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Icarus
03:35
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Trapped inside this prison
with no company except for
these impotent inventions
and my father's broken dreams
Sailors come and sailors go,
they trade in tales but never know
how eagerly I listen for the world beyond the waves
Yearning for the skies above
Invoke the gods beg for my freedom
Climbing the stairs of this godforsaken tower
Losing my sanity hour by hour
Staring down into the watery abyss
Teetering right on the edge of this precipice
3, 2, 1, let's go!
Flying high
Grasp at the sun
Wind through my wings
I'll never come back down
Teased by tastes of freedom flight
I'm doomed to dream another night restricted
I'll bide my time and set my eyes
on when to rise, and claim my prize again
3, 2, 1, let's go!
Flying high
Grasp at the sun
Wind through my wings
I'll never come back down
Flying high
Caressing the sun
Flames are my wings
I'm never ever falling back down
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Your Audition
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Everybody wonders
Everyone has their price
It's just a matter of where you set it
So when you wonder
Consider this advice
You'd be better to forget it
All eyes are on you, can you feel it?
The sensation of the spotlight
All eyes are on you, can you feel it now?
They'll get you, infect you
Strut you out for all to see,
and start to get you hooked on their supply
They'll get you, infect you
No one here will protect you,
another victim joins the chorus line
Take the stage, dim the lights
the curtain call is calling
Will you make it through the night,
or just keep falling down down down down down down down down down?
They'll get you, infect you
Strut you out for all to see,
and start to get you hooked on their supply
They'll get you, infect you
No one here will protect you,
another victim joins the chorus line
Cut a sandbag with a knife
Watch it flow down to the floor
If this really is your life, then you can't take it any more
Take your place, center stage,
watching, waiting for the fall
The chandelier shatters around you
safe and bathed in cheap applause
They'll get you, infect you
Strut you out for all to see,
and start to get you hooked on their supply
They'll get you, infect you
No one here will protect you,
another victim joins the chorus line
All eyes are on you, can you feel it?
That sensation of the spotlight
All eyes are on you, can you feel it now?
They'll get you, infect you
Strut you out for all to see,
and start to get you hooked on their supply
They'll get you, infect you
No one here will protect you,
another victim joins us
Oh, we'll get you, infect you
Strut you out for all to see,
and start to get you hooked on our supply
We'll get you, infect you
We won't deign to protect you,
another victim joins us, joins us, joins the chorus line
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Remember Summer
03:37
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On my walks home I pass by your place
And by hook or by crook I'll keep walking past it
All the trail tracks lost in Jack Frost's cold embrace
All the snow covered roads that just serve to remind me of
How we used to be, how we felt so free
Mornings as portals for what more the day could bring
If you're asking me how I get through these
days so short, it's the days not so long ago
I remember summer, when you were by my side
Would you remember those summer nights?
Or would you run and hide?
Memories of men who we used to be
before the drip feed of freedom was taken from us
A vow we gave loving- and willingly
But a broken heart's start is one broken promise
Some folks' lives will change, some will stay the same
You took the high road and I took the low one and
If neither one's to blame, why'd I feel this shame,
thoughts full of anger and petty revenge, but then
I remember summer, when you were by my side
Would you remember those summer nights?
Or would you run and hide?
I had a dream about you last night
You came and knocked on my door
In the kitchen, you made us cocoa
We spoke all night, and then I told you
I have a dream about you every night
You come and knock on my door
In the kitchen, you make us coca
We speak all night, and then you tell me
I remember summer, when I was by your side
Yes I'd remember those summer nights
Let's have another try
I remember summer, when you were by my side
Would you remember those summer nights?
Or would you run and hide?
Run and hide
Run and hide
Run and hide
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4. |
Eternal Sunset
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There we were, the four of us, settled in that fateful night
Perfect strangers only sitting down for dinner, didn't know that it could change our life
In our apartment in the land of dream, where everything can only go right
Far outside the city walls, and far beyond the city lights
Cause when the sun goes down on Primrose Hill
We all need somebody to dream of
Cause when the sun goes down on Primrose Hill
We all need somebody to dream of
We laughed we joked, we drank, we smoked, in the land where time had frozen for it
A life lived slow in the orange glow, in the twilight of eternal sunset
Cause when the sun goes down on Primrose Hill
We all need somebody to dream of
Cause when the sun goes down on Primrose Hill
We all need somebody to dream of
First Dave fell for Lara, and Lara fell for me
We laughed it off, but I was falling for them both, and we were all a-falling for Marie
But love is not a secret to be shared with just one soul
And rather than quash our feelings down, we'd be four quarters of a larger whole
Cause when the sun goes down on Primrose Hill
We all need somebody to dream of
Cause when the sun goes down on Primrose Hill
We all need somebody to dream of
So we were inseparable for our miniscule eternity
No desire to attack the terrible fact, eventually we'd have to leave
One day a sudden sharp reminder, of the life before this waking dream
Absent mindedly check a calendar, discover how long it's been
Four years, four golden years
It's been four years, its' been four golden years
But every golden sunset has a corresponding sunrise
And when the time came for waking once again it wasn't long enough to say goodbye
A pit inside my stomach, and a vow again one day
When the sun goes down on London town, I'll find you all again, and find a way to stay
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StarBear
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When I was a boy, I never knew how to act in front of others
When I tried to speak the words would get... stuck
I looked to the stars and wept and to the garden came my mother
She knelt down beside me, she lifted me up
Our eyes on the skies, she taught me to spot and name the constellations
And said there's a special friend waiting out there
She said when the life we live turns harsh and scary he's always above us waiting
To escape from the world, just put your trust in the bear
StarBear, are you out there? And I won't take no for an answer
I've a need for something real, and I've no choice but to believe
So StarBear, if you're out there, then I know you don't have the answers
But I don't know how to feel, and I need a friend
As I grew up it remained our special secret kept between us
Whenever we were apart and needed someone to care
And as she grew ill, she said "Don't cry for me, for son I promise.
I'll never really be gone, I'll be with the bear"
StarBear, are you out there? And I won't take no for an answer
I've a need for something real, and I've no choice but to believe
So StarBear, if you're out there, then I know you don't have the answers
But I don't know how to feel, and I need a friend
StarBear, are you out there? And I won't take no for an answer
I've a need for something real, and I've no choice but to believe
So StarBear, if you're out there, then I know you don't have the answers
But I don't know how to feel, and I need a friend
StarBear, are you out there? And I won't take no for an answer
I've a need for something real, and I've no choice but to believe
So StarBear, if you're out there, then I know you don't have the answers
But I don't know how to feel, and I need a friend
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6. |
Sudden Realisations
02:25
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I can't believe that all this time I thought that someone lived inside
Processing instructions, understanding none
I can't believe that all this time I got to live while others dies
The lottery of fate is not a random one
Sudden realisations hit me, trigger something deep inside
Find my worldview shattered into fragments
Sudden realisations hit me, when the wonder's all but died
I close my eyes. I close my heart and start again
I can still believe I loved you, and believe that others loved you to
It's just the kind of person that you are
It's dawning on me like the day, that love alone can't make you stay
By dusk you were returning to the stars
Sudden realisations hit me, trigger something deep inside
Find my worldview shattered into fragments
Sudden realisations hit me, when the wonder's all but died
I close my eyes. I close my heart and start again
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7. |
Here We Stand
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Go again, but we're never gonna get very far
We pack it up and take it out but then head back to the car
We might try but we're never gonna stick out the rough
Yes we can practice in the basement but it's never enough
And now it's time, finally to exit our cage
You're lying when you say we'd never be the lords of the stage
Lights up, heads down, it's nearly time to engage
We're next up, next up, next
All or nothing, here we stand
If it's all for nothing, still here we stand
Can you feel it, the reddening, beginnings of shame
Try to pin it on the culture but we're really to blame
Nobody really wants to listen to what we have to say
But we'll speak, we'll sing anyway
A wise man told me once, everyone has something
From those born with spoons of silver to people born with nothing
We'll keep picking up our instruments, yeah we'll keep on strumming
and hitting and plucking and singing and, fucking go!
All or nothing, here we stand
If it's all for nothing, still here we stand
All or nothing, here we stand
If it's all for nothing, still here we stand
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8. |
In Time
02:44
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