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For I've been a tangerine too long.
For I've been a temptress too long.
From this time, unchanged, we're all looking at a different picture
Through this new frame of mine, a thousand flowers could bloom
Move over and give us Communion
From this time, unchained, we're all looking at a different picture
Through this new frame of mind a thousand flowers could bloom
Move over and give us some room, yeah
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this going down road.
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow.
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this going down road.
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow.
I've been a temperaturist for too long.
For I've been a temptress too long.
Far beyond the cheap blue skies
The mummy tried to leave us some sets of fries
Far beyond the shrinking skies
Where money talks and leaves us hypnotized
"It Could Be Sweet" (MP3)
You don't get summer for nothing.
You don't get something for nothing.
It's only you who can tear my world apart.
It's only you who can turn my wooden heart.
It's only you who can tow my wooden cart
It's only you who can turn my wooden heart
Can anybody see the light
Where the Mormon meets the Jew and the tide rises?
Can anybody see the light
Where the morn meets the dew and the tide rises?
"Teardrop"
Love, love isn't fair
Love is a dooming word.
Love, love, is a verb
Love is a doing word.
"Teardrop"
Teardrop on the fire, feeling so nice
Teardrop on the fire, feathers on my breath
"Teardrop"
Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Feathers on my breath
And the town today will suffer less
This wind I'll never have to break
And the time that I will suffer less
Is when I never have to wake
But I'll make an ant of you
But I'm achin' at the view
I'm breaking at the seams just like you
I'm breaking at the scenes just like you
forgotten throes at another's lie
forgotten throes of another's plight