1. |
Last To Know
05:04
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The last to know, party's over and we won't go
No one to laugh at our jokes anymore
There's the door, don't forget your hat.
The stores are all closed, couldn't buy a break anyway
Saint Jude he couldn't save you or me, I suppose
More miles than money, look at out lives and it's so funny
More miles than money, we fall in love and it's never funny
We're the last, very last to know.
Last to know, we play the jokers in this minstrel show
Cause no one cares in this showbiz crowd anymore.
Got another cigarette, I'm not quite through with this story yet,
Nothing left here that we should fear, I suppose.
From the cradle to the grave all the memories never saved
Nothing here that we should fear so I'm told.
As the night slips away and we stumble towards another day
There's nothing more that we can say, I suppose.
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2. |
Slip Away
04:49
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Sometimes my friend she knocks
Sometimes she just crashes in
She'll tell a joke or two then she waits
Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry I don't hear a thing
Sometimes she just gets bored and leaves
Hey you, won't you come and sit with me
I never promised anything, I just need for you
To slip away with me
I try to read between the lines, she won't say a thing
I climb the walls for a better view
I turn my head and call her name, she won't look my way
I climb the walls for a better view
Hey you, won't you come and drink with me
I haven't broken anything
I just need for you
To slip away with me
Sometimes my friend she knocks
Sometimes she just stumbles in
She'll tell a joke or two then she waits
Sometimes we laugh sometimes we try we don't feel a thing
I climb the walls for a better view
Hey you, won't you come hold on to me
It's not the answer to anything I just need for you
To slip away with me
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3. |
Pissed Off 2AM
05:19
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Sometimes I come home
I don't expect too much
The lights are off now
It's only two
How I wish my breath
It didn't hurt so much
Then you'd be up, babe
It's only two
Why don't you sleep?
You look as though you need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
Now they mean nothing to me
Well all my friends they laughed
They laughed at all my jokes
I got one more story
It's only two
How I wish my tough
Could erase the past
They you'd be up babe
It's only two
Why don't you drink?
You look as though you need one
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
No, they mean nothing to me
If these were different times
Then you'd be up
And we'd trade stories
It's only two
Why don't we pretend?
I's all we have between us
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me, now
Why don't you sleep?
You look as though we need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
Now they mean nothing to me
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4. |
Sway
04:45
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Did you ever wake up to find
A day that broke up your mind
Destroyed your notion of circular time
It's just that demon life has got you in its sway
It's just that demon life has got you in its sway
Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty ground
For all my friends out on the burial ground
Can't stand the feeling getting so brought down
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
There must be ways to find out
Love is the way they say is really strutting out
Hey, hey, hey now
One day I woke up to find
Right in the bed next to mine
Someone that broke me up with a corner of her smile, yeah
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
It's just that demon life has got me in its sway
It's just that demon life has got me...
It's just that demon life has got me...
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5. |
One More Time
04:53
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If you found me lost on your porch one night,
Would you take me in and hold me tight?
And wrap a dream around my head,
In case I tumble out of bed?
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time
If you found me hanging without a prayer,
Would you cut me down and lay me there?
And wash the sins off of my hands,
So I might get another chance?
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time
If I lost the buttons on my coat,
And I couldn't find the golden note,
Could I use your hands to find the light,
So I might make it through the night?
So I count my blessings in this world of sin;
The holes in the wall let the cold come in;
Could I use your skin to keep me warm,
So I might make it through the night?
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time
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I paint your picture to my front door
I take your smile for a ride
I awake to a bad dream rising
Your kiss it frames the sky
Your footsteps echo in the hallway
Your picture hangs above
The faucet dripping in the kitchen
It's just the rhythm of the blues
We used to talk about these days
We used to say they'd never happen
Well, now that they've happened
It makes no difference who I am
I close my eyes and waste a wish
You know I gave you my very best
But it wasn't good enough
You took forever and all that
Could ever be
CHORUS:
She doesn't live here anymore
We used to talk about these days
We used to say they'd never happen
Well, now that they've happened
It makes no difference who I am
CHORUS
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7. |
Broken Bottle
04:37
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If I could reveal what I feel for you
And mark my words with a gentle kiss
Like Saint George I'd slay the dragon
Just to find I'd lost
From outside this window there's
Walls between us
And outside is outside and that's
Where I'll be
I'll be wrapped in the morning dew
Just to find you gone
So pour me a drink from a broken bottle
And fill my glass with the dirty water
What I've lost is gone
What I've gained has no name
And I'll take my leave once more
Ah J'aime mon amour
Ah J'aime mon amour
Fools for love in any language
Sometimes get burned by the heat of beauty
Just to find she's gone
My love is a scar that I wear for you
Like a crown of thorns
Like a bad tattoo
I wear sin, like a ring of beauty
Just to find you've gone
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8. |
I Wanna Be Your Dog
07:26
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So messed up I want you here
In my room I want you here
Now we're gonna be Face-to-face
And I'll lay right down In my favorite place
And now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well c'mon
Now I'm ready to close my eyes
And now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your hand
And lose my heart on the burning sands
And now I wanna be your dog
And now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well c'mon
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9. |
She Towers Above
05:15
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She towers above, she holds up the sky
She throws down, she holds up the sky
Snakes will crawl through a fiery ring
She don't need no king, she don't need no king
She towers above, she towers above me
Rain drops are steep, catch her cheek
She is the secret to your hat trick
Grey and silver, molten lead
A kiss is a drone placed inside your head
She towers above, she towers above me
There's a cowboy in her kitchen
There's a miner in the den
There's a doctor in the waiting room
She's saving him for last
You climb the staircase to her altar
She blesses you with sin
An iron horse, will sweat and moan
While she dances with a dog carved bone
Her hips are made from jelly spread
Her kiss is a drone placed inside your head
She towers above, she towers above me
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10. |
Five Hearts Breaking
05:57
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The sky is black, billy feels bad
Today he thinks that he'd be better off dead
He hears the pain roaring in his head
He'll close his eyes and the world turns red
Her name was hope her hair was blacker than the sky
She had a smile that made the devil cry
She held is hands, looked him in the eye
She said "believe, believe and everything will be fine."
Everything will be all right
Today's the day, you can bet on that
I heard her close the door, she ain't looking back
A twist of fate or a stroke of luck
Well, the answer's over there beyond the wishing well
Everything will be all right
Take the fire in your hands
And place it at her feet
Walk upon the mountain
Then you'll sail across the sea
Her eyes are taken from the stars above,
Her voice is five hearts breaking
Her voice is five hearts breaking
Her voice is five hearts breaking
The skies are fire and he's waiting to die
And his heart's as empty as a dead man's eyes
She held his hands, looked him in the eye
She said "believe, believe and everything will be fine."
Everything will be all right
Everything will be all right
Everything will be all right
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Pay your money, take your chances
The wheel spinning going 'round and 'round
No angels hangin' from the ceiling can save
You
No no St. Jude can't pull you out
No use in running from the shadows to
Strangers
The odds are hard, they let you down
No words written in the songs can save you
The silence drowns you, there's no way out
CHORUS:
Falling down again.Pale little girl, Falling
Down again
Don't ask me if it hurts
She walks down the street, leaves fall at
Her feet
She loves to hear them crush
You call out her name
But she just looks the other way
She ain't got the time
La la la la la, Na na na na na, ha ha
Ha ha ha
You knock on the door, but she ain't ever at
Home
So you try the phone
It rings and it rings
Till you're so sick of that thing
But you can't wish her home
La la la la la, Na na na na na, ha
Ha ha ha ha
So you write her a letter
Cause you can't think anything better
You're so proud of yourself
She tears it in two and throws it over her
Shoulder
Cause she don't want bad luck
La la la la la, Na na na na na, ha ha ha ha
Ha
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