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Closing Time - 4:35
Closing time Open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl
Closing time One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time You don't have to go home but you can't stay here
I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home
Closing time Time for you to go out to the places you will be from
Closing time This room won't be open till your brothers or sisters come
So gather up your jackets move it to the exits I hope you have found a friend
Closing time Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end
I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home I know who I want to take me home
Singing in my Sleep - 4:30
Got your tape and it changed my mind Heard your voice in between the lines Come around from another time Where nobody ever goes
All alone on the overpass Wired and phoned to a heart of glass Now I'm falling in love too fast With you or the songs you chose
And all the stars Play for me Say the promise you long to keep
I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep
I've been living in your casette It's the modern equivalent Singing up to a Capulet On a balcony in your mind
In the City the lion sleeps Pray to Sony my soul to keep Were you ever so bright and sweet Did you ever look so nice
And all the sounds Dream for me Dive me down in a soul so deep
I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep I can hear you sing it to me in my sleep
Made to Last - 5:02
Made to last awhile
And roll on
Made to move in style
And move along
Made to dream of flying So high Made to wake up crying I don't know why
Beautiful one Asleep in the sun Secret, sweet & sublime I hope you last a long, long time
Made to come alone And pair up Flash like a rolling stone Seventy-one
One time love affair With the earth Waiting on the air For some re-birth (For what it's worth)
Wherever you are Nearby or far Black, white, lemon or lime I hope you last a long, long time
Never You Mind - 4:23
Saturday morning alone and barely feeling Sitting at home after rocking and areeling All night in a cat fight With the only one who can make me cry
Open the blinds and the world is in rotation Shaking my mind like an Etch-a-Sketch erasing Sunshine, you were bad, I'm Still mad but I can't remember why
I believe you know me well I react like you're ringing a bell Are you sorry that you treat me unkind Never you mind
Rolling along to the song that aggravates us Beckoned on by the mirage of an oasis hurry, I'm getting blurry And it's no longer clear in my mind
I believe you know me well I react like you're ringing a bell Are you sorry that you treat me unkind Never you mind
I believe I got you down You react like anybody else around Are you sorry that we wasted our time Never you mind
Sometimes it takes all my time guessing why I can't figure it out Sometimes it takes all my energy just to forget about All the memories that I'd be better off without I believe you know me well
Switch on the box Mr. Spock is on the table Dr. McCoy is unable to connect his brain Sweatin and strainin Well it seemed so simple at the time
Secret Smile - 4:38
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile And you use it only for me Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile And you use it only for me
So use it and prove it Remove this whirling sadness I'm losing, I'm bluesing But you can save me from madness
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile And you use it only for me Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile And you use it only for me
So save me I'm waiting I'm needing, hear me pleading And soothe me, improve me I'm greiving, I'm barely believeing now, now
When you are flying around and around the world And I'm lying alonely I know there's something sacred and free reserved And received by me only
DND - 4:13
DND Now they'll leave us alone DND Now you turn off the phone
How like you to make the whole world disappear and How like you to make everything seem so clear and How like you to make me want to stay forever Here behind your door
DND Hang the sign on the door DND Don't disturb us no more
How like you to make your love my hideaway and How like you to make my troubles slide away and How like you to make me want to play forever Here behind your door
Minute I got some space and time I wanted to get me back in the crowd Minute I got peace you found me trying to make way to the loud What a clown...
DND Leave the hotel at noon DND Will I see you soon? How like you to make the whole world disappear and How like you to make everything seem so clear and How like you to make me want to stay forever Here behind your door
DND DND DND Now they'll leave us alone
Completely Pleased - 3:17
I wanted to leave you Completely pleased Sleep drifting above you Sweetly released
I want to see you smiling, weak in the knees I want to see you come, come, completely pleased I want to give you something priceless and free And free - ee - ee
I wanted to leave you Completely pleased Sleep drifting above you Sweetly complete/at peace
I want to see you hazy, dazed and confused I Want to see you come, come completely used up I want to give you something forever and true And true - oo - oo
Oh, you broke it Now you bought it So you might as well Use it while you got it Do What you wanna do
I wanted to leave you Completely pleased Sleep drifting above you Sweetly released
I want to see you smiling, weak in the knees I want to see yo come, come, completely pleased I want to give you something priceless and free And free - ee - ee
This Will be my Year - 4:34
Thursday's crush is a Friday night rush And a Monday morning cry It's the tail that you keep chasing And it gets away every time
New Years Eve and it's hard to believe Another Zodiac's gone around While you drank yourself high on hoping And watched the ceiling spin from the ground
Counting down from ten it's time To make your annual prayer Secret Santa in the sky When will I get my share
Then you tell yourself What you want to hear Cause you have to believe This will be my year
Pound your fist and cross it off your list But you know you're not that strong When the man at the stop light catches you Singing along to a brand new song
Well maybe it's Trash or the overnight smash that brings your Ship crashing through the wall So you can make your grand departure From a world getting way too small
One wheel in the ditch another Spinning in the air
Put your pedal down to the floorboard but you're not Getting anywhere
Then you tell yourself What you want to hear Cause you have to believe This will be my year
All Worked Out - 2:52
She's got it all worked out in her mind And you're part of the plan And you don't have the final word
She's got a long head start on your brain And your heart is afraid And you don't get to say you're thinking
Come on make it easy now Come on make it easy on us all Come on make it easy now or tears may fall
She's got it all worked out I'm fraid And your time is arranged And it's strange but you're feeling fine
(Rock on)
California - 5:26
Driven through the canyons I was Dazzled by the mountains and we didn't go very far Close enough to heaven if you Climb up on a mansion you too can swing like a star
I tried to get inside I bought a Ticket with my pride and I was gone right out of my head I went out for a ride to go Across a great divide but I ended up at home instead
California I thought I should see Now I'm back home, yeah With twelve little pieces of me
I was just a passenger a Rider on the tremors that were shaking all our beds at hight A visitor a stranger thought I Might pass for a regular if I just kept out of the lights
Tore my heart out from my chest Mixed it up in my mind with the best freshest pieces of my soul Chose the ones I loved the most Drove 'em all down to the coast Threw 'em in a big black hole
California I thought I should see Now I'm back home, yeah With twelve little pieces of me California I dreamed I would find Some kinda sorta pick-me-up Twelve little pieces of my mind California I thought I should see Now I'm back home, yeah With twelve little pieces of me California I dreamed I would find Some kinda sorta pick-me-up Twelve little pieces of my mind
She Spreads Her Wings - 3:09
At night she spreads her wings She dreams of bigger things She floats above the town She sings without a sound
She can be anywhere at all She can be anyone at all
A glow and then a shine What she hopes she will find Tonight; tonight
She's got a picture in her mind She can be anyone at all
At night she changed her mind She left the world behind
Gone to the movies - 3:52
Now the rain comes down the windows and it Drops onto the forehad of the waiting boy He survfeys his rental kingdom and he Wonders if he's really lost his one joy
Anotherfool would go down to the Only place she ever went to lost herself She's gone to the movies now and she don't need your help
Now the rain turns into snowfall as the City sky reflects the silver street below And it covers up the cars and the Wall- Flowers cd ended half an hour ago
Another fool would dig the broken car out from the snow And drive to find the show She's gone to the movies now and she's not coming home She's gone to the movies now and she's not coming home
Now he looks around his place and anyways There's nowhere she could sit besides the bed And he wonders if the car will start tomorrow Or he'll have to take the bus instead
Any other fool would be out on the roadway Trying to spot her rusted Pontiac She's gone to the movies now and she's not coming back She's gone to the movies now and she's not coming back
Feeling Strangley Fine All songs written by Dan Wilson except "Never you Mind" Words by Dan Wilson, Music by Dan Wilson and Jacob Slichter "This Will Be My Year" by Jacob Slichter "She Spreads Her Wings" by John Munson
All songs © 1998 WB Music Corp./Semidelicious Music (ASCAP) except "Never You Mind" WB Music Corp./Semidelicious Music (ASCAP),Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./S as in Sam Music (BMI); "This Will Be My Year" Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp./S as in Sam Music (BMI); "She Spreads Her Wings" WB Music Corp./Misquah Music (ASCAP)
