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by Manko

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1.	Unmailed Letters 04:56	lyrics	buy track
If you thought the letters I sent to you were pretty weird I bet you'd have a real good laugh at the ones I didn't All the hours I spent writing them just disappeared When I decided soon thereafter they should stay hidden But what if I told her this, and said it just this way Ah, look, here's the one I wrote on Valentine's Day Now you're out of my life but not my head And there's a pile of unmailed letters by my bed. I never figured out what it was that scared you so I only know it must've looked a lot like me And time after time I tried to find words to let you know That all I ever wanted was to see you happy and free All the cartoon character stationery, different colored ink What made me think you could give a damn about what I think? And I could write a book of all I almost said In the pile of unmailed letters by my bed. Wouldn't it make more sense to throw them all away And not waste another minute on a wasted word? But will I ever find someone else to make me want to say All the best things I ever said - that no one ever heard? Someone said the saddest words of tongue or pen Were either "if only" or "what might've been" And I'd give anything to read your mind for a moment instead Of the pile of unmailed letters by my bed But now you're out of my life and not my head And there's a pile of unmailed letters by my bed.
2.	Strange Wine 05:19	lyrics	buy track
Fine, fine holiday time Ring out the old year with some good friends of mine Celebrate the birth with revelry divine Dancing and drinking strange wine Sing kisses and candles and wine. Who, who is looking so blue? Out in the garden, alone in the dew? Reminds me of a lady from town I once knew Could she be looking for you? Sing kisses and candles and wine. Rare, rare to find a beauty so fair Standing alone in the chill evening air When midnight comes I'll be with her out there To taste how her kisses compare Sing kisses and candles and wine. Bliss, bliss, what now is this? The bell it is tolling, she cannot resist! She turns with a smile and a sinister hiss To administer the vampire kiss Sing kisses and candles and wine. Free, free, immortal are we With a thirst for the blood of all humanity Come, my love, celebrate eternity with me For the birth and the death in debris Sing kisses and candles and wine. No, no it's no one I know Out in the garden under the gazebo Looks kinda sad when she hangs her head low Sing kisses and candles and wine. Fine, fine holiday time Ring in the new year with some old friends of mine Celebrate the death with revelry divine Dancing and drinking strange wine Sing kisses and candles and wine.
3.	Coming Down 06:37	lyrics	buy track
It's not what you expected, is it It's not pretty but it's almost exquisite Like the howl of a hungry child accusing god These are the days it seems Like years just waiting for the light to turn green Victims of some universal fraud (It's called) Coming Down Yeah, I heard how you went out and hunted 'Til you found everything you ever wanted Well I've been around long enough to know what comes next So here's your trophy for first place You won your one-man downhill race Rolling down Everest to rust with the rest of us wrecks Yeah, you're getting pretty good at it: Coming Down And here is a man with more fists than hands More needs than fears A black belt in chastity and an allergy to tears But everything that we become becomes debris Ms. Perfect got Mr. Wonderful and you got stuck down here with me. Remind me where it all went wrong Tell me stories all night long About what we expected of thirty When we were seventeen On second thought, just let me sleep And fall and fall into the deep Wake me up when you see the light turn green. Do you really want to know my deepest fear? Will the preserver persevere? Answer this question for me, dear: Will the preserver persevere? Or is everything just Coming Down Coming Down is the hardest part Coming Down is the greatest art Coming Down is much harder than Falling back up again...
4.	All My Base Are Belong To You 04:25	lyrics	buy track
What would you do if you truly knew A hundred years were promised you And every seed you planted grew And when you fell, you only flew Pick up the phone, it's all good news And if you danced, you'd dance right out of your shoes If you knew you could do anything you choose From loving me to kicking booze If you truly knew you could not lose What would you do? It's incoherent but it's true But all my base are belong to you And all along I thought you knew Now all my base are belong to you I don't know much about the sea Except it's much bigger than me And flat and old and so salty It must be full of tears like we were When we couldn't find the key Where we could hum in harmony I don't know what your green eyes see Or what they ever saw in me But now I'm asking, if you're free What would you be? There isn't much I know is true But all my base are belong to you With every day it only grew Now all my base are belong to you What would you do if you truly knew That in a year it'd all be through No pain, no pulse, no me, no you Just all you leave behind when a few Dear friends throw flowers at the fu- Neral and there's nothing you can do But wave goodbye to all you knew And make a memory or two To hold at the end as you withdrew What would you do?
5.	Falling Alone Again 05:56	lyrics	buy track
Believing the evening held nothing more than came before I shuffled through the door Discovered another adrift and drowning, going down Two loners lost and found And I thought I saw seasons in her eyes And I felt all the roses start to rise I was well on my way to some new heaven A familiar feeling - falling alone again. She noticed the roses and then again the paper crane And in the rain I - I - I - I I stuttered and stammered, so damn enamored of her smile Falling all the while The most beautiful blemish on her cheek Made me feel just a little less a freak I was well on my way to some new heaven Before I started stalling - falling alone again Whenever this clever boy gets thunderstruck by someone new He'll think of you, and how He'll measure his pleasure by its proximity to pain And I'll blow it all again Will I see all the seasons in her eyes? Will I find myself tempted once more to try? I'll be well on my way to some new heaven A familiar feeling - falling alone again.
6.	Go Fish 05:28	lyrics	buy track
I'd much rather deserve you than have you And maybe that's our destiny And here's where you say some insipid cliche About "so many fish in the sea" But if I walked off that pier tonight Would there be the slightest splash? Or have I already fallen so far and so fast Into your bottomless past? Oh my darling I felt like a starling Caught in your badminton game Thrashing about between passion and doubt 'Til I could not recall my own name But you were perfect and free and so wrong for me With a hunger I could not resist So ask me again for what I never had And again I'll reply: Go Fish. And when you're forty, will your husband grin When he stumbles upon all those poems you kept And wonders who I might've been And me, I'll have other little fish to fry And that's not me being sly, it's not even a lie I trust you must know this is just goodbye For I'd much rather deserve you than have you And maybe that's how it should be And here's where you say some insipid cliche About "so many fish in the sea" - but I found a fish Who was perfect and free and so wrong about me That it pains me to end it like this So ask me again for what I never had And again I'll reply: Go Fish.
7.	No One Around Here Likes You 02:44	lyrics	buy track
No one around here likes you They look down when you enter the room When you leave they start talking about you And make faces about your perfume But I don't think that it's the way you smell Or the clothes you try to wear But nobody around here likes you And I wonder that you're not aware No one around here likes you At least that's the feeling I find They think you show too much emotion And generally not the right kind And they try to ignore you and the things that you say Except when they want a laugh But no one around here likes you And they'll carve it on your epitaph. All the poems that you showed them, all the money you loaned out The party that you just showed up at And the way your eyes looked so scared and shy But people never let themselves look in your eyes Still they wonder why you don't see That no one around here likes you No one except maybe me. No one around here likes you Though usually they don't stare They don't exactly hate you either They just prefer it when you're not there So whaddya say we both make their day And just vanish into thin air 'Cuz no one around here likes you I should know; I've been there.
8.	Just Friends 06:29	lyrics	buy track
In the year you've been gone I'm still wondering what went wrong And I guess I can live without But I wish I could tell you all about The night I went barhopping and jewelry-shopping With the juggler and his painter friend And a Sufi artist who was my kinda goddess I told her all about you And yet I doubt if you'd like Cynthia With her old piano - I played her your favorite tune I saw more of her in May than I did in June And Cynthia was sweet and smart and beautiful And made me feel alive again But she could never take your place And anyway, we're just friends. I guess I gave the game away When I tried to tell you how I'd changed Now there's nothing much left to say Ah, but isn't it all so strange And when I opened my heart to a total stranger Things got stranger still I was stupid and shy but I gave it a try Really made a fool of myself Didn't know what to do, so I gave Julia Too many roses and not enough table talk But even when she walked away I loved to watch her walk Oh yes and Julia was sweet and smart and beautiful And made me feel so alive And she could never take your place, but man, I'd love to see her Try to find the light I loved in you in someone else's eyes And I try to live the light you loved in me But just the other day a stranger walked right up to me Looked me in the eyes to tell me "I don't know who did this to you But she must've been really something" I said, "Yeah, she was really something And now she's someone else's something And where's my someone else?" But anyway... I'm making my way through these cool new days And I'm walking with a smile But it sure has been a while And if I picked up the phone and I caught you at home Would you tell me about your day? Nothing too intense, but I've got these new friends They've heard a lot about you You'd get a kick out of Victoria With eyes like a forest and a smile like Christmas Day She picked me up a hundred times and helped me on my way Oh, and Victoria is sweet and smart and beautiful And made me feel alive again But I'd be still seeking you in her eyes So what's the use, we're just friends.
9.	Push My Luck 05:57	info	buy track
10.	New World 03:03	info	buy track