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STRAY
03:14
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Stray
Like a bird trapped in a room,
You scream at everything I do,
And riling you just seems to bring me such delight;
It could be the drugs we use,
Feeds the worst in me and you,
And keeps us buzzing here like flies inside a light?
If I stray,
If I go,
I go around and round and round and round until I just lose my way,
But if I stay,
It’s just the same,
I go around and round and round until I just want to stray.
Every time I walk away,
Which is nearly every day,
I realise that I am hopeless without you;
In fact, I’m hopeless either way,
Like a ball without a chain,
I just roll around and don’t know what to do.
If I stray,
If I go,
I go around and round and round and round until I just lose my way,
But if I stay,
It’s just the same,
I go around and round and round until I just want to stray.
Lyrics by Tim Prince. ℗© 2023 Tim Prince Music. All rights reserved.
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I stagger down this hall again,
Drunk as four A.M,
I haven’t read your letter yet,
But I know what it will say.
You were like Marilyn,
In that dirty bar,
Your fake coat of leopard skin,
Covering up your scars.
You looked so beautiful,
From the methadone line,
I’d have promised you anything,
I just had to make you mine.
And life will go on again,
Everybody is right,
But from kaleidoscopic
Back to black and white…
CHORUS
And I should have known better,
Like I don’t every time,
And I won’t know any better,
Again tonight.
Strip lights are stuttering
On our lives tonight,
Your face is like a mannequin,
Expressionless and white.
It started off all ‘Mills & Boon’
With flowers everywhere,
It ended up in a squatter’s room,
Shooting up in a bloody chair.
Spent a lifetime chasing down,
Every kind of pain,
I find lovers who are wrong for me,
Like water finds a drain.
CHORUS
I saw you yesterday,
Your eyes were seething with hate,
There’s nothing I can do or say,
I’m just the scapegoat for your rage.
And love doesn’t interest you,
Unless it brings you pain,
And men like me will watch for you,
Like vultures watch the lame.
You say you want a clean lover,
Someone who’s rich in grace,
But you just want a mirror
That reflects a different face.
CHORUS
Lyrics by Tim Prince. ℗© 2023 Tim Prince Music. All rights reserved.
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You picked a fine time to make your call.
I was alright, calm, free with it all.
But like a coal train, I spilled as I hit the wall,
Oh, I remember it,
I can taste and picture it,
How I swore that I would never love again;
All we ever did was wrong.
Well, I’m so glad to be alive,
And to find some peace in my mind,
And it’s a far cry from the life I left behind,
A life of using,
Of fear and choosing,
People who only bring me down, like you…
All we ever did was wrong.
We never stood a chance,
With our sick romance,
When you don’t even like yourself,
How can you love?
But we tried,
God knows, we tried…
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EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
02:47
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Employee Of The Month
Well, the Regional Head,
called me in and she said,
You’ve got to be a team player,
If you want a career,
You have to download the app,
Join this group and that,
You have to get more involved,
Smash your personal goals.
But I know, it’s not a game that I will play,
I just do my job and I take my pay,
And I don’t want to be in some American,
Jacked-up force-fed fake kind of family,
I’ll never be.
Your employee
Of the month.
So I nodded along,
As she went on and on,
In my head I was thinking,
Has this woman been drinking,
There’s no way I will join,
When I don’t see the point,
And I’m not being funny,
But I do this for money.
But I know, it’s not a game that I will play,
I just do my job and I take my pay,
And I don’t want to be in some American,
Jacked-up force-fed fake kind of family,
I’ll never be.
Your employee
Of the month.
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LOVE MY WAY
04:07
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6. |
A HEART BETRAYED
04:28
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7. |
KETAMINE & JACK
03:17
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LIKE MARILYN
03:32
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Stealing every room she enters,
She’s mesmerising like the sea,
And you’ll try everything to hold her,
But she’ll elude you like a dream.
And like Marilyn, she’ll be gone.
She can treat you like a stranger,
She can bend you to her will,
She will lead you into danger,
Or she will leave you standing still.
And like Marilyn, she’ll be gone.
She turns quicker than the weather,
And there’s so much we’re never told,
But she will never want for shelter,
For lovers will follow her like gold.
And like Marilyn, she’ll be gone.
Lyrics by Tim Prince. ℗© 2023 Tim Prince Music. All rights reserved.
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AMY, DON'T YOU CRY
03:29
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I could have known you for a thousand years,
Our kisses wet with rain and tears,
On those ancient streets;
Your eyes filled with reflected stars,
And the courage of your heart,
So beautiful and free;
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
I could meet you off that morning train,
And hold you all my life;
CHORUS
Amy, don’t you cry,
This is not goodbye,
Amy, don’t you cry,
It just wasn’t our time,
This time.
Now it’s time to board my plane,
My heart is like a weather vane,
Drawn always to you;
I think about you all the time,
My hands still reach for yours, and I
Don’t know what to do;
And life it has the cruellest way,
Of showing you the sweetest day,
Right before it’s gone;
CHORUS
Lyrics by Tim Prince. ℗© 2023 Tim Prince Music. All rights reserved.
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10. |
PARASITE
02:42
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Snapshots Of You
There you stand in the dress I loved, in the April rain;
Taken when you smiled for me,
And called my name;
Sacrifice? I’d have left this world for you,
When you said you felt that way, too.
Here you are in that hotel room, ten storeys high;
Taken when I thought it was love, that filled your eyes;
All my life, I will say a prayer for you,
That forgives everything that you do.
But if I had my time again,
Not a single moment would I change,
For I saw that look of freedom on your face.
There you are on that lover’s bridge in Paris, France,
Taken when my eyes were still blind with romance,
All those lies, so dark, so deep, so cruel,
And I fell, like any fool.
And if I had my time again,
Not a single moment would I change,
For I saw that look of freedom on your face.
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12. |
LONG TIME COMING
04:18
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Tim Prince UK
"'Love My Way' is such a great song!" - Andrew Marston, BBC Introducing.
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