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Sticky Finger

Reach into the cookie jar and all you find's a sticky finger
Even though your life is sweet, the pain you feel still seems to linger

Sleep and dream all day
'Cause you wanna get out

So you run in snow and think you’re gonna find your way to Heaven
You get everything and throw it all away just to get even

Sleep and dream all day
That things are going to get better
But what you can’t see is
My love is all that matters

When the darkness
Comes to find you
I am always there
When you’re running
I’m right beside you
I will always be there
I am always there for you

Love, come here tonight
Be my guide through the light
Love stand by my side
Be my guide on this wild ride
Love, take my hand

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House Where You Go

I see you yell at your mother
Your inconsideration seems to wear you well
I see you yell at your father
He only gave you the shirt off his back

Inside the house where you go

I see you yell at your brother
'Cause he didn’t do what you wanted him too
I see you yell at me
But I’m not listening to a word, can’t you see

Inside the house where you go

Time fades away
But old wounds…they never, never seem to heal
No one is right and
Everything is wrong

Inside the house where you go

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See Me Through

Poison's running through me, I see a blinking light
On the tower...alone
Hope, then fear
What am I still doing here?

Madman squeezing numbers and I will take the fall
Flaming every nickel...and dime
My friends are all gone
And the road ahead, looks oh so long

I need you
To see me through
To see me through
Tomorrow, forever, today

The walls are closing in, on my sterile room
Please come to me…and soon
Any day now
Any day
I drift and dream

A man with no shoes walks on broken stones
Reaches his out...to me
He says beyond the trees
The road is paved, it’s wide and free
Wide and free

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Inside

The world keeps turning
Round and round
My life keeps spinning
Upside down

You don't hear me anymore
You don't see

Without a fight
I go down
Giving up without a sound
Pulled out faster
With the overflow
Sinking further
From the undertow

You don't hear me anymore
You don't feel me anymore
When I'm gone
When I'm gone

Way down deep inside
Can you feel it? Can you hear it?
Where my lies can hide
Can you feel it? Can you hear it?
Way down deep inside
Where I spend my life

The world keeps turning
Round and round
My life keeps spinning
Upside down

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Strike You Down

Little man says sit down, son
You’ve been eliminated, your work here is done
Let me show you to the door
Nine years, don't come around here no more

May God be here, God be there
May God be here, God be there
May God be here, God be there
...and strike you down

You can't look me in the eye
Just stare at the floor and wonder why
The fat man's got you in deep
May you always lie alone as you weep

May God be here, God be there
May God strike you down, and strip you bare
May God be here, God be there
May God strike you down without a prayer
May God be here, God be there
...and strike you down

I was always there for you
Please take the knife from my back

Wipe the smile from your face
The life you lead is a complete disgrace
May disease take you in your room alone
As you cry out for love in the great unknown

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Johnny

Man went kind of crazy
Daddy whacked him around one too many times
But he heard big sounds and he thought he’d lay them down
The surf is free, the sand is free

'Cause when Johnny comes out to play
All his troubles just fade away
When Johnny comes out to play
He feels the love and stays all day
But Johnny lost his way
Johnny couldn’t stay

Big man tumbles to the floor
His lonely life is lonely no more
Down at the end of lonely street there's no hotel
Just a place to eat
A place to eat

Sun doesn't shine on the world every day
Everybody's always going to look the other way
Love has to got to be more than just a thrill
Everybody’s gonna come in for the kill
Hang on man, hang on man
You time is coming, your time is here today
All the way

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Run Towards the Warmth of the Sun

Son I know I should run
I can’t seem to move
Dust and life falling down
Meet you in Heaven if we don’t leave this town

Man shouts to us
Down the street there’s fire on the bus
Picks us up and we run
Run towards the warmth of the sun

Pray for me I’ll think of you
And we’ll be together

We’ll dream on and on and on

My heart sinks to the floor
Will I see you come through my door?
Please, run my baby run
Run towards the warmth of the sun

Hold me dear ‘til this day is through
And we’ll be together

There’s no darkness tonight
My baby, it’s gonna be alright...alright

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Dividing All We Are

A bookshelf, a broken DVD
A box of clothes, a stack of old CDs
Vintage toys, plastic potted trees
Memories

All the things that made me and you
Are breaking one by one into two
Loading up the car
Dividing all we are
Nothing left behind

Drawers full of old, familiar things
Swiss Army knife and gumball candy rings
Paper clips, love notes with wings
Old guitar strings

How do I let you go?
The feelings left inside
Do I give them away?
Or do I swallow up my pride?
It’s not easy to see beyond what’s left behind

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