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NOTHING LEFT HERE (PT VII)
Hey now,
It’s a wonderful night.
Let’s go out and play now
Underneath the moonlight.
Time and tide wait for no one
So pack a bag
And let’s get out of here.
No time to delay now,
So come and spend it with me.
Let’s sail far away now
While there are fish in the sea.
There ain’t no mistaking, oh no, no
That the ending ain’t clear
But there’s no point in waiting, oh no, no
Until there’s nothing left here.
Let’s go do something heart-warming,
Sleep under the open sky.
Don’t wanna wake up every morning
On the wrong side of goodbye.
Say now
How you want it to be.
We should be on our way now.
Ain’t you coming with me?
And I don’t have the answers, oh no, no.
Ah, but let me be clear:
If we don’t take our chances, oh, oh, oh
There’ll be nothing left here.
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Wonderful
04:07
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WONDERFUL
Nothing could go wrong
Nothing could go wrong
Time didn’t seem important
Seemed the more we lived
The less there was to do
Save from starting up anew
As good intentions changed their face
We had to give the devil back his due
He’s not waiting just for you
Though the crime shows in their faces
Think you’ll find no mirror held up to
Them ‘cause that would never do
Nothing could go wrong.
Chorus:
I don’t know whether
All that remains to be wonderful
Is to cover out tracks
‘cause we ain’t coming back, no.
All that remains are the wonderful
Who walk out of this place
With a smile on their faces
Happy just to carry on, oh-oh.
Everybody string along
Happy just to play it wrong, oh-oh
Got to get along.
Maybe Marx sleeps in the dark
But Queen Victoria speaks through my TV
Says we’re free to think we’re free.
Be it ever so weird and wonderful
All guiding lights still have a tendency
To cast shadows over me.
Where did we go wrong?
Chorus
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The Only One
03:01
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The Only One
I got the world before me
The king of all I see
You know you can’t ignore me
Ain’t got a thing on me.
Whatever hope or glory
Whatever light you shone
You’re gonna hear the story
How I’m the only one
Chorus:
Yeah, I’m the only one.
Always been
I’ll always be the only one.
Always be
I’ve always been the only one
Gonna shine bright like the sun
‘Cause I’m the only one
It’s always me they mention
Whatever name you use.
You think you’re in contention
But you know who they’ll choose.
Whatever dreams you’re smokin’
Whatever tales you spun,
My door is always open
Just call on number one.
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After The Silence
02:51
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AFTER THE DARKNESS
Reach for tomorrow,
Not for yesterday.
What’s done is done,
Doesn’t mean that we can’t find a way.
Gonna be some bridges burned,
Some people left behind.
Gonna be more trouble
‘fore you find your peace of mind.
After the silence,
After all the pain,
I will be beside you all the way.
After all the violence
Love will come again
And we won’t be divided anyway.
Caught in a riptide
Where it’s only calm deep down.
But we’re clinging to the surface
And we’re trying not to drown.
When you realise much of what you have
Is more than you need
Emptiness is only an illusion
That you feed
Yeah, after the silence,
After all the pain,
I will be beside you all the way.
After all the violence
I will feel no shame.
Nothing will divide us anyway.
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Needles
04:32
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NEEDLES
Yes, they’re gonna squeeze you like a lime wedge
On a dollar beer night
Bleed your pool of precious moments dry.
Push you ‘til you’re hanging from a high ledge
Where nothing seems to feel right
When they’re coming at you from all sides.
I try to hold on what’s right next to me
Stick through ‘til the end
Managing my expectations.
Better days more myth than memory,
It’s easy to pretend
We are but a symptom, not the cause.
Pre:
Maybe you’ll explain,
Why does it have to be all
Death or glory?
I can’t understand it for you
That would be
A different story
Chorus:
Every day above ground is a good day
Stepping over the pins and needles
Along the way.
Seems the dumb and dangerous and tragic
Swallowed a delusion
Sold by braggarts and loudmouthed buffoons.
Rustled up a faded flag like magic,
Fed us an illusion,
Half the masses dancing to their tune.
Every day’s a brand new test for me
Hope it never ends
In some golden age of not so long ago.
While they tried to make new enemies,
We were making friends
Onwards is the only way we know.
Pre.
Chorus.
And there is never gonna be an easy way.
You’re gonna be
Stepping over more pins and needles
Every single day.
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HOW TO SURVIVE (And Stay Good)
Part of every generation
Fears the best times are all in the past.
And we live inside reflection
Forever hoping that the bad ties don’t last.
The last true believers
Have come to relieve us,
But you’ll have to wait in line.
You can choose fantasy,
I’ll take reality.
Works for me every time.
Through layers of chaos
And absent-minded collisions
Where everything’s supposed to mean something.
In a bright-tile world of bruises and Band Aids,
All I know is I know nothing
Chorus:
If I could show you, I would
How to survive and stay good.
We all need to be drifters
And everyday grifters, knowing
We’re here but a short moment in time,
Gone in the blink of an eye.
In the cage of our mortality
Where more questions than actions reside.
What remains will be our legacy,
Far beyond wishful thinking or pride.
The last true believers
Ain’t gonna relieve us
No, you’ll have to draw your own lines.
It’s what happens when fantasy
Meets with reality.
Chorus
Repeat chorus.
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Celestial Spooks
01:36
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Any Day Now
05:02
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ANY DAY NOW
Oh, what a day,
What a night,
What a lifetime so far.
Yeah, we are only victims of all circumstances
Beyond control.
All the workers busy building an exterior
Trying to cover up a crumbling exterior.
Seems like all the best things
Always shimmer with fear.
We’re never ready when
Out of the shadows comes a new light
Telling everybody it’ll be alright.
We woke up in another time when
History’s repeating itself.
I’d be happy to share the silence,
But, if you must say anything
Chorus 1:
Say it ain’t over,
Tell me we can live for one more day.
Yeah, tell me it ain’t over,
Show a sign that help is on its way
Any day now.
Oh, what a show,
What a night of a lifetime, so far.
A message from the underground
Spelling out the horror
That’s about to unfold.
Do you remember how the backdrop was all greenery
‘Til somebody came and tore up all the scenery?
It ain’t a work of fiction;
It’s got so bad you couldn’t even make it up.
On the sidelines, we were just observers.
Hope your fairy-tale saints preserve us.
We woke up in another time when
History’s repeating itself.
There is something to say for silence,
But, if you must say anything
Chorus 2:
Say it ain’t over,
Tell me now that help is on its way.
Tell me it ain’t over,
Show me how to live for one more day.
Any day now.
If we’re headed for oblivion,
I wanna spend another night with you.
Any day now.
If it’s gonna get Darwinian,
We should be together
Though there’s nothing we can do.
Chorus 2
Chorus 1
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Lost Illusions
02:38
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LOST ILLUSIONS
The wall is words
The harder you hold on
The faster it all falls apart
And the rubble will be dust in time.
And we’ll give our lost illusions
One more try.
We trip and fall,
Lost in a rumour,
Looking back to days gone by
To fool ourselves
We ain’t out of time.
Still they’re building more tunnel
‘cause they can’t see any light at the end
Again and again.
Yet we give our lost illusions
One more try.
If we twist and swerve
From the manipulation,
Maybe we won’t fall apart
And we’ll be together one last time.
Then we’ll give our lost illusions
One more try
One more try
One more try.
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False Prophet
01:01
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Mortal Babies
07:35
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MORTAL BABIES
Some walk through life’s thorns unscathed
Some are always skinned alive
And whichever hand fate waves
Try to make it so that next time you will rise
There will never be
Somebody who does right by everyone
Do you need me to show you?
Life’s a long misunderstanding for the few
Ever human.
We are thin as tissue paper
And it tears us to be wise
But there’s nothing sadder than to be a fool.
There will never be
Somebody who does right by everyone
Do you need me to show you?
Locked in the heart of everyone x2
Maybe if there was more time
Madness wouldn’t impersonate reason everywhere
There will never be
Somebody who does right by everyone
Do you need me to show you?
Life’s a puzzle to the angry multitude
Ever human.
Locked in the heart of everyone x2
On a razor-clean rain-washed morning
When the ashes are burning
You will see
We’re no more than mortal babies.
Senses are lost and renewed
It’s all that you can
To believe in the news
But you will see
We’re no more than mortal babies.
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NOTHING LEFT HERE PART VIII
To those who can hear this
It means we are all gone.
The fools remained fearless
Took the light that we shone.
The air was polluted
So we went underground
Our dreams were all neutered
It got all upside down.
Hope you’re all out of danger,
Hope you’re safe with someone.
Hope you make a few changes
And don’t do what we’ve done.
It grieves me to say this
Yeah, it brings me to tears
You know, the point where we fail is
When there’s nothing left here
The sting in the tail is
Knowing nothing’s left here.
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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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