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I Know Better
03:54
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I KNOW BETTER
Words and Music by Andrea Wittgens
I know better than hanging ‘round these sort of corners
I know better than that
(You got to hand it to me)
Someone called my name
But I knew better
I know better than worldly conversations
Breeding fantasies
(You know the ones I mean)
They bring you to your knees
Well, I know better
Northern girls get tangled up in southern stories
Southern boys, go west and keep on going
Take a chance
Take the darkest alley you can find
There’s always something better…
I know better than waking at the witching hour
I know better than that
Just close your eyes
And someone calls your name
I know better
I know better then hanging with you conjurers
Just one slip of hand
And your world of wonders…
Sweeps me off my feet
Well, I know better
Repeat CHORUS
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Aquarium
03:20
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AQUARIUM
Words and Music by Andrea Wittgens
One day, you find the world you know has gone blind
So watch the stars get wasted and fall down out of sight
Oh, so strange. In the end, they said everything was easy
Easy like la-di-dum
Or living in aquariums
Easiest thing I ever done
Living in aquariums
Mmmmm
One day, you find the most peculiar light
Follow to far-fetched places and never question why
Oh, so strange. In the end, they said everything was easy
Easy like la-di-dum
Or living in aquariums
Easiest thing I ever done
Living in aquariums
Mmmm
Easy like la-di-dum
Or living in aquariums
Easiest thing I ever done
Living in aquariums
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ALIBI WAS JUST AN AFTERTHOUGHT (And down to Mexico, Alright)
Words and Music by Andrea Wittgens
You can come to me like a saint
Trapdoor escapade - A-O-K
Hold me down I may just love you
You can come to me in the night
Proposition me - I just might
Take it south now and I will follow
Alibi was just an afterthought and down to Mexico (alright)
Never got the chance to tell you that I need you so
Off you go like the ghost of a guy that I know (that I know)
You’re a tricky one - I don’t care
Come on track me down anywhere
Oh go on now you almost had me
Take my house of cards it’s so quaint
Calling lucifers and calling saints
Take it south and I will follow
CHORUS
Easy comes but never goes away so easily (ain’t it sweet)
Sting me like a bee or leave me be we’re going to get it down eventually
Eventually…
CHORUS
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Did You Go Too Far?
03:39
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DID YOU GO TOO FAR?
Words and Music by Andrea Wittgens
Ten thousand miles away I saw it coming
Just a speck on my eye
Should have just left it there on the horizon
But where’s the fun in that?
Where’s the fun in that?
Everyday can take you farther at the whim of a wonderlust
Until you’re stopped in your tracks
And you try to go back
Did I go too far?
Did I open up a corner of my heart
That hadn’t seen the light
And now it won’t go back into the night
Well that’s the hardest part
You can’t go back to where you started
Did I go too far?
Who took the lid and sealed it up, poor Pandora?
Put a spell on the prize
Should have just left the box back in the corner
But where’s the fun in that?
Where’s the fun in that?
Sent you in a fleet of fantasies like you’ve never seen
As you’re sailing away
Did you wish you had stayed?
Did you go too far?
Did you open up a corner of your heart -
That hadn’t seen the light
And now it won’t go back into the night
Well that’s the hardest part
You can’t go back to where you started
The bittersweetest part
You can’t go back to where you started
When you go too far
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Highly Trained Killer
04:09
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HIGHLY TRAINED KILLER
Words and Music by Andrea Wittgens
You’ve got style like a highly trained killer
I could try, but I’m highly highly doubtful that I’ve got the winning etiquette
Such a rush, like a snake in the ballroom
I showed up but I’m wilting like a wallflower baby holed up at the corner table
Doo doo doo doo here’s how it goes:
Give me love give me love yeah just enough to mess me up
Just a little taste give a little more give me everything
Oh we’re gonna pack it in like a movie
Nothing less than overkill in under thirty seconds or I know I won’t ever catch the heart of you baby
Take you on like a brand new religion
Start out strong but then I’m ringing round the rosy with a pack of holy rollers
This won’t do cause I’m feeling neglected
Mama says you’re coming soon and holy holy batman blues you’re singing such a lonely tune
Doo doo doo doo here’s how it goes:
CHORUS
In a love song, things should turn out good
Well give my kisses to Mr. Robin Hood
I leave tomorrow - I like it short and sweet
Sweet like fiction with nothing in between
CHORUS
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Love
04:38
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LOVE
Words and Music by Andrea Wittgens
Oh when the lights go low and you’re dancing like you should
This could be the top of the world or a circus by the back woods
Paint that town chase it down more like wrestle it to the ground
Still you know when the lights go low you’ll be holding out for this
Love
Love that’s soft and strange
Love to rearrange everything I know
Love that’s scarred and stained and like rebel angels
Love to follow me down
Pay no mind to the shuddering kind, they gonna spook away destiny
I never met a ghost who liked his lot, who didn’t burn with jealousy
Hazy, crazy silhouette of a thing whispering in your ear
Lights go low, you still know you’ll be holding out for this:
Love
CHORUS
Down to where I’ve never seen
Down to where it’s hard to breathe
Down to where the fallen go
When all the pretty stars have gone away
CHORUS
And when you find it never let it go
And when you find it never let it go…
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