1. |
Numb
04:31
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There is no good news anymore
Only horror piled on endless horror
I can’t lift my eyes up off the floor
To take in this hellscape by Goya
My brain shuts down
I can’t hear the sound
Of the stoney-faced woman on my TV
And I want to believe that there’s love in this world
I want to believe that there’s good in my soul
But looking at what’s going on
I ask myself can someone good be so numb?
I make my round of charitable donations
But it never really feels enough to me
Marching past the young charity workers
Pretend I’ve got an urgent place I gotta be
‘Cause my heart can’t cope
In this vacuum of hope
I just stare into the middle distance
And I want to believe that there’s love in this world
I want to believe that there’s good in my soul
But looking at what’s going on
I ask myself can someone good be so numb?
And my brain shuts down
I can’t hear the sound
Of the stoney-faced woman on my TV
And I want to believe that there’s love in this world
I want to believe that there’s good in my soul
But looking at what’s going on
I ask myself can someone good be so numb?
Can someone good be so numb?
Can someone good be so numb?
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2. |
Break My Heart
04:06
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You’re too perfect and you know just what I mean
I try and hurt you, try and rip apart your seams
But you just stand there like a medieval queen
I can’t do this, no, I must be in a dream
I don't know what to say to that
I don't know how I'm supposed to act
Oh, when you gonna break my heart?
Oh, when you gonna tear it all apart?
Oh, when you gonna break my heart?
Maybe I should break it before you do
Maybe I should break it before you do
I did warn you there are demons in my past
I can’t hide you from the shadows that they cast
So don’t kid yourself that every storm shall pass
We're all drowning, yeah we're disappearing fast
I don’t know what I mean by that
I don't know how I'm supposed to act
Oh, when you gonna break my heart?
Oh, when you gonna tear it all apart?
Oh, when you gonna break my heart?
Maybe I should break it before you do
Maybe I should break it before you do
It’s not a question of if, it’s a matter of when
You keep asking me why, why do we ever do anything?
And if I told you, you were everything
I've ever been looking for or ever been trying to find
Would you believe?
Oh, when you gonna break my heart?
Oh, when you gonna tear it all apart?
Oh, when you gonna break my heart?
Maybe I should break it before you do
Maybe I should break it before you do
Before you do
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3. |
The End Of The World
05:34
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Out here in the desert
We’re turning off the lights
We had a good time, baby
Now the pipes are running dry
Back in 2023, we said it would all be fine
I guess that we were wrong
And you were right
Towers in the distance
Tremble in the heat
We built our Babylon
Out of oil and concrete
Now join us on the hundredth floor
As the waters rise
Watch the little people tryin’ to survive
And it looks like the end of the world
And everyone knows it’s
The way we all chose it
And if it’s the end of the world
It can’t be denied
We all had the time of our lives
These days you will struggle
To find somewhere that’s free
From fire, flood or famine
And human misery
London’s underwater, L.A.’s smoke and dust
Seven billion vehicles slowly rust
But don’t you worry, baby
Baby, don’t despair
You didn’t think this story
Really ended there
For the lucky few (and hey that’s you!)
There’s a colony on Mars
I hear the shuttle’s waiting to depart
And it looks like the end of the world
Everyone knows it’s
The way we all chose it
And if it’s the end of the world
It can’t be denied
We all had the time of our lives
It’s been quite a ride
Now kiss it goodbye….
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4. |
Sometimes
03:18
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Sometimes
I wish I told you that I love you
Every day instead of just
Sometimes
I wish I made you feel special
Every time you walk in the room
Isn’t that what lovers normally do?
But then…
Some days
It gets so busy in the morning
Everything is crazy and
Some nights
We’re both so tired in the evening
All that we can practically do
Is be together in a comfortable room
Ooooh, baby
You get so worried I don’t love you the same way
Ooooh, baby
So maybe I should tell you over and over again
(Oh, I love you)
Somehow
We have always stuck together
Through the stormy weather
For years now
And though we’re both a little older
Some things stay impossibly true
So hold me and I’ll hold on to you
Sometimes, sometimes…
Ooooh, baby
You get so worried I don’t love you the same way
Ooooh, baby
So maybe I should tell you over and over again
(Oh, I love you...)
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Fillet of a fenny snake
In the cauldron boil and bake
Eye of newt and toe of frog
Wool of bat and tongue of dog
I thought I was dreaming
But I was wrong
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing
For a charm of powerful trouble
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
I thought I was sleeping
But I was wrong
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
O, feels like I’m running
O, but I can never get away
O, well done, I commend your pains
And everyone shall share the gains
And now about the cauldron sing
Like elves and fairies in a ring
Enchanting all that you put in
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf
Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravined salt sea shark
Root of hemlock digged i’the dark
I thought I was falling
But I was wrong
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Something wicked this way comes…
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6. |
A Witch Come True
04:03
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When she has you under her spell
You can't think of nothin' else
There's no tellin' what you'll do or say
She's as kind as she is mean
She'll be your every fantasy
She's satisfactory in every single way
She's a Witch come true
Yeah, she can spin your life around
She's a Witch come true
Or she can turn it upside down
You'll be buying her things
Like diamond rings
An expensive rendezvous’
She's a Witch come true
Yeah, she's a Witch come true
Maybe she’ll mess up your mojo
With a little magic from Mexico
They say she turns men into zombies
She’s got voodoo in her black eyes
And a heat that will burn all night
I’d give all my money if she’d magic me
repeat chorus:
They say she was raised in that southern swamp by a gator and a snake
And they say she’s a hoodoo or maybe just a con looking for a break
repeat chorus twice
Once her magic gets to you
She's a Witch come true
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7. |
Cuando
02:41
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I always told my mama I would be a saint
Live by the word of Christ
Now I’m just a sinner like the other boys
Baby, I’m lost in your eyes
And all it would take is an invitation
I long to hear your reply
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando
I saw you from my window on a Summer’s night
Laughing with friends in the square
I worried that the stirrings of my wicked mind
Were as black as the curls of your hair
But now I am lost as a shipwrecked sailor
Waiting for love to appear
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando
But baby, how long must I wait for your love?
Cuando… cuando… cuando…
Today I wrote a letter I addressed to you
Slipped underneath your door
It’s twenty seven pages, give or take a few
I could have written much more
Now I must wait for your invitation
I long to hear your reply
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando, cuando, cuando mi amor
Cuando
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8. |
Our Love
04:05
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Our love isn’t what it used to be
Our love, it’s become a travesty
And there’s no turning back
On this dead-end track
No, our love feels like history
No time to figure out what we should do
No time, I can’t even talk to you
Another door slams shut
Death by a thousand cuts
No, our love will always be blue
Because our love will never be good enough
Oh, our love was never built to last
You know our love, will always be a part of us
But now our love is only in the past
No need for us to part as enemies
No need for all this animosity
‘Cause in a year or two
When you’re with someone new
Our love will be whispers on the breeze
Because our love will never be good enough
Oh, our love was never built to last
You know our love, will always be a part of us
But now our love is only in the past
Only in the past…
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9. |
Firefly
03:29
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V1
I fell hard for a firefly
Mistook her for a flame
Thought I’d found forever
But a spark is not the same
V2
She stuns me like a lightning bolt
And sets the night on fire
She dazzles in her lovelight
But only for awhile
Ch
Oh, Firefly
Firefly
Don’t fly away
Firefly
Firefly
How can I
Entice you to stay
V3
Our romance has a magic glow
Our nature dooms us both
She can’t change her spirit
And I can’t let her go
Ch
Oh, Firefly
Firefly
Don’t fly away
Firefly
Firefly
How can I
Entice you to stay
Br
My world is dark without her
I need her luminescence
When she walks in the room
My skin can feel her presence
Ch
Oh, Firefly
Firefly
Don’t fly away
Firefly
Firefly
How can I
Entice you to stay
Oh, Firefly
Don’t fly away
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Passing the time with a pretty young woman
She's passing the time with a touch of her pretty little hand
And maybe we both had a little more
Than mere strangers should have
When love is new
When I read the time it was a-bed-time
It was a quarter past two
(so I said)
I’ll be your dirty old man
I’ll be a dirty old man for you
You’ll be a dirty old woman
Just like the dirty young woman I knew
I don’t believe that you’ll change
And though your face may be a little more lined
Spend thirty years as dirty old lovers
Cos everything is foreplay to a fertile mind
I’m still inclined with the very same woman
Don’t have to hold hands but we do anyway
And maybe we both want a little more
Don’t wanna walk in the park
We want to roll in the hay
Though cupid went to ground
Those salacious thoughts still stick around
I’ll be your dirty old man
I’ll be a dirty old man for you
You’ll be a dirty old lady
Just like the dirty young woman I knew
I never noticed no change
And though your face may be a little more lined
That's thirty years as dirty old lovers
Cos everything is foreplay to a fertile mind
There’s no need to hit rewind
Cos everything is foreplay
Cos everything is foreplay
Everything is foreplay
Everything is foreplay...
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11. |
Skippin Stones
02:37
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slippin from the rocky walls
sinkin into muddy sand
you can either go for help
or lend a little helpin hand
ill buy you a dilly bar at dairy queen
if you get me back up on my feet
and you can choose the movie
when we get to the center of third street
skippin stones
throwin rocks
shootin bullets
droppin bombs
next we will be
blowin holes in the sky
then we will blow the hell
out of you and i
my foot got squashed beneath a tire
on the cedar river highway
Crossin over to the bar
to pull my daddy from his beer
after they wrapped it up in gauze
and gave me some ice cream
we kept on drivin down the highway
then did some fishin in the stream
skippin stones
throwin rocks
shootin bullets
droppin bombs
next we will be
blowin holes in the sky
then we will blow the hell
out of you and i
Now you learn to use a knife
practice aimin with a gun
flyin high over the land
of the midnight sun
you'll grow up to make the jump
and keep jumpin till you fall
if your lucky enough
to grow up at all
skippin stones
throwin rocks
shootin bullets
droppin bombs
next we will be
blowin holes in the sky
then we will blow the hell
out of you and i
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12. |
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They told me I’d won first place
But I don’t wait for prizes
I just assume I lost it all
When I cross the finish line
I do know I was running fast…
Running scared
Running away
Trophies uncollected
Never put out on display
‘Cause no matter how many times I win
The same sense of doubt creeps is always creepin’ in…
I don’t deserve this…
I didn’t earn this…
Just wait until they find
I’m not the man they say I am
My face is on the poster
But it just can’t be me
Perhaps, I’m the imposter
I know it’s hard to believe but
I remember when the cameras flashed
Flash forward.
Flash in a pan.
Posters tear and posters fade
Soon I’m just an “also ran”
‘Cause no matter how many times I win
The same sense of doubt creeps is always creepin’ in…
I don’t deserve this…
I didn’t earn this…
Just wait until they find
I’m not the man they say I am
But you say that you believe in me
And baby if you believe in me
Oh I believe in me too one more time!
Yes you say that you believe in me
And baby if you believe in me
Oh I believe in me too
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13. |
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[DAN]
Another late night
Another early morning
I’m running out of wick
One more thing?
Sure I can do it!
As long as we make it very very quick
[Chorus]
Why do I always overcommit?
(Why why why…)
Why can’t I get these pieces to fit?
(Why why why…)
Why don’t I ever know when to quit?
(Why why why…)
Why why why
Why why why…
[HANNAH]
I’ll work all night
‘Til the morning light
Just need a little shuteye
I ask when we’ll ever
Get us some sleep
You say we only sleep when we die
[Chorus]
[SONYA]
I’ll get on a plane
Go anywhere you want me
All you got to do is ask
No job too big
No job too little
I’ll commit to doing almost any ol’ task
[Chorus]
[DAVID]
Too much on my plate
Forgot to eat today
Maybe we should reassess?
Sign me up for another!
No rest for the wicked!
I feel like a man, a man possessed
[Chorus]
[DAN]
8, 9, 10, 11, midnight (8, 9, 10, 11, midnight)
1-2-3am (1-2-3am)
I’m still feeling alright
I don’t mind late nights
But the alarm clock, I dread…
I feel like the walking dead…
Every morning at 6am…
[Outro]
Why do we always overcommit?
(Why why why…)
Why do we always overcommit?
(Why why why…)
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So long, it’s been emotional
Really, I ain’t just saying it to please you
I always miss you so much
‘Cause baby you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
I’ll ever need
Each year, gone so quickly
You blink and oh you missed it
At least I hope to see you again
‘Cause baby you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
I’ll ever need
And if I promise to be here
Same ol’ time, only next year
Would you promise to be here too?
‘Cause baby you’re the only one
Baby you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
I’ll ever need
And if I promise to be here
Same ol’ time, only next year
Would you promise to be here too?
So long, it’s been emotional
Same way it always is when we
Do this, you know I’ll miss you so much
‘Cause baby you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
I’ll ever need
Baby, you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
Baby, you’re the only one
I’ll ever need
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15. |
Spinning
03:18
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Feel like I’m in a washing machine
The world won’t stop turning
Rinse and spin may make me clean
But it don’t seem to be working
I’m spinning around
I’m spinning
Feel like I’m on a hamster wheel
And I just got to keep on moving
Every step I take, it’s starting to feel
Like I don’t know what I’m doing
I’m spinning around
I’m spinning
Feel like I’m on a fairground carousel
With lions and tigers and dragons
Light trails and screaming carry me to hell
It's all so much worse than I’d imagined
I’m spinning around
I’m spinning
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David Taro London, UK
David Taro is a singer-songwriter and producer from South London in the UK.
His work - encompassing genres including indie pop, rock and blues - is tender and heartfelt yet frequently laced with a wry, self-deprecating wit.
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