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Numbers Game
03:16
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50000 unsurfable waves in the sea
8 impossible version of your life with me
1 crushing realization of all I won’t be
14 lines to uncover the reasons you turn away from me
7 saints do they know how to swim let ‘em drown in their belief
every morning an ache in an anxiety
wait it out take it in shake it off let it be
how much absence of me you accept socially
14 lines that you won’t understand cause you turned away from me
7 saints do they know how to swim let ‘em drown in their belief
and the light that you shone in my eye left a mark I still can’t see
wait it out take it in shake it off oh I just can’t let it be
and the light that you shone in my eye left a mark I still can see
wait it out take it in shake it off oh I just can’t let it be
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Impossible Fear
03:56
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the impossible fear of letting go
is still here don’t know where to let it go
understand all that leaving leads you home
sunlight on all losers that have forgotten to feel again
sunshine lighting up your fears
the unstoppable need of hanging on
is still there though stretched out from being worn
do believe in your make-up all along
moonlight on all changing us into the wolves of fun again
moonshine over all of us
it’s all in your mind and
no belief then they’ll lead you on
you still don’t know the rules
sunlight on all losers that have forgotten to be again
moonlight over all of us
don’t lose another one of those again
don’t doubt her eyes again
don’t lose another one of you again
don’t lose your mind again
now lose your heart again
don’t lose your mind
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Sad For Sarah
03:54
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try to understand your game
actions no control
no state of mind for little girls
players can’t be tamed
surrounded by lights
on your own
know that where you want to be
the crops are growing old
the smile on your face that you’ve sold
it’s in his memory
now he’s alone and
biding your time isn’t a sin
when you’ve got something to do
and no one takes you for a fool
have a drink share a smile
you wake up meet Mr. Conscience again
so if you want to live this scene
please feel free to join
but don’t think that he will come
he waits patiently
surrounded by space
on his own
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Hey That's No Way
04:32
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HEY THAT’S NO WAY
Hey that’s no way to begin a song
Wait did you say I’ll end up alone
Stay there’s a message after the tone
Exes to exes and stardust returns to stone
I’ll break all my answers in two for one
A big pile of questions divide into right and wrong
Hey if you help me it won’t take long
Without you I’m stuck here for days weighing pros and cons
The mantra in mind is a song
Over and over and over it’s over
Over and over again
And I don’t want to know
Why the feeling had to go
A die never thrown
Folded never shown
Silence after the tone
No one knows
Why it comes and then it goes
But a song is a song forever
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In search of a cure for the boredom I’d grown
I stumbled upon
A girl who could speak in a language unknown
A golden tongue
She said it’s your words that’ll drag you along
So lose that song
And then she replaced them with words of her own
And the gloom was gone
I’ll take you to places where no one can come
Where words have no meaning or truth of their own
Where nothing reminds you of what’s still to come
Where no one is speaking the language of long gone
I’ve seen the devil and spoken in tongues
Just for fun
Cause real evil never has laughed or has sung
Or seen the sun
Speaking in circles of right and of wrong
Hides his gun
To fire it just when you think you belong
Hit and run
It’ll take you to places where no one can come
Where words have no meaning or truth of their own
Where nothing reminds you of what’s still to come
Where no one is speaking the language of long gone
Don’t get me wrong
It’s just a song
Don’t give me rights
Stay here tonight
Swim to the light
I’m on your side
Don’t get me wrong
I don’t belong
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Message Across A Room
05:40
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Message across a room
Silently
Message across a room
Apology
Message across a room
I needed it
Message across a room
You know I did
Message across a room
Breathing out
Message across a room
Keep it in
I was a nervous wreck
Plain to see
Now you never will come back
Obviously
But I've found a bigger heart
It's loverly
Think we will never part
You and me
Oh you got me so confused
Truth within
Now I've got some things to lose
You say I win
Time now to be gone and on my way and
I'll forget some things that weren't mine
I'll try to be coming round again and
I'll sing about you when the time is right
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Children Forever
05:31
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In the morning when the paper comes
I will try and start anew
Then the focus starts to waver off
And my thoughts drift back to you
To my own big lack of attitude
I’m as stringent as a cop
There’s no doubt as to my aptitude
It’s just that I don’t want the job
Don’t tell me all
I’ve already heard more than enough
The thought of you both
Naked and warm
Gentle and rough
I don’t want to know
Your whispering love
I’ve already seen it all
We are children forever
Until we grow up together
Now it all doesn’t matter
If you can’t have you let her
So tomorrow when the paper comes
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I Want To Be Invisible
04:25
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I want to be invisible
Did you think I didn’t know they can see
Care for some walking through walls
Hiding in bedrooms unnoticed
I want to be invincible
Even though I am my own worst enemy
I would ask me out and take me on
Let myself win and be beaten
Cause it ain’t really worth my time if it ain’t you
No it ain’t really worth the time I think it’s overrated
Coming from above
I want to be invisible
Did you think I didn’t know you look at me
Care for some nothing at all
Not being seen but believed in
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Sir Ian Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sir Ian is a songwriting alter-ego of musician and singer Bart Hoevenaars from Rotterdam, Netherlands. After having released two albums with Dutch indie-rockband MONO, Hoevenaars started working on more personal, introspective and melancholic songs as Sir Ian. Debut album 'Apathology' was released in february 2010. Second album "II" was released on the 18th of january 2014. ... more
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