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I worry I weigh three times my body I worry I throw my fear around But this morning, there's a calm I can't explain The rock candy's melted, only diamonds now remain Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh By the time I recognize this moment This moment will be gone But I will bend the light pretend That it somehow lingered on Well all I got's... Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh And I will wait to find If this will last forever And I will wait to find If this will last forever And I will pay no mind Well it won't, and it won't, cause it can't It just can't It's not supposed to Is there a second in time I looked around? Did I sail through or drop my anchor down? Was anything enough to kiss the ground? And say I'm here now and she's here now? Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh, Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh... So much wasted in the afternoon So much sacred in the month of June How 'bout you? And I will wait to find If this will last forever And I will wait to find That it won't, and it won't, it won't And I will pay no mind Worry 'bout the rainy weather And I will waste no time Remaining in our life together

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This is a call to the colorblind This is an IOU I'm stranded behind the horizon line Tied up in something true Yes, I'm grounded Got my wings clipped I'm surrounded by all this pavement Guess I'll circle While I'm waiting for my fuse to dry Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more 'Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for Why is it not the time? What is there more to learn? Shed this skin I've been tripping in And I've never quite returned Yes, I'm grounded Got my wings clipped I'm surrounded by all this pavement Guess I'll circle While I'm waiting for my fuse to dry Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more 'Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for 'Cause I'm bigger than my body now Maybe I'll tangle in a power lines And it might be over in a second's time But I'll gladly go down in a flame If the flame's what it takes to remember my name To remember my name now Yes, I'm grounded Got my wings clipped I'm surrounded by all this pavement Guess I'll circle While I'm waiting for my fuse to dry waiting for my fuse to dry Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more 'Cause I'm bigger than my body Bigger than my body Bigger than my body now

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I'm so aliveI'm so enlightened I can barely surviveA night in my mindSo I've got a planI'm gonna find out just how boring I amAnd have a good time Cause ever since I've tried Trying not to findEvery little meaning in my lifeIt's been fine, I've been coolWith my new golden rule Numb is the new deepDone with the old meAnd talk is the same cheap it's been Is there a God?Why is He waiting?Don't you figure it outWell He knows my addressAnd look at the starsDon't it remind you just how feeble we are?Well it used to, I guess Cause ever since I've triedTrying not to findEvery little meaning in my lifeIt's been fine, I've been coolWith my new golden rule Numb is the new deepDone with the old meAnd talk is the same cheap it's been I'm a new manI wear a new cologneAnd you wouldn't know meIf your eyes were closedI know what you'll sayThis won't last longer than the rest of the dayBut you're wrong this timeYou're wrong Numb is the new deepDone with the old meI'm over the analyzingTonight Stop trying to figure it out Deep will only bring you downYou know I used to be the backporch poetWith a book of rhymes always Open, knowing all the time, I'm probably Never gonna find the perfect rhymeFor 'heavier things'

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I'm not alone I wish I was Cause then I'd know I was down because I couldn't find a friend around To love me like they do right now They do right now I'm dizzy from the shopping mall I searched for joy but I bought it all It doesn't help the hunger pains And a thirst I'd have to drown first to ever satiate Something's missing And I don't know how to fix it Something's missing And I don't know what it is No I don't know what it is at all When autumn comes It doesn't ask It just walks in where it left you last You never know when it starts Until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart Something's missing And I don't know how to fix it Something's missing And I don't know what it is No I don't know what it is at all I can't be sure that this state of mine Is not of my own design I wish there was an over-the-counter test For loneliness For loneliness like this Something's missing And I don't know how to fix it Something's missing And I don't know what it is No I don't know what it is Something's different And I don't know what it is No I don't know what it is Friends (Check) Money (Check) A well slept (Check) Opposite sex (Check) Guitar (Check) Microphone (Check) Messages waiting on me when I come home (Check) How come everything I think I need Always comes with batteries What do you think it means?

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Still is the life Of your room when you're not insideAll of your things tell the sweetest story lineYour tears on these sheetsAnd your footsteps are down the hallTell me what I didI can't find where the moment went wrong at all You can be mad in the morningI'll take back what I saidJust don't leave me alone hereIt's cold, babyCome back to bedCome back to bedCome back to bedCome back to bed(come on back to me) What will this fixYou know you're not a quick forgiveAnd I won't sleep through thisI survive on the breath you are finished with You can be mad in the morningI'll take back what I saidJust don't leave me alone hereIt's cold, babyCome back to bed Come back to bedCome back to bedCome back to bed You can be mad in the morningOr the afternoon insteadBut don't leave me98 and 6 degrees of separation from you, babyCome back to bedCome back to bedCome back to bedWhy dont you come back to bed? Don't hold your love over my headDon't hold your love over my headDon't hold your love over my headDon't hold your love over my headDon't hold your love over my headDon't hold your love...

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I think I'm gonna stay homeHave myself a home life Sittin' in the slow-moAnd listenin' to the daylightI am not a nomadI am not a rocket manI was born a housecatBy the slight of my mother's hand I think I'm gonna stay home I want to live in the center of a circleI want to live on the side of a squareI used to be in my M-Z nowYou'll never find me 'cause my name isn't there Home life I'm holding out for the home lifeMy whole life I wanna see the end gameI wanna learn her last nameFinish on a Friday And sit in traffic on the highwaySee I refuse to believeThat my life's gonna be Just some string of incompletes Never to lead me to anything remotely close to a home life Been holding out for A homelifeMy whole life I can tell you this much, I will marry just onceAnd if it doesn't work out, give her half of my stuffIt's fine with meWe said eternityI will go to my grave, with the love that I gaveNot just some melody line on a radio waveIt dissipates And soon evaporatesbut home life doesn't change I want to live in the center of a circleI want to live on the side of a squareI'd love to walk to where we both can talkBut I've got to leave it 'cause my ride is here Home lifeYou take the home lifeYou keep the home lifeCome back for the homelife I promise

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And I don't know where you went when you left me butIt says here in the water, you must be gone by now I can tell somehowOne hand on the trigger of the telephoneWondering when the call comes, Will you say it's all right You've got your heart right Maybe I'll sleep inside my coat andWait on your porch 'til you come back homeOh, rightI can't find a flight We share the sadnesssplit screen sadness Two wrongs make it all alright tonightTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightTwo wrongs make it all alright tonight "All you need is love" is a lie, 'causeWe had love but we still said goodbyeNow we're tired battle fighters And it stings when it's nobody's faultCause there's nothin' to blame at the drop of your nameIt's only the air you took and the breath you left Maybe I'll sleep inside my coat andWait on your porch 'til you come back homeOh, rightI can't find a flightSo I'll check the weather wherever you areCause I wanna know if you can see the stars tonightIt might be my only right We share the sadnesssplit screen sadnessWe share the sadnessSplit screen sadness I calledBecauseI just Need to feel you on the lineDon't hang up this timeAnd I know it was me who called it over butI still wish you'd fought me 'til your dying dayDon't let me get away Cause I can't wait to figure out what's wrong with meSo I can say, "This is the way that I used to be"There's no substitute for timeOr for the sadnessTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightsplit screen sadnessTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightWe share the sadnessTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightsplit screen sadnessTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightOh and the sadness it's alright, it's alrightTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightOh and the sadness it's alright, it's alrightTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightOh and the sadness it's alright, it's alrightTwo wrongs make it all alright tonightOh and the sadness it's alright, it's alrightTwo wrongs make it all alright tonight

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I know a girlShe puts the color inside of my worldShe's just like a mazeWhere all of the walls all continually changeAnd I've done all I canTo stand on her steps with my heart in my handsNow I'm starting to seeMaybe it's got nothing to do with me Fathers be good to your daughtersDaughters will love like you doGirls become lovers who turn into mothersSo mothers be good to your daughters too... Oh, you see that skin?It's the same she's been standing inSince the day she saw him walking awayNow she's left cleaning up the mess he made So fathers be good to your daughtersDaughters will love like you doGirls become lovers who turn into mothersSo mothers be good to your daughters too Boys, you can breakYou'll find out how much they can takeBoys will be strong and boys soldier onBut boys would be gone without warmth from a woman's good, good heart... On behalf of every manLooking out for every girlYou are the guide and the weight of her world So fathers be good to your daughtersDaughters will love like you doGirls become lovers who turn into mothersSo mothers be good to your daughters, tooSo mothers be good to your daughters, tooSo mothers be good to your daughters, too

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Do not waste this eveningBaby I'm begging youYour big imagination's playing its tricks on youIf you think my up and leaving's something I'mgonna doFeel my chest when I look at youBaby, you You got my only heartYeah, you got my only heartYeah, you got my onlyOnly heart It's so hard to be so far outLivin' our separate livesYour phone was nearly brokenI tried your number twiceAnd if you need confirmation, baby I understandIt's alright if you want me toTell you, you You got my only heartYeah, you got my only heartYeah, you got my onlyOnly heart And you live like your hand's on the horn, baby I adore you but there's a hole in the cup that should hold my love If you letIf you letIf you let me leave I swear I never will Oh, remember now youYou got my only heart Yeah, you got my only heartYeah, you got my only heartYeah, you got my only heart.

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People have the right to fly And will when it gets compromised Their hearts say, "Move along" Their minds say, "Gotcha heart, Let's move it along." And airports see it all the time where someone's last goodbye Blends in with someone's sigh Cause someone's coming home In hand a single rose And that's the way this wheel keeps working now That's the way this wheel keeps working now And I won't be the last No, I won't be the lastTo love her. You can't build a house of leaves And live like it's an evergreen It's just a season thing It's just this thing the seasons do And that's the way this wheel keeps working now That's the way this wheel keeps working now And you won't be the first No, you won't be the first To love me. You can find me If you ever want again I'll be around the bend I'll be around the bend I'll be around I'll be around And if you never stop when you wave goodbye You just might find if you give it time, you will wave hello again You just might wave hello again And that's the way this wheel keeps working now That's the way this wheel keeps working now You can't love too much one part of it You can't love too much one part of it I believe that my life's gonna see The love I give returned to me

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