 Genius Lyrics
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Edwyn Collins – A Girl Like You
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[Verse 1] / I've never known a girl like you before / Now, just like in a song from days of yore / Here you come a-knocking, knocking on my door / And I've never met a girl like
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Edwyn Collins – Moron
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Sitting in the Albert Hall back against the wall / I feel so uninspired won't someone take me higher? / The confines of this dome are not the ideal home for the music / As I live
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Edwyn Collins – Low Expectations
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So, you set out on your own / You shut up shop, you're leavin' home / You feel no need to settle down / In the crippled crook of your earth bound town / And you've been down this
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Edwyn Collins (Ft. The Drums) – In Your Eyes
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I can hardly taste the wine, I'm homesick / And if you see me down, walk away, walk away / I can hear it in your voice, in your voice / I can feel it in your heart, in your heart
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Edwyn Collins – It's All About You
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The sun was a bright bikini yellow / The sky was a Wedgwood blue / The mood was unspeakably mellow / When you came and spoilt the view / The sea is a black and blue diva / It
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Edwyn Collins – Dilemna
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Dilemna, that's me / That's me all over / Dilemna, that's me / That's me all over / What is my world? / Is it real or is it fiction? / But years gone by / Like a flaming ember
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Edwyn Collins – Make Me Feel Again
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Make me feel again / Five twenty five on a Monday morning / I'm lying on my unmade bed / Outside these walls there's a new day dawning / As the sky turns from black to red / But I
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Edwyn Collins – 31 Years
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In the shadow of this world / In the place I call my home / Where's a key, where's a clue? / What the heck, I'm living now / Thirty-one years of rock and roll / So long ago it
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Edwyn Collins – 50 Shades of Blue
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Sally Blue, she / Up and left me; / She couldn't stand to live in poverty / So I painted a self-portrait in 50 shades of blue / And in this moment of weakness / I'm showing it to
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Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
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I'm losing sleep, I'm losing dignity / Everything I own is right in front of me / And it's getting me down, I'm losing sleep / And it's getting me down, I'm losing sleep / I'm
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Edwyn Collins – Superficial Cat
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At the blast that was the past / Came the superhuman brain / Set the universe aflame / Put the rest of us to shame / I looked to the skies with expectant eyes / Feeling bedazzled
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Edwyn Collins – Subsidence
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You may find as I have found / This place is neither safe nor sound / This house of cards will tumble down / As befits a cardboard town / You're lost in the ruins of your mind / As
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Edwyn Collins – The Campaign for Real Rock
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[Verse 1] / Don't try so hard to be different / The cracks are beginning to show / You drift like a cloud through the festival crowd / In a frock coat from Saville Row / You've
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Edwyn Collins – I Guess We Were Young
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She was and so was I / Pretty girl, worthy boy / [?] she was everything / I guess we were young / In the sunshine, in the rain / Easy [?] seashell eyes / I was wild and so was she
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Edwyn Collins – Hope and Despair
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Now is the time / To show that you care / You were offered hope / But you chose despair / Well you won't know what hit you / When it all comes down / You will crawl through the
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Edwyn Collins – I've Got It Bad
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There's something intriguing about you / That's for sure / Seems like you walked right out of my past / Though you swore we never met before / Now I understand your feeling shy
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Edwyn Collins – Coffee Table Song
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What is your number? / My number is zero / And what is your colour? / My colour is blue / What is your secret? / Why that would be telling / Well what is your problem? / My problem
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Edwyn Collins – Keep On Burning
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Youve given me a head start / Im brewing up a brainstorm / And we leave the grunges far behind / In the quagmire of the unkempt mind / Cos it got no style,no elequence,no elegance,
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Edwyn Collins – Gorgeous George
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Without hurting you / How can I make you see / This might mean everything to you / But it don't mean nothing to me / And whilst your hangers on / Are laughing nervously / You'll
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Edwyn Collins – It's Right in Front of You
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It's right in front of you / You still describe as your latest undertaking / It seems to me it's been a lifetime in the making / And somehow it won't come right / Somehow it won't
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Edwyn Collins – Adidas World
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Well, don't get me wrong, I won't hurt myself / Back in the 80's, straight off the shelves / I even enrolled in the old school of cool / But how quickly I learned to be nobody's
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Edwyn Collins – For the Rest of My Life
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Way back when I was all of three / I fell down and skinned my knee / It didn't matter much to me / C'est la vie / At the tender age of ten, running wild and free / I didn't get no
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Edwyn Collins – Home Again
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I'm home again / Hardly certain of my role and then / I started searching for my soul again / But there was nothing I could find / I'm home again / But l've been here before, old
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Edwyn Collins – Written in Stone
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Well I've reached this destination / But it's funny I don't recognize the signs / It's a fatal combination / When destiny and providence align / The madness that surrounds me / The
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Edwyn Collins (Ft. Romeo Stodart) – It Dawns on Me
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Let me find out who l am / Let me live and let me dream / Near the shoreline, near the sea / Coast to coast, that’s where I’ll be / A simple life, a simple choice / That dawns on
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Edwyn Collins – Out of This World
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I've been prayin', I'm prayin' that you come to your senses / 'Cause whilst you bask in the warmth of the sun / We're vulnerable and defenseless / There are so many people, who've
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Edwyn Collins – You're Better Than You Know
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Haven't you guessed they just couldn't care less / And don't believe them when they say they do / They've just got to sell their message to you / And I'm beginning to doubt / That
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Edwyn Collins – North of Heaven
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Don't pretend that you don't know me / If you mean to offend me then you're doing pretty well / And how convincingly you've shown me / That the love I thought was built to last is
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Edwyn Collins – Don't Shilly Shally
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I'll be your one-way ticket for a runaway train / And when next the moon is on the wane / I'll ride that train alone / Til the black, black night as fallen / Don't shilly-shally
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Edwyn Collins – One Is a Lonely Number
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And you will try, and you will fail again / Again, you will try and fail / 'Cause in the end it's all a game, my friends / In which truth may not prevail / And if life breaks your
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Edwyn Collins – Pushing It to the Back of My Mind
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Looks like all my high falutin plans have fallen through / Leaving me to pick up the pieces and start anew / I'm well aware there's something wrong / Something I don't care to put
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Edwyn Collins – Badbea
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Badbea / A ruined monument to life / And death / Badbea / Lean towards the wind, a fight for breath / Fight for breath / Hardship was the way in Badbea / Desperate toil and hidden
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Edwyn Collins – Graciously
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I've got a tiger in my tank / I keep your picture 'neath the dashboard / I've got a feeling in my bones / That when i call you won't be home / You'll be out there in the twlight
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Edwyn Collins – Forsooth
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This Sunday, it's a good good feeling / This Sunday, it's a good good feeling / And I'm lazy and contented / I'm feeling lazy and contented / I'm so happy to be alive / I'm so
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Edwyn Collins (Ft. Alex Kapranos & Nick McCarthy) – Do It Again
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So many ways, so many truths / So much to learn, so much to do / Night by night, day by day / There's a place I know / I'm gonna stray... / I can do it again / I can do anything
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Edwyn Collins – The Magic Piper (Of Love)
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I'm through with love hangovers / It's best that I stay sober / No rolling in the clover / No Gretna Green to Dover / No honeymoon in Paris / I only feel embarrassed / For the cool
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Edwyn Collins – Running Away with Myself
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I'm going back to my school / I'm going back to my old school / 'Cause to tell you the truth / Move this old fool / I'm going back to my suit / I'm going back to my old suit
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Edwyn Collins – I’m OK Jack
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I'm coming home tomorrow / But tought I ain't well / I'm okay, Jack / I'm coming home tomorrow / But tought I ain't well / I'm okay, Jack / The bass guitar / The drums / I'm okay
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Edwyn Collins – I'm Not Following You
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Women may love me, but I don't love women / At least not collectively / Some men admire me and others despise me / The feeling is mutual, I'm sure you'll agree / Some men go for
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Edwyn Collins – Superstar Talking Blues
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You say you've been abused / And I know that you're confused / But you know that don't excuse you / Superstar / I'm not saying you should keep schtum / But all this howling at the
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Edwyn Collins – The Beatles
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Let's hear it for the first beatle / Let's hear it for the worst beatle / Let's hear it for the best beatle / The had to get it off his chest beatle / Let's hear it for the lost
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Edwyn Collins (Ft. Ryan Jarman) – What Is My Role?
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If I think too hard then / I can feel like no one, though / I'd rather be alone / Than with people I don't know / 'Cause I can't walk in character / I can't act in any way / I don'
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Edwyn Collins – If You Could Love Me
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Darkness, darkness all around / And my senses have been stripped / Of sight and sound / Suddenly I came to, I pulled through / Amazed at what I saw / Struggling hard to find the
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