 Genius Lyrics
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Mike + the Mechanics – The Living Years
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[Verse 1] / Every generation / Blames the one before / And all of their frustrations / Come beating on your door / I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear / I know
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Mike + the Mechanics – Help Me
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Help me, help me understand / I still find it hard to comprehend / Tell me, tell me who I am / The one who shares your life or just a friend / I can read your heart like an open
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Mike + the Mechanics – All I Need Is a Miracle
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[Verse 1] / I said "Go if you wanna go, stay if you wanna stay" / I didn't care if you hung around me, I didn't care if you went away / And I know you were never right, I'll admit
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Mike + the Mechanics – Silent Running
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[Verse 1] / Take the children and yourself / And hide out in the cellar / By now the fighting will be close at hand / Don't believe the church and state / And everything they tell
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Mike + the Mechanics – Taken In
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[Verse 1] / Taken in, taken in again / Wrapped around the finger / Of some fair-weather friend / Caught up in the promises / Left out in the end / [Verse 2] / No pride, taken for a
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Mike + the Mechanics – Nobody's Perfect
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It must be hard being an angel / When the devil in your heart won't set you free / It must be hard being an angel / When the world has let you down / Imperfection all around / Hey
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Mike + the Mechanics – Now That You've Gone
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As the night comes down / Darkness slowly descends / I am lost and alone again / Now that you've gone / As the shadows fall / There's no place to hide / From the pain I feel inside
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Mike + the Mechanics – Nobody Knows
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There is nothing wrong with me / There's nothing wrong with you / Maybe we're just blind to see / Each other's point of view / Nobody knows what we had / You could do much better
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Mike + the Mechanics – Seeing Is Believing
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I believe in Jesus / His Father's only Son / I do believe He sees us / With the loaded gun / I believe in the magic / Of the Mujahideen / I still believe in Daniel Ortega / The sun
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Mike + the Mechanics – A Call to Arms
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Pass the word, it's a call to arms / Midnight man at your door / Blackened faces run in the night / Daybreak under the floor / Bring my bow / Fill my head with flame, and we must
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Mike + the Mechanics – Somewhere Along the Line
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Somewhere along the line / We convince ourselves / Accept the ordinary / Refuse to read the signs / We just can't see / The extraordinary / Somewhere along the way / Dreams become
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Mike + the Mechanics – Rewired
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[instrumental]
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Mike + the Mechanics – Don't
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I don't want to condescend / I just want to be your friend / I don't want to drive your car / I just want to make a start / With you / I don't want to touch your lace / I just want
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Mike + the Mechanics – A Beggar on a Beach of Gold
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I didn't know when I was lucky, discontented feeling bad / Filled with envy for possessions other people had / I found my pride had always hurt me, fought the world to gain control
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Mike + the Mechanics – A Time and Place
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There's a time and a place / For you to make your mark and show your face / There's a place in time / When you must step outside the line / So understand what I mean / There is a
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Mike + the Mechanics – If Only
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Still waters always run so deep / I've heard you cry in the night And talk in your sleep / Why would you want to / Keep it all inside? / Now you're alone / With nothing but your
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Mike + the Mechanics – What Will You Do
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What will you do / What will you do if you're left on your own / What will you do / What will you do when there's no one at home? / What will you do when I'm gone / What will you
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Mike + the Mechanics – Open Up
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Don't ask me why should it always be / So hard to let my feelings show / I've thought it over a thousand times / Why you didn't leave, I'll never know / Now I assume you can read
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Mike + the Mechanics – Par Avion
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Another day has passed me by / And there's an island in the sun / To see me through / Another day in paradise / But there's no reason, there's no rhyme / Without you / Here comes
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Mike + the Mechanics – Word of Mouth
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Come on / Now the world is getting older / There's a few things to be said / Do you believe the things they told you / Do you believe the things you've read / There's a rumour on
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Mike + the Mechanics – Get Up
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Do you remember how we used to say / Nothing could ever stand in our way / Well it's no use pretending things are still the same / 'Cause we're no longer ahead of the game / Well I
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Mike + the Mechanics – Take the Reins
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I'm a man, don't you forget it, I'm not a little kid / Understand, you might regret it, treating me the way you did / Hey old man, shut your mouth and listen, this here's the new
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Mike + the Mechanics – Whenever I Stop
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Whenever I stop and think about it / There's still a question in the back of my mind / Whenever I go, whatever I do / You know it's with me everyday / Whatever you say you need to
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Mike + the Mechanics – Wonder
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[Verse 1] / Take a look around you / I really think you should / At all the things you've broken / Just because you could / Think of all the people / You know who they are / Ya
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Mike + the Mechanics – I'll Be There for You
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[Verse 1] / No one can say / You didn't want to fly / You went your own way / And weren't afraid to try / Now you feel so alone / When your dreams aren't always what they seem / [
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Mike + the Mechanics – Over My Shoulder
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[Chorus 1] / Looking back over my shoulder / I can see that look in your eye / I never dreamed it could be over / I never wanted to say goodbye / [Chorus 2] / Looking back over my
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Mike + the Mechanics – Oh No
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Oh no / I don't know what to say / When you won't even look at me / Let go... Let go / I tried / But I never believed / That you sleep with the enemy / I closed my eyes / Now every
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Mike + the Mechanics – One Left Standing
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You've got to hold on tonight / Do you think that it's easy trying to take me for a ride? / Signs.... time that you recognised them / Doesn't work anymore, it's gone and you can't
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Mike + the Mechanics – Web of Lies
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Just a minor indiscretion / No need to apologise / I don't want this to become an obsession / But I just can't believe my eyes / Evidence in my possession / Points a finger
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Mike + the Mechanics – How Can I?
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How can I tell you / And sound like I mean what I say? / You turned a light on in me / And it shines to this day / Once it was easy / To open my heart up to you / Now you know the
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Mike + the Mechanics – Are You Ready?
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Are you ready? / To put your heart on the line / To tell the world that you're mine / To love me all of the time / Wiser and older / I thought it was over / But I'm haunted again
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Mike + the Mechanics – If I Were You
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If I were you / I wouldn't hurt the ones you love the way you do / I wouldn't make them cry / If I were you / I would learn to see the other point of view / You don't even try
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Mike + the Mechanics – The Way You Look at Me
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Softly you told me what I already knew / No doubt in my mind, no doubt that it was true / The tenderness we had and the love that we used to share / Have long since disappeared if
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Mike + the Mechanics – I Think I’ve Got the Message
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[From the CD single "Stop Baby, pt II", 1991] / I didn't get it, not at all / When to run or when to crawl / Consistency, that's not my game / A whisper, then a shout / My
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Mike + the Mechanics – Little Boy
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[From the CD-single "A Beggar On A Beach Of Gold, pt II", 1995] / Let me go said the little boy / And it's just like me / Let me go said the little boy / And it's just like me
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Mike + the Mechanics – I Don't Do Love
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Do you wanna dance / Do really wanna / Take another chance / Are you strong enough / To hold love in your hands / Just to watch it fall away / Do you wanna scream / Falling in the
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