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The Enduring Chill
03:54
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We know it always ends / With the arctic wreckage of a lonely bed / Still there’s something beating inside / Something burning we can’t deny / The emptiness expands / Come closer, take my hand
Nothing’s gonna happen / but even if it did I wouldn’t feel a thing / Nothing’s gonna happen / but even if it did you wouldn’t feel a thing / so come on and kiss me / come on and kiss me / I won’t feel a thing / nothing’s gonna happen / but even if it did you wouldn’t feel a thing
Still we come here every night / Deaf and dumb, nearly blind / Expecting nothing receiving less / Just an awkard smile an empty caress / still there’s something close to hope / Smoldering in us both
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Milo
03:44
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Milo, you believe in a radiant acceptance only the beautiful know / And while they play in celluloid glow / The rest of us must settle for shadows
In the cinema you sit two rows behind a girl with Stanwyck’s smile and Karina’s eyes / You’ve got nowhere else to be / the film is ending / She’s going to leave / But you won’t say a thing
Milo, you’ve nothing left to lose / When you know you don’t belong / And failing feels like flying / when your love is all your own / Your love is your own
Milo, you might not say all that much / But you deserve to be held and ought to be touched / If only you could leap / Into the screen / Force that girl to see / The kind of man you could be
But you project your tragedies / on to everyone you meet / Admit surrender / long before defeat / I can’t prove it’s worth the pain / to fall again and again / a blink of truth over a life of regret
Milo, what you so afraid of / What you so afraid of
Milo what you gonna do / you gonna run and hide again
Milo what you gonna do / when you find that your orphaned heart is dead
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Weight of Sweetness
03:11
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This life / Slips by so fast I think I’m blind to light / I’m lost and scared and gaining / Speed
You see / Love as a cheap game and you play your role / A simple fix, a steady income
Just give me something like tenderness
Our nights / Go on for years and scale the lonely quiet / When we sway with the tide the city / Dies
Please stay / Forget those men you keep and fall away / Into the last gasp of the moment
Just give me something like tenderness
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Anna's Boy
03:48
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At twelve years old you swore I’d be your only love / Guess I’m a fool for taking you at your word
So what if fifteen years flew by / So what if you’re with some other guy / He don’t give a damn for you
Your love is true / But can’t you see mine is too / Come on and leave that man you serve for the boy who worships you
When you slipped and fell on the ice after school / Remember how I tried to carry you home
I must’ve made it half a block / Before my arms gave and you dropped / You kissed my cheek and limped away alone
Right then and there I pledged that I / Wouldn’t leave your side without a fight / Come on and leave that man you serve for the boy who worships you
I’ve worked all my life to build a home / Now all I’m left with is a couple empty rooms
I know he buys you expensive things / But money ain’t worth shit if it’s paying for your tears / I’d never leave you empty and all alone
I’d pick you up and hold you tight / I know you’re scared but it’ll be alright
Come on and leave that man you serve for the boy who worships you
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Anna Come Home
03:51
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When she kisses me / She keeps her eyes closed / ’Cause she can’t help wondering where you are
When she lies down to sleep / She turns away from me / Cause she can’t help wondering where you are
She needs you / She needs you / But she keeps me ‘round cause I won’t break her heart
Sometimes she’ll just leave / Won’t say how long she’ll be / Cause she can’t help searching for your love
She wears her red dress / The one she never wears for me / Cause she can’t help searching for your love
She needs you / She needs you / But she keeps me ‘round cause I won’t break her heart
These days it seems / Like I’d be better off alone / But I can’t help reaching for her now
And oh those moments / When she smiles at me / I just can’t help reaching for her now
She needs you / She needs you / But she keeps me ‘round cause I won’t break her heart
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Lessons In Hunger
05:16
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All the stories that she told me / Got me feeling wrecked and lonely / She married once when she was young / He was so much older, and pushed her around
So she broke her vows and moved on / Without a dime or a friend / She’s lived with other men since then / And somewhere along the way her heart caved in
Maybe if I play a sad song / And dim the lights real low / And if we dance real close / and if we sway real slow
She could feel / like love might still be real
She moves a little closer to me / Hiding her hands beneath her coat / I can’t find the nerve to draw her near / A kiss don’t cut as deep when it’s dulled by fear / Cause she’ll just pick up and move on / And what’s a simple man got left once she’s gone / The flesh is weak, the flesh is wanting / The mind is tired, the heart is longing
Maybe if I play a sad song / And dim the lights real low / And if we dance real close / and if we sway real slow
She could feel / Like love might still be real
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