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Thinking of You
03:23
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Sometimes, I miss the obvious. Sometimes, I might be hard to trust. Sometimes, you might be surprised that I am thinking of you. Sometimes, you wait all night for me. Sometimes, you misunderstand me. Sometimes, I feel like I fail no matter what I do. And she said, you know I don't even care if you come over. No, she said I know that you're busy I am too. I've got class you've got work but we’ll work it out. Just want to know that you want me. And as we sat on a bench during that rainy winter. Regardless of all the arguments I knew I'd love you forever.
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Roger's Song
03:47
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Roger and I are good friends for most days in the week. Roger has insomnia and often doesn't sleep. Roger doesn't know that I will always be his friend, but Roger calls me when he's drunk and it bugs me to no end. Oh Roger right now, Roger right now, I'm not gonna answer your call. Roger right now, Roger right now, you are going to blame it all. Roger I stress in your drunk texts followed by the voicemails you send. Roger not now, but in the morning you'll remember I am your friend. Roger joined a church that some people call a cult. Roger tried the spiritual and left with no result. Roger's aunt was murdered and mother paralyzed. Roger felt responsible and still believes the lies. Roger's daddy left him when he was just a boy. Roger joined the Coast Guard and was ready to deploy. Roger got a girlfriend who soon became his wife. She couldn't be faithful so he tried to take his life.
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Streetlights and Sirens
03:32
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Take a panorama photograph, it'll lengthen the illusion love will last when the final grain of sand in the hourglass falls down. ‘Cause the endless summer's over and autumn came, and the skies were buried under the clouds of rain. When I climbed up on a roof and I called your name...no sound. I'll be yours forever were the last words I heard under streetlights and sirens. Yours forever were the last words I heard under streetlights and sirens. Moments that we made into memories are the stories that I'll share for eternity. Like the songs that we would sing on your balcony at night. And I never will forget how it felt to dance in the sunset of the desert wilderness, when you pulled me close and kissed me on the lips under the starlight. I'll be here when the evening fades away.
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Think It Over
03:34
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I think it over slowly. Afraid of what's below me. Will I hit rock bottom or land in soft snow? I won't find out unless I go. So hold my hand, we’ll fall together. Where we land, it doesn't matter. Think it over. Is this where we say goodbye? I just can't help but wonder. So if I go now, just know that somehow we’ll work it out. I believe.
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Francis Ferdinand
03:06
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Here I am, sudden stilled. Helpless form, hopeless willed
Wander off, near and far. Cold or warm in my heart. I won't dare refuse to say good night. Won't you let me take you home? Won't you be my contraband? Won't you come and take me out like Francis Ferdinand? Run away on our own. Run away like we can. Run away like desperation's played our only hand. You at night blinds the stars. All alone, tears me apart. Would I dare refuse to say good night? Among the fluttering I remember what I lost with you.
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Rooftops
03:59
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I thought no one would ever love me. Figured I would be alone. I hid where you could never find me. I tried to make it on my own. I thought the world would go on spinning if I never showed my face. But then you caught me in a corner. I felt so out of place. And then the world stopped when I saw you. I was speechless for a minute maybe two. There my heart dropped, so what else could I do? But shout it from the sidewalks, shout it from the streets, shout it from the rooftops! I'm in love. Could it be? Shout it from the West Coast, shout it to the east. Shout it out! Shout it out! I'm in love! I'm in love and she loves me! I thought I couldn't live with heartbreak. I tried to never love it all. I thought no one would ever want me. I figured chances were so small. I thought that everyone looked through me, but you see me. I hid in plain sight, but you see me. You found me.
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Past Life
03:37
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Say, is it better or is it worse, to be held in the arms of an angel's curse? And all I imagine is her hand in mine. I saw it before I saw it in a past life. Slow down, speak to me cause honestly it covers me, it colors in the incomplete. Wake up the fire in sincerity, rebuilding in the beauty of a tragedy. Let out the wind you harbor underneath the love you give, so I can share the air you breathe. Lifeline, the indivisibility is making me the better man I want to be. I'll never know the burden I provide my dear divine.
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Great Unknown
03:49
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You're my runaway satellite. In the night, watch you fly by. If I could only be your shining star, then maybe you might orbit me. But I'm too small to be your gravity, and there's so much life out there. I know I could never bring you down. You are well beyond my atmosphere. So, go explore the great unknown, but it's a giant leap away from me. Go explore the great unknown, and I will try to find someone in this galaxy. You're my runaway satellite. You were right, there's nothing left here. And if this only was another life, I would chase you to the stars. But I cannot be your Rocket Man. All I've ever known is here. I know I could never bring you down. You are well beyond my atmosphere. Light years away, when you look back my way and you wish that I was there; when stars won't align, deep in space and in time, and you're lost in the last frontier.
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I Can't Do This
04:06
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You were supposed to stay here. I wanted to be by your side. Why'd you go far away and never come back, like you could just leave us behind? How could someone do something so cowardly? I don't know. How do you live like that? Why'd you put all your problems on us saying, I can't do this? I can't do this. Why'd you leave when I needed you most saying, I can't do this? I can't do this. ‘Cause you cut out my heart and you tore us apart, when you gave up and walked out the door. So I hope that you're happy, ‘cause I can't do this no more. Wish you could see all the times I needed someone to be there. I still want you around, but I don't know why. Deep down, I wish I didn't care. I can count the times I thought of you. I wanted you, cried for you. I was scared that I might be like you, when I found someone to love.
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Don't Let Go
03:19
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Don't let go my love. I'll be waiting for you. Hold on to my love. I'll be waiting for you. Somewhere out on the coastline, my love is waiting for me. Eyes reflecting the moonlight as she gazes out over the sea. Wondering if I will come home. Wondering if our stars might realign. Can we make it through distance and through time?
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On the beach by the bay, saw the sun come up. And as I washed in the waves, couldn't shake the thought. I see you crying and you're trying to hide it. It hurts, it hurts I know. Like all the feelings I don't want to admit, it's easier to let them show. If we're all family then, what is this pain I'm feeling? Can you imagine if we learn to love? Lied in bed wide awake, as the rain came down. Imagining my mistakes, falling to the ground. If life is short and precious, why would we waste it like this? Can you imagine if we learn to love? I know it's hard to fix a disaster. I wish our hearts could heal so much faster. Love is the only ending we're after. The only ending that matters. I know we find our ways to disagree. I thought that we would always be family. I hope in time you finally forgive me.
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End of the World
05:25
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It's the end of the world as we know it. And I forgot to say I'm sorry. So would you please forgive me? I know it's the end of the world but since there's no tomorrow, like you said it's now or never. And I've watched us slowly sever. Will you be my friend ‘til the end of the world? You and I were once friends, running through the parks together. You and I were Indians, you the dot and I the feather. You and I would play catch in the road under the streetlights. You and I would stay up really late on any school night. You and I are old friends, I'm sorry I betrayed you. Nothing is as painful as everything you've been through. I laughed at all your hard work, your courage and your patience. I watched you chase both our dreams, and wonder where my soul went.
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