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Someday
03:19
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Someday
You don't need someone to love you
You time's too precious dear
You don't need someone who need someone
That's the biggest thing you fear
Ch:
But someday you might need love
And they won't know what you're talking of
You're as solid as a rock now
But did you never once fall like a stone
You're smiling just to please me
But who will you please when you're alone
When you're alone I say
Ch:
Someday you might need love
And I wont know what you're talking of
You could take me with a whisper
You could take me with a touch, touch, touch, touch, touch, touch, touch
I would gladly give you everything
But you might say it's not very much
I'll tell you one thing
Ch:
Someday you might need love
And I wont know what you're talking of
No, I wont know hat you're talking of
You tear me like a curtain
See through everything I say
You say my head is like a jungle
And my heart is like an empty space
You asked me once why did I want you
Said 'cause you don't need anyone
Said if I needed you, what would you do?
I said, you know, I would probably be gone
I said, girl, I would probably run
You said to me
Ch:
Someday you might need love
Someday you might need love
Someday you might need love
Because you don't what you're talking of
You don't know what you're talking of
No, you don't know what you're talking of
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2. |
Slowly When She Moves
03:45
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Slowly When She Moves
When she took the fence
In record time
High in the saddle
Hand clenched, arm raised high
Watched her push a big tear into her eye
Eye that scorns the angel, but take the devil high
She don't like wasting time
She don't move slowly when she moves
Slowly when she moves
When she crosses water, does not ripple, no
Tribe of honey seekers, take 'em in, let 'em go
Will not captivate her
You will never shake her star
Makes you wormwood bitter
She don't like wasting time
She don't move slowly when she moves
Slowly when she moves
She don't shy from the light
She don't groove slowly when she moves
These are lips that conquer
Drooping honeycomb
And a throat that's smoother
Than a sword of whalebone
Her skin is soft and silent
Aloes and cinnamon
Her beauty's just the lonely barrel
Of an almost loaded gun
She don't like wasting time
She don't groove slowly when she moves
Slowly when she moves
She don't shy from the light
She don't move
Slowly when she moves
Slowly when she moves
Slowly when she moves
Slowly when she moves
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Morphine Watch
03:47
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Morphine Watch
I got a tube running into my stomach
I got a needle running into my arm
Got a saline solution going drip, drip, drip
And a morphine watch keeping me calm
There's a stench in the air makes me realise
I've been lying in the rosebed too long
I've been sleeping on the job
Sucking tears from every sob
And a voice is going 'now write a song'
Then I close my eyes
And I float into the skies
Where a million centipede legs
Stitches in disguise
Coming trotting, coming running
The drummers started drumming
And it's time to push another hit home
Time to push another hit home
I've got a nurse with a touch that's so gentle
She's seen the reaper and he's stocking up his barn
But I still live for frail and fragile things
I'd need a morphine watch just to keep calm
There's a voice in my head's all for staying
Got a voice that's all for letting go
But here she comes, syringes and plums
With a stay of execution hello
Then I close my eyes
And I float into the skies
Where a million centipede legs
Stitches in disguise
Coming trotting, coming running
The drummers started drumming
And it's time to push another hit home
Time to push another hit home
Do you need something to help you sleep?
He's not responding
I think we're losing him
I think we're losing him
I think we're losing him
I think we're losing him
I think we're losing him
I think we're losing him
We're losing him
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Jesus Lived Six Years Longer Than Kurt Cobain
In a trailer park in Seattle
They're waving candles in the air
Mis-spent youth are doing battle
Over what is an isn't fair
And going for the clincher
A girl tries to explain how Jesus lived six years longer than Kurt Cobain
Jesus lived six years longer than Kurt Cobain
In a damp bedsit in Dublin
They're playing Nevermind to death
You got to see, they all agree
What he meant he never said
And bringing them to their senses
A girl cries out in vain
How Jesus's hair was longer than Kurt Cobain
And Jesus lived six years longer than Kurt Cobain
I am the walnut
I am the wall
You are the Ringo
I am the Paul
I am the Yoko, you are the egg
I am the breast and you are the leg
I am the O.J. you are the glove
I am the courtroom, you are the love
You are the fly and I am the soup
What a city, what a bomb, what a supergroup
Supergroup, supergroup, super, super, supergroup
Supergroup, supergroup, super, super, supergroup
In a trailer park in Seattle
They're waving candles in the air
Mis-spent youth are doing battle
Over what is and is not fair
And going for the clincher
A girl cries out in vain
How Jesus lived six years longer than Kurt Cobain
Jesus lived six years longer than Kurt Cobain
And Jesus's hair was longer
And Jesus's arms were stronger
And Jesus's eyes were bluer
And Jesus's thoughts were truer
And he could take you higher
Through the rain and through the fire
And he could take you higher, and higher and higher
And higher, and higher and higher and higher
And the truth was in his hands
And the truth was in his hands
And he took it through the land, through the land, through the land, through the land, through the land
Could take you higher and higher and higher and higher.
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No Excuses
03:00
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No Excuses
Words: Lydia Lunch
I'm sick to death of your excuses
And you're sick to death in giving me excuses
No excuse is a good excuse, and you stand accused
I'm taking to you and I'm talking to you
I'm talking to you and I'm talking to you
I'm talking basically to myself, as usual
I got no time for your excuses
So just keep your fuckin' trap shut until I'm finished
Then you can talk all you fuckin' want
Cause I've got no time for your alibis
I've got no time for your excuses
Cause every fuckin' day, you know what
It's the same fuckin' excuse
Every day' it's the same excuse
I didn't mean to do it
I didn't mean to do it
I didn't mean to not do it
I'll never do it again
I'll never do it again
I swear to fuckin' God
I'll never, never, never, do it again
I swear to fuckin' God
You'll never learn your fuckin' lesson
Yeah, you'll never learn your fuckin' lesson
No matter how many fuckin' times I stand up here and try to tell you
You'll never, never, never, never learn that you just gotta stop
And you better stop right now
You better stop right now
But you know what?
Let me tell you, Bradley, you can't stop, you can't stop, you can't stop
And I hear what what you're saying, because your begging
Please, please, somebody stop me, why doesn't somebody stop me
Why doesn't somebody stop me, why can't you stop me
Why can't you stop me from drinking?
Why can't you stop me from driving?
Why can't you stop me from drugging, from smoking, from choking?
From committing the same fuckin' mistakes and sins and crimes every fuckin' day of your fuckin' life
365 days a year
7 hours a day
24 days a week
You figure that one out
Yeah, you figure it out
The last ten, the last 20, the last 30, 40,50 years
Of your fuckin' rotten, miserable, stupid, stinking, miserable life
From now 'til never baby
'cause you know what?
It's a blood disease
It's a blood disease
And besides, I just can't help it
I just can't help myself
I can't help myself
Why doesn't somebody help me
Why can't you help me
Why can't you do something
Why can't you fuckin' do something?
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6. |
Love Song To My Guru
03:57
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Love Song To My Guru
I want to write a love song to my guru
What can I say
That hasn't already been said
To your face
And I want to write a heart rending love story
To bring you to tears
What does it matter
If you never hear
Batten down the hatches
This will never happen again
But they come in glory
Don't they
And when they leave
It's godless in the dark
I want to write a love song to my guru
What can I say
That hasn't already been said
To your face
And I want to write a heart rending love story
To bring you to tears
What does it matter
If you never hear
On the threshold of song
I heard an angel voice over there
Sweet obsession everywhere
Oh they come in glory don't they
And when they leave it's godless in the dark
I want to write a love song to my guru
What can I say
That hasn't already been said
To your face
And I want to write a heart rending love story
To bring you to tears
What does it matter
If you never hear
Wrap them up into a bunch
Tied to a big balloon
Blow hard as they go up
Sprinkling and smiling through
Hair trailing in the sky
Ribbons of gold entwined
Send a cheer as they go by
Full steam out of your mind.
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Desire Will Leave Me Homeless
Know I sent the roses I deny
Know I made the phone calls late at night
The child in me just wants to play
The game of sorrow
And desire will leave me homeless
Here's the car humming down, down the road
And the knock on the door
And the signings and the questions
You know I sent the roses I deny
And desire will leave me homeless by the by
The swimming pool is full of broken people
Wounded souls who never learned to swim
The river is alive with golden fishes
Flash their bellies as they try to draw me in
Desire will leave me homeless
Desire will leave me homeless
I wanted you to save me from the ghosts of the night
I wanted you to save me from my own appetite
I wanted you to save me form the fishes
I wanted you to save me from desire
Know I sent the roses I deny
Know I made the phone calls late at night
The child in me just wants to play
The game of sorrow
And desire will leave me homeless.
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8. |
Midnight Call
04:19
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Midnight Call
You who hear the midnight call
The silence just before the dawn
Slow tap on the window pane
Strange car moving down your lane
The danger of the empty street
The presence in the passenger seat
The hang-up on the telephone
The echo-steps that follow you home
What are you afraid of?
Why do you hunger for first light?
Have you not yet begun to trust the lonely night?
You who've harboured thieves of time
And walked away from love ten times
Love you've said plays tricks with truth
And draws deep lines on the face of youth
What are you afraid of?
Why do you hunger for first light?
Have you not yet begun to trust the lonely night?
Trust that God will shine his light
Thrust the angel of the night
Trust the hand that give the day
Trust the hand that takes away
Trust that God will shine his light
Thrust the angel of the night
Trust the hand that give the day
Trust the hand that takes away
The hand that takes away.
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9. |
The Last 16 Hours
03:06
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The Last Sixteen Hours
Phones that ring evil
Skin like a drum
Hand like a fist of the fears you've become
Word on the lip
Blood on the flowers
Tears running naked
The last sixteen hours
Screams like a demon
Quiet like a dawn
Hurt getting even
Loss crawling home
Dreams down the rive
Beauty cowers
Passion, obsession
The last sixteen hours of love
Old Men, young men, men without age
When fear is a book
The rest still a page
Lovers drink slowly what the wounded devour
Tears running naked
The last sixteen hours of love
The last sixteen hours of love
Screams like a demon
Quiet like a dawn
Hurt getting even
Loss crawling home
Dreams down the river
Beauty cowers
Passion, obsession
The last sixteen hours of love
The last sixteen hours of love
The last sixteen hours of love.
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Another Fool
03:39
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Another Fool
He's the very last person that you want to meet
He' the king, the king of nothing on his rundown street
Well, if you need a gravestone you must be dying
And if he says, if he says he loves you, well, you know he's lying
Cause he's always just lying around
Don't put me out in the cold
Cause I'm felling like I'm gonna be sold
You make me feel, you make me feel so old
He never knew nothing and he always will
To lose her to a loser is a bitter pill
You know I may not make you wake up
But I won't stop trying
And if you say, if you say you love him
Well I know you're lying, you're lying
'cause you're always lyin' to me
Don't put me out in the cold
Cause I'm felling like I'm gonna be sold
You make me feel, you make me feel so old
I can't no I can't understand, but I like in your eyes
And I feel like an innocent man
I've seen you laughing into his face
Now I see you coming back from his place
In your world even losers can lose their mind
And you know that losers like him are so easy to find
You'll find them hanging them hanging 'round you
Don't put me out in the cold
Cause I'm felling like I'm gonna be sold
You make me feel, you make me feel so old
I'm so old, I'm so old
Don't trade me for another, don't trade me for another fool,
Don't trade me for another fool.
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11. |
She's Got A Habit
03:33
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She's Got A Habit
She roars into my silent room
And she cut through my heart like a plough
She burns me with her heatwave
And I can't wipe the beads from my brow
I go down, down, down
'til my life's in the palm of her hands
And then she leaves and I am the sorriest sight of a man
So what's she got?
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
Yeah, turning my insides out, turning my upsides down
Pushing my heart around
Pushing my heart around
La, la, la, la, la
I'm up like a floating moon
And I'm down like a ton of scrap steel
I'm hoping she won't come soon
But I run up the walls when she leaves
I fall down, down, down
'til my life sin the palm of her hands
And then she leaves and I am the sorriest sight of a man
So what's the girl got?
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
Turning my insides out, turning my upsides down
Pushing my heart around
Pushing my heart around
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
Oh, turning my insides out, turning my upsides down
Pushing my heart around
Pushing my heart around
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
She's got a habit of coming around sometimes
Turning my insides out, turning my upsides down
Pushing my heart around
She's got a habit of pushing my heart around
She's got a habit of twisting my heart around
She's got a habit of shoving my heart around
She's got a habit of twisting my heart around
She's got a habit, got to have it bad.
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David Donohue Songwriter
As a songwriter and singer, David made three critically acclaimed albums with 'music collective' The Floors - Truths and
Distortions (Setanta), Superbe (Dead Elvis) and Morphine Watch (Tongued 'n Grooved).
David continues to work as a solo artist, and has also co-written with John Parish, Lydia Lunch, Katell Keineg, and Mademoiselle K.
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