U2

All That You Can't Leave Behind

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Beautiful Day

The heart is a bloom,
shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room,
no space to rent in this town
You're out of luck,
and the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck,
and you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend,
to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
in return for grace

It's a beautiful day
The sky falls and you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road, but you've got no destination
You're in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town, even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over, and it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light, and
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have, you don't need it now
What you don't know, you can feel it somehow
What you don't have, you don't need it now
Don't need it now
It was a beautiful day

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Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of

I'm not afraid of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find a decent melody
A song that I can sing in my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling, look at you
You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere, baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake, the colors that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears, and through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough, and you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now ... my oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it
Oh love look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm till you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now
You're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass

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Elevation

High, higher than the sun
You shoot me from a gun
I need you to elevate me here
At the corner of your lips
As the orbit of your hips
Eclipse, you elevate my soul

I've got no self-control
Been living like a mole
Now going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation

A star lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you could educate my mind
Explain all these controls
I can't sing but I've got soul
The goal is elevation

A mole, living in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation

Love, lift me up out of these blues
Won't you tell me something true
I believe in you

A mole, digging in a hole
Digging up my soul
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation

Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation

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Walk On

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage that you can bring
Love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Oh, Oh
Walk on
Walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No, they can't even feel it
Walk on
Walk on
Stay safe tonight

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away a singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly, for freedom

Oh Oh
Walk on
Walk on
What you got, you can't deny it
Can't sell it, or buy it
Walk on
Walk on
You stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
How your heart, it breaks
You can only take so much

Walk on
Walk on

Home, hard to know what it is
If you've never had one
Home, I can't say where it is
But I know I'm going home
That's where the hurt is

And I know it aches
And your heart, it breaks
And you can only take so much

Walk on

Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind

All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel
All this you can leave behind

All that you reason - it's only time
All that I'm feeling on my mind
All that you sense,
All that you scheme,
All you dress-up,
And all that you see,
All you create,
All that you wreck,
All that you hate

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Kite

Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

And hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone, anything at all

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
Don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me

I'm a man, I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't wanna see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Roof top to the basement
The last of the rock stars
When hip hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
That was the big idea

In a Little While

In a little while
Surely you'll be mine
In a little while I'll be there
In a little while this hurt will hurt no more
I'll be home love

When the night takes a deep breath
And the daylight has no end
If I crawl, if I come crawling home
Will you be there?

In a little while I won't be blown by every breeze
Friday night running to Sunday on my knees
That girl, that girl, she's mine
Well I've known her since, since she was
A little a girl with Spanish eyes
When I saw her first in a pram they pushed her by
Oh my, my how you've grown
Well it's been, it's been a little while

Slow down my beating heart
A man dreams one day to fly
A man takes a rocket ship into the skies
He lives on a star that's dying in the night
And follows in the trail the scatter of light
Turn it on, turn it on, you turn me on

Slow down my beating heart
Slowly, slowly love

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Wild Honey

In the days when we were swinging from the trees
I was a monkey stealing honey from a swarm of bees
I could taste, I could taste you even then
And I would chase you down the wind

You could go there if you please
Wild honey
And if you go there, go with me
Wild honey

Did I know you?
Did I know you even then?
Before the clocks kept time
Before the world was made

From the cruel sun
You were shelter
You were my shelter and my shade

If you go there with me
Wild honey
You can do just what you please
Wild honey
Yeah, just blowing in the breeze
Wild honey
Wild, wild, wild

I'm still standing, I'm still standing
Where you left me
Are you still growing wild
With everything tame around you?

I send you flowers, cut flowers for your hall
I know your garden is full, but is there sweetness at all?

If you go there with me
Wild honey
Won't you take me, take me please
Wild honey
Yeah, swinging through the trees
Wild honey
Wild, wild, wild

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Peace on Earth

Heaven on Earth, we need it now
I'm sick of all of this hanging around
Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain
I'm sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be peace on Earth

Where I grew up there weren't many trees
Where there was we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you

And it's already gone too far
Who said that if you go in hard
You won't get hurt?

Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
No whos or whys
No one cries like a mother cries
For peace on Earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on Earth

They're reading names out over the radio
All the folks the rest of us won't get to know
Sean and Julia, Gareth and Ann and Breda
Their lives are bigger than any big idea

Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
Jesus sing a song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on Earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth
This peace on Earth

Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth

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When I Look at the World

When you look at the world
What is it that you see?
People find all kinds of things
That bring them to their knees
I see an expression
So clear and so true
That it changes the atmosphere
When you walk into the room

So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world

When the night is someone else's
And you're trying to get some sleep
When your thoughts are too expensive
To ever want to keep
When there's all kinds of chaos
And everyone is walking lame
You don't even blink now, do you
Or even look away

So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world

I can't wait any longer
I can't wait till I'm stronger
Can't wait any longer
To see what you see
When I look at the world

I'm in the waiting room
Can't see for the smoke
I think of you and your holy book
While the rest of us choke

Tell me, tell me, what do you see?
Tell me, tell me, what's wrong with me

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New York

In New York freedom looks like too many choices
In New York I found a friend to drown out the other voices
Voices on a cell phone
Voices from home
Voices through the hard sell
Voices down a stairwell
In New York
Just got a place in New York

In New York summers get hot, well into the hundreds
You can't walk around the block
without a change of clothing
Hot as a hairdryer in your face
Hot as a handbag and a can of mace
New York
I just got a place in New York
New York
New York

In New York you can forget,
forget how to sit still
Tell yourself you will stay in,

New York, New York, New York
New York, New York, New York

The Irish have been coming here for years
Feel like they own the place
They got the airport, city hall, concrete,
asphalt, they even got the police
Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics, religious
nuts, political fanatics in the stew
Living happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you
New York

New York, New York, New York
New York, New York, New York
New York

In New York I lost it all to you and your vices
Still I'm staying on to figure
out my midlife crisis
I hit an iceberg in my life
but you know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance,
lose your wife in the queue for the lifeboat
You gotta put the women and children first
But you've got an unquenchable
thirst for New York

New York, New York
New York, New York

In the stillness of the evening,
when the sun has had its day
I heard your voice whispering, come away now
New York

New, New York, New York

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Grace

Grace, she takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her name

Grace, it's a name for a girl
It's also a thought that could change the world
And when she walks on the street
You can hear the strings
Grace finds goodness in everything

Grace, she's got the walk
Not on a ramp or on chalk
She's got the time to talk
She travels outside of karma, karma
She travels outside of karma
When she goes to work you can hear the strings
Grace finds beauty in everything

Grace, she carries a world on her hips
No champagne flute for her lips
No twirls or skips between her fingertips
She carries a pearl in perfect condition

What once was hurt, what once was friction
What left a mark, no longer stings
Because Grace makes beauty out of ugly things
Grace finds beauty in everything
Grace finds goodness in everything

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DISCOTHÈQUE

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you can reach but you can't grab it

you can't hold it control it you can't bag it

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you can push but you can't direct it

circulate regulate oh no you cannot connect it

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you know you're chewing bubblegum

you know what that is but you still want some

you just can't get enough of that lovie dovie stuff

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you get confused but you know it

yeah you hurt for it work for it LOVE

you don't always show it

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LET GO LET'S GO... DISCOTHÈQUE

GO GO... LET GO... DISCOTHÈQUE

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looking for the one

but you know you're somewhere else instead

you want to be the song

the song that you hear in your head

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LOVE

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it's not a trick... you can't learn it

it's the way you don't pay that's okay 'cause you can't earn it

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you know you're chewing bubblegum

you know what that is but you still want some

'cause you just can't get enough of that lovie dovie stuff

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LET GO LET'S GO... DISCOTHÈQUE

GO GO... LET GO... DISCOTHÈQUE

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looking for the one

but you know you're somewhere else instead

I want to be the song be song that you hear in your head

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LOVE

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but you take what you can get

'cause it's all that you can find

oh you know there's something more

but nothing, tonight, tonight

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BOOM CHA

BOOM CHA

DISCOTHÈQUE

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DO YOU FEEL LOVED

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take these hands they're good for nothing

you know these hands have never worked a day

take these boots they're going nowhere

you know these boots they don't want to stray

you got my head filled with songs

you got my shoelaces undone

take my shirt go on take it off me

you can tear it up

if you can tie me down

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DO YOU FEEL LOVED? DO YOU FEEL LOVED?

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TAKE THE colours of my imagination

TAKE THE scent hanging in the air

take this tangle of a conversation

abd turn it into your own prayer

with my fingers as you want them

with my nails under your hide

with my teeth at your back

and my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies

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DO YOU FEEL LOVED? DO YOU FEEL LOVED?

AND IT LOOKS like the SUN BUT IT FEELS LIKE RAIN

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love's a bully pushing and shoving

in the belly of a woman

heavy rhythm taking over

to stick together

man and woman

stick together...

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DO YOU FEEL LOVED?

DO YOU FEEL LOVED?

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AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE SUN

BUT IT FEELS LIKE RAIN

and THERE'S HEAT IN THE SUN TO SEE US THROUGH THE RAIN

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MOFO

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lookin' for to save my save my soul

lookin' in the places where no flowers grow

lookin' for to fill that GOD shaped hole

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mother mother sucking rock and roll

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holy donc, spacejunk comin' in for the splash

white dopes on punk staring into the flash

lookin' for baby Jesus under the trash

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mother mother suckin' rock and roll

mother (scat singing) rock and roll

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mother am I still your son, you know I've waited for so long to hear you say so

mother you left and made me someone

now I'm still a child but no one tells me no

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lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world

lookin' for the father of my two little girls

got the swing got the sway got my straw in lemonade

still looking for the face I had before the world was made

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mother mother sucking rock and roll

bubble poppin' sugar droppin' rock and roll

(scat singing)

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woo me sister

move me brother

soothe me mother

rule me father

show me mother

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IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

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nobody else here baby no one else here to blame

no one to point the finger... it's just you and me and the rain

nobody made you do it, no one put words in your mouth

nobody here taking orders when love took a train heading south

it's the blind leading the blond

it's the stuff the stuff of country songs

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HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

AND IF GOD WILL SEND A SIGN

AND IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

would everything be alright?

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God has phone off the hook babe would he even pick up if he could?

it's been a while since we saw that child hangin' round this neighbourhood

see His mother dealing in a doorway see Father Christmas with a begging bowl

Jesus sister's eyes are a blister... THE HIGH STREET never looked so low

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it's the blind leading the blond...

it's the cops collecting for the cons

so where is the hope and where is the faith... and the love?

what's that you say to me

does love... light up your Christmas tree?

the next minute you're blowing a fuse

and the cartoon network turns into the news

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HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

AND IF GOD WILL SEND A SIGN

WELL IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

WHERE DO WE GO

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Jesus never let me down you know Jesus used to show me the score

then they put Jesus in show business now it's hard to get in the door

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it's the stuff it's the stuff of country songs

but Iguess it was something to go on

HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

I SURE COULD USE THEM HERE RIGHT NOW

WELL IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS

WHERE DO WE GO...

(scat singing)

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STARING AT THE SUN

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SUMMER stretching on the grass... summer dresses pass

in the shade of a wilow tree creeps a crawling over me

over me and ever you stuck together with God's glue

it's going to get stickier too...

it's been a long hot summer

let's get undercover

don't try too hard to think... don't think at all

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I'm not the only one starin' at the sun

afraid of what you'd find if you took a look inside

not just deaf and dumb I'm staring at the sun

not the only one who's happy to go blind

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there's an insect in your ear if you scratch it won't disappear

it's gonna itch and burn and sting

do you want to see what the scratching brings

waves that leave me out of reach

breaking on your back like a beach...

will we ever live in peace?

'cause those that can't do often have to

those that can't do often have to preach

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to that ones staring at the sun

afraid of what you'll find if you took a look inside

not just deaf and dumb... staring at the sun

I'm not the only one who'd rather go blind

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intransigence is all around... military still in town

armour plated suits and ties... daddy just won't say goodbye

referee won't blow the whistle God is good but will HE listen

I'm nearly great

but there's something I'm missing I left in the duty free

though you never reallly belonged to me

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I'm not the only one starin' at the sun

afraid of what you'd find if you stepped back inside

I'm not sucking my thumb I'm staring at the sun

not the only one who's happy to go blind

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LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

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she feels the ground is giving way

BUT she thinks WE'RE better off that way

"the more you take the less you feel

the less you know the more you believe

the more you have the more it takes today"

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YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

she DOESN'T CARE WHAT IT'S worth

SHE'S LIVING LIKE IT'S THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

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she's not waiting on a saivour to come

she's at bus-stop with the NEWS OF THE WORLD

AND THE sun sun here it comes

she's not waiting for anyone

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YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

she knows just what it's worth

SHE'S LIVING LIKE IT'S THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

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slipping away... slip slide...������� the clock telss that time is slipping...

the world turns and we get dizzy����� minute hands and seconds sticking...

slipping away������������������������ there's something going on she

might be missing

the world turns and we get dizzy

is it spinning for you the way it's

spinning for me

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she's living living next week now

you know she's going to pay it back somehow

the future is so predicitable

the past is too uncomfortable

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YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY

she ALREADY knows it hurts

SHE'S LIVING LIKE IT'S THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

last NIGHT ON EARTH

LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

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GONE

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you get feel so guilty got so much for so little

then you find that feeling just won't go away

you're holding on to every little thing so tightly

till there's nothing left for you anyway

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GOODBYE YOU CANKEEP THIS SUIT OF LIGHTS

I'LL BE UP WITH THE SUN

ANDNOTCOMINGDOWN... IMNOTCOMINGDOWN

IMNOTCOMINGDOWN

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you wanted to get somewhere so badly

you had to lose yourself along the way

you change a name but that's okay... it's necessary

and what you leave behind you don't miss anyway

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GOODBYE YOU CANKEEP THIS SUIT OF LIGHTS

I'LL BE UP WITH THE SUN

ANDNOTCOMINGDOWN... IMNOTCOMINGDOWN

IMNOTCOMINGDOWN

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AND I'M ALREADY GONE

FELT that way all along

closer to you every day

didn't want it that much anyway

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you're taking steps that make you feel dizzy

then you get like the way it feels

you hurt yourself you hurt your lover

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then you discover...

what you thought was freedom was just greed

goodbye... no emotional goodnight

we'll be up WITH the sun

are you still holding on

I'm not coming down

I'm not coming down

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MIAMI

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weather 'round here choppin' and changin'

surgery in the air

print shirts and sourthern accents

cigars and big hair

we go the wheels and petrol is cheap

only went there for a week

got the sun got the sand

got the batteries in the handycam...

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her eyes all swimming pool blue

dumb bells on a diving board

baby's always attracted to the things she's afraid of

big girl with the sweet tooth

watches the skim girl in the photo shoot

freshmen squeaky clean

she tastes of chiorine

MIAMI MY MAMMY

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love the movies... love to walk those movie sets

get to shoot someone in the foot

get to smoke some cigarettes

no big deal we know the score

just back from the video store

got the car an the chase

what's he got inside the case

I want a close up of that face

here comes the car chase

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MIAMI MY MAMMY

MIAMI

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I bought two new suits... miami

pink aND BLUE... MIAMI

I TOOK A PICTURE OF YOU... miami

gettting hot in a photo booth... miami

I said you looked like a madonna

you said... maybe... said I want to have your baby... BABY

WE COULD MAKE somethin that wouldn't de a problem

at least not in... miami

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some places are like your auntie

but there's no place like

MIAMI MY MAMMY

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THE PLAY BOY MANSION

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If coke is a mystery

and mivhael jackson... history

if beauty is truth

and surgery the fountain of youth

what am I to do

have I got the gift to get me through

the gates of that mansion

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If oj is more than a drink

and a big mac bigger than you think

if perfume is an obsession

and talk shows... confession

what have we got to lose

another push and maybe we'll be through

the gates of that mansion

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I never bought a lotto ticket

I never parked in anyone's space

the banks they're like cathedrals

i guess casinos took their place

LOVE 'COME ON DOWN'

don't wake her she'll come around

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chance is a kind of religion

where you're damned for plain hard luck

I never did see that movie

never did see that book

love come on down

let my numbers come around

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don't know if I can hold on

don't know if I'm that strong

don't know if I can wait that long

till the colours com flashing

and the lights go on

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then will there be no time of sorrow

then will there be no time for shame

and though I can't say why

I know I've got to believe

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we'll go driving in that pool

it's who you know that gets you trough

the gates of the playboy mansion

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then will there be no time of sorrow

then will there be no time for pain

then will there be no time of sorrow

then will there be no time for shame

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IF YOU WEAR THAT VELVET DRESS

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tonight the moon is playing tricks again

feeling sea sick again

and the whole world just dissolve... into a glass of water

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I've been good 'cause I know you don't want me to

do you really want me to be blue as you...

it's her daylight that gets me through

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we've been here before... last time you scratched at my door

the moon was naked and cold I was likke a two year old

who just wanted more

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if you wear that velvet dress�������� � ����� but if you wear that velvet dress

if you wear that velvet dress���������������� but if you wear that velvet dress

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tonight the moon has drawn its curtains�������� tonight the moon is a mirrorball

it's a private show no one else going to know�� light flickers from across the hall

I'm wanting���������������������������������� who'll catch the star when it falls...

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sunlight sunlight fills my room��������������������� if you wear that velvet dress

it's sharp and it's clear

but nothing at all like the moon...

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it's okay... the struggle for things not to say

I never listened to you anyway

and I got my own hands to pray...

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PLEASE

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so you never knew love until you crossed the line of grace

and you never felt wanted till you had someone slap your face

so you never felt alive until you almost wasted away

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you had to win

you couldn't just pass

the smartest ass

at the top of the class

your flying colours

your family tree

and all your lessons in history

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please... please... please get up off your knees... please... please... leave me out of this

please

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and you never knew how low you'd stoop to make that call

and you never knew what was on the ground fill they made you crawl

and you never knew that the heaven you keep you stole

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your catholic blues

your convent shoes

your stick on tattoos

now they're making the news

your holy war

your northern star

your sermon on the mount

from the boot of your car

please... please... please get up off your knees... please... please... leave me out of this

please

so love is hard and love is tough

but love is not what you're thinking of

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september... streets capsizing... spilling over, down the drain

... shards of glass splinters like rain but you could only feel your own pain...

october... taking getting nowhere... november... december... remember...

are we just starting again...?

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so lo is bigger than us

but love is not what you're thinking of

IT'S what lovers deal it's what lovers steal

you know I've found it hard to recieve

'cause you my love I could never believe

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WAKE UP DEAD MAN

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Jesus, Jesus help

I'm alone in this world

and fuvked up world it is too

tell me, tell me the story

the one about eternity

and the way it's all gonna be

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

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Jesus, I'm waiting here boss

I know you're looking out for us

but maybe your hands aren't free

your Father, He made the world in seven

He's in charge of heaven

will you put a word in for me

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

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listen to your words they'll tell you what to do

listen over the rhythm that's confusing you

listen to the reed in the saxophone

listen over the hum of the radio

listen over sounds of blades in rotation

listen through the traffic and circulation

listen as hope and peace try to rhyme

listen over marching bands playing out their time

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

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Jesus, were you just around the corner?

did You think to try and warm her?

or are you working on something new?

if there's an order in all of this disorder

is it like a tape recorder?

can we rewind it just once more

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

WAKE UP WAKE UP DEAD MAN

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