1.Hiding From Your Love
Oh I came from the sun but I landed in the snow
Had my own reasons but nowhere to go
I knocked on the door of that old shabby bar
Where you stood on the stage with your
beat-up guitar
I waited for the band to break and we spoke
I gave you my name and you offered me a smoke
Well the sirens were screamin' at a full moon
that night
You said can I ring you and I said goodnight
and went...
Hiding from your love
Oh yeah hiding from your love
I walked through the avenues with those
dirt-lettered names
Each criminal so different,
yet somehow we're the same
They walked up to me, seeing something in my eyes
When I took up their offer they were not surprised
I sent myself flying above the noise and the squalor
Couldn't wait to get home and pick up the phone
By then I was feeling just a little bit taller
And thinking I might like to not be alone and be...
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Well I told you about Mama then we talked about Jesus
I told you about a trailer in the woods all alone
Said I would meet you at the corner of Seventh
Well you should've known that I'd never show
and I'd be...
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2.Sad Salvation
Sometimes love is a sad salvation
You can't stay warm in it's feeble glow
Sometimes love is a sad salvation
But it's the only love she knows
She smiles at the children selling candy on the street
Remembers the good old days, a life so bittersweet
Listens to the schoolgirls sing their songs a little louder
And with the weight of the world she walks a little prouder
He's waiting upstairs, hasn't been out for a while
She cries as she feeds him, she lives for his smile
Speaks with his eyes, goodbye, they're saying
They tremble inside, they can hear eachother's heart breaking
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With tired eyes and a weary soul
She stares at the past frozen on her wall
Seems like a million years, feels like only yesterday
That he lived in those eyes - now so far away
She lays down beside him like she's done for years and years
Kisses his face, so wet from her tears
Will she wake up alone - she don't wanna go to sleep
She curses life for giving her - what it just can't let her keep
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Her hands start to tremble as she packs up his clothes
Everything's got a story - now only she knows
She sighs then she smiles, surprising herself
Even through the hard times she could never love anybody else
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3.Lonely For A Lifetime
I've been walking 'round all night long
I'm wondering if you're gonna let me come home
I know last time you did I swore things
wouldn't be like this anymore
But something grabbed a hold of me
Sent me spinning through the air
When I hit the ground not a soul was around
and honey I'm just so scared
I've been lonely for a lifetime
Won't you let me come inside
It's getting dark and I can't find
No place for me to hide
I've been lonely for a lifetime
Won't you spare me a little love
I know that I have bled you dry
But one night would be enough
Cause it's all I need
Now it's nearly early dawn
and I could use a nice warm bed
But you're telling me it's cold
since I've been gone,
I need to try somewhere else instead
But honey I'm just so tired
I've been out walking with the living dead
Spending hour after hour of senseless talking
Chasing dreams inside my head
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4.Strung Out
I woke up to the sounds of breaking glass
Tried to remember where I was last
Blood on my hands none in my veins
I went back to the avenue to do it again
I kept on telling myself I must be doing alright
Somehow I'd made it to another night
Then I saw you standing there
Well suddenly I didn't care about anything
I'm so strung out on you
There's nothing left of me
But the life I took from the air you breathed
I'm so strung out on you
There's nothing left of me
But the life I lost and a memory of you
I was running from my hunger to find what I craved
Felt myself going under but I wasn't afraid
Starving to taste the sight of you
So weak that I knew I might not ever get to
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I went searching for the soul that led me here
Tried to find some faith in all this fear
And there you were still standing there
well nothing matters - I just don't care
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I woke up to the sounds of breaking glass
Tried to remember what happened last
Blood on my hands but feeling no pain
I went back to the avenue to it again
And again
5.I Know You Know
I can see you in my mind's eye
Whiskey and cigarettes - you won't cry
Afraid a tear might spill your cup over
And you'd just drown in the overflow
flooded by a truth you don't wanna know
So you empty your cup, never quenching your thirst
Well there's a hard rain ready to blow
Waiting for you to say you know
And I know you know
I can hear you in every word I say
wishing you would hear yourself that way
but a voice that loud might shatter glass
Then your house could come crashing down
And cut you with it's piercing sound
And your heart might never stop bleeding for you
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Oh what a shame that you won't just let the rain
Ever really show you all the life that it could bring
It hurts leaving you behind
But I've already wasted so much time
Cause you're not getting better
And I can't wait forever
I can feel you in everything I do
Wishing that you could do it too
But I think by now you ought to know you can
But you refuse to try
So tell me baby, why should I
Well I think now that I ought to try not to
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6.Fading Away
Oh misguided soul
You say you're not like every so and so
You like to think you know
Just how far everything should go and so
You never really try
to reach the bottom that you buried alive inside
So your story goes
A shallow river but it flows and flows
You almost made it
You got so jaded along the way
You almost made it but your heart couldn't take it
When you gave it away
And now you're fading away
You said that time's so cruel
Still lickin' wounds that it left on you
Too many scars to care
No time to heal 'em then why so much to spare
The times that hurt so bad
You look back on them and long for what we had
Oh what a hand to play
But you took the cards and threw them away
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Oh what a lucky break
Nobody watched you make a single mistake
You get to keep your pride
But I get to watch it eat you alive
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7.Songbird (Fly Me To Sleep)
Sipping my coffee just killing time
Turning through the pages one by one in my mind
Saw a child in a daydream, what a beautiful sight
Then I saw an open window and a songbird in flight
Years went by maybe we talked here and there
About things that didn't matter it seemed better
not to care
Wish I would've told you
Your voice soothed my pain
Wish it could have soothed yours now
Yours seems in vain, so I say...
Songbird fly me to sleep, songbird fly me to sleep,
Songbird fly me to sleep, oh songbird fly
Looking back I can see now
what I couldn't see then
Must have known somehow the way this would end
Can't help but wonder when there was ever a choice
But all I wanted to hear then was your sweet
songbird voice, so I'd say...
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You took a lonely ride to
Get beyond all the shame and tears
What made you decide to
Was there nothing more that could keep you here
In a world that wouldn't hear you
Oh songbird fly
Sipping my coffee just killing time
Flipping through the pages one by one in my mind
Saw a child in a daydream such a beautiful sight
Now she'll dream forever think she'll be alright
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8.Tell Me I'm Not Drinking
Couldn't believe it when
I woke up here again
Without a single friend in the world
Twisted up inside
I cheated and I lied
Seemed the best way to get by in your world
Tell me I'm not drinking
Cause everything's unclear
I'll wake in the morning to find you here
Last night I had it all
I didn't care you didn't call
There was nothing I could do about you
Feels like a gun inside my head
Sending bullets through my heart
It hurts to take a single breath without you
Now I wish I could have stayed in the paradise you
tried to make but that world - oh it's for someone else
You can't see me now, I'm just a tired ghost in a
smoke-filled crowd - I'd rather look at you from
outside myself
So I stumble through each day
But I'm free to choose my way
And there's this peaceful emptiness all around me
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9.Bible Baby
Mama's first baby, barely two
Daddy needed the bottle more than you
Praise the Lord - Hallelujah - you're alive
Mama got a rap sheet keepin' you fed
said there was nothing to do instead
Praise the Lord - Hallelujah - you're alive
Now run off to your room
Put that Bible in your hand
Don't expect to see you soon
Looks like you found your promise land
Praise the Lord - Hallelujah - you're alive
Barely 17 and a voice of gold
gave up the guitar to save your soul
Mama keeps saying everything's cool
but you know different from the kids in school
Praise the Lord - Hallelujah - you're alive
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Now the world just thinks you're crazy
The preachers say you're lazy
But glory to the Highest - glory to the Highest
Mama's poor baby at 32 - Daddy's still drunk,
he blames you
Praise the Lord - Hallelujah - you're alive
Gave up on the world you never saw
Gave your life to a God that ignored it all
Praise the Lord - Hallelujah - you're alive
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10.Bad Seed
Yeah you heard it right, that's what I said
I wanna grow up to be young and dead
Run with the worst-I wanna finish last
Don't want a future rather drown in the past
Wanna be blind, stupid, lazy, and bored
tortured and crazy, outcast and ignored
Truly hated - I wanna be a bad seed
So what if I had all those little girl dreams
Now I know that's just some junk on a screen
I got my own plan and if all goes well
I'm guaranteed a lifetime of living hell
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Well I've had this hole in my heart
for some time
All of my life I've had something to hide
Thanks for nothing, I guess you meant well
But I better be going I got a body to sell
Won't you come around if your ghost surrenders
Take one look at me and I'm sure you'll remember
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