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Amsterdam
03:05
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There's love still there, I know it
Take me back to Amsterdam
To kiss in the Amstel again
Don't think I don't remember
I apologised to the police
In a language they couldn't speak
For jumped up football boys
Please say there was no blood tonight
I love the pale sky
Over Amsterdam
Over Amsterdam
Over Amsterdam
Scared of sex and almost out of time
We Brits are of one mind
But looking for love all the same
In red lights on the promenade
And I don't think they're to blame
In Amsterdam
In Amsterdam
In Amsterdam
I'll sell my things just to ride the slow trains
Eat fast food in the rain outside the bodyworks
To think we walked so far
And dipped our toes in the black water to pass the time
In Amsterdam
In Amsterdam
There's love still there, I know it
Take me back to Amsterdam
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2. |
Secret Mover
03:32
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Let me in
Let me know how you really feel
Before morning fully comes
And this song is done
All the boys
Have their eyes on eachother
And you are like a ghost
Just an old man
You were a mover
You were a secret mover
You had the time of your life before the guns came down
And it all went wrong
You were a lover
You were a secret lover
But when the lightning strikes on this dullard town
You'll be dead and gone
But you were there before bombs were
You were there when the first brick fell
You showed the boys who the boss was
You let the boys fall in the snow
Tell me how
All your darlings took the last train out of Warsaw
And you followed them to these Roman streets
You were a mover
You were a secret mover
You had the time of your life before the guns came down
And it all went wrong
You were a dealer
You were a dirty dealer
In black market love but now those days are gone
And you are free and useless
You were there before bombs were
You were there when the first brick fell
You showed the boys who the boss was
You let the boys fall in the snow
You met the tanks by the river
You kissed and got cold sores
But now your hands on the bar
They've touched nothing in years
You were a mover
You were a secret mover
You were a mover
You were a secret mover
Secret mover
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3. |
Billy
03:41
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Billy
I know you feel like you're losing touch with the world around you
Put your milkshake down, let's drive around
Billy
I've never seen you smile as much as you smiled the day that the snow came
The snow fell on your face and you always used to hate this place
But now I know you don't
What can you say about Billy?
It's Billy, every time I look up
I don't want to let you down
Billy
What would your parents say if they found us down at the arcade?
Billy, keep your t-shirt on and laugh along
To my jokes
I'll sneak over Saturday and teach you to play the guitar
Every time you look at me it's easy to see you don't care about the chords
What can you say about Billy?
It's Billy, every time I look up
I don't want to let you down
He caught the snowflakes on his tongue
I had to run
And Billy told me once
He told me twice
Do this and you carry it with you for the rest of your life
He told me once
He told me twice
Do this and you carry it with you for the rest of your life
For the rest of your life
For the rest of your life
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4. |
Time to Face the Crowd
04:28
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Time to face the crowd again
You are not my vision or my friend
All the fallen leaves
Are the last things that I see
Passing through your living room to die
Run me a warm bath to fall asleep
To shut it all away
To shut it
Pull down the blinds to keep out the haunted moon
You are not the thing I thought I loved
I'm hugging a bank of cold razors
(Now I am only asleep on the edge of the Earth)
And all your stinking friends
With their black roots in the ground
You crawled into my chest, curled there to die
You do not know it
But you are nestled in the wet slit of my heart
Death rolling
Teaching me pain
Take your time, unbutton my shirt
I'll steal your breath away, I'll steal your breath away
You picked me up and put me in your car
Before the water came, and took the town away
Take me to the sea
Leave your latent prints on me
I'll show you all the love that's left inside
You are the fruit that keeps me from going lame
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5. |
Kombat Truck
02:53
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Met you in the back of a Kombat Truck
You were looking like you'd not seen rain before
And perhaps you hadn't
Didn't know if you were a boy or girl
'cause we'd already shook those shackles off but then
Just before the bloom
There was The Boom
Don't leave me for a banner
I'll teach you all my manners
I'll teach you all my manners
I'll show you how the Thames looked
Back in the day
When it is warm
Pulled off of the road in our Kombat Truck
You were looking for some sign of life and then
A little deer
You shot it down
Don't leave me for an hour
I'll give you all my powers
I'll love you in the showers
Tired of blood and mud and loneliness
But that's just me
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6. |
She's In Deep
03:02
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She's a girl and she's in deep to another world
I'm a boy and I don't think that I'll get that girl
She took my hand and led me to the roadside
Watched as the black cars went by
She crawled through the grass
I didn't know where to look
She's a girl and she keeps her head bowed to the ground
Tells me people are following her around
I go to see her, she whines like a stranger
Puts her face up to the glass
I'm a loser
I don't let the lights go on
She's a girl but don't tell her you love her
No, don't do her a favour
Or one day when you're looking in to the sky
You'll see the missiles arcing down
So do yourself a favour
Forget she exists
Here we go, an evening trip to the theatre
Sees a spy in everybody that looks at her
Curtains close and we walk to the seaside
See the pier all thick with smoke
She tells me
It's them come to take her away
She's a girl but don't tell her you love her
No, don't do her a favour
And I confess to seeing the suited men
That wait for her out by her work
So do yourself a favour
Forget she exists
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7. |
Continent of You
02:59
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Try to tell me something I don't want to hear
Something that will make me want to not be near to you
You are the rain on my window
You are a smudge on my heart
You are the one I want
You are the one I need
Yeah you shut down my inhibitions
You make me feel complete
When I met you I felt like I'd just been born
Like a flower opening up to the day
I had the time of my life
Discovering the continent of you
You are the one I want
You are the one I need
Yeah you shut down my inhibitions
You make me feel complete
The city streets are just filled with you
Yeah you obscure every view
There are things that make life worth while
And you're the most important one of all
You are the one I want
You are the one I need
Yeah you shut down my inhibitions
You make me feel complete
You are the one I want
You are the one I need
Yeah you shut down my inhibitions
You make me feel complete
You are the one I want
You are the one I need
Yeah you shut down my inhibitions
You make me feel complete
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8. |
I'm Over It
03:22
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I'm moving on
I'm over it
Flying plates and warning knives
Don't leave me looking round for good advice
Because it only goes one way
I was looking out for you
But you were looking out for someone else
You bought seeds for the dead grass
I went out and ate by myself
By myself
A small mistake
In the bathroom
A lick of blood on my thumb
You always used to comfort me that way
I was looking out for you
But you were looking out for someone else
You were living out your life in still frame
Hoping I would not come back
We were waiting by our window
Looking out for some other guy
To make us feel alive
I'm sorry I hurt you, I'm over it
I'm sorry you hurt me too
I would starve myself if I believed you'd worry
But I don't, now
Damn, you win all the time
You win all the time
I was looking out for you
But you were looking out for someone else
You were living out your life in still frame
Hoping I would not come back
We were waiting by our window
Looking out for some other guy
To make us feel alive
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9. |
Stephanie Says
02:46
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Stephanie says that she wants to know
Why she's given half her life, to people she hates now
Stephanie says when answering the phone
What country shall I say is calling from across the world
But she's not afraid to die, the people all call her Alaska
Between worlds so the people ask her 'cause it's all in her mind
It's all in her mind
Stephanie says that she wants to know
Why it is though she's the door
She can't be the room
Stephanie says but doesn't hang up the phone
What sea shell say is calling from across the world
But she's not afraid to die, the people all call her Alaska
Between worlds so the people ask her 'cause it's all in her mind
It's all in her mind
They're asking is it good or bad
It's such an icy feeling it's so cold in Alaska,
it's so cold in Alaska, it's so cold in Alaska
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10. |
Passengers To Love
02:39
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I've never felt this alive before
Watching the stars from your car door
God gave me a happy ending
Found it in your car tonight
Chasing storms and our tomorrows down
Down tonight
I feel we're passing time, we're passengers to love
Like castaways meant for up above
You are not for everyone
But there is a hole in me
You slot right in like a jigsaw
Make me whole
Now we're moving on, we're passing through our old town
Old faces always make me frown
Some dumb people grab the world
Then do nothing when it's down
We are only getting started now
Now you know
Now you know
Now you know
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Here we go
Summer nights
Always felt like home
Round and round and round
Round and round and round
They pulled another cold kid out
the river
We always felt
Like a magazine
They'll put us on TV one day
Sooner or later
We'll all be good at once
We'll fan out and take on the world
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days and laugh
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days and laugh
A dozen paths
Cut grass and laughs
First cars and finding out
All the work we've done
To become someone
Can be undone with a stroke
What a bother
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days and laugh
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days
We'll look back on these days and laugh
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Jack Simmons Bristol, UK
Singer-songwriter from Bristol, UK. 60s, 70s & 80s inspired indie pop.
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