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Tough love
03:50
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Running out of hiding places
We’ve been out
We’ve been secret
Some days the light carries
Heart waits for one who knows it
Body yearns for hands to hold it
Baptized by the mourning
Who’s love said goodbye?
Who’s love made you cry a million times?
Tough love
All you’ve ever known
Tough love
Better than no love at all
Running out of hiding places
We’ve been scarred we’ve been sacred
Believing in love again
Out of the fire into the flame
Speaking in tongues shaping the game
Capsized by modern lies
Who’s love said goodbye?
Who’s love made you cry a million times?
Tough love
All you’ve ever known
Tough love
Better than no love at all
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2. |
One week
03:03
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Four years
But you can call it three if you like, my dear
Downplay time
Like when you left your wife to be mine
I never wanted it
Said your love was too strong to fight
You said
Some people want proof
Gotta give the people what they after
I thought we all wanted the truth
But I guess it’s just me
Some people want proof
Gotta give the people what they after, honestly
I only wanted one week
For you to be straight with me
Only wanted one week
For you to put her down
That was too much to conceit for you
Though it was never uncertain that I
Only wanted one week
Two months
I fought faithfully by your side
Whilst you dug
A grave in which our love would lie
Now you’re gone and it’s all mine
I never wanted it
Said her love was too strong to fight
You said
Some people want proof
Gotta give the people what they after
I thought we all wanted the truth
But I guess it’s just me
Some people want proof
Gotta give the people what they after
Honestly!
I only wanted one week
For you to be straight with me
Only wanted one week
For you to put her down
That was too much to conceit for you
Though it was never uncertain that I
Only wanted one week
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3. |
Shine
03:59
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Dark and broken-hearted
A fire un-started
That’s how you wanted
Oh, me to be
All my good ideas
You said you that couldn’t see them
But I turned on a light
Helped you look inside
You never basked in a light
that’s exactly my shine
All along all the love
I ever needed was mine
Now I’m burning bright
Now you’re gonna see me shine
Now I’m burning bright
Now you’re gonna see me shine
An ember ignited
No I couldn’t fight it
I just had to feed
The fire in me
You never basked in a light
that’s exactly my shine
All along all the love
I ever needed was mine
Now I’m burning bright
Now you’re gonna see me shine
Now I’m burning bright
Now you’re gonna see me shine
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4. |
Take me out
02:30
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All-day long chitter chatter in my head
That little voice who thinks it knows what I did wrong
Instead of talking back
I listen up, listen up, ever so close
Still, I can't discern what’s good to know
and what’s just messing with my flow
Mostly I want to get away from the day-to-day
That’s where you come in b-b-b-baby
Come on and
Take me out tonight
My emotional state is close to crazy
But I’m out of sight
Dressed to kill, feeling ill, looking fine
Take me out tonight
Cool dark night
bright lights, flashes of ecstasy
No thing matters but the dance floor
spinning so I want some more
Picture perfect every angle
snap, snap and upload it for the people
These images tell a story different from my life
different from the truth
When you see my white flag waving I’ll be ready for the truth
Until that day I n-n-need you to
C-come on
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5. |
Askin' 4 it
03:53
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A man at the party
Put his hands on my body
Now I didn’t know this man
Made me feel kind of dirty
Not in a nice way
I think you know what I’m saying
When I turned to him
He grinned a greasy grin
Said “Kid, in those clothes, don’t you know, you’re only askin’ for it?”
Asking’ for it girl
Askin’ for more than you should from this world
My friend
if you can call him that
I went to visit him
In a foreign land
Now I really liked this friend
But when he tried to kiss me and I declined
He told me I would have to find
Another place to lay my head
If I wouldn’t share his bed
He said that I was askin’ for it
Asking’ for it girl
Askin’ for more than you should from this world
Askin’ for it boy
Asking for more than you’ve a right to enjoy
When I inquire as to what the “it” describes
Nobody has an answer
It’s a cop-out, it’s a lie
‘Cause none of us, no none of us
Not one of us ever asked for it
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6. |
Lucie
03:31
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Once up on a time I was down on my luck
Didn’t have a home couldn’t get a truck
Didn’t have one friend to call my own
One luck day I found a new flat
Moved it quick ‘for they could take it back
Lady luck took pity on me that day
Opened up my back door and what do you know
The cutest little kitten just as white as snow
I knew right then he would be mine alone
Didn’t know at first that he was a boy
So I named him Lucie
What a bundle of joy
Don’t you know, you’re the one for me!
I’m talkin’ bout Lucie. Lucie
You’re as sweet as pumpkin apple pie to me
Never had a problem with a mouse
ever since you tip-toed into my house
Don’t you know, you’re the one for me!
Looking back those days, really warms my heart
Without Lucie I would fall apart
I’m there for him and he’s always been there for me
Use to love me some dog now I love me some cat
Couldn’t name any price for me to give him back
Don’t you know, you’re the one for me!
I’m talkin’ bout L-U-C-I-E
Lucie!
I’m talkin’ bout Lucie. Lucie
You’re as sweet as pumpkin apple pie to me
Never had a problem with a mouse
ever since you tip-toed into my house
Don’t you know, you’re the one
Oh, don’t you know, you’re the one
Oh, don’t you know, you are the one for me
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Mx.Holmes Montréal, Québec
Mx. Holmes is an award-winning singer-songwriter with a talent for storytelling. Their honest lyricism mixes light and dark themes to reconcile their intersecting identities.
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