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Your Smile Is Cold
03:39
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I crossed a frontier
And flew over here
To come to you
But you don’t seem to care
On Columbus Square
Ain’t it true?
Your smile is cold
And self-controlled
Your smile is cold
No street paved with gold
No one to hold
Your smile is cold
I delved into my heart
I needed a new start
It was you
But your life here is so alike
And as tired as mine
Ain’t it true?
And maybe you just lied
When you said that you missed me
What failures do you hide
In this land of opportunity?
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Love Twice
03:18
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These days are like deserts to cross
I know damn well what they have in store
Thirst and hunger, we know the cost
Of broken hearts, but we wanted more
Up and down, high and low
It’s our rollercoaster, fast and slow
So we had the drinks we had the talks
We had the coffees in the morning
And slowly felt a minor change
That turned a bit hard to ignore
Up and down, high and low
It’s our rollercoaster, way to go!
Almost a century of a lifetime
That’s enough to love me twice
If it’s too late, if it’s too soon
Shall we have another try?
Up and down, high and low
It’s our rollercoaster, don’t you know?
How much for another ride
How long until the day I die
We’re off the track but we can slide
What’s the point of learning to swim
If you don’t want to take a dive
LIVRET-
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Four seasons
03:45
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Like a dead limb our love had become
You had to cut it off to move on
And you told me that it would be fine
All we needed was just a little time
You didn’t help me at all
With your strange arrangement
Now a year has flown like a rocket
And your silent storm’s driving me nuts
I would never have taken your hand
If I had known I would lose a friend
Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle
Like the river sliding mud
From the top of the mountain to the sea
We got so deep, see how low we can be
But oh! Our desire! It was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire! Like the shine of a diamond ring
Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle
Now we share all the darkness
Or it’s just that it’s harder to hide
Like the scars left by all our missing ones
But oh! Our desire, It was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire, Like the shine of a diamond ring,
It promised to last for ever
I’m a coal miner
With my pick and my shovel I dig the ground
Looking for a sense of life
Where carbon turns to light
I wanted to see you closer
How you believed in unbreakable vows
But weight is bringing me down
Gravity is our only bond
But oh! Our desire, it was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire, like the shine of a diamond ring,
Oh! Our desire ! It was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire ! Like the shine of a diamond ring
It was pure and born in the flames of hell’s fire
You didn’t help me at all
With your strange arrangement
La la la
Like a dead limb our love had become
You had to cut it off to move on
And you told me that it would be fine
I should have known that it was a lover’s lie
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Diamond Ring
04:11
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Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle
Like the river sliding mud
From the top of the mountain to the sea
We got so deep, see how low we can be
But oh! Our desire! It was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire! Like the shine of a diamond ring
Love is a dirty thing, see how hard we struggle
Now we share all the darkness
Or it’s just that it’s harder to hide
Like the scars left by all our missing ones
But oh! Our desire, It was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire, Like the shine of a diamond ring,
It promised to last for ever
I’m a coal miner
With my pick and my shovel I dig the ground
Looking for a sense of life
Where carbon turns to light
I wanted to see you closer
How you believed in unbreakable vows
But weight is bringing me down
Gravity is our only bond
But oh! Our desire, it was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire, like the shine of a diamond ring,
Oh! Our desire ! It was such a beautiful thing
Oh! Our desire ! Like the shine of a diamond ring
It was pure and born in the flames of hell’s fire
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Man Time
04:02
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I am walking outside in the middle of the night
The pavement is gleaming in the silver moonshine
And shutters crack like bones in the dark
Glowing windows watching
And shutters crack like bones in the dark
Watching us like ghost eyes
They just want to talk, they say
They’re just a little too drunk, they say
They’re just a little lonely, they say
It’s just a little fight, it’s just a little blood
So don’t you worry too much
In a minute they’ll be in love
So don’t you worry too much
It’s nightime, mantime outside,
And it’s not only because it’s late
It’s nightime, mantime outside,
Because for us it’s always too late
It’s always too late for us
Always too late to be left alone
It’s always too late for us
Always too late to be left alone
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Railroad Boy
03:54
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She went upstairs to make her bed
And not one word to her mother said
Her mother, she went upstairs too,
Said «Daughter, oh daughter, what’s troubling you?»
«Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell,
It’s that railroad boy I love so well
He’s courted me my life away
And now at home he will not stay
There is a place in London town
where my love goes and he sits there down
He takes a strange girl on his knee,
And he tells her what he won’t tell me»
Her father he came home from work,
Said «Where’s my daughter, she seems so hurt»
He went upstairs to give her hope
And he found her hanging by the rope
He took his knife and he cut her down,
And on her bosom these words he found :
«Go dig my grave both wide and deep,
Put a marble stone at my head and feet
And on my grave put a snow white dove,
To tell the world that I died of love»
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Pollyanna Paris, France
A (French) indie-folkster. Her honest songwriting and her heart-warming voice has led her to share the bill with riot grrrls stars (Sleater Kinney), sophisticated indie pop (Wilco), chanson (Françoiz Breut), rootsy folksters in Tennessee and shanty choirs in Germany. Her experiences as an outsider (in Europe and the Americas) open up her musical field to all things pop, rock, folk and folklores. ... more
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