Geoff baker
In the first week of April Two thousand and one A man on the corner Was calling me son We'll pay for your college You're set when you're done Because there's always a job For an army of one In the...
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The midnight summer sky just started crying like a child And I'm not superstitious, but the rain don't ever take my side You wore sun from yesterday like blush upon your face The love we had was just...
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Can't sleep on a whiskey pillow, And heaven knows I've tried Can't wake on a coffee dawn, And pray it takes the death out of your eyes Can't sail that bourbon street, And heaven knows I've tried The...
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You’re the one who lights every candle in the place -Oh Tomorrow Under the sign they couldn’t keep in ’68 -Oh Tomorrow With voices from the corner knocking down heaven’s door -Oh Tomorrow Oh...
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Blue scarf tied To a barbwire fence What do you mark the place of? Before they hung You high and dry Who did you hide the face of? Is there something buried In the ground below? Is there something...
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You're still the only mistake I will ever cop to Not the end, the beginning, but the way I lost you The only mistake that comes back to haunt me When I'm weak and dreaming that you might still want me...
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The sky was above The earth was below We and the morning had nowhere to go The earth was below The sky was above And I could still believe in love We gathered heather Light as a feather And dark as...
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If it's all the same to you I'll go quietly There's no need to dwell On what we know already If it's been all the same to you Since the beginning Then why the sudden need To wait for ending On a...
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There was nothing sane and sound About the night we closed the Idiot down With boys from all the boroughs playing grab-ass between each round But when we're bridge and tunnel, what do we do? We stood...
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No good can come of this Let the words fall where they will A frosted window and a plastic sill No good can come of this No good can come of this Turn to words to fix A continental rift No good can...
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