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There’s only good times up ahead
Holding on to the sunshine in my bed
Only once in a lifetime it could be only you
Waking up on the wrong side isn’t what it used to
Waiting on the good times up ahead
Holding on to the sunshine in my bed
Lying awake in the darkness thinkin’ bout what you did
Wanna to keep it the whole time always forever hid
You won’t ever hold me back
Don’t have a heart attack
Waiting on the good times up ahead
waiting on the sunshine in my bed
Out walking home and back
Won’t paint this photo black
Hold me down it seems so wrong to me
Hold me down it ain’t time to leave
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I don’t know about love
I don’t know about love anymore
I don’t know if what I see is real
But don’t you try to tell me just what I should feel
Far away in time I know you want me
You want me
Want me
I don’t know if what I see is real
Some changes had caught in my mind
But far away in time I know you want me
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You, you got what I want
It gets lonely in the middle of this life
Oh you, you got what I want
Someday I can say that you’re my wife
Say that’ll you’ll always hold me
And just try to understand
Someday’s you can slap and scold me
And I’ll try to be your man
Cause you you got what I want
When the world is darkness you're my light
Yes you, you got what I want
No one else can tell me it's alright
Nobody else can know me
A sliver of what you can
Nobody else controls me
With a motion of their hand
But you are brighter than all the shooting stars
You’re a homing light that burns out our eyes
Breaking all the rules and leaving us paralyzed
We don’t know how to act you left hypnotized
Breaking all the rules breaking all the rules now
You, you got what I want
You’re the only one to take me on this ride
Oh you, you got what I want
You’re the only one I’ll keep next to my side
Somebody thinks they got what it takes
And somebody got it wrong
But everyone’s not you and I
You, you got what I want
It’s lonely in the middle of this life
Oh you, you got what I want
Someday I can say that you’re my wife
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Tonight the stars are shining
Tonight the ocean air
Tonight I need my arms around you
Tonight
Tonight the stars are shining
Tonight I wasn’t there
Your eyes
Tonight the stars are shining
Tonight the salt sea air
Tonight I need your arms around me
Tonight
Tonight I need your arms around me
Tonight
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I need love
I need a heart I can fill
I need love
I wanna be harder to kill
The only one I’ve found
Is too much to believe
Only in the cold hard ground
Can you dare me to leave
I need love
And I don’t want to steal
I need love
Nothing cold and unreal
And I need lust
Like a smooth polished stone
And I need love
I don’t want it alone
The only one I’ve found
You can’t help but admit
Why does she stick around
When I’m dumb piece of shit
The only love I’ve found
Is as soft as the breeze
Only in the cold hard ground
Will I dare her to leave
I need love
I didn’t make a mistake
And I need love
I made a deal I won’t break
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I need a friend (2019)
03:29
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I need a friend who’s got nothing but triggers
I need a friend with a taste for tears
I need a friend who can call his mother (once in a while)
I need a friend with something to fear
I need a friend to invite me to parties
I need a friend who’d rather coke than beer
I need a friend to start a new religion
I need a friend who can last the year
I need a friend with a boat collection
I need a friend who gets serious
I need a friend who can afford to stare straight at the sun
I need a friend with experience
I need a friend with a lot of money
I need a friend who likes to play the field
I need a friend with a scary husband
I need a friend who keeps their big mouth sealed
I need a friend who can take me bowling
I need a friend who wears 6 inch heels
I need a friend to get me out of the house here (once in awhile)
I need a friend who’s got nothing to steal
I need a friend to ask a lot of questions
I need a friend with an axe to grind
I need a friend with a wife and children
I need a friend that’s so hard to find
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All your friends they are lining up to tell you
you are nothing but a hopeless piece of shit
and when you die you’ll be lucky if they even dig a hole
and not just throw you in the streets
for the dogs and rats after all the hobos steal your clothes
And loose change, and we’ve ransacked your apartment looking for dvds.
I can tell you cause I like you that we’re
all just waiting for the day you die.
Here’s a plan, you should hide your face, I’ll help you,
here’s a paper bag, it’s already got 3 holes.
All your friends have an office wager on just how much poison
they can give you until you notice you’ve been poisoned.
You can tell that they’re good people
cause they rarely try to stab you in the face.
And all your friends didn’t choke you in your bed last night
even though there’s nothing more we’d like to do.
All your friends they are lining up around the block
to claim the best stones that are the perfect throwing size
and when the day comes that you’re buried to your neck
or chin is the day you’ll see just good we can aim.
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I know enough about heartache and shame
Enough to fill a million cathedrals, to the ceiling, ceiling
And I need hundred fucking hours and change
To find myself a fucking feeling that’s real, real
And I filled my guts full of hammers and nails
I got a stomach full of pain
Oh I’ve got something burning through my hand
I got a wire taste in my mouth
Oh I’ve got something burning through my hand
I got a sense to be alone I’m the intruder in my home
Oh I’ve got something burning through my hand
There is a scent of something true but it is not a part of you
Oh I’ve got something burning through my hand
Are we all afraid to eat some shit from time to time?
Are we all afraid to eat some shit from time to time?
wOooooo
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How can I walk in this world without you
How could I take this woman's life
When all of the songs are about you
And your words are stolen knives
I would piss into the darkness
I would rip my clothes to rags
I would slice the tips of my fingers
I would choke and spit and gag
His eyes are cold chiseled daggers
He couldn't hold his dice too long
I felt the sickness rocking my stomach
Felt his rifle on my tongue
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You were high
I was screaming
It was cold
And I was leavin’
You were high
I was drownin’
You were not wrong
I was there
You were high
I was broken
There was code
In your words
You were high
I was screaming
Out of your hole
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What’s a night?
It isn’t much to see
Are you surprised
It don’t bother me?
My hand is shit
But I have much to gain
By not folding it
And if you want to
I could give you one more game
I won’t play the same
And if you want to
I could play you once again
But you’ll never win
What’s a life?
It isn’t much to lose
Are you surprised
You don’t get to choose
How much you bet
Or when you show your hand?
That’s how we play in here
There’s no rule in the guide
That’ll let you go free
But if you want to
I could let you win this round
But I won’t go down
And if you want to
I could read you what’s in the guide
Just sit by my side
And if you want to
I would love to give you more
Then a simple chore
And if you want to
I would love you even more
Then I did before
What’s a love?
It isn’t much to keep
In your heart
But it isn’t cheap
You lose the pot
If you don’t play the game
So don’t give up
It’s not the same
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His face weighs five kilograms
Blood and banana stems
A horse heeds a knotted branch
A man pees a hole through his pants
I know I know I know I know I know
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The sun is going down
And the winds a blowin’
And now I’m so so cold
We burned everything we can burn
And the fires going out
And it’s all gone
And I’m so so cold
Take everything upon the ground
And place it all upon the flames
This shadow follows me around
And tries to make me call it’s name
And now I’m so so cold
And now I’m so so cold
I need a hot drink and a warm ghost
And now I’m so so cold
There’s a light that will only shine down on you
There’s a light that will only shine down on me
There’s a light that no one has the eyes to see
Burn all that we have, all that we find and all that we leave
all that we have, all that we find and all that we leave
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Everybody’s had a good time tonight
I hope you feel alright
Everybody’s had their fun
There’s a taxi waitin’ for ya
Don’t expect me to drive
I wouldn’t want to kill ya
I’m too drunk to stay alive
Everybody’s had their fun
Everybody’s having fun
Everybody’s having fun
You need a different kind of lover
Cause Imma different kinda man
You need a different kind of lover
You can’t take me as I am as I am
as I am as I am
Everybody’s havin’ fun
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Baby baby why you gotta be so surprised
As we stare into the empty void we can’t recognize
I need a muscle relaxant and a wet rag for my brain
While all of our hopes and fears circle down the drain
Sometimes I feel the love of all the endless possibilities
And when I feel the love I feel alive
And when I lose control the only one who gets ahold of me
Is standing in the doorway of my life
And I know what I know and I know
When I’ve reached the end
When a cardboard box full of tears is my only friend
Gonna take a walk to a place where I can feel that new genocide
On the next block over where the streets are all gentrified
Sometimes I feel the suck of all my endless possibilities
When all I do is masturbate and cry
And when I lose control the only one who gets ahold of me
Is standing in the doorway of my life
We all want to resist we all want to condemn
We all want to feel that no one’s going to crush us in the end
Can I feel the love can I feel the love?
Can I feel the love can I feel the love?
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My hands know the river
My hands know the river
Every mile as it heads to the sea
Every knot in the stream
And I trace it each time that I dream
The place where it kills me to leave
I’ll draw you a picture
I’ll draw you a picture
I trace it each night that I dream
Where on the floor on this cold cold floor
Don’t you leave me
Don’t you leave me
And I hear it each time that I dream
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You're Beautiful (2019)
03:02
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You’re beautiful
And built to win
Your glossy hair
And flawless skin
You’re beautiful
Won’t take it back
No bleeding gums
No yellow plaque
You’re beautiful
At any price
No worms or fleas
No ticks or lice
You’re beautiful
So much to please
Your muscle tone
No skin disease
Please stand by me
Take my money
Arch back slightly
And give me a smile
There are many words
To express the things you are
You surpass the competition
Let’s get you in my car
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You know I feel so sorry baby
I couldn’t hold you, I couldn’t calm you,
I couldn’t kiss you, I couldn’t touch you,
I couldn’t tell you to take me back
This is where I wonder, this is where I wonder what the hell I’m at
And I’m tied at both ends, I’m tied at both ends
With the rope in your hands with the rope in your hands behind my back
You know I feel so sorry baby
I want to find you, I want to see you,
I want to smell you, I want to touch you,
I want to take you from the back
And I’m tied from both ends and I’m tied from both ends
With the chain in your hand and a thin hack saw
And I’m gasping for air and I’m gasping for air
And I know you’re not there and I know you're not there to help me out
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Light Knife Woman (2014)
02:46
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There’s a light at the end of the road and it’s a catchin’ up on me
There’s a light at the end of the road and it’s all that I can see
There’s a light and I know that the right and the left are not for me
There’s a light and it’s blinding oh it’s blinding
There’s a knife it’s so pretty and bright and I hold it close to me
There’s a knife at the end of a life it’s as sweet as sweet can be
There’s a knife and I hold it so tight that I can almost feel it breathe
There’s a knife and it’s shining oh it’s shining
There’s a woman at the end of the stairs and she’s staring into me
There’s a woman at the end of the stairs with her hair down to her knees
There’s a woman and she holds in her hands all the prayers the children leave
There’s a woman and she’s smiling oh she’s smiling
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24 dollars gonna haul up to your daughters gonna take em on the city tonight
Take another swig and I piss on myself and I don’t know why and I don’t know why
It takes a twenty ton nuclear bomb to get anybody hoppin’ tonight
going out every evening gonna dance by myself and I don’t know why and I don’t know why
I need little bit more of a handful, need a little more of a bite
I need to hit this buddy can I borrow a light
I need a little something, need a little something something
I need little something now can you help me?
I need to feel this a little bit more every night
Shaking in the middle with the dirty old fiddlers sticking fingers in the edge of a pie
Take a little sniff and you puke on yourself and I don’t know why and I don’t know why
I see my number one natural stallion lookin’ every kinda possible wrong
Crushing on an 80 pound IUD shell and I don’t know why and I don’t know why
Light up your cigarettes light up your windows
And wait for the signal that everything has finally come
Crying like a newborn baby it’s hell when there ain’t nobody singing along
Take another swig and I piss on myself and I don’t know why and I don’t know why
24 dollars gonna feed my family full of golden dollarama delights
Fall off the sidewalk and you kill someone else and IDKY
I need little bit more of a handful, need a little more of a bite
I need to hit this buddy can I borrow a light
I need a little something, need a little something something
I need little something now can you help me?
I need to feel this a little bit more every night
24 dollars gonna haul up to your daughters gonna take em on the city tonight
Take another swig and I piss on myself and I don’t know why and I don’t know why
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Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man sometimes
Sometimes a man’s got to be a man if he wants to be a man
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man
No the woman don’t understand what it takes to be a man
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes but the woman don’t understand what it takes to be a man
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man sometimes
Sometimes a man’s got to be a man if he wants to be a man
Man gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be the man that he wants
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man
Oh he’s got a man pain but he knows he can’t complain
A man or a woman don’t understand the pain a man whose gotta be a man has
Man pain but he can’t complain about his man pain no no
Oh a man pain but he can’t complain because he’s gotta be a man
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man sometimes
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man
Man’s gotta be a man sometimes if he wants to be a man
Be a man man be a man
Darling he’s gotta be a man, gotta be a man, gotta be a man
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I never asked to be alone
But I guess I just assumed
With all these American mothers
Feeding their ugly boys in their dark and empty rooms
Only white bread and popsicles
Pat their heads and sigh what’s a good boy to do?
Now we slip into our nighties
Cross ourselves, clasp our hands and pray
Think about all those dying kids in Africa
Then we roll back the duvet
Just keep quiet and finger me
Don’t you wake the child I get up early in the day
It’s been three weeks since I had a little bit of action
Or we could quietly kill ourselves
leave the car in drive stuff the towels neath the door
But which of us has the time? Jimmy’s got his karate club
And Jenny’s got her dance class at four
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Put your weight upon the wheel
Keep your eyes upon the road
Put your hands where I can see em’
Take me where I need to go
I don’t like this new look on your face, at all
This ain’t the road that takes me to my place
Don’t try to take me away for the night I’m alone
I just wanted a ride back to my home
Put your weight upon the wheel
Keep your eyes upon the road
Put your hands where I can see em’
Take me where I need to go
I don’t want to look at the ocean at night
I don’t need this wandering hand gripping my thigh
I don’t carry a gun and I’m not very strong
I want you to know just how you’re wrong
I don’t like this new look on your face at all
This ain’t the road that takes me to my place
Don’t try to take me away for the night I’m alone
I just wanted a ride back to my home
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This rain has drowned out every bird in sight, in sight
And it’s never stopped for a second of our lives
00000ooooo our lives
When this river starts to wander
And raise it’s banks above my eyes
My feet will scrape along it’s bottom
And I will jump to stay alive
Alive alive
Ooooooo alive
And just when I believe it’s over
And the water starts to fill my chest
I feel your arms pull tight around me
And drag me to another breath of life
Ooooooo of life
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When you know how it could be
If you could see it all down at your feet
It is reeling on your line in the sea
Like babies set adrift in your shore
Holding their tongues tight until the morning
And no one can care for them no more
Feeling this solid island and it's hard rocks for your bed
But they're still set adrift when the cocaine runs out
And your tired of all of this
There's no one to care for them this time
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Patrick Canning St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
Patrick is an artist type who lives out on the edge of nowhere in St. John's Newfoundland and makes music for himself.
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