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Well I know you you know me I know the road you walk
And I don’t like to see you shaken I won’t hear that talk
The song and dance we memorise strike a pose and it burns their eyes
Come on now baby tantalise me drown me in your endless sea
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It’s all out and so good babe
Why do you swim inside my head
It’s all out and so sweet babe
Why do you swim inside my head
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Looking great you’re thinking late wearing your passion dress
I just want to see you smiling I won’t fake the kiss
A song and dance we memorise strike a light and it burns their eyes
Come on baby tantalise me drown me in your endless sea
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It’s all out and so good babe
Why do you swim inside my head
It’s all out and so sweet babe
Why do you swim inside my head
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People always looking for something they just cannot find
I know now they’re searching out answers that come from inside
People always been looking for something they just cannot find
I know now if we let this love die we’re gonna someday cry
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Cos it’s all right and so good babe
Why do you swim inside my head
It’s all right and so sweet babe
Why do you swim inside my head
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It’s all right and so sweet babe
Why do you swim inside my head
It’s all right and so good babe
It’s all right and so good babe
It’s all right
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HOW MANY MORE TEARS
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How many more ways can we try
How many more ways can we try
How many more tears can we cry
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If we get lucky in life we find a taste of love that’s real
Hope it’s gonna last forever show us how to feel
‘Til it’s gone like a silent sigh or high on the wind
Give it time let it breathe it’ll find it’s own way in
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How many more ways can we try
How many more ways can we try
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How many more ways can we try
How many more tears can we cry
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Tried to sing Ich liebe dich in the key of D
But it always sounded weird to you and me
So I tried my people’s words that mean a lot to me
Is grá liom tú a chuisle mo chroi
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How many more ways can we try
How many more ways can we try
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How many more ways can we try
How many more tears can we cry
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Famed three words will testify
Do their best to satisfy
The yearning the burningÂ
We can’t deny
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In this world of fear and faithÂ
Some holy men try to spread blind hate
All we can do is free our mindsÂ
And not take the bait
History won’t repeatÂ
But it sure likes to rhyme
The best I can do is hold your handÂ
And hope that you hold mine
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How many more ways can we try
How many more ways can we try
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How many more ways can we try
How many more tears can we cry
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WEDDING GOWNÂ
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In the light of rising Spring I watched her sway on the garden swing
Recalled how her coming took my wife        Â
Out of darkness she brought the light and like a blind man given sight
I could finally see the meaning of life
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She used to play in a wedding gown
Cast mother’sshadowontheground
My little princess for her I'd die
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Bloomed into a beautiful rose in the summer sun she glowed
Then darkness returned with a boy who called me sir
He walked in first left her standing there asked for her hand and I gasped for air
But he called me sir liked to call me sir
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She always dreamt of a wedding gown
A handsome prince and a sparkling crown
But the Devil often hides in the light
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How do we protect who we love most from those who choose to walk like ghosts
Moving through this world testing fathers’ fears
And we know if we say no our kids will laugh before they goÂ
Leaving us to question how we live with ourselves
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She always wanted a wedding gownÂ
It became her funeral shroud
Nothing I said could have turned it around
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She’d given all for no return been his fool with her back turned
He was running circles round their town
Now he could run no more men like that run out of floor
When their castles of sand fall to the groundÂ
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She used to play in a wedding gown
Cast angel shadows across the ground
She lost her life to a hand me down
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She always dreamt of that wedding gown
A handsome prince and a sparkling crown       Â
Followed mother’s footsteps in her wedding gown
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PILLARSTONE
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Don’t know much about the Bayou never made the move to LA
Fell in love in London town couldn’t wait to get away
Now I’m back on my home ground they all think my numbers came inÂ
Or that I live outside the law they see feast not the famine
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Hard to make a living selling stories and songs
Always worked my fingers to the boneÂ
And I can weather any storm
Like a pillar stone
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The day that I came home you know the sun started to shine
I dreamt I could walk on water and turn it to wine
Some said I’m too big for my boots but envy’s a well run dryÂ
If you don’t like what I got going on lift your heels and walk on byÂ
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Hard to make a living selling stories and songs
Always worked my fingers to the boneÂ
And I can weather any storm
I’m the Pillarstone
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You could say I’m lucky you could say I’m rich
Got two times all I need but it’s nothing you can count
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Hard to make a living selling stories and songs
Always worked my fingers to the boneÂ
And I can weather any storm
Cos I’m the Pillarstone
You won’t hear me moan
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TWO WRONGSÂ
Two wrongs don’t make a rightÂ
I apologised for the other nightÂ
Say what you want there’s no need to fightÂ
Two wrongs don’t make a right
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I didn’t mean to hurt you so she just smiled it was all for show
She grabbed my hand asked me to dance what you saw was a confused man
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Two wrongs don’t make a rightÂ
I apologised for the other nightÂ
Say what you want there’s no need to fight
Two wrongs don’t make a right
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Aw now honey you don’t have to go stop running round just come back home
I was wrong but it’s not right since you been gone I can’t sleep at night
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I see the writing on the wallÂ
I know we’re heading for a fall
I’m on the other side of a ten cent callÂ
And that’s not all well that’s not all
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Like a dog I always ran to you a blind fool right on cueÂ
Made one mistake now you say we’re through what can I do to prove my love to you?Â
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Two wrongs don’t make a right
I apologised for the other nightÂ
Say what you want there’s no need to fight
Two wrongs don’t make a right
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I’m on the other side of a ten cent callÂ
And that’s not all no that’s not all
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Two wrongs don’t make a right
I apologised for the other nightÂ
Say what you want there’s no need to fight
Two wrongs don’t make a right
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ALL THOSE THINGS
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Been a traveller all my life dearÂ
And I will tell you what I have seen
They built us up to fall in dirt dearÂ
And twist good words to something obscene
There wasn't too much light around hereÂ
But I have soaked enough for me
So when you see me smile at you dearÂ
Know it’s love and not pity
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Do not forget to forgive me
For all those thingsÂ
Things that I said
Do not forget to forgive meÂ
All those thingsÂ
All those thingsÂ
All those things that I did
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You know the children have no voice dearÂ
A soldier less chance to seeÂ
The hand that leads him to Hell's door dearÂ
Is the hand that sets him up to be
A nowhere pawn in a game of chess dearÂ
A chequered board he'll never leave
As I float towards my dreams nowÂ
I beg of you for me don’t grieve
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Do not forget to forgive me
For all those thingsÂ
Things that I said
Do not forget to forgive meÂ
All those thingsÂ
All those thingsÂ
All those things that I did
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There are many here among us nowÂ
Whose sorry tales wash over me
But I have had my share and more dearÂ
Please don’t waste your grief on me
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Do not forget to forgive me
For all those thingsÂ
Things that I said
Do not forget to forgive meÂ
All those thingsÂ
All those thingsÂ
All those things that I did
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UNKINDÂ
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Some are cold some are sly
Some will bring a tear to your eye
Some are born to be wild
Some will treat you like a child
Some will treat you unkind
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Mother said I want to tell you sonÂ
I want to let you know right now
How some pretty girls minds workÂ
Might save your soul somehow
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Some are cold some are sly
Some will bring a tear to your eye
Some are born to be wild
Some will treat you like a child
Some will treat you unkind
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Well if I’d gone just one more roundÂ
I would not be so down
If I’d known then what I know nowÂ
She might still be aroundÂ
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Some are cold, some are sly
Some will bring a tear to your eye
Some are born to be wild
Some will treat you like a child
Some will treat you unkind
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Prison bars as unforgivingÂ
As the knife in my hand
The night she laughed and told meÂ
About her new tall dark-haired handsome man
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Well I was cold I was sly
I brought a tear to her eye
She was born to be wild
She never treated me like a child
I always thought it was unkind
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Wish I was home and still a child
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I BELIEVE
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Three small words, a telephoneÂ
A thousand miles from your sigh
I knew right then I spoke too soon
I almost cried
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Half my life I’ve been waiting
For angel eyes
Now I found them they see through meÂ
This love I can’t hide
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I believe in how I feel about you
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Take your time it’s all rightÂ
We got the rest of our lives
We saved our love for someone specialÂ
It’s only right
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‘Cause I believe in how I feel about you
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I understand your anxietiesÂ
I got some of my own
No need to doubt or hesitateÂ
Heart to heart we’re home
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The past is gone tomorrow’s calling meÂ
Back to your side
We found love from heaven fallingÂ
Feelings can’t be denied
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I believe in how I feel about youÂ
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