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Songbird
04:13
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Mine is a sweet love
Mine is a chorus of angels
Singing sweet dreams to a city that never sleeps
Porcelain canvas with a diamond necklace ringing in my ears
Yours is a paper heart
A mind is a short fuse
So feed me your good news baby
What can I tell you?
The worst is over now
Find me a good soul
With the mindset of a loyal dog
Our love is a river of rattlesnakes and bullfrogs
Swimming upstream on an icy pond
And you fall so easy
Yours is a paper heart my dear
Yours is a paper heart my dear
Yours is a paper heart
Not that you'd notice
Not that you'd give a damn
Not that it matters
How wrong or right I am
Radiant beauty
You were a songbird singing in my ear
You were a songbird singing in my ear
You were a songbird
Radiant beauty
You were a songbird singing in my ear
You were a songbird singing in my ear
You were a songbird
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Three Steps Ahead
04:11
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I remember chasing you through the dog days of summer
We always found a way to beat the heat
Failed attempts to hold you though filled with good intentions
Were inadequate and often incomplete
Now she's one, two three steps ahead of me
And a girl like that is always hard to find
Well my oh my she got the best of me this time
I remember meeting you at the café by the river
That always served the buttered bread for free
Through good times and bad times I gave what I could give her
The river only washed it all to sea
Now you're one, two, three steps ahead of me
And a girl like that is always hard to find
Well my oh my she got the best of me this time
We used to walk through gardens
Where the daisies liked to sway
It always felt like Paris in the Spring
You offered up a smile when the skies were turning grey
Just to make the best of everything
Now she's one, two, three steps ahead of me
And a girl like that is always hard to find
Well my oh my she got the best of me this time
For whatever reasons I can't find
And we don't have to agree
But there are crossroads in the sky
Find the one that sets you free
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A Quiet Life
03:03
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Make no mistake about the facts
Our moneys not for pleasure
Once you've earned they take it back
And tax you for good measure
More ways than one to skin the cat
But what's the use in trying?
You've got to roll with this and that
To keep yourself from crying
Oh I would take a quiet life over this any day
Don't need the fancy party nights
Don't need the masquerade
There might be hell to pay
The lights are bright this side of town
There must be sights to see
For what it's worth we'll take them down
No one gets in for free
More ways than one to skin the cat
What have we got to lose?
Although we walk the same paths
Some have nicer shoes
I would take a quiet life over this any day
Don't need your fancy party nights
Don't need the masquerade
There might be hell to pay
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Moon Car Lullaby
03:46
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One star, two star
Round and round we go in our moon car
High speed, go far
They ain’t gonna catch us in our moon car
Don’t let the bugs in baby
They’ll be sure to bite
I left some roses by the window
For when you come home tonight
Black bird, blue bird
All the ones that we heard in our moon car
Who knows quite when
We'll be back again in our moon car
Don't let the bugs in baby
They'll be sure to bite
We'll let the world slip by our window
And we'll dream away the night
Black bird, blue bird
All the ones that we heard in our moon car
Who knows quite when
We’ll be back again in our moon car
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