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Accidents
03:54
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I’ve watched you picking out paper from my trashcan to see if you can find out a name
And I’ve watched you hanging off corners staring through my car window to see if he’s there
No I don’t mean to alarm you little girl but this playground’s closed
No I don’t mean to harm you little girl
It’s in my nature
I’m a witch
I’m a witch
I’m a witch
From which
Accidents occur
I’m tired of finding you breathing down my phone line and whispering things that you want…
...to do to me in my security, I shan’t let you get to me, you’ve so much to learn
No I don’t mean to alarm you little girl but this playground’s closed
No I don’t mean to harm you little girl
It’s in my nature
I’m a witch
I’m a witch
I’m a witch
From which
Accidents occur
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Dummies
03:51
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Six moons till I see you and I cannot catch my breath
I cannot scream and I cannot seem to kill the sickiness
Oh the words you say are beautiful
And the nights you play in doubt
Oh your timing is beautiful
And I mess it up when I’m without you
That’s all we’ll say for now, for now
That’s all we’ll say for now.
Fight truth but I’m losing. Don’t leave me lying around
It’s all I can do to get my mouth to make a better sound
Oh the words you say are beautiful
And I know I think too loud
Oh your timing is beautiful
And I’m slightly tense when I’m without you.
But if I get rich before you, will you eat away my life?
And if I get sick before you, will you leave me on my own?
Because the vows we make get broken and I’ve been beyond repair
We aren’t dummies we are like foreigners out there.
That’s all we’ll say for now, for now
That’s all we’ll say for now
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Hand On Your Heart
03:44
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Hand on your heart and tell me you’re working late tonight
Hand on your heart and tell me your paperwork has mounted up too high
Hand on your heart you couldn’t reach the phone
Hand on your heart and tell me that you are there alone
Hand on your heart and tell me you’ll be home by ten
Hand on your heart and tell me you cannot wait to see me again
Hand on your heart and tell me they’re working you too hard
Hand on your heart and tell me is this what we really want?
Is this really what we want?
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4. |
Stop
03:40
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So here we are again resume positions I say welcome to your knees
And any time I say stop well you just keep on going pretty please
We can find alternatives to stimulate our ever growing craves
We’re mixed up kids in summertime and we’ve got time to mend our wicked ways
But we should stop hurting other people, stop hurting other people, stop hurting other people
Stop
We’re very nearly satisfied, we’re very nearly done with being cruel
Cos all our time is wasted up on finding things to do that make us cool
And all your sins are multiplied every time you look the other way
You’ve graduated in the art of selling out and making it okay
But we should stop hurting other people, stop hurting other people, stop hurting other people
Stop
Get it right get it wrong get it out get in on with me
I secretly admire your ability to understand you’re free
But all the same you’re shooting yourself in the heart cos you ain’t going to change
But if you’d like me to engage inside your head well that can be arranged.
But we should stop
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5. |
I'll Take You Back
04:31
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I go to sleep at night alone
Your body’s here but you are gone
I think it’s me so I try to touch
You see my fall and all you do is watch. You just watch
You’re in denial I’ll take you back. You make me scared when I look back
Your loving eyes won’t love me back don’t love me back I’ll take you back, I’ll take you back
We’re doomed from the time we care less
Cos all we want is ease
And what if our time is careless
I still believe in you.
I’m feeling fine I won’t stay here
Your words alone are not enough
Your twitching tongue is flowing free
Your loving arms won’t carry me
You’re in denial, you’re in denial, you’re in denial I’ll take you back
You make me scared when I look back
Your loving eyes won’t love me back won’t love me back I’ll take you back
We’re doomed from the time we care less
Cos all we want is ease
And what if our time is careless
I still believe in you.
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Kiss It
04:04
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We could lay awake imagining until our bodies ache
Let’s make a decision, fuck inhibition
Do me good
Is it wrong or right is something we don’t need to know tonight
Come on let’s just do it, there’s nothing to it
Do me good
From the flesh on my bones to the touch of your skin
Giving in to a love that has only begun
Feel the tip of my tongue on the tip of your lips suck your sweet fingertips
Now you’ve got my head spinning around
Do it dirty, do it filthy, do it every way you should
You’re so good
Do me good
Hearts and minds at play want everything but love gets in the way
Come on let’s just do it, there’s nothing to it
Do me good
We don’t need too much, I want to feel surrender in your touch
You have permission, there’s no intermission
Do me good
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7. |
Island
04:07
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It’s not just the way you long the day to end so you can get your pay
It’s not about the fancy car, your pushed up bra or how old you are now
It’s not always the boss, it’s not always the wife, it’s not always the kids
But it is in your life
And oh my island in the sunshine when you find me
I’ll be with my bags packed at the door
And oh my island in the sunshine when you find me
I’ll see you in heaven if I score
It’s not about how weighed down we tend to be with nothing
It’s not always the boss, it’s not always the wife, it’s not always the kids
But it is in your life
And oh my island in the sunshine when you find me
I’ll be with my bags packed at the door
And oh my island in the sunshine when you find me
I’ll see you in heaven if I score
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8. |
Settle
03:54
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Brace myself again, that one was not the worst
Heavy words but none to part my skin
For it’s solid safer air to shut myself in
Than to cry about what is done to me
Cos I don’t want to fight, I don’t want to fight
I don’t know how to go, don’t know how to go
Hate myself again, this shell is not my own
No longer recognise the eyes I see
And it’s safer to be shy to the enemy
Than to set my nervous system free
Cos I don’t want to fight, I don’t want to fight
I don’t know how to go, don’t know how to go
Cos I don’t want to fight, I don’t want to let them win but
I don’t know I don’t know, I don’t know how to go
I don’t want to fight, but I don’t know how to go, how to go, so I settle
I don’t want to fight, but I just don’t know how to go, how to go, so I settle
Broken as you imagine me
These are the wounds that carry me
So what if I’m lost in many ways
These are the start of better days
I’ll never settle.
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9. |
Darkstar
03:32
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I think it was the Tuesday when I first saw you on the train
You said that when I boarded I had lost twenty dollars
I knew it was a line but your smile was pretty cool
So I took the money anyway, you said you liked my attitude
Now I wish that I could change, I wish that I could change it
I wish that I could ask you why you made us die
But we’re just ghosts
I don’t know why, I don’t know why I would do that
I don’t know why I would do that
I think it was the Friday when I knew that I was in trouble
The smile that hooked me in was turning into Pennywise
You put me in a room where there were other girls looked just like me
And when you closed the door I think we all knew it was over
I wish that I could ask you why you made us die
But we’re just ghosts
I don’t know why, I don’t know why I would do that
I don’t know why I would do that
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10. |
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
04:57
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Standing in the door of the Pink Flamingo crying in the rain
It was a kind of so-so love and I'm gonna make sure it never happens again
You and I we had to be the standing joke of the year
You were a sleep around
A lost and found and not for me I fear
I tried to make it work, you in a cocktail skirt and me in a suit well, it just wasn't me
You're used to wearing less and now your life's a mess, so insecure you seem
I put up with all the scenes and this is one scene that's going to be played my way
Take your hands off me
I don't belong to you, you see
Take a look at my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say hello, goodbye
Say hello, wave goodbye
Under the deep red light I can see the makeup sliding down
Hey little girl you will always make up so take off that unbecoming frown
What about me, well I'll find someone that's not going cheap in the sales
A nice little housewife who'll give me a steady life and won't keep going off the rails
Take your hands off me
I don't belong to you, you see
Take a look at my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say hello, goodbye
Say hello, wave goodbye
We've been involved for quite a while now and to keep you secret has been hell
We're strangers meeting for the first time, okay?
Just smile and say hello
Say hello, then wave goodbye
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Fooling
04:23
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I saw my lover with another yesterday
I saw myself in a bitter way
So good saying what I want to hear
A lesser man would have been sincere
You see me coming and you’re running from me
Am I the only one who gets to see your fascination with occasional pain
I know I have it but it’s not the same
Don’t get me wrong I’m only fooling
I need something to make me feel safe
Too many memories surrounding this place
I keep searching for something to do to you
Can’t seem to follow through
You see me coming and you’re running from me
Am I the only one allowed to see your heavy appetite for patterns and pain
I know I have it but I’m not the same
Don’t get me wrong I’m only fooling
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Ready Steady Die Brooklyn, New York
Ready, Steady, Die! is a British-American electronic music duo comprising of Morgan Visconti (composer, producer, vocals)
and Sam K (composer, vocals).
Based between New York and London, respectively, Visconti (son of Bowie and T Rex producer Tony Visconti) and K have been buddies since forever and have been involved in each other’s projects for decades.
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