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Oh, why is it so hard to see?
So difficult to understand?
I said I want to be your only one
But you don't seem to think I can
What am I doing wrong?
Did I put us in reverse?
You say this is as good as it gets
When it couldn't get much worse
Oh, it's not complicated
Did you hear the words I said?
No, it's not complicated
What goes on inside your head I don't know
I'm just trying to help you see I'm yours
I thought you knew
No, it's not complicated
But maybe it's just too complicated for you
I used to think that this was meant to be
Why have I so much to prove?
You should know you can depend on me
Look at all I've ever done for you now
You've got a fear of commitment
That's something I can understand
But this time it's different
You're not stumbling into sinking sand
Oh, it's not complicated
Did you hear the words I said?
No, it's not complicated
What goes on inside your head I don't know
I'm just trying to help you see I'm yours
I thought you knew
No, it's not complicated
But maybe it's just too complicated for you
Too complicated for you
What am I supposed to do now?
The only one I want is you
What'll it take for you to believe me
Oh, it's not complicated
Did you hear the words I said?
No, it's not complicated
What goes on inside your head I don't know
I'm just trying to help you see I'm yours
I thought you knew
No, it's not complicated
But maybe it's just too complicated for you
Too complicated for you
What am I supposed to do now?
The only one I want is you
Oh, why is it so complicated for you?
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Ooh, it doesn't seem that long ago
The two of us would share what's going on
Now am I the only one?
Who's the one I saw you with today?
Of course I'm gonna ask what's going on
Am I not the only one?
Well, I know
You pause where you would gush before
I don't know why you won't talk to me anymore
No
You, you used to tell me everything
The good, the bad, just anything
Where did your words all go
Oh
You, you used to tell me everything
Now you don't even wear the ring
Where did the feeling go?
Oh
Ooh, I wonder could this turn around
If you should stumble down the path you're on
Would you choose to be back home?
Ooh, whatever this is you have found
I'd love to tell you it won't last that long
But maybe this is what you've become
Well, I know
You stop where you would rush before
I don't know if there's a future here anymore
No
You, you used to tell me everything
The good, the bad, just anything
Where did your words all go?
Oh
You, you used to tell me everything
Now you don't even wear the ring
Where did the feeling go?
Oh
You, you used to tell me everything
The sound would stir my heart to sing
Now I "don't need to know"
Oh
You, you used to tell me everything
My calls you're never answering
Where did our future go?
Oh
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Up There (alternate mix)
02:29
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Into this world you brought me, yeah
Can I pretend I didn't have a care?
Well, you did what you could with a little
I couldn't ask for any more, not really
I loved you 'though I might've never said
My actions spoke, I like to think, instead
Never doubted you loved me and I won't ever forget
But will we meet again someday?
Up there
Could we be together?
Up there
Well, I don't know whether I'll even make it alone
It's not like I would dare to think I'm worth it
Up there
Would I even find you?
Up there
With the one who designed you?
I'd better dim any hopes of ever telling you
Just how much you meant to me
Up there
Up there
Ooh
Up there
Could we be together?
Up there
Well, I don't know whether I'll even make it alone
It's not like I would dare to think I'm worth it
Up there
Would I even find you
Up there
With the one who designed you?
I'd better dim any hopes of ever telling you
Just how much you meant to me
Up there
Up there
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Ooh
I wish that you would notice me
Or take a second look
I like to think we're not so different
Now I've seen you with that book
And I'm hearing through the grapevine
That you'll be out Saturday
At the club where all the cool kids hang
Where all the good bands play
There's a group I heard you like
That's coming to town, oh
Maybe you'd give me that look
If you saw me around
So oh oh
Now I'm wishing I had tickets for Saint Etienne
'Cause I know that you'll be going to the show
Oh oh oh
Now I'm wishing I had tickets for Saint Etienne
'Cause wherever you might be
Yeah, I wanna go
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
If I could only make you see
That I'm more than meets the eye
Maybe you'd be here right next to me
The least I can do is try
Now I'm cramming Cracknell Stanley Wiggs
And I'm reading Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
While I scrape together pennies
Just enough to make it there
Can I find that cash by the weekend?
It's stressing me so much, oh
Are you going with somebody
How will I know?
Oh oh oh
Now I'm wishing I had tickets for Saint Etienne
'Cause I know that you'll be going to the show
Oh oh oh
Now I'm wishing I had tickets for Saint Etienne
'Cause wherever you might be
Yeah, I wanna go
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Now it's Saturday
I've just enough to pay here on the door
But they tell me it's sold out
And here comes...
The one I adore
(sigh)
Now I'm wishing I had tickets for Saint Etienne
'Cause I know that you'll be going to the show
Oh oh oh
Now I'm wishing I had tickets for Saint Etienne
'Cause wherever you might be
Yeah, I wanna go
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
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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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