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Escapism
03:28
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I've got to get out of this bar,
I've got to get out of this place.
I've got to be out of my mind
Just longing to see your face.
I've got to get up out of this hole,
I need some kind of plan.
Feels like I'm losing my soul,
Now I've got to do what I can to be okay,
Because tomorrow's another day.
Life is terminal, and it will claim us all,
So I don't have time to waste longing for a taste of what I thought you were.
I've got to get back on the road,
I've got to get out of this town.
Fallen leaves weigh down my load,
And the rain keeps bringing me down.
I've got to get back to the sea,
Let the salt flow through my bones.
With the waves crashing over me,
Feels like I can finally go home and be as one
With the things that I have done.
Life is terminal, and it will claim us all,
So I don't have time to waste longing for a taste of what I thought you were.
I refuse to starve to death until I kill the man who's starving me.
And as I stop to embrace my breath, I realise suddenly that I am free.
Free to live, and love and lose, and do all the things that I lost to you.
Man can always start again, now that's exactly what this man must do.
I've got to get out of this town,
I've got to get out of this place.
I've got to be out of my mind
Because I still miss you face.
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2. |
Gary Kasparov
02:44
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Rook to Queen Five, I've lost both my Knights,
I'm fighting for my life, I'm fighting for my life.
And I know that, eventually, you'll take me
And my kingdom will be consigned to history.
I'm trying to keep an escape plan
For as long as I possibly can,
'Cause I know that you'll have me cornered
And my crown will be laid at your feet.
They will build statues of me,
They will sing songs about me:
The Faceless King of Nothing,
The Lord of Best-Laid Plans.
They will build statues of me,
They will sing songs about me:
The Faceless King of Nothing,
The Lord of Best-Laid Plans.
You can't say that you don't know me, because I see myself in you.
You can't say that I am a no-one, because I'm in everything you do.
We were the kids who thought we be heroes,
You are the girls who thought you'd be brides.
I don't want your pity, 'cause I have got nothing but my pride.
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3. |
Pony Girls
02:26
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She walks into the room, but she don't know what to do
Because her mouth is filled with blood from biting her tongue.
And she longs to say "I love you", but it ruins her dress;
What a bloody mess.
And all of the confusion, and all the drunk "I love yous" in the world
Aren't worth a thing.
There's nothing you can do my love when he just don't love you.
She's been hurt too many times, and she's red around the eyes,
And the make up streaks make patterns on her cheeks.
And she crashes to the dancefloor, and the drink flows like the tears.
She's been drifting and falling for years.
All the drunken kisses and all the one night stands in the world
Aren't worth a thing.
There's nothing you can do my love, you can't make them love you.
As your friends hold back your hair, are you holding back
From letting it come flooding out, all that you don't talk about,
How for all of your bravado, and your "carpé PM" ways,
You don't just want to spend the nights but maybe spend the days
Feeling like you've got somebody, because all the drunk "I love yous" in the world
Aren't worth a thing
If the one thing you can't do is find someone to hold you in the morning and the night,
That girl needs someone to turn to and say "Lover, you're my world".
Don't forget that girls need love.
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4. |
To The Sea
04:04
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Come away with me, I will take you to the sea
And we'll stand on the rocks and feel like we are free
If only for a little while. I will try to make you smile,
And I will try to reach the stars, but they're always just too far away
From me. I can see, but I can't breathe no more.
Cut me with your knife and bleed away my life
Because I would rather die than see the fear in your eyes
Each and every day; the fears I can't seem to allay.
The words you do not speak like the echoes of the deep
As we swim into the bay; watch me float away.
Time is cruel, and men are fools, and the words mean nothing any more.
Put me to sleep in my coffin deep and lay down on the floor
And close your eyes until everything is still and it's dawn again,
And I'm born again in you. It's what I'll do.
Come away with me, I will take you to the sea.
Come away with me, I will take you to the sea.
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