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Words In Place of Objects::lyrics
15 Minutes
you're practicing your autograph for the next time someone asks you / in every photograph is the hope that someone will recognize you / they're all anaesthetized by your aesthetic qualities / oh! you're so pretty! / and in the flare of now forgetting those who knock you / they're dirty little wannabes
-->chorus: how did such a big man fit in this small room? / and they're all waiting for their fifteen minutes with you
everybody's waiting for you / they can wait a little longer / and everything that's said about you only serves to make you stronger / each reflection is a chance to reassure yourself you're looking well
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Breathing Sin
I have cursed at your door / and I've practised squeezing through your keyhole / glimpsed the light that hides behind your ways / I've learned you love in dark and you live in day / I have poured down your walls / echoed in your loveless halls / you wash my details away
-->chorus: I know how you breathe / by giving none and taking me / all I want is to breathe you in / but you choke me / It's like I'm breathing sin breathing in / breathing sin breathing in
I fell through your hands / and I feel therefore I think I am / waiting for your light to fall my way / because I need at night and I want in day
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I have waited till dawn / as I'm drinking in your sounds alone / I have watched with voyeuristic eyes / as I lust for truth inside your lies
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Days Like These
these bags are getting heavy and I'm tired of dragging them around / it's days like these that I start thinking / am I so lost I might not be found / could you want nothing from me / would you come and go and leave me as you found me / I like feeling sorry for myself / but I could really use your help
-->prechorus: and they warned me that there would be days like these / and I tried so hard but I failed so forgive me please
I am so set in my ways you sense and suffer for my sins / and I am battle scarred and worn out / where do you stop / where do I begin
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-->chorus: and I think too hard and I need too much / am I losing you or losing touch or both / on days like these
could you put up with the fact I fight the change that I've been praying for / and I'm learning maybe I should ask for less but expect just a little more / I am so tied up in myself and I'm slowly turning inside out / and it's days like these that I'm worried that there's no one here to let me out
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Dearest
hey there you / you're making a getaway / driving an unmarked car / you're leaving the easy way / I found this note I don't understand / I am tiny in your hands / and your unspoken explanations are too loud / it's not like you to write instead of talk to me / so what is this about / it says
-->chorus: I love you dearly / yours sincerely / to my dearest you / I know we tried / I guess I lied when I said we could work it through this time / and it's no one you know / please just try and let it go
please don't rush / I want you to take your time / explain to me how I could have ever been so blind / did you think about what you would say / and the look written on my face / before you signed your name and then just walked away / you couldn't bring yourself to say
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and I twisted myself round / every sentence every sound / that I found
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Erase
if the walls have ears I hope they're listening / cause I'm sure as hell not / you can't forget forgive / forget forgot / I have listened to your reasons / I have heard your lack of credence / put the torch to everything you say / don't think of coming back this way
-->chorus: I've seen you looking but you walk right through it / you're trying hard but you can't quite do it / had your fun come undone / and now I'm gonna erase you / you want to listen but you talk right through it / you nearly had it but you went and blew it / tried to play that's OK / but now I'm gonna erase you
if actions speak when words are silent / then you sure don't say much / and one day all that you have left / is the silence of mistrust / whitewash our history / make it like you never happened to me / I'm allergic to your stories these days / and excuses ricochet
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broken down broken into / take it back to where it started and erase you / you've been replaced made a blank space / take it back to the beginning just in case / I have listened to your reasons / I have heard your lack of credence / put the torch to everything you say / don't come back this way
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erase you efface you replace you / debase you deface you misplace you / disgrace you displace you erase you / debase you deface you erase you
Even Without You
I'll bet you can't believe it / yeah it's been so long / you're asking me how my life's been / you're asking me what went wrong / and now you're standing here before me / and I don't know what to say / in all your unforgiven glory / you're looking just the same
-->chorus: life goes on and on and on / even without you / life goes on and on and on / I forgot all about you / and the way we used to be / and how you let it fall on me / life goes on and on and on and on / on and on and on / even without you
you know I don't like sequels / never quite as good / you're trying to sell that same old story / but everybody's read that book / and now you're standing here before me / and I don't know what to say / in all your unforgiven glory / some things never change
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yeah life goes on and on and on / even without you / life goes on and on and on / got me thinking about you / and the way we used to be / and how you never said you're sorry / life goes on and on and on and on and on and on / and on and on and on and on and on / even without you
Feel This Fool
talking dirty to a pulseless past / scratching at walls in the dark / all I want is out / lock me up and leave me here / let me out and live in fear / I'm hiding out and staying in / mirror forgot what I looked like / it took a while to make it right / it's not all right / no it's not all right / sacrifice in defence of it / sold my soul just to pleasure it
-->chorus: order in my court I think I'm losing my mind / I'm thinking that I maybe ought to be alone for a while / to feel this fool
black tears makeup smears / little girl in mother's clothes and heels / I'm sad remembering fun I never had / I like to wear my favourite dress / after everyone has left / I think it's best / sacrifice in defence of it / now I'm forgotten and consumed by it
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I'm easily deflated bubble wrapped and suffocated / can I keep pretending / can you keep on underestimating / over investigated carefully deliberated / can I keep pretending / can you keep on underestimating
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Pleased To Meet You
you're not always easy to share space with / some days you wake up ten times bigger than you are / I can't get my arms around you / and we are silent worlds apart / should I introduce myself?
-->chorus: I'm pleased to meet you / you don't seem to recognise me / but you know you look just like someone / that I used to know / I'm pleased to meet you / you know I think you used to love me / but now it seems like that was a whole lifetime ago
if you don't look at me do I disappear? / and all you say these days are things that I don't wanna hear / I don't think that you remember (I don't think that you recall) / it was always you and me against the world / but I'll introduce myself
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so I guess I'll see you round sometime / and one day you might think we've met before / you'll turn to me and say
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Saving Grace
I've been around and seen your ways / of spending silent days / schooled up on how you guard your words / and you censor all the things you want to say / with the covers pulled around your head / on the days you're hiding out in bed / and some things can't stay forever left unsaid / if you've been misled
-->chorus: you can count on me to make you up / and I'll count you down while you self-destruct / help you to break back in / when you've locked yourself out again / when you've been misplaced / I will be your Saving Grace
you think a lot and don't say much / in those moments we connect without touch / you can wear your heart on your sleeve / and air it out for all the world to see / but if you hold your breath then I'll hold mine / we can see who lasts the longest time / nobody said it was easy baby
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some days are so low that no one deserves you / some days are so high we're all standing below you
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She Says
she says it's hard to live alone inside a world / that's built for two / and not a girl - a girl alone / she says I'm trying / she says I'm fighting / to get inside the reasons why / this empty heart and this broken home are suddenly all I can call mine / she says I'm living in the shell of my old lifeTripping on things he left behind / hey hey / she says my friends are fading into their own lives / and yes I know that I should get along with mine
-->chorus: she says I'm trying / she says I'm fighting / to get inside the reasons why / this empty heart and this broken home are suddenly all I can call mine / she says I'm living in the shell of my old life / tripping on things he left behind / hey hey
she says / that I'm scared if I let go / that I might cry so much / that all the pieces of my broken heart will rust
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Sugarlust
touch her as she slowly disappears / listen as she's silent in your ears / was it fun? was it rich? / sweet tooth baring candy witch / feel her in the things they dare not say / taste her sweetness wash away / are you careful? are you sure? / do I make you insecure?
-->chorus: sweet sugar, sweet sugar girl / in a saccharine world / she'll take you on, take you over / leave you lying where you fell / sweet sugar, sweet sugar rush / in a hyper lust
buzzin' as she flows right through your veins / hear the way she loves to say your name / she could read, and you were read / now you've gone and made your bed / you're not so sure that you're to blame / melting moments crashing into days
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she'll take you in, take you under / and you'll drown in sugarlust
Superhero
you're my forgiveness left unsaid / you took the fears inside my head / and laid them on our kitchen table / nothing to be afraid of / you're the saviour that I prayed for / so of course there's room here / for you and your white horse
-->chorus: you're my superman in plain clothes / your x-ray eyes can read my mind / you already know / your theme song's always playing on my stereo / you're incognito, superman in plain clothes / superhero
you drive me crazy with the way / you come home windblown every day / and tell me how you took the world on / the bad guys had me in free fall / but just in time you saved me from it all
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Tell Me a Secret
I see you hanging on / by a worn-out bootlace / in a cool shade of blue / from all the images you chase / I know a game that you might like to play / I will pull this thread / and then just walk away / watch it come undone / hey don't you think that sounds fun?
-->chorus: tell me a secret / I'll keep it like it's mine / if you're in need of confession / you can call me any time
I think you're holding out / holding your breath and waiting / to feel something more than anticipating / you might like it and start begging me to stay / nothing ventured, nothing gained / I won't tell anyone / hey don't you think that sounds fun?
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you hope and pray / you sit and wait / for someone to save you from yourself / I'll be the one / you can come clean to / and I promise I won't tell (promise I won't tell) / and I'll save you from yourself
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Wicked World
I'm taking deep breaths in broken sentences / you're seeping in to my darkest defence / as we lie in love and silence / my whole world becomes see-through / and every thought is framed by you
-->chorus: shine like an honest deed / inside my wicked world / and I feel alive I'm justified / like an evil act performed for a good cause / shine like a distant sun that's sent to warm this girl / and I feel alive I'm simplified / like I was made for you
impromptu version of truth / and I could live without the world outside of you / cuddled up inside your hands / I think I like the girl I am
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could I be your addiction / all I want is to be craved / I wanna be non fiction / but I could never be that brave
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