# the lyrics : quiet is the new loud

#01 winning a battle, losing the war
#02 toxic girl
#03 singing softly to me
#04 I don't know what I can save you from
#05 failure
#06 the weight of my words
#07 the girl from back then
#08 leaning against the wall
#09 little kids
#10 summer on the westhill
#11 the passenger
#12 parallel lines

++ winning a battle, losing the war
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even though I'll never need her
even though she's only giving me pain
I'll be on my knees to feed her
spend a day to make her smile again
even though I'll never need her
even though she's only giving me pain
as the world is soft around her
leaving me with nothing to disdain
even though I'm not her minder
even though she doesn't want me around
I am on my feet to find her
to make sure that she is safe and sound
even though I'm not her minder
even though she doesn't want me around
I am on my feet to find her
to make sure that she is safe from harm

the sun sets on the war
the day breaks and everything is new

++ toxic girl
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in the sky the birds are pulling rain
in your life a curse has got a name
makes you lie awake all through the night
that's why
she's intoxicated by herself
everyday she's seen with someone else
and every night she kisses someone new
never you

you're waiting in the shadows for a chance
'cause you believe at heart, that if you can
show to her what love is all about,
she'll change
she'll talk to you with no one else around
but only if you're able to entertain her
the moment conversation stops she's gone
again

++ singing softly to me
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things seem so much better when
they're not part of your close surroundings
like words in a letter sent
amplified by the distance
possibilities and sweeter dreams
sights and sounds calling from far away
calling from far away

I didn't know you then, now did I girl?
I couldn't hear you singing softly to me
I didn't know you then, now did I girl?
I didn't see the brave girl so near me
I didn't know you then, now did I girl?
I couldn't hear you singing softly to me
singing softly to me

I wanted a mystery that couldn't be solved
I wanted a puzzle with pieces missing
I wanted a story that couldn't be told
only the fishing part of fishing

and now I find
it was you all the time
I'm in love again
it's too late now

++ I don't know what I can save you from
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you called me after midnight
it must have been three years since we last spoke
I slowly tried to bring back
the image of your face from the memories so old
I tried so hard to follow
but didn't catch a half of what had gone wrong
said: "I don't know what I can save you from."
I don't know what I can save you from

I asked you to come over
and within half an hour you were at my door
I had never really known you
but I realized that the one you were before
had changed into somebody for whom
I wouldn't mind to put the kettle on
still I don't know what I can save you from
I don't know what I can save you from

++ failure
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using the guardian as a shield
to cover my thighs against the rain
I do not mind about my hair
your jacket may be waterproof
but knowing the moment you get home
you're gonna get your trousers changed

failure is always the best way to learn
retracing your steps 'til you know
have no fear your wounds will heal

I wish I could travel overground
to where all you hear is water sounds
lush as the wind upon a tree
I wish I could travel overground
to where all you hear is water sounds
to capture and keep inside of me

++ the weight of my words
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there are very many things
I would like to say to you
but I've lost my way
and I've lost my words
there are very many places
I would like to go
but I can't find the key
to open my door

the weight of my words
you can't feel it anymore

there are very many ways
I would like to break the spell
you've cast upon me
'cause all the time I sacrificed myself
to make you want me
has made you haunt me

++ the girl from back then
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and I sat down and said:
"I don't want to suffer."
but she told me, she had nothing to offer
no more

now that I know that
I did not know you then...

++ leaning against the wall
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your eyes are cold, I know you'll tell me all
not to fall, I lean against the wall

I'm on the floor, not listening anymore
I should have known, the things to which you're prone
[you cross your arms, and tell no lies
a thousand thoughts run through my mind
a thousand words that I don't need
I never thought you could do this]

++ little kids
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little kids playing in the park downtown
someone's dad is watching from the side of the ground
I'm following my shadow so I cross the street
car passing stereo I like the beat

open up the door, turning on the fan
dropping down the keys that I held in my hand
and then start waiting for her steps
to be heard in the staircase
enter the room and let down her bag
asking me all kinds of trivial questions
pretending an everyday life we don't have

little kids playing in the park downtown
soon they'll be all gone as the sun goes down
and rises over, Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow
hours later I will follow
wake up to a life that's hollow without love

++ summer on the westhill
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from my seat I see the fields move by
colours strong - it's been a long, long time
it's the first time I see summer on the westhill
I lean back and let my eyes just go
floating now where they want to float
they seem to take to the horizon

now I know there is a world beyond
the small place I was coming from
I feel at home here
in the middle of nowhere
I will never know the names
of these places that I travel through
to reach the coastline
I've been told I will be there in time

please oceancloud
let there be no storm on the crossing below

++ the passenger
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I didn't know you were there
until you said: "hello"
you had been watching me
for I don't know how long
I hit my head against the lamp
as by surprise I stood up
"don't be afraid," you said
"it's only me - the door wasn't locked"

the voice I'd heard in the hall
was hard to recognise
but now we know he's onboard
wearing our disguise
if only you and I could trust
each other through this
then together we could
work out who the enemy is

++ parallel lines
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what's the immaterial substance
that envelopes two
that one perceives as hunger
and the other as food

I wake in tangled covers
to a sash of snow
you dream in a cartoon garden
I could never know

innocent imitation
of how it could be
if when the music ended
you did not retreat

in my imagination
you are cast in gold
your image a compensation
for me to hold

parallel lines, move so fast
toward the same point
infinity is as near as it is far

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