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Seven Days A Week
04:02
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I just got to tell you how I’m feeling
Take a little time out on the weekend
Didn’t I do everything a man can do
I went from part-time to your permanent lover
But every Friday night you’re dancing with another
Didn’t I do everything a man can do
I can’t eat
I can’t sleep
You got me working like a dog
Seven Days a week
Our eyes met on Monday
Kissed you on Tuesday
Got married on a Wednesday
All our friends said it felt like Friday
Spent the weeknight burning
Saturday you’re yearning
For the weekend
Left me burning
Crying for a month of Sundays
I just got to tell you how I’m feeling
Take a little time out on the weekend
Didn’t I do everything a man can do
I can’t eat
I can’t sleep
You got me working like a dog
Seven Days a week
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Hear It Now
03:50
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Give me a reason for the things we say
Give me a reason for the promises we break
Give me a reason for the time we waste
Give me a reason
Give me a reason for the hole in sky
Give me a reason for the useless shit we buy
Give me a reason for the never-ending greed
Always taking more than we need
Can you hear it now…
Give me a reason for the way things change
Give me a reason why progress don’t mean a damn thing
Give me a reason to get under your skin
Give me a reason
Give me a reason I should carry on
I got my reasons but I just can’t stop feeling wrong
Give me a reason I should reach for the truth
I keep reaching – all the time it was you
Can you hear it now
Can you hear it?
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Remedy
03:18
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Life is for living
Why does it have to be so hard
You dance with the devil
And then you stumble in the dark
But when you can't find your way
I'll be there for you babe
Oh I will come to
Your rescue
Now don't be afraid
There is strength in surrender babe
And sometimes we're paralysed
And made blind
By all the choices that we're supposed to make
But when you can't find your way
All you gotta do is call on me babe
Oh I will come to
Your rescue
We all need someone
You're my remedy
Can't you see
Oh darlin' you're my rescue
And I am yours
Sometimes I stumble and fall
But when I do
You come along
Give me the strength to carry on
Now I am strong enough to be
Your rescue
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Carnival Of Fools
04:21
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I’m not looking for consolation
But I been down since I found my faith in you
I'm afraid sometimes
Might be losing my mind
But baby you know you make me feel so fine
Everybody's talking like they know me
Everybody acting in the Carnival of Fools
I ain’t confused
I spend my time on you
But baby you know you make me feel so fine
I am burning with the fever
You pull me right back to you
I am drowning in the river
Oh don't cut me loose
You tell me it's forever
You lift me up and spin me round
My feet can't touch the ground
Baby you know you make me feel so fine
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Let’s not fall in love with each other
Let’s just spend a little sweet time together
You could be so nice
A perfect alibi for my sin
Somebody still at home
Somehow she always know
Where I am
Oh, this ain’t happening tonight
Now you say we might just as well forget it
But I know you didn’t come here to check the weather
You got to move along
I got to be alone in my skin
Somebody still at home
Somehow she always knows
The mess that I’m in
This ain’t happening tonight
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Well I wake up in the morning
Feel like I could die
But I won’t kill myself or nobody else
Long as I take my sertraline
So I went to see my doctor
Fifty dollars for a minute of his time
He said I’ll cure your ills
With this little white pill
Shut up and take your sertraline
Somebody tell me why this world is so cold
I’m not half the man I used to be
But now I’m twice as old
What happening to my dreams
Drinks and drugs and limousines
Mama said that I was gonna be a star
I’m in love with somebody
She make me want to lose my mind
But I can’t get too close
Unless I double-dose
So I take my sertraline
People you know the story
Sometimes life can be unkind
But I won’t kill myself nor nobody else
Long as I take my sertraline
Somebody tell me why this world is so cold
I’m not half the man I used to be
But now I’m twice as old
What happening to my dreams
Drinks and drugs and limousines
Mama said that I was gonna be a star
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I'm Your Man
04:28
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If you want it, baby I got it
And if you need it, well get back on it
Set your mind at ease honey please
Get it while you can
If you want the best
Don’t settle for less
I’m your man
So do I need to
Hug and squeeze you
Tell you that I love you
Kiss and hug you
Set your mind at ease honey please
Get it while you can
If you want the best
Don’t settle for less
I’m your man
Some girls want to mess around
Have a little bit on the side
Some girls want to settle down
Waiting on Mister Right
Well, why waste your time
On the perfect guy
To spend your money like nickels and dimes
We could have a real expensive time
In cheap company
So, If you want it, baby I got it
And if you need it, well get back on it
Set your mind at ease honey please
Get it while you can
If you want the best
Don’t settle for less
I’m your man
If you want to boogie just a bit
I’m your man
If you want to drink a little drink
I’m your man
If you want to smoke a little…
If you want a little love
Baby, I’m your man.
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Liars and Thieves
04:05
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Swimming in circles
Tangled in lines
We can't be certain of ourselves
In uncertain times
Caught in the shallows
Asleep with the tide
We are just drowning our sorrows
Until the time arrives
You and I will keep hope alive
There is a bird
That sings though the world is in darkness
And deaf to it's song
And if we're all to blame
We'll suffer the same
As the liars and thieves who don't believe
That the ocean always wins
The ocean always wins
Keep hope alive
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Pity The Fool
04:19
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Just the same, when you play your games
Never leave good enough alone
Such a shame, when you lay the blame
You build it just to burn it all down
What do I know
Pity the fool I am
Pity the fool who wants you now
Stay at home alone with the kids when you’re out on the town
Pity the fool who wants you now
Saving up his pennies while you’re selling it by the pound
Just the same, when you play your games
Never leave good enough alone
Such a shame, when you lay the blame
You build it just to burn it all down
What do I know
Pity the fool I am
I’m the one who loves you
Crying all the time, wishing you were mine
I’m the one who wants you
How can you be so cruel
Well you treat me like your fool
Pity the fool who loves you now
Pity the fool who loves you now
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10. |
Bad Boogaloo
03:06
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Baby I got that fever
That stone cold fever
I don't touch that reefer
Nor that cocaine too
But I need it bad
So bad
I got that bad boogaloo
Honey I need some loving
Just a little bit of loving
Give me all of your hugging
And your money too
But I need it bad
So bad
I got that bad boogaloo
That bad boogaloo
I just got to have it
Can't break the habit no
I'm going down...
Maybe now baby it's a Monday
Now maybe it's a Sunday
I don't care what day it is
Long as I get my hit
But I need it bad
Yes so bad
I got that bad boogaloo
That bad boogaloo
I been waiting on the bass line
Just hanging on that second line
Give me some of that double time
That's what I need
How about you
Do you need it too?
Yes you do, you got that bad
Bad boogaloo
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Good Thing
04:50
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There is something you should know
Something I should have said before
But would it change anything
Now you got your mind made up
You are the closest thing
To love that I've been
Why you gotta go
Take it slow
Where we gonna find this
Good thing
It's a sin, why'd you go
Good thing
I don't care where you been but
Why'd you have to got to go
Good thing
Now it's the strangest thing
I feel like I'm in a dream
But when I open my eyes
There is sorrow lying next to me
You are the closest thing
To love that I've been
Don't disappear
Got what you need right here
Where we gonna find
This good thing
It's a sin, why'd you go
Good thing
I don't care where you been but
Why'd you have to got to go
Good thing
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Blues Arcadia Brisbane, Australia
Three-time Australian Blues Music Award winners and Australian Roots Music Award nominees. Combining the legendary soul of Stax and Motown with the heat and power of the Chicago and Memphis blues, Blues Arcadia deliver an uninhibited old-fashioned soul stomp revival. ... more
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