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Stranger
04:59
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A message from a face I used to know
Meet for coffee at a place we used to go
I sense closure’s on the menu should I show
Hey nothing’s stranger than the way you let me go
When you walked away a stranger from my life
Yes you walked away a stranger from my life
We sit across this table share a smile
Feels like yesterday just for a while
Exchange keys and clothes left behind
So you can slip away a lover in disguise
As you walk away a stranger from my life
Again you’ll walk away a stranger from my life
Oh hey and, I don’t know what was stranger
The way you entered or exited my life
So foolishly blind to the danger
Oh that you’d take my heart for a ride
You know there’s no need to be a stranger
Oh they’re the words that I so wanted to say
But as I payed the bill and tipped the waiter
I knew you wanted it that way
Our eyes lock in their gaze
Love survives veiled in a haze
In this moment I’m drawn back to find
Same face, same place hey never mind
For you walk away a stranger from my life
Soon you’ll walk away a stranger from my life
A sense of calm it seems to prevail
Our final moment will soon curtail
Your departure, well it’s so out of style
You turn away awkward in your guile
As you walk away a stranger from my life
Now you walk away a stranger from my life
You walk away
I watch you walk away a stranger from my life
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Greatest Performance
04:45
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I could play this song a thousand times
For two thousand ears and two thousand eyes
You wear your smile so nervously
Anticipation airs this room, we sit and breathe
I reach for my guitar
Fingers pressed I, I swallow hard
Oh voice don’t fail me now
Not for the one whose faith in me, allowed
Oh this song I play, I play it for you
The Greatest Performance
I could play for 10,000 fans
Screaming dancing from the stands
Camera crews follow my every move
For millions of followers to view
But as I sit and play for you
Hey well the reason I do, yeah it suddenly looms
An audience of one on one with you
Is all I need tonight
Oh this song I play, I play it for you
Now I’ll give the greatest performance of my life
Just for you the greatest performance of my life
The greatest performance, of my life
To the bridge I strum an F
I glance up and I see in you
A look that seems somewhat perplexed
Reality bites, hey don’t forget, yeah you know it’s true
Not since our last lovers’ embrace
Has vulnerability felt so great
Now for my muse I’ve played my song
In the greatest performance of my life
Well I just gave the greatest performance of my life
Just for you the greatest performance of my life
For my muse the greatest performance of my life
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Number 13
07:13
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Riding in a car with two women I don’t know
Slightly older than me, but hey, I’m good to go
Oh their intentions they remain unclear to me
One leans in and whispers, take you to number
thirteen
From where the ground shakes and the earth
opens up
Swallows your dreams, spews out misery and
sorrow
Oh that’s impossible I said, you know he died
long ago
When I was just a boy and now he’s just a shadow
Oh don’t believe all the lies you hear she said
He never died he just thought it wise to
disappear
Number thirteen, Number thirteen
Dropped me outside a place that I once knew
A figure lingers older, stronger, my god, how
can it be true
Unmistakably he sinks to a room down below
I follow him in, it’s hot, dark, the coals glow
He looks over and he says hey, you can’t be
looking for me
If you are you’ll be disappointed, just you
wait and see
But then time stood still as we stopped and
stared
Simultaneously embraced, I love you,
I declared, to number thirteen
Number thirteen, Number thirteen,
Number thirteen, Number thirteen
I’ve been waiting for you for thirty-three years
So now you better listen to me you hear,
said number thirteen
Best you go back and right your wrongs
Change your path or you’ll be with me,
before too long
Well I looked over and said, hey you know
that’s fine with me
To hell with them all I want to be with you
number thirteen
Number thirteen, Number thirteen,
Number thirteen, Number thirteen,
Number thirteen, Number thirteen
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4. |
Canadian Princess
05:30
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Inside I still feel like a child,
I look into your eyes,
how I wish I was twenty five
Your reflection it tells a story more wise,
I feel your soul, has travelled far and wide
Standing with you, well I feel so alive
Like long before, time’s cruel demise
Canadian Princess, Toronto muse,
Mojo find
What must you think of me,
how do I look in your eyes,
staring back sublime
The night light, does it treat me kind,
moonlight please, shade these scars of time
If you woke next to me
would you turn to your side
Would you run, would you want to hide
Canadian Princess, Toronto muse,
Mojo find
To steal a kiss, reclaim my youth,
one final time
Oh could I just, with such,
a goddess so fine
Flowing dark locks, your smile,
well it shines
Lips to kiss, lips to kiss, lips to kiss,
press to mine
Canadian Princess, Toronto muse,
Mojo find
Canadian Princess, Toronto muse,
Mojo find
Waiting nervously,
at the crossroads, of my life
Number on your phone you arrive,
with new friend in tow
I see your friendship hey,
it’s not exclusively mine
I know it’s time to let you go
For this, is our last goodbye
Canadian Princess, Toronto muse,
Mojo find
Canadian Princess, Toronto muse,
Mojo find
Canadian Princess, Toronto muse,
Mojo find
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Apollo
04:47
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From high up above,
looking down over you
Valley’s green, ocean blue,
sand divides the two
I hear your choir of muses,
singing only for you
Paeans of triumph, poetry of truth
Can you hear me Apollo
Could you share just the truth
My song, tell me, does it move you
I’ve visited many times, but not for a while
You haven’t changed all that much,
I think you’re in denial
I’m not the man I use to be,
sufferings slowly gain
I hear you do some healing,
could you delay my pains
Can you hear me Apollo
Could you share just the truth
My song, tell me, does it move you
Can you hear me Apollo
Could you tell me the truth
My song, tell me, does it move you
I think it’s time to leave you,
may never come back again
If you burned to the ground,
oh we could make amends
But first tell me Apollo,
I know you see beyond time
Is this path my chosen one,
or is this lyre not mine
Can you hear me Apollo
Could you share just the truth
My song, tell me, does it move you
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Vampire
04:10
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Living forever’s what I want to do
I thought Jesus had the answer hey well, that ain’t true
I heard about, these folk just like you
Just one bite, and I can live through, is that true
Are you my vampire, come to invite me
Such a nice vampire, well I might just let you bite me
You look so tired, whenever we meet
Eyes look so jealous, whenever I eat
Your fangs, they can’t penetrate through
What a shame was gonna give neck to you
You’re my vampire, meant to excite me
Come on then vampire, give it your best shot to bite me
So you’re my vampire, meant to entice me
Well if you’re my vampire, I might get someone else to bite me
To teach me, please me, release me
To reach me, tease me oh yeah
Immortality has got the better of you
Skin so pale and eyes sunken through
Living forever’s not what it used to be
Night after night after night never free
If you’re my vampire, you’re meant to bite me
So sorry Vampire, but you just don’t excite me
Tell me what, what you gonna do
Tell me what, what you gonna do
Tell me what, what you gonna do, oh oh oh, ahhh
Long ago so pretty, well that I can see
But now your grey hair it dangles, beneath your knees
I think it’s time I did a favour for you
Wooden stake to your heart, I push I drive through, release you
Personal vampire, but you failed me
Good day vampire, but now no-one can save me
Who’s gonna save me, who’s gonna save me
Why did you fail me, now there’s no-one left to save me
To please me, tease me, release me
Reach me, teach me, complete me
Please me, reach me, release me
Teach me, tease me, no way
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7. |
Darker With You
05:33
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I can be, the storm’s eye, I can be the party’s life
As you will see I’m quite a nice guy, I’m sometimes wrong I’m sometimes right
I don’t subscribe to much at all, I’m not one for labels formed
Well I’m just singing my song, I never expected you to, sing along
Oh I bare my soul for all to see
Darker with you is how I’d like to be
Old enough to know best, time alone is wisely spent
I’ll tell you my favourite lines from my favourite songs, oh maybe you and I hey we could, get along
Would you make an exception please, for my faults, for that’s how I’ll always be
Soul mates a notion long past, hey maybe you could be darker too
Oh I bare my soul to the world to see
Darker with you is how I’d like to be
Darker with you is how I’d like to be
Darker with you
Can I take another lover’s plight
Should I take another lover’s plight
Can I take another lover’s plight
I don’t have the fight
Can I risk it all to lose
Could I risk it all to lose
Do I risk it all to lose
What I have with you
I’ll just tell you my favourite lines, from all my favourite songs
I could tell you my favourite lines, from all my favourite songs
Oh I could tell you my favourite lines, I could tell you all night long
Wallpaper wrapped inside, will I ever sing my song for you
Can I bare my soul for you to see
Darker with you is how I’d like to be
Darker with you is how I’d like to be
Darker with you is how I’d like to be
Darker with you
Darker with you
Darker with me
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My Epiphany
05:37
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You stand alone, headphoned immunity
My gaze it zooms to unveil your obscurity
Eyes so dark, I’m drawn into them
Your space I’ll invade it, just a tiny bit
I act so cool to hide my anxiousness
Vulnerability, it crawls all over your skin
How you stand how you breathe I can only stare
Do you feel it, do you know, do you even care
In this moment I know that you’re right for me
Do you know that you’re my epiphany
I can sense you, smell you, feel you so near
Your demeanour, so smooth, calm, confident
Awkwardly I swallow my nervousness
I smile, turn away, stare back again
You acknowledge, friendly with a grin
I’m floating, transfixed by the look in your eye
How you stand how you breathe I can only stare
Do you feel it, do you know, do you even care
In this moment I know that you’re right for me
Do you know that you’re my epiphany
How you stand how you breathe I can only stare
Do you feel it, do you know, do you even care
In this moment I know that you’re right for me
Do you know that you’re my epiphany
How you stand how you breathe I can only stare
Do you feel it, do you know, do you even care
In this moment I know that you’re right for me
Do you know that you’re my epiphany
Next moment you’ve turned, you’re walking away
With my breath, my beating heart stays
I panic, I chase, desperate to know
Dance section I find you so coy your appearance
Eyes meet one last time not by chance
My epiphany, forever, my regret
How you stand how you breathe I can only stare
Do you feel it, do you know, do you even care
In this moment I know that you’re right for me
Do you know that you’re my epiphany?
She walks away, disappears, I’ll never see again
To another I return heart heavy with pain
I wonder what happiness could have been
Epiphany, epiphany, my epiphany
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Melbourne band 2 Inch Tape adheres to an aesthetic of yesteryear; real instruments played with an authenticity that is often abandoned in our technology-enabled times.
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