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Some things are never lost
Others just can't be found
Some things stay well hidden underground
Some doors never open up
Others don't have a key
Some things cost quite a lot to see
Walk with me through this fractured town
Talk with me of times gone by
The more we change
The more it stays the same
The more we are mystified
Some here are never loved
Others just play around
Some just fail to be a part of us
Some people are never free
Others only complain about
How this world always lets them down
Walk with me through this fractured town
Talk with me of times gone by
The more we change
The more it stays the same
The more we are mystified
Talk me through the reasoning
How we're getting from A to B
The more we try
The harder it becomes
For anyone to see
Tell me how to count the cost
Just numbers in the round
Some of us are never lost
And others don't want to be found
Walk with me through this fractured town
Talk with me
How we're getting from A to B?
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Now that the door is open
Follow Me
And we will walk right through
Leave your things
Just look inside
Feel it all slip away
And I know how to say
See what their eyes give away
Lift up your head
Let me see
All that is happening
Wake up
And look at me
Feel my hands as they burn
Leave your things
Just look inside
Feel it all slip away
And I know how to say
See what their eyes give away
And I know what to say
See what their eyes give away
Now that the door is open
And when the door is closing
You're back in me
And when the door is closing
Wake up
And when the door is closing
And look at me
And feel my hands
Leave your things
Just look inside
Feel it all slip away
And I know what to say
See what their eyes give away
And I know what to say
See what their eyes give away
Now that the door is open
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Let's paint a picture
Of our lives
Lets make an story
Of it now
A work of friction
That's a fact
Let's sacrifice
This sacred cow
Let's sell the rights
Let's sell the wrongs
Even though it's not enough
Let's sell each night
Let's sell it all
On altars of our stuff
In all the dreams I've come across
You can't survive on Candy Floss
Sans culottes still drawing lots
Desperate to be the boss
Let's make a million
On the side
Let's fake a billion
Better still
Armed with a make up bag
And dreams
Stretch the card and pay the bills
Let's think inside this box
Throw away the key
Let's all survive on Candy Floss
Amphetamine and Fake ID
All the world is stood outside
Looking on with tired eyes
Let them eat this Candy Floss
In this country of who gives a toss
Let's build a bonfire
For this life
Let's set the match
And watch the flames
And while they lick the very sky
Reject the lies
And speak our names
Every day we give our all
For small change and a wake up call
In all the lives I've come across
You can't survive on Candy Floss
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Time is not some kind of enemy
And I'd like to think it's been a friend to me
Its easier said than done
Look how far we've come
Don't want to get caught up
In thinking in beginnings and in ends
So isnt the chance to be enough
So please remind me when tines get rough
If this a piece of time then
Im just glad to be have been given the chance
To feel something
I don't need eternity
Where do the four winds blow
Where do the waters flow
When will this sun still shine
When will old father call time
All around you
All the time
I'd dont feel like time betrayed me
Sitting here between forest and sea
It's easy to get caught up in
Wasting time chasing eternity
As time's gone by
I've learned a thing or two
The greatest time I've spent
Is the time I spent with you
If this a piece of time then
Im just glad to be have been given the chance
To feel something
I don't want to waste a minute
Where do the four winds blow
Where do the waters flow
When will this sun still shine
When will old father call time
All around you
All the time
So open your eyes
Gaze upon the blue skies
Reflect on the waters edge
All around you
All the time
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Unwanted Overture
04:37
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Take me to the lake
And hold my hand
Walk me down
Until I understand
Take me to that place
Where we first met
If this isn't real
Then I don't want to get it harder than you
Take it all away I won't forget
Make me stay all day
I lost the bet fair and square
I was thinking maybe now wasn't the time
To let you know I'm fine
I've always walked it harder than you
I've always done it harder than you
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What you see
So much less than what you get
Now locked up tight
I could show you paradise
Time to break free
Yet there is a price to pay
To set me free
You gotta rub me the right way
Traded in for something new
I question everything in life
Can my heart still be stolen
by a young thief in the night?
There's so much more inside of me
Than you can realise
There's so much more inside of me
Will you open up your eyes?
And look inside
Look inside
Look inside
A magic lamp
Look inside
Look inside
Look inside
I'm a magic lamp
Three wishes is what you get
Love, joy and a family tree
It will take quite some time
For you to know me
Traded in for something new
I learned my lessons in life
But my heart can still be stolen by a young thief in the night
There's so much more inside of me
Than you can realise
There's so much more inside of me
Will you open up your eyes?
And look inside
Look inside
Look inside
A magic lamp
Look inside
Look inside
Look inside I'm a magic lamp
Three wishes is what you get
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Warfare of despair
You don't care
And never share
Software
Is everywhere
You don't dare
Be unaware
You're just an empty vessel making noise
Baby in his pram has gone and lost his toys
Independent thinking it destroys
Deny it all and threaten them to keep your poise
All you can hope for
Walked right out that door
Apparatchik
All you live for
Costs a little more
Apparatchik
You're scared
Out of sight
Never stepInto the blinding light
If you survive
Then you were right
If you don't
Then it's all destroyed
It's all code for
All the lies and war
Apparatchik
You were bought for
Pennies on the floor
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Breaking the Dream
04:24
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They say you have no chances, they say it can’t be done
Forget the million faces, you’re not the chosen one
Daydream into the night, deep down you wanna fight
Focus on the destination, it doesn’t matter what they say
Can’t be waiting any longer, blow the doors or find a key
Take a step, a new direction, open up to what can be
Daydream into the night, deep down you wanna fight
Breaking the dream again
It’s a long way, breaking the dream again
Open up your eyes
Looking back on all the choices, life ain’t what it seemed
Let the path unwind before you, obstacles you only dreamed
Daydream into the night, deep down you wanna fight
Focus on the destination, it doesn’t matter what they say
Breaking the dream again
And when you finally reach that moment
When you’re feeling so alive
Reflect on all your failures
Remember the reasons why, you
Daydream into the night, deep down you wanna fight
Focus on the destination, it doesn’t matter what they say
Breaking the dream again
It’s a long way, breaking the dream again
Open up your eyes
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Baltimore
05:19
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Drivin’to the city
Another Friday night
My pain it is a callin’
I gotta try and set it right
Well I know it’s temporary
I know it never lasts
But you know I gotta stop it
Gotta try and kill my past
Runner on the corner
T-shirt to his knees
You know they’re only children
caught in this social disease
Money in my pocket
burning holes in my soul
Don’t know how to stop it
and I’m feeling much too old
Oh no Oh no
The city's callin'
Here we go again
Lord,lord Sky is fallin’
Baltimore...gonna take you in
Rich man, Scotch and water
Long black, Cadillac
Poor man at his Bus Stop
Got his Forty, in a sack
Common sense ain’t nowhere
Nowhere to be found
Only greed and hunger
Makes such a hurtful sound
Baltimore...she ain’t your friend
Oh Baltimore...she’ll take your sin
Hmm Baltimore...She’ll always...take you in
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Dear Jupiter
05:34
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Dear Jupiter
You have a planet of your very own
Large and colorful
With stripes so wonderful
The largest of them all with many moons
Europa Ganymede
Yes, more than 70
But you are stuck in orbit for a billion years
But we can see you In the heavens
I hope you're warm enough
And that you've found your love
Woah, distant from the sun
Oh Jupiter, you're the one
Dear Jupiter immortalized
Celestial bodies, deified
Distant and dignified
Dear Jupiter in the sky
Dear Jupiter
You should have been much bigger
Gliding ever onward
We orbit the same sun
You should have been the sun itself
Throwing flares and thunderbolts
So remote
Infinity, Obscurity
Perpetual eternity
Isolated from everything
Dear Jupiter
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