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Opus 5
01:53
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Me Lady
01:50
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Never known a lady like me lady
Never known a lady who could treat her man that way
No I never known a lady like me lady
She burns me and she beats me
My lord how she mistreats me
Don't feed me for a week if I complain
She won't stay home and love me
Unless I give her money
I'd run away but she got me so afraid
Everybody!
Never known a lady like me lady
No I never known a lady who could treat her man that way
Hey!
I never known a lady like me lady
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Love You
02:19
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One thing I’ve asked
It’s what I’ll wait for
That you let me
Love you
I know you’re his
We’ve been through this before
But please let me
Love you
I’ve never known this strange desire
That I find in your eyes
It happens every time
And if it’s only once or twice
I’ll be satisfied
Don’t need to make you mine
One thing I’ve asked
It’s what I’ll wait for
That you let me
Love you
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4. |
Square One
03:38
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We've come full circle
We're where we began
I've kept you and left you
Now we're starting again
The sun's in its place
One rotation away
You and I at both ends
And between us one day
Square one
Sunrise and morning again
The place where I loved you
A room ten by ten
I said it was over
As I opened the door
But we're back to square one
And I need you once more
I loved you in winter
Looked away in the spring
Let you fall in the summer
As my love slipped away
(Once more) the days have grown shorter
In a world meant for two
My nights are empty
There's a space to be filled
Square one
Sunrise and morning again
The place where I loved you
A room ten by ten
I said it was over
As I opened the door
But we're back to square one
And I need you once more
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5. |
Poor Me
02:27
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If I had a dollar
For every time (I / I've) screamed and hollered
You have no right to be happy
When life's treated me so badly
I was dealt a losing hand no
Mr. Sunshine has come knocking on my door
When you're in my situation
You simply have no obligations
The whole world owes you something
And you don't owe nobody nothing
If you dare to contradict me
It's because you've never been there before
I'm the only one who's feeling sorry for me
No one understands it they will not believe
I talk and no one listens I'm the never-ending victim
Everybody screws me they all hate me and they use me
Another bitter disappointment and I cannot find an ounce of sympathy
Turn the page it's all the same another day for poor poor me
If you had to live through
All the trash that I have been through
I don't think that you could take it
You don't have the strength to make it
No one else could have survived this
Mine's the largest cross a person's had to bear
It's not my fault if you're saddened
I'm the only one who matters
I have made such sacrifices
No one's had it bad as I have
My best friends don't give me credit
And you think I'm even gonna try to care
I'm the only one who's feeling sorry for me
No one understands it they will not believe
I talk and no one listens I'm the never-ending victim
Everybody screws me they all hate me and they use me
Another bitter disappointment and I cannot find an ounce of sympathy
Turn the page it's all the same another day for poor poor me
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6. |
I'm Your Key Turn Me
03:52
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I'll lift you up baby
Take you to the highest peak
Make you drunk with love baby
But only if you turn me
I'll get you going baby
Run you 'til you can't breathe
Fill you up like nothing baby
But only if you turn me
I'm your key turn me
I'm your key turn me
I'm your key turn me
I'm your key turn me on
I'll spin you around baby
So fast you can barely see
Forget there is no net baby
But only if you turn me
If you're the engine baby
Then baby I'm the key
I'll put you in control baby
But only if you turn me
I'm your key turn me
I'm your key turn me
I'm your key turn me
I'm your key turn me on
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You came too late into my life
Was it just fate or circumstances not quite right
But to see you is pain, to be near you the same
So I’ll just look away
My heart breaks a little when I see your face
My heart aches a little every single day
Maybe if it was another time and place
My heart wouldn’t break when I see your face
A lonely life is hard to bear
But harder still when I see you standing there
I see your smile, your eyes, the sweetness inside
And I must look away
My heart breaks a little when I see your face
My heart aches a little every single day
Maybe if it was another time and place
My heart wouldn’t break when I see your face
My heart wouldn't break when I look away
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Used
02:23
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9. |
Rubbish
02:11
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She doesn't love me anymore
(She) said the feeling's dead and gone
If it was ever there
She had no choice but throw me out
Since I was stinking up the house
She needs to let in some fresh air
I'm just another nobody
Trying to be a somebody
A heaping pile of rubbish rotting unwanted in her alleyway
I've the best of company
In a bag with luncheon meats
Growing mold since yesterday
And if I slowly decompose
Maybe no one else will know
I'll just be gone one (fine) day
I'm just another nobody
Trying to be a somebody
A heaping pile of rubbish rotting unwanted in her alleyway
She won't put up a roof for me
She lets the neighbors puke on me
I'm a heaping pile of rubbish rotting unwanted in her alleyway
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Hot
02:00
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11. |
Word
03:43
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Won't hear your name and drop all I'm doing
I can't listen to that song (that) you sing
When you're drowning in your self-deprecation
You won't hear a word from me
I put out my hand and pulled you to safety
You'd prefer to perch more precariously
When you turn and run back into a burning building
You won't hear a word from me
CHORUS
I love the way you turned me off
Did he tell you not to care
You suddenly can't talk to me
It's as if I were not there
If he's less than half a world away
You edit all my lines
I'll play that game but one fine day
You'll be dying to fill the silence
You'd rather fight to win his approval
Than accept the love that flows freely from me
When he leaves you with a weight on your shoulders
You won't hear a word from me
CHORUS
He can love you just as much as I'm loving
Your excuses and empty apologies
When he cuts you down and rips you wide open
You won't hear a word from me
CHORUS
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12. |
Back to Love
02:27
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You can run away
Take another road
But there will come a day
The final bell will toll
You’ll come back to love
You can walk the line
Dividing love from hate
But when you choose the side
Where you’re obliged to stay
You’ll come back to love
You’ll grow tired of the silence
Of denying you’re alone
You’ll wonder how you survived til now
Without a love to call your own
You can stand apart
Insist you won’t conform
But when you find the heart
That beats in time with yours
You’ll come back to love
You’ll complete another lesson
Yet your questions will persist
You’ll arrive to find it’s dark inside
And no one’s home to let you in
You can run away
Take another road
But there will come a day
The final bell will toll
You’ll come back to love
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Joshua Lapo Pocatello, Idaho
Software engineer by trade, songwriter on the side.
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