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The Price On My Head
03:55
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If I was an open book
There'd be nothing there to read
If I was to change my look
There'd be nothing left of me
It's an emergency
Now, when you come around
It's true we may never see
But with our ears on the ground
We can hear the sound
The Lord got a price on my head, that I don't buy!
Why Lord put a price on my head that I don't buy?
The shepherds come away to watch
As three men stay
In a little open air manger
On a floor made from hay
You said, "why didn't I think of that?"
I said, "how could you know?"
It's getting too late for this now
There's no place left to go but home
The Lord got a price on my head, that I don't buy!
Why Lord put a price on my head that I don't buy?
Hear the rising of the tide
That whispers through the night
Hear voices from behind
Saying free your mind
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2. |
That's How We Roll
02:59
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I dislike ceremony but I like to eat marzipan
and I watch the credits roll before I'm heading off again
See all the pretty maids over there in a row
Boy what you waiting for there's no time for you to go slow
Now it's time to dance
To the beat of the clapping hands
That's how we roll, it's how we roll
With heart and soul
That's how we roll, it's how we roll
I've been sheltered from this light for too long
But now I'm in the fray and living life right or wrong
So open up now 'cause what you get is what you see
How could you want more? There's certainly enough for me
Now it's time to dance
To the beat of the clapping hands
That's how we roll, it's how we roll
With heart and soul
That's how we roll, it's how we roll
Watch us rock
Watch us roll
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I ain't so pretty
Walking more like a broken man
Caught in the big city
Like putty in the Devil's hands
I hear the church bells
Ringing way before my time
Anyone could tell
I'm walking on a fine line
I let it go and breath out
Take a chance to make it loud
So they're dancing when I'm not around any more
I have been ripped off
I have been pushed down
All my money lost
And forced into the underground
Been down the wrong track
Barked up the wrong tree
Thrown on the garbage stack
But it ain't got the best of me
I let it go and breath out
Take a chance to make it loud
So they're dancing when I'm not around any more
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4. |
Forty Miles East
03:48
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Like a jet plane flying through the northern lights
My navigation signs got screwed up
But here I see that beauty cannot refine
The alloys of a broken mind, or glue it up
Let this fire refine my soul
Breaking us down to gold
That will forever hold
Inquartation and parting
For a boy in want of heart and stranded
Forty miles east
Like a diver thrown to the greatest ocean depths
All directional sense has been torn up
Or a nomad searching on the arid desert plains
There's nothing left here to gain if you're gone away
Let this fire refine my soul
Breaking us down to gold
That will forever hold
Inquartation and parting
For a boy in want of heart and stranded
Forty miles east
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5. |
Buildings of Dreams
03:05
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hope is ours for these short few hours
as fireworks light up the sky
and as snow falls soft from the clouds
on merry-go-rounds the children play
and the truth will fall out of me
and you will see what I want
buildings may fall but the truth will stand tall
and you will see what I want is you
time escapes as we find hearts that break
and dream of a love we could share
may we all stand as one when the day it is done
with what for it had to be there
and the truth will fall out of me
and you will see what I want
buildings may fall but the truth will stand tall
and you will see what I want is you
so lay down, close your eyes and dream of the love we will share
lay down, close your eyes and dream of the love we will share
when the truth can fall out of me
and you will see what I want
buildings may fall but the truth will stand tall
and you will see what I'm not with you
When the truth will fall out of me
and you will see what I want
Buildings may fall
But the truth will stand tall
and you will see what I want is you
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I'm down at the station
Waiting so patiently for you
With my head in my hands
I've let this run late
But I won't hesitate
To make sure that you understand
'Cause there's four strong winds that are a' comin'
They're gonna blow that trumpet soon
When I'm drawn and quartered like and outlaw
The last thing I see will be you
Now it's time for a soul revolution
Watching my angels fall
Watching my demons brawl
I'm breaking old china plates up against the walls
Well it's time we moved on
To make ourselves strong
Only time will console what we've found
I'm checking a map
So I miss the next trap
But it's hard to be told North from South
When there's four strong winds that are a' comin'
They're gonna blow that trumpet soon
When I'm drawn and quartered like and outlaw
The last thing I see will be you
Now it's time for a soul revolution
Watching my angels fall
Watching my demons brawl
I'm breaking old china plates up against the walls
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7. |
Wind In My Lungs
03:58
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Pack your things, we'll leave in the morning
To catch the first train out of here bound, full steam, without fear
Though we may ride
Through mountains of sin and plains of delight
With no net for if we should fall
With no return paid we'll keep moving for'd
It's all been done
I've read it in books and I've heard it all sung
But watch me run
The ground I forsook with the wind in my lungs
It might be a dream, but a dream
It might be a dream, but a dream
If we win we have no need for mocking birds or diamond rings
May hope fill our minds eyes
It's down to you and I to let the light shine
Burn though it might, to keep warm through the night
It's all been done
I've read it in books and I've heard it all sung
But watch me run
The ground I forsook with the wind in my lungs
It might be a dream, but a dream
It might be a dream, but a dream
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8. |
Bastille Day
02:48
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When summer leaves I will be gone
When autumn leaves fall down
I've opened this door and now I must walk through
Into this cold room
Where all we have is this icy cold
But we hold on
No, we don't let go
Though we fall
As spring awakes and the blue bird sings
A sweet new chorus begins to play
And light softly breaks through the trees at dawn
Into a thousand pieces torn where we lay
Where all we have is this icy cold
But we hold on
No, we don't let go
Though we fall
Light moves gently across the sky
A plane flies
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Neon Rappel
04:03
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Hey, why don't we create a world all of our own
Where we can be free
Where we can be one
Where we can call home
As we dance like souls that are free
To all our love would be
To all our love would be unknown
So I don't lay awake at night thinking of you
So I don't lay awake at night holding you
If I showed her my heart
So we didn't drift apart
To be cursed from the start
'Cause her eyes told me she'd stay
Until judgement day now this neon display will shine
As we dance like souls that are free
To all our love would be
To all our love would be unknown
So I don't lay awake at night thinking of you
So I don't lay awake at night holding you
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Acland Street
03:33
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A warm night on Acland Street
The pier lights up like a Christmas string
While we have a beer and talk about things
On St Kilda Beach
In day light from Acland Street
Ride to the markets on the tram
Get caught in the Grand Prix traffic jam
On Fitzroy Street
As I sat on an old park bench
Overlooking St Kilda Beach
Reading articles and books
Giving pretty girls a look
But they don't say hi
They keep walking by out of reach
Down to St Kilda Beach
A warm night on Acland Street
We sing songs on the balcony
A Simple Twist of Fate to Paul Kelly
To Bob's song, the one about Lead Belly
On Acland Street
At first light from Acland Street
Jump off the pier but avoid the stingers
To wash off the worst of last nights beers
On Acland Street
As I sat on an old park bench
Overlooking St Kilda Beach
Reading articles and books
Giving pretty girls a look
But they don't say hi
They keep walking by out of reach
Down to St Kilda Beach
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