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Welcome to the Masquerade
Like a cute kid
on a subway car,
You think you got
The run of the place.
While strangers laugh
and hipsters smile,
I've got a different
Look on my face.
Now you star
At the end of the bar,
With new friends
And soon to be ex lovers.
You exchange your glances
but if they knew,
They’d run and duck for cover.
Cause I've seen this all before (Hey!)
You make your moves
and you play your game
You shoot and you score.
I've paid my ticket,
I took that ride
I know the real you
The one who's behind
This masquerade.
Your laugh it rings
While the jukebox sings,
Some jolly old b-side
by Buddy Holly.
The Crickets chirp
while your hips sway,
The night always
seems to end in folly.
You flicker your eyes
And you say your goodbyes
As your leading tonight's lamb
Home for the slaughter.
You're so Innocent
Your Daddy must be proud that
You're his precious daughter.
I've seen this all before (Hey!)
You make your moves
You play your game
You shoot and you score.
I've paid my ticket,
I took that ride
I know the real you
The one who's behind
This masquerade
You've been gone a minute
Or maybe it's been a week
And I haven't really cared at all
Or even tried to speak,
Cause your black boots
The ones with those spiked heels
That I tongue shined so well,
I can’t get them out my,
And its living hell…
Because I’ve,
Seen this all this before
You make your moves
You play your game
You shoot and you score.
I've paid my ticket,
I took that ride
I know the real you
The one who's behind
This masquerade.
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2. |
Broken Strings
03:15
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Looking back on younger days
when they force fed me my fate
it was a shotgun situation
and it blew me right away
All my inspiration
Suddenly fades away
I’m looking down on her from angels wings
She plays my favorite song on broken strings
Now she’s lost within
still waiting on that day
when we once again begin
dreaming dreams we stashed away
All my inspiration
Suddenly fades away
I’m looking down on her from angels wings
She plays my favorite song on broken strings
Woah-hoo
Now all my inspiration
Suddenly fades away
I’m looking down on her from angels wings
She plays my favorite song on broken strings
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3. |
Touchee Feelee
02:51
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Started it out
all cool and easy,
but like a braille tattoo,
got all Touchee Feelee
Began the night
On the lower east side of my mind
You came in my sight and
My eyes they hit rewind
I told myself,
now don’t go causing a scene
But Christ you looked
so damn good in those tight jeans
Started it out
all cool and easy
but like a braille tattoo,
got all Touchee Feelee.
3 Shots in
And whiskey makes me fuzzy inside
You’re bathed in gin
Wanna dive in your slip and slide
You always broke
my heart in the past
But the future looks bright
and the nights going so fast
Started it out
all cool and easy
but like a braille tattoo,
got all Touchee Feelee.
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In Sunnyside,
Where I first found you.
When you were 17,
With all the boys around you.
I loved you then,
As I love you now
Even after all these years
As we walked along,
the Boulevard.
From Maggie Mays
to the Graveyard.
Well your eyes still shine,
like diamonds in my mind,
Even after all these years
And I find in these times
That I can’t keep my mind
off of all of the years gone by
and I wonder if you think of me
with your head upon your pillow.
‘Cause my lifes full of strife
your another mans wife
and I find I’m wondering why,
I’ve never told what my heart knows
even after all these years.
Now a sad half assed love song,
Is all I have to give.
And I dream about what might have been,
while I toast the life I live.
‘Cause I’ll never know the love I knew
like the love I knew with you
And I find in these times
That I can’t keep my mind
off of all of the years gone by
and I know that I will think of you
at times when I certainly shouldn’t
‘Cause I got a good wife
she’s the love of my life
but all the sweet could-be’s
still sing to me in harmony
even after all these years
Now a sad half assed love song,
Is all I have to give.
And I dream about what might have been,
while I toast the life I live.
‘Cause I’ll never know the love I knew
like the love I knew with you
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5. |
Except Everything
03:32
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So I'm drunk,
can you please take me in.
I'm wounded,
Drowned in my own sin
Trying to change
But where to begin
I’ve lost hope
from all I’ve endured
I can’t sleep,
I’m so fuckin’ bored
please don’t you grin
now please don’t you grin...
This is not,
Not like the others.
This is the last
Last time I call you
This is the one,
sign that we can be anything....
Except Everything.
My last gasp
And the waves keep on rollin'
Can't Keep,
Can't keep from laughin'
all the while I'm drownin'
Cause now,
I’m closing bars
Abandoned,
by my shining stars
they went and hid,
ahh whom I tryin to kid?
This is not,
Not like the others.
This is the last,
Last time I call you
this the one,
sign that we can be anything....
Except everything.
This is not,
Not like the others.
This is the last,
Last time I call you
this is the one,
sign that we can be anything....
Except Everything.
So toss me out,
like a paint stained ashtray.
I may have lost,
I’ve lost my own way
Baby, let me say
Just one more time
That I need you
Like the earth needs the sun
You, you're my perfect one
We, we can be,
anything,
Except everything.
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6. |
What Would I Do?
02:40
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All these games that I play with you,
All these trials that you put me through.
We never seem to get it right,
But still I know I want you tonight.
Makes me wonder, what would I do?
What would I do?
If I were you?
Say my favorite song is playin’ on the radio
You say the same it’s like we’re thinking in Stereo
Half the time your minds with mine,
The other half you're out of line.
Makes me wonder, what would I do?
What would I do?
If I were you?
When its dark and I’m so lonely
I hear you whisper, “please be true”
I’d love to say that you’re my one and only
But I get lonely...Woohoo Who!
Lyin’ awake, my head is so heavy
We did it again, sheets are torn and sweaty
I guess I could have put up a fight
Safe to say the prophets were right
Makes me wonder, what would I do?
what would I do?
If I were you?
We never seem to get it right,
At least I know I want you tonight.
Makes me wonder, what would I do?
what would I do?
If I were you?
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