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Go calm into that goodnight
We never know when the phone will call
There's no hurry, there's no sign at all
We are hopeless and we cannot know
When the night is gonna fall upon us all
And even though we know the sunset hour
We assume it will be warm by middle summer
Go calm into that goodnight
May be angels by your side
We are stepping soil of million of years
We expect to live as long as Mathuselah
Some look at you from high above
but our feet step the same ground floor
And as today we can predict a storm
We can't predict the damage done
We will leave the ashtrays full of butts off
It reminds that everything goes back to dust
We are gonna darken on someone's door
And we will be sleeping like a log
And even though we know it all
Night falls upon each one of us
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Got my yesterdays
04:25
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Got my yesterdays
I've been doing what I shouldn't do
I've driven routes that no one took
On a wrecked car across an endless land
I found my angel, right on my back
Though I'd leave my yesterdays die
That's the way the glass ran out
Ain't no trick it ain't no catch
I still miss those nights
All the time I've been wandering around
She's so far from me now, she don't even know who I am
I want she cares me at night
That's the way I pour again my glass
Yesterday is not that far
It comes and goes without to ask
If I would decide to come back
I want to find, to find her around
But until I go to her
I've only got left my yesterdays
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Our Lady of Sorrow
03:53
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Our lady of sorrow
Oh dear I have no will
Iím free from being or not to be
I donít agree or disagree
I only face my misery
I want no smile I cannot keep
No birthday party nor New Year ís Eve
But those eager fingers that I miss
Those days of necessity
Iím now used to it
No tears, regrets nor fear
There's no space to pile up more pain
Now our lady of sorrow protects me
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Erlkönig
03:56
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Erlkonig
Oh father ride, cut the wind and night
I'm cozy and warm above your lap
Who's that man with cloak and crown?
Oh son, why do you hide your face?
It's only a wisp of fog of what you are scared
I see it well the old willow seems so grey
Father can't you hear with Oberon said?
His daughters wait for me and dance and sing as well
Now he seizes me and hurts me so bad
Be calm my child, it's only withering leaves
I gallop fast, please donít moan my child
We are about to arrive at the doctorís yard and your pain will cease now
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Got a Life
03:12
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Don't let this moment go
05:46
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Don’t let the moment go
Hush my dear and listen please
Fantasize and dream of me
Echoes sing a lullaby leaves
That wrap the evergreens
The breathe of nature lingers up
It takes to you my sweetest lines
Written by my trembling hand
And secretly they can’t wait to arrive
-our whispers in winter winds
They are as warm as a lover kiss
And every beat of each heart ache
I feel the stab of every nerve
The garden of my heart called gloom
Where violets and daisies dressed full bloom
They are bringing you my very true
But the change of season turns them blue
There’s something that we’re up to
But either you or me, we don’t dare to do
Let’s leave these tunes to make their work
Let’s hush and hear this lover’s song
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Cold Blue Sky
05:55
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Cold blue sky
The shelter's closed to the underdog
The bus ain't drive to the last stop
The books don't say about this pain
Unanswered quests run through my veins
I'm staring at
This cold blue sky, one more time
How come the winter is so long?
Long enough to harrow a meaningless soul
As long as you keep hate
You'll always feel despaired
There comes a time when the path changed
There comes a time when darkness reigns
Open the umbrella for the heavy rain
But keep the sunglasses in case the sun prevails
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The well is empty
03:20
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The well is emptied
Scorched desert, infested lands
Endless journey without a guide
Sore eyes, weak limbs
The soulís abandoned a hopeless dream
-the well's been emptied
Words are vanished from my tongue
Canít put together all my thoughts
Distance is a word that scares
My legs they shake and cannot stand
I'm staring at the things that the wind does move
I feel myself swept by a broom
There was a time the well was full
But now is dark and deep
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P.O Box
04:28
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PO Box
Locked in, I guess that luck was never with me
I made wrong and not only once
I'm doing my time
And I doubt I'll make it out on time
And when you grow up
Don't blame for not being there
I didn't know that I'd hurt you so
I would erase all what I have made,
I would have changed myself
If I would have known that I've been sown
And when you think about what I have done
A sudden qualm will come,
Believe my word, I love you so
By this time, you surely know what the worst was
But I've been told, that you bravely faced it all
And now I know, that my prayers reached the Lord
And if you are asked, where you come from?
Just tell them I've never known
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The other side of the looking glass
behind a hollow smile, deep into drunken eyes
a drifter mind a deep sigh, on the other side of the looking glass
there stands a man whose expressionless face reflects bloodless veins
we ask ourselves whoís standing there on the other side of the looking glass
the seas are black, the clouds pour wine, prayers reach a form divine
and yet he tries to figure out whatís on the other side
is there a soul? Is there a loom? Or a simple sad figure
among the crowd he is one more man, but cannot see his double one
his mind returns to what he saw in the looking glass a while ago
his walk's slow his hands are cold and his shadow's gone
now he's back, standing right in front of the empty looking glass
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Forgiveness Song
06:33
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Forgiveness Song
I think of you, of course I do
When I close my eyes
To a sunless place, I feel your lips
Your breast your waving shapes
I think of you when I'm drunk
When I see the waves crashing against the isle
I think of you without regrets
As I keep you in mind, like my late pet
I think of you when the snow falls
And the cold outside wraps my bones
I think of you when I cross path
With that car parked at your door once
I think of you when I have nothing better to do
I think of you when I take the antidepressants
But I wrote you a forgiveness song
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Henry Hugo Melbourne, Australia
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