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Don't You Dare
03:58
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You took me to a bar downtown the night that I arrived
You ordered wine and drank it all
You talked about your life
You’d had some busy weeks my dear,
but now you were doing pretty well
Oh, I felt the sword just hanging there - was waiting till it fell
Oh I’ll understand when your feeling’s gone
but don’t you dare tell me to smile when you leave me now
We never really fought cause I’d get rather sad instead
You’d turn the story round on me and then you’d make it up in bed
And now you say you trust that I’ll survive this break-up too
Well, you do believe in me my dear
- at least that much is true
Just go, go when your feeling’s gone
But don’t you dare say I’ll survive when you leave me now
Oh wouldn’t it be nice for me? you say -
Won’t it finally be nice for me?
If I’ll let go of the tings I thought - the things I hoped
that one day we would be
Those silly dreams you’d turn around for me
Oh wouldn’t it feel nice
and free?
You never put up pictures where the both of us were in
You never wondered where I went or asked me where I’d been
And now you think you know what’s good for me
You trust that I’ll be fine
Well I don’t need your pity dear,
not now, not down the line
Just go, go when your feeling’s gone
But don’t you dare say tell me to smile when you leave me now
Don’t you dare say I’ll survive when you leave me now
Don’t you dare pity me when you leave me now
Wouldn’t it be nice for me?
Won’t it finally be nice for me?
If I’ll let go of the tings I thought - the things I hoped
that one day we would be
Those silly dreams you’d turn around for me
Oh wouldn’t it feel nice
and free
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When It's Over
03:39
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We go out to the bar tonight
Leather jackets and tighter dresses than the night before
The windows damp with the noise inside
Pretty people with smokes in their hands spilling out the door
The boys with the beers in their hands
Glance when we pass and our friend says she's heard this band before
Struggling through bodies that struggle to pass
A phone in one hand in the other a glass to pour – pour us some more!
We're looking for
looking for someone
to see us right
to hold tight
or to be more than a number that they call on lonely nights
when everybody else is off and out
We never know what the night might bring
Our elegant dancing, we're being held tight by our skinny jeans
We come here to not miss a thing
while hundreds of pictures of prettier honeys flash up on our screens
We drink till we forget our shame
staring in glasses with heavier lashes as the night goes on
we drink till we forget our name
just like the guy who is luring us home with his sweet “come on...”
We're looking for
looking for someone
to see us right
to hold tight
searching for
searching in our hands
a life-line long
to hold on
or to be more than a number that they call on lonely nights
when everybody else is off and out
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Goodbye Lover
04:27
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Getting tired of knocking at your door
if you're not gonna open up
if you're not gonna open up
Don't want to peer through windows anymore
if you're not gonna open up
if you're not gonna open up
The blackbirds they have left for winter
They felt it time to flee
Whatever was, whatever be
I'm tired making a fool of me
This is the end
Goodbye lover
Goodbye lover
Goodbye lover
Goodbye, my best friend
It's getting cold waiting in the yard
hoping that you'll come out
hoping that you'll come out
Oh I tried but you kept the backdoor barred
If only you'd come out
if only you'd come out
The trees have shed their summer dresses
They needed to feel free
Whatever was, whatever be
I'm tired making a fool of me
This is the end
Goodbye lover
Goodbye lover
Goodbye lover
Goodbye, my best friend
Spent too long waiting for your touch
waiting to give it all
wanting to give it all
and I could live on not so very much
If you'd let me gve it all
allowed me to give it all
As snow covers our tracks and traces
I'll swallow my last plea
Whatever was, whatever be
I'm tired making a fool of me
This is the end
Goodbye lover
Goodbye lover
Goodbye lover
Goodbye, my best friend
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Lewin Amsterdam, Netherlands
LEWIN: the fresh musical leaf that has been turned by songwriter and musician Jara
Holdert.
Lewin's voice "might remind you a bit of Joni Mitchell in the upper registers, while her musical temperament feels closer to the bardic stylings of Laura Marling. Lewin's sound is a refreshing mix of emotional authenticity and beautiful folk-pop songcraft.” (chillfiltr)
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