one thing i know / it took nothing to get you going and maybe i'm just running late
/ i hit another twist of fate and the perfect life that we never found
it keeps dragging me down
it keeps dragging me down
this heart's too old for a world that runs this cold but who says that
giving in, is any way to start again and the simple truth never made a sound
it keeps dragging me down
it keeps dragging me down
it keeps dragging me down
it keeps dragging me down
and the token little chance that you thought you gave to me / was nothing but a joke and the joke is on me one
thing that's true / i had it all 'till i found you / and there's no making sense there's no dealing
with the present tense / and the simple life that we never found
it keeps dragging me down
it keeps dragging me down
it keeps dragging me down
it keeps dragging me down
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we think about the comical direction / i might've taken if i'd never learned
there's no time for happy ever after / there's no time for walking in the surf
there are no words i could ever mumble / that could touch
the depths of what you're worth /
and it's me who wants it all to be now / to be somehow perfect /
me that wants it all to be right / to be something sacred /
you write down your intimate perceptions / you write down your disenchanted prose /
breathe deep the air of your existence / anything to understand the life you chose
'cause it's me who wants it all to be now / to be somehow perfect /
me that wants it all to be right / to be something sacred, to be something sacred /
and i don't understand the reason why; a cry for love gets no reply /
the refuse swirling at my feet, the fascination with deceit /
the politics of empty men, the confidence we all pretend /
the multitudes at every gate, the unexpected hand of fate /
and it's me who wants it all to be now to be somehow perfect /
me that wants it all to be right / to be something sacred
Close Windowit's already gone, it's already over / before i could even try / never to become,
never to begin / it's already gone /
it's already gone, it's all there behind me / all tangled and confused
every little thought, every little hope / it's already gone /
and how unfair, there's nothing waiting for me there / and how unkind this moment /
i've said it before, i'll say it forever / it's all tangled and confused / never to become, never to begin /
it's already gone /
and how unfair, there's nothing waiting for me there / and how unkind this moment /
i've said it before, i'll say it forever it's all tangled and confused / never to become, never to begin /
it's already gone / every little thought, every little hope it's already gone
Close Windowonce was not enough but twice i nearly died / fate was in my cup and i drank it down /
now inside of this i can't believe my eyes no one's at the door but i heard a sound /
and oh it leads me on / is it love that keeps me here, is it love that keeps me here /
to someday find it gone / is it love that keeps me here, is it love that keeps me here /
i was not the one and how you made it clear that you were not the one and i started falling /
here outside of this i can't believe my ears / somebody's in my way but nobody's calling /
and oh it leads me on / is it love that keeps me
here, is it love that keeps me here / to someday find it gone / is it love that keeps me here,
is it love that keeps me here /
and i can't believe my answers all ran dry and i don't know where i'm going now but i'm not asking why /
here's my problem now i've got it in my head / that i might get through this without even trying /
and here's the one thing that i can't seem to do without / how'd it come to this oh lord tell me now and
oh it leads me on / is it love that keeps me here / is it love that keeps me here /
to someday find it gone / is it love that keeps me here / is it love that keeps me here
Close Windowshe's a big noise in an empty room / she gets attention like a sonic boom /
she moves around me like the air i breathe / gets inside of me and she never leaves someday i'll find my way back in / somehow i'll cross that bridge again / and then i won't have to pretend / to be unbroken
she's a snowstorm on the 12th of june / she's a phone call that ends too soon
she quotes a movie when you need advice / draws you pictures in the window ice
someday i'll find my way back in / somehow i'll cross that bridge again and then i won't have to pretend /
to be unbroken / and everything about her circles me / preys on me like a thief /
and everything about me drags her down kills her without a sound /
someday i'll find my way back in / somehow i'll cross that bridge again /
and then i won't have to pretend / someday i'll find my way back in / somehow i'll cross that bridge again /
and then i won't have to pretend / to be unbroken, to be unbroken, to be unbroken
Close Windowpicking up the pieces of another broken day watching the sun silently slip away /
tell me what it's all about / i'm living in a world of doubt / there's a new world coming; the old
world's moving out /
i've got a picture of us hanging on the bedroom wall / we were laughing and dancing down at the old church hall / god i used to love that song / now it kills me if it plays too long there's a new world coming; the old world's moving on /
i always said this town would be the death of me / the streets are too busy; the crowd is no company / how'd it ever come to this? / i've never known fortune's kiss / there's a new world coming; the old world don't exist there's a new world coming; the old world don't exist
Close Windowi've been thinking way too much, thinking i might've lost my touch / it doesn't matter what i say, you're not listening anyway / under an august sky, just like a photograph / into
the darkness out of the light /
and it's clear to me now after all the why and how / it's unexpected, uninvited, overdue /
i've been changing everything, just to see what a change might bring / now everybody wants to rescue me, ain't nobody gonna come for free / of all of the things i've tried, nothing compares to this into the darkness, out of the light /
and it's clear to me now / after all the why and how / it's unexpected, uninvited, overdue /
and i've been waiting for so long, for you / so take it back it's only love, take it back i've had enough / of all of the things i've lost, nothing compares to this / out of the darkness into the light /
and it's clear to me now after all the why and how / and the one thing about it / only makes me want to doubt it / and there's no getting over / thanking god it's over / it's unexpected, uninvited, overdue, overdue,
overdue
Close Windowwell i'm running through life at breakneck speed / dealing with the presence of unnatural need / i've asked you once, you told me twice / now i'm just a victim of my own advice / and i
don't know where to turn, what to keep what to burn / believe me darling i'm concerned; you can take me by degrees / you can take me, if you don't have much to do / when the real world catches up to you if it's alright and you don't mind /
you can take me by degrees; you can take me by degrees /
it's hard to be a lover in a broken world / hard to be a poet when you can't control / all the times i misspoke / now everything around me seems a twisted joke take me down that dirty road; lead me to that pot of gold / for my sins babe i've atoned, you can take me by degrees / you can take me like the spider takes a fly / i can dangle while you watch me die / it it's alright, and you don't mind /
you can take me by degrees; you can take me by degrees /
well everybody says that i'm obsessed with
love / baby that's a problem i won't rise above / when it cuts me deep i ask for more / i'll run
away to china if they find a cure / oh, all i hear is poetry, every time you talk to me the answer
now is plain to see,
you can take me by degrees / you can take me by degrees; you can take me by degrees / you can take me by degrees
Close Windowin the lost and found i lay breathing without a sound / in my best disguise / i count my blessings and close my eyes /
but oh to be out of this place / and oh to not remember it's taste and oh to find the strength and the grace / to be wonderful again, to be wonderful, wonderful again /
it's a self made life / you place your borders and i'll place mine / then we'll wait right here / should the meaning reappear
but oh to be out of this place and oh to not remember it's taste / and oh to find the strength and the grace / to be wonderful again, to be wonderful, wonderful again /
time goes like time will go on it speaks a lonely language, it kicks you when you're dangling / there's a turnabout it's now or never, the jury's out /
but oh to be out of this place / and oh to not remember it's taste and oh to find the strength and the grace / to be wonderful again, to be wonderful, wonderful again
Close Windowi suppose that you really should've figured it out / you seemed confused, but you never really had a doubt / wide open all of the time, takes it's toll on the mind /
and it's just your world breaking after all
take it back like you thought you took it all before / you had the nerve, but you never made it to the door / and something's gotta give in, patience over the sin /
'cause it's just your world breaking after all /
it's just your world leaving you hanging / it's just your perfect world keeps changing / so here's the point and you might want to write it down / you pleased yourself now you find there's no one else around / so no one knows it but you, the thoughtless things that you do /
and it's just your world breaking after all / yeah it's just your world breaking after all
Close Windowtake me back st. cecilia, bring me to my knees i've been lost; been forsaken, help me to believe, to believe /
i've got my feet back on the ground now but it took a little while / i never thought myself as lucky but i made it through in style / and the wind up world goes by, takes a beating on the other side /
take me back st. cecilia, bring me to my knees / i've been lost; been forsaken, help me to believe, to believe /
'cause i hear voices in my head sometimes / i see angels in my dreams, in my dreams / and the wind up world goes by /
it takes a beating on the other side / take me back st. cecilia, bring me to my knees / i've been lost; been forsaken, help me to believe / take me back st. cecilia, bring me to my knees / i've been lost; been forsaken, help me to believe, to believe
Close Windowput your mind at ease / there's no sense in over thinking such a fine disease / the way
it lies and takes you sleeping in my wildest hope / i could not begin to tell you looking through
the scope / heaven's lights are way above you
it's no surprise at all / that the world don't see
things my way it's no surprise at all / that the light won't change and i'm going nowhere
in my darkest space, such a strange and ugly story all the mindless haste / grabbing for the crowning glory
it's no surprise at all / that the world don't see things my way it's no surprise at all / that the light won't change and i'm going nowhere it's no surprise at all / that the world don't see
things my way it's no surprise at all / that the light won't change and i'm going nowhere it's no
surprise at all / that the world don't see things my way it's no surprise at all / that the light
won't change and i'm going nowhere
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