1. |
I Love You Pookie
07:01
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I said hold, hold me now
Hold me in your arms
And find peace
I said stop, stop worrying about
All the things
Things you cannot fix
I said come, come to me
Let me fill you up with my seed
I said dream
It’s all a dream
What will it be when we wake
Sky is blue, shining now
Waiting for you
And I'm still here
Say without fear that I
I can't live without you
Without you
I said see, see me as I am
Look me in the eye
Don’t turn away
Well we can blow, we can blow our minds
Change our path and make it real
I said be, c’mon and be with me
Don’t deny what you feel
It can be true
True as you want it to be
Just let me in to your heart
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2. |
No Such Thing
03:56
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We grow up hearing stories
As old as all time
About how one day we will find ourselves the one
And we go through life hoping
Waiting for the moment
When our great love will jump out of oblivion
There’s no such thing
No such thing as love
It’s just a tale we’ve told for eternity
There’s no such thing
No such thing as love
It is bad faith
It is fantasy
We live out our lives
Of quiet desperation
Because deep inside we know it’s all a lie
But we write our books
And compose our songs
In a way that seems to belie
Tell me what I want to hear
Lie to me so sweetly
Lie to me completely
What would we not give
To have our dream come true
To have a lover like none before
All you need is love
All you need is love they say
But what is that love I implore
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3. |
Pretty Little One
06:15
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I can recall when I first fell so hard
You looked right through me and I swooned
There was something blue
In your soft green eyes
You disarmed me and the walls fell down, down
I will walk you out of the desert, you said
And I believed you
'Cause I wanted to believe
I will take you by the hand, you said
I held out my hand and you pulled away
My pretty little one, my pretty little one
Forever and ever, I remember
My pretty little one, my pretty little one
Forever and ever, I remember
My pretty little one, I remember
My pretty little one, forever and ever
I can recall when it first took shape
Like camera lens coming to focus
And I rushed to meet the tide
And I felt bowled over
Mostly ‘cause I was fool enough let you in
I let you take over
And you ran the joint right into the ground
You tossed a match and set the whole world on fire
And we danced among the ruins
And we drank and we died laughing
What do I see, what is you and what is me
One plus one is three
I could be angry but the anger would kill the love
Because love is fragile and anger devours it
And I don’t want what we have
To come to ruins
To be like all those others
All the others who lost their patience
And left me alone out in this desert
That I mentioned above
I just want to feel love
Hold on to it tight
I want to hold onto that love forever
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4. |
Two Halves of a Whole
04:43
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You got me and I got you
That’s all there is and always shall be
You’re in my heart and I am in your soul
This is real not some fantasy
It’s you and me
Two bodies, one soul
It’s you and me
Two halves of a whole
You are my buddy and I am yours
I know your quirks and you know my flaws
I look out for you and you look out for me
We are each other Santa Claus
One and one together
That takes two
That takes two
It’s right there in the math
There is me
And there is y-o-u
We are a perfect fit
Plumb, level and square
Glued, screwed and tattooed
Rocking in a wishing chair
You complete me and I complete you
You are my yin and I am your yang
Together we form a most perfect union
We wield more power than the Big Bang
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5. |
My Problem
04:36
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I made a lot of goofs
I hit a lot of snags
I screwed my shit up royally
I blew my chances
Of ever finding love
Yeah that's the story of me
That’s the story
But the thing that bugs me most
The thing that hurts me down to the bone
Is that thing that's doomed me from the start
I’ve wracked my brain the best I could
But I never understood
I never understood my own heart
I done a lot of bad
I caused a lot of pain
And I did it mostly unwittingly
My whole life is joke
Just not funny ha-ha
And I have suffered befittingly
I made a big mess
I didn’t clean it up
And now it’s coming back to haunt me
I have paid the price
Paid it back with interest
So why do my failures still taunt me
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6. |
Got Me Good
03:45
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Once a believer
Always a believer
That's been my lifelong MO
Tell me what I wanna hear
Tell me so sweetly
Talk to me like Marilyn Monroe
You got me
You got me good
You got me right where I live
You got me
You got me good
And I won’t forget or forgive
I gave you my heart
You held in your hands
And then you squeezed it till it burst
Now there’s blood everywhere
Hither and yon
All my guts have been dispersed
I recall what you did
What you did and did not do
I recall when you said you loved me
Then you pulled a switcheroo
There’s a look in your eyes
Is it a twinkle
Or is it an evil stare
Are you gonna save me
Are you gonna love me hard
Or are you my worst nightmare
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7. |
I Will Not Love You
04:25
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You got all your theories
And they make perfect sense to you
You got all your feelings
And they feel real intense to you
This is what you think
And this is your fantasy
But no matter what you think
It has nothing to do with me
I will not love you
Not now, not ever
I will never feel what you feel
Not now, not for forever
I will not love you
You got all your needs
And you want them fulfilled
You got all your desires
All of which you have willed
This is what you want
This is you down in your core
But you’re not in my heart
Didn’t I make that clear before
It's never gonna happen, no way and no how
Not today, not tomorrow, and never not now
You think that I’m the one
The girl of your dreams
And you wanna go on thinking it
Because to you that’s how it seems
But don't go presuming
Don't think you know what's on my mind
I don’t feel nothing for you
Sorry if that sounds unkind
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8. |
Come to Think of It
04:48
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I am trying to see it from a realistic point of view
Who do I think you are
And who is actually you
Are you a saint or are a scoundrel
Or are you somewhere in the middle
I don't know 'cause how can I know
When you are an endless riddle
Come to think of it
You must be somewhere in between
That's what I can make of it
'Cause I don't know what you mean
I'm trying to understand
Why I can't stop the way that I feel
Not a second goes by
When my feelings don't feel totally real
If this is not love, if this is not passion
Then what exactly is happening
I've felt it for so long
The feeling is so strong
And it shows no signs of slackening
There's a glimmer I feel
And shines and shines and shines
It has shot right through me
Like an arrow through a valentines
I feel helpless
Like I can't control my emotion
You have cast a spell on me
With your strange and powerful potion
How can you stand back
And act so indifferent
When you see me in agony
Please do something
'Cause if you don't
There'll be nothing left of me
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9. |
Ballad of the Slim Man
05:20
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I grew up in a house that had no love
So I never learned that skill
My parents didn't get it
And my sisters too
And they likely don't get it still
I stumbled around for so many years
Breaking hearts unwittingly
Got married and divorced a whole bunch of times
For so reasons I did not foresee
And when I look back
On that house that had no love
And I know it's still around
I just wanna burn it
I just wanna burn it to the ground
Burn it to the ground
My parents are gone now
But my sisters are still around
They've led quite productive lives
Linda's a teacher and Robby did good too
Both of them have made such dutiful wives
But something's missing
Something that can't be seen
But they don't wanna know
What I wanna find
And when I tell them
They stare at me kind of blank
And say, I've made it all up in my mind
And when I look back
On that house that had no love
And I know it's still around
I just wanna burn it
I just wanna burn it to the ground
Burn it to the ground
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It was a lifetime ago
But it seems like only yesterday
I gave it all I had but then I
Then I just had to get away
I'm sorry if you are mad at me
I didn't mean to bring you down
But I just couldn't take it, no I just couldn't take it
I just couldn't stick around
It was a lifetime away
But it feels just around the bend
When I go to sleep at night
It's into that world I descend
I don't mean to get you all worked up
I don't mean to raise your ire
But I can't see me, see hanging 'round
That's not my desire
I won't be seeing you again
Never and a day, never and a day
I won't be seeing you again
Won't come back this way
It was a lifetime of pain
One I can't seem to shake for the life of me
Can't you see what I was going through
Poke your head out of your canopy
I know I said it a thousand times
But I finally made good on my word
Look out side your window my friend
That's me, that there bird
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11. |
Sly and Unseen
04:31
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Somewhere out there
Something grim and dark awaits
And it can’t be denied no matter how hard we try
It is our common fate
It is our common bond
This common ground somewhere beyond the sky
It is a day which lay sly and unseen
Among all the other days of the year
Giving no sign or sound when we passed over it
But nonetheless it is surely there
We make up our stories
To explain it all away
But they are fairy tales to disguise the facts
We got no choice
We are not in control
So it’s just as well to sit back and relax
We can stare in the mirror
We can admire our fairness
But one day all our charms will disappear
We are an animal
But not just any animal
And we waste away our days living in fear
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12. |
Fly Away
06:07
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Some glad morning when this life is over
I will fly away
To a home on the celestial shore
I will fly away
I'll fly away, oh glory
I will fly away
When I die
Hallelujah by and by
I will fly away
Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly
In the sweet by and by
Just a few weary more days and then
I will fly away
To a land where joy will never end
I will fly away
I will fly away
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high over vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
When the shadows of this life have grown
I will fly away
Like a bird from prison bars has flown
l will fly away
l will fly away
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