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Another Broken Heart
03:51
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Caught by the silver light shine
As the sun begins to rise
You’ve packed your case because soon you’ll fly
To a better place and a better time
To a city that has no heart
Only downtown and uptown apart
Flying across the biblical scene
You’ll see deserts and a middle that's mean and red
I know that you’re feeling upset
I know that you’re falling apart
Shadows fall upon your face
The sun is in your eyes
A photograph with a battered case
A broken heart inside
As you leave behind the lies
You can begin again
The films will let you pretend
To live your life as it should be
Away from the small town Holy See
The glittering prize in your eyes
I know what the carapace hides
A girl sat alone, a girl in the dark
The innocence ends, and now we’re apart, alone
Western sky dividing
It leads as if you were sent
Black and white decided
But blood red in the end
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2. |
Steps To The Ruins
02:30
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Walking up the steps to the ruins
They’re bathed in light
Waking up with you in a room that’s painted white
These are fleeting glimpses
These are memories living
Sitting in the garden at night
I’m watching stars
Staring at the darkness the light
It breaks apart
And I can see you reading
Through an open window
All these thoughts are second hand
They don’t belong to me
You are here forever, not gone
I think about you every day
I think about you every day
You and I are talking
You and I at home
The room is full of people
Soon we’ll be alone
What will happen next?
What will happen next?
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3. |
Port Of Shadows
02:38
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Stuck in a room
This is your hideout
You need some new clothes
Some money to go away
This girl is your friend
She can help you lay low
Get a job and some time
On a ship that leaves here tomorrow
Why don’t you just save yourself my friend?
Because you know that passion is the end.
The light here is weak
And the rain it keeps pouring
And the trees never move
And the alleyways are your prison
The girl is caught up
In some kind of nightmare
And you cannot leave
You cannot leave her alone
Why don’t you just save yourself my friend?
Because you know that passion is the end.
All along you knew this was the end
You had no choice
A bullet in the back for a love affair
With a girl just like you
Happiness is fleeting
And what then?
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4. |
These Things Happen
02:59
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Through the rain and lights I see
A mirror
In a storefront, a different life
I’m thinner
I walk with you
Through empty streets
I feel your touch
I feel the heat
Of your breath
And these things happen to
The ones you love
No more words or deeds
What’s done is done
The things that we have to do
The things that we have to do
The palest light
The merest slight forgotten
A push a shove
And then he’s gone
It happened
The TVs on, but no-ones in
And you complain about the din
To yourself
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4 O'Clock In The Morning
03:39
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Ghosts, they walk tall through these halls
You know exactly who they are
They won’t leave you alone
You get the fear late at night
When there's nothing to be done
Why can’t you sleep on your own?
And this is how naked you’re feeling
Exposed and alone after dark
Oh, the sadness that you harbor
Alive and still breathing hereafter
It’s 4 o’clock in the morning,
Why aren’t you sleeping?
Still up at night up at times
You are worried about your life
Where did it all go wrong?
Hidden by the light these small things
Will drag you down if you like
If you let them take a hold
4 o’clock in the morning
When the world is still sleeping
It hits and you wake up
But there is no reason
The guilt and betrayal
Like the life you’ve abandoned
When you were still a poet
When you were young and handsome
And this is how naked you’re feeling
Exposed and alone after dark
You should be sleeping and dreaming
The night and the day kept apart
Oh, the sadness that you harbor
Alive and still breathing hereafter
At 4 o’clock in the morning
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Boy Of Your Dreams
03:00
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You don’t know what you’re thinking
The meter clicks, a penny drops
You’re just minutes from you meeting
You’re looking good but you are lost
And how much does the ticket cost?
Take the subway to the city
You see a friend and you both smile
Then she leaves and you’re lonely
You were happy for a while
And you think, but you don’t dial
Make yourself up
Drag yourself out
Spend the evening
With a boy you don’t care about
See the boy at the bus stop
He’s the one you’re supposed to love
Thinks that he’s so special
He’s sent from up above
You just hope that he’s not dumb.
Make yourself up
Drag yourself out
Spend the evening
With a boy you don’t care about
Everything’s turning to dust
Well you should go if you must
Everything’s turning to dust
Well you should go if you must
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Manhattan
02:47
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While you’re living in Manhattan
Nothing good will ever happen
Join me across the river
You know you should live here
Break off all ties today
Think of all the friends that you could make
You’re feeling so lonely
I wish that you’d get to know me
Strange days wondering
All alone with your view
See me waiting
Across the East River
I will be here
For you
While you’re living in Manhattan
Nothing good will ever happen
Join me across the river
I wish that you would live here
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8. |
Only An Ocean
03:00
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It’s only an ocean it can’t stop me
It’s only a moment that holds me back
I can see you on the shoreline
I can see you waving back
I am drifting on the water
I am waiting, what will I catch?
Going nowhere round in circles
Bobbing slowly, I can’t get back
All my dreams are driftwood
Abandoned on the shore
I wish you’d come and save me
If only I’d known you then
The sun is shining on the water
The sun it dazzles and I’m blind
Let me know when I can call you
I am waiting for the tide
You know, what happens next
Leaving an empty wreck
Falling for someone
That never knew your name
Falling for someone
Who lives alone like you do
That never cared like I do
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9. |
Teary Eyes (1959)
02:04
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Everything in this room’s real
Everything in your head dreams
Go outside and get yourself a job
Is there room in outer space?
Could we ever give a you place?
It’s not for you, you don’t belong to that crowd
No matter how you kick and cry out loud
You were born working class
How you have the nerve to ask
Get out of this room
Come back next year, please son
I’ll sign you up for something you won’t love
Every dream in your head died
Didn’t I tell you not to cry?
A tear wells up in your eye and they laugh
Well I suppose you had to ask
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10. |
The Night Tells No Lies
03:24
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A mother would hang
On the cross for her boy
She has nothing
So she has no choice
Just a dusty road
And a long walk home
To a room unloved where
The curtains are torn
They gave up the ghost
Like the scene they adorn
It’s the cemetery view
And a life that’s through
The night tells no lies
It conceals
The pain, and the trials
And the truth it reveals who you are
As your past catches up, breaks your heart
It breaks your heart
A dream of a life
In a town you can see
Just out of reach
Overlooking the sea
It’s what you want
Just what everybody’s got
You’ll go out walking
In the warm summer night
The churches in ruins
As they ruined your life
Because you had no choice
Oh, because you have no voice
The evil we do
Along the highway
You’d better walk straight
And do things that way
Innocent lives
Get lost pretending
When all you want
Is a better ending
You’ll find out why
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Pale Lights Brooklyn, New York
Pale Lights are from New York. They are Phil Sutton, Lisa Goldstein, Andy Adler, Suzanne Nienaber. and Maria Pace.
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