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ZRH
03:37
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Sunrise
Airport size
If only the view
Could smile back at you
You’ve just landed
A little drained but looking good
Nothing or no one
Will disturb the clean lines of your suit
You’ve got modestly packed carryons
You’ve got your anonymous face on
And while you’re here
You could be anyone
Chorus
You could be
You could be
You could be anyone
And that’s the way you like it
Nobody knows you
Nobody knows you
In Zurich
Verse
You’ve got nothing
To declare
Just the choices you’ve made
Caught between lovers
Who must leave
But who must remain
You’ve got modestly packed carryons
You’ve got your anonymous face on
And while you’re here
You could be anyone
Chorus
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2. |
The End Away
04:58
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For you and me
New York fell somewhere between
Philadelphia and fascination
But for weekends at a time
We would banish from our minds
Any thought we had of letting go
But why?
Chorus
A lovers knot tied seaside at sunset
Was tied in vain
Just like little boys throwing stones
At a passing train
Nothing we could say
Could keep the end away
And if I could
I would have ruled this stupid world
And given your eyes the green
that they were aching for
And if I could
Have back one moment my love
I would certainly take us back
My love my love my love
Chorus
Bridge
Taxis speed down Broadway
No more lanes to spare
On the night you leave
Rain washes the thoroughfare
All these years have come and gone
I feel it now more than ever
It’s in the skin its in the song
Was it love or just desire?
Chorus
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I spend
Half my weekend
Doing laundry
And the other half
Calling your bluff
All week long
You sing a terribly tired song
As you roll the ball on up the hill
Only to watch it fall and spill down again
Oh oh down again
All the trains
Homebound are broken down
And all my words cling to your worry
And you worry ‘bout every sound
Every sound
In this nowhere town
Chorus
And the whiskey goes down so smooth
Then you’re twice removed
Now where’d you put your savior
‘cause this can’t wait til later
Its no good
This life made of rotting wood
I won’t bake your cake and eat it too
So don’t belittle our battle of Waterloo
Waterloo
Do you know the way to blue?
Lies all lies
You know we’re not doin fine
You can fake your way through every day
As you leave me here to cry
Here to cry
You leave me to cry
Chorus
But you’ll find that life’s resigned
And so will I
Now where’d you put your savior
‘cause this can’t wait til later
I spend half my weekend doing laundry
And the other half calling your bluff
It’s only that I care to send the very best
That a black eye may not be enough
So please shut your mouth
Weather this winter or just go south
Please shut your mouth
Weather this winter
Or just go south
Just go south
And you’ll find that life’s resigned
And so will I
Now where’d you put your savior
Cause this can’t wait to later
And don’t try to hide behind
The New York Times
Sunday morning paper
Cause this can’t wait til later
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4. |
The Bomb You Dropped
03:40
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The bomb you dropped
Has left a lasting impression
6 ft deep in the floor of my living room
If you come back
I swear I’ll make it a swimming pool
Where we can float and forget
All night long
The last time
Should have been the last time
But the bombs keep dropping everyday
Yeah the bombs keep dropping everyday
And every passerby recalls
another city full of memories
The bombs keep dropping everyday
And I can’t figure out
Just what these bombs are tryin to say to me
Chorus
Ohhh the bomb you dropped
The bomb you dropped
Filled the sky full of nighttime
And pink sleepy dreams came to visit me
I dreamt of a day
Soldiers escaped the battlefields
And then they kissed and made their way home
The last time
Should have been the last time
But the bombs keep dropping everyday
Yeah the bombs keep dropping everyday
The life I knew is gone
And never ever coming back to me
The bombs keep dropping everyday
Cause what you do and what you say
Is never the same anyway
Chorus
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5. |
After
03:09
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After
We shower
We sit open mouthed and wonder
To ourselves
But not to each other
After
I catch a glimpse of your face in the dark
It’ll stay with me
Long after this time is gone
Chorus
And we’ll smile
Sad little smiles
Because we know what we’ve lost
We broke the homes that cost
So much to build
After
The laughter
Our voices get so much lower
For fear of waking
God knows who
After
The rain is still the rain
But it’s sweeter now
Than it’s ever been before
Or will be again
Chorus
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6. |
Properly Wrecked By John
04:15
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Fast asleep on a bed of nails
Dreaming up the tallest tales
You can tell, you can sell
To the congregation
Words fell down and scattered fast
Promises were a thing of the past
Getting by, doing fine
Was everything that mattered, oh oh
Chorus
Had you been properly wrecked by John
Had you jumped in eyes closed and headlong
You might have seen sights that the bible could have never shown you
You might have seen other worlds other than the one you knew
Had you been properly wrecked by John
You took your crosses and crutches and took your vows
But you left your baby in the lost and found
And you’re still no better than when you started
`cause you know you left so much undone
Like the holes in the walls where your pictures hung
All the places the faces are just souvenirs
Chorus
I remember someone I used to like
Not a lot, but enough to remember
Someone sweet and kind
Someone willing to try
To make a go with someone sweet and kind
who was willing to try
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7. |
Perfect Words
05:01
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So many nails were just waiting
To seal the coffin on our laughing
Looking back the shadows were closer than I thought
Now to think of all the flowers I should have bought
Chorus
Why couldn’t the perfect words save us
Why couldn’t the perfect words save us
They were there all along
Sleeping there in songs
We never sang to each other
The land
Does it ever stop stretching
Around me and ever rising
The tide threatens but never does me in
If I had my way, you know id have us back again
Chorus
Those warnings
From your mother
Went in one ear
And out the other
All these perfect words we say
Couldn’t keep the end away
No no
Chorus
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8. |
Yellow and Blue
04:43
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Yellow and blue
Like so many fears that swirled in you
And I turned away in tears
Helpless and sad
So sad but true
Yellow and blue
From yellow to blue
I missed my chance
To get through to you
That all what we had isn’t lost
If your heart is true
If your heart stays true
Yellow and blue
Chorus
Look up at the sky tonight
Do you see that garland of stars
The constellations of heartbreak
That knowing deep in my heart
That you’ll always be that far
That you’ll always be that far
Yellow and blue
Those were the colors
Of days without you
Everyday pretty
But so scared of nightfall
So scared of you
Yellow and blue
From yellow to blue
I missed my chance
To get through to you
That all of life isn’t lost
If your heart is true
If your heart stays true
Yellow and blue
Chorus
Look up at the sky tonight
And you remember all we were
The constellations of happiness
The feeling that we’d always
Be right where we are
The feeling that we’d always
Be right where we are
Yellow and blue
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9. |
Still Empty Rooms
05:10
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I woke up
But it’s not time
I couldn’t sleep for
Drowning in the night
But you’re so still
So long and supine
You never ever stir
As you go swimming through the night
And I hear every sound and see
The ghosts of lives yet to be
I hear every sound and see
Ghosts that look just like you and me
Chorus
And the wind blows through
Blows through
And the wind blows through
Your still empty rooms
I’ve no more time
To what the night
I should be flying
Like doves into the twilight
But I worry so
About words unspoken
And though I have your heart
Sometimes it feels like
Nothing more than a token
Chorus
Sometimes
I can’t even find the words
Like running away in dreams
I’m always slower than I need to be
And sometimes
I’ll breathe your name in the dark
As desperate as a last chance can be
They’re lost to every melody
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Tenant From Zero New York
Tenant From Zero is singer, composer Paul Darrah from Brooklyn, NY. Tenant From Zero songs aim for the romantic, moody, & melancholy sounds of 80s sophistipop.
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