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Bodyguard
03:54
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I had a dream that we were robbed
They took the moldings off the walls
Erased our signatures from things
I heard them singing…
Wheres my bodyguard?
Wheres my bodyguard?
Wheres my bodyguard to guard me?
They stole the subjects from your paintings
but left the canvas on the frame
They ran off with years of clothing
stole your smell, stole your stain
Just like rain
washed clean of your name
and all bodyguard
Let down your bodyguard
Wheres my bodyguard to guard me?
I saw a man.
I saw a man.
I saw a man.
Wheres my bodyguard?
Take take take take my arms
Got nothing to hold
Break break break my legs
Theres nothing to stand on
Take take my bones
Theres nothing to fill me in,
just skin
Where you been, bodyguard?
Wheres my bodyguard?
Be my bodyguard
guard me.
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2. |
I Don't Need No Man
03:06
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Who’s gonna shoe your pretty little feet?
Who’s gonna glove your hands?
Who’s gonna kiss your red ruby lips?
Who’s gonna be your man?
Papa’s gonna shoe my pretty little feet.
Mama’s gonna glove my hands.
Sister’s gonna kiss my red ruby lips.
I dont need no man.
(The only woman he ever did love was on that train and gone)
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3. |
Tired of This Life
03:04
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Tired of this life
but you wanna know what it’s like
Don’t you wanna know what it’s like?
Tomorrow night
fireworks ‘ll fill the sky
fireworks ‘ll fill the sky
Up in the air so high
Over the world below
For just long enough
Let your worry go
Let the worry go.
Tired of your trying
but your eyes weren’t only made for cryin
Your eyes were made for seein things
Tomorrow brings
a brand new blossoming
It’ll only make your heart sing
like the birds so high
Over the world below
For just long enough
Let your worry go
Let your worry go.
Tired of this life
but you wanna know what its like
Don’t you wanna know what it’s like?
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4. |
Twilight
03:23
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Another starless night
Another dim streetlight
If you turn your head just right
the street becomes the sky
And shooting stars go by
They spark and they die
You see the reason why
You never catch the night
Drags a long tail light
Streaks of red vein the sky
But you love twilight.
Oh, Love me with your body
I need one to hold.
Oh, Love me with your body
I need one to hold tonight.
In the long dim light
Streaks of red will vein your eyes
Don’t you love twilight?
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5. |
Private Little Hell
02:46
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You’re driving down the road
when something had to blow
The car is filled with smoke
it calls on you to grow.
But it makes you want to throw up
to have to feel this bad
Now you know what you want
You want what you had.
but you cant have that
You cant go back.
Make it break in
Make it break
Now all the things were sold
the ones that made you feel safe
And the people that you told all moved away
Now you’ve got something to say
but no one there to tell
So you write it all down in your private little hell.
Your private little hell.
But you wanna be well.
Do you wanna be well?
Go find someone to tell.
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6. |
Picture Show
03:13
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Let’s all go to the picture show
Let’s see famous people glow
Maybe some light will rub off, you know?
Your next life’s a pony show
and ponys turn into glue
La la la la Lollipop
La la la la Make it stop
La la la la Life’s a gag
La la la la You’re a fag
La la la la submarine
La la la la You’re so mean
There is so much suffering
I can’t do a thing
Digging, Digging in the ground
Looking for a thing to love
The lonely ones are never found
But they can tell you things about the soil
That fill your heart with oil
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7. |
Kids in a Play
03:26
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We are like kids in a play
Set in the Victorian Age
We only know what to say
because we practiced at home
or we rehearsed on the bus
next to kids just like us
Who couldnt help but think we were weird.
And you will open your mouth
and it will cue me
To start to speak of the South
like I had been there.
And you will forgive yourself
as you mouth my words.
I think it’s your turn to leave
and throw a fit
and I will mumble and grieve in an aside
that brings the crowd to their feet
and almost makes you cry
Cry. Cry. Cry.
What if no one comes?
What if we get bored?
Will you fit my clothes?
If we should switch roles?
Here we go.
We are like kids in a play
Set in the Victorian Age
We only know what to say because we practiced at home
Or we rehearsed on the bus
Next to kids just like us
They couldn’t help but think.
They couldn’t help it.
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8. |
Toy Piano
01:32
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9. |
Dig Me a Hole
03:10
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When it’s hard to breathe in the city
It’s easier to drink
Come to my house
We’ll sit in the dark and try not to think
About the green fields,
The way the land feels,
All we left behind.
Oh how a dream can block out the sun
and cloud a mind.
Tear me from my hometown
Dig me a hole in the ground
Cause I leave. I fall too far down
Tear me a hole in the ground.
When it’s hard to breathe in the city
It’s easier to drink
Come to my house
We’ll sit in the dark
And try not to think.
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Steppin out on the pavement
Everyday feels the same
I saw your face in my dream
and couldn’t recall my name.
I don’t want to know
Close my eyes and let go
I can hardly see
What it’s doing to me
I don’t want to fight
You’re in love with the Night.
Walkin on gravel and cement
Always different from the day before
I’ve got a lot to forget
Old pictures in a drawer.
I don’t want to know
Close my eyes and let go
I can hardly see
What it’s doing to me
I don’t want to fight
I’m in love with the Night
I’m in love with the Night.
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11. |
Goodnight Lover
02:45
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Goodnight Lover
Lover Goodnight
Will we meet each other
in a dream tonight
and will you remember
the color of my eyes
set in a million tigers
sleeping on their sides?
Ooh, sleeping on their sides.
Goodnight Lover
Lover Goodnight
Will you roll over in the bed tonight
Turning a million circles
Dancing in the night
Like dancing on your side
Dancing on your side
We’re sleeping on our sides
Ooh, sleeping on our sides.
Ooh, dance into the night
Turning Turning
Goodnight Lover
Lover Goodnight
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12. |
You Alone
06:52
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You alone are holy
and you alone are beauty
but you alone are lonely now.
When we’re alone (you told me)
You’d tell me the whole sad story
But we’re never alone now
Looks like you let it out
For just a moment
and I could see how
you’d only lay me down
On sheets that tore and gave out
I’ve never known anyone til now.
You belong in poetry
and you belong in fine things
but you belong to someone else.
You belong in prairie
and you belong in black sea
but you belong to no one town
You really let it out
For just a moment
and I could see how
you’d only lay me down
On sheets that tangle and crowd.
I’ve never known a love til now.
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13. |
Won't Back Down
02:27
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Dawn Landes Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dawn Landes is a singer-songwriter with roots in Kentucky and NYC, now living in North Carolina. She has released multiple albums and her songs have been featured in commercials, popular films, and TV shows. Landes tours internationally and has performed with The Boston Pops, NYC Ballet, and at TED. ... more
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