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Looking For Trouble
02:19
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You are
Looking for trouble
Looking for trouble
In this world
You keep
looking for trouble
looking for trouble
Don’t you girl
You think
He will come to you
But you
Don’t know what he’ll do
And still you’re
Looking for Trouble
Looking for trouble
All the time
You’ll keep
Looking for Trouble
Looking for Trouble
till you die
If you
Ever stopped this chase
Would you
Recognize his face
And Some day
When you find Trouble
When you find Trouble
You’ll know why
You’ve been
Looking for Trouble
Looking for Trouble
all your life
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2. |
Snow Cover Me
04:35
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Cover me
Snow
Cover me
Bury me deep
inside your sweet white powder
I’ll go to sleep
I’ll dream of you for hours
When I wake up
I will shake you
Gently from my hair
All the secrets
I have whispered
Will melt
In the air
Snow
Cover Me
Snow
Cover me
Let me pretend
I’m safe within your silence
There I will stay
Lost in a haze of violet
When I wake up
I will shake you
Gently from my hair
All the secrets
I have whispered
Will melt
In the air
Snow
Cover me
Snow
Cover me
Morning will come
Just like a dove to greet me
Under the ice
I’ll close my eyes and see me
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3. |
If Love
01:59
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If love were a song
Would you sing me a tune
If love were your arms
Would you break me in two
Would you break me in two
If love were a dove
Would you dress me in white
If love were a boy
I would take him inside
I would take him inside
If love were a girl
Would you mock her in vain
If love fell apart
Would you sew her again
Would you sew her again
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4. |
Spinning
03:07
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Spinning
Inside my head
I won’t get out
Until I’m dead
And I wonder how it feels
To be
free
Mourning
Another day
The night will come
And end my pain
And I wonder how it feels
To be
free
Silence
Where have you gone
Did I forget
To turn you on
And I wonder how it feels
To be
Free
To be
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Buttercup
03:01
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She sleeps everyday
Buttercup your life away
She doesn’t know her mind
Buttercup until you die
What good is smiling all the time?
She thinks it’s all a dream
Buttercups of red and pink
She says that soon she’ll wake
Buttercups lie on her grave
Why don’t the petals ever change?
In a field she goes
Without a winter coat
She says she shouldn’t be
Buttercup inside a tree
She thinks the world is cruel
Buttercup what will you do
Buttercup what will you do
In a field she goes
Without a winter coat
And the snow comes down
And buries her
Alone
She sleeps everyday
Buttercup your life away
Buttercup your life away
Buttercup your life away
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6. |
Oh Butterfly
02:55
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Oh butterfly
Is there someone to hold your wings
Oh butterfly
When morning comes are you still free
You wade into the stream
Oh butterfly
I wish that I could be like you
Oh butterfly
When morning comes are you still you
Just a simple shade of green
Flying through the trees
Oh butterfly
You wander through the fields all day
Oh butterfly
Where do you sleep when you’re afraid
Is there someone you can trust
Oh butterfly
Why don’t you spread your wings a while
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7. |
Ugly Little Toad
03:17
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Ugly little toad
Where you gonna go
When your pool is dry
And you've swallowed every fly
Ugly little toad
Sitting by the road
Baking in the sun
Waiting for your dinner to come
dinner to come
Ugly little toad
Make the world your own
Standing on the heads
of helpless insects
Ugly little toad
Lies are all you know
If you had to live
On truth you'd starve to death
You'd starve to death
Ugly little toad
Will you ever know
What your greed has done
And just what you've become
What you've become
Ugly little toad
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8. |
Heaven
06:25
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My mother tells me I will go to Hell
My mother tells me that I won’t be saved
My mother tells me that she is afraid
That I won’t go to Heaven
I won’t go to Heaven
My mother cries my father is a jew
My mother reads the Bible in her bed
My mother says that when my father’s dead
That he won’t go to Heaven
He won’t go to Heaven
We are sinners
We are sinners
We are sinners
In her mind
My mother calls my sister late at her job
My mother tells her Christ must be her King
My mother tells her that she must believe
Or she won’t go to Heaven
She won’t go to Heaven
My mother worries we were not Baptized
My mother worries we can't be with her
My mother says it’s written in the verse
We won’t go to Heaven
We won’t go to Heaven
We are sinners
We are sinners
We are sinners
In her mind
My mother holds a candle to her lips
My mother wears her mother’s crucifix
My mother says that only Christians live
We won’t go to Heaven
We won’t go to Heaven
We won’t go to Heaven
We won't go to Heaven
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9. |
The Alphabet
03:49
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B stands for bear
E stands for egg
In the alphabet
G is the girl you gave away
R is regret
It’s a
shame
letters can’t be changed
in the alphabet
I was the first line of your poem
You were my last
Love is a syncopated note
That fades too fast
It’s a game
No one can explain
in the alphabet
Y is the question that you ask yourself
When you’re alone
A stands for adolescent love
S is the sun
K is the kiss you never had
When you were young
Seasons change
But things will remain
in the alphabet
Seasons change
But things will remain
in the alphabet
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10. |
Elena
02:59
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Elena
You are beautiful
With your long blonde hair
Around your face
I can see your ears
Elena
Walking in the rain
With your rain coat on
And your yellow boots
Jumping in the mud
Men would cry
To touch you
Everyday I want you
Elena
You’re a photograph
A music box
Reminding me
Of symphonies
Elena
Staring back at me
With your skin so pale
You look like you
Could blow away
Men would cry
To touch you
Everyday I want you
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11. |
Little One
02:25
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Wait for the sun
Little one
Little one
Wait for the sun
To shine
You’ve got the trees
Little one
Little one
You’ve got the trees
To climb
How can you say
That it never will come
How can you know
What you’ve never begun
Open your eyes
Little one
Little one
Open your eyes
For me
You’ve got the world
Little one
Little one
You’ve got the world
To see
How can you say
That it never will come
How can you know
What you’ve never begun
Wake up and smile
Little one
Little one
Wake up and smile
For me
The sun will come
Little one
Little one
The sun will come
You’ll see
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12. |
Talking To God
02:17
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Mother
Do you know when you had me
I was somewhere
up above
Mother
Do you know when you found me
I didn't want to be
found at all
I was talking to God
and running on the moon
I was counting all the stars
before I came to you
Mother
Why'd you ask me to come here
I was happy
where I was
Mother
Do you think I could go back
and live with
all the others
I was talking to God
and running on the moon
I was doing all the things
you never let me do
Mother
I'm yours forever
whatever
that may mean
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diana darby Chicago, Illinois
Uncompromisingly spare, the songs of Diana Darby are psychotropic ballads that long to be sung from the dark corners of the room. Diana Darby's I V (intravenous) is a brand new album of songs retaining what Pitchfork called, "minimal, whispered rendition(s)" of "powerfully fatalistic evaluations of hope." ... more
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