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Duncan Sheik – Barely Breathing
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“Barely Breathing” is the first single from the self-titled debut album from Duncan Sheik. The song was a hit on the Billboard Chart during 1996, peaking at #16 on the Hot 100. The
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Duncan Sheik – Circling
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During a performance and interview on WNYC’s Soundcheck, Sheik mentions this song emerged from his reflecting on a past relationship with a female singer-songwriter.
So Circling
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Duncan Sheik – Avalanche
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There's a wave of snow and it's coming down / From far below it seems as if it barely makes a sound / And it doesn't love, it doesn't hate / It stands to deliver it's inexorable
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Duncan Sheik – She Runs Away
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You may not see the end of it / But luckily she comes around / It isn't what she talks about / It's just the way she is / (...and she says) / Ooh darlin' don't you know / The
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Duncan Sheik – Serena
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So what, life's rough / You should get over yourself / Like everyone else and enjoy / The girls and the boys / And everything in between / Serena, in an effort to aviod / The
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Duncan Sheik – Stay
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I'm taking off this party hat / The right situation is over / A new situation begins / Red guitar is broken / To beat the drum of youth again / Take too long to say / Stay, stay
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Duncan Sheik – Scorpios
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[Chorus] / Behind the passing clouds / Below the roiling waves / There it is / And there it stays / Before the siren songs / Beyond the grand parade / There it is / And there is
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Duncan Sheik – Better to Be Dead
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[Verse 1: Duncan Sheik] / I present to you a story / Set upon a northern shore / The denizens of lighthouse / During times of war / The foolish things they did / The foolish things
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Duncan Sheik (Ft. Ben Aldridge, Charlie Anson, Eugene McCoy, Hugh Skinner, Jonathan Bailey & Matt Smith) – Cards
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The male characters of the cast discuss business until Paul enters the office. Patrick attempts to impress them with his new business card and Paul one-ups him by showing his own
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Duncan Sheik – For You
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For you I wanna sing a happier song / For you I wanna try to right all my wrongs / For you I'm gonna break my bad habits / There's a golden ring and I want you to have it / There's
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Duncan Sheik – Isn't It So
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[Verse 1] / There is that from which I run / Now the dark, now the sun / Until there really is no one to ask for peace / There is that for which I grasp / Hands in prayer that won'
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Duncan Sheik – Sometimes
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[Verse 1:] / Here's a list of things gone wrong / Please don't worry / It won't take too long / You read it somewhere / But you're on the wrong track / You're calling someone
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Duncan Sheik – We're Here to Tell You
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[Verse 1: Duncan Sheik, Duncan Sheik & Holly Brook] / Indeed there's such a thing as ghosts / And more to cause you fear / You'll never know where or when / But surely, they'll
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Duncan Sheik – Acquaintance
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[Verse:] / So by the by / In the neighbourhood of demons / Where I spent my time / Because it was convenient / I spied a friend who’d had a wedding day / Who used to conjure
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Duncan Sheik – Wishful Thinking
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Listen to the waves / Everything communicates / Will it ever be / Anything more than wishful thinking? / Oh no, there you go / Looked away and missed the show / How much wasted
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Duncan Sheik – Warning Light
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[Verse 1:] / I've never felt water like this / A soft, a liquid kiss / I'm drowning in the bliss / Another thing I'll miss / I've never felt sun like this / A deep, a burning kiss
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Duncan Sheik – Hey You
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[Verse 1:] / Hey you / I wanna surrender / I don’t wanna remember / I want you to hurt me / Hey you / You cannot harm me / You won’t alarm me / I want you to hurt me / [Chorus
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Duncan Sheik – Little Hands
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Some sweet perversion on the telephone line / I've been waiting for such a very long time - For her to be free / The evening was nice but there were too many people / And all my
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Duncan Sheik – Photograph
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I guess we'd hit the town / You could see we were a sight / We were taken up and taken down / Until we saw the light / There's no use in denying / We were pretty black and blue
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Duncan Sheik – In the Absence of Sun
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For all the good you say it does / It seems no better when you've had your say / You may believe in just because / The words get colder when you've gone away / I thought I
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Duncan Sheik (Ft. Skylar Grey) – And Now We Sing
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[Verse 1: Holly Brook] / And now we'll sing of drowning things / No wondering what might have been / Upon that ship, we played the popular songs / Some sang along, now all that's
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Duncan Sheik – Reasons for Living
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Everyone's looking / Everyone hides / Everyone's telling... everyone lies / They're changing the subject / They're turning away / Away from the heart of it all / You say you are
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Duncan Sheik – On a High
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I'm on a high, on a high / There's nothing more to it / You're the sea and the sky / And the blue that runs through it, yeah / And there are some who say there are so many things I
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Duncan Sheik – There Once Was a Pirate
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This song was originally in the Spring Awakening Off-Broadway Run and comes at the beginning of Act 2. In the Broadway Run the song was replaced with “The Guilty Ones”.
The song
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Duncan Sheik (Ft. Matt Smith) – Opening (Morning Routine)
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[TV ADVERTISEMENT 1, spoken] / It took me nineteen years, but I finally developed a good relationship with my body.” / / [TV ADVERTISEMENT 2, spoken] / Today, computers are
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Duncan Sheik – The Dawn's Request
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If I crack up / Lose my head / Try to hid beneath my bed / And leave the television on / So I don't think of what's gone wrong / I beg the dawn / Break through, save me / Rescue me
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Duncan Sheik – Good Morning!
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I awake to find the devil / Sitting near my bed / We have a conversation / ...........he says: / Good Morning Mr. Cut-throat / These are most exciting times / We are surrounded by
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Duncan Sheik – Days Go By
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I know it's not fashionable / To be this hopeful...well laugh away / I didn't think it was possible / To be grateful...anyway / I know it's not sensible / To be this passionate...
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Duncan Sheik – Smoke and Mirrors
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[Verse 1] / I received the invitation, out of thin air it appeared / But there was no time or place, no party, no premiere / And if there was a sender, discretion was their
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Duncan Sheik – Everyone, Everywhere
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Faded longing / Tired of wanting / Can't explain the fear that's haunting you / Should I go on? / I may be wrong / ...so wrong / Hear me calling from Eagle Mountain / One of
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Duncan Sheik – Selling Out
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[Verse 1] / There’s a race we’re running / To the break time coming / We say / Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh / We try explaining / When the sky stops raining / But we don’t know / Don’t know
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Duncan Sheik – No Happy End
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[Verse 1:] / She said that life was not enough / Some of it’s alright but most of it’s too rough / Cause we’re not thoughts reeled off the cuffs / They were etched in hidden glass
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Duncan Sheik – Hold Me Now
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Well, I have a picture / Pinned to my wall / An image of you and of me / And we're laughing / And loving it all / Look at our life now / It's tattered and torn / We fuss and we
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Duncan Sheik – Out From Underneath
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[Verse 1] / Caught up in senses / With the light and the form and the feeling here / I am defenseless / From the drug of myself I am dealing with here / I ask a friend of mine
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Duncan Sheik – The Ghost in You
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A man in my shoes runs a light / And all the papers lied tonight / But falling over you is the news of the day / Angels fall like rain / Love, love, love is all of heaven away
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Duncan Sheik – You'll Never Be Alone
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[Verse 1] / There is a chance today / I will avert disaster / There is a chance today / I will recognize / There's nothing to do / Unless I want to do it / I'm finally through / I
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Duncan Sheik – Brutalized
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[Verse 1:] / Those men now gone who we admire / They sing of fallen leaves / And they never sing of summer wind / Or evening breeze / They never found a promised land or even peace
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Duncan Sheik – Lo and Behold
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Simeon, he was a man / Held his heart out in his hand / A hollow land of autumn breeze / Evenings in the brittle rain / Leaves that fill the barren plain / With simple pain
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Duncan Sheik – Birmingham
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[Intro] / The sun has wound down on Birmingham / The day cleared up. It's pretty grand / I did a little job with a friend of mine / Emptied the pockets of the people in line / [
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Duncan Sheik – Bicycle Thief
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[Verse 1:] / So I'm gliding down the street / Passing by all you people / I suppose I'll never meet / Some of you glare at me / Some of you stare at me / But I am no bicycle thief
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Duncan Sheik – You've Really Gone and Done It Now
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[Verse 1] / You've really gone and done it now / You've hit the lowest low / You thought that you could handle this / But there's a lot that you don't know / You're just a child
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Duncan Sheik – White Limousine
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I guess they think it's what we want / A smooth and easy ride / Of constellations of ceiling lights / Hennessey and Naugahyde / America, America, this is our reward / Everything is
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