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A Beautiful Thing
01:28
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I'm not going to lie.
I'm not going to fight
I'm not going to run away
I'm saving up for a virtuous life
and ran out of things to say.
This is the start of a beautiful thing.
I'm not going to back down all of the time.
I won't let you cut in line anymore.
This is the start of a beautiful thing.
I'm tired.
I'm taking the night off.
This is the start of a beautiful thing.
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2. |
Making Ground
02:49
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Carnage of trees
across the road
Hanging wires,
broken bones.
Snarling wind
begins to shout.
Rain comes in...
We're MAKING GROUND.
What are you
going to do about it?
Rain comes in
from either side.
Won't get you clean.
Not tonight.
Kneeling down in a pool of blood.
These ones are dead.
Don't slow down.
Just move ahead.
We're MAKING GROUND.
Did you ever think you'd die
from the fun you used to have?
What are you
going to do about it?
Yeah!
What are you
going to do about it?
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3. |
On the Highway
02:11
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I can see my breath as we're starting the car,
skipping this town while it's still in the dark.
And we've got all our stuff and the doors are all locked
while we're making our way to the end of the block
and we stop for a kiss and we signal left...
ON THE HIGHWAY I will catch my breath.
And we're picking up speed...
This is becoming real...
And she's holding my hand,
Sighing in my ear:
"No more tearful good-byes...
(No more good-byes)
Just grateful 'Hello's' from now on..."
(Just say "So Long")
ON THE HIGHWAY I will catch my breath
or catch Hell
from those
we've left.
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Off to the Races
01:51
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That we are more strangers than Lovers now
makes it all mean so much more:
Taking me, selfishly,
Used for the thing I was made for!
So strike up the band!
Get on your feet!
Give me your hand!
Now we are OFF TO THE RACES!
I just Love how we dance on a whim
- in such interesting places! -
And I Love to sing about Sarah!
(La da da!)
I Love to dance in the park!
In my world, the whole world
is a ballroom after dark!
So strike up the band!
Get on your feet!
Give me your hand!
Now we are OFF TO THE RACES!
I just Love how we dance on a whim
- in such interesting places! -
And I Love to sing about Cindy!
(La da dee!)
I Love to dance in the park!
In my world, the whole world
is a ballroom after dark!
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Moonglow (So Lovely)
04:08
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The last blooms of the season are repressed,
the Winter's breath makes them nervous...
And it seems we dream together
while I try
to coax the night out of the sky...
You have hypnotized me
and I am only at your mercy,
Moonglow, so lovely.
Night is full of only dreamers...
"Your Magic will not work on me this time!"
I thought so, when I was still young inside
but I've never felt the Sun reflect upon you
quite the way that I do now.
Now that you have hypnotized me
and I am only at your mercy,
Moonglow, so lovely.
That's right, you have hypnotized me
and I am only at your mercy,
Moonglow, so lovely.
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Come help yourself
Help me undress
Hear your secrets
and let you confess
Let's make the best of the time that we have.
Your smell on my clothes,
Your hair in my bed,
Your taste in my mouth...
There is no going back
(let's make the best of the time that we have...)
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Raise Them Bones
02:26
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I'm taking my life in my own hands tonight,
holding dear Life by a thread...
All them bones
are like a crown on my head!
All alone, feeling surrounded
You're all alone, hearing shadows
Shake them bones
out of the cupboard and use them bones.
Block that Sun out with a cloud
Just try to block the Sun out, dark as night
Take them bones
and make a fire your light them bones!
RAISE THEM BONES from the earth!
RAISE THEM BONES like a flower!
Turn the rocks and dirt and uncover more bones!
RAISE THEM BONES like a flower!
RAISE THEM BONES out of the ground
Until every dirty little one of them is found!
'Cause I'm taking my life in my own hands tonight,
holding dear Life by a thread...
All them bones
are like a crown on my head!
Everything you ever promised to me
and everything you didn't do
and all them bones will come a-runnin' for you!
All them bones
will come crashing on you!
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8. |
Had My Chance
02:00
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When my cup dries up
and my eyes are shut
I won't be too sad
I've had my chance to Love.
I've had my chance to Love,
now I can die.
Certainly not happily,
I should be satisfied:
I've had my chance to Love.
I had you to myself.
I had years to get it right.
I had my chance to Love.
No more kisses good-night.
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Make Room for Happiness
01:48
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It will all be fine
in good ol' Summertime
when I'm home again.
Throw your worries out
Mare room for happiness!
Your space is taken up with gloom
Make room for happiness!
You can have desert,
Save room for Happiness!
You can lose your shirt
and still find happiness!
Make room for happiness!
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10. |
Make Me Wrong
02:37
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At my window, late at night
Something isn't sitting right.
What it could be, I suppose,
Loneliness within me grows
I lost it all, but won the fight.
Now I'm right, but I'm alone
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
I know I'm right, but so alone
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
Stay with me, make me wrong...
I want to be wrong...
(his eyes are so blue)
If I could belong...
(from looking at you)
too long.
Scuffling and shuffling and suffering (succotash!)
Wandering and wondering what might have been...
Want so bad not to feel so bad
Want so bad not to feel
When it is revealed that
I'm right, but I'm alone
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
I know I'm right, but so alone
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
(want to be wrong, Make me wrong)
Stay with me, make me wrong...
I want to be wrong...
(his eyes are so blue)
If I could belong...
(from looking at you)
too long.
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Will Gillespie Hamilton, Ontario
Will Gillespie is an award-winning singer-songwriter and playwright in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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