These are some of the boys songs that I've work out.
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Special One | Stoked | Lightning | Parallel | Weekender | Sideline
All lyrics ©Alasdair Cameron.
Special One
When she comes I'll know
so everyone keeps telling me.
When she comes I'll know
and I won't have this ache in me
and you will see the world
just as it's meant to be
When she comes I'll know
I won't need a photograph.
When she comes I'll know
I'll probably recognise her laugh
and she will laugh
we'll be laughing in the aftermath
So where's my special one tonight?
When she comes I'll know
she won't mind my theosophy.
When she comes I'll know
she'll understand my philosophy,
ideology,
and the times I'm quiet or scholarly
So where's my special one tonight?
'Til she comes I s'pose
I'll find something else to do.
Enjoy my time alone
and do the things that I like to
and she will too
and we'll meet doing that
and it'll all come true.
So where's my special one tonight?
She's so excellent that I
am bruised from pinching myself
I can't believe it.
She's so wonderful that I
wonder what's she doing
with a guy like me.
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I'm so totally stoked this must be a hoax.
Waiting for the punchline of this unlikely joke.
I'm just blown away, don't know what to say.
For a change I'm at a loss for words.
Blue's the colour of my sky
when my baby's by my side
you oughta see it.
She's my Christmas in July
she brightens everything in sight
la lumiere de ma vie.
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She makes me feel just like I can
she makes me feel like I'm the man
and I believe it.
She loves me just like I love her
we're just like cocktail and hors d'oeurve
we Adam and Eve it.
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He was hammering down the highway
he was racing to the city.
The radio was playing songs
filled with sex and death and beauty
and lighting filled the air.
Driving through the driving rain
so fast that everything was blurry.
He was driven by a bitter rage
and all his thoughts were furry
but he saw this one so clear.
All his thoughts were furry
but he saw this one so clear.
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This time Jesus wouldn't save her.
This time he'd show he was for real.
He was taken by her pretty walk,
captivated by her beauty.
He wooed her with his witty talk
and she swore she'd do her duty
and he'd see that duty done.
Swore she'd do her duty
and he'd see that duty done.
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He caught her in the dance hall.
Let fly with fists and feet and fury.
He felt that he was qualified
as executioner and jury
and he killed her with a chair.
Executioner and jury
and he left her lying there.
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I used to wish that I could take a risk and take a different train
end up in a different place just for the day.
On the 6:16 and the 17:02 I'm just a regular guy like you
with my briefcase, sandwiches and Financial Review
my cartoon tie and my slightly shiny suit.
Carrying a piece of fruit.
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But on weekends I ride my big black motorbike.
My wife, she doesn't really understand,
she says that it just goes to show I'm getting out of hand.
From the age of 27 to the age of 35
I dreamed of a dog and a quarter acre, 2.2 and a wife.
It's the only dream I've ever had and really held on to
some times you want to punch yourself when sometimes dreams come trye
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She's been told the bike's been sold but I've got it stashed in my shed
I'm wondering can I come around and keep it in yours instead.
You can ride it through the week I know you'll take good care.
I'll just come round Saturdays and she'll just think we're having an affair.
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I thought I sensed a change:
saw you searching for something
that was out of my range.
I thought I knew you well:
well enough that I could tell
I guess I was wrong.
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And I guess we don't run parallel
'cause I'd know what to expect.
And I guess if we ran parallel
we never would have met.
I thought you were the one.
Thought my searching days were done.
I guess I was wrong
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Got a little closer to a kind of closure.
Then I thought I saw you.
Lost a little of my composure.
Got a little frightened thinking that I mightn't
get over this one
but you know secretly i've been wishing that I was wrong.
And I wish that we ran parallel
'cause I'd know what to expect.
And I with that we ran parallel
'cause we never would have met.
But after all we ran diagonal
and therefore intersect.
And so you've done it again.
You've left it to fate my friend.
You've left it too late my friend
and you're sitting on the sideline,
just sitting on the sideline.
Well I think that I kind
of think like you might find
she can't read your mind
and you're sitting on the sideline
just sitting on the sideline.
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If you wanted the truth about it,
there goes your proof no doubt about it.
There she goes walking on by.
She don't see you out the corner of her eye
and you're sitting on the sideline,
just sitting on the sidelines.
Keep searching for those omens.
keep saying your amens.
Keep keeping the faith my friend.
You'll be sitting on the sideline,
just sitting on the sideline
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Well you know and I know you know
the worst that she can say is no,
so open up and let it flow
no more sitting on the sideline,
just sitting on the sideline
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