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lucky girl
filtered through the speckled sand
silver rings and fingernails
firelight in her open hands
lucky smoke
upside down among the rest
when she smiled and when she spoke
the light ignited every breath
like a twin
a spitting image
a life to mimic
she lives in
a window in time
she’s still on my mind
still on my mind
she’s still on my mind
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all i want is a fishing pond
and a fishing rod
and a boy to love
but can we put a house across that pond
with a big back yard and a mellow dog
and make that dog a white tiger
and the rowboat make it a cruiseliner
and get jonny depp not just any old boy
and forget what i said about that fishing story
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what’s all this sad poetry in your notebook boy?
i know you’ve felt down
and it’s good to get it out
yea it’s good to get it out
but these lines they don’t rhyme with the ways that i know you
that feeling will go
with a simple hello
with a smiling hello
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well that was a quick exchange
she put my money in my hand and she walked away
i guess that it’s best this way
better than before
it all was a quick idea
you turn around now and it’s been a whole year
i can’t really talk right here
meet me at the corner
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ain’t one sunny day
worth a million in the shade
i should know by now
lord i should know by now
ain’t one good love
worth a million all made up
i should know by now
lord i should know by now
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lazy afternoon
i caught a stray balloon
sailed away from home
into the great unknown
she fell upon the sea
i slipped so easily
bright as solid gold
i saw her float on
it’s the same in here
we breathe the same air
the weeds become the trees
the blue becomes the breeze
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take what you need
all the time in the world if you please
i could go to the moon and be back here by noon
if you could breathe a maybe
but love til that night
til you leave i will not come untied
humming the hook to the end of a comic book
when the hero takes flight
i got to confess i can’t be alone with you
can’t be alone with you
takes my feelings on holiday
like a weekend stuck on replay
i got to come clean i can’t be alone with you
all my reason loses its weight
through the ceiling and out into space
this dream it must eat or it won’t go away
like a bird at my sill
feeding until he is filled
my don’t you shine
we need out of sight out of mind
we’ll make all this dirt go back to earth
when there’s noone around to ask why
i got to confess i can’t be alone with you
can’t be alone with you
takes my feelings on holiday
like a weekend stuck on replay
i got to come clean i can’t be alone with you
all my reason loses its weight
through the ceiling and out into space
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look at you back here now
my aren’t you proud
creeping in the corners of my roof
out of sight ain’t out of mind
heard you late last night
in your family of two
so i covered every way
to get out of this place
there’s no escaping now
no you’re safe and sound
but when i peek inside
you change my mind
ain’t right to keep you see
it’s not up to me
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we are going to the other side of the sky so blue
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kept time in a marching band
for the military men
flashlight and a tin of grease
pocket knife with a spring release
covered up from head to toe
couldn’t get a steady hold
before i sleep at night
i think of you sometimes
before i sleep at night
i think of you sometimes
came round the old school hall
came through a crack in the wall
i’d turn my pockets out
just to go back there now
before i sleep at night
i think of you sometimes
before i sleep at night
i think of you sometimes
before i sleep at night
i think of you sometimes
before i sleep at night
i think of you sometimes
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yellow in daylight why do you fade?
blue and white left behind
sure is something strange
dog on my doorstep what do you dream?
always chasing after things
when you’re asleep
can’t explain nothing these days
just can’t pin it down to something plain
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i can hear ‘em making love through the kitchen floor
but jealousy don’t live here anymore
at least for some time he’ll be gone
so i cook something up on the kitchen stove
put a record on that never gets old
and think of the times yet to come
when that ghost who cried envy
still had him some energy
he came to my window and whined til he went to sleep
he said love, you can’t lose
oh you must always win, dear
kicked him to the street and won’t ever let him back in here
i can hear as the night winds to an end
fine desire as it slowly kicks in
it’s like listening
it’s like listening to
it’s like listening to good old friends
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oh jesse why’d you go and take my girl from me?
you know she was the sweetest thing i’d ever meet
oh jesse i know that you saw her first
but lord knows you never treat them like they’re worth
i bet you’re tired already
soon as she said you’re going steady
i couldn’t see it coming
i couldn’t see it coming this time
jesse lord knows you could never say no
oh now you got a brand new low
jesse someday you’re gonna have to think twice
for sweeping up another pretty thing in my life
i bet you’re tired already
soon as she said you’re going steady
she’ll never see it coming
she’ll never see it coming this time
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it’s like my troubles
go out the window
when you call me up
what’s your secret?
what’s your trick?
do you ever trip up?
it’s easy
so easy
just come outside for a minute
something to see, and you’re missing it
easy
so easy
just come and play for a minute
something to do and you’re missing it
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Kitty in a window
Kitty in a window
Sitting in a shop window
Kitty in a window
Kitty in a window
Sitting in a kitty pose
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kitty in a window
kitty in a window
once was a single cat
kitty in a window
kitty in a window
now a couple kitties nap
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it’s quiet out here, but we don’t need any more sound
do you remember when just a word could bring you down?
it’s quiet out here, but we don’t need it any louder
do you remember when just a word would lift you up?
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a spoonful of dirt
of ordinary earth
was all seemed to make
a second in a million days
the younger you feel
you hold onto a spinning wheel
and nothing ever seems to separate
nothing ever ever seems to come apart
nothing ever ever promises to break
nother ever ever seems to separate
nothing ever ever seems to come apart
nothing ever ever promises to break
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hey, look at all the talking dogs on my tv
look at all the walking flowers in the books i read
look at all the laces i can tie
look all the spaces i can type
nananananananana
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someday maybe you’ll find what you want
your heart’s gonna change
you’ll get where you belong
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been sleeping in for quite some time
straightened your shoes and read you the news
you still would not be satisfied
could work on the financial streets
come home after five and pour you some wine
that will not grant you some peace
could be in designer suits
strutting around in dolce light blue
a scientist or a fool
could not get the best out of you
could be an upper class catch
with a voice made of glass
miss cleo could declare it a match
you will say it won’t last
so tomorrow you’ll go
just like it started so quickly
so slowly it folds
and if you can’t seem to find
a good future wife
or a good talking mime
maybe then, a good woman you’ll know
could be in designer suits
strutting around in dolce light blue
a scientist or a fool
could not get the best out of you
could be an upper class catch
with a voice made of glass
miss cleo could declare it a match
you will say it won’t last
could be in designer suits
strutting around in stiletto shoes
a math whiz or a fool
could not get a yes out of you
could be an upper class catch
with a voice made of glass
you say it will last
will you say it will last?
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called my ma up far from home
said i turned it around
turned it all around
she shook her head through the telephone
why’d you do that now
didn’t i tell you child
it ain’t your heart
to come apart
to worry for
it ain’t your world
to come undone
anymore
but when i dialed a second call
there was a cry so wild
it cracked the kitchen tiles
a sudden breeze came through the wall
and swallowed whole
all the things i’d known
and now it ain’t my heart
to come apart
to worry for
it ain’t my world
to come undone
anymore
anymore
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hey can i call you my friend
hey hey can i call you my lover
hey if i call you my man
hey will you call me your lover
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there once was a prince with a marvellous beard
the furriest beast could never compare
the palace seamstress said it felt like cashmere
that forest of lustrous hair
that forest of lustrous hair
one day at the feast on the terrace of kings
an eagle swept in at the sight of his chin
the mistaken bird went off on the wing
and that was the last of the prince
and that was the last of the prince
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well that was a quick exchange
she put my money in my hand and she walked away
i guess that it’s best this way
better than before
it all was a quick idea
you turn around now and it’s been a whole year
i can’t really talk right here
meet me at the corner
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sleep tight streetlights
the drunks are all going home
she will kiss and tell and you'll never be alone
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released January 3, 2011
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