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Rituals
02:53
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Go to college get a job and settle down,
Find yourself a girl and have kids.
Don’t tell the neighbors what you’re thinking of.
Don’t you tell anybody what you did.
You kill me with your Rituals,
Kill me with your rituals,
Yeah you kill me with your Rituals,
Kill me with your Rituals.
Keep your head down, don’t stand out from the crowd.
Laugh at anybody who did.
Live for your humdrum Friday nights,
Keep acting like you’re getting into it.
You kill me with your Rituals,
Kill me with your Rituals,
Yeah you kill me with your Rituals,
Kill me with your Rituals.
How are you never sick and tired of the same old thing?
Can money ever really justify your suffering?
How are you never sick and tired of the same old thing?
Can money ever really justify your suffering?
Cause you kill me with your Rituals,
Kill me with your Rituals
Ah you hurt me with your Rituals
Would you spare me all your Rituals?
Cause you Kill me with your Rituals
Ah you hurt me with your Rituals
Never stopping with your Rituals
Would you spare me all your Rituals?
Yeah you kill me with your Rituals
Ah, Hurt me with your Rituals
Never changing with your Rituals
Would you spare me all the Rituals? Please?
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Smiling Eyes
03:12
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The train's overcrowded, My Shirt isn't clean
My frail tired body is nestled between
A man on his phone shouting numbers and stats
And a Mother who can't get her child to relax
And I can't wait to get home and see your Smiling Eyes.
My head hits the pillow, my eyes start to shake
fears wrestle failures and keep me awake
And dreams just remind me of who I should be
My head says I'm fine, then my heart disagrees
And I cant wait to wake up and see your smiling eyes
Cause nothing compares to the warmth of your smiling eyes
When the road in the distance is long and the suns on your back
When the rain's falling sideways and blows you off track
I think of the things that remind me of you
When the road in the distance is long and the suns on your back
When the rain's falling sideways and blows you off track
I think of the things that remind me of you
When the Beckoning Darkness is hard to ignore
When vessels of friendship have drifted ashore
When I'm under the influence, far from your gaze
And all of the colors and lines start to fade
I'll never be far from the warmth of your Smiling Eyes
And nothing compares to the warmth of your Smiling Eyes
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You Talk
04:16
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You talk about healing
You talk about getting laid
You talk about being in love with a time and place
You talk about music and poetry and your favorite paintings hanging off the wall
You give me every inspiration for every feeling that ever made you who you are
You never walk on the wild side
You're never gonna fall in love
Cause you're never gonna be right
about what you're so sure of
You're never gonna dive right in, and taste the medicine
Like I've tasted yours
Just spare me 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 minutes playing piggy in the Middle
You're surrounded and overrun
Throw down the gun
Take a good look around, what's this here that i found?
Looks like your heart is on the Run
Oh, You Talk
You never walk on the wild side
You're never gonna fall in love
Cause you're never gonna be right
about what you're so sure of
You're never gonna dive right in, and taste the medicine
Like I've tasted yours
Just spare me 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 minutes playing piggy in the Middle
You're surrounded and overrun
Throw down the gun
Take a good look around, what's this here that i found?
Looks like your heart is on the Run
Oh, You Talk
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It Used to Be Love
04:01
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Can't you tell or is it just me?
This is not what it used to be
I thanked the stars when they brought me to you
Now I'm at war with the both sides of you
You used to challenge my whole world view
All my falsehoods became my truths
The way you laughed set my heart on fire
Now we're just balancing on a wire
But it Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
Yeah It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
It's like a constant apology
Cause right or wrong you put it all on me
When you know you've got yourself to blame
Now all we've got here are numbered days
But it Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
Yeah It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
Can't you tell by my bitter tone?
I think we're much better off alone
But the highs that we shared back then
Play on my mind time and time again
Cause it Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
Yeah It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
It Used to Be Love
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Surrender
03:26
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An aristocratic woman, falls before an acrobatic man
In cinematic Lands, he offers her his hand
But this isn't what it looks like, gathers what he's willing to invest
Then takes what she needs, and leaves all the rest
Surrender, call it quits
Don't be a hero, finish it
The sun on the valley, dimly lit
Tells you it's gone, You know it's gone
Things are moving quickly, she starts to see that glimmer in his eye
He wants to dive in, but she wants to fly
He's past the point of rescue, There's no way he can make it out alive
And his getaway plan only works if he dies
Surrender, call it quits
Don't be a hero, finish it
The sun on the valley, dimly lit
Tells you it's gone, You know it's gone
Now she's got him where she wants him, he's hanging on her every single word
Her tiger's moved in and scared off his herd
Now the aristocratic woman , just sees him as a problematic man
His acrobatic ways cost him her hand
Surrender, call it quits
Don't be a hero, finish it
The sun on the valley, dimly lit
Tells you it's gone, You know it's gone
Surrender, call it quits
Don't be a hero, kill itquick
The sun on the valley, dimly lit
Tells you it's gone, You know it's gone
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Toys
03:29
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Frank has a secret, and he's too scared to keep it.
The voice getting louder, is counting the hours.
Don't take my toys away, we all have a price to pay
When this is over, and you'll know when it's over.
Caitlyn is curious. Sometimes she's furious
She likes the smell and sound, of the new toy she found
It's not that she's evil or even that she thinks more
Than the average 8 year old. She just wants a toy to hold
Marcus and Stephen, they need to get even
They're sick of the laughter, but the silence comes after
They take their toys to school, to the kids in the locker rooms
Then they'll be famous, for something so heinous
I hear the choir over the fire
The blessed and sacred, just can't match the hatred
It isn't the first time and it won't be the last time
That freedom will leave us to pick up the pieces.
Illness and anger, or "Didn't know Better"
Manic behaviors, Just don't blame the Toymakers
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Hills of Killedmond
04:26
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Drink from the cool red river, tie back your hair
Jump up from behind the tall grass, give me a scare
Always on my mind
Pictures from the mountain side
Rolling through the Hills of Killedmond
Do you remember when we built that little treehouse without hammers or nails?
And as soon as the heavens opened, the little treehouse failed.
Always on my mind
Memories from the mountain side
Rolling through the Hills of Killedmond
It took me a while
But now I can see
That the people around
Made a difference in me
You gave me life
And you watched me grow
You taught me the things
I needed to know
Now I'm sailing away
Away to be free
But the place where I'm from
Still lives within me
I just needed some time
To be by myself
To stop following dreams
Meant for somebody else
When this hard life
Starts to take its toll
Then I know the place
Where I wanna grow old
When I find the one
To have and to hold
When I'm settling down
I wanna go home
To the HIls of Killedmond
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Pat Byrne Austin, Texas
Irish singer-songwriter based in Austin, TX.
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