1. |
Blue Sky Goodbye
03:05
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There came a day when it didn’t rain
But I was sad on a sunny day
So I wish you would just give our love that blue sky goodbye
Sit down beside me
Put on your old blue jeans if you wanna
I have had enough of your theoretical love, god knows
I need you to just give our love that blue sky goodbye
Standing on a dusty road
Crying, you’re just not the one
Half hello’s and goodbyes
You got me second-guessing everything
And I wish you would just give our love that blue sky goodbye
Standing in your doorway
I would say I’m sorry but I
I’m watching the birds fly by
Like almost forgotten night
Oh why won’t you go on and give our love that blue sky goodbye
All my friends are watching us
Saying you gotta, you gotta give it up
So let it blow away
Go on and give our love that blue sky goodbye
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2. |
Summer Rain
03:52
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She could see lilac in the sky
You said if she had your eyes
The world is black and white
And she cried quietly
You’ve been painting her blue yeah painting her blue yeah painting her blue, ooh ooh
Well I guess I’d better go
I’m rolling on
Dandelion clocks, blowin’ in the wind
Wishes takin’ root, scattered on the road
I’m rolling on
And I realize I could love everyone
So baby let me feel your summer rain
Roll on me
Well I could throw myself to you
Hearts are just spare change
And was it your eyes?
They were a mirror of mine
But you were painting me blue, just painting me blue, just painting me blue, ooh ooh
And I guess I’d better go
I’m rolling on
Dandelion clocks, blowin’ in the wind
Wishes takin’ root, scattered on the road
I’m rolling on
And I realize I could love everyone
So baby let me feel your summer rain
Roll on me
Somehow tragedy seemed smaller
When I saw it on TV
Tell me, are you alive?
The world is wide and wide
But you’ve been painting it blue just painting it blue just painting it blue and I
I’ve got to go feel the summer rain
Roll on me
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3. |
Tell Me
03:48
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Tell me, for I don’t know
How did I, how did I let myself go
And where am I, where am I watching me
White on green and godsent rain
Tell me, for I don’t know how to say
Babe, I can’t let myself love you now
I can’t let myself love you now
Tell me, tell me
I can’t love you now
Things I should have said
I don’t wanna lie to you, let me just say
Why don’t we, why don’t we walk away
Your eyes only blinded me
Where did I, where did I let me go wrong?
And where have I, where have I run to?
White on green and godsent rain
Tell me, for I don’t know how to say
Babe, I can’t let myself love you now
I can’t let myself love you now
Tell me, tell me
I can’t love you now
Tell me, for I don’t know
Where did I, where did I let myself go?
And where am I, where am I watching me?
One thing, that’s all I know
And I can’t love you now.
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4. |
The Dragonfly
03:17
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Lyrical inspiration from Lord Alfred Tennyson & allusions to Lewis Carroll.
We’re climbing down into the well
We heard this is where he did lie
And as the light fades
We can’t seem to remember
Did we always have these wings?
Were our bodies always so far away?
And the sky is speaking to me
Like a living flash of light, I fly
But the others don’t seem to see me move
They wonder if I’ve died
And he says it wouldn’t be so bad
But we’re all mad here
We’re climbing up out of the well
Everything’s so real we want to cry
And he takes my hand
Saying, “Put away the sun.
It’s a toy made for children
Let your heart go, come with me.
Be reborn.”
And the wind is blowing through me
Like a living flash of light I fly
But the others don’t seem to see me move
They wonder if I’ve died
And he says it wouldn’t be so bad
‘Cause we’re all mad here
We’re climbing down into the well
Looks like we just can’t stay away
And as the light fades
We can’t help but remember
We have always had these wings
And our souls were made to be set free
We’re giving them up to the kaleidoscopes in his eyes
So that we can see it’s all right
‘Cause we’re all mad here.
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5. |
Crossroads Downtown
03:34
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I see that look in your eye
Like you want something you can’t have so bad
You know where to go
Every pretty face behind the bar will tell you how
Where is your heart, where is your soul?
They’re buried in the ground at the crossroads downtown
I hope you’re happy, I hope you’re happy now
Where is your heart, where is your soul?
They’re buried in the ground at the crossroads downtown
Where do you go, now you got what you want?
So pick up your guitar, wow everyone
But ever since that kiss, is there something missing?
It ain’t right in the back of your mind
But get drunk on life while you got it
Where is your heart, where is your soul?
They’re buried in the ground at the crossroads downtown
I hope you’re happy, I hope you’re happy now
Where is your heart, where is your soul?
They’re buried in the ground at the crossroads downtown
Ten years have come and gone around
Hide behind the door, kneel down and pray
They’re coming for you, this is your day
Where is your heart, where is your soul?
They’re buried in the ground at the crossroads downtown
I hope you’re happy, I hope you’re happy now
Where is your heart, where is your soul?
They’re buried in the ground at the crossroads downtown
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6. |
White Lies
03:37
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I felt more like myself
Sitting there, telling you white lies
Making you cry
Than I did in all the times I made you smile
Living the life, I
Well I was gonna take you down
To watch the lilies bloom
But you’re closing up my eyes
Blue on blue, I put it on just for you
Hiding sad eyes under sunny day shades I
I felt more like myself
Sitting there, telling you white lies
Making you cry
Than I did in all the times I made you smile
Living the life, I
Well I was gonna take you down
To watch the lilies bloom
But you’re closing up my eyes
You say tell me you love me, sing so bright
As you cage round my mouth with your hands, oh
So sweet, baby, but you don’t let me love
No you don’t let me love
Well hey ho, what do you know
I should go
I felt more like myself
Sitting there, telling you white lies
Making you cry
Than I did in all the times I made you smile
Living the life, I
Well I was gonna take you down
To watch the lilies bloom
But you don’t let me love, no you don’t let me love
And you’re closing up my eyes
So I think I should go
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7. |
Lady Liberty
03:27
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Thinking of Sunflower Sutra, Allen Ginsberg.
The news just broke over my head and I don’t know what to say
I never thought it’d come to this so keep ‘em coming, keep ‘em coming, cause I
I don’t think I’ll be coming home for a long, long time
Please don’t try to speak, the things you say make me hate you so
Land of the just, land of the free, free to hate anybody you please
Lady liberty, do you want to crumble to the ground?
Well lay down with me.
‘Cause I don’t think I’ll be coming home for a long, long time
So take back your American dream and your sunshine streets
Don’t you know they don’t need your electroshock therapy, or your wall
Sunflowers die before my eyes and I know why the poets cried
So when you shout, “We are righteous!” I hope you believe all your lies
‘Cause I don’t think I’ll be coming home for a long, long time
Please don’t try to speak, the things you say make me hate you so
Land of the just, land of the free, free to hate anybody you please
Lady liberty, do you want to crumble to the ground?
Well lay down with me.
‘Cause I don’t think I’ll be coming home for a long, long time
I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna come home no more
When Lady Liberty’s broken down inside
Like a rusty pickup truck you promised to fix
I don’t think I’ll be coming home for a long, long time
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8. |
Sunshine (I'm So Sorry)
05:13
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You are not to blame when the devil puts on your face, just to laugh at me
He’s saying in your voice, “Don’t you ever wish you were more?
Maybe I’d want you, if you were more.”
It’s like everything I am has been weighed in your hands and been found wanting
And I can’t meet your eyes, and we go home, heads low
Devils on our shoulders saying, “If only you were more.”
Every now and again
The devil runs wild on my mind
Saying, “Don’t go out tonight.
Just sink into the deep blue see.”
Sunshine, I’m so sorry
I cry under your name
You are not to blame when the devil puts on your face, just to laugh at me
He’s saying in your voice, “Don’t you ever wish you were more?
Maybe I’d want you, if you were more.”
It’s like everything I am has been weighed in your hands and been found wanting
And I can’t meet your eyes, and we go home, heads low
Devils on our shoulders saying, “If only you were more.”
Sunshine, I’m so sorry
The devil wore your face today
And there’s no light to spark in my eyes
‘Cause I am small inside
Sunshine I, I’m wishing I was more
And I can’t meet your eyes, and we go home, heads low
Whispering to ourselves, “if only I was more.”
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9. |
Walk on By
04:44
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All those things you let me take for granted
Well there they go, little pieces of my bones
Falling away ‘til I am so light I could fly
If only my spine weren’t so near to breaking
Oh look how weak you’ve left me in myself
Seems I am always knocking at your door
Asking, “Have you any love for me today?”
And I always knew better than you
So I walk on by
Well your eyes are my window to your soul
They’re glazed over
And you used to light up, whip quick
Saying, “yes, I know how you feel!”
But where did you go, what poetry will wake
Your mind like when I touched you with mine?
Seems I am always knocking at your door
Asking, “Have you any love for me today?”
And I always knew better than you
So I walk on by
Tell me, where are you?
So close by, but where are you?
And why don’t you seek me out?
Didn’t you ever love me?
Well have you been dreaming
Under your butterfly bell jar
Running out of air? Words get stuck behind
Your watercolour lips, and I want to tear
Your old dress off my body, to let the wind take it
Just to watch our flag fly one more time
But you don’t understand
All those things you let me take for granted
Well there they go, little pieces of my bones
Falling away ‘til I am so light I could fly
On the wings of almost breaking
But I always knew better than you
So I walk on by
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10. |
Innocent
03:32
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I want to come to you, smelling like perfume
It’s been a long week, I’ve got the blues
And you pick me up and spin me around
I want to come to you, dressed to the nines
Just to make you realise there’s a world outside this town
And I know you want to come to me
But it’s all so innocent
Your skin is opening to let your blushes come through
You say how you wish I would lie, daring me to deny you
Every breath we take, every laugh that shakes your shoulders
Open up my eyes to let the light fall out
Second glances show a little more than we coulda known
The first time around
And you sometimes find you cannot cry, and I
I want to come to you, smelling like perfume
It’s been a long week, I’ve got the blues
And you pick me up and spin me around
I want to come to you, dressed to the nines
Just to make you realise there’s a world outside this town
And I know you want to come to me
But it’s all so innocent
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11. |
Hopeless
03:47
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I don’t need you, it’s only a wanting
Oh how I’d love you, if I really knew you
Your eyes so green, Lord let me look away
I’m dancing on air, knowing I’m about to fall
And I’m hopeless, how I’m a-wanting, ooh, I.
And all the little white houses
And the people inside are not alive
And I think of you, someday soon
Let me bring you roses to your cheeks
But I don’t need you, it’s only a wanting
Oh how I’d love you, if I really knew you
Your eyes so green, Lord let me look away
I’m dancing on air, knowing I’m about to fall
And I’m hopeless, how I’m a-wanting, ooh, I.
Standing on the edge of sunlight
I know you’re gonna burn it down tonight
Cherry red, between your lips, oh
You’re so far out, I’m too far gone
But I don’t need you, it’s only a wanting
And I don’t love you, it’s only a longing
And your eyes so green and your smile so bright Lord help me walk away
And I know it’s written all over me
In the sad spaces of my face
How I’m hopeless, hopelessly a wanting, ooh.
And you look at me, so I laugh and look away.
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12. |
I Do
03:18
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Her dress is the perfect white
It starts to rain, come into the light
Your fists so tight, you scream inside
Yes you do, you do, you scream
“I love you completely
You break me by breathing
I tear my chest open to give you my heart again.”
Love is fire, you are burned
“I’m a liar when I say I don’t play with flames, I’m afraid
But it hurts, oh it burns so right.”
Her hands leave cuts on your skin: they say ‘forever’
And love keeps seeping in like salt, burning
And you do, you do, you bleed
“I love you completely
You break me by breathing
I tear my chest open to give you my heart again.”
Love is fire, you are burned
“I’m a liar when I say I don’t play with flames, I’m afraid
But it hurts, oh it burns so right.”
Flowers flyin’, cameras flashing
Down the aisle she’s walking, walking
And I can see your hands shaking
The pries asks, do you love
And you scream, “I do, I do, I do.”
I’m a liar when I say I don’t play with flames
I do, I do, I do.
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13. |
Forget-Me-Not
03:21
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Lyrical inspiration from Anne Sexton.
She read to me, book down between her knees
Tug at the orange ribbon in her air
And I knew I would wash off too
I said, “You are my way, you are my road, you are my way home.”
And it felt true when I held you close
When you go away from me, I will pray for the first time in my life
Circle back, circle all around, circle back to me."
Forget-me-not blues are springin’ up, but I wash off
He says he loves me, he will not see
Transient, temporary me, perennial everything
I’d leave marks on your skin, but I wash off
I said, “You are my way, you are my road, you are my way home.”
And it felt true with my eyes closed
When you go away from me, I will pray for the last time in my life
Circle back, circle all around, circle back to me.”
She read to me, book down between her knees
Tug at the orange ribbon in her air
And I knew I would wash off too
And it comes to me
I’m waiting
I’m waiting
I’m waiting
There’s something beautiful in that moment before
Tragedy comes a-knockin’ at your door.
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14. |
End/Beginning
02:47
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And it begins, and I don’t know
How I can begin to end
So I say take it away, hey
Don’t stay in the sun too long
It may fade you down to your bones
White with the truth and ready to go
Don’t wade to your neck, disappearing
The water’s running deep and wide
Beyond what we know
Don’t get so lost in the losing
That you find yourself
Take my words, they are free to go
And so I am I
And so it ends, and I don’t know
How I can even begin.
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