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You
04:27
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A growing sense of realisation
That all you bring is complication
You first turned up when we were 10
You've been hanging round since then
You, you're the man who won't be king
You hear angels when you sing
But you can't hold a tune
You never had a friend to speak to
When you would hide no one would seek you
You, you're the thorn stuck in my eye
You're the dagger in my side
Yeah you, you're a liability
And you don't look like Plan B
I know you think that you do
I know you think that you do
Some love is unconditional
Still your Mum thinks you're a fool
You with you highfalutin schemes
But you can't get past your dreams
It's something you'll never do
It's something you'll never do
It's something you'll never do
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Broken
04:40
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Drifting through the haze
Trying to relive your halcyon days
Take a drop at nine
And kid yourself you're feeling fine
How in the world did it take you so long
To realise that your life was broken?
Why in the world did it take you so long
To recognise that your life was broken?
How long? How long?
Feel the pulses raise
And slip into the old familiar ways
The songs sound so divine
But tomorrow you'll be lost in time
This is the end of summer
Don't mourn the end of summer
You know the end of summer
Brings you down
How in the world did it take you so long
To realise that your life was broken?
Why in the world did it take you so long
To recognise that your life was broken?
How long? How long?
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Serena
02:04
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When you are near, I'm helpless under your spell
And all is calm in my world
I love you dear
This is my confession
You're my passionate obsession
Serena Serena
I'll make this clear
When you say I can't have you
Then no one else can have you
I brought you here
So you will never leave me
Don't struggle and rest easy
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Angry Professor
04:57
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It's true
I've been looking for help from above
To stop me hurting the ones that I love
Before I get myself incarcerated
Flashback
To when my life was all sweetness and light
I used to fall about of bed and just write
Til the corporate whores had me terminated
Sometimes I wish I could hold your head under the water
Until you drown
I'm gone
Coz I don't have a place to call home
I guess it's easier on my own
I'm only happy when I'm isolated
I shut down
All of my social media sites
Coz they're a breach of my human rights
But in the morning I reactivate them
Sometimes I wish I could keep my head under the water
Until I...
Sometimes I wish I could hold your head under the water
Well fuck you
How dare you say that my songs never rhyme
Why don't you breathe your last breath and just die
And the shit you tout is an abomination
Well I'm back
Though I'm not really sure where I've been
It's so peculiar now that I'm clean
But the feds with the meds keep me well sedated
Sometimes
I feel like cutting off all of my hair
Dress up smart and maybe have an affair
Until I become assimilated
I'm sick
Of being treated like some kind of fool
How can you say I'm delusional
Reality is my own damned business
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Empty The Time Is
05:07
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Never Knew Her Name
04:08
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Well, she nearly hit ya
When she came hurtling round the bend
A deadly reminder
Of who you accept as a friend
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
Well, she's a real sidewinder
She led you on, you couldn't think
Thought you were playing a blinder
Til she slipped quaaludes in your drink
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
Went to a club in Brighton
She turned up in veil and cape
We didn't need the lights on
When she poured petrol in your vape
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
And you never knew her name
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I'm So Far Over You
02:05
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I'm so far over you
I don't remember how it ended
And I'm so far over you
I'm pretty sure I never cared
You're lying in your bed of shame
Your bed of lies, your bed's aflame
And burning
And all those things you bought for me
I locked them up and melted down the key
I'm so far over you
I can't remember what the point was
And when it comes to you
I'm fucking sure I couldn't care less
Your face that sunk a thousand ships
The poison oozing from your lips
I hate you
And when you die I won't feel blue
I'll write a bitter epitaph for you
So far
So far
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Mihai Mihai
03:17
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Autopsy
06:14
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Nostalgia's a drug
No matter what they all say
You couldn't get enough
And now you're trapped inside your teens
Anagram...hologram
They're after me again
And paranoia - well that's a point of view
Avoiding the landmine
Avoiding the sunshine
Life would be sublime
If I had more time
Such a beautiful planet
Til the humans overran it
We overran it
Go now, go and do an autopsy
On the life and the times and the memories of me
Go now, go and do an autopsy
On my sisters and my brothers and my father and me
I can tell that you're a dealer
Necking your tequila
Eyes like shark
Head full of sensimilla
Your family all despise ya
Your friends don't recognise ya
And come the revolution you'll be...
Speculate, accumulate
You're missing all the signals, mate
Locked inside your Watergate
It all comes down to this
Keep your mirror clean
And you'll be able to see through it
It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Someone's gotta do it
Go now, go and do an autopsy
On the life and the times and the memories of me
Go now, go and do an autopsy
On my sisters and my brothers and my father and me
Go now, go and do an autopsy
On the life and the times and the memories of me
Go now, go and do an autopsy
On my sisters, my brothers, my father and me
I'll catch you later
Get me outta here
Outta here
I'll catch you later
Get me outta here
Outta here
I'll check you later
Get me outta here
Outta here
I'll catch you later
Get me outta here
Outta here
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The Last
02:15
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Flashing lights
And the sirens
Blew the silence
All apart
Satellites
Fell Around Me
Was all too easy
From the start
Now I walk
With my head high
In my mind's eye
There is hope
Let's set sail
For a good place
And with god's grace
We'll be home
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Michael Alan Giller Ringwood, UK
I write, I play, I sing and sometimes I levitate
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