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1. Hesitating
2. Perfection Not Required
3. In The End
4. Let Me Die
5. Pretty as You Please
6. Help Me Out
7. On My Way Back Home
8. I'm The Only
9. All That Much
10. Hear It From You
11. Today

©1988, 1997- King Mouse

Hesitating

Saw this kid get busted
Got thrown against a wall
I saw Ron and Nancy doing laps inside the mall
I seen cops and razors
Sixteen years go by
My best friend's been in institution
Seen the other side
'Cause living in this city makes me feel so helpless

We are hesitating
Coming after you
We are hesitating, baby
Trying to get through

Well every time I see you
Doin' hits inside the stall
Every time I see you
You're floating 'round inside the hall
Remember at the party
When I fell into your pool
Get you at the bus stop
Get you after school
'Cause living in this city makes me feel I have to

But we are hesitating
Coming after you
We are hesitating, baby
Trying to get through

We are hesitating
Coming after you
We are hesitating
Trying to get through

We are hesitating
We are hesitating

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Perfection Not Required

Trade you my girlfriend for your guitar
Know that string will only bend so far
Everybody sells me
Everybody tells me how

Cause I'm feeling a little wired
I'm not drunk, I'm just tired
And I'm not gonna get fired
Cause perfection's not required

When you figure out what's going on
We'll get drunk and then we'll write a song
When somebody shows me
When somebody shows me how

Cause I'm feeling a little wired
I'm not drunk, I'm just tired
And I'm not gonna get fired
Cause perfection's not required

Solo

Well, I'm feeling a little wired
I'm not drunk yet, I'm just tired
And I'm not gonna get fired
Cause perfection's not required

Well, I'm feeling a little wired
I'm not drunk, I'm just tired
And I'm not gonna get fired
Cause perfection's not required

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In The End

Thank you, thank you, for the things you said when you left
I hope you still remember them in the end
It's true, it's true, ain't nothing we can do about it
It makes no sense for us to just be friends

I know that we could never be friends in the end (In the end)
I know that we can never make sense of the end (In the end)

And you, and you, you were the one who talked about it
You were the one who kept me up late at night in the end
For you, for you I give it back cause I'm the better for it
You take what's yours, I'll take what's mine and we'll go on no regrets

In the end
I know that we could never be friends in the end (In the end)
I know that we could never make sense of the end (In the end)
I wonder what your doing, I wonder who your fooling

Solo

You were the one who kept me up late at night
With your bitching and your moaning and the phone 'cause of all of your friends
You were the one who kept me up late at night in the end
For you, for you, I give it back cause I'm the better for it
I take what's yours, you take what's mine and we'll go on no regrets

In the end
I know that we could never be friends in the end (In the end)
I know that we could never make sense of the end (In the end)
I know that we could never be friends in the end (In the end)
I know that we could never make sense of the end (In the end)
In the end
In the end
The end
The end
The end

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Let Me Die

Got a message on the phone
She said let's meet I'm all alone
Do you want to see me die
Would you please stop by

She knows I follow her around
Ever since she came to town
She dreams about me in her sleep
I feel it's something she can keep

Let me down
Walk around
See me cry
So let me die

Solo

My friends stop to ask me why
They don't want to see me die
If you follow her home
She lives on the wrong side of the road

Let me down
Walk around
See me cry
So let me die

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Pretty as You Please

I don't know about you
I don't know about your life
She's living without you
She's living without your lies

I knew she was all here
Could tell by the way she talked
She was tired of crying
Could tell by the way she walked

She walked through the weather
Took herself out of the game
Now her head's back together
Too bad you can't say the same

You're far away looking
She's pretty as you please

Had a good thing going
Too bad it went up and down
A little too much showing
All alone is a lonely sound

She walked through the weather
Took herself out of the game
Now her head's back together
Too bad you can't say the same

You won't want to hear this
Broken ashes to your knees
You're far away looking
She's pretty as you please

Solo

She walked through the weather
Took herself out of the game
Now her head's back together
Too bad you can't say the same

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Help Me Out

You always told me that you'd
Understand if I ever found something else
That I wanted to do
You always showed me right from wrong
You always let me sing my song
That's what I wanted to do

Help me out
I'm just a little down and out
Help me out
You gotta let me scream and shout
Help me out
C'mon help me out

When I find myself alone
Living life without a home
That's where I wanted to be
If I need you in the end
Will you always be my friend
That's what I need you to be

Help me out
I'm just a little down and out
Help me out
You gotta let me scream and shout
Help me out
C'mon help me out

Help me out
I'm just a little down and out
Help me out
You gotta let me scream and shout
Help me out
C'mon help me out
C'mon help me out

Solo

Help me out
I'm just a little down and out
Help me out
You gotta let me scream and shout
Help me out
C'mon help me out

Help me out
I'm just a little down and out
Help me out
You gotta let me scream and shout
Help me out
C'mon help me out

Help me out
I'm just a little down and out
Help me out
You gotta let me scream and shout
Help me out
Hey, c'mon help me out

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On My Way Back Home

The expressway ends
In front of me
I've been here before
I was too close to see
Well, I'm going back
To my hometown
Well I won't stay long
Because I can't sit down

Well I used to say
That I hate this place
It was a different time
And a different face
Then a couple of years
Caught in between
You'd think I'd learn
You'd think I'd seen
On my way back home
How's it feel to be alone?
Do you wanna be alone?

Well I'm set in my ways
The way I live my life
I never get to low
I never get to high
I'm not too far gone
But I'm not all there
If I learned at all
I learned in there
On my way back home
How's it feel to be alone?
Do you wanna be alone?

On my way back to Narrow's (?) farm
I can't believe that I've been gone this long
Well I'm settling back for another night
And I'll strum on my porch in the pale moon light
I don't mind it here in the cool night air
Because I know someday I'll be somewhere

On my way back home
On my way back home
How's it feel to be alone?
Do you wanna be alone?

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I'm The Only

You are the one for me I don't think you know it yet
You are the one for me though we've never even met
I can tell by the way you looked at me the other night
Something tells me I'm the only

We both got somebody that don't matter anymore
'Cause everybody's playing there's no one left to keep the score
It could be a lost weekend in the mountains or at the shore
Something tells me I'm the only one around for you
In this town for you, it's coming down for you and me

I know you're trying to get by and you don't seem to care
The way you pretend not to look as your hand falls through your hair
Well I just wanted to say sorry I don't mean to stare
Something tells me I'm the only one around for you
In this town for you, it's coming down for you and me

I'm the only
I'm the only
I'm the only
I'm the only one
I'm the only one

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All That Much

On a cold, rainy night in a town where nothing is new
I'm walking alone and I'm thinking of you
All I want is a friend and a smile and a bar with a view
And I really don't think it's all that much to ask of you
I really don't think it's all that much to ask of you

Now I don't only want just one night I'm looking for more
A walk in the park when we talk when we lie on the floor
A feeling that I don't have to impress anymore
Is that such a hard thing to find, such a hard thing to score?
And I really don't think it's all that much to ask
I really don't think it's all that much to ask of you

On a cold, rainy night in a town where nothing is new
I'm walking alone and I'm thinking of you
All I want is a friend and a smile and a bar with a view
And I really don't think it's all that much to ask of you
I really don't think it's all that much to ask
I really don't think it's all that much to ask of you

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Hear It From You

It's in the headlines, it's making deadlines
It's all around me, it's hanging from the clothesline
It's on my tv, it's on my big screen
It's floating 'round in my second cup of coffee

Had enough of this mixed up stuff
I've had it to here
Had enough of this mixed up stuff
Cause I just want to hear it
Hear it from you

It's in my bedroom, it's in the classroom
It's hanging over my head I know it's gonna fall soon
It's in my radio, it's in my stereo
It's in your eyes when I look at you I know

Had enough of this mixed up stuff
I've had it to here
Had enough of this mixed up stuff
Cause I just want to hear it
Hear it from you
I just want to hear it
Hear it from you

You used to want me, you used to love me
You used to come around when I was feeling lonely
Now you don't want me, and you don't love me
You never come around 'cause you're too afraid to tell me

Had enough of this mixed up stuff
I had it to here
Had enough of this mixed up stuff
Cause I just want to hear it
Hear it from you
I just want to hear it
Hear it from you

Hear it from you
Hear it from you
Hear it from you


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Today

Well they come from miles around
Just to listen to the sound
On a train and getting close
Caravan from coast to coast

And she hears a little voice
Gettin drunk and makin noise
And the band has come to play
Gone tomorrow, here today

When the day comes to an end
On the tracks up around the bend
Today

Solo

People ask and you'll receive
Just don't ask to ever leave
'Cause this day comes once a year
And today it seems so clear

When the day comes to an end
On the tracks up around the bend
The tradition carries on
As the train drives through the dawn

Today
Today
Today
Today
Today
Today

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