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A Little More
03:47
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This is just what I've been waiting for
I finally have a good excuse
To shut the door today
I've consulted common sense
And I've prepared my best defense
And then you tear it all away
A little more every moment
My reasons run out
A little more every moment
I'm giving up ground
I forget myself so easily
When I hear the way you speak to me
You remind me
Of the things I thought were gone
A little more every moment
I want to be wrong
But this is just a passing argument
And I can't bend to break
The promises I've made
I should go back and apologize
To that frightened fool I keep inside
But you won't let me get away
A little more every moment
My reasons run out
A little more every moment
I'm giving up ground
I forget myself so easily
And I don't know how you see through me
To the things I want
And won't let myself be
A little more every moment
I start to believe
A little more of this
I'm not so sure of this
I don't know how much of this I can take
But when you open me up
With your beautiful eyes
To the limitless sky
There isn't a choice left to make
A little more of this moment
That's all that I want
A little longer not knowing
Or wondering what
Is gonna come of this prophecy
Under my skin
A little more of this moment
To stay with you in
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What the Night Was For
04:10
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Give me a night listless and long,
smokey and slow like that one kiss before,
walking the floor with pale virgin feet
to pick up my crown and no longer be poor.
Give me a house with no locks on the doors,
give me a moment to be something more,
and try not to ask
what the night was for.
I have no stake in a pocket of time
where I can go back anytime that I choose,
so if I should lose anything that I had,
there isn't a lot I can do
but stare at a moment that needs something more,
and sit all alone here, watching the door,
and try not to ask
what the night was for.
And I've spent weeks or months just staring at the same spot,
but don't say I'm the same, ‘cause you know that I'm not.
And all the while the clock is ticking over my head,
and I've got to slow down
but I'm burning up instead.
Build me a bridge out past the break,
so I can walk where the ocean is deep
give me the streets where my old lover walked
give me a face I could draw in my sleep.
Just let me sleep now, just like before,
just let me take my eyes off of this door
give me a moment
I'll be something more
and try not to ask
what the night was for.
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3. |
Waking the Dead
06:19
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The bells in the churchyard
Called out the time
As it slipped away over the lawn
How can I be so much older tonight
Than I was when they rang at dawn?
I think of the bells that rang
When I was small
The candles and books
And the bells of Saint Paul
And to my surprise I feel nothing at all
And I know the secret now
I think that I finally do
It was all in my head
And you can't wake the dead
And the time that is running
Will always be outrunning you
I walked down the street
With a song in my brain
That they played on the night I met you
But I don't wear my hair
The same way I did then
And the memories seem out of tune
You left all your photographs
Out in the hall
There are so many details
I wish I recalled
But to my surprise I feel nothing at all
And I know the secret now
I think that I finally do
It was all in my head
And you can't wake the dead
And the time that is running
Will always be outrunning you
We tried to pretend
As if nothing had changed
The last time I came to your door
We both closed our eyes
And held on for a while
Til the phone rang, and you had to go
I thought of the shadows
Concealed in the walls
I thought of the climb
And I thought of the fall
And I told myself I felt nothing at all
And I know the secret now
I think that I finally do
It was all in my head
And you can't wake the dead
And the time that is running
Will always be outrunning you
And love is a temple,
And love conquers all
And love is a tower
That's not supposed to fall
So why do we have
So much trouble admitting
That all that it takes
Is two people forgetting?
And I know the secret now
I think that I finally do
It was all in my head
And you can't wake the dead
And the time that is running
Will always be outrunning
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Your Mocking Mouth
03:04
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I know that you’re no good for me
That is the standard alibi
I only love the memory
Of moments that have passed me by
That kiss that I could never get
Sitting in a corner of your mocking mouth
As I turned and rode away
On a wave of fortune swiftly heading south
But somehow you have followed me
I find you in the dead of night
Uncovered with my honesty
A wrong that we will never right
That place that I can never reach
Speaking from a corner of my hungry heart
You can laugh at me from there
You’re the jester, I’m the fool, I know my part
But you must know I loved you then
Could never tell you how
Perhaps I didn’t know myself
I understand it now
How else could you have wounded me
Ineffably, with just a stroke of grace?
With the light upon your face in the morning
When I woke up in your place
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