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  1. Everybody knowsVer letra 5:32

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    Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
    Everybody knows that the war is over
    Everybody knows the good guys lost
    Everybody knows the fight was fixed
    The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
    Everybody knows that the captain lied
    Everybody got this broken feeling
    Like their father or their dog just died
    Everybody talking to their pockets
    Everybody wants a box of chocolates
    And a long stem rose
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows that you love me baby
    Everybody knows that you really do
    Everybody knows that you've been faithful
    Ah give or take a night or two
    Everybody knows you've been discreet
    But there were so many people you just had to meet
    Without your clothes
    And everybody knows
    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    And everybody knows that it's now or never
    Everybody knows that it's me or you
    And everybody knows that you live forever
    Ah when you've done a line or two
    Everybody knows the deal is rotten
    Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
    For your ribbons and bows
    And everybody knows
    And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
    Everybody knows that it's moving fast
    Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
    Are just a shining artifact of the past
    Everybody knows the scene is dead
    But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
    That will disclose
    What everybody knows
    And everybody knows that you're in trouble
    Everybody knows what you've been through
    From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
    To the beach of Malibu
    Everybody knows it's coming apart
    Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
    Before it blows
    And everybody knows
    Everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows

  2. I' m your man 4:24
  3. Take this waltzVer letra 5:58

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    Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women
    There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
    There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
    There's a tree where the doves go to die
    There's a piece that was torn from the morning,
    And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
    I want you, I want you, I want you
    On a chair with a dead magazine
    In the cave at the tip of the lilly,
    In some hallway where love's never been
    On a bed where the moon has been sweating,
    In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    Take its broken waist in your hand
    This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
    With its very own breath of brandy and Death
    Dragging its tail in the sea
    There's a concert hall in Vienna
    Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
    There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
    They've been sentenced to death by the blues
    Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
    With a garland of freshly cut tears?
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    Take this waltz, it's been dying for years
    There's an attic where children are playing,
    Where I've got to lie down with you soon,
    In a dream of Hungarian lanterns,
    In the mist of some sweet afternoon
    And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow,
    All your sheep and your lillies of snow
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
    This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
    With its very own breath of brandy and Death
    Dragging its tail in the sea
    And I'll dance with you in Vienna
    I'll be wearing a river's disguise
    The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
    My mouth on the dew of your thighs
    And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
    With the photographs there, and the moss
    And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
    My cheap violin and my cross
    And you'll carry me down on your dancing
    To the pools that you lift on your wrist
    O my love, o my love
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    It's yours now. It's all that there is

    Letras: Federico García Lorca
  4. Tower of songVer letra 5:37

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    letra de Tower of song

    Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
    I ache in the places where I used to play
    And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
    I'm just paying my rent every day
    Oh in the Tower of Song
    I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
    Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
    But I hear him coughing all night long
    A hundred floors above me
    In the Tower of Song
    I was born like this, I had no choice
    I was born with the gift of a golden voice
    And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
    They tied me to this table right here
    In the Tower of Song
    So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
    I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
    I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
    Ah they don't let a woman kill you
    Not in the Tower of Song
    Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
    The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
    And there's a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
    You see, you hear these funny voices
    In the Tower of Song
    I see you standing on the other side
    I don't know how the river got so wide
    I loved you baby, way back when
    And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
    But I feel so close to everything that we lost
    We'll never have to lose it again
    Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
    There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
    But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
    I'll be speaking to you sweetly
    From a window in the Tower of Song
    Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is gray
    I ache in the places where I used to play
    And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
    I'm just paying my rent every day
    Oh in the Tower of Song

  5. AnthemVer letra 6:06

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    letra de Anthem

    The birds they sang
    At the break of day
    Start again
    I heard them say
    Don't dwell on what
    Has passed away
    Or what is yet to be.
    Ah the wars they will
    Be fought again
    The holy dove
    She will be caught again
    Bought and sold
    And bought again
    The dove is never free.
    Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.
    We asked for signs
    The signs were sent
    The birth betrayed
    The marriage spent
    Yeah the widowhood
    Of every government
    Signs for all to see.
    I can't run no more
    With that lawless crowd
    While the killers in high places
    Say their prayers out loud.
    But they've summoned, they've summoned up
    A thundercloud
    And they're going to hear from me.
    Ring the bells that still can ring
    You can add up the parts
    But you won't have the sum
    You can strike up the march,
    There is no drum
    Every heart, every heart
    To love will come
    But like a refugee.
    Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack, a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.
    Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack, a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.
    That's how the light gets in.
    That's how the light gets in.

  6. DemocracyVer letra 7:12

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    It's coming through a hole in the air,
    From those nights in Tiananmen Square.
    It's coming from the feel
    That this ain't exactly real,
    Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
    From the wars against disorder,
    From the sirens night and day,
    From the fires of the homeless,
    From the ashes of the gay:
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
    It's coming through a crack in the wall
    On a visionary flood of alcohol
    From the staggering account
    Of the Sermon on the Mount
    Which I don't pretend to understand at all.
    It's coming from the silence
    On the dock of the bay,
    From the brave, the bold, the battered
    Heart of Chevrolet
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
    It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
    The holy places where the races meet
    From the homicidal bitchin'
    That goes down in every kitchen
    To determine who will serve and who will eat.
    From the wells of disappointment
    Where the women kneel to pray
    For the grace of God in the desert here
    And the desert far away:
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
    Sail on, sail on
    O mighty Ship of State!
    To the Shores of Need
    Past the Reefs of Greed
    Through the Squalls of Hate
    Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
    It's coming to America first,
    The cradle of the best and of the worst.
    It's here they got the range
    And the machinery for change
    And it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
    It's here the family's broken
    And it's here the lonely say
    That the heart has got to open
    In a fundamental way:
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
    It's coming from the women and the men.
    O baby, we'll be making love again.
    We'll be going down so deep
    The river's going to weep,
    And the mountain's going to shout Amen!
    It's coming like the tidal flood
    Beneath the lunar sway,
    Imperial, mysterious,
    In amorous array
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
    Sail on, sail on
    I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
    I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
    And I'm neither left or right
    I'm just staying home tonight,
    Getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
    But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
    That Time cannot decay,
    I'm junk but I'm still holding up
    This little wild bouquet
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

  7. The futureVer letra 6:40

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    letra de The future

    Give me back my broken night
    My mirrored room, my secret life
    It's lonely here,
    There's no one left to torture
    Give me absolute control
    Over every living soul
    And lie beside me, baby,
    That's an order!
    Give me crack and anal sex
    Take the only tree that's left
    And stuff it up the hole
    In your culture
    Give me back the berlin wall
    Give me stalin and st paul
    I've seen the future, brother
    It is murder.
    Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
    Won't be nothing
    Nothing you can measure anymore
    The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
    Has crossed the threshold
    And it has overturned
    The order of the soul
    When they said repent repent
    I wonder what they meant
    When they said repent repent
    I wonder what they meant
    When they said repent repent
    I wonder what they meant
    You don't know me from the wind
    You never will, you never did
    I'm the little jew
    Who wrote the bible
    I've seen the nations rise and fall
    I've heard their stories, heard them all
    But love's the only engine of survival
    Your servant here, he has been told
    To say it clear, to say it cold:
    It's over, it ain't going
    Any further
    And now the wheels of heaven stop
    You feel the devil's riding crop
    Get ready for the future:
    It is murder.
    Things are going to slide
    There'll be the breaking of the ancient
    Western code
    Your private life will suddenly explode
    There'll be phantoms
    There'll be fires on the road
    And the white man dancing
    You'll see a woman
    Hanging upside down
    Her features covered by her fallen gown
    And all the lousy little poets
    Coming round
    Tryin' to sound like charlie manson
    And the white man dancin'
    Give me back the berlin wall
    Give me stalin and st paul
    Give me christ
    Or give me hiroshima
    Destroy another fetus now
    We don't like children anyhow
    I've seen the future, baby
    It is murder.
    Things are going to slide
    When they said repent repent

  8. Closing timeVer letra 5:58

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    Ah we're drinking and we're dancing
    And the band is really happening
    And the johnny walker wisdom running high
    And my very sweet companion
    She's the angel of compassion
    She's rubbing half the world against her thigh
    And every drinker every dancer
    Lifts a happy face to thank her
    The fiddler fiddles something so sublime
    All the women tear their blouses off
    And the men they dance on the polka-dots
    And it's partner found, it's partner lost
    And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
    It's closing time
    Yeah the women tear their blouses off
    And the men they dance on the polka-dots
    And it's partner found, it's partner lost
    And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
    It's closing time
    Ah we're lonely, we're romantic
    And the cider's laced with acid
    And the holy spirit's crying, "where's the beef?"
    And the moon is swimming naked
    And the summer night is fragrant
    With a mighty expectation of relief
    So we struggle and we stagger
    Down the snakes and up the ladder
    To the tower where the blessed hours chime
    And I swear it happened just like this:
    A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    The gates of love they budged an inch
    I can't say much has happened since
    But closing time
    I swear it happened just like this:
    A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    The gates of love they budged an inch
    I can't say much has happened since
    Closing time
    I loved you for your beauty
    But that doesn't make a fool of me:
    You were in it for your beauty too
    And I loved you for your body
    There's a voice that sounds like god to me
    Declaring, declaring, declaring that your body's really you
    And I loved you when our love was blessed
    And I love you now there's nothing left
    But sorrow and a sense of overtime
    And I missed you since the place got wrecked
    And I just don't care what happens next
    Looks like freedom but it feels like death
    It's something in between, I guess
    It's closing time
    Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
    By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
    Looks like freedom but it feels like death
    It's something in between, I guess
    It's closing time
    Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing
    But there's nothing really happening
    And the place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night
    And my very close companion
    Gets me fumbling gets me laughing
    She's a hundred but she's wearing
    Something tight
    And I lift my glass to the awful truth
    Which you can't reveal to the ears of youth
    Except to say it isn't worth a dime
    And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
    And it's once for the devil and once for christ
    But the boss don't like these dizzy heights
    We're busted in the blinding lights,
    Busted in the blinding lights
    Of closing time
    The whole damn place goes crazy twice
    And it's once for the devil and once for christ
    But the boss don't like these dizzy heights
    We're busted in the blinding lights,
    Busted in the blinding lights
    Of closing time
    Oh the women tear their blouses off
    And the men they dance on the polka-dots
    It's closing time
    And it's partner found, it's partner lost
    And it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops
    It's closing time
    I swear it happened just like this:
    A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
    It's closing time
    The gates of love they budged an inch
    I can't say much has happened since
    But closing time
    I loved you when our love was blessed
    I love you now there's nothing left
    But closing time
    I miss you since the place got wrecked
    By the winds of change and the weeds of sex.

  9. Dance me to the end of loveVer letra 6:12

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    Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
    Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
    Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to the end of love
    Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
    Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
    Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
    Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
    We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
    Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
    Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
    Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
    Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to the end of love
    Dance me to the end of love

  10. SuzanneVer letra 4:19

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    Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river,
    You can hear the boats go by you can spend the night beside her,
    And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you wanna be there,
    And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China,
    And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her,
    Then she gets you on her wavelength and she lets the river answer,
    That you've always been her lover.
    [Chorus]
    And you want to travel with her,
    And you want to travel blind,
    And you know that she will trust you,
    For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
    And Jesus was a sailor when He walked upon the water,
    And He spent a long time watching from His lonely wooden tower,
    And when He knew for certain only drowning men could see him,
    He said "all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them,"
    But He Himself was broken, long before the sky would open
    Forsaken, almost human, He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.
    [Chorus]
    And you want to travel with him,
    And you want to travel blind,
    And you think maybe you'll trust him,
    For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.
    Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river,
    She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters,
    And the sun pours down like honey on Our Lady of the Harbour,
    And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers,
    There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning,
    They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever,
    While Suzanne holds the mirror.
    [Chorus]
    And you want to travel with her,
    And you want to travel blind,
    And you know that you can trust her,
    For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

  11. HallelujahVer letra 6:55

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    letra de Hallelujah

    Now I've heard there was a secret chord
    That David played, and it pleased the Lord
    But you don't really care for music, do you?
    It goes like this
    The fourth, the fifth
    The minor fall, the major lift
    The baffled king composing Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Hallelujah
    Your faith was strong but you needed proof
    You saw her bathing on the roof
    Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
    She tied you
    To a kitchen chair
    She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    You say I took the name in vain
    I don't even know the name
    But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
    There's a blaze of light
    In every word
    It doesn't matter which you heard
    The holy or the broken Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    I did my best, it wasn't much
    I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
    I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
    And even though
    It all went wrong
    I'll stand before the Lord of Song
    With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    Hallelujah

  12. Never any goodVer letra 5:04

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    letra de Never any good

    I was never any good at loving you
    I was never any good at coming
    Through for you
    You're going to feel much better
    When you cut me loose forever
    I was never any good
    Never any good
    I was never any good at loving you
    I was dying when we met
    I bet my life on you
    But you called me and I folded
    Like you knew I'd do
    You called my ace, my king, my bluff
    Okay, you win, enough's enough
    I was never any good
    Never any good
    I was never any good at loving you
    I was pretty good at taking out
    The garbage
    Pretty good at holding up the wall
    Dealing with the fire and the earthquake
    But that don't count
    That don't count
    That don't count for nothing much at all
    I was never any good at loving you
    I was just a tourist in your bed looking
    At the view
    But I can't forget where my lips
    Have been
    Those holy hills, that deep ravine
    I was never any good
    Never any good
    I was never any good at loving you
    I was pretty good at taking out the garbage
    Pretty good at holding up the wall
    I'm sorry for my crimes against
    The moonlight
    I didn't think
    I didn't think
    I didn't think the moon would mind at all
    I was never any good at loving you
    At doing what a woman really wants
    A man to do
    You're going to feel much better
    When you cut me loose forever
    I was never any good
    Never any good
    I was never any good at loving you

  13. The great eventVer letra 1:09

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    letra de The great event

    It`s going to happen very soon.
    The great event which will end the horror.
    Which will end the sorrow.
    Next Tuesday, when the sun goes down,
    I will play the Moonlight Sonata backwards.
    This will reverse the effects of the world`s mad plunge into suffering,
    For the last 200 million years.
    What a lovely night that would be.
    What a sigh of relief, as the senile robins become bright red again,
    And the retired nightingales,
    Pick up their dusty tails,
    And assert the majesty of creation!

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