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Your features defy all metaphors
And I’m the king of those
Your hair is too pretty
To be compared to a city
So I’ll leave it out of all my proseAnd your eyes are unlike any ocean
That I have ever seen
Unlike any jewels
They break the writing rules
And I’m trying to keep this song cleanAnd not to mention
Despite pretension
You are infinitely interesting to me
And it’s so unexpected
My heart feels unprotected
I’m so thankful for that way you look at me, meEverything that you say is a poem
And I’m hooked on every word
Your mouth speaks no lies
Needs no alibis
And not one single word is slurredAnd I love that you talk about Dillon
And all the books you read
I know you so well
Didn’t notice any spell
But you seem to be taking the leadAnd not to mention
Despite pretension
You are infinitely interesting to me
And it’s so unexpected
My heart feels unprotected
I’m just thankful for that way you look at me
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Look behind you
Avoid the shadows
Watch your back now
Make your breathing shallowKeep your room locked
And leave the blinds closed
I’m right there staring at your windowAnd all I need is you
And all I need is youI’m in the background
On the radio
I’m in your car
In your house
Waiting at your door
Under your footsteps
I’m everything you know
Just let me haunt
Let me haunt
Let me be your ghostYou had your chance love
You tried to stay strong
You tried to let go
Tell yourself you moved onBut then it comes back
That feeling in your bones
Like I’m right thereAnd all I need is you
And all I need is youI’m in the background
On the radio
I’m in your car
In your house
Waiting at your door
Under your footsteps
I’m everything you know
Just let me haunt
Let me haunt
Let me be your ghost
Let me be your ghost
Just let me be your ghostI’m in the background
On the radio
I’m in your car
In your house
Waiting at your door
Under your footsteps
I’m everything you know
Just let me haunt
Let me haunt
Let me be your ghost -
“Because you filled a hole in me I didn’t even know was there. You make me complete. You make me happy. I see you, Robbie. I see you.”
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What
What does it mean
To dream what you dream
To believe what you’ve seen?Why
Why do we feel
To try to find real
Underneath a machine?What
What does it mean
To dream what you dream
To believe what you’ve seen?Why
Why do we feel
To try to find real
Just to meet the machine [Repeat x3]
To meet the machine [Repeat x2] -
If time had a place
And space for your past
Like a little novel
You wanted to read again and again
Would I be in your novel?
Would I begin and end in it?If I had a place
And space for your little boy eyes
Could you really believe?
I certainly dare you
I do not want to scare you
AnymoreOh, what a fuss when the king rides by
Oh, what a fuss when the king rides
Straight through my heart
Straight through my lifeNeed your love more than you’ll ever know
A light kiss, the touch of your hand
A million things I will never understand
Oh, what a fuss when the king trades in
Oh, what a fuss when the king tradesAll of my love
For someone else’s hand
Need your love more than you’ll ever knowYou don’t miss your water
You don’t miss your water
‘Til your well is gone -
Begin Again
Begin Again
Begin AgainI’ve been watching your kindness keep
A lonely company
Look at the fire and think of me
I’ve been watching you creep
Around my wandering feet
Trying for years to fleeI need not one thing more
O wrap the ground around
Your gentle winding mind
O guard the pounding sound
Breathe in your fiery air
O wrap the ground around
Give back an hungrier stare
O guard the pounding soundYou be the moon I’ll be the earth
And when we burst
Start over o darling
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again [x2]My moon o my moon
Not even into
Another eternity
Will you stop your lovely orbiting
I had held it a world away
Until my body ‘gan to sayI need not one thing more
O wrap the ground around
Your gentle winding mind
O guard the pounding sound
Breathe in your fiery air
O wrap the ground around
Give back an hungrier stare
O guard the pounding soundYou be the moon I’ll be the earth
And when we burst
Start over o darling
Begin again
Begin again
Begin again [x2] -
I put a spell on you
Because you’re mine
Stop the things you do
Watch out, I ain’t lying
I can’t stand
No running around
I can’t stand
And no putting me down
I put a spell on you
Because you’re mine
Stop the things you do
Watch out, I ain’t lying
I love you, I love you
I love you anyhow
I don’t care if you don’t want me
I’m yours right now
I put a spell on you
Because you’re mine… -
Don’t fret precious I’m here, step away from the window
Go back to sleepLay your head down child
I won’t let the boogeyman comeCounting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drumsPay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabbleHead down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drumsPay no mind what other voices say
They don’t care about you, like I do, like I do
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don’t give a fuck about you, like I do.Just stay with me, safe and ignorant,
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleepLay your head down child
I won’t let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drumsPay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabbleHead down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums
I’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demonsI’ll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reasonI’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
They’re one in the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourselfSwayin to the rhythm of the new world order and
Count the bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drumsThe boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are comingKeep your head down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of a war drums
Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don’t love you son,
Go back to sleep -
Break me off a piece of that
And mix it in with a little wine
With someone warm and smart, I guess
With a heart in first and a soul behindAnd I won’t give in
‘Cause I wanna try againThere will be no years of silence in the shadow of regret
I won’t let it so betray me, though my soul got used to it
I will look at love as more than just an instrument of pain
And will give myself completely to the moving and the strange‘Cause I wanna overcome
And try to love someoneI will not spend the years depleted of my willingness to try
It won’t hurt this way forever, it ain’t worth the overtime
I’m not looking for redemption nor some shallow kind of bliss
Lay me down and kiss me deeply, show me everything I missedI haven’t had enough
And I wanna love someoneI will not hurt like this forever, I’m responding to the call
While there’s speakers in the outfield
Blasting out my favourite song
I will not play this out discreetly, it is real and unashamed
I am human now and terrified, but want it all the same‘Cause I wanna overcome
And try to love someone‘Cause the heart, the heart, the heart
The heart is a muscle
And I wanna make it strong
‘Cause the heart, the heart, the heart
The heart is a muscle now
I wanna make it strongI let bad love betray me once
But I was barely outta high school then
And I guess I fear the same results
That none will take me as I am
I wanna be loved, I wanna be whole again
So tuck my hair behind my ears and touch my soul again
The window is wide, the post unfulfilled
And I just ask you to be patient if you’ll have me still‘Cause I wanna open up
And try to love someone
‘Cause I wanna overcome
And try to love someoneThe heart, the heart, the heart
The heart is a muscle
The heart, the heart, the heart
The heart is a muscle now
The heart, the heart, the heart
The heart is a muscle now
I wanna make it strong -
“What is it about me that’s always scared you so much?”
“You make me want to break the rules.”
