1. |
Here We Go Again
04:34
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I’m familiar with the story
I know how it ends
But I pick up the cards, call a bluff
And deal a round again
Maybe this time is the hand I
get what I need
Or I’ll fold again but either way
You will remember me
Ch
And I shout out to the world
Here we go again
Here we go again
Here we go again
I got time and I’m tenacious
gonna get it right
I’m not letting go no matter how
hard I find the fight
Taking one foot then the other
Leave the rest behind
I’m not giving up not giving in
Though I look like I might
Ch
Bridge:
Little by little, bit by bit
It’s how you eat an elephant
I might need to rest but I won’t quit
Building my pyramid
Can’t remember how this started
already turned the page
They can’t keep me down, cannot hold me back
From the momentum I’ve gained
Oh the momentum I’ve gained
Ch
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2. |
I Can Have It All
04:23
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Hurry now
I need escape
They don’t know what it’s all about
If I come down
I won’t see the way
Need to medicate the doubt
PRE-CH:
Some way, somehow
Something’s gonna come around
Someday
Maybe I will get mine too
Do do, do do, do do
CH:
I’ll be on top of the world looking down
Screaming I can have it all
I can have it all
I’ll be on top of the world
They told me I’m allowed
I can have it all
I can have it all
Chemical promises
Gotta spoon feed confidence
Sleep it off until I get
What everybody has
PRE-CH
CH
CH
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3. |
Stay In
04:09
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Making up excuses again
It’s not that I don’t wanna be a friend
It’s the little voices that say
You don’t need to leave the house today
So I try / I argue
I try / to follow through
They pin me to the floor
I know it’s not right
That I stay home every night
Looking at the door
Ch
Stay stay in
I’m happy alone
Here on my own
stay stay in
Another night home
Forgive me but I’d just rather stay in
When I get a telephone call
I wait til it stops while I stare at the wall
Far too many people out there
Awkward at a party is my nightmare
I try / be normal
I try / stay calm
I try to play along
But can I just go home
Ch
BRIDGE:
Ooooh
I know I’m supposed to talk
But it don’t come easy
Ooooh
I’ll just fall apart
And say the wrong thing
Making up excuses again
I know that I’ll see you but I don’t know when
Please don’t worry I am still alive
I just need the silence
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4. |
Where Are You Now
04:06
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Oh dear boy, where are you now
All of your time, all your days
When did your mind slip away
Where do you go when the lights are out
Did all your past disintegrate
Has all of that life faded away now
Life carries on with you or without
Your stories become just strangers in a crowd
Oh dear boy, you played by the rules
Worked all your life, bothered no one
Found a good wife, made a good home
Oblivion would medicate you
From all the words you didn’t want
Turned a blind eye and just carried on and…
On, is this how it goes
Building it stone by stone
Hoping it won’t come crashing
Down, and swallow you whole
All of the joy, all of the tears
All just a story falling on deaf ears
Where did you go dear boy
We all wanna know
Where are you now
Where are you now
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5. |
Get There
04:04
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I wanted to be home before I’d even left
But I knew I had to go and get my feet wet as so
I packed my bags
Make it on my own getting lost in the city
Getting caught up in my own self pity oh
was it so bad, it felt pretty bad
Ch
Oh Tell me when we get there
Couple years in and nothings really sticking
I can’t relax and I can’t stop picking all
of these dirty scabs
Got a love who loves ma and that should be home
I could be happy but I know that I won’t cause I
wanna pack my bags, please help me pack my bags
Ch
Bridge
One foot in the future, the other in the past
tolerating the present hoping in goes fast
my body and want need to be together at last
Made a decision cause life is too short
We all need security we all need support
Ch
Are we there yet
Tell me when we get there
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6. |
Old Armchairs
04:36
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A couple of old armchairs is all we really need
Maybe a blanket or two to wrap around our knees
to keep us warm and dry
Just you and I
Against the world
Against the Tide
A couple of coffee cups left on the sink to dry
Or closing the door to find a roaring fire
A place that we call home
We call our own
Keeps in the love
Keeps out the cold in our
Chorus
Home, home, home
We are home
A place to dance where no one sees us fall
where we can let go of all our deepest flaws
Our faults our scars laid bare
Where no one’s scared
Where we can climb a few more stairs to our
Ch
Wouldn’t be a home with you
Wouldn’t be a home with you
Wouldn’t be a home with me too
A couple of old armchairs that need a little love
a couple of people that we take care of the stuff that we call
Ch
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7. |
Lonely Blue
04:00
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Lonely blue
Did you think this would be you
Do you know what day it was
When you finally lost your touch
Slipped away
Time has made a great escape
You used to know what laughter was
Now just another memory lost
Lonely blue
CH:
A shame it is
No one to save you
You’ve loved and lived
Has it all just gone oh
Lonely blue
Painful are the words “used to”
Every face a stranger now
Ever since the lights went out
On Lonely blue
CH
BRIDGE:
P: Nobody said
H: Nobody told you
P: When life began
H: Nobody told you
P: You give and give
H: But now it
Both: All fades into black
CH
Lonely blue
Oh life it can be so cruel
It’s left you here all alone
A stranger inside your home
Oh lonely blue
The sun is setting on you
You lived and you loved
But was it enough
One thing I know
I’ll always remember you
Oh lonely blue
Oh lonely blue
Oh lonely blue
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8. |
Cookie Cutter
03:03
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Line us up, check we fit
Don’t stand out a little bit
Be careful or they might
Point a finger in your pretty face
That’s all garbage we know better
Don’t you hide don’t let it fester
Be bold you might help another on the edge out there feel safe
Ch
We’re not all the same
We’re not all cookie cutter
One day they’ll say that we’re all human
We don’t come out like Russian dolls
so if you don’t fit their mould
embrace it, become it
Be every wonderful thing that you are
Some may find you’re too much
They’re not your people let them judge
You own it, you’ve nailed it
Let those colours shine, make your mark
Ch
Br
Oooh
Ch
We’re not all the same
We’re not all cookie cutter
We’re not all the same
one of these things is not like the other
One day they’ll say that we’re all human
We’re not all cookie cutter
Some of these things are not like the others
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9. |
The Outside
03:44
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All the photographs
Stirring up lots of dust
If I hold on to them
I’m never gonna leave these thoughts
Again
CH:
Waiting for a ship that never came in
Sized me up but I never quite fit
Dreaming of life with a different spin
Always on the outside looking in
I take a breath
Hoping I come back up
Trying to forget
I never will play a part
In this
CH
BRIDGE:
On the ledge and I want to fly
And I want to fly
And I want to fly
Heaven knows I’m so sick and tired
Of being cast aside
Being cast aside
CH
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10. |
Minimize
03:32
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Let me tell you a tale
that’s too good to be true
you don’t want to hear what I already told you
keep it light so you laugh
put those rose glasses on
Make you feel better so I still belong
Ch
Told you all of my stories
but you criticize, you criticize
Showed you all of my my pain
But you minimize, you minimize
Don’t minimize me
While I try to resist
You keep pushing me down
You’re more at ease with the face of a clown
When you don’t believe
what choice do I have
Oh please stop saying it wasn’t that bad
Ch
Bridge
I don’t need nobody like you no, no
Pushing me down
If you got nothing good to say no, no
Won’t you get out
Got to get away, got to get away
But I just don’t know how
No I just don’t know how
Ch
So I’ll tell you a tale
And now it’s up to you
you don’t want to hear what I already told you
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11. |
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I’m not changing sides I’m just changing the rules
Got no time for secrets got no time for fools
I’m leaving today I’m not trying to be cruel
Don’t think for a second that I know the game
Don’t which direction I can’t find the way
But when I arrive I won’t be the same, no
Ch
I’ll find it while I’m falling
When all around me is a blur
I’ll find it while I’m falling
when my fingers slip the earth
I’ll find it while I’m falling
at the time I let go
I’ll find it while I’m falling
I’ll find out what I really know
So don’t try to follow I’ll only get lost
And there are some rivers I can’t let you cross
gotta do this alone the hearts wants what it wants
I’d take you with me if I thought I could
Maybe I’d try if I thought you understood
do you believe it’s for your own good
Ch
Bridge
a little more than I know now
I’ll find that I’ll know
which road to take or turn around
I’ll find that I’ll know
which way is in and which way out
The next time you see me you won’t know my face
although I am leaving just know my heart aches
I’m sorry but I can’t meet you halfway
Ch
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12. |
Rise and Fall
03:04
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So was the air too thin
when you tried that higher ground and fell to yours knees
did the brightness hurt your skin
did the sweetness turn too sour along with your dreams
told me you were clean
and we followed along
until your rise and fall
until your rise and fall
until your rise and fall
you built your house of cards
stacked the aces up on the top it came falling down
then you cry that it was too hard
and you want the world to stop as we watch you drown
you lost your crown
did we follow along
until your rise and fall
until your rise and fall
until your rise and fall
br
you always thought you were the one
overshot and flew into the sun
now you got humble pie
turn your head like a child until we force it down
you’ll never ask us why
never walk the extra mile, you’d rather drown
you were right all along
until your rise and fall
until your rise and fall
until your rise and fall
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13. |
Ripples
04:02
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Time has a way
Of sneaking up while toil through our days
And never noticing all
The ripples that we’ve made
Guilty we are
Of underestimating our part
And while the sun comes and goes
Our ripples keep on working away
CH:
You may never know what your life meant
If only you could see all your branches
And to know your ripple grew to waves
won’t know the effect
until we’re in the ground out of breath
but generations they will know
the ripples in their bones
there’ll come a day
when a child sees the progress you made
they may not recognize your name
but your ripple keeps the ties strong and safe
CH:
You may never know what your life meant
If only you could see all your branches
Further down the line you’re a story
written from a time where they taught me
To know your ripple grew to waves
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14. |
A Little Crazy
04:08
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Spinning round
Every day I wake up
Oh and every day the same worry
Missing out
I wonder if I am the only one without a remedy
PRE-CH
Falling apart
But maybe not the only one
We play what we aren’t
And we’re all a mess
CHORUS
Don’t fight it
There’s no way out
We’re all a little crazy
Some hide it
But there ain’t no doubt
We’re all a little crazy
Terrified
That everyone will find out
All our secrets at the curtain call
In denial
Looking for the answers
But we never look beyond our walls
PRE-CH
Right where we are
Isn’t ever meant to last
Acting the part
But just a mess
CHORUS
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Big Little Lions Royston, British Columbia
Big Little Lions is the ferocious songwriting duo of Helen Austin and Paul Otten.
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