesome tales
I may have told but I'll never tell
I took the train lines, I traveled the rails
Always ended up tracing back my trails
These are the days, these are the nights
You can't escape so, why would you try?
These are the days, these are the nights
Undisguised and naked, that happiness is mine
Chimney fingered flicking ash in the wind
Flames burning out far from feeling anything
Because after city fathers found freedom in
My freedom and my crucifixion
The formula for failure was always at my door
With a female, a flask, and a fishing lure
Fingernail biting fearing for the floor
I want to be lost now as if I wasn't before
These are the days, these are the nights
You can't escape so, why would you try?
These are the days, these are the nights
Undisguised and naked, that happiness is mine
Reconvene like lovers unlucky in love
Like lunar loners liquored up
Like an obscene chain linked to the lion's tongue
Licking the wounds of the loveless ones
It's the leading roll leaving curtains called
Lying for laughs in the lending hall
Lovely and lost in lessons from God
I think I'm learning life but I am not
These are the days, these are the nights
You can't escape so, why would you try?
These are the days, these are the nights
Undisguised and naked, that happiness is mine
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13. |
Miss Your Heart
08:39
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Opportunity makes the thief when you're struggling down below
Can't let the sleeping dogs lie when the cold winds blow
I put them past the reapers reach, I run my fingers through their hair
All of the girls I meet are the ones that don't care
I always let them get closer than they ever should
I waste time reciprocating love and being misunderstood
I taste them everywhere, I caress every part
I teach their bodies how to share what used to have a cost
I'm preemptive with my strikes, my fingerprints wipe off
Don't confuse my neglection, I meant to miss your heart
I meant to miss your heart. I meant to miss your heart.
Smooth seas don't make skilled sailors, simple lovers never last
I keep a curious distance, I love what you lack
I do the things you think I do, I slip through the cracks
You gotta forgive me honey, can't have my treasure chest
So come inside my bedroom, leave your past out in the hall
Kick off your shoes, I know you're nervous, but I don't mind at all
You say it's kind of early but it's gonna get late
If you're hungry now baby, why should you wait?
I'm preemptive with my strikes, my fingerprints wipe off
Don't confuse my neglection, I meant to miss your heart
I meant to miss your heart. I meant to miss your heart.
We all start with bad directions, ask for kisses on our keys
Potholes on the road to joy filled with memories and dreams
Of all the beauty I've held, there's nothing to hold
I had to trade all of my secrets to get back my soul
I explored all of the shadows now I talk to God at night
A broken heart loves love because each time is the first time
Something in her eyes showed me the man that I would be
Still gathering no moss, still giving all that's good in me
I'm preemptive with my strikes, my fingerprints wiped off
Don't confuse my neglection, I meant to miss your heart
I meant to miss your heart. I meant to miss your heart.
In those days the charm of weakness put its bounty on my head
There's a few I should've kept but I let leave instead
We would share our vices learning lessons from mistakes
When madness was alluring and sin was sweet to taste
It was pains into pains, the parasites surviving the host
I don't know how alive I seemed but I was living like a ghost
I look back now and see nothing, my filthy habits clean
Those bad girls became good women, I pray for them before I sleep
I was preemptive with my strikes and my fingerprints wiped off
But I confused my neglection and now I miss your heart
I miss your hearts because I missed your hearts
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Frances Jones Red Bank, New Jersey
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