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BLINK
01:16
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I won't blink
Show me the light
Tell me your story
Let me inside
Here now
Dear, now
Right by your side
As ever
Kingly queen and queenly king
Just tell me what you think
Forever
I won't blink
Show me the scars
Tell me your story
Beneath this blanket of stars
Here now
Right now
Just you and I to see to
Save me
Take my hand and
Break my heart and
Make me think
I love you and I won't blink
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PEACE
01:05
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Please let me watch the world disintegrate in peace
Let me cling to the songs that I sing
As it is, the fiction's easier to believe
Please let me burn the world alive with some privacy
Navigating the Sapien sea
Each, uniquely guilty of needing to believe
Please let me drown out the doubt with amenities
Automatically tuned to my needs
Better not to consider the reasons we believe
I know the ending
Please spare me the monologues between
This is the golden age of nonsense
It is just easier to believe
So please let me watch the world disintegrate in peace
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ENOUGH
01:19
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I know it takes time
I wanna wrap you up
Make you mine
That's enough
It takes time
I know it takes time
I know that life is tough
I'll make you mine
That's enough
It takes time
But I'll make you mine
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HUGE BLUE SUITS
01:20
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I'm happy for you
Look at you two
Laughing and thin
Happy again
Remember when you looked at me
Just like you are looking at him?
I'm happy for you
Honest, it's true
To what degree someone like me can be happy
Catastrophizing and finding the facts to agree
I guess I can commiserate with you
Wearing your sadness like one of your dad's huge blue suits
Time will heal the wounds if you let it
But don't for a second assume you'll like time's methods
Here's to you, my friend
To your happiness
Love is all there is
And you've got so fucking much of it
I loved you, you felt differently
Sometimes a thing's too big to see
It's how we learn
Hurting and then getting on
I'm happy for you
Not happy too
I can pretend it's not the end
That now and then you think of me
When you are looking at him
I'm happy for you
Happy-ish
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STAYING IN
01:09
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It's madness today
But I'm glad I can stay in with you
Oh God, what a time
Though it's awful
At least I'm with you
People, I adore you
Please stay away
We're in here and here we'll stay
Just us two
As we wait and see
I am pleased I can be here with you
As bad as it seems
I am glad I can sing this with you
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WHO U TALKIN' TO?
01:30
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Who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
I talk, talk, talk
I only talk about you
That's all I want to do
Just talk
Baby, talk
I want to talk to you
That's all I want to do
Let's talk
I'll talk
I want to talk about you
Who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
Let's talk
Ooh talk
I want to talk about you
Who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
Say who you talkin' to?
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SHOOT THE MESSENGER
01:08
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I won't shoot the messenger
I won't stiff the snake charmer
I won't pull a rabbit from the top hat, baby
I won't trick the arbiter
I won't drink the sea water
I won't render facts into opinions, honey
I won't count my assets and
I don't feel the acid yet
Don't call the captain till I'm sunk completely
I might be out of time
I might be out of my mind
Cause I'm feeling a little bit on the edge of it
I can't blame my audience
For preferring silence
Over convoluted nonsense, honey
I might be out of time
Might be out of my mind
I'm feeling a little like losing my appetite
I might swear on anything
I might eat these magic beans
And if I'm falling, let me fly
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ONE DAY
01:45
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Let's take it one day at a time
Our little lives
For better or worse
We are as helpless to stop the tick of the clock
As we ever were
Things may never be the same
That's nothing new
To embrace the change is all we can do
Someday I'll see you again
Someday I'll see you
Til then
I'll take one day at a time
I'll look for the light
It's not hard to find
We know we cannot control the bell's awful toll
So we live our lives
Taking it one day at a time
One day at a time (We live our lives)
One day at a time
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VINNY
01:57
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Turn it up
Let me sing to the chord progression
I've heard enough
From the bitter little fish-face of depression
I'm burning up
You can talk, but I might not listen
I've heard enough
It's evident we're taking up our old positions here
I am talking to myself
Did I look right at you?
Maybe so
Vinny Van Gogh in an awful falsetto
If I'm talking to myself
Don't make it about you every time
Let's eliminate the paradigm
Turn it up
We can swim through the same old ocean
I'll learn to love
The idiotic grins we're holding, frozen, up
We're in a rut
I can talk but you never hear me
You're packing up
Gotta get a little nibble of anonymity
I am talking to myself
Did I look right at you?
Maybe so
Vinny Van Gogh in an awful falsetto
If I'm talking to myself
Don't make it about you every time
Let's eliminate the paradigm
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Tossed
Into uncharted swells
Making the right/wrong choices
Heading due West/East
Right off of the map
Lost inside this dull, gray Hell
Cumulonimbus voices
Bittersweet memories
Spring like a trap
I'm like the actor
Trapped in the story
Knowing the final chapter is bound to be gory
Caught
In claustrophobic times
Ignore the circling vultures
The world of right angles, nowhere around
Taught
To venerate this shrine to
Psychosomatic cultures
We're dredging the past up
To watch it drown
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