1. |
Genuine
03:46
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Did you see the headlines
Little things are blown to size
It's all around the world before you know
We're living in a time
With all the borders tripped and mined
Days are gone when you could just be
Ordinary
Another patient
On vacation
Gone for days without your medication
In the end
One decision that you make
There is a way to face it
Lose your head
Find a way to get it on
Cuz' overnight
Everything can be
So undone
Did you see the headlights
Little pair of glowing eyes
Staring at you down the lonely road
Did you dream you saw your life
Drawn across a sharpened knife
Made to watch as all the blood runs cold
Are you strong enough
Seize the moment now
There's so little time before it's gone
Redemption is at hand
No matter what chemical you've taken on
If you could use another plan
It's got to be the genuine
Come
If you want to come
Want you to live
Like you want to live anyway
Want you to stay
If you want to stay
One decision
One decision
The genuine
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2. |
Down From You
03:27
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you've gotta pull so many strings
and tie yourself in knots to handle
anything
if anything is gonna fly
with 2 hands 2 legs
arms
and ears
and eyes
if you relax and try to breathe
you may unwind your mind enough
to finally see
the road to freedom that you need
to keep from holding back my destiny
get me down from you
pull me out i'm overcome
i am tired of being
dumb
and
numb
when loving love is loving dreams
the dream will last as long as you're asleep
but when that bell begins to ring
i face the day
i shake the tree
shake the tree
shake the tree
SHAKE THE TREE
when loving love is loving dreams
the dream will last as long as long as you're asleep
but when that bell begins to ring
i face the day
i face the day
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3. |
U R Trippin'
02:32
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will you remember your love when you hide it away?
will you remain in a state of the same old grace
until you're strong enough to face your face?
but you're mine pretty baby 'til my mind changes
and something breaks me down to see
you're the last blast baby in a long line
of ones who tried to change me and
u r
u r
u r
trippin'
trippin' when you think you'll rise above yourself
now what am i gonna do
when all around is the proof
of what
you choose?
(and it's more of the same old you)
this could be more than a big mistake baby
now i'm beggin' you to take it off of me
but you're mine pretty baby 'til my mind bends
and breaks me down to see the end
of the last dance with another lonely friend
the one who tried to change me
yes you're mine pretty honey in the meanwhile
'til something goes on deep inside
might be the last one baby in a long while
the one who tried to love me
and
u r
u r
u r
trippin'
trippin' when you think you rise above yourself
all by yourself
trippin' when you think you'll fly above yourself
just like tinkerbell
trippin' when you think you'll rise
trippin' when you think you'll rise
you're trippin'
you're trippin'
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4. |
One More Time
03:51
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you win
turned it back on me again
the love i learned to live
live so positive
has gone and done me in
i ain't gonna wait...
wait to see your better side
know it's there but still i wonder why
when I don't need it
tell me one more time
what you meant when you said
love is blind
with open eyes
you find a way to justify your sin
you run away and fan the flame
burn my heart
burn my heart
you ran
headlong into harm and love again
you keep on calling up
you fake me out
and real me in
i ain't gonna stay...
stay until you start it all
now i see the trip before the fall
and it ain't gonna fly
go sail your paper wings into the sky
tell me how you're gonna try
and you wonder why I don't decide
'cuz I don't see it
and I don't need this
I don't need this
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5. |
Rise
03:05
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did we say when everything is clear
we'll want to be together?
we're over all the weather and the fear...
it takes so many dreams to engineer
a turnaround to see another
thousand years
can you imagine
just one more dream
and did you know that
i'm still yours for the asking?
and if you ask me...
if you wanted to
come out and say what you wanna do
how high can love rise?
will it see the end?
we'd last a long time
when can we begin
to love?
begin
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6. |
Leaving
03:00
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i never tried one minute to be wealthy
i told them all since i was there
please don't
don't push that thing on me that i never want
i got to keep my head 'cuz i wanna leave it all
i'm talkin' of leavin'
leavin' it all
blowin' it out
down a thousand miles of road
saw my dream
i seen me wealthy
i changed my face to face the demons
i gave my soul away for what i had become
i pushed that dream away so far and now it's gone
i'm gonna leave it
leavin' it all
gonna blow it out
down ten thousand miles of road
i go all day outside the mind
instead of wastin' any time
is someone i can see for miles
if i can only cross the line
inside a galaxy
am i waiting for someone to come
and find
and find me
i won't wait
no
yeh
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7. |
Mr. Magoo
02:43
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i may be mr. magoo
but i see through you
stupid fool
old magoo
you got a way
to suck me in
and then you spit me out again
i try to take it on the chin
but i bump in to everything
you know the way to keep me blind
diggin' that silly old grin of mine
if i give you my world
and you don't want it
that's just fine
when i don't know my way around
i do all right
and i get along
my intuition is strong
i may be blind but
i know what's going on
i want to love but
i don't know the danger i'm in
forgetting all the trouble you've been
you keep me waiting in the wings
you're flying high
with all your friends
you sail me like a paper plane
then bring me down
to earth again
stupid fool
old magoo
when i don't know my way around
i do alright
and i get along
my intuition is strong
if you come along
i'll be going, going, gone
i may be mr. magoo
but i see through you
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8. |
Related
06:23
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every minute
the angels come
gonna take away
another one i love
is someone in a hurry
to get it all done?
put on your wings
here comes another one
nothing left to do here
or talk about
board up the windows
we're gonna head on out
now we know the reason
for the undertow
so we don't forget
how deep the water goes
if you let me know
what i can do
i will surely try and help you
we are related
we cannot keep the box that we came in
gotta give it up
angel come down
and stretch my skin
inside out
upside down
and in
gonna bind my little hands
with my own deceit
spin me around
until my soul ends meet
if you let me know
what i can do
i will surely try and help you
we are related
we'll never need the roses once they're faded
we cannot keep the box that we came in
if you let me know
what i can do
i'm gonna surely try and help you
we are related
we cannot keep the box that we came in
gotta give it up
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9. |
I've Got
03:48
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you get me going in every way
can i make you come
in my direction?
what's it gonna take babe?
are you gonna hear a single word that i say?
i've got something
i've got me
when i get ready
then you're gonna see
you won't ever
know how good it would be
believe in something
you
and
me
i know that you were weak
but i can see no sense makin' a big deal baby
you didn't mean to hurt me, but,
are you gonna stay with him or give it to me?
i look in the morning sun
for a sign
that it's time
that we
make our move together
and i know that we will be one
if you don't know now
then you're gonna know...
you'll know soon
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10. |
There Forever
06:17
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if love
don't ever come
then i
really don't need none
tell me one that i haven't heard
one at a time they come to me and tell me
love is a mystery
and
it's
all right
my life
is empty and bare
and i ain't seen no love
no love
nowhere
in the end
will something that i never had
be something that i'll want again?
tell me one that i haven't heard
one at a time you come to me
and you tell me
love is a mystery
and it's all right
everybody swears
love's gotta be there somewhere
don't stop looking
'cuz it's all around you
here today
and
there forever
i know
i know that
i know that
i know
stare at a photograph
remember how you laughed
it's hard when i look back
on all of the times i tried
left me wondering why
why oh why am i
still here?
still here...
i'm here and i feel
i feel what i fear
i fear what i feel
i feel that i'm here
there's something that i never heard
given time it'll come to me and tell me
it's gonna set me free
set me free
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11. |
Mean Green Season
03:29
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i walked out
i didn't want it anymore
i already had one foot out the door
i was into moving
they were on the slower road
it came down
about as plain as day to see
the road signs i could recognize
pointed right to me
i was into something
daddy never really had
made so many people
feel so bad
it was a
mean green season
when you're on top
you've got to show no mercy
make sure you
believe
you're
the
reason
and everybody wants
a piece of the one
who gets it done
i held out
about as far as i could run
tried to keep my pole position
but i was into playing
a little long in the sun
i fell back
till everything i had was gone
i really thought i had it going on
but now i'm on the outside
with no one left to call
at all
who'd swear how nobody
ever wanna
see
me
fall
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12. |
Begin
04:58
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you say
everything is gray
in your head
they all wanna run you out
you just wanna stay in bed
time's taken every bit of your confidence
stolen all your dreams
no recompense
could you imagine just one more dream?
and do you know i'm still yours for the asking
if you ask me
if you wanted to
you could come out
and say what you wanna do
am i
in the past?
just a moment of the times that you've had?
to begin
(somebody's gonna be surprised)
to love
(somebody's gonna feel the lightning)
begin
(somebody's gonna live the life the love that lasts a lifetime)
i say
whatever took away your hope and courage
seems to pale when put against
your own rich inheritance
time makes
just a little bit of difference
you could live and learn and
love again
you were the one
that said run from you
but can you remember
a time when i ever
really wanted to?
if you wanted to
you could come out and say
what you wanna do
am i
a piece of your past?
just a little moment of the times
that you've had?
to begin
(somebody's gonna be surprised)
to love
(somebody's gonna feel the lightning)
begin
(somebody's gonna live the life the love that lasts a lifetime)
how high
(somebody's gonna see the light)
can love rise?
(somebody's gonna feel the frightening
somebody's gonna realize
the love is right beside them)
how high
can love rise?
will it see the end?
we'd last a long time
when will we begin
to love?
begin
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