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I see it in your eyes
Why don't you take off that disguise?
I'm not falling for deception anymore
Although I don't know where you've been
I know you wouldn't let me in
If I was ever to show up there at the door
It doesn't matter how I try
Nothing seems to satisfy
I can tell that what you have here's not enough
For me you want to make it hard
To ask you end this sad charade
And I wonder really what am I made of?
Oh, the pointlessness of it all
Can't find a reason to keep it going any longer, no
The pointlessness of it all
I stopped believing there's any point in persevering anymore
No no no no no
No no no no no
No no no no no
No no no no no
I trace it back to the first time
You thought you'd cross a certain line
Was I dumb to let it go and start again
Perhaps that's where the rot set in
My judgement you were questioning
Had to push the boundaries every now and then
So maybe this is all my fault
'Cause I forgave the lies I caught
And who knows how many I missed in between?
Oh, without trust, why would I try?
Don't need the drama you could buy
In a cheap old photo-romance magazine
Oh, the pointlessness of it all
Can't find a reason to keep it going any longer, no
The pointlessness of it all
I stopped believing there's any point in persevering anymore
No no no no no
No no no no no
Oh oh
No no no no no
No no no no no
Oh oh
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Yes, I think I fell
But I just can't tell anybody what I'm feeling
It's more than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
You can never find out you're on my mind
Yeah, 24/7/365
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
I'm already with another
I can't change a thing right now
And I'm losing it more than I'd care to confess
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
Well, it's true I should see I've got it good
Yet I venture into your neighbourhood
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
And if you find out, well, I have no doubt
I'd have bigger problems to worry about
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
'Cause I'm already with another
I can't change a thing right now
And I don't know why I'd tear all that apart
No no no no no
So I bite my tongue
'Cause I just couldn't do anything anyhow
Still I feel like sometimes I might blow
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
No, I can't afford ever to be seen there hanging 'round your door
That'd mean the end of everything
I should be more careful what I wish for
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
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All you want to do is destroy me
All you want to do is destroy me
I couldn't listen to another one of your lies
You'd do just anything to get the others on your side
And every single thing is working
My whole world is paralysed
'Cause all you want to do is destroy me
All you want to do is destroy me
I wonder what it's gonna take to change their minds
The very thing I need more of and I don't have is time
I wish we'd never come together
Now I'm left on the outside
'Cause all you want to do is destroy me
All they want to do is destroy me too now
All you want to do is destroy me
All they want to do is destroy me too now
Ah-ah (destroy me)
Ah-ah (destroy me)
Ah-ah (destroy me)
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Sucker Punch
01:20
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I'm not sorry, I can't be anymore, no
You did the worst thing you ever could for your encore, oh
I had to leave you there in such a state
You can tell me it was all a mistake
But I'm no longer the one you knew before, oh
Well, there's a hundred things you could have done
But making out with them wasn't one
And you had to do it at the show, oh
Well, there's a hundred things I ought to do
But I'm not making up with you, no
That's why I just had to go
And where you don't need to know
Well, there's a hundred things I want to say
But I can't talk to you today
I can't believe you thought I wouldn't know
Now I just want you to go
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Nobody Else
02:17
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You had your reason
I guess, for treating me this way
I call it treason
It doesn't matter what you say
You showed your colours
Did what it took to get your pay
Just like the others
I can't believe in you again
Don't need another
I don't need anybody else
'Til I recover
From what you did to save yourself
Don't need another
I don't want anybody else
'Til I recover
I'll look out only for myself
And now you're leaving
In time, I'll lose all this regret
And your deceiving
I might forgive if not forget
I'll skip the rebound
Made that mistake once, twice before
No need to freak out
'Cause I don't love you anymore
Don't need another
I don't need anybody else
'Til I recover
From what you did to save yourself
Don't need another
I don't want anybody else
'Til I recover
I'll look out only for myself
Nobody else
Nobody else
Nobody else
I don't need anybody else
Nobody else
Nobody else
I don't need anybody else
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Winter Song
03:04
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Sometimes I feel it still
Sometimes I feel it washing over again
But, in the time that I have to kill
I see those blue skies clouding over
And then I wonder where the sun has gone
It used to warm my heart
Yours too, I'm sure
But now it's colder when we are apart
I could feel it in the summer
But summer had to go
It started falling in the autumn
Now it's buried in the snow
And I don't know if I can wait
Until the spring is here once more
Sometimes there comes a thrill
Sometimes but never when we're sober, my friend, no
Sometimes that winter chill cuts through
And asks me, "Is it over? The end?"
Though I'd miss your jokes and laugh
I wonder, would it be so bad if I walked out of here
And left you all alone?
I could feel it in the summer
But summer had to go
It started falling in the autumn
Now it's buried in the snow
And I don't know if I can wait
Until the spring is here
I could feel it in the summer
But summer had to go
It started falling in the autumn
Now it's buried in the snow
And I don't know if I can wait
Until the spring is here once more
I'm sorry, I'm not feeling summer anymore
I'm just not feeling what we used to have before
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Kissing in the Rain
02:15
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I don't remember why
I don't remember how
I don't recall what we were even thinking
All I know for sure
We were together
It wasn't long enough
The place in which we stood?
My memory's no good
I can only remember the feeling
How it happened I can't explain
I can only remember kissing in the rain
Then circumstances, they tore us apart again
I don't know when I'm ever gonna see you
And if I ever do
Oh, will we even feel the same way we did that night?
If I knew where to go
I'd seek you out and ask
Was that night only the beginning
Of something with any meaning at all
Or was it only drunken kissing in the rain?
Kissing in the rain
Oh, was it only drunken kissing in
Only drunken kissing in the
Only drunken kissing in the rain
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How will I know if you're the one I want to be with always?
Shouldn't it be more obvious?
It's not a small thing
If I don't know if you're the one I want to be with always
Should I hold out for somebody else?
Or is this as good as it will get
At least in this lifetime?
How will I know?
How will I know?
How will I know?
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The Photocopies Michigan
Unapologetically old-school #indiepop in a mid-80s-to-early-90s vein, made without secret plans to fill stadiums (ugh). Think lo-fi #c86 #twee #postpunk #janglepop etc. Originally from London.
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