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Midnight in the City

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1.
Beautiful Is Gone 03:11
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Our love has come so far but not at all / I remember the start you can’t recall / By the time it was right you didn’t want to fall / If it’s over say it’s over / Blindly I let you destroy me / Love is not so beautiful when your lungs are caving in / And beautiful is gone / Oh don’t lie to me when we both know baby beautiful is gone / I pushed you so hard but not at all / You closed your eyes / I could see it all / Run out the door see no more of you and what you do / Blindly I let you destroy me / Love is not so beautiful when your lungs are caving in and beautiful is gone / Oh don’t lie to me when we both know baby / Beautiful is gone / Beautiful is gone / What’s in store now that you have shut the door? / Peek in through the open crack / I can’t keep from crawling back for more / Crawling back for more / Say its over if it’s over / Blindly I let you destroy me / Love is not so beautiful when your lungs are caving in and beautiful is gone / Oh don’t lie to me when we both know baby / Beautiful is gone
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Collide 03:58
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You know I won’t start taking pictures until the trip is done / You know I won’t stop blowing kisses at everyone / It’s not where we are it’s where we’re going that gets me inside / Right where the heart and the headache where they collide / Straight to the heart of the problem but the damage is done / I pick up the phone call the medics but they never come / Swept under the rug where no one can see / I’ve already lost a small part of me / Take what you want / No please just take what you need / Love pull me / Love heal me / Oh how she comes when we collide / Not now you’ll say this is the game we play / And our love comes when we collide / It drives us apart, this attraction / It wont be our fault / Stand with your feet on the stairway but you never walk / When will you move / Leave here for good / Can’t break the strings that you never could / It’s all that you want / Its all that you need / Love pull me / Love heal me / Our love comes when we collide / Not now you say / This is the game we play / Our love comes when we collide / Can you feel it / Can you heal it / No? / Love pull me and love it heals me / Our love comes when we collide / Not now you say / This is how the game is played / Our love comes when we collide
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Time & Place 04:29
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Look up, don’t you look down / This place is above / Not below the ground / The time is here / The clock is run down / The dreaming is over / Not awake but somehow I’m found / Enough, did I do enough? / A lifetime of hiding catching up / It really caught up / If this is the light on my face / If this is the time and the place / Then I can look back on my days and know that I’ve been there / So now, in the light of this hour / All the ones that I’ve touched and I loved have gathered around / I wish they could see what I see now / They’d never believe what I see now / If they only knew what I found out there / If this is the light on my face / If this is the time and the place / Then I can look back on my days and know that I’ve been there / Wish they could see what I see now/ They’d never believe what I see now/ This is the light on my face / This is the time and the place / Then I can look back on my days and know that I’ve been there / And how can’t you love what’s been done and how can’t you love when you’ve moved someone / If that’s all I have when I’m done / Then let me begin there / Let me begin there
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Come Here Come On 03:14
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Oh no oh no you just can’t hide your surprise / When I tell you / Oh no oh no you just can’t pretend it’s alright when I ask you / Come here c’mon and take it away / Come here if you’ve got nothing to say / Come here I’ll make you afraid / I don’t want to find another you / I don’t want to find another you / Oh no no / It’s no surprise / Open your eyes / Feel the abuse / All the temptations / All the sensations / Give me some truth / Come here c’mon and take it away / Come here if you’ve got nothing to say / Come here I’ll make you afraid / I don’t want to find another you / I don’t want to find another you / Breaking in two is so hard to do / But easier than to return again / I don’t want to find another you / I don’t want to find another you
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Satellite 04:10
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Can you hold on to your child as the sun sets in your eyes and you face those darkened skies / Can you hold on? / But he will push away to make his great escape / There’s nothing you can say / Won’t you hold on? / You will see, see him bleed / You can’t pave the path he made / Satellite flying high / Won’t you come on down / Down to the ground / The tighter that you squeeze / The more he craves release / He’s asking you please / Can you hold on? / But he will push you away to make his great escape / There’s nothing you can say / Won’t you hold on? / You will see, see him bleed / You can’t pave the path he made / Satellite flying high / Won’t you come on down / Down to the ground / Can you hold on to your child / As the sun sets in your eyes / And you face those darkened skies / Can you hold on? / You will see, see him bleed / You can’t pave the path he made / Down to the ground / Satellite flying high / Won’t you come on down / Down to the ground
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Sit Down Stare Out 03:39
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As the elevator rises to the 13th floor I ride and I’m holding on for life / Should I step out? / Should I get out and knock on your door tonight? / While you’re laughing out inside / Because what you see in me Is nothing but a shadow of what I see in you I lie awake while dreaming / Pretend to hear you breathing / Pretend I’m not alone / But I’m without you and I can barely breathe when I’m without you / So I drop my hands down to my side and run downstairs hoping that you didn’t see me / and sit down stare out at the numbers on your door / Drive off, forget to remember you some more / What you see in me is nothing but a shadow of what I see in you / I lie awake while dreaming / Pretend to hear you breathing / Pretend I’m not alone / But I’m without you and I can barely breathe when I’m without you / When I’m without you / Rescue me / So I drop my hands down to my side and then I start to run / So I drop my hands down to my side and then I start to run / Run / What you see in me is nothing but a shadow of what I see in you / I lie awake while dreaming / Pretend to hear you breathing / Pretend I’m not alone / But I’m without you and I can barely breathe when I’m without you
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Monochrome 03:16
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Slow down / We’re gonna take our time and make this right / Drag out / Everything that’s eating at your mind / So I deceived you cause I can’t believe you and now I’ve turned the tide / So monochrome / I watched the color drain from you / Where’s the color in this life? / Watch me doing all you’ve always feared / Just try and stop me / Pulling all the strings I can from here / So I deceived you oh / So monochrome / I watched the color drain from you / Where’s the color in this life / So monochrome / I took all I feared in you and that you must despise / It feels so good not to need you / It feels so good not to need you / But it’s so sad to watch you fall / Cause I took it all / So I deceived you cause I can’t believe you and now I’ve turned the tide / So monochrome / I watched the color drain from you / Where’s the color in this life? / So monochrome / I took all I feared in you and that you must despise
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Swallow You 04:21
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Contagious 03:47
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the hardest part of giving up is not knowing when you’re done i used to think i was tough enough to last forever, to call your bluff so how do you know when you’re done when the battle at hand just can’t be won this hurt is contagious and only time will save us never alone i can’t give you all away never alone what will it take to make you stay stay, stay it’s the damaged start i have to stop all the time it took to find out who we are my guilt assured for my part i bear forever i can’t hide this scar so how do you know when it’s done when the battle at hand just can’t be won this hurt is contagious and only time will save us never alone i can’t give you all away never alone what will it take to make you stay stay, stay you took the time to write me off you held me close you made me soft now i am falling apart i blurred the line and you took it all a dying sign, there’s nothing left at all this hurt is contagious this hurt is contagious this hurt is contagious (and i can’t give you all away…) and only time will save us (and i can’t give you all away…) never alone i can’t give you all away never alone what will it take to make you stay
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Crazy Girl (Ne M'oubliez Pas) 03:31
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i was trashed in the underground you were alone it was fast, you were dirty then you took me home through the back door you pulled me downstairs you took it all off, then you disappeared now the taste of you is burned into my head and now im turned around i never left your bed on a lonely night with a crazy girl did he feel alright? when you killed the world im waiting, im watching walls, what did i hear? am i just paranoid? could it be all that i fear? i climb upstairs, slide open the door who is that in you while you beg for more now that sight of you is burned into my head through the window, guess im going home instead on a lonely night with a crazy girl did he feel alright? when you killed the world the end is here but i’ll be alright the end is here but i’ll be alright the end is here but i’ll be alright the end is here but i’ll be alright the end is here but i’ll be alright the end is here but i’ll be alright on a lonely night with a crazy girl did he feel alright? when you killed the world on a lonely night with a crazy girl did he feel alright? when you killed the world
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Midnight in the City 03:35
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i’ve never seen you so sad what happened anyway? did he make you pay today? i’ve never wanted you so bad just something in you pushing me away the more you push the more i crave you the more you push… just take your coat and leave your clothes midnight in the city break the skin, relieve the sin midnight in the city been on this block before i know this dirty street what it meant to me to get inside your door tiny little room was everything i need oh the more you push…. just take your coat and leave your clothes midnight in the city break the skin, relieve the sin midnight in the city she’ll swallow you whole there’s no where else to go oh no where else to go just take your coat but leave your clothes midnight in the city break the skin, relieve the skin midnight in the city just take your coat but leave your clothes midnight in the city break the skin, re-live your sins midnight in the city

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released November 4, 2008

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