DNA Unwinding

Roundstone's first and only album, released in 2009. Physical copies were briefly sold through the band's website.

The band released a music video for Cells in 2008.

## Lyrics

### Trouble

> `City of Moscow, the broke and the fast`
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> `No one's short of answers when there are no questions asked`
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> `Reporters shy from the edge of your story`
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> `City of London, the laundry of choice`
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> `You meet your old lawyer in his brand new Rolls Royce`
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> `In a hotel carpark somewhere in Mayfair`
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> `Are you looking for trouble? Are you?`
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> `Are you looking for trouble? Are you?`
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> `If you're looking for trouble, if you're`
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> `If you're looking for trouble`
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> `Yeah`
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> `Yeah, here's some`
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> `City of London, the laundry of choice`
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> `You meet your old lawyer in a brand new Rolls Royce`
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> `In a hotel carpark somewhere in Mayfair`
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> `City of Angels, you are what you've got`
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> `Landing in the sun with the haves and the have-yachts`
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> `Someone's asking difficult questions`
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> `Are you looking for trouble? Are you?`
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> `Are you looking for trouble? Are you?`
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> `If you're looking for trouble, if you're`
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> `If you're looking for trouble`
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> `Yeah`
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> `Yeah, here's some`
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> `Yeah, yeah`
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> `Yeah, here's some`
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### Getaway Face

> `Getaway face, you are a car on the pavement`
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> `Heaven turns the table and we're [...] able`
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> `Can you race from the siren, the racket of alarm bells?`
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> `Bullet in the tank, are they blank or live shells?`
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> `Spine shot up, spaghetti guts, make a bandage`
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> `Looking like death, bullet breath, what's the damage?`
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> `Hurled through the windshield, a meeting of minds`
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> `I would've asked your name, but there isn't, but there wasn't the time`
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> `It makes you wonder`
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> `It makes you wonder`
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> `It makes you smile`
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> `It brings it closer`
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> `It brings it closer`
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> `The day you die`
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> `You never never never never never felt so alive`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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> `Getaway face, to the point of no return`
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> `Don't look back now 'cause our tire tracks burn`
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> `We are tunnels and cars, jam in jars, like you told her`
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> `Keep your eyes on the road or I swear I'll run them over`
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> `We can fall in, fall out, what's it all about`
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> `Telling lies, porky pies, change your friends every night`
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> `Chase the highlight of a lifetime and learn to survive`
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> `Slipping off the edge, are you better, better dead or alive?`
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> `It makes you wonder`
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> `It makes you wonder`
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> `It makes you smile`
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> `It brings it closer`
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> `It brings it closer`
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> `The day you die`
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> `Oh, you never never never never never felt so alive`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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> `Call of the city, they cover the river`
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> `Call of the city is all I can give her`
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> `Call of the city, they cover the river`
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> `Call of the city`
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> `I never never never never...`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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> `You never felt so alive`
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### Diamonds

> `Directing imaginary armies on the field of play, well I guess it's okay`
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> `Directing imaginary armies on the field of play, guess it's okay`
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> `Reflecting the moon and the stars for the lorries and cars in the dead of the night`
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> `Reflecting the moon and the stars for the lorries and cars in the dead of the night`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark`
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> `Restricting the global supply to keep the price high, what it's about`
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> `Restricting the global supply to keep the price high, what it's about`
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> `Forged in the heat of a star, your heart is a home of a permanent stone`
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> `Born of a furious star, your heart is the whole earth`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark...`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark`
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> `Diamonds, diamonds`
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> `Diamonds don't sparkle in the dark`
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### Cells

> `Cells keep dividing`
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> `You know it'll never stop`
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> `DNA unwinding`
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> `Genetic code erupts`
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> `Into songs that keep you breathing`
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> `Words come out in floods`
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> `All I wanna say is`
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> `You're the one I love, and I'm waiting`
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> `Just around, just around the bend`
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> `I've been waiting for so long`
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> `You've become my only friend, and I'm waiting`
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> `Just around, just around the bend`
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> `I've been waiting for so long`
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> `You've become my only friend`
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> `Cells keep dividing`
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> `You know it'll never stop`
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> `DNA unwinding`
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> `Chromosomes corrupt`
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> `Into songs that keep you breathing`
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> `Words come out in floods`
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> `All I wanna say is`
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> `You're the one I love, and I'm waiting`
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> `Just around, just around the bend`
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> `I've been waiting for so long`
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> `You've become my only friend, and I'm waiting`
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> `Just around, just around the bend`
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> `I've been waiting for so long`
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> `You've become my only friend`
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> `And I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and I'm waiting for you`
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> `And I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and I'm waiting for you`
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> `And I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and I'm waiting for you`
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> `And I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and I'm waiting for you...`
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### Sleepwalker

> `This is the voice of God`
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> `This is the voice of God`
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> `This is the voice of God`
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> `This is the voice of`
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> `This is the voice of God`
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> `Talking to you in the dead of night`
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> `(Sleep...)`
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> `You're not the only one`
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> `You're not the only one`
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> `You're not the only one`
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> `You're not the only`
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> `You're not the only one`
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> `Talking to me in the dead of night`
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> `(Sleepwalker)`
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> `Is it time to put to bed`
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> `All the dreams, all you said?`
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> `Is it time to say goodnight`
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> `To all the dreams tonight?`
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> `So push the covers down`
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> `Don your dressing gown`
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> `Find the bedroom door`
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> `Turn the handle`
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> `You're on the corridor, standing with a foot upon the stairs`
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> `(Sleepwalker)`
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> `Is it time to put to bed`
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> `All the dreams, all you said?`
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> `Is it time to say goodnight`
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> `To all the dreams tonight?`
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> `[...]`
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> `...all the dreams, all you said?`
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> `Is it time to say goodnight`
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> `To all the dreams tonight?`
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### Want of Trying

> `It's not for want of trying`
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> `With every silence I'm lying`
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> `There's something I wanted to say`
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> `To help you to see`
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> `It's not for want of trying`
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> `With every breath I'm dying`
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> `To say what I came here to say`
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> `I've been struck dumb`
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> `I wanted to say`
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> `That you'll be something`
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> `That you'll be someone`
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> `And you've got something, oh, that I'll never have`
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> `You'll be something`
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> `Oh, no, you'll be someone`
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> `And you've got something, oh, that I'll never have`
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> `It's not for want of trying`
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> `When every breath I'm dying`
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> `To say what I came here to say`
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> `I've been struck dumb`
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> `It's not for want of trying`
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> `With every silence I'm lying`
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> `There's something I want to say`
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> `To help you to see`
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> `I wanted to say`
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> `Now you'll be something`
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> `Oh, now, you'll be someone`
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> `And you've got something, oh, that I'll never have`
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> `You'll be something`
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> `Oh, now, you'll be someone`
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> `And you've got something, oh, that I'll never have`
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> `I wanted to say`
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> `And you'll be something`
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> `Oh, no, you'll be someone`
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> `And you've got something, oh, that I'll never have`
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> `You'll be something`
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> `Oh, now, you'll be someone`
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> `And you've got something, oh, that I'll never have`
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> `No, that I'll never have`
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> `No, that I'll never have`
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### Thinnest of Threads

> `In a childhood drawing`
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> `I put a smile upon your face`
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> `I put a smile upon your face`
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> `In a hotel lobby`
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> `I started feeling out of place`
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> `I started feeling out of place`
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> `Linen sheets and beds`
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> `Between the lines I think you'll find we said`
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> `Linen sheets and dirty beds`
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> `Between the lines I sometimes find`
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> `We're held together by the thinnest of threads`
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> `Held together`
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> `By the thinnest of threads`
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> `In a hotel lobby`
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> `I started feeling out of place`
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> `I started feeling out of place`
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> `In a childhood drawing`
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> `I put a smile upon your face`
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> `I put a smile upon your face`
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> `Linen sheets and beds`
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> `Between the lines I think you'll find we've said`
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> `Linen sheets and dirty beds`
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> `Between the lines I think you'll find`
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> `We're held together by the thinnest of threads`
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> `Held together`
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> `By the thinnest of threads`
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> `Held together`
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> `By the thinnest of threads`
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> `Tumbling down a northern mountain`
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> `I'm connected onto you`
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> `Better call, better call`
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> `Better call`
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> `Held together`
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> `By the thinnest of threads`
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> `Held together`
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> `By the thinnest of threads`
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> `Held together`
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> `By the thinnest of threads`
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### Wake up Call

> `You don't know, don't know what she means to you`
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> `You don't know if she'll see it through`
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> `You don't know, you don't know if she sees you at all`
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> `You wonder, you wonder, should you make a stand?`
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> `You wonder, would she give a damn?`
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> `I wonder, I wonder, should you make other plans?`
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> `You eat your dinner, do your homework`
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> `Watch the TV, think it over`
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> `And in the silence of your lonely room you think you hear someone say`
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> `"This is the sound of your wakeup, wakeup calling`
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> `This is the sound of your wakeup, wakeup calling"`
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> `You don't know, don't know what she means to you`
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> `You don't know if she'll see it through`
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> `You don't know, you don't know if she sees you at all`
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> `You wonder, you wonder, should you make a stand?`
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> `You wonder, would she give a damn?`
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> `I wonder, I wonder, should you make other plans?`
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> `You eat your dinner, do your homework`
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> `Watch the TV, think about her`
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> `And in the silence of your lonely room you think you hear someone say`
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> `"This is the sound of your wakeup, wakeup calling`
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> `This is the sound of your wakeup, wakeup calling`
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> `Wakeup calling"`
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> `Oh, you wonder, you wonder what you mean to her`
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> `You wonder what you mean to her`
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> `You wonder, you wonder, do you mean anything?`
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> `Oh, you don't know, you don't know what you mean to her`
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> `You don't know, oh, what you mean to her`
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> `But know that, know that you mean something to me`
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### Hopes

> `Ask me all you want to`
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> `There's nothing I could keep from you`
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> `No provision in a contract`
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> `There's no clause that could ever`
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> `Separate us at all`
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> `Changing situations`
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> `The world will try to pull us apart`
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> `But I promise for just as long as`
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> `I wander the earth, that I will fight it`
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> `Keep you close to my heart`
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> `Just don't get your hopes up`
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> `Don't get your hopes up`
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> `Ah, don't put all your hope in me`
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> `Don't hold your breath now`
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> `Don't hold your breath now`
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> `Don't hold your breath`
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> `Because I can't breathe`
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> `A joke that's no longer funny`
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> `A simple slip of the tongue`
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> `It's easy when you believe these`
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> `Things come between us; will I wake up`
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> `Screaming, "What have I done"?`
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> `Ah, don't get your hopes up`
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> `Don't get your hopes`
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> `Ah, don't put all your hope in me`
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> `Don't hold your breath now`
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> `Don't hold your breath now`
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> `Don't hold your breath`
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> `Because I can't breathe`
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> `In blindness you kill with kindness`
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> `Such sadness through these walls`
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> `Tell me, did I begin with`
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> `A promise that I can't recall?`
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> `It's easy when you believe these, it's so damn easy when you believe these things are the things that can come in between us...`
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> `Don't line up your hopes and one by one by one by one watch them fall`
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> `So don't get your hopes up`
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> `Don't get your hopes up`
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> `Ah, don't put all your hope in me`
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> `Don't hold your breath now`
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> `Don't hold your breath now`
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> `Don't hold your breath`
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> `Because I can't breathe...`
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### Nightbus

> `In the back of a nightbus`
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> `I woke up forgetting`
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> `The dream I could remember`
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> `For barely a second...`
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> `Soon we're hitting the road`
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> `As the sun hits the sky`
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> `And we're flying`
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> `Feel something collide off the bus on its side`
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> `Flying...`
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> `Your daddy's hiding and he's scared to the bone`
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> `Your mother's crying and she sits by the phone`
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> `Your little brother's gonna grow up alone`
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> `And it's all right`
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> `I wake up on a nightbus`
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> `Always under weather`
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> `I gotta get it together`
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> `[...]`
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> `Head like a feather, I blow in the breeze`
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> `Soon we're hitting the road`
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> `As the sun hits the sky`
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> `And we're flying`
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> `Feel something collide off the bus on its side`
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> `Flying...`
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> `Your daddy's hiding and he's scared to the bone`
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> `Your mother's crying and she sits by the phone`
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> `Your little brother's gonna grow up alone`
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> `And it's all right`
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> `I wake up on a nightbus`
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> `Soon we're hitting the road`
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> `When the stars hit the sky [...]`
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> `Feel a lump in my throat`
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> `Feel it rise until I choke`
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> `So`
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> `When you turn into dust`
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> `Do you feel it? You must`
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> `And [...]`
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> `It boils all the rain`
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> `And the temperature soars`
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> `And the gasoline pours`
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> `And you reach for the phone`
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> `You wanna call someone at home`
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> `Your daddy's hiding and he's scared to the bone`
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> `Your mother's crying and she sits by the phone`
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> `Your little brother's gonna grow up alone`
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> `And it's all, it's all right`
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> `I wake up on a nightbus`
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1. ↑ transcribed by ear and incomplete; may be inaccurate