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All you want
03:05
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When all is said and done you’ll know it wasn’t me
in the eye of the storm you won’t last you’ll see
in the course of your life you’ll wonder about what went wrong
in the course of your life it’s all there to be won
and they’ll say we’re the fools we’re the enemy
and I’ll sit by your side
coz all they want to do
is drag us into view
In the course of your life they’ll tell you many lies
in the course of your life you’ll hear many goodbyes
and they’ll tighten the chain around your neck
I know it’s not right
But all they want to prove
Is that everything’s the truth
A mere passer by
in her sea of hysteria
where mountains collide
I’ll patiently wait for her
I fell into her arms
recognized the hurt
a tell tale sign - yeah
and they’ll tighten the chain around your neck
I know it’s not right
But all they want to see
Is us never being free
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What are you waiting for?
Settle down and take a deep breath
tell me what it is that unnerves you
from the east, move your eyes to the west
it’s waiting there, it’s nothing new
All I wanna say is please just let it be
you left it again open for all to see
Oh I will try to recover what you let out
please, let’s get away from this round about
Remember the noise, recall the confusion
when nothing made sense and was kind of dense
more than our home you painted an illusion
a place to live from, to sit on the fence
Calm down, you’re still not on your own
back down, now’s my time
I kept waiting for you on the phone
but you were on the other line
I opened your letters
Let it all out in the open
Riding high but with nowhere to go
Your words were left unspoken
so where to now?
where do we go from here?
what are you waiting for?
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Coz you like it
03:02
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when you stroll down the street
I light up like a cigarette
you look me over then take me in
tell me that he’s just not it
you burn you break you roll and shake
you lose all self control
dare to hate you’re always in a state
you move like a rag doll
no matter what I say or do
I never stopped believing in you
all’s not lost when you date Kate Moss
most times I wait for you
you come and go but when I’m not here
you sell your guns and your worn through shoes
Is there anything you don’t fear?
no matter what you say or do
I never stopped believing in you
all’s well when you ring my bell
You say you don’t care
coz you like it
you say you don’t know where
coz you like it
no matter what I say or do
I never stopped believing in you
For lack of words you’ve made it worse
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4. |
Run Away
03:27
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when your hands turn to clay
I know it won’t be long
before you pull away
and leave to be gone
Your words are winding through
the mists I reclaimed
where old replaces new
alleviates the pain
Run away x2
When the sun turns to stone
and the night creeps in
it tightens around your bones
and eats through your skin
burn a trail
turn back from where you came
shout into her gale
turn up the gain
Run away x4
The cracks in your armour expanded
the lights on your highways faded
yet wave after wave couldn’t break it
Coz they would not delay
any longer the debt you had to pay
get stronger and stay
or run away
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5. |
Move Faster Than This
03:20
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Out of breath out of sight we pushed upwards
Willed life back into our leaden legs
Your foot prints mocked my stumblin’ mind
Light beams pierced through the stormy night
Some said we’d fail and be left behind
Yeah – I sense we weren’t meant to fall in line
We’ve got to move faster than this
push on before we halt to rest
you fell without your safety line
hurtled through space without arrest
Yeah I sense we weren’t meant to climb
For a moment nothing seemed to be
going in, my lungs were empty
Back over that crest I crawled
watch out as time slows down
Yeah – we’ve got to move faster than this
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Heartland
02:55
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In the heartland of your America
there’s a world on your shoulders
there’s a hold on your mind
In the heartland of your pale blue sea
there’s a place I keep breathing
a truth I can believe in
So I waited for your other halve
to show up next to us
tumblin’ down through a cloud
your eyes betrayed your fear
anyone can walk around and say what they mean to say
because we all allowed this to happen
In the heartland of your America
there’s a call on your heartache
for the price of your fate
In your heartland I’ve been waiting for
you to lead me through blindness
to grant me one last kiss
The way you are I can see it now
we’ve waited for too long
I had it’s eye, stay with me, we’ll walk one last time
how we know is we can live or die to tell the tale
or slide away
In the heartland of your America
They’ll run you over
They’ll burn you cold
In the heartland of your soul
There’s a fly on your window
There’s dirt in your snow
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K2
03:02
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I wanna see the damage done
the sky that was lost and won
into thin air you chased the sun
jettison this itch I feel
amputate my wings before they heal
this reassessment reassures me you’re quite real
Share some of your acid temper
assist me in when I’m in danger / lucid water
I’m falling
a favour will be in order
a recent reaction will prompt her
to prolong this promise of a distant border
what keeps us together will tear us apart
some will conquer and leave their mark
I’ll lie here waiting for you in the dark
Climb just a little more into my heart
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8. |
Tell it like it is
02:29
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Instrumental track .
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9. |
The Geisha Puppets
03:16
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She let me into
The secrets of her mind
Assured me it was safe yeah
To win over her heart
Nothing’s really certain
Especially the part
Where love gave way to treason
like sugar to a tart
up high
the wind cried
but how was I to know
that her bitterness would end it there
and lay it all bare
I’ll turn towards the east
to go where no one dared
Let me go!
Strangely deceptive
She played her charms on me
Swaying like a cobra
She didn’t have much to do
nothing really mattered
especially the tale
of the man who climbed her mountain
to only die in vain
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10. |
Come & Go
03:29
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Over the hills and far away
is where the world supposedly ends
you know it’s kind of a hard day’s night
to cover the rent
I sweat and strive with the cut of my knife
give it all to those who don’t care
Then at night when I get back home to you
the sparkle seems to re-appear
so run run run as fast as you can
run as fast as you possibly can
head for a place where they’ll find no trace
of us as we disappear
Say goodbye
What are you waiting for?
Then where shall we go when all we have to do is think
About what came before salvation’s on the brink
may they always chase our shadows and be late by a week
better pack up and leave yeah we come and go
I’ll coax you away with a decoy
To the far deep south of Detroit
I’ll call in sick say I’m alive
Yeah say that I won’t be in
So I’ll find myself a dream to grow
To grow like a mushroom cloud
As it rises into the stratosphere
You know it won’t rain
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From where you came
04:53
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Down at the road where your dreams ended
where fact replaced myth
they all stood still, dressed to kill
to await your return
And now they say you’ll climb down
a flight of stairs to hell
little do they know that you’ll be waiting
for them feeling well
I see you x3
I can see from where you came
Wind swept rain lashed I waited to thaw
a woman tried to make me warm
to be all alone in this forsaken world
is like being left out in the cold
they say you gotta move you gotta keep with the times
and know when to make your stand
don’t let it all ride on the throw of a dice
or you’ll be the one treading sand
And when it ends
it ends here
my friend
and when it ends
it ends right here
my dear
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The Sick-Leaves Pretoria, South Africa
The Sick-Leaves is the solo project of singer/songwriter/guitarist/bassist Eksteen Jacobsz.
The Sick-Leaves
have released three albums with the first & second albums being nominated for South African music awards in 2007 & 2009 respectively.
Fourth album Breaking Away is to be released in January 2012 to follow from critically accliamed 2010 released 3rd album Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
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