1. |
Real World
04:28
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Do the things you don't like
Let them occupy every minute of your life
Nine 'til five, put your pen to the paper
And write
And sign away
Get more things you don't need
Take down the photographs, and put up the TV
And make sure it's a million-inch screen,
So it feels like you're living;
Feels like you're here.
That's how it is in the real world, boy
Welcoming you to the real word, boy
That's how it is in the real world, boy.
Take away and replace
Seems so many years now, have all gone out to waste
Leave a taste that is bitter, and lingers round
Longer than you bargained for,
Longer than you thought
That's how it is in the real world, boy
Welcoming you to the real word, boy
That's how it is in the real world, boy.
That's how it is in the real world, boy
Welcoming you to the real word, boy
Time for despair and regret, my boy,
Teach to your children, the same bullshit, my boy.
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2. |
Get Lost
03:25
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I’ve been sleeping through the day
And staying up all night
Words from friends paint pictures of
A different style of life
I gotta get lost
I gotta get away from this town
I gotta catch a plane, yes
I gotta find a way out
‘Cos I ain’t too old, but I’m getting older
Ain’t too old, but I feel the days pass me by
And I’m getting older
I’ve been seeing people settle down
In to the dream
But subdivision living ain’t
A vision much to me
I gotta get lost
I gotta get away from this town
I gotta catch a plane, yes
I gotta find a way out
‘Cos I ain’t too old, but I’m getting older
Ain’t too old, but I feel the days pass me by
And I’m getting complacent
The more that I take in
The more I could just stay at home
But I’m feeling the danger
That I’m such a stranger
To the road
I gotta get lost
I gotta get lost
I gotta get away from this town
I gotta catch a plane, yes
I gotta find a way out
‘Cos I ain’t too old, but I’m getting older
Ain’t too old, but I feel the days pass me by
And I’m getting older
Yes I’m getting older
Yes I’m getting older
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3. |
Time
03:32
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You came baby
And I wen't crazy
I fell, like the rain
From the clouds over you,
I was learning how it truely felt to love
I was learning how it truely felt to love
And I'm sure you felt it too
But how things can change,
When the weather settles in,
When you find out what it truely means to love
When you find out what it truely means to love
Taking back
Things you said
When everything between us was good.
At least now
you know that
If you could go back in time then you would, but
Winter set in
The days were blending
And things cooled right down,
You had drifted from me,
I was learning how it truely felt to love
When you told me things had changed,
Then you were -
Taking back
Things you said
When everything between us was good.
At least now,
you know that
If you could go back in time
Then you'd turn on a dime
And you'd walk away fast
From the things in your life without me.
Could have lived
The concreted dream,
With good cars
And faces shaved clean.
Where the boys
Would line up at clubs,
Just to show what they've got
But you've got me and now you just
Taking back
Things you said
When everything between us was good.
At least now,
you know that
If you could go back in time then you would.
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4. |
I Need Her
03:36
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My baby, she's coming home
Later in February when summer's gone,
I don't mind none
She's coming home to make it OK
Lately, well I've been feeling down
'cos my baby, she hasn't been around
I don't mind none
She'll take all of my problems away
Now I would not say things I didn't quite mean,
But now that she's coming home, I'll just come clean
And say
I need her,
I need her.
My baby, she's on her way
We'll somehow get paid, maybe get a place
And through the winter
She'll take all of the coldness away
She's taking a flight via Amsterdam
Where she'll call me, just to check on how I am
And I'll be dandy,
'Cos my baby will be coming my way
Now, I try to never get carried away,
But now that she's coming home, I'm first to say
That I need her,
I need her.
I need her,
I need her,
I need her,
I need her
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5. |
Reading Me Wrong
03:38
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If I'm silent, I'm brooding
If I'm occupied, I'm distant to you.
If I'm tired, you're wired
Wondering what's going on
It seems the night
brings with it some kind of madness
When you're reading me wrong
And the distance between us is growing
When you're reading me wrong
And the distance between us is growing
When I'm wide awake, you're dreaming
Far away and drifting from me.
We didn't solve the problem
So your dreams are being poisoned
It seems the dark
Brings with it some kind of sadness
When you're reading me wrong
And the distance between us is growing
When you're reading me wrong
And the distance between us is growing
So we'll take some time,
Room to breathe
Hadn't even pondered it yet,
But maybe something's wrong
'Cos when we're sleeping we're closer
Than when I try to hold you to me.
I guess our dreams are alive,
They just ain't quite alligning
And the dark is here,
And brings with it no comfort at all
'Cos you're reading me wrong
And the distance between us is growing
'Cos you're reading me wrong
And the distance between us is growing
Is growing,
Is growing.
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6. |
Dreams
02:59
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I think I think too much
The notion in itself is proof
I think I know too much
To naively dodge the truth
I know my eyes are wide
And my vision seems so clear
So why can't I make it clear to you?
I can't change your dreams
I can't change what you see
I can't bend back the metal
I'm afraid to see it break,
This is love
You can switch up seats
You can get a different view
A fresh perspective on
Something that was never new
I know I've seen enough
To know it's not just me or you,
It's between us
I can't change your dreams
I can't change what you see
I can't bend back the metal
I'm afraid to see it break,
This is love
It's not supposed to be
A vehicle for apologies
Don't tell me that you love me
If you don't
Consciousness falls slowly, yet heavy
We're still on our own
And if I could I would, but
I can't change your dreams
I can't change what you see
I can't bend back the metal
I'm afraid to see it break,
This is love
I can't change your dreams
I can't change what you see
I can't bend back the metal
I'm afraid to see it break,
This is love
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7. |
How Could You
02:27
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I've been thinking about you a lot
And when I think about people
I tend to think people know
Roughly what I'm thinking about
But how could you when you pass me buy
And how could you when you don't bat an eyelid
When all that's on my mind is, you
I've been thinking of all that I've got
And of the things that I have
There are things I could give you
Which others just simply could not
But how could I when you pass me buy
And how could I when you don't bat an eyelid
When all I'd give my life for, is you
I've been thinking that this has to stop
'Cos the more that I offer
The less that you go for
And I'll just be left with a dream
That we could be as one
But how could we when you pass me buy
And how could we when you don't bat an eyelid
At me when all I've needed, is you.
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8. |
Everybody's Stupid
02:52
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Wait for the weekend coming,
Then you can do everything that you
Saved up for throughout the working week,
Get fucked and fall asleep
It's a pill to swallow,
Love that's hollow,
Secret's this though -
no one gets it like we do.
Take a fresh approach on living,
Fake the fame, the friends and fortune,
You got the people listening in, all
Waiting for something they agree with
It's a pill to swallow,
Love that's hollow,
Secret's this though -
no one knows,
Everybody's stupid,
Except for me and a couple of my friends,
Everybody's crazy, but they don't know,
Probably think we're crazy too.
x3
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9. |
Move On
02:40
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Get my shit together
So that we can laugh about the times
When we were kids,
All fall on my sword over something
That I can no longer call my own
It's funny how affection
Often blooms in retrospection
Always one play behind,
Well now I'm in the thick of it,
And you don't feel I'm relevant
And I feel I'm still head over heels,
But I've got to move on
I've got to move on
I've got to move on
I've got to move on
(Move on
from the one you love
It's over now
It's said and done)
Get your things together
So that you can make a quick exit
And leave me here,
Drawing out the process
Is an exercise in pointlessness
And pain
It's funny how they laugh at youth
'Cos we don't know the truth and yet
They crave our days (they want it, they want it)
Well now we're in the midst of it
Years to our name irrelevant
My heart is on fire
But I've got to move on
I've got to move on
I've got to move on
I've got to move on
(Move on
from the one you love
It's over now
It's said and done)
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10. |
She's OK
03:07
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She wrote a list of the good things
She reads it every day as she wakes
She got a good place to live in
A place to call her own
She calls her home
She's OK,
She's OK,
She's alright
She left some things she won't talk about
There'll be time in time to rewind
She lives in the world that she dreamed of
She don't care for the forecast
'Cos for now
She's OK,
She's OK,
She's alright
Don't play it off,
I need you to talk to me.
Don't shake it off,
Can't you see I was good to you?
She came to see me on her holiday
And things went back to the way they were before
She said, she could learn to love again
'Til she saw me and she held me and
She cried through the pain
She's OK,
She's OK,
She's alright
Don't play it off,
I need you to talk to me.
Don't shake it off,
Can't you see I was good to you?
Don't play it off,
I need you to talk to me.
Don't shake it off,
Can't you see I was good to you?
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“If you’re a fan of upbeat indie-pop, then you might already be aware of Kiwi muso Jed Parsons. But if not, he’s undoubtedly about to become one of your new favourite artists…” - Tone Deaf, Australia
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