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There's a story going 'round
'round this God-forsaken town
and I'm trying not to believe my ears
But I've seen the evidence
and it was a grave offence
and I'm trying not to be believe my eyes
You've a list as long as your arm with people on you want to exact revenge upon
I'll sleep with one eye open
Look, I never realised
That you had fear in your eyes
Was it dwelling in them all this time?
In this light you resemble
A foredoomed fallen angel
A face so betrayed by a causeless crime
You've a list as long as your arm with people named you want to exact revenge upon
I'll sleep with one eye open
Do you remember you once told me
How you wish you didn't trust so easily?
Do you remember you once told me?
I hear you stole your lover's car and burned it out under the stars
The stars that shine on everyone
It matters not where they came from
but at least you got away
From the place where they all stayed
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Decline And Fall
04:34
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They used to say, "The times are changing"
They said a lot of things back then you see
and hollow words are so engaging
When you're being played by the powers that be
Trying to run our lives
and rule our minds
and keep things the way they are
and all the flog and hang them brigade will say is "Thank your lucky stars"
Where are we now and where will it take us?
What next in this heartless day and age?
Trying to find redemption in the Yellow Pages?
Though we know self worship's all the rage
The decline and fall of not much at all
Everybody's got the disease
Pacified by technology
Dumbed down, easily pleased
CHORUS
I'd like to think there's something more than this
I'd like to think there's something I can believe
I'd like to think there's somebody somewhere
Who's never gotten over me
We're all just clocking on at a factory
Standing in the shadows of dark Satanic mills
Wondering if there's somewhere better that you could be
Trying to get away forever but never will
I feel forgotten
I feel ignored
I don't know if I'm lonely
I don't know if I'm bored
CHORUS
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This Sorry Song
05:41
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This is who I am
Everything you see
As I'm standing here
All that I can be
I can't take the poison without sweetening the pill
I can't sing this sorry song without loving you still
So much on my mind
Nothing I can say
Everything's too cruel
You're so far away
I can't walk into a space without fielding the blame
I can't explain anything without saying your name
CHORUS
I didn't sleep much last night
I got up with the light
I was kept awake by the howling rain
I thought the storm was taunting me and calling out your name
I couldn't be on my own
I left the radio on
I was kept awake by the screaming trees
Half-dreaming I thought I could hear you coming back for me
When are you coming back for me?
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4. |
An Act Of Faith
04:54
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I wasn't trying to be clever
If you think I was you've never been more wrong
I've kicked the habit forever
but the itch is the last thing left you can rely upon
But it's gone
I thought I knew best as per usual
Taking pins out of your eyes in photographs
Knowing fate can be so cruel
I followed you throwing black cats into your path
You may laugh
CHORUS
Is it an act of faith to think you that you were here?
Now you're missing on a higher intellectual plane
I'm trying to channel something much more meaningful
but there's an orgy of wrongdoing in my way
Nothing worth doing is easy
Knowledge came alive in this rented room
Lie back and think of a country
Let your subconsciousness overpower you
and me too
CHORUS
I ran through fire for you
I ran through fire for you
I ran through fire for you
CHORUS
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Did you ever make a wish that only brought you trouble?
Did you make a shady deal shaking hands with the devil?
Tell me does your horoscope make any sense today?
How many satellites around Saturn can you name?
We all know things don't turn out so fairly and squarely
When some people get nothing
and some get everything they need
CHORUS
You don't have to let me in
On your deepest darkest oldest secret
You don't have to let me in
On your longest coldest night
When does a promise turn into an alibi?
And honesty become a second-rate disguise?
We can understand the stars but not what's in our hearts
or why some people fall into line
When others fall apart
CHORUS
I'm still dragging my tired feet
Still biding my time
You still walk through the old streets
But only in your mind
CHORUS
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Watching A Storm
04:38
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I saw someone who reminded me of the person that I thought that you were
I went to speak and to say your name I knew it wasn't you and it wasn't her
I saw someone who reminded me of the person that I thought that you were
I went to speak and to say your name I knew it wasn't you and it wasn't her
Did you tell something hidden well and find out everyone already knows
Did you do something you should not and get caught by the filth in plain clothes?
I never thought in a million years I'd be sitting here thinking like this
I should bury my thoughts to confound any future archaeologists
I have to say that in so many ways we're all so cautious these days
CHORUS
Watching a storm form over the ocean
The grey of the sky and the waves
Reminds you of the day
Watching the furore
Out in the distance
Reminds you of the day
You thought they'd walked over your grave
I never thought in a million years I'd be sitting here thinking like this
I should bury my doubts to confound any future archaeologists
Love don't you know getting used the cold is easier than letting you go
CHORUS
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Disturber Of The Peace
04:12
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I don't want to be a disturber of the peace
I don't want to be anywhere I'm not welcome
I don't want you to see my heart is on my sleeve
I don't want to give you any explanation
There's nothing between us now
There's nothing between us now
There's nothing between us now but uncertainty
The keeper of the flame of what cannot be named
You don't know the power you have do you?
The more I try to change the more I stay the same
You don't know the depths that I've been pulled to
There's nothing between us now
There's nothing between us now
There's nothing between us now but uncertainty
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Love of my life the weather's getting wild outside
It's time to thrown another secret on the fire
and if they ask us where we get such ideas from
I'll say "Mind your own business we're not doing any harm"
I got a call out of the blue from Whatsisname
I said I'd meet up and talk over the old days
but I was lying now I'm feeling so ashamed
I'm never going back it won't ever be the same
CHORUS
Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to keep up with the disenchanted
Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to keep up with the disenchanted
Ever been lost in a dead end at 3am?
You're on your own, it's cold, you've lost your friends
CHORUS
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9. |
It's Not Hard To Fall
04:50
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You can go through this life taking everything in your stride
You can keep your head down and your nose clean 'til the day that you die
You can kid yourself how straight you are when you stand so tall
But take if from one who knows so well... it's not hard to fall
You can turn yourself on and in and out and then back again
You can drive yourself mad wondering where you'll find love and when
There will be people who turn your head when they should make your skin crawl
But take it from one who knows so well...it's not hard to fall
CHORUS
What if you're as counterfeit as you tell yourself you are in the early hours
Where would you be then?
What as if you're as bogus as you think you are in the darkest hour
Where would you be then my friend?
You can spend all your bread trying to work out what's going on in your head
Or you could make a pledge not to get out of the wrong side of bed
I'm standing on a bridge looking down, "Goodbye cruel world, you look so small"
and take it from one who knows so well...it's not hard to fall
It's not hard to fall
It's not hard at all
CHORUS
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The Vegas Nerves Sheffield, UK
The Vegas Nerves are a four-piece band playing their music around the less salubrious parts of
Sheffield.
The Vegas Nerves have recently recorded an album and are looking forward to getting as many people as humanly possible to hear it and the songs.
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