1. |
Lost in Everything
04:27
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I'd like to see my words get to you somehow
But everyone has something to say
And some will say it better than me
Maybe I would have been famous by now
If I was a rich teen in L.A.
But I was born too far away from the sea
Is this something you can dance to?
Is this something you relate to?
Does it make you feel anything?
Is it just a fading memory?
Just a product of a childish dream?
Will it get lost in everything?
Does it matter if this means anything
To anyone except for me?
Maybe I care a bit too much
But I still would like to know I can bring
Something with some humanity
And gain some great reward for such
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2. |
Phoebe on the Radio
03:18
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Another day of losing time
To some idea that wasn't mine
All the money I could use
Was spent for things I didn't choose
No one waits at home for me
At least not in the way I need
I thought someone could be a friend
We never spoke in the end
Someone play Phoebe on the radio
Someone play Phoebe on the radio
If only I could have some peace
Some time where I have all I need
And time is not a luxury
It's freely there to use for me
I've had enough of others' noise
No more footsteps, no one's voice
But then I'd like to feel someone
At least until the night is done
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3. |
The Other Side
03:55
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I'm gonna forget how unfair life is for a while
Find myself a good distraction
See the joys of life in action
I will spend the next few hours of the night in denial
Of whatever seems to plague me
As if my escape will save me
See a picture on the screen
Made by those living my dream
I'm scraping the money for a trip somewhere on a plane
Find another place to wander
With the time that I can squander
I will try to take in all the new sights I can gain
Until it approaches evening
In a theatre someone's singing
This is where I've flown to be
Watching someone live my dream
And I'd like a taste of the other side
Just to show myself to a million eyes
But I'll just escape for now
Watch the stars that fate allowed
Sitting here at home til the working hour has arrived
Wishing I had time for something
That it wasn't interrupting
Now it's time to wait for the next time I feel alive
Add a time when I feel better
Where I loosen up the tethers
Just another day of me
Watching someone live my dream
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4. |
Your Money
03:35
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"Spend your money, keep the world turning
Spend your money, keep it all working
Don't let it sit there, keep it all moving
Don't have much? Don't spend all that money
Can't do such? You're wasting your money
Why aren't you saving? What are you proving?"
Do you want it to move? Do you want it to stay?
And why did you make it so hard either way
When they charge us so much and they pay us so little
And I'm so near the floor when I was raised in the middle?
Don't you see where we are? Do you know what it means?
And do you know the lack of relief that we've seen?
I don't want your advice, I don't find it endearing
And whatever you say this is all I am hearing
Was there some other way that you thought it would go?
Will you keep on ignoring what we now seem to know:
That we don't have enough to keep everything going
And the distance to there has been steadily growing?
I would like to believe that I'll get what I need
If I do as you say, but I'm not so naïve
And we're all getting tired of your useless solutions
When the things you suggest leave us only confusion
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5. |
Work for Us
04:23
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Here is the wage we'll give to you
You'll need to live with someone else
Don't think you'll get the time you want
But then you might, it's hard to tell
This is the deal we have for you
Here are the things you'll need to do
I know it seems like it's a lot
Your skills are valuable to us
Although your dignity is not
This is the deal we have for you
Work for us though you don't want to
If you want everything you need
Work for us, you know you have to
As long as you have a mouth to feed
Here are the people you'll be with
There's some who care and some who don't
And you'll be dealing with them all
Might have to clean the mess they don't
This is the deal we have for you
Work for us
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6. |
Montreal
04:29
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I wish it wasn't so far from here
So I could go as many times as I please
I want to play for eager ears
I want to hear you scream for me
I want to be a part of your pop culture
Made an object of desire
I want to drown in a sea of people
Until all my senses tire
I want to fall in lust in Montreal
Give me what you want, I'll take it all
I always miss the way it feels
When I'm somewhere I don't recognize
Or maybe I just want a thrill
Or want a look in someone's eyes
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7. |
Billionaire
04:18
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Look at all the wealth you're making
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
Look at all the hands you're shaking
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
How many friends are you keeping?
How many have any meaning?
Look at all the quotes you're sharing
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
Look at all the titles you're bearing
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
How much was served on a platter?
How much of what you do matters?
Is this the dream?
To think only for me?
Be selfish as a billionaire?
Is this your way?
To live only to gain?
Be useless as a billionaire?
Look at all of your collections
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
Look at all you claim possession
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
Do they have any meaning?
Are things as good as they're seeming?
Look at all the status you're gaining
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
Look at all the things you're changing
(So inspiring, you're so inspiring)
How much is good for others?
Did you care for your brother?
And when you're gone who's going to miss you?
What are you going to leave behind?
Do you think you'll like the answers?
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8. |
Love in Make-Believe
04:00
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It's as if they pulled her out of my dreams
Dressed her up, displayed on everyone's screens
After all the pictures and stories I've seen
To her I'm a stranger, she's not to me
And though the romance is a work of fantasy
I still will entertain this love in make-believe
She's somewhere far away from me
In every way you can find those words to mean
But she still has so much power, it seems
Over what it is I want and I need
I know that a million eyes will see
The same face that captured me
But I keep on in half-belief
That there is a day that we will meet
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9. |
All for Nothing
04:02
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I went to look for friends
I found one or two
Until I said something wrong
Now they've left me all alone
I went to look for love
Or at least feel wanted back
It didn't go too far
Before she moved along
It was all for nothing
It was all for nothing
But still I try
I went to look for an audience
So I went far away
To play an empty room
A waste of time and money
Still I try
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Do you think the world will get better
Once it's had the time to be worse?
Oh, would you spend the end of the world with me?
Do you think there's a future
Where we won't be wiped off of the earth?
Oh, would you spend the end of the world with me?
If we watch it all go
Then I hope I don't watch alone
If we lose all our hope
Then I don't want to suffer alone
How long til you think it's all over
And we can no longer survive?
Oh, would you spend the end of the world with me?
Do you think we'll endure it
Those days when disaster arrives?
Oh, would you spend the end of the world with me?
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Synthpop out of the Canadian prairies.
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