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Immature (2012 Master)
04:24
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In the storm of solitude, my one reliant friend that makes the heart beat faster then slows it to a calm again, I find some things of wonder that open up the doors, a few more notes of laughter that bring some colour to these tired pores. Now everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. All the time I wasted shines like gold. Through my fits of laughter I try to make amends for wicked thoughts I’ve had time and again. And promise that hereafter I’ll no longer be a slave to greed and lust I’ll make my dreams behave, cos you’d be so disappointed if you knew those fickle words that were falling from my mouth to be heard. Now everything I wanted seems so … Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so seems so seems so … And it hurts to be so young, to be so misunderstood, feeling all the bad take over the good. Now Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so seems so seems so … And now I feel so ordinary.
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Here’s the thing, didn’t know what I was harbouring (it’s called desire), just enough to let myself believe that I’m in love (and walk your way), that you’re the light and I want to see it, that you’re the heat and I want to feel it. So give me something to dream about, be the reason the lights go out. Give me something to scream about, be the reason to open my mouth. Let the seasons come and go, be the reason it never gets cold so when the world falls apart, you’re the reason there’s still hope in my heart. I yearn for the beginning when nothing felt like this, to feel that first explosion, the first real kiss, and that fire in the stomach, the screaming of the heart, the beat and the rhythm that tears your dreams apart. If there’s a light then I want to see it. If there’s heat then I want to be it, that sweat that drips all over your body, just open up your lips and say you love me and give me something to dream about, be the reason the lights go out. Give me something to scream about, be the reason to open my mouth. Let the seasons come and go, be the reason it never gets cold so when the world falls apart, you’re the reason there’s still hope in my heart. Turn it up. Feel it. Let it out. Just open up your lips and say you love me and Give me something to dream about, be the reason the lights go out. Give me something to scream about, be the reason to open my mouth. Let the seasons come and go, be the reason it never gets cold so when the world falls apart, you’re the reason there’s still hope in my heart.
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Clever boy, you’ve got one eye on the clock so you don’t waste time now, do you? You’re not the same as those other wastes of space, that’s why I have time now for you. You can take these hours and do as you see fit with all my days, and I’ll take your hand and say “do what you want with me and let everybody see that I’m in love again. I’m in love again.” That you changed my mind, that you took me by surprise and I’m in love again. I’m in love again. Clever boy, you’ve got one hand on my side, don’t let me slip out of view. You can take these words right from my mouth, do with them as you will and I’ll be right here until you do what you want with me and let everybody see that I’m in love again. That you changed my mind, that you took me by surprise and I’m in love again, I’m in love again. I’m in love again.… So take your chance and make a stand, come take my hand and do what you want with me and let everybody see that I’m in love again. I’m in love again. That you changed my mind, that you took me by surprise and I’m in love again. I’m in love again.
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I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me and throw me to the floor. You found a little place in the back of my mind, so just work a little more. And think of how you want to spend the rest of your days, with all your dreams still in your head? Learn to be heard without all of the words, no good to me, they’ve all been said and I want someone who reaches out so we connect, oh I want someone who reaches out. Someone who can show me love but you keep on telling me what you want, oh you keep on telling me how I feel, but I want someone who can make me fall in love and then hit the ground running, not just keep on telling me. I’m better than the things that you want from me so take another guess and slip a little further into fantasy, just put it to the test. Think about the words that you’ve started to say, no good for me, you’ve lost your head. You’re taking it for granted that I will be around, don’t want to be your safety net cos I want someone who reaches out so we connect, oh I want someone who reaches out. Someone who can show me love but you keep on telling me what you want, oh you keep on telling me how I feel, but I want someone who can make me fall in love and then hit the ground running. Who can make me feel what you keep on telling me, show the love that you keep on telling me. I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me and throw me to the floor. I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me and throw me to the floor. I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me, oh I want someone who reaches out. Someone who can show me love but you keep on telling me what you want, oh you keep on telling me how I feel, but I want someone who can make me fall in love and then hit the ground running. Who can make me feel what you keep on telling me, show the love that you keep on telling me.
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Soon you’re bleeding but I can’t stop this love from leaving so I mop it up. You find your skin on my hands, and I find our passion gone. You ask for more time, and I ask myself again where did I go wrong? So I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong? How to change a heartbeat is so much easier said than done. One souvenir of how we were and I’m overcome. You find me left in pieces and I find our passion gone. You ask for more time, and I ask myself again where did I go wrong? I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong? I try to think of words to say but you never hear them, you never talk about it. Look how this heart slips away, oh, you never notice, you never think about it. Don’t ask for more time, just ask yourself where did I go wrong? I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong?
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Moves (2012 Master)
04:02
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Now when you’re face to face with someone what do you see? When you look at their reflection isn’t it me? Cos I can see you in me and me in you, and no matter what the distance it comes through. In a laugh, in a shadow, in a dream, when we move, no matter what the distance it comes through. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best, I guess, but then what’s the use? When it’s all I knew, moving on’s the hardest thing to do. Now when I’m face to face with someone what do I feel? When you’ve opened up to someone how do you heal? When there’s nothing left in me to get me through, when all I feel is distance, what do I do? With a laugh comes a shadow, with a dream comes a move of all the things I hide inside me right back into view. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best I guess, but then what’s the use? laugh, in a shadow, in a dream, when we move, no matter what the distance it comes through. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best, I guess, but then what’s the use? When it’s all I knew, moving on’s the hardest thing to do.
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If this is just another awkward conversation that we have, let’s leave it till morning. I want to go home, or stay out, or go dance, just not this. You seem to change your mind in a heartbeat, but still you try to keep your arm somewhere around me, well not like this. It’s not how I operate. I’m as patient as the next man, I’d like to think, but not when answers can’t be found. And I am open, I am open but I might just close if you make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the cracks are showing. You make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the line is breaking up. In the past we had fun, but not now. You’re serious, and I’m serious, that if we don’t find our way back to how things were we’re done. You seem to change your mind in a heartbeat, but still you try to keep your arm somewhere around me, and I am open, I am open but I might just close if you make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the cracks are showing. You make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the line is breaking up. That we’re breaking up. So you have your disco moment alone, I’ll stand at the side of the room. You’re dressed in light, I’m just a shadow that’s flickering. And I am open I am open but I might just close if you make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the cracks are showing. You make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the line is breaking up. That we’re breaking up.
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Got love but you don’t know what to do with it. Haven’t thought of a new word to say in so long, wouldn’t know what to do with it, so I’ll use the same old goodbyes and move on, or at least move away. Wasn’t the right thing to say at the time I know, but then what else could I do? It’s not the right way to be I know, but then some things never change about you. What is this strange thing you’re pushing my way? I don’t know what to do with it. Looks like it’s trying to be gentle but it broke my heart and so I’ll just give it back. Wasn’t the right thing to say I know but then what else could I do? And it’s not the right way to be I know but then some things never change about you. Wasn’t the right thing to say at the time I know, and it’s not the right way to be I know but then what are you gonna do? Haven’t thought of a new word to say in so long I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
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Everything is upturned, but you don’t know what you’re looking for. It’s funny in such a small room that love can get lost so soon. It was just a little heartbeat, still too fragile, and too weak to ever make it through without shattering, to ever make it through without breaking. Still I thought I saw the start of a whole new thing that could really have been something. Still, no matter how hard I squeeze this hand it’s not feeling. How do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, until the heart is yours? How do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, everything is love, and the heart is yours? Why are we so uptight if we don’t know what we’re looking for? It’s funny in such a small room there could be so much space between us. We could spend the whole night talking about this. We could spend the whole night placing the blame. We can say the same words over and over and never get to figure it out, How to make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, until the heart is yours? How to make a heart, how do you make a heart, how do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, everything is love, and the heart is yours? So I tried to build a home where there should not be and I built a little wall around me until you could not see, until you could not see, till you could no longer see me. And now there’s one more broken heart in the world, well who wants to hear about it? There’s just one more person in the corner of the room left crying “how do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, until the heart is yours?”
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Debris (2012 Master)
01:45
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One dance left. I don't know who's leading who. Your arms have gone limp and I just slipped out of your grasp. And though we might say that we're alright, it's clear that we've stepped out of time. There's something quite telling just there at the edge of your smile. And it's not that a heart has been broken it's just sad when the flames start to freeze, and the sparks that we had can no longer light up our debris. It's just part of us all growing older, facing things that we don't want to see, like a heart is a thing ever changing, and love is a thing that will come and go with the breeze.
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Grace (2012 Master)
04:32
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It takes a lot to be somebody you don’t want to be, to give somebody back what you can’t keep, hoping that a lover can be gracious in defeat knowing you could never be. It takes time. And time makes me so curious that I no longer sleep, time makes me so fickle I can’t breathe. I owe so much to love that I left drifting on the breeze. More than I can bring myself to speak. It takes time to say a word and learn to believe it, let go of what you need gone, keep hope when you don’t see it, keep on moving along, speak out what you believe in, make up for what you’ve done wrong and let it go, and start to open up again. It takes a lot to watch somebody tear at every seam knowing you’re the cause of what they feel. And pain will make them furious until they find release, until you know they’re ready to make peace. And that takes time. That takes time, to say a word and learn to believe it, let go of what you need gone, keep hope when you don’t see it, keep on moving along, speak out what you believe in, make up for what you’ve done wrong and let it go, and start to open up again. Takes a lot to see somebody cry when you care but it’s just not right. Takes a lot to see somebody cry out when you care but it’s just not right. Takes a lot to see somebody cry, takes a lot to make it right and say a word and learn to believe it, let go of what you need gone, keep hope when you don’t see it, keep on moving along, speak out what you believe in, make up for what you’ve done wrong and let it go, and start to open up again.
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Man Like Me
03:40
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It must have been quite a while since I saw the light in your eyes fade
I guess that's the price you pay when you put down roots in the wrong place
I won't talk about it
won't waste the time
You made decisions
You drew a line
You'll never follow
The root's too deep
And everyone else can see
you'll never, never never break free
from a man like him for a man like me
i'll never see you change your mind
and move your hand from his to mine
you'll never, never never break free
from a man like him for a man like me
It must have been quite the fight
hiding all the colour in your face
But you kept the light alight
Your memories in a hidden place
You made decisions
You turned the tide
And summoned cloud so you could hide
But rain will follow
That's how it goes
Everybody else knows
you'll never, never never break free
from a man like him for a man like me
i'll never see you change your mind
and move your hand from his to mine
you'll never, never never break free
from a man like him for a man like me
I know dreams are the chances that we couldn't take
I know nothing makes a difference when you're set in ways
But I know who you are
you'll never, never never break free
from a man like him for a man like me
i'll never see you change your mind
and move your hand from his to mine
you'll never, never never break free
from a man like him for a man like me
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Why
04:43
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It’s hard to think of reasons why there’s so many words we never say
Why I always end up leaving when I know inside you’re telling me to stay
Why you lose faith in language
Why you don’t let conscience be your guide
Well I’ll see you in the future
When you think it’s all over but I take you by surprise oh
I know you said you’d forget that I was ever there
The minute you see another face
But there in the back of your mind I know you keep a light
A little fire that won’t go away
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
And why all the fighting instead of just trying it out?
Why’re you so in the backseat afraid of your heartbeat?
Faking a smile why’d you waste your time?
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
Does there have to be a reason to give in to something that you want?
When it ought to be so simple but you lead us round in circles and it’s taking too long
Oh I know the moves that you make so you can get away
I’ve seen them so many times before
But I know that look in your eyes no matter how you try
You say you’re done but you always want more
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
And why all the fighting instead of just trying it out?
Why’re you so in the backseat afraid of your heartbeat?
Faking a smile why’d you waste your time?
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
Just coming around
Are you trying to save me from someone who can’t be
Enough of a man to give what I can?
Are you trying to save me from ending up lonely
Or just wasting the time that you could be by my side?
Just coming around
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
And why all the fighting instead of just trying it out?
Why’re you so in the backseat afraid of your heartbeat?
Faking a smile why’d you waste your time?
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
And why all the fighting instead of just trying it out?
Why’re you so in the backseat afraid of your heartbeat?
Faking a smile why’d you waste your time?
So why’d you keep running instead of just coming around?
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Lust
03:42
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Nothing beats the sound of these feet moving through the room straight to you
The sudden rush that makes me new
Nothing beats the feeling when you’re slipping into view
I take a picture - tear it up
Only you alone can reach the limit of my love.
I’ve kept a secret but let it slide
Though you see this face it’s only you inside
It’s not just a little lust it’s my heart burning up because it’s too much
It’s not just a little kiss it’s these lips screaming out because it’s too much
And I can’t sleep at night, don’t even try, I never lose this feeling
I can’t sleep at night
I try to stop the wheels from turning but I can’t stop the move straight to you
Other faces fade from view
Nothing makes the storm inside me quite the way you do.
No one ever gives enough. Only you alone can reach the limit of my love.
No places left to hide. Underneath this skin it’s only you inside
It’s not just a little lust it’s my heart burning up because it’s too much
It’s not just a little kiss it’s these lips screaming out because it’s too much
And I can’t sleep at night, don’t even try, I never lose this feeling
I can’t sleep at night, I’m terrified I want to keep you in, and I can’t sleep at night
Now when I speak only you come out of me
I want to keep you in
Every time I speak only you come out of me
I’ll never speak again
Every time I speak only you come out of me
I’ll never speak again
It’s not just a little lust it’s my heart burning up because it’s too much
It’s not just a little kiss it’s these lips screaming out because it’s too much
And I can’t sleep at night, don’t even try, I never lose this feeling
I can’t sleep at night, I’m terrified I want to keep you in, and I can’t sleep at night
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As If (Studio Version)
03:50
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Something calls my name and it comes from your direction I’m waiting to find out what it means
You look in my eyes for a little longer than you should and I’m waiting to find out how you feel
As if I had a choice you leave me waiting. As if I’m having fun you sit there laughing on your throne.
As if I care, you sit there watching every move I make.
Still say you’re not the one even though you leave me waiting
And you come undone every time you turn around
If you’re not the one then I don’t know what is anything close to what I need to see
Something spins me out, it’s this way you have of coming close then taking one step back and smiling.
If you don’t let me down gently, I’ll shatter, cos I’m fragile, breakable, and falling much too fast.
As if I had a choice you leave me waiting. As if I’m having fun you sit there laughing on your throne.
As if I care, you sit there watching every move I make.
Still say you’re not the one even though you leave me waiting
And you come undone every time you turn around
If you’re not the one then I don’t know what is anything close to what I need to see
Something calls my name and it comes from you
As if I care you sit there watching every move I make
Still say you’re not the one even though you leave me waiting
And you come undone every time you turn around
If you’re not the one then I don’t know what is anything close to what I need to see
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Sleepy
04:26
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If you want to kiss me do. I don’t need to hear about your past.
I do believe in history, just not right now.
So let’s smash up all the mirrors. See things with our eyes.
I like not knowing where we’re going. I live off the surprise.
So let’s open up the windows and have big dreams oh
We don’t need to worry about it it’s plain enough to see the space between my hand and your hand is full of electricity.
Something really happened here. It’s plain enough to see. The space between my hand and your hand is full of electricity.
I’m running with a pen in my hand. I’m catching every word you say. I’m keeping all our conversations for when you are away and I’m left dreaming, shouting through the open windows “let it be” oh
We don’t need to worry about it it’s plain enough to see the space between my hand and your hand is full of electricity.
Something really happened here. It’s plain enough to see. The space between my hand and your hand is full of electricity.
And I know it must be real, I’m only half asleep
We don’t need to worry about it it’s plain enough to see the space between my hand and your hand is full of electricity.
Something really happened here. It’s plain enough to see. The space between my hand and your hand is full of electricity.
And I know it must be real, I’m only half asleep.
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Soon you’re bleeding but I can’t stop this love from leaving so I mop it up. You find your skin on my hands, and I find our passion gone. You ask for more time, and I ask myself again where did I go wrong? So I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong? How to change a heartbeat is so much easier said than done. One souvenir of how we were and I’m overcome. You find me left in pieces and I find our passion gone. You ask for more time, and I ask myself again where did I go wrong? I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong? I try to think of words to say but you never hear them, you never talk about it. Look how this heart slips away, oh, you never notice, you never think about it. Don’t ask for more time, just ask yourself where did I go wrong? I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong?
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Being Sentimental
03:29
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So now I’m giving up holding up my hands, not taking anymore, need to take a stand
I’m saying little words that you’ll never understand now
Because being sentimental doesn’t get you through the day
We all need a little something to take away the pain
So no more little person left crying in the rain it’s me in the front seat
Oh, what am I gonna do? I need good love but you can’t pull through
Oh, what am I gonna do? I need good loving but not from you
Oh, what am I gonna do? Oh, what am I gonna do?
So why you look surprised? My eyes said all you never held me up, so there’ll be no fall
I’m keeping my dreams in someone else’s hands now.
Because being sentimental only drives a man insane, we all need a little something to take away the pain
No, no more little person left crying in the rain, just me in the front seat.
Oh, what am I gonna do? I need good love but you can’t pull through
Oh, what am I gonna do? I need good loving but not from you
Oh, what am I gonna do? Oh, what am I gonna do?
And through the days, and through the nights, I need someone who can fit right.
Someone who’s strong enough to let me know all these things that you just can’t show,
Oh, what am I gonna do?
Oh, what am I gonna do? I need good love but you can’t pull through
Oh, what am I gonna do? I need good loving but not from you
Oh, what am I gonna do? Oh, what am I gonna do?
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Blueprint
03:50
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It's not that I resent that you found someone
It's just I feel a bit sad that I did but couldn't hold on
And when doors close, and windows close, and then night closes in
There's just a bit too much time for thinking
So make up your mind, either you stay in touch
Or take off your hand completely, we don't need to be polite
It's that song that you were singing as you left that keeps going round my head
Oh you love this, the thought of me still holding on
Well it isn't out of longing, just from fear of being forgotten
So don't make me someone needs then say it isn't working for you
When it's you who made the blueprint, when it's all by your design
If we fall apart at the same time and I come undone at the same lines
It doesn't mean that I'm falling in love, I never have and never will
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Inside Out
03:29
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Yes I know how your heart feels, no need to make it such a big deal
Who’s to say who’s wrong when you’re all cried out
Make or break the connection with things too hard to talk about
What’s the difference between us when we’re all laid out
Between the bones and broken dreams there is still a thread that joins the seams
As far apart as we may go, it only turns us inside out
It’s not just the bad days that shake our bones
It’s the things our hearts want that will always turn us inside out
I don’t know where your mind goes, that’s something you never talk about
Make or break the connection but don’t draw this out
Between the bones and broken dreams there is still a thread that joins the seams
As far apart as we may go, it only turns us inside out
It’s not just the bad days that shake our bones
It’s the things our hearts want that turn us inside out
It’s not just the bad dreams that break our bones
It’s the things our hearts want that will always turn us inside out
As far apart as we may go, it only turns us inside out
It’s not just the bad days that shake our bones
It’s the things our hearts want that turn us inside out
It’s not just the bad dreams that break our bones
It’s the things our hearts want that will always turn us inside out
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Same Dream
04:09
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Anyone can sing, anyone can do their thing, then you, you move through the room like an open wound
You cut right through, and now I see the heart of what I want to be
We’re written on the same page, we’re faces on the same screen
It’s enough, it’s enough, it’s enough to make me put my hands up and say
Come take me home, you know we’re dancing in the same dream.
It’s enough, it’s enough, it’s enough to make me put my hands up and say
Come take me home, you know we’re dancing in the same dream.
Anyone can talk but you’re the one to turn these words from letters that leave me cold
To full blown firs, oh let it burn, you lit me up, so now let’s be the brightest lights they’ll ever see
We’re written on the same page, we’re covers of the magazines
It’s enough, it’s enough, it’s enough to make me put my hands up and say
Come take me home, you know we’re dancing in the same dream.
It’s enough, it’s enough, it’s enough to make me put my hands up and say
Come take me home, you know we’re dancing in the same dream.
Ooh maybe it’s hard to find, but it’s no trouble if you put your mind to what you want to say
We’re written in the same way
It’s enough, it’s enough, it’s enough to make me put my hands up and say
Come take me home, you know we’re dancing in the same dream.
It’s enough, it’s enough, it’s enough to make me put my hands up and say
Come take me home, you know we’re dancing in the same dream.
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Good Times
03:19
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¬If we’re not supposed to dance why does the heart beat at all?
We play this game from time to time saying we get one another
But we don’t work, and it’s alright, can’t always put two things together that well
And now everybody wants a piece of your heart cos you’re the best
Well then take them home, I’ll get out and let them through
What am I supposed to do when I know you’ll
Never give up on the good times / Never give up on the clothes you wear
Never give up on the good life / You’ll never change for someone like me
Oh everybody wants a piece of your heart cos you’re the best and it’s easy to see
How they all mistook your hot look for something more than you could ever be
All of the boys making love shout your name so why would I be doing just the same?
I’ll get out and let them through. Oh what am I supposed to do when I know you’ll
Never give up on the good times / Never give up on the clothes you wear
Never give up on the good life / You’ll never change for someone like me
You’ll never give up on the good times / Never give up on the clothes you wear
Never give up on the good life / You’ll never change for someone like me
If we’re not supposed to dance, why does the heart beat so repeatedly
If we’re not supposed to dance, why does the heart beat at all
If we’re not supposed to dance, why does my heart beat like this when I know you’ll
Never give up on the good times / Never give up on the clothes you wear
Never give up on the good life / You’ll never change for someone like me
You’ll never give up on the good times / Never give up on the clothes you wear
Never give up on the good life / You’ll never change for someone like me
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This Is Me Without You
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My heart leapt whenI remembered you and how it felt to be so close to your body
On your breath even simple words felt much louder than the streets around me
I remember thinking that you stood so still
It seemed time moved on without you
You looked just like a memory
I remember hope not even looks could kill
Not the fire in the mountains
Not when you looked at me
I remember laughing as the rain came down
How it felt just like forever
Look at me, just look at me now
This is me without you and no-one's to blame
You didn't leave me quite the way you came
But I made my peace with what you couldn't say
Now I move on without you and hope that you are doing the same
No one wept. There wasn't any need. It was nothing of a tragedy
But what we kept was a light refrain
Just the sound of someone calling your name
I remember how you looked so good
How I'd never been so happy
I'm grateful for that memory
You gave me hope that love could come again
That even when I'm lonely
There's still a little sunshine for me
I'm laughing as the rain comes down
Oh I used to be so careful
But look at me, just look at me now
This is me without you
And no-one's to blame
You didn't leave me quite the way you came
But I made my peace with what you couldn't say
Now I move on without you
And hope that you are doing the same
Sometimes when you're sleeping or falling asleep
If I'm there, I hope that now you'll picture me
Looking back with kindness, shouting aloud
That though we used to be so happy
Just look at me, Just look at me now
This is me without you
And no-one's to blame
You didn't leave me quite the way you came
But I made my peace with what you couldn't say
Now I move on without you
And hope that you are doing the same
This is me without you
This is me without you
This is me without you
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Moves ft Ian "H" Watkins
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Now when you’re face to face with someone what do you see? When you look at their reflection isn’t it me? Cos I can see you in me and me in you, and no matter what the distance it comes through. In a laugh, in a shadow, in a dream, when we move, no matter what the distance it comes through. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best, I guess, but then what’s the use? When it’s all I knew, moving on’s the hardest thing to do. Now when I’m face to face with someone what do I feel? When you’ve opened up to someone how do you heal? When there’s nothing left in me to get me through, when all I feel is distance, what do I do? With a laugh comes a shadow, with a dream comes a move of all the things I hide inside me right back into view. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best I guess, but then what’s the use? laugh, in a shadow, in a dream, when we move, no matter what the distance it comes through. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best, I guess, but then what’s the use? When it’s all I knew, moving on’s the hardest thing to do.
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In the storm of solitude, my one reliant friend that makes the heart beat faster then slows it to a calm again, I find some things of wonder that open up the doors, a few more notes of laughter that bring some colour to these tired pores. Now everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. All the time I wasted shines like gold. Through my fits of laughter I try to make amends for wicked thoughts I’ve had time and again. And promise that hereafter I’ll no longer be a slave to greed and lust I’ll make my dreams behave, cos you’d be so disappointed if you knew those fickle words that were falling from my mouth to be heard. Now everything I wanted seems so … Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so seems so seems so … And it hurts to be so young, to be so misunderstood, feeling all the bad take over the good. Now Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so immature, all the time I wasted shines like gold. Everything I wanted seems so seems so seems so … And now I feel so ordinary.
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Here’s the thing, didn’t know what I was harbouring (it’s called desire), just enough to let myself believe that I’m in love (and walk your way), that you’re the light and I want to see it, that you’re the heat and I want to feel it. So give me something to dream about, be the reason the lights go out. Give me something to scream about, be the reason to open my mouth. Let the seasons come and go, be the reason it never gets cold so when the world falls apart, you’re the reason there’s still hope in my heart. I yearn for the beginning when nothing felt like this, to feel that first explosion, the first real kiss, and that fire in the stomach, the screaming of the heart, the beat and the rhythm that tears your dreams apart. If there’s a light then I want to see it. If there’s heat then I want to be it, that sweat that drips all over your body, just open up your lips and say you love me and give me something to dream about, be the reason the lights go out. Give me something to scream about, be the reason to open my mouth. Let the seasons come and go, be the reason it never gets cold so when the world falls apart, you’re the reason there’s still hope in my heart. Turn it up. Feel it. Let it out. Just open up your lips and say you love me and Give me something to dream about, be the reason the lights go out. Give me something to scream about, be the reason to open my mouth. Let the seasons come and go, be the reason it never gets cold so when the world falls apart, you’re the reason there’s still hope in my heart.
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Clever boy, you’ve got one eye on the clock so you don’t waste time now, do you? You’re not the same as those other wastes of space, that’s why I have time now for you. You can take these hours and do as you see fit with all my days, and I’ll take your hand and say “do what you want with me and let everybody see that I’m in love again. I’m in love again.” That you changed my mind, that you took me by surprise and I’m in love again. I’m in love again. Clever boy, you’ve got one hand on my side, don’t let me slip out of view. You can take these words right from my mouth, do with them as you will and I’ll be right here until you do what you want with me and let everybody see that I’m in love again. That you changed my mind, that you took me by surprise and I’m in love again, I’m in love again. I’m in love again.… So take your chance and make a stand, come take my hand and do what you want with me and let everybody see that I’m in love again. I’m in love again. That you changed my mind, that you took me by surprise and I’m in love again. I’m in love again.
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I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me and throw me to the floor. You found a little place in the back of my mind, so just work a little more. And think of how you want to spend the rest of your days, with all your dreams still in your head? Learn to be heard without all of the words, no good to me, they’ve all been said and I want someone who reaches out so we connect, oh I want someone who reaches out. Someone who can show me love but you keep on telling me what you want, oh you keep on telling me how I feel, but I want someone who can make me fall in love and then hit the ground running, not just keep on telling me. I’m better than the things that you want from me so take another guess and slip a little further into fantasy, just put it to the test. Think about the words that you’ve started to say, no good for me, you’ve lost your head. You’re taking it for granted that I will be around, don’t want to be your safety net cos I want someone who reaches out so we connect, oh I want someone who reaches out. Someone who can show me love but you keep on telling me what you want, oh you keep on telling me how I feel, but I want someone who can make me fall in love and then hit the ground running. Who can make me feel what you keep on telling me, show the love that you keep on telling me. I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me and throw me to the floor. I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me and throw me to the floor. I’m waiting for the feeling to get to me, oh I want someone who reaches out. Someone who can show me love but you keep on telling me what you want, oh you keep on telling me how I feel, but I want someone who can make me fall in love and then hit the ground running. Who can make me feel what you keep on telling me, show the love that you keep on telling me.
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Soon you’re bleeding but I can’t stop this love from leaving so I mop it up. You find your skin on my hands, and I find our passion gone. You ask for more time, and I ask myself again where did I go wrong? So I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong? How to change a heartbeat is so much easier said than done. One souvenir of how we were and I’m overcome. You find me left in pieces and I find our passion gone. You ask for more time, and I ask myself again where did I go wrong? I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong? I try to think of words to say but you never hear them, you never talk about it. Look how this heart slips away, oh, you never notice, you never think about it. Don’t ask for more time, just ask yourself where did I go wrong? I cry at films that show me a good life, that show where I want to be, that show where we should be now, I don’t know, where did I go wrong?
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44. |
Moves (Extended Version)
05:53
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Now when you’re face to face with someone what do you see? When you look at their reflection isn’t it me? Cos I can see you in me and me in you, and no matter what the distance it comes through. In a laugh, in a shadow, in a dream, when we move, no matter what the distance it comes through. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best, I guess, but then what’s the use? When it’s all I knew, moving on’s the hardest thing to do. Now when I’m face to face with someone what do I feel? When you’ve opened up to someone how do you heal? When there’s nothing left in me to get me through, when all I feel is distance, what do I do? With a laugh comes a shadow, with a dream comes a move of all the things I hide inside me right back into view. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best I guess, but then what’s the use? laugh, in a shadow, in a dream, when we move, no matter what the distance it comes through. We can move apart I guess and I can move along I guess and I can do my best, I guess, but then what’s the use? When it’s all I knew, moving on’s the hardest thing to do.
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If this is just another awkward conversation that we have, let’s leave it till morning. I want to go home, or stay out, or go dance, just not this. You seem to change your mind in a heartbeat, but still you try to keep your arm somewhere around me, well not like this. It’s not how I operate. I’m as patient as the next man, I’d like to think, but not when answers can’t be found. And I am open, I am open but I might just close if you make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the cracks are showing. You make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the line is breaking up. In the past we had fun, but not now. You’re serious, and I’m serious, that if we don’t find our way back to how things were we’re done. You seem to change your mind in a heartbeat, but still you try to keep your arm somewhere around me, and I am open, I am open but I might just close if you make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the cracks are showing. You make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the line is breaking up. That we’re breaking up. So you have your disco moment alone, I’ll stand at the side of the room. You’re dressed in light, I’m just a shadow that’s flickering. And I am open I am open but I might just close if you make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the cracks are showing. You make it so hard to be around, it’s no surprise that the line is breaking up. That we’re breaking up.
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Got love but you don’t know what to do with it. Haven’t thought of a new word to say in so long, wouldn’t know what to do with it, so I’ll use the same old goodbyes and move on, or at least move away. Wasn’t the right thing to say at the time I know, but then what else could I do? It’s not the right way to be I know, but then some things never change about you. What is this strange thing you’re pushing my way? I don’t know what to do with it. Looks like it’s trying to be gentle but it broke my heart and so I’ll just give it back. Wasn’t the right thing to say I know but then what else could I do? And it’s not the right way to be I know but then some things never change about you. Wasn’t the right thing to say at the time I know, and it’s not the right way to be I know but then what are you gonna do? Haven’t thought of a new word to say in so long I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
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Everything is upturned, but you don’t know what you’re looking for. It’s funny in such a small room that love can get lost so soon. It was just a little heartbeat, still too fragile, and too weak to ever make it through without shattering, to ever make it through without breaking. Still I thought I saw the start of a whole new thing that could really have been something. Still, no matter how hard I squeeze this hand it’s not feeling. How do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, until the heart is yours? How do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, everything is love, and the heart is yours? Why are we so uptight if we don’t know what we’re looking for? It’s funny in such a small room there could be so much space between us. We could spend the whole night talking about this. We could spend the whole night placing the blame. We can say the same words over and over and never get to figure it out, How to make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, until the heart is yours? How to make a heart, how do you make a heart, how do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, everything is love, and the heart is yours? So I tried to build a home where there should not be and I built a little wall around me until you could not see, until you could not see, till you could no longer see me. And now there’s one more broken heart in the world, well who wants to hear about it? There’s just one more person in the corner of the room left crying “how do you make a heart light up until everything is fireworks, until the heart is yours?”
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One dance left. I don't know who's leading who. Your arms have gone limp and I just slipped out of your grasp. And though we might say that we're alright, it's clear that we've stepped out of time. There's something quite telling just there at the edge of your smile. And it's not that a heart has been broken it's just sad when the flames start to freeze, and the sparks that we had can no longer light up our debris. It's just part of us all growing older, facing things that we don't want to see, like a heart is a thing ever changing, and love is a thing that will come and go with the breeze.
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49. |
Grace (Extended Version)
05:28
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It takes a lot to be somebody you don’t want to be, to give somebody back what you can’t keep, hoping that a lover can be gracious in defeat knowing you could never be. It takes time. And time makes me so curious that I no longer sleep, time makes me so fickle I can’t breathe. I owe so much to love that I left drifting on the breeze. More than I can bring myself to speak. It takes time to say a word and learn to believe it, let go of what you need gone, keep hope when you don’t see it, keep on moving along, speak out what you believe in, make up for what you’ve done wrong and let it go, and start to open up again. It takes a lot to watch somebody tear at every seam knowing you’re the cause of what they feel. And pain will make them furious until they find release, until you know they’re ready to make peace. And that takes time. That takes time, to say a word and learn to believe it, let go of what you need gone, keep hope when you don’t see it, keep on moving along, speak out what you believe in, make up for what you’ve done wrong and let it go, and start to open up again. Takes a lot to see somebody cry when you care but it’s just not right. Takes a lot to see somebody cry out when you care but it’s just not right. Takes a lot to see somebody cry, takes a lot to make it right and say a word and learn to believe it, let go of what you need gone, keep hope when you don’t see it, keep on moving along, speak out what you believe in, make up for what you’ve done wrong and let it go, and start to open up again.
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Bright Light Bright Light New York, New York
Making electronic pop music & score for film & TV since 2009.
80s/90s pop culture enthusiast, avid record collector, and artist who has toured with Elton John, Cher, Erasure, Ellie Goulding, Scissor Sisters and John Grant.
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