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Agony
03:18
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I’ve been thinking ’bout us, thinking ’bout love,
Thinking ’bout falling to pieces
I’ve been thinking that maybe I’ve been wrong all this time
’Cause I’ve been watching you walk, watching you talk,
Watching you stand hands in pockets
I’ve been wondering how to live if you’re not in my life
If you’re not in my life
Oh don’t mind me, I’m just in agony, I just die a little more each day
Tell me how can I breathe with you looking at me that way?
I’ve been coming undone, biting my tongue
Words bubble up without warning
I just might let it slip how quick I’d give you my heart
’Cause I can no longer bear being so aware
Of the distance there between our fingers
A matter of inches might be miles apart
Oh don’t mind me, I’m just in agony, I just die a little more each day
Tell me how can I breathe with you looking at me that way?
If you want me just say something ’cause all this nothing
Is killing me slow, slow, slow
So if you want me just say something ’cause it’s torment
Every time you don’t mind me
I’m just in agony
Don’t mind me, I’m just in agony, I just die a little more each day
Tell me how can I breathe with you looking at
Looking at, looking at, looking at
Don’t mind me, I’m just in agony, I just die a little more each day
Tell me how can I breathe with you looking at me that way?
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Absence of You
04:03
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I don’t miss songs I’ve never sung or books I’ve never read
I don’t mourn all I’ve left undone or the paths I’ll never tread
But I believe though I cannot prove it true
I would feel the absence of you
If we’d never met or said hello
Would a part of me have always known?
I suspect your name is written in the marrow of my bones
After other lips had kissed me
Would I notice something missing?
I don’t miss songs I’ve never sung or books I’ve never read
I don’t mourn all I’ve left undone or the paths I’ll never tread
But I believe though I cannot prove it true
I would feel the absence of you
In another life where there was no you and me
And we had settled down with others happily
What if one day on the street our eyes meet accidentally
Would it hit me like a freight train?
A sudden ache that I could not explain
I don’t miss songs I’ve never sung or books I’ve never read
I don’t mourn all I’ve left undone or the paths I’ll never tread
But I believe though I cannot prove it true
I would feel the absence of you
For I knew from that first minute
My life was meant to have you in it
I don’t miss songs I’ve never sung or books I’ve never read
I don’t mourn all I’ve left undone or the paths I’ll never tread
But I believe though I cannot prove it true
I would feel the absence of you, I would feel the absence of you
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Footnote
03:02
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You’ve got a sweater from your first love tucked in your bottom drawer
I’ve never seen it hug your body or tangled on your floor
And we rarely talk about her, and it’s been seven years or more
But you’ve got a sweater from your first love tucked in your bottom drawer
And I’ve seen pictures of her and they remind me of me
One where she’s laughing with your brother,
One where you’re both only nineteen
And you say there’s no resemblance, and in some ways I agree
But I’ve seen pictures of her and they remind me of me
The longer I love you the more it’s on my mind
What a painfully thin line
Between being the one you love, and being the one you loved
Once upon a time
’Cause when we talk about her it’s in the past tense
You still smile at inside jokes you had, you praise her poise and intellect
And I know that you’re not bitter, I know there’s no regret
But when we talk about her it’s in the past tense
And I can’t help but wonder if that’s how this will end
Am I the heroine of your story or a footnote for the girl you love next?
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Long Distance
03:41
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With my hair undone and my too short dress
I am fraying at the edges, a disintegrating mess
As the scent of disinfectant from the airport restroom
Drifts to where stand
And with your bags packed up and your eyes downcast
My tongue is heavy with a question that I’m too afraid to ask
So I’ll keep tripping over sentences
And sipping from the coffee in my hand
Anything to draw attention from the fact
That I can’t watch you walk away again
And I get you’ve got to leave me
I’m not stupid, I’m not needy
Do you have to make it look so easy, look so easy?
With my throat closed tight and my eyes rimmed red
My mouth is full of cotton, the throbbing in my head
Is worsened by the stubborn squeak
Your suitcase wheel repeats with every step
The tell-tale harbingers of heartache as I watch you walk away again
And I get you’ve got to leave me
I’m not stupid, I’m not needy
Do you have to make it look so easy, look so easy?
Oh won’t you come kiss my lips and say we’ll be fine
Scan your folded ticket, and take your place in line
I’ll hold tight to your promises, I’ll wait on you to call me when you land
And three months down the road I’ll watch you walk my way again
Way deep down I know I’ll watch you walk my way again
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Reminders
03:54
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Sprawled on the beach with cherry-stained teeth
And laughter that filled up my chest
A hazy memory I play on repeat to drown out all of the rest
’Cause sipping stale coffee from styrofoam cups
And the weight of a silence-filled room
Won’t be the things that remind me of you
I close my eyes and I see us in bare feet
As we dance our way across kitchen floors
Singing “Forever Young” at the top of our lungs
This has to be worth so much more
Than trying not to cry in a dress that’s too tight
In a sterilized hospital room
These won’t be the things that remind me of you
Oh I don’t know how we find ourselves here
But I know that these moments seem to drag on like years
And hope may be faltering, flickering dear
But do you recall our backyard in the fall
A kaleidoscope of orange and red
How we’d play in the leaves till the cold flushed our cheeks
This image is ingrained in my head
So faces grown pale and words that all fail
And days that I cannot wade through
Won’t be the things that remind me of you
Won’t be the things that define me and you
These won’t be the things that remind me of you
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6. |
Better For Us Both
03:32
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I wrote a list of everything that’s been running round my mind
Filled up a page of loose leaf, front and backside
And I’d like to tell you some of them but each time I decide
It’s better for us both if I keep saying I’m alright
I counted all the ceiling tiles that hang above my bed
There’s thirty-seven if you count the half ones, which I did
And late last night there was the same amount but why not count again?
It’s better for us both if you don’t ask me how I’ve been
I rearranged the books upon my shelf at least four times
First by colour, then by author, then by genre, then by size
And we were meant to meet at eight, it’s already half past nine
It’s better for us both if I just stay in tonight
I got the nerve to find the words to say what’s in my head
I listed my neuroses and when I caught my breath
I asked for your opinion and after a pause you said
It’s better for us both if I keep quiet and pretend
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Simple Love
03:50
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A cabin on a mountainside
Stars light up the snow and I
Am burning like a firefly when you’re around
Coffee turns to midnight games
Small talk turns to repartee
And every time you turn my way I’m held spellbound
It’s a simple love I’ve found
There’s no fanfare, it don’t make a sound
Yes it’s a simple love I’ve found and I don’t know how to hold you
’Cause I don’t even know you
So come sit down here next to me
On this sofa from the seventies
I’ve never felt to much at ease with anyone, what is that’s begun?
It’s a simple love I’ve found
I’ve still got both my feet on the ground
Yes it’s a simple love I’ve found and I don’t know how to hold you
Damn it, I barely know you
A cabin on a mountainside,
Stars light up the snow and I
Am hoping you can’t read my mind
But oh how I wish you would
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Northern Cardinal
03:04
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Oh the Northern Cardinal has the sweetest song to sing
With scarlet on her tail and fire on her wings
Oh I watch her from my room perched up high in that old tree
Till she hops from branch to branch and flies from me
Maybe if I were as vibrant as her
Your eyes would linger a little longer on me
In the garden there’s a pond and in the water dark and cold
I can glimpse the sparkling fins of silver and gold
I remember as a kid I would sit there mesmerized
My eyes fixed upon that fish and the way she glides
Maybe if I were as shiny as her
Your light would linger a little longer on me
Maybe if I were full of her colour, her shine and her lustre
Would you finally see?
Maybe if I were as brilliant as her
Your heart would linger a little longer with me
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I could be the one for you if you only ask me to
I could be the one for you if you’d ask me
Oh your teenage dream of a Springsteen heart on fire
Is harder than it seems, you can’t fight the cooling of desire
Lover to friend, everything ends, everything bends until it breaks
What about me, what about we sit down and see if we can negotiate?
Oh ’cause I could be the one for you if you’d only ask me to
I could be the one for you if you’d ask me
Oh your wide-eyed gaze never stays for too long
It flits from face to face, it’s all right till it’s all wrong
I’m calling your bluff, it’s never enough, it’s never been love no matter what you say
What about me, what about we sit down and see if we can negotiate?
Oh ’cause I could be the one for you if you’d only ask me to
I could be the one for you if you’d ask me
If you’d ask me, if you...
No more late night calls, no more wasting precious time
With another monologue about some new girl that’s on your mind
Line in the sand, cancel your plans, you understand I’m not gonna wait
What about me, what about we sit down and see if we can negotiate?
Oh ’cause I could be the one for you if you’d only ask me to
I could be the one for you if you’d ask me
Oh ’cause I could be the one for you if you’d only ask me to
I could be the one for you if you’d ask me
Would have been the one for you if you’d asked me
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10. |
After Her
03:05
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11. |
Feel Like This
03:47
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Oh falling in love was my favourite game
To play back when I was a kid
Drawing hearts in the margins with every boy’s name
When I didn’t know it could feel like this
Oh falling in love was a frequent daydream
I could picture each moment, each kiss
Trying my hardest to lose my heart at sixteen
When I didn’t know it could feel like this
Oh I didn’t know, how could I know
Oh I didn’t know it could feel like this
Oh falling in love, well it terrified me
When I grew older and saw what it did
I kept my heart in my pocket instead of on my sleeve
When I didn’t know it could feel like this
Oh I didn’t know, how could I know
Oh I didn’t know it could feel like this
Oh falling in love, well I’d made up my mind
Would be a sorrow that I’d gladly miss
And then I met you and I knew I’d been blind
I didn’t know it could feel like this
Oh I didn’t know, how could I know
I didn’t know it could feel like this
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