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Iceland
04:57
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I've seen the sun, I've seen the moon
I've seen the northern lights, reflect upon the sea
I've seen no one like you, I'd like to believe
And now you're running with an open heart
Yes, you're running with an open heart
To me
You've seen generals, sing their favourite songs
You've seen drunkards and saints, all proclaim their love
You've seen cowards fall, for the belle of the ball
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One Small Flower
04:26
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I bide my time as I wait outside
How I've wasted my nights looking for you
My friends are here but you've disappeared
How I’ve wasted my nights looking for you
If you leave me now what will I do?
Will I drive all night across the countryside?
Will I spend my days thinking of you?
The summer days when you’d call my name
Oh how I’ve changed looking for you
Those lonely times they shook my insides
How I’ve wasted my nights looking for you
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Run/Sleep
03:18
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You smile at me, as I swim in this foreign sea
You stand at ease, as you watch me from the beach
You touch your blouse, there’s no words coming out your mouth
Your body will confess, I can hear your heart beat through your chest
We run
The night it hides, the trees and streams as we drive
The wind it blows, so we crank the heat to fight the cold
And soon your breath, dissolves into the dark again
In time we find, a place for you to spend the night
We sleep
We’ll sleep all day to save our strength
For the night and all it brings
Your friends will call with no response
Cause tonight’s the night
And tomorrows just another day
Yes tonight’s the night
We run
We fall asleep as the night it steals our energy
You smile at me as we sleep
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Get.Big.Picture
03:27
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They say she looks like her mother did
That day she went away
Her father doesn’t speak of it
Or much of anything
Her mother left some autumn night
When she was very small
The neighbours speak the shame of it
Her father’s barely home, she’s living all alone
She will fly through the bushes
And she laughs and screams like she believes
No ones listening
She want’s to leave or so it seems
Maybe head for the sea
The mountains call the city screams
Anywhere but home
She’s planned it out in her head
Thought of everything
She’d walk it if she had to
She’d go by her feet, until they crack and they bleed
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Black Books
04:28
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Your serenade is quite the same
For all the boys who come your way
And soon they see that they’ve been deceived
But they wouldn’t want it any other way
I’m so sorry for your pain
Can’t you see what you do to me?
Your ways they are so cruel to me
But you don’t seem to mind
I think I see you smiling
With all the things you get from me
I think you’ll be the death of me
But I fall for this mistake
Every single day, you break my heart
I must confess I love that dress
And all the things that come with it
But now I see that I must leave
Cause in the end even love fades away
And I’m so sorry you found out this way
It’s over
You never loved me anyway
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I've Taken a Lover Kamloops, British Columbia
We spend our days chasing dreams, and our nights wide awake. I’ve Taken a Lover is a product of the modern era, where influences and backgrounds vary drastically from person to person, and help to create the unique sound that has defined the group.
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