- In The Garden
- Love In The Ruins (Doctor Dear Doctor)
- Through A Window
- Rose Colored Glasses
- If I Could Do It Over Again
- I Won't Be Sleeping Anymore
- Another Place
- Talking Is Good
- Sometimes It Feels So Good
- Stone In My Shoe
- What Looks Good On The Outside
In The Garden
Let's take a walk in the Garden of Eden
Where Eve and Adam walked before
No golden apple, no double meanin'
Don't pay attention if you're offered more
Let's roll around in the Garden of Eden
Let's discover heavenly delights
Don't need permission, don't need a reason
We won't care if it's day or night
No laws were broken here for what it's worth
I'm beggin' you not to run
Lay down your heart in paradise on earth
Forget everything I've done
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We'll be walkin' in the garden
Leave temptation behind
We'll be dreamin' in the garden
We can stay forver if you'd only make up your mind
Across the deserts
Over the oceans
Lie the gates to
Pure devotion
So take my hand to a land we'll discover
We can build a city of our own
Maybe then we'll let in all of the others
Or just stay locked in our homes
No laws were broken...
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And when the thunder roars
And lightning rocks the shores
And every grain of sand gets washed away
You and I will stay
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Love In The Ruins (Doctor Dear Doctor)
When we first met you gave me a book
"Love In The Ruins", the title
When later you left that book on the shelf
I knew that it had to be final
It turned out to be a story of doom
We read the first chapter together
But I still continued to read in my room
And hoped it would go on forever
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Doctor dear doctor I know how you feel
There's so many people you're dyin' to heal
And all you can do is the best you can do
Doctor dear doctor it's all up to you
A boy from the south with a hole in his heart
Thought he would marry an actress
I bought him a bed from a second hand store
With a queen sized extra firm matress
I followed the characters hangin' on the edge
A Merle Haggard record was playing
Closing my eyes as we lay on the bed
I could not hear what they were saying
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And how could you leave me at a time like this
How could you leave me at all
Haven't you heard this is serious
I'll pick up the telephone and call, I'll call
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chorus 2:
Doctor dear doctor I know how you feel
So many people are cryin'
And all you can do is the best you can do
Doctor dear doctor keep tryin'
Through A Window
Through a window
I can see your face
I can talk to you
We can share a common place
Through a window
We can talk a while
How you had it rough
And being poor was not your style
Through a window
A wrong can never be made right
And it's all because
Of one eventful night
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Callin' out to the world
Though I am miles away
Whisper softly I'll hear the words you say
Through a window
I listen to your pain
How it feels inside
How you'll never be the same
Through a window
We barely say hello
When someone's at your side
And they say it's time to go
Through a window
You may posess a heart of gold
All that I can do
Is watch it growing cold
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Every time I close my eyes
Baby then I can see the knife
And somebody sayin'
Boy you will pay with your life
Through a window
I still yearn for you
I can kiss your lips
And the love is coming through
A window
I can understand
But when you walk away
I wish you were with another man
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Callin' out in vain
There's no one I blame
When you're alone at night
Do you feel the same
Rose Colored Glasses
It's a one way world that I'm lookin' at
It's a heartless state I'm in
It's a nervous time and because of that
I stay right where I've been
A hundred dreams gettin' carried away
That won't be dreamed again
When something's wrong,
and you've known it all along
It's easier to pretend
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I need a pair of rose colored glasses
To see it all in a different light
I need a pair of rose colored glasses
I'm sick of seein' the world in black and white
I need a pair of rose colored glasses
Rose colored glasses
It's a dead end street I've been running down
To a hard line place I've come
It's a lonely drive through a broken town
No matter where you're from
One more heart gettin' buried alive
Don't misunderstand
When you can't breathe, gettin' weaker in the knees
You hide your head in the sand
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But if I saw the world as perfect
I'd no longer care
So smash the glass and throw them out
Cause I don't want to wear
Rose colored glasses
If I Could Do It Over Again
If I could do it over again
If I could take the words I said
Put 'em back, inside my head
And keep 'em in it's where they belong
To say what's on your mind
without thinking is wrong
If I could do it over again
I'd be happy just to be
Right beside you silently
I'd appreciate what you'd done
Instead of dwelling on what's missing
I'd have fun
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I'd give anything for the chance
(I'd give anything to make it right)
If only I'd known everything in advance
(To be with you tonight)
I'd give anything for the chance
To do it one more time - again
If I could do it over again
There are rules that I would break
Different ways I'd make mistakes
Just one thing that I wouldn't do
I'd never say it's never cause that never is true
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At first I thought that everything was your fault
Then somehow I took all the blame
It's so hard to let it go
And with all that I know
I would do everything the same
But I'd give anything...
I Won't Be Sleeping Anymore
I was feelin' pretty good
When you knocked me off my feet
I tried to dodge the blows
Tried to turn the other cheek
But you were much too quick for me
You were so much quicker than me
And you had such determination
Well I could travel on
But I have to make a fuss
I've been shutting out the lights too long
Been dreamin' way too much
I'd like to face the facts
But they're changin' every minute
And I'm sick of information
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I know the whole world is not out to get me
But I won't be sleeping anymore
I might look terrible but you'll have to let me
(But that won't upset me)
Cause I won't be sleeping anymore
No I won't be sleeping anymore
My body's gettin' strong
my heart is still a little weak
If what you say is true
Then you've been lyin' through your teeth
I'm not the simple kid I was
I'm not the easy mark
And there's so many complications
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There were times when I thought I was doin' my best
But I made a mistake, I was never awake
Yeah I walked through the valley of
the shadow of death
And I wanna come back
I'm not reay for that
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Another Place
It's the best of times
And the worst of all
When you close your eyes
Then you start to fall
Every dam will burst
Every glass will shatter
It's a brand new world
And that's all that matters
Who will bang the gavel say enough is enough
Who will be left standing to know which way is up
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In another place
(if our pockets are empty)
We can be satisfied
(if our pockets are full)
Every road and desire leads to another place
When our ship comes in
(if it happens tomorrow)
We will be overjoyed
(that our pockets are filled with sand)
Count all our blessings
And dream of another place
It's the tender touch
And it draws you in
Till the fever drops
Then you're back again
Every baby cries
Every man is bleeding
Once you taste the wine
Then you go needing
Who can shake the ratle, ring the bell,
hear the sound
Of the quiet desperation when there's no one around
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Talking Is Good
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Talkin' is good
Talkin' makes you think
Talkin' is better than a strong drink
What comes out if you let it
You'll never know till you said it
Talkin' is good, so good
You got it bad, you got it all in your head
Bats on the brain
Creatures inside of your bed
Cashin' it in you could feel better instead
Before you could walk
Had to learn how to crawl
You know how to talk
Why don't you tell me it all
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When you were small they told you that it was wrong
Tuck it away
That's the place it belongs
Open your mouth forget the words to that song
Nobody's here sayin' what you can do
Shout it into the air
I'm listening to you
Yeah talkin' is good
One word two words
Once you open up you'll find a third
YOur tongue undone
Are you ever gonna stop
Now that you've begun
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Talkin' is good
But talkin' can be cheap
Don't make a promise that you can't keep
Better watch what you're saying
Cause tomorrow you might be paying
For talk that's no good, no good
Talkin' is good
Talkin' is good
Talkin' is good
Sometimes It Feels So Good
Love was a golden apple
Ripe on a hanging tree
When it fell then the taste of battle
Soured the fruit for me
Feeling sorry for myself
That's a story now for someone else
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Sometimes it feels so good I cry
(I've been waiting so long)
Sometimes it feels so good I cry
(This time I can't be wrong)
Sometimes it feels so good I cry
(Sometimes I cry)
Tears of joy drying on my face
This had a different meaning
Right from the start
Laughing our shadows right off the ceiling
Reviving a doubtful heart
I don't know the words to say
That's the reason I act this way
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Lyin' together
Dreaming that I'm safe in your arms
Knowing that nothin's forever
If a bell's ringin'
Let it be a false alarm
Seems like ony yesterday
I watched the apple as it rolled away
Stone In My Shoe
There's a stone inside my shoe
I cannot tell you why
And no it's not because of you
I wouldn't tell a lie
There is a stone inside my shoe
I cannot tell you why
I haven't even got a clue
So darlin' don't you cry
What Looks Good On The Outside
They say love was not to blame
She married into a family with a name
Our favorite story, everyone's dream
The camera recorded every scene
We could see the pictue was perfect
So how could we know
It was easy at the start
A little girl with a big dream in her heart
Every action every friend
Would lead to a land beyond pretend
Laying plans for all of the journey
Except for the end
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What looks good on the outside
May be falling apart on the inside
What looks good on the outside
Might be all that you want to believe
But it's coming apart at the seams
On the inside
One description led to more
A little voice inside her head got easier ro ignore
The great pretender, a partner of fear
Until no one dared to get near
Overnight she woke up and wondered
How did I get here
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When you wish for something more
Careful what you're wishing for
From afar it all can glitter
But the taste can still be bitter
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