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1. |
Time
03:49
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Time, wakes me must be a new day
Time, tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick, keeps me awake
Time, can’t seem to make my escape
Time, would not forsake me, if you’d stay
Time, just seems to torture my soul
Time, no respite or resolve
Time, together with you I wish time would stand still
Time, when I’m with you I wish time would stand still
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you every second feels like torture
I wish that it would stop
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Time, keeps ticking, ticking away
Time, not my friend, not on this day
Time, I wish you’d leave me alone
Time, prefer to hide in the unknown
Time, are you running away
Time, or do you intend to stay
Time, together with you I wish time would stand still
Time, when I’m with you I wish time would stand still
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you I wish that I could sleep away this time
It’s killing me
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you seconds last forever I wish that they would stop
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Time, makes me ponder, racks my brain
Time, all the mistakes, so much to pay
Time, so much torment, causes me pain
Time to leave me, leave me today
Time, never breaks, never loses control
Time, grips me tighter, increases it hold
Time, together with you I wish time would stand still
Time, when I’m with you I wish time would stand still
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
Without you seconds last forever I wish that they would stop
Without you seconds seem like minutes seem like hours
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2. |
The Answer
03:41
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If you have the answer
To the question I’m asking
Then why don’t you let me know
And if I have the question
To the answer you’re begging
Then why can’t I just say so
How long, how long
How long, how long
How long, must this go on
If my heart is beating
Through the silence you’re seeking
Then why don’t you let me go
But my mind keeps racing
To the pace you are making
Then why can’t I just say no
How long, how long
How long, how long
How long, must this go on
How long, how long
How long, how long
How long, must this go
Does my flame still flicker
in your blackened mirror
Can you still see the glow
Or do you arch forward
And in one last motion
Breathe out one final blow
Just say so, just say so
Just say so, just say so
Let me know, let me know
Please let me go
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3. |
New Addiction
03:59
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Always knew that I’d need a new addiction
Cause this one’s kind of through
Used to be, so anxiety ridden
Now I need something new
Something that doesn’t keep me up all night
Something that I can do with you
Must replace, that old addiction
With one that is new
Should have known, that I’d need a new addiction
If I was to make it through
A healthier, new age addiction
One that helps me to feel
Like I want to live, this life to the fullest
‘cause I know that it is the last
Always knew, that I’d need a new addiction
‘cause this one’s in the past
I took the drugs to cure my addiction
But it numbed my soul and detached my heart
So I ditched the drugs and cured my affliction
And now every day just feels like the last
I took the drugs to cure my addiction
But it numbed my soul and detached my heart
So I ditched the drugs and cured my affliction
And now every day just feels like the last
Always knew that I’d need a new addiction
‘cause this one’s kind of through
Used to be so anxiety ridden
Now I need something new
Something that doesn’t keep me up all night
Something that I can do with you
Must replace, that old addiction
With one, that is new
Oh, I need a new addiction, one that gets me through
Oh, I need a new addiction, one that I can share with you
Oh, I need a new addiction, one that makes me high
Oh, I need a new addiction, something to get me by
Oh, I need a new addiction, dopamine is my drive
Oh, I need a new addiction, something to cure my life
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4. |
Four Years
05:09
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Four years I have loved you
Never caused you any pain
For years I will love you
Never hurt you again
Four years I was there for you
Always right by your side
For years I will cherish you
Through day and through night
Four years or forever
Which way will we turn
Four Years or forever
I love you
That’s not my concern
Four years I held on
And always thought you would change
For years I’ll show you that
Your wait was not in vain
Four years I did love you
Thought our love could be strong
Forever I’ll amend
Sorry I was so wrong
Four years or forever
Which way will we turn
Four Years or forever
I love you
That’s not my concern
Four years you took from me
The promise of a new life
A life I can give you
If you move past the strife
Four years I was all yours
Mind body and soul
For years I’ll give back to you
All the faith that I stole
Four years or forever
Which way will we turn
Four Years or forever
I love you
That’s not my concern
Four years so long, time long gone
Four years wasted with you
For years I’ll prove my love to you
A love so strong
Four years are gone, time to move on
How could I have been so wrong
You were never wrong, till you moved on
Forever is so long
Four years I tried, but now I’m tired
Four years I did love you
For years I’ll try to reconcile
All the love you gave to me
Four years too long, to keep holding on
Need to start a new life
I can never give up, your love
For years I will
Have tried
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5. |
Lately
05:20
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Lately you’ve been down on me
I can’t seem to do anything to please your mind
I do my best to understand
What it takes for me to be your man
Lately you’re just not around
Your heart’s so far from me
I try to reach for you
But I can’t touch you, I don’t understand
Why you’re over me
I’m over you
A bit lately
Down on me, down on you
Lately I just don’t feel
How I did, when I first met you
Lately when we kiss
The magic’s gone, Oh how I miss
The touch of you
Your love for me
Lately
Yeah I’m down on you
And you’re down on me
Lately
I’m over you
You’re over me
Lately
Down on you, down on me
Lately, well I just don’t know
What it takes to love you, to reach your soul
Lately I’m just so confused
So much time, so much love to loose
I’m over you
And you’re over me
A bit lately
Yeah I’m down on you
And your down on me
Lately
Over you, over me
Lately
Down on you, down on me
Lately
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6. |
Tortured Soul
04:19
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Your vacant stare
Peers from your black hair
A sense of I don’t care
A creative flare
I think I’m falling for you
What else can I do
I see you glimpse at me
I can see, I can see
I can see, I can see
That you’re just the type for me
A little gloomy, a touch needy
If you let me take control
You can be my tortured soul
Your vulnerability
It really does it for me
I want to save you
Not sure you want me to
Are you falling for me
Do you need a release
I sense you’re coming to me
Then you’ll see, then you’ll see
then you’ll see, then you’ll see
That you’re quite a lot like me
Maybe who I’d like to be
Before too long you’ll have a hold
And I’ll be your tortured soul
How was it for you
Get what you wanted to
Well you opened my soul
Jumped in and swallowed it whole
So much for keeping you
Not that you wanted me to
And now you’re starring at me
Can you stand what you see
What you see, what you see
I’m not who you thought I’d be
Just look right through me to see
The damage has taken a toll
I’m nothing more than a tortured soul
You’re standing upon me
A little taller as you leave
Few memories to behold
I’m nothing more than your tortured soul
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7. |
He's Not You
05:00
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He looks really cool
Vintage clothes, hipster moves
Drives American dream
Living urban in the scene
He’s down with the news
Writes art house reviews
PC and socially aware
Race, sex, religion doesn’t care
But he’s not you
He’s not anything like you
He can’t make me feel the way that you do
Oh he’s not you
He’s not a single bit like you
Just want to feel how I do with you
High boots, nice hair
About the right things he cares
Seen in all the right places
Covers all the right bases
Retro style cute smile
Romantically he beguiles
Pens poems and love songs
Oh he can do no wrong
But he’s not you
Why can’t he be like you
Why can’t he make me feel the way that you do
Oh he’s not you
He’s not anything like you
Can’t I have the best of both worlds
Oh but he’s not you
He’s not anything like you
He can’t make me feel the way that you do
Oh he’s not you
He’s not a single bit like you
Just want to feel how I do with you
But he’s not you
Why can’t he be like you
Why can’t he make me feel the way that you do
Oh he’s not you
He’s not anything like you
Why can’t I have the best of both worlds
Both worlds, both worlds
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8. |
When We Were Young
03:53
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When I was young, well I had dreams
Of music stardom, in the rock scene
Oh Jimmy Page and Jeffery Beck
Jimi Hendrix, they were the best
Teenage angst, bought a guitar
I played it loud, I played it hard
But I drank too much, and fell in love
Oh way too much
I opened the album
Reminiscing my dreams
Someone much younger
Stares back out at me
I took a moment to recognise
That he used to be me
When I was young, well I had dreams
Of Hollywood, the silver screen
Audrey Hepburn and Doris Day
I swore I would, be them one day
Teenage rebellion, my share of drugs
Just like you do, when you are young
But I grew up, way too much
Now here I am
I opened the album
Reminiscing my dreams
Someone much younger
Stares back out at me
I took a moment to recognise
That she used to be me
When we were young, yeah we had dreams
That time does fade, where have we been
What have we done, suppose it was fun
Now time to live, those childhood dreams
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9. |
Slow Down
05:28
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Oh this life’s not very long
Before you know it will be gone
Easy come, easy go
Live too fast it won’t go slow
This life’s not very long
Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Are you happy with who you’ve become
Take a moment to look at the sum
Of your life, who you’ve been
Those you love, what they see
This life’s not very long
Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Oh what legacy will you leave
Do you know what it will be
Take some time, take some more
Take some time, take it all
Life’s not very long
Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
Slow down
(Take some time, take some more)
Slow down
(Take some time, take some more)
Oh this life’s not very long
(Take some time, take some more)
Before you know it will be gone
(Take some time, take some more)
Oh this life’s not very long
(Take some time, take some more)
Oh this life’s not very long
(Take some time, take some more)
Take some time, take some more
Take some time better take it all
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10. |
Me
06:48
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I’ll cherish you, if you, cherish me
Even worship the ground you walk on,
if you’re beside me
Love you forever, if you’re there for me
Do anything for you that you’d, do for me
That you’d do for me
Oh, are you there for me
Oh, are you there for
I’ll sail the seven seas, if you, sail with me
Even climb Everest, if you, pay the Sherpa’s fee
Hold you forever, so tight so not to flee
All these things I do for you,
What do you do for me, what do you do for me
Oh, what you gonna do for me
Oh, what you gonna do for
I wrote this song for you, but it’s all about me
I penned these words for you, but they’re all about me
Wanted you to hear this song, so it’s all about me
I wrote this song for you
Oh, so it’s all about me
Oh, so it’s all about
I gave my heart my soul, what did you give to me
Could have had everything, if you’d listened to me
On our separate ways, couldn’t you see
My love’s conditional, nothing’s for free
Nothing’s for free
Oh, what you gonna do without me
Oh, what you gonna do without me
Oh, what you gonna do without me
Oh, what you gonna do
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2 Inch Tape Melbourne, Australia
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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