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1. |
All The Same Mistakes
04:19
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I think words build up in you like steam
I mean, you drink each day like water
Your mind burns bright like fire
Hot and cold, they meet
I need nothing else but to be burned clean
I mean, you bring words I've longed for
Loud as a four part choir
Words like an opus, you speak
Don't wanna fall under
And make all of the same mistakes
Don't wanna fall under
And make all of the same mistakes
All the same mistakes
The world needs nothing else but to be made clean
I mean, she needs our dirt washed off her
The dirt's miles thick, yet you find her
Words like a shovel, you speak
Don't wanna fall under
And make all of the same mistakes
Don't wanna fall under
And make all of the same mistakes
All the same mistakes, all, all, all
Oh, I
Idolize
My mouth can't deny what I've
Said with my eyes
You're all around me
Angel you've found me
Heaven, surround me
And sing to me
hey
I made, I made, I, I, all the same mistakes
I made, I made, I made all the same mistakes
Don't wanna fall under
And make all of the same mistakes
Don't wanna fall under
And make all of the same mistakes
Oh, oh, I
Don't wanna fall under
I made all the same mistakes
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2. |
Be Like The Man
03:26
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You got no common sense
They said go there and there you went
Oh the beginning of the end, amen
Drink up every word they say
As many poison drops a day
Watch your cup overflow and float away, away
Be like the Man, be like the Mob
Be like the State, be like a God
Judging by the way you act
I doubt you really want it back
Not that you even had riches to turn to rags
Brick by brick, you got a wall
Nick by nick, it falls
Get yourself together before you lose it all
Be like the Man, be like the Mob
Be like the State, be like a God
Be like the Man, be like the Mob
Be like the State, be like a God
Get mad, get mad, dress yourself in black
This cannot wait, you gotta take it back
Get mad, get mad, dress yourself in black
And prove it, do you want it back
Judging by the way you act
I doubt you really want it back
Happy in your riches to rags
mm, mm
mm, mm
Be like the Man, be like the Mob
Be like the State, be Insane, be some Vengeful God
Be like the Man, be like the Mob
Be like the State, be Insane, be some Vengeful God
Be like the Man, be like the Mob
Be like the State, be like a God
Be like the Man, be like the Mob
Be like the State, be like a God
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3. |
Secret
03:45
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Can you keep a secret and guard it with your life
Can you keep a secret, cross your heart, hope to die
Would it stay between us, just simple words between us
Can you keep a secret this time
If I kept a secret and didn't tell you
If I kept a secret but you found out the truth
Would it be strange between us, tense and blue between us
If I kept a secret from you
I don't see what the big deal is
Come on, be a realist
I can't tell you everything
Now I can't tell you anything
Can it be a secret if everybody knows
Can it be a secret if words are words and anything goes
Nothing stays between us, nothing's simple between us
Can it be a secret if you know
I don't see what the big deal is
Come on, be a realist
I can't tell you everything
Now I can't tell you anything
Can you keep a secret and guard it with your life
Can you keep a secret, cross your heart, hope to die
Would it stay between us, just simple words between us
Can you keep a secret this time
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4. |
Bravely
04:04
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Needless to say I'm taken quite by surprise
You let one story define your entire life
You claim what she's done, no harm to no one,
As a good enough reason
Do it bravely, save me
From the weak and lazy
If you can't face it
Don't do it at all
Do it bravely, do it bravely
Do you mind if I refill my glass of wine
It seems to solve all of your problems just fine
You take what you've done, pass it off, and run
She's still holding you, though, son
Do it bravely, save me
From the weak and lazy
If you can't face it
Don't do it at all
Do it bravely, save me
From the weak and lazy
If you can't face it
Don't do it at all
I know all things and nothing at all
A foreign world spins just down the hall
Do it bravely, do it bravely
Do it bravely, do it bravely
Do it bravely, save me
From the weak and lazy
If you can't face it
Then don't do it at all
Do it bravely, save me
From the weak and lazy
If you can't face it
Then don't do it at all
Do it bravely, do it bravely
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5. |
9:45
03:09
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9:45, moonrise, it's time already
Cold as a knife on your fragile skin
Oh, when the morning comes, will you remember this
As the way it all begins
It is time, it is, never once should you doubt this
Though promises promise it otherwise
It is time, it is, never once should you doubt this
Get yourself together and rise
Stack the bags you never pack in a pile by the door
Grab the map you've always had but never travelled before
Oh, when the morning comes, will you find yourself
Far from the bed you don't need anymore
It is time, it is, never once should you doubt this
Though promises promise it otherwise
It is time, it is, never once should you doubt this
Get yourself together and rise, rise
Thirty seconds to spare
Swerving all around, and you don't care
God save the soul of the man
Who gave you gasoline
Thirty seconds is time
To make or break a man, and you don't mind
God save the soul of the man
Who gave you gasoline, oh, gasoline
It is time, it is, never once should you doubt this
Though promises promise it otherwise
It is time, it is, never once should you doubt this
Get yourself together and, get yourself together and
Get, get yourself together and rise
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6. |
Devil's Got My Secret
04:35
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Oh, to take sorrow and use it as a crutch
And have all you need and never know it as such
Oh, to want the warmth of fire and get the burn of its touch
I think about you way too much
The devil's got my secret
He swore he'd never tell
I left it for safe-keeping
I will pick it up in hell
A match is struck only once, the thought's struck more than twice
Honesty's a virtue that is wavering like a vice
Yeah, it screams in two directions, yeah, it cuts like a knife
I'll think about you all my life
The devil's got my secret
He swore he'd never tell
I left it for safe-keeping
I will pick it up in hell
I will pick it up in hell
Should I choose the one way, my life goes on
My world's not broken, my home's not gone
Oh, but should I choose the other, so sweet, and wrong
No, I'll think about you, and continue on
The devil's got my secret
He swore he'd never tell
I left it for safe-keeping
And, oh, he keeps it well
The devil's got my secret
He swore he'd never tell
I left it for safe-keeping
I will pick it up in hell
I will pick it up in hell
I will pick it up in hell
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7. |
Fate Day By Day
03:06
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I don't need some crystal ball
For all its mystique, it's just glass
And to see right through is to see nothing at all
And all the while the right moments pass
And I'll take fate, I'll take fate
On a day by day basis
I will not wait, I will not wait for what the world may not create
I'll take fate day by day
The only future we can foresee
Is just what our minds project
So when he crept into the back of my mind
It was fate, who was I to object?
And I'll take fate, I'll take fate
On a day by day basis
I will not wait, I will not wait for what the world may not create
I'll take fate day by day
I focused on the embers that just fade with time
Hoping for a spark from a fire that won't revive
Believing in a fate that left me only one
In lamenting loss of fire, I overlooked the sun
And I'll take fate, I'll take fate
On a day by day basis
I will not wait, I will not wait for what the world may not create
I'll take fate day by day
I'll take fate day by day
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8. |
Stronger
03:21
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You fall in and out of all the thoughts that I have had today
Mostly, you're just in the way
You are simply watching some old fashioned black and white TV
He's all gold to me
I come back stronger
I come back stronger
That is all you'll see
The strong side of me
It's no wonder that your eyes are green, when you're so clearly blue
What kind of hell have you been through?
I could be sentimental, or righteous, but I don't have to be
Cause you're just cold to me
I come back stronger
I come back stronger
That is all you'll see
I come back stronger
I come back stronger
That is all you'll see
The strong side of me
Why me?
Why today
Any other soul
Any other day
Oh, another day
You fall in and out of all the thoughts that I have had today
Mostly, you're just in the way
You are simply watching some old fashioned black and white TV
He's all gold to me
We come back stronger
We come back stronger
That is all you'll see
It's all the same to me
We stand here stronger
We face you stronger
That is all you'll see
The strong side of us
The strong side of me
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9. |
Run
04:03
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You've had enough, it's rough, I know
No two ways around
You gotta come clean, yeah, you gotta come clean
How you gonna come clean now ?
Run, run
Far beneath the sun
Elijah, drop your gun
Your world has got no armor on
Go out to your palace of glass
Go home to your castle of white
Go on, wipe your feet at the door
As you have done, done all your life
Run, run
Far beneath the sun
Elijah, drop your gun
Your world has got no armor on
Run, run
Far beneath the sun
Elijah, drop your gun
Your world has got no armor on
You stared down the mirror, you watched it crash
Now you're standing on broken glass
No way to get this wrong undone
Are you ready to run ?
If they got you tied a little too tight
Now, honey, don't let them know
Fade to the left, take a big deep breath
On your mark, get set, just go, just go
Run, run
Far beneath the sun
Elijah, drop your gun
Your world has got no armor on
Run, run, run
Elijah, drop your gun, son
You stared down the mirror, yeah, you watched it crash
Now you're standing on broken glass
No way to get this wrong undone
Are you ready to run ?
Run, run
Far beneath the sun
Elijah, drop your gun
Your world has got no armor on
Just run
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10. |
Left To God
03:28
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If I were a painter, I'd give a steady gaze
To a saint with open eyes, watching what her life was spent to save
But I'm not a painter, I don't know any saints
The only ones I saw were done in someone else's paint
Your white angels still fly
On the breath we spent on the prayers we cried
On the path to where heaven lay
You left us to God when you turned away
Oh, I've heard thunder, loud as God is great
Where everybody ran inside, whether or not it rained
I knew a devil, dressed in white like any saint
He fell right through the ground where Lucifer remained
Your white angels still fly
On the breath we spent on the prayers we cried
On the path to where heaven lay
You left us to God when you turned away
Your white angels still fly
On the breath we spent on the prayers we cried
On the path to where heaven lay
You left us to God when you turned away
Away, away
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11. |
Draped In Blue
03:33
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In my head the gates are standing
In my mind I am out of time
In my head the mobs are chanting
What's there to find?
Even if I knew
A haven it's draped in blue
Cause I'll have to leave
If not now eventually
Somewhere else I left him standing
In my mind he's still standing there
He moved their souls and left them chanting
They'll follow him anywhere, anywhere
Even if I knew
A haven it's draped in blue
Cause I'll have to leave
If not now eventually
Even if I knew
A haven it's draped in blue
Cause I'll have to leave
If not now eventually
Once, I had a daughter
Raised her, loved her, and lost her
Everyone's got to leave
I wish you well, said I
I'll meet you next in hell, meant I
Everyone's got to leave
Even if I knew
A haven it's draped in blue
Cause I'll have to leave
If not now eventually
Even if I
New a haven I
Know I'd have to leave
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Mieka Pauley Brooklyn, New York
Mieka Pauley possesses a voice that flows like good whiskey and a frankness that makes Alanis Morissette look shy. She conjures up a sonic immediacy with the same masterful command as Ani DiFranco with driving, yearning melodies that stand alongside the work of Michelle Shocked, Neko Case and Emmylou Harris. ... more
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