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I have a smile
Stretched from ear to ear
To see you walking down the road

 

We meet at the lights
I stare for a while
The world around us disappears

 

It's just you and me
On my island of hope
A breath between us could be miles

 

Let me surround you
My sea to your shore
Let me be the calm you seek

 

Oh and every time I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

 

And I forgot
To tell you
I love you

And the night's
Too long
And cold here
Without you

 

I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the words to say I need you so

 

Oh and every time I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

 

And I forgot
To tell you
I love you
And the night's
Too long
And cold here
Without you

 

I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the words to say I need you so

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The breakers roar on an unseen shore
In the teeth of a hurricane
Oh we struggle in vain

 

A hellish night - a ghostly light
Appears through the driving rain
Salvation in a human chain

 

All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary
Of a miracle too good to be true
All I know is that sometimes the truth is contrary
Everything in life you thought you knew
All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary
'Cause sometimes the target is you

 

Driven aground, with that awful sound
Drowned by the cheer from ashore
Oh we wonder what for

 

The people swarm through the darkling storm
Gather everything they can score
'Til their backs won't bear any more

 

All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary
Of a miracle too good to be true
All I know is that sometimes the truth is contrary
Everything in life you thought you knew
All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary
'Cause sometimes the target is you

 

The breakers roar on an unseen shore
In the teeth of an icy grave
In the teeth of an icy grave
Oh the human chain leaves a bloody stain
Washed away in the pounding waves
Washed away in the pounding waves

 

All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary
Of a miracle too good to be true
All I know is that sometimes the truth is contrary
Everything in life you thought you knew


All I know is that sometimes you have to be wary
'Cause sometimes the target is you
All I know is that memory can be too much to carry
Striking down like a bolt from the blue

 

All I know is that sometimes the truth is contrary
Everything in life you thought you knew
All I know is that sometimes the truth is contrary
'Cause sometimes the target is you

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At the tender age of three
I was hooked to a machine
Just to keep my mouth from spouting junk, ha

 

Must have took me for a fool
'Cause they chucked me out of school
'Cause the teacher knew I had the funk

 

But tonight I'm on the edge
You better shut me in the fridge
'Cause I'm burning up, I'm burning up

 

With the vision in my brain
And the music in my veins
And the dirty rhythm in my blood

 

They are messing with my heart
And they're messing with my heart
And they're messing with my heart
Won't stop messing with my
Oh, ripping me apart!

 

Hyperactive when I'm small
Hyperactive now I'm grown
Hyperactive and the night is young

And in a minute, I'll blow

 

And they're messing with my heart
(So how long have you been having these delusions?)
Keep on messing with my heart
(Hm, please tell me more about your mother)

 

Oh, ripping, ripping, ripping, ripping, ripping me apart
Semaphore out on the floor
Messages from outer space
Deep heat for the feet
The rhythm of your heartbeat
'Cause the music of the street
It isn't any rapattack (oh)
It isn't any rapattack (oh)
Rap-a, rap-a, rap-a, t-t-t-t-t-tack

 

I can reach into your homes
Like an itch in your headphones
You can't turn it up (ow)

 

Yeah, I'm the shape in your back room
I'm the breather on the phone
And I'm burning up (ow)

 

But there's one thing I must say
'Fore they lock me up again
You'd be safer at the back
When I'm having an
Attack, attack, attack, attack

 

Hyperactive when I'm small
Hyperactive now I'm tall
Hyperactive as the day is long

 

Hyperactive in my bones
Hyperactive in your phones
Hyperactive and the night is young

 

Hyperactive when I'm small
Hyperactive now I'm grown
Hyperactive 'till I'm dead and gone

 

Stand up, hyperactivate
Get up, hyperactivate
Wise up, hyperactivate
London, hyperactivate

 

Hyperactive when I'm small
Hyperactive now I'm tall
Hyperactive as the day is long

 

Hyperactive in my bones
Hyperactive in your phones
Hyperactive and the night is young

 

Hyperactive when I'm small
Hyperactive now I'm grown

Hyperactive 'till I'm dead and gone

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The man outside he works for me, his name is Mariano
He cuts and trims the grass for me he makes the flowers bloom
He says that he comes from a place not far from Guanajuato
That's two days on a bus from here, a lifetime from this room

 

I fix his meals and talk to him in my old broken Spanish
He points at things and tells me names of things I can't recall
Sometimes I just can't but help but wonder who this man is
And if when he is gone will he'll remember me at all

 

I watch him close, he works just like a piston in an engine
He only stops to take a drink and smoke a cigarette
When the day is ended, I look outside my window
There on the horizon, Mariano's silhouette

 

He sits upon a stone in a south-easterly direction
I know my charts I know that he is thinking of his home
I've never been the sort to say I'm in to intuition
But I swear I see the faces of the ones he calls his own

 

Their skin is brown as potter's clay, their eyes void of expression
Their hair is black as widow's dreams, their dreams are all but gone
They're ancient as a vision of a sacrificial virgin
Innocent as crying from a baby being born

 

They hover around a dying flame and pray for his protection
Their prayers are all but answered by his letters in the mail
He sends them colored figures that he cuts from strips of paper
And all his weekly wages, saving nothing for himself

 

It's been a while since I have seen the face of Mariano
The border guards they came one day and took him far away
I hope that he is safe down there at home in Guanajuato
I worry though, I read there's revolution every day

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Me and the boys, we cinched up our saddles

And rode to Sonora last night
Gun's hanging proud, daring out loud

For any one looking to fight
Card cheats and rustlers would run for their holes

When the boys from the old broken O
Rode up and reigned on the street that they named

Sonora's death row

Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon

For the boys from the old broken O
Saturday nights in the town of Sonora

Are the best in all Mexico
They've got guitars and trumpets and sweet senoritas

Who won't want to let you go
You'd never believe such a gay happy time

On the street called Sonora's death row

 

Inside Amanda's we was a dancin'

With all of Amanda's gals
I won some silver at seven card stud

So I was outdoin' my pals
But the whiskey and mescal, peso cigars

Drove me outside for some air
Somebody whispered "Your life or your money"

I reached but my gun wasn't there

 

I woke up face down in Amanda's back alley

Aware of the fool I had been
Rushed to my pony, grabbed my Winchester

And entered Amanda's again
Where I saw my partners twirling my pistols

And throwing my money around
Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever

And one of them fell to the ground

 

Amanda's got silent like night in the desert

My friends stared in pure disbelief
Amanda was kneeling beside the dead cowboy

Plainly expressing her grief
And as I bowed my head a tremble shot through me

My six-gun was still at my side
I felt my pockets, there was my money

I fell to my knees and I cried

 

A nightmare of mescal is all that it was

For no one had robbed me at all
I wish I was dreaming the sound of the gallows

They're testing just outside the wall
The mescal's still free at Amanda's saloon

For the boys from the old Broken O
I'd give a ransom to drink there today

And be free of Sonora's death row
I'd give a ransom to drink there today

And be free of Sonora's death row

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War, huh, yeah
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, uh-huh, uh-huh

War, huh, yeah
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, say it again, y'all

War, huh, good god
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me

Oh war, I despise
'Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go off to fight and lose their lives

I said, war, huh, good god, y'all
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, say it again

War, huh, whoa-oh-whoa-oh, Lord
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me

War, it ain't nothing but a heartbreak
War, friend only to the undertaker

Oh, war, is an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest within the younger generation
Induction then destruction, who wants to die ?

Oh, war, huh, good god, y'all
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, say it, say it, say it

War, huh, uh-huh, yeah, uh
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me

War, it ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
War, it got one friend, that's the undertaker

Oh, war has shattered many a young man's dreams
Made him disabled, bitter and mean
Life is much too short and precious to spend fighting wars these days
War can't give life, it can only take it away

Oh, war, huh, good god, y'all
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, say it again

War, huh, whoa-oh-whoa-oh, Lord
What is it good for ?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me

War, it ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
War, friend only to the undertaker

Peace, love and understanding, tell me
Is there no place for them today ?
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But lord knows there's got to be a better way

Oh, war, huh, good god, y'all
What is it good for ?
You tell me, (nothing) say it, say it, say it, say it

War, huh, good god, yeah, huh
What is it good for ?
Stand up and shout it (nothing)

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I didn't know when I was lucky, discontented feeling bad
Filled with envy for possessions other people had
I found my pride had always hurt me, fought the world to gain control
Not realizing I was sitting on a beach of gold

 

Oh lord, I'm a poor man with all the riches I can hold
I'm a beggar, and I'm sitting on a beach of gold

 

The problems I encountered gave me strength, helped me sustain
To know the pleasure first I had to cure the pain
When I was searching for solutions, I found the answer lay in me
I'm a drifter, but I'm drifting on a silver sea

 

Oh lord, I'm a poor man with all the riches I can hold
I'm a beggar, and I'm sitting on a beach of gold

 

I didn't have courage, my life was as dark as night
When alone in the darkness, I saw the brightest light
Let the light shine down

 

Are you out there now on empty, feel you've nothing left to give
Sick of trying, have you lost the will to live?
Don't be drowning in the shallows with the beach so near at hand
Hear the voice say stand up, get up and join me on the gilded sand

 

Come and join me on the beach with all the riches I can hold
Cause I'm a beggar, and I'm sitting on a beach of gold
Oh lord, I'm a poor man with all the riches I can hold
I'm a beggar, I'm sitting on a beach of gold

 

My children my salvation the father to this man
They're my teachers playing on the golden sand

With my family all around me, I've all the riches I can hold
I'm a beggar sitting on a beach of gold

 

Oh lord, I'm a poor man with all the riches I can hold
I'm a beggar sitting on a beach of gold

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It must be hard being an angel
When the devil in your heart won't set you free
It must be hard being an angel
When the world has let you down
Imperfection all around

Hey, look at me

 

It must be hard
It must be hard
It must be hard

 

Nobody's perfect all of the time
Nobody's perfect, we are what we are
You know there's no perfect reason and no perfect rhyme
For most of the time, that's what we're looking for

 

Gentlemen, gentlemen please!
Can you please support the notion of what I'm saying here
That the person here in question must be an angel here on earth
If they can't see a human being for what a human being's really worth
Oh, gentlemen please!

 

Nobody's perfect all of the time
Nobody's perfect, we are what we are
You know there's no perfect reason and no perfect rhyme
For most of the time, that's what we're looking for

 

Nobody's perfect all of the time
Nobody's perfect, we are what we are
You know there's no perfect reason and no perfect rhyme
All of the time, that's what we're looking for
That's what we're searching for

 

It must be hard being an angel
It must be hard when the world has let you down
It must be hard being an angel
It must be hard

 

Nobody's perfect all of the time
Nobody's perfect, we are what we are
You know there's no perfect reason, no perfect rhyme
All of the time, that's what we're looking for

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Oh, baby

 

A single failure
A little slip
A misdemeanour
A little trip


Does this condemn me
Lock me away
Before you turn the key
I have one more thing to say

 

To make amends
Maybe be friends

 

Everybody gets a second chance
Circumstance to say I'm sorry, (sorry)
I'd like to tell you in advance
Take my chance and tell you I'm sorry too

 

A little stumble
A little fall
Inconsequential
Nothing at all

 

Now there was someone
I heard him say
That the best laid plans
Sometimes go astray

 

So don't be surprised
If I offer you no alibis

 

Everybody gets a second chance
Circumstance to say I'm sorry, (sorry)
I'd like to tell you in advance
I'll take my chance and tell you I'm sorry

 

Everybody gets a second chance
Circumstance to say I'm sorry, (sorry)
I'd like to tell you in advance
I'll take my chance and tell you I'm sorry
Take my chance and tell you I love you

 

Oh, baby
Everybody gets a second chance
Circumstance to say I'm sorry, (sorry)
I'd like to tell you in advance
Well, I'll take my chance and tell you I'm sorry

 

Everybody gets a second chance
Circumstance to say I'm sorry, (sorry)
I'd like to tell you in advance
I'll take my chance and tell you I'm sorry

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All I need is what you've got
All I'll tell is what you're not
All you know is what you hear
I get this way when you come near

 

Then I know it's gone too far
Uh oh, I touched your star

 

And it felt so right
Just like the hush of midnight
And then you said
With me it's touch and go
It's touch and go

 

All I need is you tonight
I'm flying like a cement kite
In your headlock on the floor
Who could ever ask for more

 

And I know it's gone too far
Uh-oh, I touched your star

 

And it felt so right
Just like the hush of midnight
And then you said
With me it's touch and go uh oh
It's touch and go, oh oh oh

 

All I want is you tonight
I guess that dress does fit you tight, yeah
You know that look does make me shake
It almost looks too good to fake

 

And I know it's gone too far
Uh oh, I touched your star

 

And it felt so right
Just like the hush of midnight
And then you said
With me it's touch and go uh oh
Touch and go uh oh oh

 

It's touch and go uh oh oh
Touch and go uh oh oh
It's touch and go uh oh oh
Touch and go, touch and go
Oh, it's touch and go
Oh oh oh (Touch and go) touch and go

 

All I need is what you've got

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I know, tonight she comes
She's taken a swipe at fun

She gives me a reason for setting my sights
Well, I know, tonight she comes

 

Oh, she channels me up
She does it with ease
And sometimes she passes through me
Just like a breeze

She gives me a reason
For feeling alright, oh well
I know tonight
(I know tonight) I know tonight
(I know tonight) she comes

 

I know she's gonna do it to me
One more time (one more time)
I know she's gonna stay implanted in my mind
Why does she keep me hanging
(On the line) on the line?

 

I know she's gonna do it to me
One more time (one more time)
I know she's gonna stay implanted in my mind
Oh, why does she keep me hangin'
(On the line) on the line?
Oh, yeah

 

I know the way that she feels
And all of the hearts that she steals

She tells me it's easy
When you do it right, oh well
I know tonight she comes
She tells me it's easy
When you do it right
I know tonight
(I know tonight) I know tonight
(I know tonight) she comes

 

I know tonight (I know tonight)
Oh, yeah (I know tonight)
Well, I know tonight (I know tonight)
Tonight she comes

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Oh Heartbeat City
Here we come
And happy days
Count on thumbs

 

And nothin' really
Gets us down
As long as Jacki's
Back in town

 

I'm glad you made it
I can't complain

 

Oh Jacki
What took you so long
On just a holiday
Oh Jacki
What took you so long
I thought you knew the way
(Heartbeat City)

 

The noise electric
Never stops
And all you need
Is what you got
And there's a place
For everyone
Under Heartbeat City's
Golden sun

 

Oh Jacki
(What took you so long)
What took you so long
On just a holiday
Oh Jacki
(What took you so long)
What took you so long
(So long)
I thought you knew the way

Oh, yeah yeah yeah

 

You know
I'm glad you made it
I can't complain
I missed you so badly
When you jumped that train

 

Oh Jacki
(What took you so long)
What took you so long
On just a holiday
Oh Jacki
(What took you so long)
What took you so long
(So long)
(Thought you knew the way)
I thought you blew away

 

Oh Heartbeat City
Lights at night
(Heartbeat City)
Keeps getting closer
Out of sight
(Heartbeat City)
Heartbeat City's
On the loose
(Heartbeat City)
Better catch
The blue caboose
Oh, huh, Heartbeat City
It's my life, uh
(Heartbeat City)
(Heartbeat City)
(Heartbeat City)

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I'm not the one
That you'll be shootin' for
I'm not the one
Who's coming back for more

 

(You know why)
We've been through this so many times
(You know why)
It's never clear it's pantomime

 

Goin' 'round and 'round
'Cause you can't get on your feet
Goin' 'round and 'round
Still takin' all the heat
Goin' 'round and 'round
Never lettin' down

 

I'm not the one
Whose memory you still keepin'
I'm not the one
Who's talkin' in your sleep

 

(You know why)
I don't have to tell you twice
(You know why)
Knew you when you weren't so nice

 

Goin' 'round and 'round
'Cause you can't get on your feet
Goin' 'round and 'round
Still takin' all the heat
Goin' 'round and 'round
Never touchin' down

 

I'm not the one
That you'll be breakin' in
And I'm not the one
That you'll be takin' in

 

(You know why)
Tried and tried to crack the shell
(You know why)
When you fake it's hard to tell

 

Goin' 'round and 'round
'Cause you can't get on your feet
Goin' 'round and 'round
Still takin' all the heat

 

Goin' 'round and 'round
'Cause you can't get on your feet
Goin' 'round and 'round
Still takin' all the heat

 

Goin' 'round and 'round
Goin' 'round and 'round
('Round and 'round and 'round and 'round)
Goin' 'round and 'round
('Cause you can't get on your feet)

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They all laughed as he turned around slow
They said you ain't welcome 'round here anymore
You just might as well go
He wiped the blood from his face
as he slowly came to his knees
He said I'll be back when you least expect it
And hell's coming with me
Hell's coming with me

 

There is a hill at the bottom of the valley
Where all the poor souls go when they die
And if you listen real close
you can hear 'em like a ghost
And you're never gonna make it out alive

 

There is a town at the bottom of that hill
They got a secret that they keep like a slave
They got a black magic preacher
we'd do well to let him teach her
You'll be heading up that hill to the grave

 

And it is well, with my soul
You line your pockets full of money
that you steal from the poor
And on your way down the hill
you hear me ring that bell
I'd pay the devil twice as much to keep your soul

 

There was a drifter passing through that little valley
He had promised he was coming back to town
(Coming back to town)
They didn't know him by his face
Or by the gun around his waist
But he come back to burn that town to the ground

 

First there was fire
Then there was smoke
Then the preacher man was hanging by a rope
And then they all fell to their knees
And begged that drifter, begged him please
As he raised his fist before he spoke

 

I am the righteous hand of God
And I am the devil that you forgot
And I told you one day you will see
that I'll be back, I guarantee
And that hell's coming, hell's coming
Hell, hell's coming with me

 

And it is well, with my soul
You line your pockets full of money
that you steal from the poor
And on your way down the hill
you hear me ringing that bell
And I say
Hell's coming with me

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