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Printing Practice
02:17
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Runthroughs stacking up
Not dissimilar to my age
Guess I’m gonna start again
If I ever find a blank page
I’m flipping through the sheets but every one of them’s covered in printing practice
Though we may try
Just to get by
Sometimes it’s more than time we are killing
We look inside
Let heroes die
‘Cause everybody’s somebody’s villain
Bed set's calling out
Such a familiar sound to hear
Jumping jacks, scissor kicks
You gotta go ear to ear
I’m flipping through the sheets but every one of them’s covered in printing practice
Though we may try
Just to get by
Sometimes it’s more than time we are killing
We look inside
Let heroes die
‘Cause everybody’s somebody’s villain
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Glass Half Full
04:02
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“Things you show”
Glimpses of yourself that you have deemed acceptable
“Things you see”
Pictures of a glass half full
Looking out your window
Looking for a place to run
A place to hide
A place to love
A place to land
But you don’t
“Things you lose”
Nothing that you want but everything you need
I could see the glass the way we all know we should see it
But if you insist on bending rules so be it
Go ahead
Bring it on
I promise I can take it
But I will turn into the type of person that who will hurt you
And I’ll hurt you in a way that’ll make you pray to God that I was gone
But you don’t
Carry on without the blue
Without my boy
Looking out your window
Looking for a place to run
A place to hide
A place to love
A place to land
But you don’t
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The Lucky One
03:51
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Flitting flecks of sun across the floor
Like tiny fairy dancers
I am the lucky one
Watch days go by
Tears fill my eyes
But I’m the lucky one
I am the lucky one
Spitting flecks of blood across the floor
Indicative of cancer
I am the lucky one
Watch days go by
Tears fill my eyes
But I’m the lucky one
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Singing Along
03:47
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Counting lines on the floor
I will wait, I will wait
I look at the door but I will wait
The days get long
And I start to think “At least I’ve got the days”
But my blood gets warm and I get all worked up
There are just so many days to live
But we get up
Watch us go
We’re singing along
Counting lines on the floor
I will wait
I look at the door
But I will wait, I will wait
The days get long
And I start to think “At least I’ve got the days”
But my blood gets warm and I get all worked up
There are just so many days to live
But we get up
Watch us go
We’re singing along
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Get Bigger And Shout
06:24
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Puffing out my chest
Get bigger and shout
I haven’t got it yet but I’ll figure it out
I keep slipping back an hour
I lose another hour every time I go to bed
I saw a psychoanalyst
She was a television panellist
She said:
“Life is like some kind of bull,
and all you’ve gotta do to live it full
is find a way to grab it by the horns.”
I built my house upon a hill
With roses on each window sill
Now I live inside protected by the thorns
But all I ever want to do is sleep
I know that there’s a price to pay
But I’ve gotta say
To me it seems a little steep
When I was a kid there was a machine next to my bed
And when I went to sleep it would play noises in my head
That machine is not there any longer
But as the years go by the noises just get stronger
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