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Flash in the Pan
04:43
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The dirt on the windshield's got an ocean
from the rain outside, as I drive east, farther east than I could fathom.
Try to stay alive. Lonely drive.
To the city, where I made you cry.
To the city, where you don't ask why.
To the city, where I'm going to die.
I'm just a flash in the pan.
I'm as dashing as a flash in the pan.
I'm just a flash in the pan.
My brain's in a fuzzy little coating
of alcohol and lies. No goodbyes.
I dream I'm careening down the freeway
to your naked eyes, past the lies
Of that evening, when I made you cry.
All those evenings, when we didn't ask why.
To that evening, when I'm going to die.
I'm just a flash in the pan.
I'm as dashing as a flash in the pan.
…as empty
…as honest
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Blue
02:45
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If you remember me tomorrow,
don’t go asking where I am.
I’ll be lodging with my sorrow
with a bottle in my hand
just outside the city limits
where the stars and lights compete.
Don’t go looking for your answers
in a soul that’s incomplete.
Please don’t go to so much trouble.
There is nothing you can do.
Don’t you know I’ll simply make you
blue?
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Papillon
02:24
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quand j’étais un papillon
je volais dans le ciel
je cherchais mon p’tit amour
parmi les fleurs et leur miel
quand j’étais un papillon
je cherchais parmi et dans
dans les yeux des étrangers
dan leur tristesse insondable
dan les vie des p’tites oiseux
et leur chansons inconsolable
quand j’étais un papillon
je cherchais parmi et dans
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45
03:06
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They got me on the front in 45
’cause I didn’t have the strength to stay alive.
You know I did the best I could.
Mama I was good and then I died.
Oh lord in 45.
They get you when you’re young and ill prepared,
when the beauty of the world has got you scared.
Now I don’t know what’s right,
but I know I lost the fight and that ain’t fair.
No lord that ain’t fair.
I didn’t get a chance to see the end,
but I heard somebody say it would be grand
with confetti in the street
and the dancing and the beat of marching bands.
Oh lord that’d be grand.
Oh lord that’d be grand.
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Tennessee
01:41
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Last night, I’ll admit I was lonely
and feeling blue.
I thought about all the things that you told me
that we would do,
like driving down to Tennessee:
a pretty dream it was,
just a beautiful dream,
I know.
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6. |
The Decline
02:47
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If I’m going down,
I guess I’ll try
to have a good time.
If I’ve got to hit the ground,
I guess I’ll try
to have a good time
in the decline…
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Olenka and the Autumn Lovers Montreal, Québec
Olenka's music is enigmatic: never fully committed to one genre. It has been labeled folk, but moves across times, places, and moods. Olenka mixes classical and jazz arrangements with complex finger-picking patterns, irregular time signatures, and pop melodies. The band's diverse instruments provide a distinctive backdrop to Olenka's provocative lyrics. ... more
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