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Writing a Love Song
03:38
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It started out with hopeful thoughts in an empty room
Couldn't find the right way to say I love you
Flipped through the dictionary, but the words were too ordinary
You deserve so much better, but what can my pen do?
You are the hardest part of writing a love song
Too hard to work it out when nothing's quite spot on
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
At a dead end with a lazy cliché
Wrote a couple down but can't call it a day, gotta
Try to think of something witty, nothing that's been done already
Maybe I'm trying too hard, to say what I need to say?
You are the hardest part of writing a love song
Too hard to work it out when nothing's quite spot on
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
Perfect rhymes and imagery
Metaphors and similes
But what are they good for?
They don't live up to you.
You are the hardest part of writing this love song
Too hard to work it out when nothing's quite spot on
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
You are the hardest part of writing this love song
Too hard to work it out when nothing's quite spot on
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
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2. |
Bounced Cheque Blues
02:56
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I’ve been struck by the bounced cheque blues
I’ve been struck by the bounced cheque blues
That plastic devil in my wallet seduced me
Making big spendin' look so easy now
I’ve been struck by the bounced cheque blues
I saw a new toy and I had to have it
Convinced myself it wouldn’t be a habit now
I’ve been stuck with looking for loose change in the couches
I’ve been struggling with the bounced cheque blues
I’ve been struggling with the bounced cheque blues
Tried to get a job at the general store
But got turned down cuz’ times are hard
So, I’ve been struggling with the bounced cheque blues
Nowadays a resume just ain’t enough,
It’s hard to make a living when the doors are shut
I’ve been seeing how when it comes to money there’s no room for love
I’ve been sufferin’, got the bounced cheque blues
I’ve been sufferin’, got the bounced cheque blues
Frozen breakfast, microwave lunch and dinner
Eating scraps and old leftovers cuz’
I’ve been hungerin’, got the bounced cheque blues
No caviar for this rising star
If I lose the house gotta sleep in the car
I’ve been hopin’ the better days will be comin’ around
The better days will be comin’ around
The money will be rolling in some way, somehow
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3. |
Kings (Extended Version)
04:27
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Cement and steel frames
Don’t mean too much to me
For nothing ever rivals
The sound of sweet melody
I’d trade it all for music
Business meetings for a stage
A fountain pen for a mic in hand
Yes, that seems fair to me
The freedom to make love and music
That’s the freedom of a king
What's worth the fight
Bright ideas just a dead-end street light
What's born innate left idle
Never sits right
Found it when I was sixteen
Lied to myself till I was nineteen
Didn’t want to wake at fifty and ask
What have I done?
The freedom to make love and music
That’s the freedom of a king
Dreams are what you chase
Dreams are what you keep safe
Seems they're the first to break
When you shouldn’t have waited
Do what you love
For love is what leads to happiness
And that’s all we really want in the end
The day will come
When my son will ask me
If he can chase his pipedream
A throne of his own
And I’ll fear for him
Like all parents do,
But tell him it’s not up to me
It’s up to you
The freedom to make love and music
That’s the freedom of a king
Dreams are what you chase
Dreams are what you keep safe
Seems they're first to break
When you shouldn’t have waited
Do what you love
For love is what leads to happiness
And that’s all we really want in the end
That's all we really want in the end
I might be crazy, but I’m strumming
my fate may seem insane
But I won't sign my life away…
Oh no
I arrived on a sailing ship
From a land not far from here
My father was the king and I was born
To carry on his legacy
My father said that one day his kingdom
Would all be mine to keep
But I declined with an innocent smile
Because I know it’s not my dream
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4. |
Dragons
04:48
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She was a little girl who loved to draw dragons
In her sketchbook is where she found an escape
So fearless was her young imagination
She had big goals to accomplish and she just couldn’t wait
But mommy and daddy who forgot they were once young too
Told her to stop dreaming, that she’ll grow out of it soon
A cold heart’s a strong heart it will help you survive
So put your heart in a lock and
Let your head be your guide
When you grow up do you really have to choose,
To give up believing in magic for the sake of some truth?
Have we all lost touch of that wonder and surprise?
Those fairy tales before saying goodnight
The possibilities through the eyes of a child
Every birthday there’s always a celebration
But she can’t figure out why things don’t feel right
Maybe it’s because she doesn’t want to live just for survival
And what she wants is long lost and hard to find
Every so often she really misses her dragons
Because she worries that they’ve all been slain
Should she standby or try and save them
And if she decides to free her heart, is it too late?
Is that little girl gone now, is there no one left to save?
When you grow up do you really have to choose,
To give up believing in magic for the sake of some truth?
Have we all lost touch of that wonder and surprise?
Those fairy tales before saying goodnight
The possibilities through the eyes of a child
She’s standing in still water
Feeling she should have done more, become more by now
Move away from the motionless
Choose away from being voiceless
Draft the lines to lead you further
When you grow up do you really have to choose,
To give up believing in magic for the sake of some truth?
Have we all lost touch of that wonder and surprise?
Those fairy tales before saying goodnight
The possibilities through the eyes of a child
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5. |
Black Widow
03:32
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First you were the girl
Who never had to say a thing
How was I to know
You’d come along and ruin everything
Naïve was I a boy
To not see you for what you were
Black widow, oh black widow
You had your hold on me,
But not anymore
I’m not gonna fall for your illusions
Your black widow lies
Not the same boy you once knew
I see your disguise
Spin your web around me,
Try to lure me in
Try to poison with your venom
So I never love again
So I can never love again
Hey I see,
It's in your eyes your hold's on me
A child who plays too forcefully
And I'm your helpless toy
You went through my love
With a box of matches
Lick your fingers, put me out
Lighting me up just to burn me down
So sorry we can’t play,
Anymore
I’m not gonna fall for your illusions
Your black widow lies
Not the same boy you once knew
I see your disguise
Spin your web around me,
Try to lure me in
Poison with your venom
So I never love again
I can never love again
Don’t think for a second
That your web will always hold
The cruel fate of age awaits you
False grace is always the first thing to go
You know, you know?
Naïve was I a boy,
To not see you for what you were
Lick your fingers, put me out
Lighting me up just to burn me down
With your eyes, lies and box of matches
What a cruel thing to do,
What did I ever do to you?
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6. |
Never Lasts
03:01
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Time seems to move slow
When you don’t want to let go
You try to hold onto the moment forever
But forever never lasts you know
We race to the peaks of mountain tops
We swim in the rivers that never stop
We open our minds to all we can find
The world is ours, our own
Because forever never lasts you know
The light only sways in the past
Then you’re left wondering how things moved so fast
From sun to night sky, another instance gone by
Forever never lasts you know
If chance greets you with both hands
If you’re lucky enough that it all goes as planned
Cherish the moment and don’t let it pass
From spring’s first leap, to winter’s first glow
Forever never lasts you know
Why would it, why should it?
It’s a clever illusion
A ruse of the mind
Because forever never lasts
Forever never lasts
Time seems to move slow
When you don’t want to let go
You try to hold onto the moment forever
But forever never lasts you know
Forever never lasts you know
Forever never lasts
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7. |
Gum
04:13
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