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Planet
04:25
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Planet
I knew a man
I cast a spell
He lives in my dreams
Don't tell
His light is shining bright through my nights
I see a man who still does shine 'though his light has died
A thousand, thousand years ago
Fight the night that brings the tears
morning's memories how they pierce
I have stopped but they have gone those years
Fight darling in your sleep
Fight darling in sleep
So the reason why I came telling you here of my shame
I need you to release the man inside
I'll fight you ever night
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There's me in red
There's me in blue
There's me who loves you
There's me who runs back to you
There's me with kids
Full of anger
Full of understanding
A life on the coast
A life beside you
A life with many men
A life with just one
It all, it all is a life
And I am thankful for what I got
I can see the passing
And the sensitivity
Will you carry me
I can't quite decide who to be
Who to be
If you can love me
Knowing not all of me
Knowing not all of me is always there
Ten versions of me
Twenty version of me
Thirty version of me
Forty version of me
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3. |
A Minute
01:38
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For a minute I thought my phone rang and my heart sank
For a minute I thought that you had turned around
Less than a minute it took to get up my hopes so high
And then time went by
Oh a minute it takes
That memories made
Oh time's no healer
Time's a steal
I simply recall nothing but goodbye
And my head aches
For a minute I feel the weight of the sum
The good, the bad in truth they are all long time gone
Time, time, it's all I've got
Time, time, it's all I've got
Just a minute has past
How memories are fast
I know they're coming back to you
A field so vast
But don't harvest the past
Let time go by
Let time go by
Let time go by
Let time go by
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4. |
Airport
03:18
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Airport
I met you at the airport
When my hair was still short
Now it's growing longer
As I'm growing fonder
Of the things that you said that got you in to my bed
Now it's february and I am still weary
When you left on christmas
For another misses
I headed to an airport too
Hating this city more than I hate you
Standing at the gate
Trying to force fate
Now I'm at an airport
I think I'll cut my hair short
I thought it was temporary
But then you were very
Affectionate and passionate
Oh how I was misled
I should have let you pay the plane ticket
Should have played the game
But it was getting warmer
Warm enough to sit outside
Though you're not pretty in the sun
I said I'm not gonna run
What had just begun
Will outshine your
Shortcomings
Should have been running
Now it's a hot, hot summer
And I'm cool, cool, cool
You won't be getting anything
And I will not attach a string
When you talk about the sea
How we'll go there you and me
I know just what I'll get
And by dawn I will regret
Headlights on down the street
In pursuit of happiness
Old the haunting loneliness
Used my hope
New the dress
These preowned pieces of my heart
Hold them tight don't fall apart
As I do remember
It is soon September
I'll meet you in the city
Faces read possibility
I'll meet you in the park
Where we meet after dark
Where we huddle and cluster
Love here is just faster
In the hours of despair
Isn't he just as fair
Now it's a hot, hot summer
And I'm cool, cool, cool
You won't be getting anything
And I will not attach a string
When you talk about the sea
How we'll go there you and me
I know just what I'll get
And by dawn I will regret
Now my hair is long
I guess I am strong
And independent
I'll make do and mend
I'll give a good fifty percent
Plane schedule at hand
But a hundred I'll demand
Let's not get this out of hand
I look at the sky
See the planes passing by
I could be in one of them
I could never leave again
I could write a travelogue
But it would be a monologue
It was a hot, hot summer
I was cool, cool, cool
Still you were getting everything
You really got under my skin
When I think about the sea
How we crossed it you and me
How could I forget
What you give is what you get
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5. |
Eggshell
04:30
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Bites your nails and pulls your hair
It's inside you no matter what suit you wear
Looks up or down
Wears your crown
The infant ruler
No one is cra- crueler
Eggshell won't you break apart
In the right spots you are strong
Your father, mother build us hard
As they pushed us all along
The reason why you're fragile now
Is the fear of breaking up
The fear of loosing what is left
Fear the child that won't grow up
I can't let go, I won't let go
This is hi-ha-home
This is me-ma throne
I'll still dri-dra-driven and nothing is forgiven
The pain and the anger
They feed my hunger
I'll scre-scra-scream from the top, from the top
From the top of my lungs
Till the burst and it will
Fill the sky , Be the shadow in the sky
Be the first and the last thing on earth
Eggshell won't you break apart
In the right spots you are strong
Your father, mother build us hard
As they pushed us all along
The reason why you're fragile now
Is the fear of breaking up
The fear of loosing what is left
Fear the child that won't grow up
Bites your nails and pulls your hair
It's inside you no matter what suit you wear
Looks up or down
Wears your crown
The infant ruler
No one is cra-crueler
Eggshell won't you break apart
In the right spots you are strong
Your father, mother build us hard
As they pushed us all along
The reason why you're fragile now
Is the fear of breaking up
The fear of loosing what is left
Fear the child that won't grow up
Found me a man I'm gonna build a house he said it's time to pardon you
Found me a man I'm gonna build a house he said it's time to pardon you
Found me a man I'm gonna build a house he said it's time to pardon you
Eggshell won't you break apart
In the right spots you are strong
Your father, mother build us hard
As they pushed us all along
The reason why you're fragile now
Is the fear of breaking up
The fear of loosing what is left
Fear the child that won't grow up
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6. |
If Love
03:04
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If love was the ocean
Our rivers meet at the sea
If love was a tree
We're both branches you and me If love was field
With you I can run free
If love was a field
With you I can run free
If love the ocean
If we meet at the sea
If love was a tree
And we bloom on a field
I can see a rainbow
I can see the flowers grow
I can see the clouds pass by
With rain or sunshine
I can feel the breeze in my hair
I can tell you're always there
I can feel the breeze in my hair
I can tell you're always there
Time is ticking and I don't know how to hold to that rainbow It's fading, it's fading
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7. |
Riff No. 2
03:14
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I wish I could flow like water
Flowing free
I wish I could run like water
Running, running free
I wish I could be like water
Flowing free
I'll find my way through every stone
I am loose
I'll let it go
I don't choose
I wish I could fall like water
I will fall, I'll flow
I'll drip
I wish, I wish I could run like water
Flow like water
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8. |
Two-Headed Girl
02:39
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Two-Headed Girl wishes she had something clever to say 'bout love
Two-Headed Girl wishes she had something clever to say 'bout love
Her endeavours are her mission
Your love is her ignition
Off to someone else's heart
She's a travelling lady
She'll stay until your night is over
Your night is over
Two-Headed Girl holds a torch in each hand
She'll light it up as soon as she sees love
From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome
Keep your storied pump
Give her the poor and the huddled masses yearning, yearning to breathe love
Love, Love, Love
Your night is over
Two-Headed Girl grows a head for each lover
Many-Headed Girl cuts off one lover
To see if the bloodstream shows her the way
But oh how all that love makes each head grow back
And at night she doesn't get a wink of sleep
Sleep, love, sleep, love
Your night is over
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9. |
Well
03:53
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Well, my smile won't tell 'bout the pain you've caused
All the blood you've shed
People won't come see me
Won't bring flowers to my bed
If a car had hit me, you would see
All the broken bones, all the open wounds and the doctor's concerned face
Well, but my smile won't tell 'bout the accidents and the cracks and dents The light gets in (repeat)
Well, we're flesh and bones
But to hearts and stones there's also sticks and stones
Pictures you see
The words you hear
The echoes in your head
If a car had hit me, you would see
But there's no broken bones, no open wounds
I'll just keep my unconcerned face
Well, my smile won't tell bout the accidents and the cracks and dents The light gets in
Well, but my smile won't tell 'bout the pain I've felt, the tears not shed People don't see me, I'll go silently mad
And please don't me 'bout anything happening
Control it
Well, my smile didn't tell bout the pain I held, my blood was shed
People came to see me
There's no flowers on this concrete bed
A car had hit me 'cause I let go
Here's my broken bones and open wounds
Try and fix me now
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10. |
Yamaha
04:18
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Opens fortunes cookie...
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11. |
Memphis (Remastered)
05:12
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So I left the ways that were making me be
Someone who I really don’t want to be
But with no signs ahead how will I ever know where I am at?
It’s not that I haven’t wished for a house on easy street
I pick up every penny off the road ’cause luck is what I need
Illuminate vacancy, isn’t there some place I can be?
Illuminate vacancy, isn’t there some place I can be?
Well I’m going to Memphis
And I won’t regret this
’Cause after heartache and blues this is still what I’ll choose
A road far off the map
Less traveled, but mine
You loose when you choose and I’m haunted by yet another road not taken
I see what I pass and I’m aching
’Cause once in a while along the way love has been good to me
But I heard them say you can’t put your arms around a memory
Still I’m going to Memphis
And I won’t regret this
’Cause after heartbreak and blues this is still what I’ll choose
A road far off the map
Less traveled, but mine
So I’m going to Memphis
And I won’t regret this
’Cause after headache and blues this is still what I’ll choose
A road far off the map
Less traveled, but mine
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a lot of 'uhs' really....
Simply call the highest mount my all, my all
I can't come running, I can't come running, I can't come running, I can't come running
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Alev Lenz London, UK
Alev Lenz is a German-Turkish singer, songwriter, composer and producer. Lenz’s rich catalogue of compositions fuse distinctive musical worlds into something that is authentically hers - compelling songs for both record and screen. Her latest album '3' sees Alev distilling and extracting her voice, joined on 7 tracks by Grammy-award winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. ... more
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