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Turn It Around
05:30
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You know that I'll defend you with every single breath I take
I'm always here to mend you when you can't seem to catch a break
I'll turn it around
I'm feeling more and more like a helium balloon
Lighter than the air, floating to the moon lagoon
I'll turn it around
Getting back to you, I would like to paint on your face
I would make you look like an ancient Egyptian queen
I'll turn it around
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Let me take you for a ride, you're as deep as we are wide ( alright )
Wide open sky
I'm to meet a man who claims there are only better days ( to come )
But he is a liar
Who will lift you up? Who will keep your feet on the ground?
Well I know who I am
I was dazzled here before, ain't gonna dazzle me no more ( no way )
I'm not for sale
You can flutter and you can crow, but there's things that you don't know (like what)
Like you were the fool
Take me dancing in the wasteland, yeah, we can illuminate the old town
You'll look pretty as a picture, yeah, when the acid rain hits ya
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Cylindrical Fire Escapes
07:04
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Your dark hair slack across your back, like ravens wings or some other bird
The stillness filled as morning spilled and turned your room tangerine
I wanna make cylindrical fire escapes, I wanna take away all your heartache with a spoon
You made a sign to meet my plane, it spelled my name, you funny thing
The first few days always remain top of my list of favourite things
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Moon lagoon
03:36
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Get down to the keen-eyed lagoon, so rich in the wild overgrown
Calapogan, oh it compliments the air, of hope
That is calling
Moon lagoon hey! Where the lanes of a troubled mind
can be opined, by the fireside
In rings of a coma, the sky, so still in a sweet lullaby
Animals, oh they're tripping the light, as one
It is coming
Dive bombing secluded arrows, dark mud in the open shallows
Moon lagoon, moon lagoon, moon lagoon forever calling
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Thank my stars
04:44
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I've been from post to pillar, I've dallianced and dalli-danced
In ways of my own making, you've slipped like water through my hands
Thank my stars, my lucky stars, thank my stars
This road might lead to nowhere, these heels might wear before I'm through
But it's not where I'm going, it's that I'm going there with you
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I'm a jewel in the mud
I'm a tree in a flood
I am more
I'm not a wallflower, I'm the wall
I'm the rug under your feet
I'm the break in a beat
I am more
I'm not a wallflower, I'm the wall
It's the fangs of a lamb, it's the strength of a dam
It's the will to never fall
I'm not a wallflower, I'm the wall
It's the sting of a bee, it's the rip of the sea yeah
It's the will to never fall
I'm not a wallflower, I'm the wall.
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Diggin' holes in the whites of your eyes
Staring at the sun
Come up here to the moon lagoon
It's in everyone
Champion of peace and love in the early hours
It's my time
Make believe the silence is coz noone else
survived
Burning rocks on the pavement yo!
You are number one
Golden silver, golden silver
Golden silver sun
If I should fail to find my way
back out
You've no need to worry coz it's not so bad
In here
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Everyone's got a star on the rise, I'm gonna do my best impression
With a nod and a smile
Coz I ain't got the chops or the breaks, last chance saloon
On the moon la-la-lagoon in style
Disappearing quicker than a lover, when it finally dawns
It's not all rock and roll
I keep on saying it's alright that somebody soon
Is gonna f-f-freak out on my soul
You are the procrastinator so I wouldn't use that line
I'll be back
I might be back or I may be back but never I'll be back
It's p-p-plain that you ain't coming back
Somebody told me something about someone and I couldn't care less
I know because I've already tried
I've got no time for idle gossip just sing to me
While my b-b-brain is only semi fried
Wouldn't you like to dance? with me, one more time
Didn't you ever wonder why, if they can help it, noone stays around me
For long
When I imagine you and I, we're living like
a l-l-lyric from a silly song
I didn't mean to bag my dreams, I didn't wanna lose my head
But you were everywhere
I didn't care much for my dreams, unless it was a dream f-f-for us to share.
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