leonardo's
bride
she turns the t.v. on
it's 9 a.m. she's bored again
she has no place to be
nothing going down
she just hangs around
she surrenders to it
there's a white flag blowing
she hangs her shoulders with a sigh
mona lisa smile
another cup of tea
she throws the window wide
it's cold inside
another cigarette
not alot to say
she's giving nothing away
she surrenders to it
there's a white flag blowing
she hangs her shoulders with a sigh
mona lise smile
if i could give her the world i surely would
but it's not that easy
but i can give her my love
and if that's enough
she'll be leonardo's bride
don't want to bring her down
but it gets to me
just to watch her be
but who am i to say
cause i've been there
we make such a fine pair
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your love
this situation's out of hand
my friends don't really understand
what have i let myself into
how did i ever fall for you
your love, is going to be the death of me
your humour hits me like a train
don't tie me to the tracks again
you say i should be grateful
cause everything in life is fatal
your love is going to be the death of me
you say relax that it's all inside of my head
i ought to try to enjoy myself instead
it isn't easy being brave
when you're only inches from the grave
your love is going to be the death of me
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swimmingly
if a dark cloud should follow me
if it only rained where i stood
wondering why
it wouldn't be the first time
if i fell from the edge of the universe
if i tumbled in nothingness
knowing my screams were a mime
it wouldn't be the first time
oh, isn't it lovely now everything's going
so swimmingly
oh' isn't it lovely now everything's moving
so swimmingly
so swimmingly
if i walked the streets with my shaddow
if i turned around to see it
with some other guy
it wouldn't be the first time
if i stormed the tower of song tonight
if only when morning came did it
surrender the rhyme
it wouldn't be the first time
oh, isn't it lovely now everything's going
so swimmingly
oh, isn't it lovely now everything's moving
so swimmingly
so swimmingly
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disappear
you make me feel like i'm so worthless
you cut me down like a pedestrian
you make me run when i'm happy walking
you pick me up and put me down again
i don't need you hanging round me
i don't need you in my ear
i look at you and it makes me nervous
i hope i don't turn out that way
you're so caught up in your public service
you're so lost in what your friends will say
i don't need you hanging round me
i don't need you in my ear
i don't need your conversation
i just wish that you would disappear
you say it's only 'cause you're worried about me
i'm not worried so why should you
you better get another occupation
there's got to be something else to do
i don't need you hanging round me
i don't need you in my ear
i don't need your conversation
i just wish that you would disappear
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faith
phone won't ring when you sit by it waiting
toast don't pop when you're watching the clock
we could be waiting on a sign
until the end of time
and there's still no guarantee
of it making sense to anyone
all we need's a little faith
now we can question ourselves
every book on every shelf
we can run a marathon
and still be where we started from
roll with the punches
swim with the tide
even an angel
can get taken for a ride
all we need's a little faith
i tell myself time and time again
somedays i am stronger
some days go for ever
there's always heart while the dream is there
you have to let it come through
it's better when it finds you
phone won't ring when you sit by it waiting
toast don't pop when you're watching the clock
we can only do
whatever can be done
we all eventually
take our place beside the sun
all we need's a little faith
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i've
stared at the sun
morning comes, surrounds me
nowhere to run, nowhere to go
the days are so long, without you
no sense of time, no senses at all
planet earth is turning
over and over like a merry-go-round
i'm stuck on the with no name
where would i be without your love ?
i've stared at the sun
the truth is
cheering for a puppet show
it's a thin thin line
we're walking
got to hold on with our arms open wide
red red square is burning
don't let the flames of freedom die
picture us, together
where would i be without your love ?
i've stared at the sun
overexposed, it's too late
to disconnect the way i feel
baby i'm lost, i'm falling
i took every number on the roulette wheel
but it wasn't enough
so tell me what is
you who know me better than that
chelsea girl, forever
where would i be without your love?
i've stared at the sun
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living
in the red
these days, are so pell mell
toss me some sleep will you find me down deep
in this dark well
unpaid bills and an unmade bed
i tried, tried that whole bit
that merry-go-round
that goes round that went round
is not worth it
stop yourself now
before it goes to your head
ah, take what you want
take what you need
ah, take what you want
what you want from me
but no pictures please
no pictures please
living in the red
judge me
though i've sentenced myself
this labour of love
is a love that leaves no time
for much else
i'm not alone as a dreamer once said
ah, take what you want
take what you need
ah, take what you want
what you want from me
but no pictures please
no pictures please
living in the red
shoo ......
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temperamental
friend
if i only said the things you want to hear
what kind of friend would i be ?
why try hiding it
you gave yourself away
you took offence so easily
my temperamental friend
my temperamental friend
it doesn't have to end
my temperamental friend
my temperamental friend
ohh ........
yes i love you as you are
don't be mistaken
i was only having fun
that's o.k. with me
if that's o.k. with you
the joke's on everyone
my temperamental friend .......
if one day you see the humour
in the situation
please drop me a line
let me know you're fine
my temperamental friend
my temperamental friend
it doesn't have to end
my temperamental friend
my temperamental friend
will i see you again.
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even
when i'm sleeping
don't be confused by my apparent lack of ceremony, my mind is clear.
i may be low or miles high off in the distance, i want you near.
i love you
even when i'm sleeping.
when i close my eyes you're everywhere.
and if they take me flying on the magic carpet, see me wave.
if our communication fails i'll reconnect it, i want to rave.
i love you
even when i'm sleeping.
when i close my eyes you're everywhere.
no matter where the road is leading us remember don't be afraid.
we have a continent that sometimes comes between us, that's ok.
i love you
even when i'm sleeping.
when i close my eyes you're everywhere.
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buzz
hey buzz
lewis carroll would have loved you.
hey buzz
there's a cloud around the room now.
i am so so sorry, i am so so sorry.
hey buzz
this town doesn't hold me anymore.
hey buzz
come on over here with me.
hey buzz
you just sit there are you happy?
we are running low, we are running low.
counting crosses on the wall
marking the days
this scene is fading, this scene is fading.
hey buzz
this town doesn't hold me anymore.
hey buzz
funny how we ended up here.
hey buzz
we will find our lucky feet again
just around the corner, just around the corner
counting crosses on the wall
marking the days.
this scene is fading, this scene is fading
hey buzz
lewis carroll sure will love you.
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so
brand new
strange news from another star is floating around.
now i know why when i try to stand up i fall down.
there walks a giant and the earth is just a stone in his shoe.
believe me baby when i tell you we are so brand new.
how can anything be of importance.
embrace confusion when it's making sense.
if you have a moment i know what we could do.
go bathing in the glory of it baby we are so brand new.
you already know what you need to know
you know it's all in your mind.
Any hour any moment could well be the first.
Our love is wide spread across the universe.
leave your window open and all your dreams come true.
i can feel it coming baby we are so brand new
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kissing
bedrock
you've been kissing bedrock i can tell
by the way you carry round the world
on your shoulders high,
ever wonder why.
the only way to go is up from here.
you've been kissing bedrock i can see
by the way you walk straight through me,
staring at your shoes nothing else to lose.
the only way to go is up from here.
you will come around,
you will come around,
soon enough you'll laugh about it.
you will come around, you will come around.
what could have ever shot you down.
you've been kissing bedrock that's ok
let the moon go on her wicked way.
dust yourself off now,
time will tell somehow.
the only way to go is up from here
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stay
stay another change of heart,
stay another memory,
stay another great expectation,
stay another late movie.
stay another rush of blood,
stay another shooting star,
stay another revolution,
stay another fallen czar.
stay another spin of the bottle.
stay another night of holding on,
stay another sweet inspiration,
stay another love song.
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hey hey
hey hey my friend
you're upside down again.
my my your hair's a mess
now it's anybody's guess.
funny how life can be a desperation.
you don't have to go for that.
hey hey my friend,
whose hands are on the wheel.
are they taking you for a ride
or are you just too numb to feel
the knives in your back
the thorn in your side.
you don't have to go for that.
there's a school of thought,
there's a bull in a china shop,
there's a bird in a cage,
there's a penny that wants to drop.
is this what you want?
hey hey my friend guess
i'll be seeing you round now.
when it happens again,
when you feel it drag you down,
you don't have to swallow it everytime.
you don't have to go for that.
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forty-one
false starts
i've been feeling like the old man and the sea,
you asked me if i was over it,
i'll never be,
it's all been torn apart,
forty-one false starts.
if i could be so brave,
a little lenny bruce, like i didn't care.
i'm working on it,
i am working,
see these hands are so very tired.
i feel like such a loser on some dumb crusade.
i feel so caught between this whole love and hate thing.
so what if i wear a bullseye on my heart,
forty-one false starts.
so much is left unsaid.
i wanted to clear the air,
you said it was perfectly clear.
i'm working on it,
i am working,
see these hands are so very tired.
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titanic
now i've said all i wanted to say,
try to sleep, something just won't go away,
not alone, there's a party of ghosts in my bed.
these times are so twisted, busted,
there's no rhyme nor reason.
so i stare at a photo a friend of mine sent
from new york, she's finding it hard paying rent,
out of sorts, looks like everybody's feeling the same.
the camel's back is bending
but it hasn't broken yet.
everything's turning upside down
where will it end?
yes hello hello i see
the titanic has sunk again.
so i ride to wherever it is i will lay
as i read from the book of mercy everyday,
understand where this parade is headed for.
do what you want to do boy,
sleep whenever you can,
everything's turning upside down,
where will it end?
yes hello hello i see
the titanic has sunk again.
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problematic
art of conversation
so there i was at the party
and everybody seemed to be so well rehearsed.
come the time to play my part i tried
but i couldn't find the page
i stumbled through the scene
and out the door onto the street
and off the stage
now i'm thinking of marcel marceau.
marcel why is it so?
in the problematic art of conversation
i'm sitting down to t.v.
almost every waking moment of my time
now i find i eat i sleep i dream in hour episodes.
it sure is hard remembering the names of everyone i meet
so pardon me but who are you and am i wrong
but are you talking to me?
in the problematic art of conversation.
so i watch the prince and princesses of prose
pissing in pockets everyday
and it only makes me think of oscar wilde
and the fickleness of pop,
popularity,
if i had a silver tongue i would have sold it long ago
while poetry is dandy,
there are handier collectables.
in the problematic art of conversation.
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fall
i wish i was a little clearer,
i'm slipping into the slipstream.
i feel just like a fallen angel,
i dreamed last night i was lost at sea.
don't fall for me 'cause i'm already down.
i've made friends with a boa constrictor,
i've lost my feet in the undertow
and the mirror's like a matrioshka doll
and the big black clouds are out on show.
don't fall for me 'cause i'm already down.
i don't understand,
i don't understand.
now i'm screaming underwater
and morpheus won't let me sleep.
the melancholy dawn birds sing to me,
i'm getting used to their company.
don't fall for me 'cause i'm already down.
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wednesday
wednesday girl, wednesday boy
comes around in the morning
stepping lightly,
taking coffee in the garden
where the sunflowers inspire you
to paint a picture,
write a letter.
wednesday girl, wednesday boy,
lunch is brie
and a little wine and music
on the sofa,
soon enough siesta
now you're finally with the one you love.
wednesday girl, wednesday boy.
nothing demanding here,
there's an understanding here,
no mind for matters permanent.
step out
on another perfect afternoon for walking
back to the tower
where the battle rages on
armed with love.
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buddha
baby
hey what's your problem?
you make me so uneasy.
have you ever thought about it.
everything's so black and white to you.
do you wake up every morning
cursing the colour of your skin,
there's nothing you can do about it.
i got to stop running into you.
we had a conversation
but you were talking to yourself.
i just happened to be standing there,
i could've been a fishbowl on a shelf
and it's a crying shame
cause i've done all i can do.
you're living in an ancient fortress,
you're letting nothing new come through.
hey mister bluesky,
you're looking grey,
your face is flushed but it's never red.
there's a shadow hanging over your head.
you could be a buddha baby
to be free where you belong,
there's never any misconceptions
when everything you know is wrong
and it's a brave new world,
it's a carousel come true.
that's why it gets me down
sitting here listening to you.
hey mister bluesky
you're looking grey
your face is flushed but it's never red.
there's a shadow hanging over your head.
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everybody wants to take you home
everybody wants to take you home
you sat on your bed and cried
i wrap myself round you
you and your stupid pride.
ditch the dark angel
climb up on this pedestal.
everybody wants to take you home
we stepped across the line
now pleasure's a crown of thorns
and pain is a valentine.
sometimes we have to learn
when to let the bridges burn.
why do you want to be
where no-one can find you
nobody knows you
set all your ghosts free
the house is so haunted
is this what you wanted ?.
everybody wants to take you home
you try to live up to that
you feel like you're falling short
like a washed up acrobat.
mirror mirror on the wall
raise your arm against it all.
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alaska
to build a fire isn't always easy
in a storm but you can try
just when i was thinking what's an eskimo to do
something in the fog says i can find my way with you
the walls are white
the room feels bigger than is
on into the night
the wind will be whistling a tune
just when i was thinking what's an eskimo to do
something in the fog says i can find my way with you
sun in my alaska
sun in my alaska
time to go outside
time to read the writing on the wall
facing up to this
i kiss the light
colder than a polar bear this much is true
just when i was thinking what's an eskimo to do
something in the fog says i can find my way with you
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let me come over
you stop yourself before you start
no-one is allowed inside you
the desert of your heart
the one i want to ride through
let me come over
if you want to shoot the moon
if you want to sail for the sun
if you want to shake the monkey
baby, i'm the one
let me come over
i like how you're holding out
for who i wonder
i like your easy blush
and when you swing your wrecking ball
down like thunder
baby i can take the crush
let me come over
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oh yeh
i have one foot on the shore
i have one foot in the sea.
has no mans dagger here
a point for me ?
when it all comes down to dust
who will you satisfy ?
he who lives more lives than one
more deaths than one must die.
oh yeh, i get this feeling
oh yeh, will it ever leave me
oh yeh, will it ever leave me alone.
to the centre of the earth
where the wild darkness grows
to the edges of the universe
is there anyone who knows ?
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begging bowl
throw me down your ladder i'll climb up
searching for a hole in the sky
i was always looking for places to hide
i was down i was done over
you pushed me off the edge of my star
when all i tried to do was grow lillies in my palm
i have turned every stone
i have shaken every tree
holding on, letting go
i had to push my begging bowl
where's the truth?
where's the love?
where were you?
now there are sparkles on the pavement
the stars are reaching down for me
it was deep inside my heart in the darkness
i began to see
i have turned every stone
i have shaken every tree
holding on, letting go
i had to push my begging bowl
where's the truth?
where's the love?
where were you?
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dreamship
there's a boy, there's a boy
he really turns my world
round and round.
can we be, can we be
like two birds in a tree
free and found ?
who's to know which way it will go.
sister sun, sister sun
you know who is the one
to brighten your sky.
mister moon, mister moon
yeh you in your balloon
don't let it all go by.
who's to know which way it will go.
my dreamship.
run baby run, grab whatever you can.
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sleepyhead
somebody made the wheel
someone said what's the point
critics come and critics go
the faithless follow fashion mister
don't you know
whatever you've got under your hat
you'll need a whole lot more than that.
this reminds me
of all the reasons why i hated school
it seemed so black and white i mean
every moment had a rule
maybe that's why i see red
boy you're such a sleepyhead
i wonder what will ever wake you up
the bells of a thousand firetrucks
i sure hope that one day you wake up
sleepyhead
higher higher even higher
don't stop till my head is way up
in the clouds
i don't feel any different
but you sure seem so much smaller now
the door is always open wide
if you ever want to climb inside.
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blue gone green
i lost the bow you tied round my finger
somewhere on the trail
i threw in my hand for a heart full of holes
i rode through the night thinking of you
and whatever it was
i couldn't pin down or tame
or lay blame at the feet of.
this is not the end
it's just another scene
blue gone green
i let you go
like a balloon at the fairground
i ran after you
saw all the signs saying give up the ghost
but i know there's more to the picture
i've got a good feeling
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that boy
he got a tattoo of her name
he only met her yesterday
always in a rush that boy
he always reads the last page first
he's always cutting to the chase
always in a rush that boy
like a bee
like a bear in honey
here he comes
there he goes again
don't play hide and seek with him
he never counts to ten
always in a rush that boy
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i'll believe you
there's a world of trouble on my mind
tell me everything will work out fine
i'll believe you
they've knocked me to the ground again
tell me what i'm feeling isn't pain
i'll believe you
i wish i could be sure of more than i am now my friend
i lost my needle in the hay
tell me i will find it again someday
i'll believe
if love is not my greatest defence
tell me nothing's ever meant to make much sense
i'll believe you
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sonic
sand in my eyes sand in my hair
sand in the places i never knew
people are cruel when they want to be
they turn into monsters
out of the sea
you're not like all of the rest
you're always smiling and waving
when i was younger i was sure
i could fly above it all
i remember looking down
but i'm so tied up
to the ground now
you're not like all of the rest
you're always smiling and waiving
can i be sonic too ?
stars in my eyes stars in my hair
stars and footprints in the air
could i ever be that tall
wrapped up in this mortal coil ?
you're not like all of the rest
you're always smiling and waiving
who catches you when you're falling ?
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i love you honey but the season is over
the caravans are rolling out
on the closing day
i see you standing in the crowd
i want so much to say
if i don't look as lost as you
it's just because i've learnt to hide it
walking the tightrope everynight
that was all we ever needed to know
i love you honey but the season is over
where are you going ?
my conscious is up and down
i'm a human cannonball
i don't feel so holy now
have i ever been at all ?
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