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Happy birthday, happy birthday, baby
Oh, I love you so
Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight (as your eyes tonight) (Oh)
Blow out the candles, make your wish come true
For I'll be wishing that you love me, too (that you love me, too)
You're only sixteen (sixteen)
But you're my teenage queen (you're my queen)
You're the prettiest, loveliest girl I've ever seen (I've ever seen) (OH!)
Sixteen candles in my heart will glow
For ever and ever for I love you so (for I love you so)
You're only sixteen (sixteen)
But you're my teenage queen (you're my queen)
Oh, you're the prettiest, loveliest girl I've ever seen (I've ever seen) (OH!)
Sixteen candles in my heart will glow
For ever and ever for I love you so (for I love you so)
For I love you so!
 
Happy Happy Birthday Baby, although you're with somebody new
Thought I'd drop a line to say that I wish this happy day
would find me beside you.
Happy Happy Birthday Baby, no I can't call you my baby
Seems like years ago we met on a day I can't forget
cause that's when we fell in love.
Do you remember the names we had for each other
I was your pretty, you were my baby
how could we say goodbye.
Hope I didn't spoil your birthday, I'm not acting like a lady
So I'll close this note to you with good luck and wishes too
Happy Happy Birthday Baby.
 
Hold your breath and count to ten
Promise me it's not the end
Take control and breathe me in
Over and over, again and again
I feel it in my bones
Deep beneath my skin
Why can't I close my eyes
From everything inside?
This is the black
There's no coming back
Back from the darkness
How did I become so heartless?
Searching for a light
In the dead of night
Desolation
Raining down on me
No matter how I try
To make it out alive
Desolation
Have mercy on me
Silence swallow me whole
Let darkness unfold
Consumed by the wasteland
This is my last chance
To make it out alive
There's blood on my hands
There's no catharsis
I've become so heartless
Searching for a light
In the dead of night
Desolation
Raining down on me
No matter how I try
To make it out alive
Desolation
Have mercy on me
Hold your breath and count to ten
Promise me it's not the end
Take control and breathe me in
Over and over, again and again
🖤Hold your breath and count to ten
Promise me it's not the end
Take control and breathe me in
Over and over, again and again
No pain without sacrifice🖤
Searching for a light
In the dead of night
Desolation
Raining down on me
No matter how I try
To make it out alive
Desolation
Have mercy on me
 
On the day I was born
The nurses all gathered 'round
And they gazed in wide wonder
At the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up
Said, "Leave this one alone"
She could tell right away
That I was bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
I broke a thousand hearts
Before I met you
I'll break a thousand more, baby
Before I am through
I wanna be yours, pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya, honey
That I'm bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
I'll make a rich woman beg
And I'll make a good woman steal
I'll make an old woman blush
And I'll make a young girl squeal
I wanna be yours, pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya, honey
That I'm bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
Now when I walk the streets
Kings and queens step aside
Every woman I meet
They all stay satisfied
I wanna tell ya, pretty baby
What I see I make my own
And I'm here to tell ya, honey
That I'm bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Woo, bad to the bone
 
I understand that you've met someone
With the perfect heart
But you've been questioned by everyone
Are you in the dark
Can you choose to fall ? Should you risk it all ?
How am I gonna stop it if you wanna give it all to love
When I'm on your side
And I understand you're the only one to know
Whether wrong or right
Let your heart decide
Some may tell you, don't take the risk
It's a waste of time
But if you think you'll find happiness
Baby hey, take the time
It's unusual but it's critical
How am I gonna stop it if you wanna give it all to love
When I'm on your side
And I understand you're the only one to know
Whether wrong or right
Let your heart decide
Give it all to love...
How am I gonna stop it if you wanna give it all to love
When I'm on your side
And I understand you're the only one to know
Whether wrong or right
Let your heart decide, you're the only one.
 
… Oceans apart, day after day
And I slowly go insane
I hear your voice on the line
But it doesn't stop the pain
… If I see you next to never
How can we say forever?
… Wherever you go, whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
… I took for granted all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I hear the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't get near you now
… Oh, can't you see it, baby?
You've got me goin' crazy
… Wherever you go, whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
… I wonder how we can survive
This romance
But in the end, if I'm with you
I'll take the chance
… Oh, can't you see it, baby?
You've got me goin' crazy
… Wherever you go, whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
… Waiting for you
 
I dream in phosphorescence
Bleed through spaces
See you drifting past the fog
But no one told you where to go
We dive through crystal waters, perfect oceans
But no one told me not to breathe
And now the weightlessness recedes
My, my, those eyes like fire
I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre
Come now, bite through these wires
I'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired
Reset my patient violence along both lines of a pathway higher
Grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire
I will travel far beyond the path of reason
Take me back to Eden, take me back to Eden
Take me back to Eden
Well yeah, I spit blood when I wake up
Sink porcelain stained, choking up brain matter and makeup
Just two days since the mainframe went down and I'm still messed up
Room feels like a meat freezer, I dangle in it like cold cuts
Missed calls, answered phones from people I just don't trust
Mirror talk, fake love
But I'll take a pound of your flesh
Before you take a piece of my paystub
White roses, black doves, Godmother, rise up
I need you to see me for what I have become
My, my, those eyes like fire
I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre
Come now, bite through these wires
I'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired
Reset my patient violence along both lines of a pathway higher
Grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire
I guess it goes to show, does it not?
That we've no idea what we've got until we lose it
And no amount of love will keep it around
If we don't choose it
And I don't know what's got its teeth in me
But I'm about to bite back in anger
No amount of self-sought fury
Will bring back the glory of innocence
My, my, those eyes like fire
I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre
Come now, bite through these wires
I'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired
Reset my patient violence along both lines of a pathway higher
Grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire
I have traveled far beyond the path of reason
Take me back to Eden
Take me back to Eden
 
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadow on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy, linen land

Now, I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your life was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
 
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You hold me in your eyes
In your own special way
I wonder how you know
The things I never say
I can't imagine life
Without you by my side
The power of your love
Is all I need tonight
I know there have been times
That I have caused you pain
I'd turn them all around
If I could start again
There's something I must say
I know it's overdue
The sweetest thing I've known
Or ever called my own
Begins and ends with you
How I love you
How I love you
The softness of your lips
The color of your hair
The memory of your touch
Remains when you're not there
The echoes of your laughter
When I'm feeling blue
The meaning of my life
It all begins with you
So come into my arms
Lay down by my side
The moon is always there
To keep our love alight
I've reached so very high
For everything that's mine
And at the top is you
I want you for all time
And dream forever you
How I love you
How I love you
The softness of your lips
The color of your hair
The memory of your touch
Remains when you're not there
The echoes of your laughter
When I'm feeling blue
The meaning of my life
It all begins with you
So come into my arms
Lay down by my side
The moon is always there
To keep our love alight
You know me like a book
You've read a thousand times
We know each other's hearts
We read each other's minds
These feelings are always new
How I love you
How I love you
The softness of your lips
The color of your hair
The memory of your touch
Remains when you're not there
The echoes of your laughter
When I'm feeling blue
The meaning of my life
It all begins with you
 
Have you got colour in your cheeks?
Do you ever get that fear that you can't shift
The type that sticks around like summat in your teeth?
Are there some aces up your sleeve?
Have you no idea that you're in deep?
I dreamt about you nearly every night this week
How many secrets can you keep?
'Cause there's this tune I found that makes me think of you somehow and I play it on repeat
Until I fall asleep
Spilling drinks on my settee

(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby, we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

Crawling back to you

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few?
'Cause I always do
Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new
Now I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

So have you got the guts?
Been wondering if your heart's still open and if so I wanna know what time it shuts
Simmer down and pucker up
I'm sorry to interrupt. It's just I'm constantly on the cusp of trying to kiss you
I don't know if you feel the same as I do
But we could be together if you wanted to

(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby, we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

Crawling back to you (crawling back to you)

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few? (you've had a few)
'Cause I always do ('cause I always do)
Maybe I'm too (maybe I'm too busy) busy being yours to fall for somebody new
Now I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways?
(Sad to see you go)
Was sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby, we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day

(Do I wanna know?)
Too busy being yours to fall
(Sad to see you go)
Ever thought of calling darling?
(Do I wanna know?)
Do you want me crawling back to you?
 
You and I, we go together
You're the sky, I'll be the weather
A pretty thing, the sun and rain, oh no
Oh, yeah
Summer night, perfect occasion
When I'm by, you know I'll be waitin' for you
Oh, for you

So if it's real
Then darlin' let me know
I wouldn't mind
 
You loved it when my heart dropped
You paused, stopped, and walked away
Full of content that it went your way
These cuts that I've caused are never too deep to heal
Peel back the bandage, see a scar from countless careless things
And feel yourself drifting, pulled away
Well, nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how I feel
To show you who I am
'Cause it's locked away
We all need to find our way
Cut the loss, just walk away, oh
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
And I don't feel real, and I don't feel real
This pain is beating
And I don't feel real, I don't feel real
Well, nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Well, nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how I feel
To show you who I am
'Cause it's locked away
The things we think about at night never lose taste
Now take the close to find something greater
This wall has finally reached its end
It's higher ground, let's make a stand
Did you ever think that we would get this high?
Pull back the sheets to find an ending that you prayed for
Now head towards the light
The dark has no place here
Now head towards the light
 
You're the one I've waited for..
I need your love
More and more

I don't know what your name is
I don't know what your game is

I wanna take you tonight
Animal appetite

'Cause I'm a love
Hungry man
Yeah I'm the love
Hungry man

Don't want no conversation
I need sweet sensation
All I wanna do
Is make a meal outta you

'Cause I'm a love
Hungry man, I got to get what I can
Love

Hungry man, I tell you yes I am

I'm your love
Hungry man, oh baby you're such a treat
And you know
A mans got to eat

You're the one I've waited for, oh yes you are
I need your lovin' more and more, yeah I do

'Cause I'm a love, love hungry man, oh yes I am
I'm a love, love hungry man

I'm a love, love hungry man
Gimme one for the road and I'll carry your load I'm your man
Yes I am
A man's got to eat, baby, bon appetite
I'm your
Love hungry man
 
You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid, turned it blue

Something better than nothing
Something better than nothing, it's giving up
We all need to do something
Try to keep the truth from showing up

How dare you
How old are you now, anyway?
How dare you
How old are you now, anyway?
How dare you
How old are you now, anyway?

You're given a flower
But I guess that there's just no pleasing you
Your lip tastes sour
But you think that it's just me teasing you

You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid, turned it blue

Get behind me
Get behind me now, anyway
Get behind me
Get behind me now, anyway
Get behind me
Get behind me now, anyway

You got a reaction
You got a reaction, didn't you?
You took a white orchid
You took a white orchid, turned it blue
 
Don't say you love me 'cause it just makes it worse
I'm losing my balance on the edge of your words
I'm making friends with the ceiling
While you're busy sleeping
On the other side
Of someone's bed tonight
Hate that I miss you
After all that you've done
I'll never forget how you forgot about us
 
On the day I was born
The rain fell down
There was trouble brewin' in my home town

It was the seventh day
I was the seventh son

And i scared the hell out of everyone

They said stop, I said go
They said fast, I said slow
They said yes, I said no
I do the bad boy boogie

Bein' a bad boy ain't that bad
I had me more dirty women than most men ever had

All you women come along with me
And I'll show you how good a bad boy can be😎

I said right and they said left
I said east and they said west
I said up and they said down
I do the bad boy boogie
All over town

I wouldn't tell you no story
Tell you no lie
I was born to love till the day I die
I just line 'em up
And I knock 'em down
And they all came a runnin' when the word got around
Just keep a runnin'

I said up
They said down
(Bad boy boogie)
They said straight
I said round
(Bad boy boogie)
They said lost
I said found
(Bad boy boogie)
I said free
And they said bound
Bad boy boogie
Do the bad boy boogie
Bad boy boogie
Bad boy boogie
 
Blind me with distraction
build a frontier ‘cross the void
all tomorrow been destroyed, in a breath

i moved out to the country
and i saw the scenery shake
as a summer parade meets its death
and god’s -ss-ssins rode back into town
and paved their way upon the cold ground

roses help me to pretend
blushing brides and cosmonauts
don’t meet their bitter end

give me grace, oh mother
i have rumbled quite a feast
traced the footsteps of a priest in the snow


but in my mind’s picture
of every face i? ve ever loved
travel lightly suck their blood before they go

and god’s -ss-ssins rode back into town
and paved their way upon the cold ground

roses help me to pretend
blushing brides and cosmonauts
don? t meet their bitter end

roses, roses, cannot do this any more
 
Hello me, meet the real me and my misfit's way of life
A dark, black past is my most valued possession
Hindsight is always 20-20
But looking back, it's still a bit fuzzy
Speak of mutually assured destruction?
Nice story, tell it to Reader's Digest!

Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend?
Anxiety's attacking me and my air is getting thin
I'm in trouble for the things, I haven't got to yet
I'm chomping at the bit and my palms are getting wet
Sweating bullets

Hello me, it's me again
You can subdue, but never tame me
It gives me a migraine headache, sinking down to your level
Yeah, just keep on thinking it's my fault
And stay an inch or two outta kicking distance
Mankind has got to know his limitations

Feeling claustrophobic like the walls are closing in
Bloodstains on my hands and I don't know where I've been
Oh, I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet
I'm sharpening the axe and my palms are getting wet
Sweating bullets

I hear it in here
Blood stains on my- hands
The big axe, big axe, big axe
Sweating, sweating, sweating, sweating, sweating, sweating

Well me, it's nice talking to myself
A credit to dementia
Someday, you too, will know my pain
And smile its "black-toothed grin"
If the war inside my head won't take a day off, I'll be dead
My icy fingers claw your back
Here I come again

Feeling paranoid, true enemy or false friend?
Anxiety's attacking me and my air is getting thin
Feeling claustrophobic like the walls are closing in
Bloodstains on my hands and I don't know where I've been

Once you've committed me (committed me)
Now you've acquitted me (acquitted me)
Claiming validity (validity)
For your stupidity (stupidity)
I'm chomping at the bit
I'm sharpening the axe
Oh, here I come again, whoa!
Sweating bullets
 
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