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Expectations
02:07
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Expectations
Pick yourself up off the floor
Brush the dust off of each shoulder
You may feel helpless but it’s not the end of the world
Say you’re a picture without a frame
Just settle seven more years as your cells rearrange
With a crooked wine smile wash that white winter blue away
Keep that grievance at bay
But will I ever live up to all your expectations
I’d been lost for many months
All of a sudden there your face was
Will I ever live up to all your expectations
I’d been lost for many months
All of a sudden there your face was
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2. |
World Full Of Strangers
02:33
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World Full of Strangers
“And love the sorrows of your changing face”
If ever I hurt you just needed time to adjust
Cause this world’s full of strangers
But that’s got nothing to do with us
So I’m glad that you came back
Twenty-odd times
As your songs play forever
In my head in three-four time
As my heart beats, my blood flows effortlessly
And of all the ways that the world’s cut me
You were always my favorite one
If you learn to revel in your sorrows
Accept the pull of the earth
You realize all of your troubles
Were more trouble than they were worth
But sometimes you’re so worried
And I don’t know what’s wrong
I do know I want to make you feel better
I still feel your grief in every song
As my heart beats, my blood flows effortlessly
And of all the ways that the world’s cut me
You were always my favorite one
My heart beats, my blood it still flows effortlessly
Of all the ways that the world’s cut me
You were always my favorite one
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3. |
Broken Arm No. 2
02:07
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Broken Arm no. 2
Well if I could you know I’d be
Your thoughts, your wants, your every need
Live for your laugh, your salt and spit
All the vulgar things I must admit
We’re always wrapped up in some other shit
Through the thick and thin of it
We’re always wrapped in someone else’s arms
Swollen lips and broken charms
Retrace the shadows of your skin
As they turn to dust like everything
But life and death ain’t so different
There’ll be drugs enough for both of them
We’re always wrapped up in some other shit
Through the thick and thin of it
We’re always wrapped in someone else’s arms
Swollen lips and broken charms
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4. |
Corduroy & Cotton
02:39
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Corduroy & Cotton
Well you said,
Something’s better than nothing
And you said,
It’s not as bad as it seems
In corduroy and cotton
There’s a difference between you
Cause there’s a distance in me
Well you said,
If we could hold this together
Maybe we’d finally build something true
Beneath the fluorescent lights of a motel-6
Sixty-five miles left, in a chemical bliss
If it’s better to regret something that you did
Than something you didn’t do
Then how could I ever hold that against you
Well you said,
you’d been having the wildest dreams
With blood full of nicotine
’Til we’re turned to ash and soot and smoke
May your wish and my wish never be broke
Cause it’s better to regret something that you did
Than something you didn’t do
So how could I ever hold that against you
And you said,
If we could hold it together
We could build something holy and true
’Til we’re returned to the earth or the sky
The world will tremor to take you
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5. |
That Makes Two Of Us
03:16
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That Makes Two of Us
The world it never, ever
Looked as vibrant
As when you walked down
Those hospital steps
Although you may be wounded
Forever and ever,
You’re not dead yet
They said if they were to put you
Back together
First they must tear you apart
But you could go on like this
Forever and ever,
If you could find something
Remotely resembling
A life worth living
Now I sit and wonder why I’m giving
All of my time to people
Who don’t care if I live or die
That makes two of us, my darling
That makes two of us, my dear
That makes two of us, I’m certain
That I’ve never seen it all so clear
That day the news
Was mostly about famous people
Who died and would soon fade away
Still the camera crews
Filled the pews of the cathedrals
Swept up by that same mortal play
Of a life worth living
Now I sit and wonder why I’m giving
All of my time to people
Who don’t care if I live or die
That makes two of us, my darling
That makes two of us, my dear
That makes two of us, I’m certain
That I’ve never seen it all so clear
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6. |
Belly Flowers
02:37
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Belly Flowers
(whistle, whistle, whistle)
(whistle, whistle, whistle)
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7. |
Brass Locket
03:52
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Brass Locket
Keep me in a stash
In your back pocket
If you have to
I’ve got nowhere else to go
I’ve got nothing better to do
Stick me tight under your tongue
Pin me up against your teeth
Pull me tight to your gums
I’ll be anything you want
If there’s anything you want me to do
Hang me ‘round your neck
In a brass locket
If you have to
I’ve got nowhere else to go
I’ve got nothing better to do
When your hope is broken, bereft
I’ll be there inside the pendant upon your chest
I’ll be anything you want
If there’s anything you want me to do
Whatever it was, that I was
When you needed me to be,
Whatever it was, that I was
When you needed some relief
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8. |
Heaven Sent
03:06
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Heaven Sent
Somehow I got lost in a dream,
’til it became reality
But as soon as I could see my way out
I ran too fast and I startled myself
You were Heaven Sent,
A constant compliment
Now as long as I put a crowd around myself
It isn’t always as bad as it sounds
Last night I dreamt
That you were tattooed
From head to toe
In that dream you felt so vivid,
In that dream you felt so close
As I tried to pay attention
To each nuance that you spoke
You kept on moving further
So soon I was all alone,
And I awoke
You were Heaven Sent
A constant compliment
Now as long as I put a crowd around myself
It isn’t always as bad as it sounds
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9. |
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Expectations
Pick yourself up off the floor
Brush the dust off of each shoulder
You may feel helpless but it’s not the end of the world
Say you’re a picture without a frame
Just settle seven more years as your cells rearrange
With a crooked wine smile wash that white winter blue away
Keep that grievance at bay
But will I ever live up to all your expectations
I’d been lost for many months
All of a sudden there your face was
Will I ever live up to all you expectations
I’d been lost for many months
All of a sudden there your face was
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