1. |
Discreet Love
03:33
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i fell in love so discreetly
well i was sure
i'd slipped your mind
that when i shook off all the shackles
would have to find my place in line
but then i found you on my doorstep
and you were asking for the time
i never found them less attractive
your cornered desperation lies
(chorus)
how was i to know
you were trying to take it slow
i played along burning daylight
making up and changing minds
and stepping back just out of sequence
the dissonance all by design
best of friends dubbed you my best chance
and i grimaced out of pride
i never felt so quite distracted
as when we jumped on the l line
(chorus)
how was i to know
you were trying to take it slow
what all could we be
when the world is in my reach
(solo)
(chorus)
how was i to know
you were trying to take it slow
what all could we be
when you're living at my feet
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2. |
What Was Said
04:10
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waking up before me
you're an early winder
and i can't finish what i've sung
yeah i've learned from you
you're a polished liar
you get your way like it's their own
(prechorus)
what was said
what was said
to leave me on the floor again
what was said
what was said
to cut my half a chance again
(chorus)
everybody talks
everybody talks
everybody walks
to the sights
to the sounds
of them
we can work it out
we can burn it down
we can play it
we can play again
dressed up like the stars
yeah i've wined and dined her
and you use her like we are one
and i make her plans
i resolve each new year
and then fall back on what i've done
(prechorus)
(chorus)
(bridge)
and i tried to be your best friend
in the morning
and i tried to stick around
when no one's there
well it seems to me
that you never see
the things that keep you clean
but i was there
man i was there
(prechorus)
(chorus)
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3. |
We Are We Are
03:51
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our souls are spotless so we're taking our aim
bandwagon sniffing out a harmless mistake
i gave you half a chance you couldn't
come the whole way
but i'm sure you'll be fine
by the end of the day
(prechorus)
come we'll meet
anonymously
grab your pitchforks and your torches
and your mob mentality
(chorus)
we are we are one more person to blame
we're hunting for someone to shoulder our shame
we never miss a chance never go on our way
we are we are one more person to blame
i sleep so sound each night cos someone agrees
with where i put a line that nobody sees
if you're not fine in time well it's not on me
my soul is spotless cos of what i believe
(prechorus)
come we'll blow
this up til it explodes
grab your soapbox and your pedestal
and gobs of throwing stones
(chorus)
(bridge)
and oh how fast you're hiding
if the light ever lands on you
and oh how loud you're crying
you're crying out but just for you
(chorus)
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4. |
Give Up Like You
03:27
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all your friends are right here
huddled round the table
vacant eyes set to the floor
and we have fought and shared homes
won and lost the day tho
we've never been this close before
(prechorus)
embarrassed, my enemies
don't mean what they used to me
our battles seem so petty
now in your peace
(chorus)
took a lot of soul
to walk out like you
could've swore i felt this fall before
and everything you stole
we will carry through
could've sworn that i'd been in a war
took a lot of soul
swore i used to know
took a lot of soul
to give up like you
listen one more time
play your voice back through the phone
if you were ever mine
well it seems so far right now
thought a lot of you
and the things i have to prove
thought a lot of me
in those lights you didn't see
(prechorus)
the shit that i meant to be
all shuffled off in a week
my plans all seem so petty
now in your peace
is there no way but to see
this as a failure on me
there's not enough there to breathe
in my mind's seeds
(chorus)
(solo)
(chorus)
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5. |
Crazy
04:27
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would you go crazy over me?
she couldn't speak
she tried to throw her friends
all at me
would you go crazy like i've seen?
i'm sorry so i am your friend
but that's the best that i can be
(prechorus)
we had a really great time
but not like the others
seen the way we unwind
the same as each other's
now the weight of the wine
has led under covers
and so
(chorus)
feed me lies
never over, over
would you go crazy over me?
she worked the numbers found the least
that she could need
could you go crazy like i've seen?
she's finding purpose catching bullets
that were always meant for me
(prechorus)
(chorus)
(solo)
(chorus)
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6. |
We Want the Lights
03:11
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i don't want
all my promises
that keep me looking so high
and have me long just getting by
waking up
on a thursday night
not quite sure where we are
she tries to tell me it's all right
all right all right all right said
(chorus)
we want the lights
the lights that they're living
don't want the life
the life we've been given
i don't fall
on this motorway
like they always seem to
and if i do
then it's one way
catch my face
in the window pane
each time i can't be sure
it's looking older all the time
the time the time the time goes
(chorus)
(bridge)
now just take what you can get
and get around it now
every time i see my future
it's all in the rearview mirror
what i'd give for someone looking now
(chorus)
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7. |
Blue Sky
03:01
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blue sky said my life was on fire
that it's all right where we lay our heads at night
(prechorus)
if you come home to fables but none of it's true
if you come back with time to a room with a view
if they're working the details they're working for you
if you have peace of mind than you got yourself fooled
(chorus)
blue sky set my life so on fire
but it's all right
if she's mine
stay me the day this would retire
desperate in love
with this mind
move while i build my better tomb
and it's all right if the background's all they knew
(prechorus)
and she's cracking at nothing no nothing has changed
and i cling to the surface of our empty waves
and we're meeting tonight, to throw hours away
and i can't figure out why we're so unafraid
(chorus)
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8. |
Favourite Noise
03:29
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so we fall down
unsure what this will mean
i missed her birthday
on a sunday night last week
but we're here now
alive between the sheets
and for a moment
we're exactly what we need
and it's a little bit of
(prechorus)
for you a "should know better" but it's still a
quick release
and yet a giant leap beneathe your wild
fantasies
for me a "should know better" but i've just been bored and green
and when the favorite noise is over
it's reality
(chorus)
and i'm sorry
that this happened to me
only sorry
that it's all that i need
they cry hiding
hailing their failed routines
to try and cover any sense of jealousy
so let's try things
til we find what we need
ignore the record it don't speak for you and me
tho it'll find us thinking
(prechorus)
(chorus)
and i'm sorry
that this happened to me
yeah i'm sorry
that it's just what i
just pretend that you
don't know better
that they should have warned her
someone else failed her
you know
but i'm sorry
yeah i'm sorry
(bridge)
and i'm sorry
that this happened to me
yeah i'm sorry
yeah i'm sorry
(chorus)
yeah i'm sorry
that this happened to me
only sorry
that it's all what i
just pretend that you
don't know better
that they should have warned her
someone else failed her
you know
but i'm sorry
yeah i'm sorry
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9. |
Forgot You
03:49
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once in your life, could you try to put together a stretch you can remember when you
wake up on time, or perhaps it's better said that you don't live for someone
and you're sat in your room
and you're using my key
and you lose track of time
and you fall to brilliant pieces
that nobody sees
too far down in their dreams
is it too late to be
what you don't know that you want to be yet
someone in your life at some point they just forgot you
you can stay right here or decide to try for something
i can't convey, how it's strange and unbelievable
that you can't conceive of all the
limitless ways, that i work myself up every time
i see no sign
and you're quick with the truth
that our youth has been used
you don't hang round those days
no you just serve to remind me
my bridge too will fade
further every day
all the love that we'd made
disappeared off with the sunrise to now
someone in your life at some point they just forgot you
you can stay right here or decide to try for something
and you want to know forever
i want a little better
we meet end of days
to compare all our scrapes
and we know we're good for nothing
an awful pair my darling
a fortune in days
that don't add to anything
on my mind
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10. |
Have a Good Summer
04:34
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broken bones
and tattered clothes
don't need an explanation
you left your name
and said you'd ring
we need a reason do we?
(chorus)
if i don't see you
then have a good one darling
summer's coming for you
if i don't see you
then have a good one darling
summer's coming for you
picks and stones
sewn round my throat
i swore the start of something
and took a step
from what you know
you say i'm always dreaming
(chorus)
(bridge)
and that's the way we are
deciding every star
was meant for something more
won't settle for everything
now look how scared
realizing all we are
are ghosts who've long since starved
can't survive on honesty
(instrumental)
(chorus)
if i don't see you
then have a good one darling
summer's coming for you
if i don't see you
then have a good one darling
summer's coming for you
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11. |
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fell asleep that wheel again
it's gonna cost me in the end
i told him off what can i do
your best friend wants to sleep with you
hangin round to wear me thin
i rushed the words to keep you fed
i said it
but he meant it
i said it
but he meant
he wants it all
(chorus)
if i leave
would there be
a chance that
you'd miss me
or are you
the kinda
girl who'd run
to his arms
i wrote out
my story
so you'd want
to know me
but pure repitition
is going to win it all
tried to call you up again
your line's tied too late for a friend
i tried to think if i could move
commit to forgetting bout you
sinking ships will do you in
if you don't think or know to swim
i meant it
but he said it
i meant it
but he said
he wants it all
(chorus)
+
can play for
an evening
before they
see through me
i just need
a second
for thinking
for breathing
there's gonna
be trouble
she's laughing
at nothing
no all you
could say is
he's been there
right through it all
(bridge)
and jealousy
is leading me
to places you would never be
convincing me
of destiny
while pushing me over the edge
just ran away
from what's at stake
without those steps inside my head
can't convince me
that the popscene
isn't wherever she is now
(chorus)
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Brigands Washington, D.C.
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