1. |
Overture
03:29
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Im gonna sing a song you'll never forget
were gonna change the world you see
were gonna change the world
now and forever
were gonna change the world thats what we
now and forever
now and forever
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2. |
New La Lady
03:36
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there is a silent nation
living in a cage where
people come to say their
prayers before
they make more mistakes
everyone escapes
there’s no debt to pay
if the truth doesn't hold
you'll see me change my face now
for the millionth incantation how
the moon is blue
and stirring deeply
something true to tell you
I've got a photograph
of every time I've ever laughed
it’s me ya see I’ll never be
nothing but complete
hahahahaha
come away
la new la lady
come away
hahahahahaha
fly away, la new la lady
fly away
hahahahahaha
you are not as you have been
life is love and love is changing
I've got a photograph
of every time I’ve ever laughed
it’s me ya see I’ll never be
nothing but complete
hey
it’s ok
we can run today
I can't do it alone
hear the parade
and the sound the trumpets
badadadada
come away
la new la lady
come away
hahahahahaha
fly away, la new la lady
fly away
hahahahahaha
you are not as you have been
life is love
and love is changing
I've got a photograph
of every time I've ever laughed
It’s me the dream you'll never see between
what I'm inspiring
and seams will bleed
but sunshine teems
beyond your common suffering
smile till it sets
then I go down
no one can tell me now
oh I go down
no one can tell me
smile till it sets then I go
hey
its ok
we can run today
I can't do it alone
(I've got a photograph
of every time I've ever laughed )
hear the parade
(It’s me the dream you'll never see between
what I'm inspiring)
and the sound
(and seams will bleed
but sunshine teems)
the trumpets
(beyond your common suffering)
badadadada
smile till it sets
then I go down
no one can tell me now
so down
oh I go
I’ve got a photograph of every time I’ve ever laughed
Smile till it set then I go
now and forever
hear the trumpets
now and forever
hear the trumpets now
and forever
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3. |
Me Generation
03:19
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get me out of this hell
I don't want to stay here
It’s driving me crazy
the way you stare
I’m not a child on a train
I don’t deserve recognition
save me your smile
give me a reason to care
play the pipes of Rome
for my family in the gutter
they live like reptiles
for a cup of hot sun
and their plastic prayers
(where are you god where are you god where are you god?)
Will all go shatter on a wax floor
(where are you?)
God’s in Australia
she can't hear you anymore
but I could speak
I could shout
I could be an aid in the dying nation
but I'm busy
busy
busy being general
in the me generation
walk steady now
get my good side
get my good side
get my good side
documentary moon
I wanna change my adventure
I’m gonna write you a play
It’s gonna flatter the world
I’m gonna marry a man
whose lips look like answers
keep your questions moving
you can't stop this girl
but I could speak
I could shout
I could be an aid in dying nation
but I'm busy
busy
busy being general in the me generation
walk steady now
get my good side
get my good side get my good side
one more time now
walk steady now
get my good side
get my good side get my good side
get my good side
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4. |
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I stood at the funeral
in rooms from her mind
and no one was dancing
to no one’s surprise
ill make you an offer
some music for life
I'm concerned with my performance
I'm concerned with me performance
the man at the table
has just lost his wife
his foreheads an office
his guilt is a tribe
he won't eat your heart yet
but he's built to survive
I’m concerned with my performance
I'm concerned with my performance
oh everyone’s telling
with what they're not telling you
who they would like you to be
the theatre is changing
the stage is a wall
the patrons are glittering
in spite of the fall
and everyone’s crying
but I can't at all
I'm concerned with my performance
I'm concerned with my performance
oh everyone’s telling with what they're not telling you
who they would like you to be
somewhere you
told me to
be a person alone
and said it with
words of true
care and stone
I keep on walking by my own
now I know you
tell me something
contradictory
candid fiction-ry
no one knows how
they should really be
the writing’s all around
oh oh oh
the writing’s all around
back at the piano
I should say I'm the best
then would you listen?
would I pass your test?
I’ll give you my vision
will you give me rest?
I’m concerned with me performance
yes I am
concerned with my performance
all the time
concerned with my performance
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5. |
Wonderful
03:42
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why are you here?
are you wonderful?
are you the one?
who told you then
you are wonderful?
now the games begun
if you knew what I knew you wouldn't stay here
you'd run away here
leave it all behind
but now you don't know where to go
this is all you seem to know
you're doing what you can to toe the line
it’s getting darker now
it’s getting darker all the time
will you find a way to shine?
how did you know?
you were wonderful
you must have believed
where did it go?
the wonderful
well everything can leave
so it goes
the story’s old
everybody tells you so
but no one can tell no one how to live
this is all you'll ever know
nowhere left for you to go
remember
what it was you had to give
it’s getting darker now
it’s getting darker all the time
it’s getting darker now
it’s getting darker all the time
will you find a way to shine?
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6. |
Change the World Refrain
02:13
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I’m gonna sing a song
you'll never forget
we're gonna change the world you see
we're gonna change the world
now and forever
we're gonna change the world
that’s what we said
we're gonna change the world you see
we're gonna change the world
now and forever
we're gonna change the world
that’s what we said
we're gonna change the world you see
where gonna change the world
now and forever
we're gonna change the world you see
were gonna change the world
now and forever
were gonna change the world you see
were gonna change the
now and forever
now and forever
you're all the same
now and forever
now and forever
you're all the same
now and forever
now and forever
you're all the same
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7. |
Germany
04:39
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I watched you walk away from me
down a road in Germany
the blue eyes from the book you sold
gazing out
a mask of old
the sky became a memory
confusing all that I could see
so I went high
inside my tree
on that road in Germany
we found that night
a room alone
there was no time
to put on clothes
so we went blind
in marigold
our simple lives
had finally broke
your voice stepped over
years of strain
and held me in
my secret pain
and while we're here
it doesn't end
you sounded like
by deepest friend
an elephant
from Paris came
to celebrate
and blow the flame
and put you on
his back again
carried you
through moonrain
I heard you from
the mountain cry
tell New York
I'm still alive
tell New York
I am still alive
but who can live
on dragonflies
while ballerinas
speak your mind
and bicycles
to tell the time
the opera turns
into a knife
the writer from
the red cafe
serves a drink
and burns her play
who would read
it anyway
why'd I go
to Germany
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8. |
Dog Song
03:44
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can you hear them screaming?
the haunted flutes clawing
from the stuck schools
they're being banged
and smothered into plastic
sealed in white
drowned by night
I beg the moon but
shes singing
lalalalalalala
they drown the children
make them all believe
those who feel funny are
the clowns in the street
hey can you dance?
they're asking me
can you dance?
and be free
forgive this intrusion
forsaken illusion
I begged the moon again but
she just kept on
lalalalalala
drink drink drink drink
and be like
we like
right like
we like
like me
me like
I swallowed the gum
I followed the hum
I still hear them moaning
boiling in cum
mangled in cages
strangled in sex
making plans and faces
so hollowed with regrets
lalalalalalalala
can you can you dance
can you can you dance
can you can you dance
can you dance and be free?
can you can you dance
can you can you dance
can you can you dance
can you dance and be free?
they drown the children
and make them all believe
that those who feel funny are
the clowns in the street
it’s time to punt my part and
leave all this cream
drift off the river
die in my dream
forgive this intrusion
forsaken illusion
listen to the moon
let’s sing in unison
lalalalalalala
her sad eyes all knowing
her smile so forgotten
her love’s an empty question
her mouth’s a row of rotten
still I beg you see me
I'm taking off my mask
let me sing inside you
that is all I ask
while the bells slam bodies like plaster whales in pots
stoned and badly bleeding
I got drunk
and I forgot
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9. |
Ticking Man
03:24
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hello ticking man
hello ticking man
your face is a clock
your heart is a tin can
I tried to be you
ticking man
how can I be you ticking man
when you're breathing like a bomb
how long do you think you can hold on
to what they want you to be
oh I can see
you ticking man
I can see you
ticking man
with that paper in your mouth
and those sticks you use to stand
I try and reach you
ticking man
how can
I reach you
ticking man
when the only time you dream
is with that thing strapped to your hand
you can't hold on
to what they want you to be
oh look at me
ticking man
look at me
ticking man
cuz Im here
cuz of you
and I still don't understand
how I can love you
ticking man
how can I love you ticking man
when the only time I'm seen
is when I've won the game you've planned
I can't hold on
to what you want
I can hold on
change the world
to be
below you
ticking man
I stand
below you
ticking man
with you head held so
up high
and your soul
sunk in the sand
but I still love you
ticking man
yes I still love you
ticking man
and now the people pass you by
and the rain is in the sky
so no one can see you cry
go on
you don't need a reason to feel pain
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10. |
Refrain
03:44
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I wish it was me
at the piano you see
playing daily in this rain
but I don't know his name
just that he looks the same
but lives
on a refrain
there’s a girl in the garden
I’d like to know her name
I’d like to tell her plain
I am the same
but when I see her face
I’m in a different place
I live
on a refrain
there’s a place I go
where the people know
me
they tell me
where to stand
and the music in my mind
goes all quiet for a time
so I've employed policemen
they live at my back door
I've scratched at all their faces
our blood drips on the floor
they say
you can't run away
you can't run anymore
but pilots in the masquerade
say come on baby fly away
take your rivercoat and play
the wind
these technicolor drops of time
will stain the fabric of
your mind
go live
go live
go live
there’s a place I go
where the people know
me
they tell me
where to stand
and the music in my mind
goes all quiet for a time
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11. |
Daddy
06:27
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you sit and read your coffee cup
while the dress of life slips down
and the language to learn is sarcasm
and France is a dream in the ground
flowers are for days
when nobody has
to work at all
you sit and read your coffee cup
life gets naked and loud
well your sitting here
well you made the choice
now it’s time to hear
from a lady’s voice
so you were born to run
you were made to fly
now there’s a hole
up in the sky
but that’s what my daddy told me
I was made for number one
if I lose my first position
I may have to use my gun
im a spinner in the sky and theres a light
for everyone
all you have to do is listen to my song
it all falls away
falls away
falls away until you be the rain
come down come down
and then you'll see the same
fall away fall away fall away
until you be there rain
come down come down
oh its not that simple darling
I have needs to slow you down
have you seen the expectations
burned in me by my home town
welcome to my world and I will
let you see the lists inside
you can't imagine
I was born on a silver spoon
they let me live
in my very own room
and they loved me
they told me they loved me
the doctor says you're the man
if you can't do it
who else can
and they loved me
they told me they loved me
and that’s when my daddy told me
I was made for number one
if I lose my first position
I must find a different one
I’m a spinner in the sky and there’s still light
for everyone
listen to my song
it all falls away
falls away
falls away until you be the rain
come down come down
and then you'll see the same
fall away fall away fall away
until you be the rain
come down come down
I’m not the same
I’m not the same
everything I've gained
I've earned my name
I’m not the same
I’m not the same
everything I've gained
I’ve earned my name
I still remember what my daddy told me
I still remember what my daddy told me
I’ll be the one to win
I’ll be the one to win
I’ll be the one to win
I’ll be the one to win
I’ll be the
listen to me boy
you'll never be good enough
for him
in a busy place
I fell for the sun
the clock was pounding
and his voice said one
and the people there
who knows why they had come
and the people there
they could feel the
drum
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12. |
Time
05:52
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time walked out the window
dressed up like the sun
sat down on the sidewalk
said I love everyone
kissed me on the mouth
looked me in my head
I’ll teach you to remember
I think that’s what he said
and then women dressed in sandals
with rainbows in their eyes
went screaming down the freeway
it’s the fourth of July
time came back round
said you look different now
your eyes once ever moving
are now so still so brown
and everything you wanted
and all you thought you'd be
is spinning round your finger
just like me
and then women dressed in sandals
with rainbows in their eyes
went screaming down the freeway
it’s the fourth of July
now and forever
now and forever
time walked out the window
dressed up like me
sat down on the bench
said do you still believe
I didn't mean to hurt you
you didn't fly away
and this is how it happens
when you decide to stay
and then women dressed in sandals
with rainbows in their eyes
went screaming down the freeway
it’s the fourth of July
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada I’ll help you out
ladada
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Christopher Sears New York, New York
I like to play music because something happens to me and people and time and space and pain when I play music that makes me feel like I am at the theatre and also running to catch a ball and also that I am allowed to be here. That actually, its really good that Im here. I understand through song. ... more
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