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Heartache is a four letter word
Underpinned by pangs of a once deferred
Reality where she is gone for good
Too late to work it out even if we could
Left bereft and all alone
Onliness is loneliness I know
Stripped bare and left for dead
Tracing back the tracks of tears I shed
Heartache is a four letter word
All the best of me left with her
Taste the bitter taste the sweet
Eat and drink and merry be
Lying on my back staring up
One last acrid sip within my cup
Verifiable and true
Everything I ever said to you
Heartache is a four letter word
Overcome solely by the first conferred
Peck on the lips from a new love
Even more beautiful than you love
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If I Asked You
04:25
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Two lone bodies in the sky
The Sun is going down the moon is high
Exit day enter night
Phantoms dancing in the pale moonlight
Would you wait for me if I asked you?
Would you take from me or break your bread in two?
Stay up late and talk to me
About all the things that we once hoped to be
Childhood dreams now out of reach
Slowly fading distant memory
Would you wait for me if I asked you?
Would you take from me or break your bread in two?
Babe the dawn is coming soon
Pale light shadows a sinking moon
If I should stumble and fall for you
Please tell me darling that you'd fall too
Would you wait for me if I asked you?
Would you take from me or break your bread in two?
What would you do if you were me and I were you?
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Black & White
03:11
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Knowing when to behave and to be polite
Knowing when to speak your mind and keep your mouth shut tight
Knowing when to stop and when to rewind
Knowing when enough is enough is enough is only slight
Knowing when to cut loose even if you're uptight
Knowing when to leave and when to stay overnight
Knowing when there is a bounty and when there is a blight
Knowing when there is hope even when there's no hope in sight
Nothing's solid and nothing's striped
Nothing's black and white
Knowing when you're wrong even when you're right
Knowing when to run and when to stay and fight
Knowing when to calm and when to excite
Knowing when the powder keg is about to ignite
Knowing when to chew and when to take a bite
Knowing when something's new and something is tried
Knowing when to add and when to divide
Knowing when a yes is a maybe and a no is a might
Nothing's dull and nothing's bright
Nothing's blind nothing has sight
Nothing upsets nothing delights
There's nothing to love nothing to spite
When nothing's black and white
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Long Gone And Far Away
05:31
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The river's about to break it's banks, and flood the plains. If the good Lord's willing, it won't reach our place till two weeks from today. By that time we'll be long gone and far away.
Oh Lord I swear I'm about to break into a thousand pieces. Much more I can't take. I heard tell that there's a place down by a silver lake where money grows on trees with golden waves of grain and anything you please.
Oh let's run. Let's run away.
So let's leave it all behind without a care or a worry in our mind. We'll head North and then turn West, and find the country that suits us best. So let's grow old and frail and blind. Then one last time; leave it all behind as we run.
Run away.
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Joyous Refrain
04:34
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Forever at a loss for words
My thoughts and my mind are a blur
Trying to clear my head
Wish I could remember the thing she said
As she walk out the door
Something about breathing I can't recall anymore
So I'll string each syllable along
And pray what comes out as I strum and I shout
Is a song with a joyous refrain
One to sing again and again
Where everyone knows all the words
Where all is not lost and nothings absurd
When the moon behind a cloud goes
When the sun for days never shows
When laughter is shattered by pain
Just open your mouth and pray what comes out
Is a song with a joyous refrain
One to sing again and again
To forget all the heartaches and pains
Where all is not lost and there is no end
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