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Teenage love made me insane
I know that now, I know that now
I loved you best when I loved in vain
My diaries make all that plain
But I was just a boy
I didn't know the difference between pain and joy
At 18 years a hole appears
And why it grows nobody knows
It takes a life for most to face
No pretty girl can fill that space
And I am still a boy
Learning the difference between pain and joy
Two pilots in a flaming plane
How could we touch the ground again?
I could not see for smoke
Until two hearts were broke
Those feelings crashed in like a train
Upon our lonely winter plain
And dragged us both so many miles
Away from those first summer smiles
Teenage love made me insane
I loved you best 'cause I loved in vain
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I'm over you (I hope it's true)
I'm pretty sure you're over me too
But I don't plan to investigate
Profile pictures or status updates
Over you, over you
Lord I hope it's true
I'm over you (I hope it's true)
But if we met at a party, what would I do?
Carry on talking like I don't care
While you look right through me like I wasn't there
Over you, over you
Lord I hope it's true
Over you, over you
To a large extent
If not yet completely, then 95%
Over you, over you
I can see, I can see, I can see
You in a new light
I don't need, I don't need, I don't need
To hate you or be right
They call this moving on
Just don't call me and prove me wrong
I'm over you
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Uruguay
03:53
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Life can be so long
It stretches thin
I stretched mine out to fit you in
It's getting crowded with lovers, enemies and friends
And people let you down
They will jump ship
The moment they hear the hull's been hit
I will go down inside my deep-sea diving kit
But you, but you are always welcome
A few, so few and very seldom
Stick around until the end
We get on, we get on, we get on
Just like a house on fire
When they're gone, when they're gone
I hope you're still around
Life can be so long
It stretches wide
I stretched mine out to fit you inside
It's getting crowded with everyone who had passed by
But you, but you are always welcome
A few, so few and very seldom
Stick around until the end
We get on, we get on, we get on
Just like a house on fire
When they're gone, when they're gone
I hope you're still around
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I Was, You Were
03:01
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You were a ballerina
I was the box
You twirled around inside me
Until you picked the lock
I was, you were
Now I wonder who you are
We change so many times
But I was, you were, you were
You were assigned to my case
I was recently dead
They cordoned off my body
You traced my silhouette
I was, you were
Now I wonder who you are
We are so many things
But I was, you were, you were
I was a moth
You were the flame
When I flew straight into you
Who was to blame?
It's not easy pinning down
Who you are to me
I will be, I will be, I will be anything
If you will be, you will be, you will be everything
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Chinese Boxes
04:01
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When I opened my eyes
In the morning light just now
I could not remember how I got to today
So I lifted a lid
I looked in at yesterday
And found another day hidden there inside
This went on for a while
Till I saw infinity,
The holy trinity or whatever you will
I thought about you
And wondered how you got to be
So far away from me staring down your own day
Oh, girl, Chinese boxes
All our black and whites
Look a lot like shades of grey
From so far away where I lie now
We drifted apart
I guess I never thought we would
Have a Hollywood sunset end
And there's no goodbyes
'Cause some doors never close
And the doors we chose fell off the hinges
Oh, girl, Chinese boxes
I don't know if it's all for the best
They say things happen for a reason
I don't know 'cause I haven't seen the rest
I'd have to see how it ends
How it ends
Something changed
And it moved whole continents
A massive shift in the tectonic plates
And I still draw blanks
Do you feel that vertigo?
Where'd the bottom go, how did we stand?
When our eyes meet
It opens endless spaces
Like two mirrors facing on the bathroom walls
Oh, girl, Chinese boxes
And the mouths move around
And toss off platitudes
But the attitudes never really change
I get scared when I think
We never know anyone
Breaking up moving on
Illusions unchanged
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The Rich Die Too
03:44
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I see you collecting
To fill the empty space
Distract from the darkness
That you can't bear to face
I'd rather go on poor
Than live that for a day
'Cause where is the comfort
Piling up in the dust?
The toys that shine now
Will only turn to rust
And I'd rather wear my rags
Than dress up in your clothes
How do you measure the richer man?
By the wines in his cellar or his yachts?
You will not fit your SUV
In that waiting 7 x 2 foot box
I ain't no preacher man
I buy into it too
The eye of the needle
Don't ever let me through
We're in this shit together
Surrounded and enslaved
How do you measure the richer man?
Palacial homes or high-end stocks?
You will not fit your plasma screen
Into that waiting 7 x 2 foot box
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Mysterio
05:28
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I'm lost in your corridors
I've been round every corner
I've opened every door
Winding round in circles
Like a rat or a minotaur
Ooh, live my life in your beautiful maze
Ooh, mysterio
How can I resist those footsteps in the mist?
I want to disappear with you
Where she's from
No one really knows
She came in on a seashell
Not wearing any clothes
The lovers lined up for her
Went down like dominoes
Ooh, live my life in your beautiful maze
Ooh, mysterio
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What you call love is a lie
Will she be there when you die?
And what she calls love is a high
Will he be there when she comes down?
So I don't mind if you're just passing by
'Cause I'm doing fine on my own
Still out you go in a hail of bullets every time
Stay here with me tonight
Let's go for a drive
Walk away, you never walk away
When it first comes out of the blue
Walk away, but you always walk away
When the spell moves to somebody new
So I don't mind if you're just passing by
'Cause I'm doing fine on my own
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Snowed In
04:31
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Just let go
You know you must
Begin to trust what nature does
It's so cold
Let's stay inside
Where nothing grows but nothing dies
World so white, world so white,
World so white closing in at night
There is nothing I can do
Except fall inside of you
I am stuck here there is no way out
But there's a sun out in the night
It will travel to bring light
To my window when the morning comes
So I will stay in, stay in, stay in where it's alright
I'm so low
I do not know
How to trust what nature does
People come,
People go
The wind makes hills of diamond snow
World so white, world so white,
World so white closing in at night
There is nothing I can do
Except fall inside of you
I am stuck here there is no way out
But there's a sun out in the night
It will travel to bring light
To my window when the morning comes
So I will stay in, stay in, stay in where it's alright
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Bedroom Shadows
04:37
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I've been living like this for a long time
Fumbling towards you in the dark
I can't go on in this way forever
Won't you call out to me, call me now
'Cause if you keep hiding like you do
How can I find my way to you?
Oh, I hope that someday soon
Somebody turns on the lights in this room
So I can see your face
And hold you to me
I don't mind accepting life is lonely
We come in and then we leave alone
I only want to know that you can see me
I want to feel you feel me, touch me now
'Cause if you keep hiding like you do
How can I find my way to you?
Oh, I hope that someday soon
Somebody turns on the lights in this room
So I can see your face
And hold you to me
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The High Dials Montréal, Québec
The High Dials are an indie pop band from Montreal.
While their melodic sensibility, harmonies and jangling
guitars owe an obvious debt to the 60s and power pop groups, they also draw upon shoegaze, new wave and folk sounds to create rich and varied albums. Their most recent album “Primitive Feelings” is a predatory summer mix of lo-fi grooves, acid rock guitars and razor-sharp humour.
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