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Circus Boy
03:32
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And the cool dancing girls
Break your heart every time
As the picolo toots
And the black organ grinds
And the cool dancing girls
Break your heart every time
Your purple top hat
Silver belt buckle sash
Here's spit in your eye
And pockets of ash
And the cool dancing girls
Break your heart every time
Break your heart every time
Trampoline and trapeze
All the tricks of the trade
And the follow spot finds you there
Circus Boy Blue
Down on your knees
And the cool dancing girls
Break your heart every time
Break your heart every time
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2. |
Slow learner
03:37
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Did you break for time
And baby did you think about
Burning it down
Did you make some time
And maybe did you think you're on the ground
So much fire
I can see it in your eyes
So much fire
And it's coming like a big surprise
Doo doo..
Did you make some time
And maybe did you think you're on the ground
Did you break for time
I see you sitting down on the ground
So much fire
I can see it in your eyes
So much fire
And it's coming like a big surprise
Doo doo..
Baby, do you think you might try now
And baby, do you think you're going to try
Now, baby do you think you're going to try
You think might try
You think you're going to try
Baby...
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3. |
Jaqueline
04:58
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I heard you outside my window
Breathing hard up that hill
Think you been running
You're just standing still
You said you'd be moving
There ain't nowhere to go
All you'd be losing
No one else has to know
There's just one thing
I don't understand
Why this keeps happening
It's not what I planned
You think you want to
Take my hand
I've got to tell you
Just what I am
I'll be damned
My Jaqueline
I heard it a long time ago in the past
Knowing what I know now is
That nothing will last
My flag is flying
Down here at half mast
I might of stayed I guess but
You never asked
And there's just one thing
I don't understand
Why this is happening
Not what I planned
You think you want to
Take my hand
I've got to tell you
Just what I am
I'll be damned
My Jaqueline
There's just one thing
That I don't understand
Why this is happening
Not what I planned
You think you want to
Take my hand
I've got to tell you
Just what I am
Just what I am
I'll be damned
My Jaqueline
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4. |
Break Your Heart
04:49
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I better blacken down my boots
Bring them to a fatal shine
All for the benefit of your reflection
At the moment I make you mine
Broken, you'll fling those ornamentals
Guilded, bejeweled, and pointing a line
In the direction I'm wanting to follow
Down the highway of your spine
I'm gonna break your heart
I don't have to
try to
I'm gonna tear you apart
I'm gonna break your heart
Into pieces
I'm going to show you a world of pain
Making you smile in spite of the tears
Making you come inside of the hole in your heart
Making you realize the worst of your fears
I'm gonna break your heart
I don't have to
try to
I'm gonna tear you apart
I'm gonna break your heart
Into pieces
Into pieces
Baby, wait
Baby, wait
Contemplate on the tide
while it turns
Baby, wait
Baby, wait
On the sun
while it burns
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5. |
Stupid in a Cup
03:14
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This hear is a song
For a few old friends of mine
Sex, and death
An ancient god and a good red wine
And when I meet them at the bar
As I do from time to time
Some times I don't get very far
Some times I don't make it out in time
It was so good
That it tore me
It was so good
Of you to pour me
I'm all torn up
Had myself a loose gal
Up underneath that trailer
It'll be lovelorn
Yet we got no tears to shed
You kept it
Raining
All the water down my window
Like your painting was draining on my bed
It was so good
That it tore me
It was so good
I'm all torn up
It was so good
Of you to pore me another
Gonna need a lot of
Just another shot of
Just another shot of
Stupid
In a cup
Go ahead
Fill it up
Gonna need a lot of
Just another shot of
Gonna need a lot of
Stupid
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6. |
Southern Highway
03:13
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Fly up through Southern Highway
With your face out in the wind
And look up to the blue sky
It feels like Summer's in the air
But I think I'm gonna be nowhere
So I slip back into my seat again
The road moves up and it goes down
Till it spins our heads all around
Till we don't know which way to turn
Which way to turn
It's going down this way again
It's going to rain but
The sun comes up again
It's going to rain but
The sun comes up again
Spring is changing over past
And winter coming on real fast
Trying to take it slow
Before it gets away
So down we dip into the valleys
Leaving us in broken alleys
Somehow I can still smell a teenage spring
Sit back, enjoy the ride
This ain't gonna last a long time
Close your eyes lose your mind again
Lose your mind again
It's going down this way again
And It's going to rain but
The sun comes up again
It's going to rain but
The sun comes up again
It's going to rain but
The sun comes up again
Highway is running on
Don't know which way
You have gone
Highway is running on
Don't know which way
You can run
Don't know which way
You have gone
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