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This movie kinda sucks
Blink twice if you agree
We paid our thirty bucks
We saw what we could see
The choice is ours to make
We wait until it's done
Or else we make a break
And run
Tonight
The world is ours
To do with as we please
The moon and stars
And possibilities
So damn this cold
And damn the morning light
And when we're old
At least we'll have tonight
Let's raise a little hell
Make angels in the snow
Let's take the closest L
As far as it can go
I know a little place
It's just around the block
Where we'll sit face to face
And talk
Tonight
The world is ours
To do with as we please
The moon and stars
And possibilities
So damn this cold
And damn the morning light
And when we're old
At least we'll have tonight
It's not enough to escape your life
There's nowhere else to be
But if you want to reshape your life
Then just come with me
Just come with me
Yeah
How often do we laud
The path already laid
Afraid of being a fraud
Afraid of being afraid
This film we both can't stand
Is coming to a close
But if you take my hand
Who knows
Tonight
The world is ours
To do with as we please
The moon and stars
And possibilities
So damn this cold
And damn the morning light
And when we're old
At least we'll have
Tonight
The world is ours
To do with as we please
The moon and stars
And possibilities
So damn this cold
And damn the morning light
And when we're old
At least we'll have tonight
At least we'll have tonight
At least we'll have tonight
At least we'll have tonight
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2. |
Once
03:29
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You told me to write a song, I'll write a song
If it comes out wrong, it comes out wrong, it comes out wrong
I'll try it once, once, once
I'll try it once, once, once
You said, see, you make the words a windowsill
And the melody's a wild bird who eats its fill
You said that once, once, once
Or I said that once, once, once
And we argued every infernal rhyme
Synecdoche and trope
I never liked internal rhyme,
You said, as you went looking for some rope
Am I beautiful, am I beautiful, am I beautiful, you asked
And I said nope
You told me to work the craft and I worked the craft
From somewhere deep inside your keep I heard you laughed
You fooled me once, once, once
(instrumental break)
Now it seems, except in dreams, we've blown apart
We couldn't wed a selfish head with a simple heart
But we tried it once, once, once
We tried it once, once, once
We tried it once, once, once
I knew you once
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It's a Lie
04:52
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I would like to sleep
With your hair as a shade on my face
But I got plans to keep
Other time, other folks, other place
I feel so unmoored
Though my feet have been nailed to the ground
Don't be reassured
When I say that I'll see you around
With one hand I will push you away
And with the other I will beg you to stay
When I say I don't want you to cry
It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie
Promises were made
When the sun was a ball on a string
Do you feel betrayed
Now you know what the morning can bring
Were we so naive
Did we think that the summer would last
I still can't believe
Autumn leaves started falling so fast
With one hand I will push you away
And with the other I will beg you to stay
When I say I don't want you to cry
It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie
(insrumental break)
If I should return
I will run to your arms like a kid
What's it take to learn
It will always turn out like it did
With one hand I will push you away
And with the other I will beg you to stay
When I say I don't want you to cry
It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie
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4. |
Watch You Go
06:32
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Was I the person you expected to be with you today
Did you expect that I'd be standing here not going away
Well here I am. I'm standing up tall
Refusing to believe the writing on the wall
And every time I mention it, you tell me there's a lot I don't know
All that I know is I know I'm gonna watch you go
Gonna watch, gonna watch, gonna watch you go
If plans were money, we'd be rolling in a fortune in dimes
But bless my calendar, we're coming to the end of times
The clouds roll in. The sky's getting dark
Mamas take their babies home from the park
And maybe it's a hurricane, maybe it's just a dusting of snow
I don't know
Oh, all that I know is I know I'm gonna watch you go
Gonna watch, gonna watch, gonna watch you go
Gonna watch, gonna watch, gonna watch you go
Go, go, go, go
And if you're looking for answers
I got nothing to show
I try hard to make sense
Of my own present tense
But then a wind starts to blow
You would think that I'd learn
You would think that I'd grow
You keep the money. I'll be sure to write you once in a while
And forty years from now, I won't remember your smile
I don't care. Neither do you
Disaffected twentysomethings, what can we do?
And every time I mention it, you tell me that I'm lower than low
Well, maybe it's so
All that I know is I know I'm gonna watch you go
Gonna watch, gonna watch, gonna watch you go
Gonna watch, gonna watch, gonna watch you go
So go
Go if you're going, go
Go if you're going, go
Go if you're going, go
Go if you're going, go
Go if you're going, go
Go if you're going, go go go
Go if you're going, go
Go go go go
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She is just a girl in dire straits
She just sits there, wondering what awaits her
I am just a boy she doesn't know
If I had the power, I would show her
People go, but something always stays
I'd show her brighter days
She goes round with rainclouds in her hair
She can't see how life is fine and fair yet
I've got lots of words I shouldn't say
Candle close and ocean far away, yet
Maybe there's a glimmer in the haze
Maybe there's brighter days
Brighter days
Brighter days
Brighter days
Brighter days
etc.
You're beat up and battered
You want it the way it was
It wouldn't have mattered
'Cept now it does
There's no one to follow
And nothing to light your ways
When hoping is hollow,
Put it behind you
We're gonna find you
Brighter days
Brighter days
Brighter days
Brighter days
Oh
etc.
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