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Bad, Bad Day
03:28
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I fell out of the wrong side of the bed
It feels like someone derailed a train in my head.
Weatherman says the sun is gonna shine.
‘Get up and get happy.’
His words, not mine.
Everything’s different today
Ideals downgraded, legally grey.
Sometimes there’s no easy way –
Yeah, I didn’t choose this, but I have to say
Chorus:
It’s gonna be a bad, bad day.
Gonna be a bad, bad day.
Only twenty-four hours away
From another bad, bad, bad, bad day.
I don’t know what else I could do;
Yeah, some guys are assholes all the way through.
And the weatherman was wrong because it rained.
The sky tore wide open and down it came.
We’ll make the rules up when it’s over,
Bathed in the darkness of lost revelations.
Yeah, maybe we’ll meet when this is over.
I’ll talk to you later.
Right now, y’see
Chorus.
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2. |
Some Kind of Heaven
03:54
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I’m a snowball landing in a burning place
Dropped from the sky like a flying ace
Got to have a drink ‘cause this crowd is tough
On a guy who gets high on brotherly love
I tell you,
If you only knew what I’m going through.
I got this urban morphology off to a tee:
Friday through Monday caned as can be.
Keep the stain on my name but off of my clothes
Get a new look next week, smell like a rose,
I tell you
If you only knew what I’m going through.
If you only knew.
Chorus:
Some kind of heaven rolling my way
A kind of heaven rolled up sideways
Some kind of heaven rolling my way
Keeps rolling on and on and on.
The aim’s to be easy but times are hard
We all got too fast a trigger on the credit cards
I won’t let the worst get the better of me;
I don’t have a thirst for the push and shove,
I tell you,
If you only knew what I’m going through.
If you only knew.
Bridge:
I’m looking for time to spend being with you
I’m looking for time to bend.
Chorus.
Bridge.
Chorus.
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3. |
True at First Light
05:59
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There was an angel
She jumped out of a train
Into the arms of a stranger
Who thought he’d gone insane.
He said he’d lost everything:
His love, his job, his home.
And she took his sadness
And said, ‘No one’s alone.’
He dried her tear and caught her fall
And then his problems seemed so small.
She said, ‘We weren’t supposed to have it all,
It’s enough, what’s your own.’
Chorus:
It was true at first light
An angel came to play
And he held her all night
But knew she couldn’t stay.
And the moon was so bright
He had to turn away
Though he thought he just might
Have watched her fade away.
There was an angel
She flew without a plane
Into the life of
A man who’s legs were chained.
And he told her stories
Of all the evil he had done.
‘Nobody’s perfect,’ she said.
‘But there’s good in everyone.’
He cried a tear, she said, ‘Trust me.’
And from the air she pulled a key
And in his mind he was set free
It’s enough just to be.
Chorus.
If I see imaginary people
I don’t mind, they help me sleep at night
If I see imaginary people
I don’t mind if things turn out alright.
Chorus.
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4. |
SSDD
03:58
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I got that Monday morning feeling
I find sincerity ain’t an easy disguise.
I say this ain’t my life, just what I do for a living
And I try to keep my eye on the prize.
Yeah, everybody talks from a crib sheet, baby
And everybody’s doing cocaine
So I sing the songs that make me feel better
And tomorrow I will do it again.
Chorus
Feels like the same shit happening on a different day
Got every drone and his brother won’t get out of my way.
Whole lotta deadbeat suckers trying to make their play
Feels like the same shit happening on a different day.
I got smackerjack neighbours and howling dogs.
It’s like the whole town’s been painted ten shades of suck,
And my paycheque’s gone before I’ve covered my bills,
And my fortune teller says I’m bad luck.
Oh, and here comes the boss to look me up and down
And make me wish that I was someplace else.
Yeah, over and over I long for the time
When I can tell him to go fuck himself.
Chorus.
8
I don’t want no medication, baby
Serve life to me as it comes.
All I want is recreation
Don’t you wanna have some fun?
(repeat)
chorus x2
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5. |
Not Sorry
03:50
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Tell me what you want the most
Is all I asked of you.
You said, ‘Nothing much,’
And that it never would be.
No one seems to notice
Even the most obvious.
If it never happens, just pretend it could be.
Chorus:
I’m not sorry (x3)
I wish I was.
This is not before or after,
Just another day
Somewhere in between the past
And what will come.
No one ever said that one road
Takes you all the way.
You can’t bring a moment back,
What’s done is done.
Don’t be sorry (x3)
I never was.
Chorus.
Sunday we might make the most of everything.
Monday it might be like I was never really here.
But
There’s no sorrow (x3)
There never was.
No
Chorus.
I wish I was (x3)
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6. |
Ask Anyone
04:01
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I’m lost
But that’s nothing unusual;
I couldn’t find my way out of a paper bag.
Ask anyone
I don’t sleep much.
There’s always something spinning round my head.
Nothing useful,
But at 4 a.m. it’s hard to talk to anyone
I guess I’ll feel tired all day.
But I’m not complaining,
It’s always the way.
I’m useless
At telling short stories.
The devil’s in the detail
And remember details,
Ask anyone.
I love the times when we talk until dark,
The days we eat ice cream and walk in the park;
The way my heart flips when I look in your eyes.
Yeah, I love you totally still.
Ask anyone, I always will.
I’m evil
My mind is a sewer
And I say the wrong things
Whatever trouble it brings,
Ask anyone.
And I’m lazy.
I’m full of ideas
But I sit around drinking
And talk without thinking,
Ask anyone.
And if I have nothing to say,
I’m not complaining
Just finding my way.
The way that you talk is my favourite tune
When you say, ‘My babe, please come back to me soon.’
And I’ll hold your hand through the whole afternoon.
Yeah, I love you totally still.
Ask anyone, I always will.
We can only do what we can, my love
Won’t you just rest while you can, my love.
Yeah, I’ll watch you sleeping and take it from there
And when you wake up you’ll tell me not to stare
And I’ll kiss your forehead, then maybe your hair
Yeah, I love you totally still.
Ask anyone, I always will.
Ask anyone, I always will (x4)
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7. |
My Lucky Day
04:19
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I know the taste of failure
And how to take bad news
I know about that kind of safety you feel
When you have nothing left to lose
I need to feel that kind of peace
That comes when you’re alone
Then I see clearly
What I’ve always known.
Chorus:
This is my lucky day x 4
My lucky day.
Our souls are packed in dry ice lately
Been out of our control
But I still count my biggest score as
The moments that we stole.
I guess when I’m hurting
I look closer to home
Till I see clearly
What I’ve always known.
Chorus.
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8. |
Don't Ask Why
04:00
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Slow down, my friend
I’m going nowhere
So tell me what’s on your mind.
You can say anything to me
And I’ll understand
And I won’t ask why.
Sit down, my friend,
Feel all your troubles melt
Under a perfect sky.
Life’s full of surprises
My only advice is
Tell yourself, ‘Don’t ask why’.
Bridge:
I know how far we’ve come
Not how far we’ll go.
Yesterday and now,
But not what follows.
Our words have no meaning sometimes;
There’s nothing there to analyse
Don’t ask me why.
I don’t know, so don’t ask why.
I never trust second thoughts,
Where there’s two there are three
And, before you know it,
You’ll be thinking forever.
I’m no mystic vending machine
No seller of dreams
And I don’t ask why
I guess I could, but I don’t ask why.
Bridge
So slow down, my friend
I’m going nowhere
Just tell me what’s on your mind.
You know me, I won’t ask why.
Tell me what’s on your mind.
I guess I could, but I don’t ask why.
I guess I could, but I don’t ask why.
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9. |
The One
04:33
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Yes, you’re one in a million
Taking a stand
When only chance can speak at all.
We were the difficult children
Who asked to experience
The wonder of it all.
Don’t have the power to change a thing
Yeah, it’s like every day’s
A notch in one direction.
I am not the one to save you.
You can choose to run,
Not be made to.
Chorus:
I can’t tell you
Don’t believe in anyone
Who says, ‘Look what you could have done.’
I am not the one
If we’re one in a million
Doesn’t that mean there are
Still millions like us?
Saying, ‘I am not the one to save you.’?
You can choose to run,
Not be made to.
Chorus x 2
Kind of feels like Superman
Trying to save the world
He got a lot of people out
But still could not save the girl.
Chorus x 3
I am not the one
I am not the one.
I am not the one who’ll save you
I am not the one who’ll save you.
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I seek to change and to grow,
Not just go with the flow,
That should be clear.
You know that I’m there for you.
Yes, I’ll be there for you
In the silence.
I’m not supposed to see you.
Our parallel lives
Weren’t supposed to collide,
What can we do?
I can’t escape from what I feel.
There’s no escape from what I feel
In the silence.
Chorus:
Hey now, I know what makes me happy.
Bring me your dreams
And make them all real.
It don’t have to be imaginary happy:
These are the best days of our lives.
These are the best days of our lives.
I love this time of evening.
The stars all come out
And there’s no one about
To believe in.
If you could imagine what I’ve seen.
If you could imagine what I’ve seen.
She does not want to be here.
Well, she keeps the place clean
But her heart has turned mean.
It’s the only way she can stay part of the scene.
She’s heard everything.
She’s seen and heard everything
A hundred times or more.
Chorus.
8:
Mystery making’s all part of the show.
You wouldn’t ask if you knew what I know.
Facts are not wisdom, or haven’t you heard?
In the end, nothing moves far in this world, yeah
Chorus.
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11. |
Colour Me Gone
04:30
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Let it begin.
My temper sometimes gets the better of me
If only
If only there was something I could say
That made me reach half way
To being what you needed.
Please don’t colour me gone
Please don’t colour me gone.
So it’s not what you expected.
I say don’t expect too much.
I wish I had something warmer
To wrap around the ice
Of what should be good memories.
Please don’t colour me gone
Please don’t colour me gone.
So it’s not what you expected.
I say don’t expect too much.
Just because you win
Don’t make you right
Because you win
Don’t make you right.
How could you find me here?
I’ve run so many nights and days
With no plan in my head
Of where I’m gonna be staying.
How could you say
You knew where I’d be?
‘cause if that’s the case, then
Don’t you see?
It means you know me
Better than I know myself
Please don’t colour me gone
Please don’t colour me gone.
So it’s not what you expected.
I say don’t expect too much.
Just because you win
Don’t make you right
Because you win
Don’t make you right.
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12. |
Bring Out Your Dead
04:47
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We’re as good as each other
Every sister and brother
But we still cannot say what we feel.
And we talk of tomorrow
When there’ll be no more sorrow,
Oh, how we hope it will heal.
And there’s none feel so blind
As the ones who can see.
For what good are your eyes
When you’ll never be free?
But our hearts share one tongue
Through our toil make us strong
As we rise and uncover our dream.
Don’t wanna say again, no
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead.
There’s hope at the start
And greed as they climb
And fear as we fall to our knees.
Must we let it go on
Till all good things are gone
And our values invite the disease?
And the leaders who stand and claim victory
Carve the way with the flesh of your families
And they’re treating the planet like children
Fighting over a favourite toy
And to hold it as theirs for the keeping
They don’t care what they have to destroy.
Don’t wanna say again, no
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead.
Just one wish will I save
As I go to my grave
Is to live on forever in you.
Don’t believe that we’re broken
Or the race has been won
For how can it be over
Before it’s begun.
Oh, I don’t wanna say again, no
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead.
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Paul Miro UK
Paul Miro is an artist who records and performs both as a solo artist and in bands. In addition to his extensive catalogue of solo albums, he writes regularly for film and TV and does mix and production work for other artists.
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