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Twenty-two
04:00
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You were 22 when I first saw you
with your painter's smile
and your eyes of blue
I’ll tell it how it is
or something like it was
I thought i heard applause
when the tight-lipped boy
eyed the star-lit girl
and the star-lit girl has brightened up his world
she was 22 only 22
from the twilit gardens
in the summer rain
you took me to your house
you made me laugh again
I’ll tell it like it is
or something like it was
I swear I heard applause
when the tight-lipped boy
eyed the star-lit girl
and the star-lit girl has brightened up his world
she was only 22 only 22
when you're 22 and you got your life front of you
when you're 22 and in love
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The Belle Sisters
05:18
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Caught in a memory of a dream I once had
I cartwheel I'm tongue-tied
washing with duck eggs
So here they come now
caught in the night trains
laugh with confusion
ask if you feel the same
are you the little band?
without the little band
there’s nothing left to believe in
everything is shaken and the thing is this
sooner or later
we all run out of ways
to hurt the ones that we love
if I could just sit here
and learn how to laugh
learn how to be tough
with the Belle sisters
I saw her this evening
way up on Ashton Lane
I could tell she was leaving
she didn’t even call my name
she held out her hands
when she held out her hands
she was holding
an accidental halo
hunger and the horses head
they rise up before me
for good love…good love can always go bad
sooner or later
we all run out of ways to hurt the ones we love
is there time to just sit here
and learn how to laugh
learn how to be tough
with the Belle sisters
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3. |
Tequila Mockingbird
04:14
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Goosesteps
goosesteps down lonely streets
where pandemonia
rules everyone
in Bohemia
lord if you’d just seen her
then margarita changes everything
tequlia mockingbird
tequila mockingbird
darling you broke your word
what else could you do
tequila mockingbird is a shocking bird
tequila gives us wings to fly
we feel her and tonight we’ll die
and life gets too crazy
when you least expect it
and the sailor boys
search for the sweetest toys
two punch-drunk crazies
off the Reeperbahn at sunrise
tequlia mockingbird
tequila mockingbird
darling you broke your word
what else could you do?
tequila mockingbird
is a shocking bird
but tequila gives us wings to fly.
we feel her and tonight we’ll die
and life gets too crazy
when you least expect it
and margarita changes everything
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4. |
Huntly In Love
03:22
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Those kisses we gave
high on Huntly
for a girl with lilies on her stairs
I swear are still hanging there
remember you, remember me
one fabulous evening
high above the trees
when the moon seems
to shine for us
seems to smile
Sinatra sings
over riddle strings
and quiet in that instant
you said “ follow me”
Babe you know I would
until the end of the line
You sigh
really
move and glide
riding up St Vincent in the sun
finally knowing you were the one
for me and me for you
we kiss and sway
and skies are blue
or when the night is young
and new love has only just begun
we’re high on Dumbarton Rock
on a perfect afternoon
or just a beautiful afternoon
the blue ardour of your eyes
speaks to me of the sweetness of your soul
I wish love could always be this good
I wish I could wake every day this way
Always hold you in my arms
or in bold arabesques sway
I was the man you loved to love
I was the man who slipped off their gloves
but could never see what you can’t miss
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5. |
Trocadero Girls
02:32
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Let’s all play baccarat in pearls
with the king of knaves or the jack from hell
chase and purr with a Venus in furs
as if in the morning you would be her
How soft she was, how soft she was
I had nothing to lose except a lost cause
I keep moving on try to get some thrills
Try hanging out with the Trocadero Girls
I’m going to hang with the Trocadero Girls
boy you look strange sang a femme fatale
for a moment or two I feel under her spell
She took me home I donned her white tutu
as if in the morning she could be you
she could be you and I could be me
How soft she was, how soft she was
I had nothing to lose except a lost cause
I keep moving on try to get some thrills
Try hanging out with the Trocadero Girls
I’m going to hang with The Trocadero Girls
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6. |
Something Precious
01:44
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something precious has been destroyed;
just shattered
you attempt to make repairs
but the cracks are still visible.
the original strength will never be restored,
the orignal beauty appears
only fleetingly on its’ surface
a painful reminder of that which once was
it was within your power
to nurture that precious thing;
to protect it.
quite simply you treated it carelessly.
and now it’s lost to you
and you find yourself lost without it.
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7. |
Yellow Crombie
04:42
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Caught in a Crombie on a dead-end street
I had it all I had the world at my feet
lost myself in the fog of retreat
I hear the rain sound in the shallow bays
hear the wind sing thru’ the yellow hay
I found heartbreak at the break of day
I was breaking
As Madame Rochester walked out in flares
greets a stranger at the foot of the stairs
A fallen angel for the devil may care
A make-shift lawyer and a racketeer
raises writs and some hollow cheers
It’s way past midnight it will cost you my dear
Listen darling let’s make this summer long
now the wind and the rain are long gone
you can kiss me on your old chaise-longue
We’ll get the hood down we’ll drive to the coast
find it all when they said it was lost
recover happiness at any cost
Caught in a Crombie on a dead-end street
I had it all I had the world at my feet
lost myself in the fog of retreat
I hear the rain sound in the shallow bays
hear the wind sing thru’ the yellow hay
I found heartbreak at the break of day
I was breaking
are you breaking?
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8. |
The Captives
05:30
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I heard your voice cry
"it's all in vain"
as we ran thru' the downtown lanes
I said it's too late babe
we know we're thru'
but there's one last thing I can promise you
one night when the stars are shining
I will lift you up
In all the sweetness of our deceit
ww were the architects of our own defeat
it's gone midnight and now we must part
but I'll always carry you in my heart
One night when you think your world is ending
I will lift you up
In all her sleekness just like a dream
I'm sure love slipped away unseen
I stood in her slipstream but I didn't see her go
I was captive on another shore
I heard my voice cry
"this is all insane"
above the roar of a southbound train
sometimes it's cold here and nothing works
but I'll always carry you in my heart
If I could take you where the crowd can't reach us
I will meet you love
One night when you think your world is ending
I will wake you up
I will let you know
just how sweet you were
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9. |
Dreamless
03:00
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Tonight I am in danger
something on my mind
I lost you little stranger
I was always too unkind
and you might find
Love is always faded splendour
love has lost us precious stranger
in love I was the younger pretender
but indifference tonight
couldn’t care less
you might find me dreamless
Lord we are in danger
if you could give me a sign
that you can hear me tonight
but you couldn’t care less
Tonight will find me dreamless
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Last Night I Loved You
03:38
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Last night I loved you
when you opened your heart
and let yourself sing I said
so long so long
to the best thing in my life
I got no reason to deny
that I’m out of my mind
it’s way past my season
but that’s alright
it’s just a Saturday night
another Saturday night
and I still love you with all my soul
as I walk in the freezing cold
I wish the healing had begun
I’m outside the station
set to ride
no destination in mind
you can call it treason
that’s alright
anything you like
Last night I loved you
when you opened your heart and let yourself sing
so long so long
to the best thing in my life
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11. |
The Phantom Sonata
01:13
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“It’s the little phase from the Phantom sonata
but I mustn’t listen”
All the memories from when she was in love with me
which until that moment I had succeeded
in keeping invisible in the depths of misery
were deceived by this sudden reflection
of a season of love whose sun I supposed
had dawned again
awoken from their slumber
had taken wing
and risen to sing maddeningly
in my ears
without pity for my present desolation
the forgotten strains of happiness.
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12. |
Sundown & Longing
04:46
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I’ve never loved nobody
like I love you babe
your ever winning smile
and the paintings that you made
Sometimes I picture you
and the gardens over Kew
and it feels like summer again
summer’s back
and when the longing comes
when the longing comes
I’ll await your sweet return
and when the sundown comes
yes when the sundown comes
I’ll await your sweet return
will you make your sweet return?
will you make it back?
Some nights I
just pray for love
but it’s alright
It’s just sundown and longing
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13. |
Supernatural
02:48
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That night seemed almost supernatural
to belong to a mysterious world
to which you may never return again
once it’s doors are closed
And I could just distinguish
standing motionless
before that scene of remembered happiness
a wretched figure
who filled me with such pity
because at first I didn’t recognise him,
that I had to lower my eyes
in case anyone should see that they were filled with tears.
It was myself.
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14. |
Pandemonia
14:22
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Friendship in love
should be enough
when disillusion has caught you up
but it isn’t
when Pandemonia stakes her claim
Heartbreak
I know you’ve had your fill
but I can hear you laughing still
yet I loved her
Pandemonia was her name
Furies in the mansions
serpents in the wells
every chance of happiness
surely gone to hell
though tonight we feel broken
tomorrow we’ll grow stronger still
Pandemonia you fought in vain
Lost in the search for the
holy girl
you think you’ve found her
your flags unfurl
but you didn’t
Pandemonia you loved in vain
If I must be so despised
I’ll shrug it off I’m not surprised
yes I chose her
Pandemonia was her name
Furies in the mansions
serpents in the wells
every chance of happiness
surely gone to hell
though tonight we feel broken
tomorrow we’ll grow stronger still
If you fell in love with me
there’s nothing I couldn’t be
I would disown her
for Pandemonia I was insane
Yet love I know must surely die
but then again not between you and I
to endless summer!
to Pandemonia it’s all a game
C’est la petite phrase de la sonate du phantome
“n’écoutons pas!”
Tous ses souvenirs du temps où elle était éprise de lui
Et qu’il avait réussi jusqu’à ce jour à maintenir invisibles
Dans les profondeurs de son être
Trompés par ce brusque rayon du temps d’amour
Qu’ils crurent revenu; s’étaient réveillés et,
À tire-d’aile, étaient remontés lui chanter éperdument
Sans pitié pour son infortune présente,
Les refrains oubliés du bonheur
Dans cette nuit qui lui avait semblé presque supernaturelle
Et qui en effet appartenait bien à un monde mystérieux
Où on ne peut jamais revenir quand les portes s’en sont refermées
Et il aperçut, immobile en face de ce bonheur revécu
Un malheureux qui lui fit pitié: il dut baisser les yeux
Pour qu’on ne vit pas qu’ils étaient plein de larmes
C’était lui-même
I thought of what might be in store for me:
To try to forget her seemed to me to be painful,
But sensible, and for the first time possible,
Even perhaps easy.
Friendship in love
should be enough
when disillusion has caught you up
but it isn’t
when Pandemonia stakes her claim
If you fell in love with me
there’s nothing I couldn’t be
I would disown her
for Pandemonia I was insane
Quelque chose de précieux a été détruit
Simplement brisé
Tu essaies de recoller les morceaux
Mais les fissures sont toujours visibles
On ne pourra jamais retrouver la force initiale
La beauté d’origine apparaît
Parfois fugitivement
Sous le vernis
Un souvenir douloureux de ce qui a été
Il ne tenait qu’à toi
De nourrir cette chose précieuse
De la protéger
Mais tu l’as simplement négligéé
Et maintenant
Tu te retrouves perdu
Sans elle
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15. |
Pandemonia Part 2
04:56
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16. |
Pandemonia Part 22
01:52
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