Mariners Way

We came down the stairs
And hardly said a word
And all through the day
That's all we heard
And we wanted to know
Where mariners went wrong
And all through the day
We played the same song

And I let the wind blow down my leg
And I let the rain wash over my face
'Cause I've seen love
Falling in the rain
Lightening up the sun
To show you that you
Are here again

We lived by the door
And we hardly knew what for
And all through the day
Nothing was heard
But I still want to know
Where mariners way went wrong
And all the same year
They play the same song

Repeat chorus twice

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So Sad

So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad
I didn't want to love you
And you do want nothing at all
So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad

There's a cold break in my dream
Keeps turning round everything you've said
It's so naked in my brain
Makes it hard to be by myself

Repeat opening verse

And I didn't want to love you
And I'm feeling the pain
Stop watching the best things we loved in our life
Was the wind and the sails
And I needed to try for you
That's lost on the night
And it's found in the beautiful store in your eyes
And it's making you cry
So sad, it's so sad

So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad
I didn't want to love you
And you do nothing at all
It's so sad, so sad
So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad
So sad, so sad

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Expensive Chair

Your face is looking like
Someone you forgot you used to know
You were looking for rhymes and reason
They forgot the things you used to know
You came to rely on good fortune
Your mother's screaming low
With the sky in the eye
And jump through the window

You've made your own room at the top
Well it's getting thin on air
Still you look at me from your most expensive chair
And when you're feeling fit to drop
And you find there's no one there
Still you look at me from your most expensive chair

You don't wanna shout about it
When there's nothing you care to know
Your friends they just laugh about it
In the places that you never go
You cannot deny your good fortune
Your friends they won't let go
See your hair is in place
And see away from the window

Repeat chorus

You're the judge how high it hangs
When your castle's made of sand
Because the people who kill the king
Are the people who move from within
You can't rely on good fortune
Your friends are crying low
Kick your feet from the chair
And let it slip from the gallows

Repeat chorus

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The Best Bet on Chinaski

Henry took out all the wrong and never thought
Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful day
Henry took out all his money and found he had none
Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful day

And he would not buy the things that you were handing down
And he would not clear it off for you and leave you lying down

Henry found the love and he found it just today
Do you know what he'd say, it's beautiful day
Put my face in all the things that I've never done
Do you know what he'd say, it's beautiful day

And he would not follow things that others said or done
And he would not follow things that you call everyone

'Cause Henry found the note and he found it hard to give away
Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful thing
Bottled up a ticket to god knows where
Do you know what he said to the driver, it's a beautiful day

And he would not follow things that you were handing down
And he would not buy the alternate news when the dogs were being drowned

'Cause Henry found the love and he found it today
Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful thing
And you know what he knows, that it's a beautiful day
And you know what he'd say, that it's a beautiful day

'Cause Henry got it all and he found it just today
Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful day...

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This Understanding

I get this understanding
It's like a living breath
And it grooves with the times
And it swings with the tunes
And it flows until you get no rest

I get this understanding
It knocks at every door
And it keeps you awake
With sweet’s hurting ache
And it keeps you coming back for more

I get this understanding
On a night like tonight
When we’re driving and driving
And never arriving
But the waiting seems oh so right

I get this understanding
Like a fish when it's frying
And it's you coming home
When I'm been on my own
And we're shaking off the world inside

I get this understanding
It happens every day
When the truth of the blues if my rhymes
strike a chord
And you can save it for a better day

I get this understanding
When the music swings low
And I'm there on the floor
And I'm waiting for more
And I never never want to go home

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Flowers

Renegades and shifting shades
And the light's in your face
And you friend's talk lying
But some of them got flowers in their room

When it's on and you're falling on every floor
That you're hoping to score
And you're every night
But some of them got flowers in their room

But some of them got flowers in their room
But some of them got flowers in their room

Hear the word that the man on the stairs
Knows your every affair and is holding your hand
And he says some of them got flowers in their room
And he screams in a face
But the smile on the face is cool and it's cold
And it reads vacated
And some of them got flowers in their room

And some of them got flowers in their room
And some of them got flowers in their room

And I take someone home and I can't be alone
And there's faces to please and I walk on the knees
Oh you see, I got no flowers in my room

And I laugh with my mouth and I laugh with you
But the joke was a joke that I never really knew
Some of them got flowers in their room

Some of them got flowers in their room
Some of them got flowers in their room

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Going Nowhere for a While

Where do you go
When it is all complicating
Where do you go
When you steer it all away

Where will you find
The nerve to find it complicating
What will you find
When you steer it all away

I could go on but it's only conversation
I could go on but it seems likes persuasion

Where do you go
You know that it's complicating
Where do you go
When you steer it all away

I could go on but it's only conversation
I could go on but it seems likes persuasion

Where do you go
You know that it's complicating
Where will you go
When you steer it all away

How can you go
You know that it is just persuasion
How can you go
When you steer it all away

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The Face Smiles Back Easily

It's not the way that you look
Or the way that you comb your hair
I know we'll always be there
By the look, by the book
And your troops and your devil may care
I know we'll always be there
I know we'll always be there

And by the way your eyes are shining through
There's nothing to do but wake up in light
And like the way your eyes they shine with the sun
And lighten everyone who wakes up in time to see
The face smiled back easily

I know we'll always be there
By the look, by the book
And your troops as your devil may care
I know we'll always be there
I know we'll always be there

It's not the way that you look
Or the way that you comb your hair
I know we'll always be there
I know we'll always be there
I know we'll always be there

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Mona Lisa Eye’s

I've got Mona Lisa eyes
I can stare through all your lies

Maybe they will come tomorrow (x3)
But it's only another day away

Look down on everything in sight
Look down on everything and say goodbye
And it's only another day away

I've got Mona Lisa Eyes (x3)
And it's only another day away
Day away...

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My Brother Sarah

My brother Sarah
Doesn't know what clothes to wear
It's a dilemma
To get the stuff to match your hair

But mother and father
Sister and brother
Say they just don't know

My brother Sarah
Really wish you understood
Why he's got to show it
For it to be any damn good

But mother and father
Sister and brother
Say they just don't know

My brother lies awake at night
Wishing this world could just be right

But mother and father
Sister and brother
You and all the others
Say you just don't know

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On and On

Even while I've got my word it goes on and on
On and on, it goes on and on
Seen my fortune and I lift my words and they are everything
Oh oh, they are everything

Sailing boats and open roads can seem to pass you by
But sailing boats and open roads can pass you in disguise

Seen my days and oh I swear they go on and on
Oh oh, they go on and on
Have luck and it seems to work and it says everything
Oh oh, it goes on and on

Repeat first verse

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Suspended Motion

When she spoke her face was framed with suspended motion
Laughing at all her friends and their mothers notion
I raised to try to see if I could believe her
Knowing her thoughts could not be one to

Everybody's doing something
Very slowly doing nothing

When she woke she spoke about the latest dance craze
Spinning me round her thumbs - transpelled and two-faced
I came round; my shoes were glued to the edge of the dance floor
Flapping my feet in the air, just happy to be there for more

Everybody's doing something
Very slowly doing nothing

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The Inheritors

Brother don't lose that fire-stick no way
The night is coming thin
Might tire to light that stick
Brother don't lose that stick no way

Don't lose that heating fork no way
Darcoming down
Need someone to eat off the ground
Need something to eat day

Brother don't lose your bares no way
Don't know which side we're on
Blue then it's green then it's brown
Mine's hard and it's red and it's coming my way

We all feed together
And we all tread the same land
And if the man can't be the child
Then the devil will take the man

Get you behind me quick
Hey brother don't lose that stick
Need something to light my way today

Brother don't start no slowing down today
Come here with your big ideas
Shooting inbetween your ears
Come here with your big ideas today

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Free on the Wind

She makes another straight line
See yesterday she don't cry
She's getting time to take time anyway

So she'll take my giving
She's taking never giving
I never waste my winnings anyway

Free on the wind... blow
She never feels that way
She hides behind her one mistake and it

She makes it all worth living
And time is unforgiving
Her life is not for living everyday

And I try to make some laughter
It's all that I've been after
So I get what I'm after in other ways

Free on the wind... blow
She never feels that way
She hides behind her one mistake and it

It gets my heart
She never feels that good
I don't know if she ever could

Gonna get me a lot of loving
No time to fix a broken heart

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These are the Ones

These are the days
You have been given
These are the ones
These are the ones

These are the times
We have been given
These are the ones
These are the ones

And my dreams are holding
And my heart is open

These are the times
They won't be forgiven
These are the ones
These are the ones

These are the days
Please don't forsake them
These are the ones
Is everyone

And my dreams are holding
And my heart is open

These are the ones (x4)

And my dreams might shatter
Still my heart it matters

These are the days
They won't be forgiven
These are the ones
These are the ones...

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Hello Monday

Hello Monday my old friend
I come with you to talk again
And then again I'm still waiting
There's no point in hanging on
Watching the sun go down
Spinning round and round

Ah... Monday morning
I don't know if you are coming
Ah... Monday morning
I don't know if you are coming

Hello Monday my old friend
I come with you to talk again
And then again I'm still waiting
What's point in hanging on
Watching the sun go down
Spinning round and round and round and round

Ah... Monday morning
I don't know if you are coming
Ah... Monday morning
I don't know if you are coming for me
Oh for me, for me...
Ah... Monday morning
I don't know...

What's the point in hanging on
After the sun is gone
I'm hanging on and on and on and on

Repeat Chorus 1

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Another Girl’s Name

Go take your bags away
Get out of my home
Get out of my life
I don't want you hanging round
And I don't want you to be my wife
When I go to the cafe
I sit in the seat that faces the mirror
I look at my face today
And I look such a wreck today

I knew you well for five minutes and one day
O-oh no way, Josie

I don't  ugly views
And I'm not interested in family muse
And  is boring and conversation pours
Even when we're in bed
I wanna rearrange your head
Put down the covers
And get you up against the wall
Shoot good babe

Well I knew you well for five minutes and one day
O-oh no way, Josie

You follow where it's going
Can't you see I was breaking
How'd you know the love making wasn't only faking

You get out of my home
And you get out of my life
You didn't hang around much girl
'Cause now you're someone else's wife
I go to the cafe
And I sit in the seat that faces the mirror
Well I look at my face today
And I look so good today

Well I knew you well for five minutes and one day
O-oh no way, oh no way, oh no way, Josie

You're just another girls names
O-oh you're just another girls name (X3)

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Best Friends and Lovers

Best friends and lovers
Can be the same thing
One or the other
They both bear a ring

Best friends and lovers
No need to feel pain
One or the other
Will be there again

Best friends you're dancing
And lovers disappear
Best friends and lovers
They last in the years

Best friends and lovers
Being jealous or vain
There's one or the other
As heaven in play

Best friends and lovers
Being jealous or vain
There's one or the other
As heaven in play

Best friends and lovers
They can be fools
Each to the other
But never cruel

Best friends and lovers
In beds they will lay
There's one or the other
As heaven in play

Best friends and lovers
Won't ever feel pain
'cause one or the other
Bears heaven in play

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Crazy Lowdown Ways

Well I got a problem
and it just won't wait
I've been getting on one
With the man who guards your gate

When he says you're sleeping
In your hideaway
It is what he's keeping back
That gives your game away

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That I like this
More than i do today

Yes I've got a problem
like you've never seen
I've been getting bothered
By the man who locks your screen

When he says you're hiding
And in your room you'll stay
It is what he's holding back
That says what he can't say

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That I like this
More than I do today
I'm just a lazy man

Who has to hear the truth
And I hear what's true from you
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray

Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That I like this
More than I do today

La la la
La la la
La la la
La la la

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I Was

You get it all through your way
You get it all you never fail
To get all that's mine for you
So I give you what you want me to

You make it up with ease you do
And everybody runs to you
Then you're grabbing my easy love
Then your making out that you're in love

So make it up and try and see
How's it really gonna be

You making it in time for you
You make it so it's lost on you
You can't afford this easy touch
You feel you cope and then you've had enough

So take it up and try and see
How's it really gonna be

I wonder if you ever see
All that you mean to me
If I hush it up will you begin...

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Yesterday Today

I'm feeling something
Could be nothing
There's something new
And I feel excited
Close to frightened
There's something new

And I just can't face the change
There's something new
When today ain't yesterday what can I do

I feel emotion
Endless commotion
And set in sail
I feel excited
Close to frightened
That it might fail

What can I do?

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Men Of Such Opinion

Summer death, slow step
Walk behind the mother of the thirteen year old brown-eyed boy
Attitudes, attitudes
Sloganized by middle boots
The men who slogged the brown-eyed boy

And it's the end of everything that you've been told about
Decency, honesty
And it's the end of holding back and breaking bones and building bombs
And hanging witch-hunts conducted by men of such opinion

Repeat first verse

And it's the end of building roads to load the dead to someone else's field
And it's the end of falling back on breaking backs and aching handshakes
And playing fields conducted by men of such opinion

But the fathers cross two bows
And fire so heaven knows that only righteous folk
With righteous taste hold the keys to sitting grace
To conduct and to proclaim decisions made of such opinions

And it's the time of summer days
When children sing about the killing fields
Winter melts the snow and knees will crack on rock
And the iron on earth beneath the dearth bequeathed
Penchant by men of such opinion

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Take You Back

Resting so alone
Way back home
Waiting for a long
Way to go

Nothing if I take you back
I'd rather never take you back for you

Waiting so fast
For a way to go
Wrestling with the past
Long way to go

Nothing if I take you back
I'd rather never take you back for you

I got more than I can have can't really say
I get more than I can use day to day
I get more time to take you back
I'd rather never take you back for you

Waiting so alone
Long time ago
Waiting so hard
On the radio

Wasting if I take you back
I'd rather never take you back for you

I got more than I can have can't really say
I get more than I can use day to day
I get more time to take you back
I'd rather never take you back for you

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Come Home

She knew all the answers
That I have to say
Taking all her chances
And never seem to pay

It's the risk you're taking
To see it time to time
She is not for changing
But you were all for trying

Now/Well come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you

She is cool in high brow
And you're not society
She is going places
Where you never are to be

It's the risk you're taking
To see her all the time
It's a game your playing
Keeps you hanging on her line

Repeat chorus

She is far away now
Goes to a store and buys
You were left behind here
In your room you'll sit and die

It's the risk you're taking
To see her time to time
She is not for changing
But you were still for trying

Repeat chorus to fade

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Song for the Front Row

These are the best times
That you'll ever have
Don't throw it away because
You're younger that he is

He's your father
And he'll help you
If you give him
He's your father
He'll deserve you
If you give him time

These are the best times
So we'll march in time
The sun is too ripe to let
The moon shine on your eyes

Repeat Chorus

These are the straight ways
Don't make it long
Don't get yourself lost because
You're following someone else's song

Repeat Chorus

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If you Get Your Way

She is home
Tellin' she's the one
Who makes you well
She makes you feel okay

She is home
Tellin' she's the one
Who makes you go
And sends you on your way

But she's getting something
You start to feel
She blows the faster deal

She is there
Making up the face
To hide the scar
You won't lurk beneath it

She is there
She's got more than anyone
And so I've always thought she must deserve it

And if you get your way
I may blow the faster deal

Everyone
Hope's say I’m one
I wish you well
I hope you feel okay
(repeat)

And if you get your way
Feel the way you're feeling (x3)

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I Need a Love Song

I'm gonna take a walk by the lemonade lake
Let my feet get wet and the grass in my face
Rolling up in the summertime setting ablaze
Throwing stones and laughing on the way home
lah, lah, lah, lah...

I'm on a night-time hunting on the horn of a car
But the brakes seem stuck on a winter song
Scattered back, slip around and I'm mouthing a glass
Harbour lights remind you of another song

I never knew my daytime slipping away
Too many seeds to sow and I can't look at my face
I need a sound to make me jump around on my toes
I need a song, I need a love song

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Hoping Your Making it Too

Don't let my feet get off the ground
Today I'm glad to be standing here
But all the time I spent tunnelling down
To some place where I'm not so clear

I've been holding out for this time
Standing straight in my own line
Was hoping you're making it too

All the hours we were learning to fly
We're chasing night-lights round the room
I can never repay when I learnt from you
I know you're seeing it your own way too

Your head just went for another walk
But it's coming home and it hangs in the hall
Your head in your hand as you're suffering
But you I know what state you're in

Fall on my knees and my hair rolls around
But even on my knees I know I can stand
If it's coming home it's coming for you
I can see me standing with Dunston and you

I've been holding out for my neighbour
Standing straight for my brother
Was hoping you're making it too

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I Never Believed it Too

Your gonna make another wiseman
You’ve got a lot to say about everyone
And all the things you say will come back
You know they’ll let you down before you ever know

Cause you never believed it
Never gave it a chance
Because no one ever told you how to dance
No you never believed, never wanted it
Could’nt see it, never got it

Don’t you Know
I Never believed it too

I’ve been around a lot but since I’ve been away
You can make it up the broadside
I don’t believe you but it’s good to have you say

But you never believed it
Never gave it a chance
Because no one ever told you how to dance
No you never believed, never wanted it
Could’nt see it, never got it

Repeat Chorus

Don’t you Know
I Never believed it too  (X2)

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Perfect Stranger

If you cut me off
I would surely bleed
If you cut me down
I’d bend at your Knees
If I promised the world
Would you promise me
Would you be the Perfect Stranger

If I pulled you away
From your never dying space
Would you feel lost and cold
Or the coming summer’s day
If I wrote for you my own
Would you crawl away
Would you be the Perfect Stranger

Once I was waiting, Anticipating
The rest of my life with you
Now, I’ll listen, listen
What else can I do
If I graze my knees
I will surely cry
I beg you please
Would you push me to the side
If I stayed around all night
Would you say goodbye

Would you be the Perfect Stranger
Would you be the Perfect Stranger

La, La la la la, La la la la (X4)

Would you be the Perfect Stranger
Would you be the Perfect Stranger

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St Cecelia

St Cecelia
I am older
Please be nearer
Please be right
St Cecelia
Oh my best days
but my love is soaring light

I am not OK
I just let it seem that way
So, St Cecelia
Please light a candle
To guide me throught this night

St Cecelia
Do you remember?
When you sent me grace and light
Like a diamond
A million diamonds
You shone upon a million nights

I am not OK
I just let it seem that way
So, St Cecelia
Please light a candle
To guide me throught this night

St Cecelia
Do you remember?
When you sent me grace and light
Like a diamond
A million diamonds
You shone upon a million nights

I am not OK
I just guess it seems that way
So, St Cecelia
Please light a candle
To guide me throught this night

It gets a little bit nearer x 4
Its just getting nearer..

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We Rise

When you fear for the strong
And you fear no one knows this
Its the big ol time boys
And it's coming your way
Which field will you turn
when you don't know where we going
Were going to have their way boys
There going to have their way boys

And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise
even when the sun does'nt shine
And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise
When your world is blowing down your eyes

Curfews on the right, Jailbreaks on the left
It was a long ol time ago
Now theres there nothing left
Which quiet place will you turn
To sing the song you first owned
There going to have their way boys
There going to have their way boys

And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise
even when the sun does'nt shine
And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise
When your world is blowing down your eye

Repeat Chorus

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Questions

There's a Question
Everybodies shouting out a question
There's a Question
everybodies shouting out a question

Have you got an answer Politician
Have you got an answer Mathematician

There's a Question
Ringing out a clear loud question
It's a question
Giving you a worn out head
It's a question

Do you have an answer Theologian
A better answer than a Politician
There's a Question

There's a Question
Ringing out loud in space
There's a Question
Ringing out over the stage
There's a Question

Do you have an answer Politician
Do you have an answer Mathematician
Do you have an answer Theologian
Do you have an answer Science Man
Do you have an answer Peter Pan
Father and Son, A Mother and Daughter, Son of man

On and on and on and on and on and on and on

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Will you take her Love

Will you take her Love
Will you take her only
Will you take her only
and nobody else

What you have to give
you'll give to no other
you'll give to no other
not even in time

All who know are true
gee the bells are ringing
gee the bells are ringing
the sun it did shine

Will you keep her near
In days of rain and thunder
She'll go when thunder shelter her dear

Is it set with gold
set with gold and diamonds
Set with diamonds or humble and plain
the jug from which she drank
now is overflowing
for you its flowing over and made out of clay

Rock on which you stand
Rounded rock of ages
Rounded rock of ages
and true where you stand
Nothing is so sure
Time can be cruel to you
Hurt you and cruel you and fool you, Love you and trust

What've we've seen today
Let no man put us under
No man tear us under
and now we must pray.

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I Wanna see the Bright Lights tonight

I'm so tired of working every day
Now the weekends gone I'm going to throw my troubles away
If you've got the cup of mist you'll do allright
I wanna see the bright lights tonight

Meet me at the station don't be late
I need to spend some money and it just wont wait
Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I wanna see the bright lights tonight

There's crazy people running all over town
There's a silver band just marchin up and down
And the big boys just spoiling for a fight
I wanna see the bright lights tonight

Meet me at the station don't be late
I need to spend some money and it just wont wait
Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I wanna see the bright lights tonight

A couple of drunken nights rolling on the floor
Is just the kind of mess I'm looking for
I'm gonna dream til monday comes in sight
I wanna see the bright lights tonight

Meet me at the station don't be late
I need to spend some money and it just wont wait
Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I wanna see the bright lights tonight
Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I wanna see the bright lights tonight

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Me I’m Left Unsure

Just a little bit of you
means a lot to me
Just a little bit of hope
drives a vail if tears
Just a little bit of care
deep down inside
makes the whole world stare
at the brilliant night

And it keeps on growing, growing, growing
its all I want to be true
can it wait, its this way, its that way, it's confusion
get ahead now and the lights are shining
get a move on if you are arriving
its all timing, its all timing

See the day come and last
grab it twice for sure
come what may it won't last
tomorrow is the door
but me i'm left unsure

And it keeps on growing, growing, growing
its all I want to be true
can it wait, its this way, its that way, it's confusion
get ahead now and the lights are shining
get a move on if you are arriving
its all timing, its all timing

See the day come and last
grab it twice for sure
come what may it won't last
tomorrow is the door
but me i'm left unsure

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