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Big White Lies
03:58
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Big White Lies
Somebody asked me if the sun was really shining and if it's different if I stand next to you
If you can stand in the sun Listen and worship the sun
Of course I can't explain the force of the sea A poisoned power with a will to be free
Yet it prays up and down to the sun While you sway up and down like the moon
Fool my eyes with illusion Set the clock with my hands
tied to my head in the sand
Big White Lies in the sunny skies (Big White Lies, White Lies)
Darkness surrounding my head (Round my head)
I'm alright when I'm in the light (I'm alright, all right)
Black on white brings truer sight ahead (I'm ahead)
The talk I make encounters trouble every minute The story doesn't move as fast as before
the pitch impossible I see and won't admit it The underground is shaking down to the core
and I won't crawl into the earth Just burn me up with the earth
Big White Lies in the sunny skies (Big White Lies, White Lies)
Darkness surrounding my head (Round my head)
I'm alright when I'm in the light (I'm alright, all right)
Black on white brings truer sight ahead (I'm ahead)
I'm bowing down and bowing the strings of disgrace and delight
I break the silence and bring the daybreak back to the light [solo]
I'm warming up to thoughts I never thought I'd dream of
Somebody asked me if this house is on fire
You can't start the fire in my room Until you lasso the moon
Fool the crowd with confusion, promising a dock to the Land
Dying with the Head of command
Big White Lies in the sunny skies (Big White Lies, White Lies)
Darkness surrounding my head (Round my head)
I'm alright when I'm in the light (I'm alright, all right)
Black on white brings truer sight ahead (I'm ahead)
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Sun
03:28
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Sun
the sun doesn't shine on the love that she's wasting
the love doesn't mind all the time that she's shining
but time can't hold up for the life that he's waiting for and no one speeds it along
all for the moment of breaking the silence, leaving a shadow of doubt
and nobody notices the mess in the making
and nobody sees all the promise he’s breaking
the sun never shines in the darkness the wind never blows you away
and time needn't hurry along now but it will, and i'll wait
the two in the forest are seeing a new way
the mashing of mouths isn't making it my day
a card in the mail isn't bringing the news, no, you can just cry when you want
a flash in your head or a crash on the bed, take it outside if you can
and nobody notices the sky and what's breaking
and nobody sees all the mess in the making
the sun never shines in the darkness the wind will never blow you away
and time needn't hurry along now but they will, and they do [solo]
and nobody notices the sky and what's breaking
and nobody sees all the mess that we're making
the sun never shines in the darkness the wind never blows you away
and time needn't hurry along now but it will, all for you
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3. |
Annalisa
03:24
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Head full of words, one thing to say
One word alone is all I want today
But not tonight, I cannot stay
this one word game can only be her name
Annalisa, Annalisa
Annalisa, I know it's just her name, but it never sounds the same
if I think of her again, Annalisa
Such perfect lines must cross in time
She's one too many lives to never meet
She's very sweet, makes Jesus weep, yet makes me laugh
while putting me to sleep
Annalisa, Annalisa
Annalisa of the lights and the sights of you around my life
is right, all in line, pull it down when the idea is mine
You can't believe it now
solo verse
Annalisa, Annalisa, Annalisa
Annalisa, I know it's just your name, but it never sounds the same
if I think of you again
Annalisa
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4. |
Somedays (A&M Version)
03:14
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Did I think that you would ever go far enough to never return
The rest could go and I would never know
Yes, you're still very young
Somedays I think a lot of you
Why is it now, when I just got a hold of you, the sun went down
Maybe I should go now and take some ride for a very long time
Where was it you went?
Leave me the tortured palm, leave me a place at the back of the line,
and I'll carry on
But somedays I think a lot of you, yeah, somedays I think a lot of you
You said let's stay home from work and play that tape 'til it wore thin
Well, nothing seems the same without you
Without that sensibility
SOLO
Did I think that you would ever go far enough to never return
The rest could go, man, I would never know
Oh, you're so very young
Leave me your final word, the one expected and never heard
Although I don't too often
Somedays I think a lot of you, Somedays I think a lot of you
Oh, somedays I would think a lot
and somedays I would not forget
Somedays I think a lot of you, of you, of you.
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Bad Black Lonesome
02:03
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I was the happiest man you ever knew
Thought only the weakest heart could
fall into the darkest empty pit
Bad Black Lonesome, she lives with me
Bad Black Lonesome, don't let me fall
Although I know that I can't hide the lies that we both see
I've pursued an understated
isolated love affair with
Bad Black Lonesome, I'm gonna fall, back into
Bad Black Lonesome, she lives with me
solo verse
A thousand commands from every side
told me to stay with you
and I asked does love exist
when I reached out, you were gone to
Bad Black Lonesome, don't let me fall back into
Bad Black Lonesome, she lives with me and you
Bad Black Lonesome, don't let me fall
Bad Black Lonesome, she lives with me
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6. |
Don't Worry Now
04:26
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Don't worry now, that's what the letter said someone else will take up where I leave
I gotta go and find another way
to please the world, myself, and still believe it's all the same to you in the end
Don't worry now, you've got the rest of your life to wonder why this change has come (and how)
Don't hurry now to figure out my life
I'll be replaced, you'll see, you'll have the time to rediscover who controls your mind
Sleepness nights won't go away without the sight
The truth of what it means to be upright in bed alone on the darkest night
Don't worry now, you've got the rest of your life to wonder why this change has come (and how)
Don't hurry now to figure out your life
To see yourself so different now but much the same as I knew how
Sleep little lover hold your head up high outside I have a story to complete
You'll start to heal with every one you meet
And with that course my image has to die to make way for the curse in my reply
Don't worry now, you've got the rest of your life to wonder why this change has come right now
Don't hurry now to figure out my life
I see myself a different guy without the charms that you can buy
See yourself so different now but much the same as I knew how
see myself a different guy without the charms that you can buy
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Love (there you are)
03:47
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Love (There You Are)
I have everything to say
but nothing to offer when the day is through
except what I want
I find excuses to bring you back
and fill up your head with pictures of your dreams
but never see them
Love, oh, there you are so oft misled
and left for dead
Love, you drew the crowds back in your day
they've gone away
Reason I'm hearing the voice again
It's not so easy to answer anything today
when I'm alone tonight
Dreams repeating the nightmare scene
the one who could pass a lie was
the last to cry during our big fight
Love, oh, there you are so oft misled
and left for dead
Love, you drew the crowds back in your day, they've
gone away, and there you are...
You want perfection, don't ya
You aren't perfect, but you are loved
With love and perfection:
What are you looking for?
Fun that gave you a ball to roll
The damage is done
and everything is gone unwittingly
Run and catch her before she knows
the magic is gone but with the time she'll go
unwilling, instilling thee with misery
Love, oh, there you are so oft misled
and left for dead
Love, you drew the crowds back in your day,
but they've gone away
And there you are, and there I am, and there we are
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8. |
On My Hands
03:34
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Never got along with anyone
Long enough to get past argument one
She'd have a word to say when I got away
In time to tell the birds I'll meet on the way
Yes, on my way I would be
I love you if you make love to me
How will you go on when everyone is gone
I'm doing fine and I see a light on my line
How do you get by, You're living out a lie
Can't tell you now I got too much time on my hands
History should tell me how to be
Forty-five looks much like thirty-three
Never got straight on trying something new
So I go on and tell the tired story too
This is the way I will be
I love her while you make love to me
How will you go on when everyone is gone
I'm doing fine, don't try to pay me no mind
How do you get by, You're living out a lie
Can't tell you now I got too much blood on my hands
So don't give me your grief
Don't say I stole your heart
Don't speak to me again, I believe in easing the pain
Don't speak truth to me again
You'll have a word to say for our separate days
In time to tell the birds I'll meet on the way
And on their way they will be
Lover takes love and makes more than me, see?
How do you go on when everyone is gone
I'm doing fine shine a light in my eye
How will you get by, still living out a lie
Can't tell you how I got so much time on my hands
Can't tell you how I live myself, understand?
Can't find the truth we demand
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9. |
Here I Go
02:59
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Here I go, tell me how I found nothing was around for opportunity
I want to know, why right from the start I can't steal a heart to fascinate me
If you would like to know nobody ever calls or asks my name
You'd think I'd want to go back to the time and place from where I came
But you arrive, take me by surprise
I will not disguise my wishful mind
In spite that I've fallen once before
You're the one I'd swore I'd never find
You'll see a light that shines upon the gloom
pretending to presume he knows everything you need and then proceed
He'll make your life a peaceful means to end
and then you'll both pretend you're satisfied
We're much too young to judge
Don't throw away the days that come our way
I'll lay my knife in blood just tell me where to be and name the day
and let the others go their way
when all is said and done you won't regret this one
So now you know, suddenly aware
Life without a care to come along
How I know if it's going well only time will tell if I am wrong
and here I go, here I go, here I go
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10. |
Sight & Sound
03:01
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SIGHT & SOUND C. von Sneidern
When I think of David Drive sweet and sour in ‘65
I get the feeling that I made a big mistake the way I stayed
When we left the shout was heard I laughed I didn’t know the words
just like then he left the ring Is that a real uncanny thing?
Oh, I don’t know why...
Sight and sound remind me now time and place beat my brow
shut in silence blind in fear knowing the past behind me here
So I ignore the warning sign a time in the past that I resign
it keeps on coming closer now a tragedy is creeping down
My room was bright with my t.v. the night catastrophe hit me
he taught his killer what to sing Is that a real uncanny thing?
Oh, I don’t know why...
Sight and sound remind me now time and place beat my brow
shut in silence blind in fear knowing the past behind me here
She held my hand and drove the car of the man that held the bar
between his teeth and lifted up the final check and winner’s cup
Oh, I don’t know why...
Sight and sound remind me now time and place beat my brow
shut in silence blind in fear knowing the past behind me here
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11. |
Doctor
03:19
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Doctor, can you save her heart?
Scattered dreams show in her art
Battlegrounds and Ancient Age are creeping through
the ink onto the page
She would rather be alone than face the loss of any ones that had to go
This will always show
Twenty years of sacrifice for her children, not a wife
When they left, she heard no shout
Just a dying sound inside and out
She would rather be alone than bear the cost of losing everything again
Bring them back again
Can you resurrect her dreams?
Like the way she gave this life to me
She would rather not have to say no to happiness
instead say yes to willingness to survive
Operation a success
I can see her striving’s on the fall, but one problem, I confess,
there’s still a piece of heart that’s repossessed.
Would she rather be alone than bear the loss of opportunity unknown?
Bring it back again,
have your own again
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12. |
One Side in Heaven
03:04
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I look upon the time I promised truer love
My head up in the sky to stay a step above
knowing not to fight to keep what I had found
Someone strikes the iron, I throw her to the ground
One side of me is in Heaven, the rest of me trying to get down
But I look, look, look and I'm seeing the way that I am right now
Troublesome to find a friend who's true and tough
who could come around when no one's good enough
I look behind my back each time I take my leave
What could all this mean, I'm starting to believe
One side of me is in Heaven, the rest of me trying to get down
But I look, look, look and I'm seeing the way that I am right now
Love isn't here, love isn't there,
Love's not at all what I want
Love shouldn't come when I want
I admit to the love of my wont
One side of me is in Heaven, the rest of me trying to get down
But I look, look, look and I'm seeing the way that I am
the way that I am, the way that I am right now
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13. |
Open Wide
02:38
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You’ve got to take a lot, there’s no escape or a way to explain
My heart’s the same, wondering what will come of tomorrow
Find some regard for a life full of sorrow
I’ve got to try to get over the line, open wide
will you give me a try
Someone is talking, I want to hear, open wide
I am listening now
Don’t give up easily, keep your grip on all you know
Your number’s coming up
You can leave us on the ground, take the other way around
Do you ever curse out loud, trying to find out the reason now
or ever wonder how so many go without making a sound,
some refusing to die until they’ve been found
I’ve got to try to get over the line, open wide
will you give me a try
Someone is talking, I want to hear, open wide
Open wide
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14. |
Going Back to See
03:31
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You should call, it's easier to take a fall
than to die fighting
For this this hack, it's harder to accept the fact
than to try writing
Little gets so big when left all alone
in a world that lives and dies by the phone
Is there anybody home? Oh, I---
Now I'm going back there to see, to see what you meant to me
and if I find hope I'll know that time will pass while I go
away or make me quit, forever regretting it
SOLO VERSE
Little gets so big when left all alone
in a world that lives and dies by the phone
Is there anybody home? Oh, I---
Now I'm going back there to see, to see what you meant to me
and if I find hope I'll know that time will pass while I go
away or make me quit, forever regretting it
Never walk away from ties that bind
Never throw away the first idea that you had
Your first bet wasn't all so bad...
Make a move to spite the two that disapprove
one of your choices
Pull up a chair and tell me how it died and where
in your own voices
Little gets so big when left all alone
in a world that lives and dies by the phone
Is there anybody home? Oh, I---
Now I'm going back there to see, to see what you meant to me
and if I find hope I'll know that time will pass while I go
away or make me quit, forever regretting it
Now I'm going back there to see, to see what you meant to me
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15. |
Tell Me Again
03:04
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I take too long to get along
these things were not so obvious to me right at the start
I must go on, my time is gone
but someone wants to know the reason why I have to go
Tell me again, tell me why
I don't remember sayin' goodbye
Tell me again, tell me why
If I did, I don't know why
It's up to me, too blind to see
I threw away the only chance to live an honest life
Back in my pad, first thought I had
Now what do I do I made the rules I'm still confused
Tell me again, tell me why
I don't remember sayin' goodbye
Tell me again, tell me why
If I did, I don't know why
Did I say, Did I say, Did I say, Did I say... (solo)
I take too long to get along
these things were not so obvious to me right at the start
Tell me again, tell me why
I don't remember sayin' goodbye
Tell me again, tell me why
If I did, I don't know why
repeat
Did I say, Did I say, that I wanted it that way?
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16. |
Without a Prayer
04:06
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WITHOUT A PRAYER
He doesn’t know when the room went dark
but he found himself without a doubt
that the chance was gone to make another mark
and put another prayer in a stack he saved without a
place or time that he could call his own
Would you say his soul was saved?
Now, what is your life, is living everything you wanted tonight?
Hey, when will the time of living foolishly be same as
seriously shameful waste of your time
Wondering what to do with all these prayers
Rising to the service I arrive Holding onto my dear life
We all said each had seen you last alive
Betting on the tear tracks ten percent to tithe
Walking right in the footsteps of the Lord
Would you say his soul was saved?
And in the darkness there he died, or will a bastard be revived?
Now, what is my life, is living everything I wanted tonight?
Hey, when will the time of living foolishly be same as
seriously shameful waste of my time
Wondering what to do without a prayer
I can't believe this anyhow, I don't understand
Your suffering and sacrifice under praying hands
solo
I’m cast unclean until the evening Looking every bit the part
Undiscovered sinners leaning in
to practice to perfect the meaning of neglect
Art carved stone angels looking up and down
It’s dark enough to walk around
So is it darkness when I die, or will a bastard be revived?
He’s a little genius of faith, with ideas newborn from haze
God, what was my life, was dying everything you wanted tonight?
God, when will the time of living foolishly be the same as a
seriously shameful waste of my time
Wondering how to get a single prayer
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17. |
On the Ground
03:30
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Born with the feeling of living alone
Some have no trouble, some like to roam
Lost for a moment of hearing the sound
then I got my ear down to the ground
Needed for comfort, wanted for love
You're missing something, it's never enough
Look for a lifetime, might never be found
all that you see here in the round
I got what you need, here on the ground
I waited for sunrise, but you had it set
Just looking forward to the day you could forget
that I made a promise, and gave it a try
I'll come to meet you in the sky
but you always knew I wouldn't fly
Leave for a long time, leave for a while
Carry it over, I'll reconcile
Time's a great healer, but you'll be around
'til I'm forgotten in the ground
'til we're forgotten...in the ground
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Chris von Sneidern San Francisco, California
Chris von Sneidern (CvS) is a San Francisco-based singer/songwriter and recording artist with thirteen critically acclaimed, self-produced albums. CvS has entertained audiences with his music in Japan, Spain, and throughout the UK and USA. He owns and operates a commercial recording studio in San Francisco. ... more
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