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boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Take On Me (Pal Waaktaar/Mags/Morten Harket)
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We're talking away
I don't know what
I'm to say I'll say it anyway
Today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your love, OK?

Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two

So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But that's me stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is OK.
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two

Oh the things that you say
Is it live or
Just to play my worries away
You're all the things I've got to remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you anyway

Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Train Of Thought (Pal Waaktaar)
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He likes to have the morning paper's
Crossword solved
Words go up words come down
Forwards backwards twisted round
He grabs a pile of letters from a small suitcase
Disappears into an office
It's another working day

And his thoughts are full of strangers
Corridors of naked lights
And his mind once full of reason
Now there's more than meets the eye
Oh, a stranger's face he carries with him

He likes a bit of reading on the subway home
A distant radio whistling tunes that nobody knows
At home a house awaits him, He unlocks the door
Thinking once there was a sea here
But there never was a door

And his thoughts are full of strangers
And his eyes to numb to see
And nothing that he knows of
And nowhere where he's been
Was ever quite like this
And his thoughts...

And at heart
He's full of strangers
Dodging on his train of thought
Train of thought

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Hunting High And Low (Pal Waaktaar)
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Here I am
And within the reach of my hands
She's sound asleep and she's sweeter now
Than the wildest dream could have seen her
And I Watch her slipping away
But I know I'll be hunting high and low

High
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Hunting high and low
High
There's no end to lengths I'll go

To find her again
Upon this my dreams are depending
Through the dark
I sense the pounding of her heart
Next to mine
She's the sweetest love I could find
So I guess I'll be hunting high and low

High
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Hunting High and Low
High
Do you know what it means to love

I'm hunting high and low
And now she's telling me she's got to go away
I'll always be hunting high and low
Hungry for you
Watching me tearing myself to pieces
Hunting high and low

High
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Oh, for you I'll be hunting high and low

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

The Blue Sky (Pal Waaktaar)
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I find it hard to breathe
As life just eats away
At the faces that surround me
They look tired today
The lady at my table
Doesn't want me here
I just want to talk to her

But would she laugh at my accent
And make fun of me
It doesn't seem like this
blue sky's here for me

There are no girls in here
As far as I can see
Only pin-up posters
Looking down at me
Watching papercups of coffee
Growing cold before my eyes
All the things I see
That make me realize

I'm in this big world without you
Nothing to my name
I never knew that
Blue sky meant such pain

I'm dying to be different
In the coffee shop
I've lived on borrowed strength
Now my supplies are cut
Though i'm older than my looks
And older than my years
I'm too young to take on
My deepest fears

Oh, I used to be confused
But now I just don't know
Since you left I've been watching
Blue skies come and go

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Living A Boy's Adventure Tale (Pal Waaktaar/Morten Harket)
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I've fixed my dwelling for the night
Lights in pairs come passing by
where I hide
I need some time now on my own
Leave my loneliness alone
To lick my wounds
Night has found me just in time
to help me close my eyes
one more time

Living a boy's adventure tale
In so many ways
Living a boy's adventure tale
For so many days
I'm living a boy's adventure tale
Can't escape, if I wanted to
Living a boy's adventure tale
I may be dreaming but I feel awake

I've been lost in so many places
Seeked love in so many faces
A change of weather,
the rain pours down
My head in hands,
pressed to the ground
And where am I supposed to go now

Living a boy's adventure tale
In so many ways
Living a boy's adventure tale (aah)
Living a boy's adventure tale
a voice I hear
Living a boy's adventure tale
Singing a lullaby for me
Living a boy's adventure tale
Because of you
Living a boy's adventure
Oh you know it's true
Living a boy's adventure tale
In so many ways (aah)
For so many days
I love you. I love you
So many ways

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

The Sun Always Shines On T.V. (Pal Waaktaar)
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Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on T.V
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me...

I Reached inside myself
And found nothing there
To ease the pressure off
My ever worrying mind
All my powers waste away
I fear the crazed and lonely looks
The mirror's sending me
These Days
Please don't ask me to defend
The shamefull lowlands
Of the way I'm drifting
Gloomily through time
I reached inside myself today
Thinking there's got to be some way
To keep the troubles distant

Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

And You Tell Me (Pal Waaktaar)
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Please don't hurt me
I have told you
All my love is all i've got
And tomorrow is the day
When I for your sake
I'm coming back

And you tell me
That i don't love you

Trying hard to make you jealous
Trying harder to make you stay
Days are longer
Night are crazy
It's so strange when you're away

And you tell me
That i don't love you

Because I love you
I will show you
All the faces
My love can have
So please
Let me come to you
And stay this time

And you tell me
That i don't love you
Oh you know
That it's just not true

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Love Is Reason (Pal Waaktaar, Mags)
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My breath was coming fast
And as i make a start
You turn to go
oh, oh
I'll do what you want me to
I'll cry at the thought of the loss of a heart

Love is reason
Love is reason
Love is reason
Love is reason enough

My morals are changing fast
I told you it wouldn't last
You turn and go
oh, oh
I'll be what you want me to be
I'd die at the thought of the loss of your heart

Love is reason
Love is reason
Love is reason
Love is reason enough

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Here I Stand And Face The Rain (Pal Waaktaar)
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Help me
I need your love
Don't walk away
The dark scares me so
We're nothing apart
Let's stay friends forever
forever

Here i stand and face the rain
I know that nothing's gonna be the same again
I fear for what tomorrow brings

Trust me
For whom i am
Place all your faith
Into these hands
I got nothing to say
But let's stay friends forever
forever

Here i stand and face the rain
I know that nothing's gonna be the same again
I fear for what tomorrow brings
Here i stand and face the rain
I know that nothing's gonna be the same again
I fear for what tomorrow brings
Here i stand and face the rain
Knowing nothing's gonna be the same
again
Ahhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa
Ahhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa
...
Here i stand and face the rain
Knowing nothing's gonna be the same
again

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Scoundrel Days (Pal Waaktaar)
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Was that somebody screaming...
It wasn't me for sure
I lift my head up from uneasy pillows
Put my feet on the floor
Cut my wrist on a bad thought
And head for the door

Outside on the pavement
The dark makes no noise
I can feel the sweat on my lips
Leaking into my mouth
I'm heading out for the steep hills
They're leaving me no choice

And see...as our lives are in the making
We believe through the lies and the hating
That love goes free

For want of an option
I run the wind 'round
I dream pictures of houses burning
Never knowing nothing else to do
With death comes the morning
Unannounced and new

Was it too much to ask for
To pull a little weight...
They forgive anything but greatness
These are scoundrel days
And I'm close to calling out their names
As pride hits my face

See...as our lives are in the making
We believe through their lies and the hating
That love goes free through scoundrel days

I reach the edge of town
I've got blood in my hair
Their hands touch my body
From everywhere
But I know that I've made it
As I run into the air

And see...as our lives are in the making
We believe through the lies and the hating
That love goes free
Through scoundrel days

The Swing Of Things (Pal Waaktaar)
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They say the world's an eventful place
You give me news
I don't want to know
You say that I should care
That I should speak my mind

Oh, but how can I speak of the world
Rushing by
With a lump in my throat
And tears in my eyes
Have we come to the point of no turning back
Or is it still time to get into
The swing of things

Let us walk through this windless city
I'll go on till the winter gets me
"Sleep..."you wrote "sleep, my dear"
In a letter somewhere

Oh, but how can I sleep with your voice in my head
And an ocean between us
And room in my bed
Have I come to the point where I'm losing the grip
Or is it still time to get into
The swing of things

When she glows in the dark
And I'm weak by the sight
Of this breathtaking beauty
In which I can hide
There is a worldful out there
Of people I fear

But given time I'll get into
The swing of things

Yes, when she glows in the dark and I'm struck by the sight
I know that I'll need this for the rest of my life

What have I done
What lies I have told
I've played games with the ones that rescued my soul
Have I come to the point where I'm losing the grip
Or is it still time to get into
The swing of things

I've Been Losing You (Pal Waaktaar)
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It wasn't the rain that washed away...

Rinsed out the colours of your eyes

Putting the gun down on the bedside table

I must have realized

It wasn't the rain

That made no difference

And I could have sworn it wasn't me

Yet I did it all so coldly

...almost slowly

Plain for all to see

Oh c'mon please now

Talk to me

Tell me; things I could find helpful

How can I stop now...

Is there nothing I can do

I have lost my way

I've been losing you

I can still hear our screams competing

You're hissing your s's like a snake

Now in the mirror stands

Half a man

I thought no one could break

It wasn't the rain

That made no difference

...nervously drumming on:Run away

But I want the guilt to get me

Thoughts to wreck me

Preying on my mind

Please now

Talk to me

Tell me; things I could find helpful

For how can I stop now...

Is there nothing I can do

I have lost my way

I've been losing you

October (Pal Waaktaar)
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Dawn awaits a sleepless, English town

Of coloured gray

Here I roam the streets without you

As summer fades away

...down in the city at nights

The cold wind blows

Wherever you may be right now

It must be getting late

You're probably asleep already

I am wide awake

...down in the city at nights

"Don't be lonely"

so you've told me

But don't you worry now

Loneliness can be ignored

And time has shown me how

... down in the city

I'm missing you so much

Down in the city

Down in the city...

Manhattan Skyline (Pal Waaktaar)
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We sit and watch umbrellas fly

I'm trying to keep my newspaper dry

I hear myself say,

"My boat's leaving now"

...so we shake hands and cry

Now I must wave goodbye

Wave goodbye

You know

I don't want to cry again

I don't want to cry again

Don't want to say goodbye

I don't want to cry again

I don't want to run away

Don't want to race this pain

I'll never see your face again

Oh but how

How can you say

That I didn't try...

You see things in the depths of my eyes

That my love's run dry

No...

We leave to their goodbyes

I've come to depend on the look in their eyes

My blood's sweet for pain

The wind and the rain bring back words of a song

And they say wave goodbye

Wave goodbye

But you know

I don't want to fall again

Don't want to know this pain

Don't want another friend

Don't want to try again

Don't want to see you hurt

Don't let me see you hurt

I don't want to cry again

I'll never see your face again

How can you say

That I didn't try

You know I did

You see things in the depths of my eyes

That my love's run dry

...So I read to myself

A chance of a lifetime to see new horizons

On the front page

A black and white picture of

Manhattan Skyline

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Cry Wolf (Mags/Pal Waaktaar)
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"Night I left the city,

I dreamt of a wolf..."

He came from where the winds are cold

And truth is seen through keyholes

...strange longings never sleep

Now he's come where no hearts beat

Cry wolf

Time to worry

Cry wolf

Time to worry

You can start, but you cannot stop

You give in, but you can't give up

You can tell all your desperate jokes

To a world that puts

Love on hold

Cry wolf

Time to worry

Cry wolf

Time to worry now

...the sunken-in eyes

And the pain in his cries

A shape in the dark...

Cry wolf

Time to worry

Cry wolf

Time to worry now

We're Looking For The Whales (Pal Waaktaar)
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One left low left two who left high

They seem so hard to find

Three came twice took once the time

To search...

We're looking for a little bewildered girl

We're looking for a little bewildered girl

We're looking for the whales

Restlessness is in our genes

Time won't wear it off

Born into this world with our eyes wide open

Girl

We're looking for a little bewildered girl

We're looking for a little bewildered girl

We're looking for the whales

I found angels

Beached outside your doors

Don't you set those lonely eyes on me

We're looking for the whales

We're looking for the whales...

The Weight Of The Wind (Pal Waaktaar)
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Your face looked new against the town

You've come to lose some memories

Like you I've come to touch new grounds

You want to lose

The weight of the wind

Rests hard on your shoulders

Bringing you down

The one that you love

Will never be found

You speak into the falling rain

Words you'd lost, but found again

You see their snakey arms entwined

So clear and cruel

In your jealous mind

You've got to lose

The weight of the wind

Hard on your shoulders

Getting you down

The one that you love

Can never be found

Maybe Maybe (Mags)
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Maybe you were joking

When you said that you were walking out on me

Maybe, maybe

Maybe I was joking

When I said that I was running out on you

Maybe, maybe

I could be wrong, so wrong

I could be wrong, so wrong

Yes, I could be wrong

I don't know, but it's been said

decisions travel far from heart to head

Maybe, maybe

Maybe it was over

When you chucked me out the Rover at full speed

Maybe, maybe

I could be wrong, so wrong

I could be wrong, so wrong

Yes, I could be so wrong

Soft Rains Of April (Pal Waaktaar)
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The soft rains of April are over

The soft rains of April are over, over

Anybody home now

I am on the phone now, please...

The soft rains of April are over

The ferry across the water to Dover, over

Anybody home now

I am on the phone, oh I'd like to go back

Is it raining back home

I'm so alone

Just got up today

And my thoughts are miles away

With you

Well, they gave me four years

Three more to go

Keep writing letters

Time's passing so slow

The soft rains of April are over

The soft rains of April are over

Over

boban11 · Prijatelj foruma

Stay On These Roads (Morten Harket/Mags/Pal Waaktaar)
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The cold has a voice

It talks to me

Stillborn, by choice

It airs no need

To hold

Old man feels the cold...

Oh baby don't

'cause I've been told

Stay on these roads

We shall meet, I know

Stay on...my love

We shall meet, I know

I know

Where join should reign

These skies restrain

'Shadow your love...'

The voice trails off again

Old man feels the cold

Oh baby don't

'cause I've been told

Stay on these roads

We shall meet, I know

Stay on...my love

You feel so weak, be strong

Stay on, stay on

We shall meet, I know

I know

The Blood That Moves The Body (Pal Waaktaar)
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It's the way we feel

Tonight

As if it's all unreal

All right

My love, won't you come back to

Our love, you know I'll react to

The blood that moves my body

Now covers the ground

The blood that moves the body

The blood that moves the body

There's nowhere to go

Tonight

Lend some warmth to our cold

And lonely lives

Red stains on 'Eyes Of A Blue Dog'

My pains fade as the interiors fog

the blood that moves my body

Now colours the ground

The blood that moves the body

The blood that moves the body

Not long ago

It hurt us so

A tremble through our lives

The love and care...

The way we were

Lost its way at nights

It's the way we feel

Tonight

Lend some warmth to our cold

And lonely lives

My love, won't you come back to

Our love, you know we'll react to

The blood that moved our bodies

Now covers the ground...

Now covers the ground

The blood that moves the body

The blood that moves the body

Touchy! (Morten Harket/Mags/Pal Waaktaar)
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Donna found us in her slow and dreamy way

I can't hear a word the waiter says

She's looking older now...the color of her hair

She walks into the room too pleased to find me there

Me I'm touchy

Touchy you

Me I'm touchy

And you know what to do

Me I'm touchy

Touchy, touchy you

Me I'm touchy and you know what to do

Both of us together in a room by ourselves

I sneeze to look around, but there's no escape

What can I do, what can I say

She's waiting for this moment to explain itself

Me I'm touchy

Touchy you

Me I'm touchy

And you know what to do

Me I'm touchy

Touchy, touchy you

Touching love is the best I can do

Hey, this time you've gone too far

You know how touchy we are

Donna found me in her slow and dreamy way

Now she reads me what the papers say

The way she laughs at what I do

I'm waiting for this moment to explain itself through

Me I'm touchy...etc.

This Alone Is Love (Mags/Pal Waaktaar)
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This alone is love

No small thing

This alone is love

That my love brings

And all of us

who are travelling by trap-doors

Our souls are a myriad of wars

And I'm losing everyone

It will make my last breath pass out at dawn

It will make my body dissolve out in the blue

Oh baby, what can we do.

Hurry Home (Mags/Pal Waaktaar)
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Hurry home

Freight train running

I've been gone

Too long, honey

Why did I waste away

The only good thing left to save me

Hurry home

Freight train running

She's alone

Got no money

(She's alone...she got no money

I'm coming home, I've done my running)

I'm coming home

No more running

Why now should I deny

the only true thing left inside me

Hurry home

No more running

I'm doing right

For once in my life

(He's doing right!)

No more running...

(Rolling countries... fields unfolding

I swear the winds are calling)

So I hurry home

No more running

She's all alone

Got no money

(She's alone...she got no money

coming home, I've done my running)

Why should I go and hide

the only true thing left inside me

Hurry home

Freight train running