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Painful
 

1. Big Day Coming
2. From A Motel 6
3. Double Dare
4. Superstar-Watcher
5. Nowhere Near
6. Sudden Organ
7. A Worrying Thing
8. I Was The Fool Beside You Too Long
9. The Whole of the Law
10. Big Day Coming
11. I Heard You Looking

"Big Day Coming"

Let's be undecided, let's take our time
And sooner or later, we will know our mind
We'll be on the outside, we won't care
Cause we're together, that's somewhere

And there's a big day coming, about a mile away
There's a big day coming, I can hardly wait

Let's wake up the neighbors, let's turn up our amps
And we know we're used to without a plan
We can play a Stones song, sitting on a fence
And it'll sound pretty good, til I forget how it ends

I woke up early, couldn't go back to sleep
Cause I had been thinking of where it all would lead
So I made you wake up, I said, "Let's take a walk,
I wanna hold your hand, we don't have to talk"

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"From A Motel 6"

You know you shouldn't hide but you always do
But even when you're gone I can see right through
You want disconnection
You want me there enough for 2
Pull a woolen blanket across my eyes
Dream a quiet place for us to hide
Oh, no your heart is broken
Don't you know that's a little trite
I hide where I can see, you're close but I wont reach
Blank stare at the TV, CNN's on channel 3
In the passing lane on the 1 and 9
Stuck in sad car stuck in drive
Oh, no you're heart is broken
Well you can have what's left of mine
I climb where I can see, you're close but I wont reach
Blank stare at the TV, the howling #'s on channel 3
I drift off to sleep while the snow falls on the screen

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"Double Dare"

I, I should know
You shouldn't have to tell me
Sometimes it's the way we feel
or the way we feel we feel-
pretty bad

In a double dare
He's got wandering eyes
And I see 'em look at you
looking straight at you-
but I know where they are

I'll walk you home
You take as long as it takes
The sun in the morning sky,
in the morning sky we'll know where we are
We'll know where we are

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"Nowhere Near"

Do you know how I feel
How I feel about you
Do you know this is real
How I feel around you

When I see you look at me
I'm not sure of anything
All I know is when you smile
I believe in everything
Do you know how I dream
How I dream about you
Do you know how I feel
Do you know...

Do you know how I feel
How I feel about you
Doesn't take much to tell
That I love, oh, I...

Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near

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"Sudden Organ"

Will you stare, will you stare as the final curtain starts to fall
Will you watch, will you watch with closing eyes, with closing eyes
Everyone, everyone's a little worried, you know I am
But I hate to watch the days go by, watch the days go by
Another day, another time, another way for the moment, watch it for a sign...

Well I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that I want to shoot it in the back

As the days go by, I'm stepping on them all like ants
I've seen the way that they look at you
Maybe you, or maybe not a guess, we'll know it after a while
I'm wondering just how this will stop, how's it gonna stop
Another day, another time, another way for the moment, watch it for a sign...
when to be mine

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"A Worrying Thing"

Will you ever say what I fear you're dying to say
Well, I don't mind, if I don't think about it
Another sleepless night reading over by the only light
But I don't mind if I don't think about it
What scares me most,
I'll keep from you,
if you want me to I'll keep from you

Does it makes sense to you, getting old, living life 22
Well, I don't mind, if I don't think about it
Let's go far away,
Let's leave today,
if you want us to we'll leave today
Will you ever say...?

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"I Was the Fool Beside You For Too Long"

I was the fool beside you, I was the fool beside you, I was the fool beside you
For too long

The things about you that would drive me wild still drive me wild
But now in a different way

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"The Whole of the Law"

Well, I used to have the notion I could swim the length of the ocean
If I knew that you were waiting for me
I used to have the notion I could swim the length of the ocean
I'd plumb the depths of every sea for you
I'd escape from my chains, and I'll reach out for you

Maybe I'm in love with you
Maybe, maybe I'm in love with you
I had to contact you, found out I was in love with you
I had to contact
That's it, that's the law, that's the whole of the law
The whole of the law