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1. The Score Back
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Were you so under the gun
That you left me out of your sun
So caught up in one
Never seeing what we’d become
And I couldn’t decide
And it ate me alive
Ate me alive
I couldn’t decide
And it swallowed me up inside
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Now I’m so sick of empty words
We both heard them all before
And I just wanna be the one
The one that you adore
Not the one that evens the score
Playing games of hide and go seek
Telling tales whenever we speak
When I step – step out on my own
I’m just missing what felt like my home
2. Coming Up For Air
All the time that’s past
It makes me wanna cry
Always marching on
Never get it back again
I’ve got something left
Though I’ve been submerged
Gonna get in line
For a world in decline
And take back what is mine
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Coming up for air
Seek and you will find
All the places where
You got left, you got left behind
Choices that I made
Got a heart that can’t forget
How to skip a beat
Filling up with joy
Save me from myself
Drag me from the wreckage
I want to breathe it in
Feel the world spin
Find where to begin
3. Siren Song
You told me that you found the key to life
When all you could take were the keys to leave
What was it made me wanna follow you
Through all it was, up to right now
I just believed it when you told me
With that look you gave you’d show me how
Played it out like a kid with a stranger
Your voice made me safe from the danger
Can’t believe just a siren song
Was calling out to me
I don’t understand this old life
Soft touch has the edge of a sharp knife
Should I look to the shiniest star
When I’m so lost at sea
But you told me that you found the key
You told me that you found the key to life
When all you could take were the keys to leave
There was a certainty that flowed from you
Straight into me, through the long nights
But like a preacher with his crying eyes
The tears that fell showed me what was right
4. Distorted
Way back in the distant past
I had it all and I knew it would last
Now I’m looking at a different scene
I wake up in the morning and I’m feeling mean
Let me be the first to say
I think I’ve lost my way
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All this around me, what can it be
It’s all distorted, I’ve forgotten how to see
Is this the truth that I lay my eyes on
Will it ever come back
No time for the stuff that don’t make no jing
Can’t stop or I’m gonna lose everything
Are we really living in tougher times
Or are we just giving in to ugly minds
I keep looking over my shoulder
Chillin’ as the world gets colder
5. Let 'Em In
I know you’re all about the power of one
Who can you count on when it’s said and done
But no one’s gonna get the best of you
You can’t deny it you know it’s true
No one knows your heart you lock it up
So afraid you’re gonna be set up
Making plans matter to you only
Then you wonder why you feel so lonely
Let ‘em in
I know about you cuz I’m just the same
I’ve been losing at the same old game
Hang back – never show my hand
No one ever knowing where I stand
Let ‘em in
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Let ‘em in
In a world gone mad it’s all so bad
And what is a person to do
You could take some time, cross that line
And let ‘em get close to you
Let ‘em get close to you
Let someone get close to you
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6. Special
It’s like magic
You were up so high now you’re all shook down
Letting Mr. Wrong mess you all around
Don’t mind him
He just smoked some courage now he’s talking trash
Don’t need a crystal ball to see that this won’t last
People gonna make you feel bad
About what you can’t do and you don’t have
People really hang me up the most
People gonna make you feel bad
About what you can’t do and you don’t have
They’re all the same from coast to coast
How you working
You say boss gets his before you get yours
All grown up and still doing your chores
Then there’s your family
They bring you up just to put you down
Got a lifetime to master pushing you around
People gonna make you feel bad
About what you can’t do and you don’t have
People really hang me up the most
People gonna make you feel bad
About what you can’t do and you don’t have
They’re all the same from coast to coast
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From master to slave
From cradle to grave
Every boy every girl
What makes you special in this old world
Just so happens
I know so and so who knows so and so
She’ll hook you up if you can keep it on the down low
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I can bring it, sling it, I can kick it, I can wing it
I can write it front to back and then sing it – HA!
Know what I’m sayin’??
7. For You
Before I knew you were I played it down
Now I see I’ll always be a clown
For you
And I hope to know
When to hold on tight and when to let go
Of you, for you
The world is sure to make you feel its bite
I’ll do everything I can to make it right
For you
If there’s something I can do to help you soar
I’ll find the key that opens every door
For you
And when we disagree I’m always gonna try to see
Your side
I hope you always tell me how you feel
You never have to hide
Never gonna do it all just right
Might not win but I will always fight
For you
Gonna try
To keep you down to earth
While showing you the sky
For you
Now it’s clear what I was put here for
Wanna give and give and give some more
For you
Through it all I hope it makes you glad
To know there’s nothing that’ll change
The love I have
For you
8. Jimmy's Gotta
Jimmy’s gotta
Jimmy’s gotta new
Jimmy’s gotta new lover
That’s all I hear
When I go out at night
I gotta find some new friends
They think I care
I wouldn’t care if he
He went and married his cousin
It seems like
Every time I turn around
Somebody’s telling me the score
And it’s not right
I should think about him
More now than I ever thought about him before
Jimmy’s living
In a new place
And it’s down by the water
They say he shacked up
With some barfly
After only six weeks
I’m just surprised
That he managed
To get a roof over his head
Looking back
On the times that we had
It’s hard to admit it but
I guess it wasn’t all bad
There was his Alpha
And his unmade bed
And there never really was much of that
Romantic bliss
There’s still those little things he did
That I’m gonna miss
9. Magpie
From the very start
You knew all the answers by heart
You played along
Even answered some of them wrong
So satisfied
That you have the light on your side
Full speed ahead
Never recall what you said
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Magpie
You pay all of the ransom
And never ask why
Truth left unspoken and promises broken
So far away
Always demanding a say
It’s black and white
You’re ready to take on a fight
Baby
All of the blessings you don’t see
Hot and cold
Your heart can be black as your gold
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Magpie
You know all the right people
To help you get by
Call on your savior for just one more favor
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Magpie
You pay all of the ransom
And never ask why
Truth left unspoken and promises broken
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