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The Wallflowers – One Headlight
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This song is about the loss of innocence and the pain of living in a broken world. However, it also offers a beacon of hope, suggesting that it is possible for humanity to
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The Wallflowers – 6th Avenue Heartache
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“6th Avenue Heartache” is ostensibly about a homeless man that played guitar on the doorsteps of a building across 6th Avenue in New York City, where singer Jakob Dylan lived. The
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The Wallflowers – The Difference
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[Verse 1] / One, two boys by the river / Down by the water tellin' riddles in the dark / With fireflies under the moonlight / Carvin' the insides of a tree with a knife / You ever
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The Wallflowers – Three Marlenas
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[Verse 1] / Alone tonight in somebody's bed / She gone and dyed her hair red / She only went and did what she did / Cause he would drive her home then / There's lipstick on her new
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The Wallflowers – Sleepwalker
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Maybe I could be the one they adore / That could be my reputation / It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore / I'm an educated virgin / Now sleepwalker don't be shy
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The Wallflowers – Hand Me Down
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You won't ever amount to much / You won't be anyone / Now tell me what you were thinking of / How could you think you would be enough? / Now it's not that you have stayed too long
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The Wallflowers – Closer To You
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How soft a whisper can get / When you're walking through a crowded space / I hear every word being said / I remember that everyday / I get a little bit closer to you, you / How
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The Wallflowers – From the Bottom of My Heart
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[Verse 1] / Fire on the porch on a summer's night / All my things are there inside / Black smoke rise up / Now burn on, burn higher / I smell leaves and burning tires / Dogs in the
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The Wallflowers – When You're On Top
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I need a bed, that nobody's slept in / I need some air, nobody's been breathing / I need a thought, that I can believe in / Is this fog or is the building really burning / I need
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The Wallflowers – The Passenger
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[Verse 1] / Permission now to let this thing land / I'm too far gone to know where I am / Conditions are worse than we planned / Permission now to let this thing land / [Chorus 1
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The Wallflowers – Love Is A Country
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No there won't be an ambush anytime soon / If the birds are returning, it's safe enough to say that much is true / In the desert that borders between me and you / Where more than a
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The Wallflowers – Bleeders
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Once upon a time, they called me the bleeder / I'm swimmin' up this river with sentimental fever / But this ain't my first ride, it ain't my last try / Just got to keep movin' on
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The Wallflowers – Josephine
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[Verse 1] / I feel pretty good / I feel all right / And I've been thinkin' maybe / Well, I could spend the night / [Verse 2] / I know you've been sad / I know I've been bad / But
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The Wallflowers – I've Been Delivered
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I could / Break free from the / Wood of a coffin / If I need / But nothin's hard / As gettin' free from places / I've already been / I've been / Waist-deep In the / Burnin' meadows
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The Wallflowers – Witness
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I'm standing outside your window, baby, there you are / Another year another candle's burning / For the party girl / No one even knows that you're there / Happy Birthday, no one
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The Wallflowers – The Daylight Between Us
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[Verse 1] / Well, the men were drinking wine and the women, they'd split / To smoke French cigarettes / We'll do a couple rails and sit around and bitch / Lie down and get sick
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The Wallflowers – The Daylight Between Us
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[Verse 1] / Well, the men were drinking wine and the women, they'd split / To smoke French cigarettes / We'll do a couple rails and sit around and bitch / Lie down and get sick
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The Wallflowers – If You Never Got Sick
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That ain't a parachute / That ain't a ripcord / That ain't a body of water we're headed for / There's so little time left / So much to be done / Even you are gonna need someone
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The Wallflowers – Letters From The Wasteland
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Now coming down out of this swan dive to your arms / I make no sounds when I move through your reservoir / But I wake up quick / And I wake up sick / As you.... / Abandon me into
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The Wallflowers – Roots And Wings
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[Verse 1] / You're such a heavy bird / You'd never get far on your own / You'll never have a use for your feathers / While you're hopping down the road / Yeah, you were born to
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The Wallflowers – How Good It Can Get
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Oh slow down you're breaking up / Use your words don't yell so much / I don't understand a word that you're saying / Now move in and come up close / You look like you maybe seen a
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The Wallflowers – I Started A Joke
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I started a joke which started the whole world crying / But I didn't see that the joke was on me / Oh, no, I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing / Oh, if I'd
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The Wallflowers (Ft. Mick Jones) – Misfits and Lovers
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We wrote our names last day of summer on the insides of each other's hands / With empty cans and walls of graffiti, the kind just kids understand / It's not the glass or the wires
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The Wallflowers – Eat You Sleeping
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Heart wears the body and the body wears shirts / Beneath my sleeping bag my heart sits in the dirt / They'll eat you sleeping / But in my pillowcase I've got you hummingbird / They
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The Wallflowers – The Beautiful Side of Somewhere
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[Verse 1] / Now, tomorrow is gonna make you cry / It's gonna make you kneel / Before it breaks you from inside / Still pressing on, arm over arm / Still trying to get both feet
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The Wallflowers – Constellation Blues
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You can tell a few things about the soul of a town / The blood of the men gone in the ground / Bankrupt and buried by war that is carried out by messengers now / Was born here and
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The Wallflowers (Ft. Mick Jones) – Reboot the Mission
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Where you're going has no signs / And you're not going in a straight line / You ought to have me on your mind / I dare you to think otherwise / One day the water, more water / You
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The Wallflowers – Empire In My Mind
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There is trouble in my mind / There is dark / There is dark and there is light / Lay your hands over my eyes / As I look deep / Trough valleys deep and wide / Across the borderline
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The Wallflowers – Maybe Your Heart's Not In It No More
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[Verse 1] / There’s no fire beneath the smoke / No one’s got you up by the coat / Not a razor up to your throat / You can go anytime through any door / Maybe your heart’s not in it
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The Wallflowers – Murder 101
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Never thought that I knew too much / I always thought I knew enough / I didn't want to learn this stuff / I didn't ever want to be that tough / But love was just implied / And
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The Wallflowers – Feels Like Summer Again
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My mind is open and my heart is full / I ain't got any weight that I can't pull / Right now I know that anything is possible / I'm gonna bang my drum / Blow my horn / I forget what
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The Wallflowers – Up From Under
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I'm down here in the well / Looking back up at the hill / I thank heavens I fell / Must look more like myself / Now everyone is so kind / Everyone looks like a long lost friend of
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The Wallflowers – Here In Pleasantville
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If you could see yourself the way that I do / You might change a thing or two / You wouldn't look so angry / You'd know it doesn't look good on you / So grab your coat / And grab
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The Wallflowers – God Don't Make Lonely Girls
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Senorita looks like you / Ain't done nothing good women ain't supposed to do / Oh no no no no / I seen her downtown 'bout an hour ago / Behind the glass at a peep show / I got
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Carolyn Arends – Even the Wallflowers
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From the moment you arrived here, I've been utterly amazed / Astonished at your level of perfection / So it breaks my heart in pieces to imagine all the ways / You'll get hurt in
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The Wallflowers – Everybody Out Of The Water
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Now on your mark, get set, let's go / You got to move now before she explodes / Now look out the window and out below / Now back away from the glass / Well there she blows / The
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The Wallflowers – The Dive Bar In My Heart
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[Verse 1] / Once in a while you still come around / You look me over and you look me down / It's just you and that, that lazy barback / And your favorite little clown / [Verse 2
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The Wallflowers – First One in the Car
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You're going to break somebody's heart that's true / Someone's gonna break yours too / You'll laugh in the middle of getting it done / And having it done to you / I see the neck of
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The Wallflowers – Darlin' Hold On
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[Verse 1] / You were born on your feet / With the stem of a rose between your teeth / From a cloud of golden air / Where the sky meets the city streets / You were already wise / To
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The Wallflowers – I Hear The Ocean (When I Wanna Hear Trains)
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[Verse 1] / It doesn't matter if it's real or not / It isn't wise to make it stop / It's used to getting only what it wants / And we're in no shape to be fought / It has no mercy
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