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It's Happening Now
03:14
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Take a seat, shut your mouth, and mind your manners now—
You've heard these words so many times, now you're tuning out.
Take a chance, shut your eyes, and make a leap of faith.
Grab somebody by the hand, and tell them that you care.
It's happening now.
Ignore the crowd.
Don't look back now.
Just shout out loud.
Started out long ago, your ghosts of failures past.
They hunted you and tried to say your luck could never last.
Starting out, try to go and chase forbidden dreams.
The only thing that's in your way is smaller than it seems.
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2. |
Turn Around
03:28
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Fifty nights out,
the man on the radio
says, "Love is just a number."
Add it up, add it up.
Forty days down,
the desert's a rodeo.
With sweat and blood you drive
Without a sound.
Will somebody take you by the hand?
(You need somebody tonight)
Somebody OK to take a stand?
(Someone to make it right)
This time is different,
this time is all we have.
Turn around, turn around and don't look back.
The wheels on the road
are like lovers in stereo.
Your foot sits on the pedal
and pushes to the floor.
The night closes in
but dreams are delirium.
Your eyes, wide open,
stare ahead.
Will somebody take you by the hand?
(You need somebody tonight)
Somebody OK to take a stand?
(Someone to make it right)
This time is different,
this time is all we have.
Turn around, turn around and don't look back.
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3. |
Soon
03:32
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So
you said you'd be back soon,
but now it's been five days
without you.
No,
I know it isn't true,
but now it's been so long
without you.
So long, so long without you
So long, but I know, I'll see you
soon.
You should know,
when you walked out the door
you left me on the floor here
without you.
So long, so long without you
So long, but I know, I'll see you
soon.
Our history, it fades away
like a morning storm on a summer's day.
All these things I didn't say
came far too soon.
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4. |
Teenage Kicks
04:07
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Nothing here in this town that you can't leave behind,
'cept the girl with the smirk and the kohl 'round her eyes.
Yeah you could wait together, but a week might as well be a year.
Or you could both leave tonight and tomorrow would be here.
All the times you should have cried,
all the times you fought inside,
trying to get your fix on teenage kicks and long goodbyes.
All the times you could complain,
all the standing in the rain,
trying to get your fix on teenage kicks and long goodbyes.
The weekend comes and you're young so you go for a drive.
You sing along, favorite song, and you both feel alive.
In the backseat, bags are packed, the world is shrinking.
You'll be long gone, moving on, before they notice anything.
(CHORUS)
And there are doubts
in the back of our minds.
Will we find out
the secrets we don't want to find?
Or in a week will the feelings start to fade?
Or will they stay as we run away?
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Marathon Man Bangor, Maine
We can't get enough of your love.
Members: Matt Chabe (Bangtown Timebomb, Smells Like the
Nineties); Frank Richards (Sudden Karma, The Blast Addicts); and Dustin Farley (Southern Kut).
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