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Life never works out the way you would guess.
You try to fit in, but you know it’s hopeless.
You learn to laugh first. You learn not to care.
You escape to your room at the top of the stairs, where…
For an hour each day, I fall into my groove (into my groove).
I’ll take on the whole world, as I watch, watch my hands move.
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Steel. Karate! Fire. Karate!
Power. Karate! Respect. Karate!
Strike. Karate! Block. Karate!
Fear? Karate! Intense. Karate!
You’ve made a few friends, but your dates all go wrong.
You’re tired of fighting, but you want to feel strong.
You’re still feeling burned from your first divorce.
It’s time you remembered things could always get worse, but…
I’ll tell you my secret: I train till I’m sore (train till I’m sore).
My mind is in focus when I walk, walk through that door.
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1st degree! 2nd degree! 3rd degree! Score!
My life begins anew each day. Karate!
No drug can make me feel this way. Karate!
I touch I feel unchained, I stay. Karate!
If fire could dance, we learn, we play, but…
But when, each night, each night, it ends.
It ends, it ends, forever…
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Everything I say and do, it’s like I’m wearing a mask.
I feel, I love you from a distance, but now I’m seeing the cracks.
Soon everything will be like it was before.
No empty house to greet me, when I, when I walk through that door.
If everything we ever did were laid out on the floor.
I wouldn’t feel, so afraid now, if you only loved, you only loved me more.
Everything I say and do, every time I’ve moved or stayed.
I do it for you my love. I fall apart when you’re away.
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Everything, everything, everything.
You’re everything and nothing at all.
Everything, everything, everything.
You’re everything and nothing at all.
Now everything’s all packed no more living in fear.
No sin, regret, guilt, no more angry words, a new life for us begins.
Now everything will be better than ever before.
This time, it’s time I get it right. There’s got to be something more than this.
Think everything’s gonna be fine when you follow me here?
Think your problems are over, let me explain things.
I got something to say to you, my dear.
Everything normal? Everything back in its place?
Everything will seem, seem quite strange when we’re finally face to face.
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And so I moved. Got a job, good pay.
But when the bills come, I just throw them all away.
Shouldn’t be this hard To know what to do.
But I don’t stand a chance, so I hide things from you.
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Black and white and red, red, red! I’m all that and more.
I used to be so many things A long time ago.
But now I am the color in your dreams.
But now I am the color in your dreams.
Rent, car, or food? Which one should I choose?
I keep borrowing more. I’ve got nothing to lose.
Why did she tell you? I can’t live with this shame.
I wish I could talk to you. I’ve never known such pain.
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Black and white and red, red, red! My name is despair.
I am not, what I seem Look at me my love.
For I am the color in your dreams.
For I am the color in your dreams.
If only I could pay it back If only the day was over.
If only you understood If only I were stronger.
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If only! If only! If only! If only!
If I were the color in your dreams.
If I were the color in your dreams.
Our love is so many sided.
Why can’t it be like it used to be?
When we were one, not divided.
Magic, not tragic, like this love, in the dark.
I wish you would be stronger.
I wish we’d never part.
I wish you’d understand.
That I, only love, in the dark.
Why can’t I make you happy again?
Then my troubles would all melt away.
I want to know what might have been.
If only, not lonely. Why this love, in the dark?
I wish you knew me better. I wish you’d follow me.
I want to write you a letter.
So you’d, learn to love, in the dark.
But on this night, I just have to go.
In the mirror, I’m no one at all.
I love you more than you will ever know.
At most, I’m a ghost, in this love, in the dark.
I wish you would listen. I wish you could see.
I wish you’d hear me crying.
This night, for our love, in the dark.
I wish, I wish, I wish you were…
12:30 am, on the Sunshine bridge.
Never though my life would end up here.
This red phone box, it can’t help me now.
Like a true blackbelt, I will show no fear.
Come to me, I’ll take you down.
Then you’ll know sunshine all around.
Back home she cries, why don’t you call?
It’s time for Sunshine to take you home.
Sunshine, watch me fly!
Sunshine, bring me peace!
Sunshine, tell her please, Sunshine.
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Sunshine!
Floating like a ship, that’s lost at sea.
Pain and black water, rush over me.
Body broken, my heart it pounds.
Sunshine please, don’t let me drown.
Let me live! Let me live! Let me live! Live! live!
Come to me, I’ll take you down.
Then you’ll know sunshine all around.
Back home they’ll wish that you had phoned.
Just tell them Sunshine has taken… taken you home.
We found the body at sun up. I had to make some calls.
The coroner’s working overtime. A tough day on the job.
And so we do the grizzly math, add one to column four.
The widow IDed the body behind this metal door.
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We trust in the system, we trust in the law.
We trust in the family that was broken by the fall.
We’ve no trust in the system, no trust in the law.
No trust in the family that was broken, broken by the fall.
A sleepless night behind me, waiting for the dawn.
The car, the knock, the silence. Something had gone wrong.
They handed me a packet with the clothes they found him in.
I stood there in that sunny room dying from within.
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For every trust that’s broken she finds a little more.
His watch his keys, his wedding ring left scattered on the floor.
After the day is over, night begins to fall.
His lonely wife cries out the name of one who never called.
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Are you sitting down right now? The news I have is grim.
His car was found on the bridge last night. A patrolman called it in.
We didn’t want to believe, we traded hope for dread.
Till our youngest son declared, "No, your brother’s dead."
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What can our children do to hold up their heads up high?
I can’t tell them I have the answers when I’m so angry inside
What can a father do? The things I should have said.
I never found the time to ask, so I pick up the pieces instead.
I loaned you money when you called but couldn’t ask you why.
You hoped I would find the clues but I didn’t even try.
The pieces of our broken dreams lie scattered on the floor.
We pick them up as best we can while staring at the door
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I remember how I cried that night; I tried to keep inside.
The pain of what was left undone and guilt too real to hide.
We would have done anything if we’d only known.
If only we had understood or just picked up the phone.
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Far along the forest path, in every drop of rain.
I walked with you that summer when life was free of pain.
A mother should get to see her children grow old and wise.
Even when they break your heart and tell you little lies.
The loveliest of my children was the one who came first.
Why does being a mother mean loving till it hurts?
I was once a pretty, young girl in a small mid-western town.
I pictured a perfect family when I wore my wedding gown.
My fourth child was a smile, so loyal and so true.
My second child caused trouble and cried the whole night through.
My third child was the smart one, for everything that’s worth.
My first child never saw me crying and loving till it hurts.
I remember a happier time that seems so long ago.
I held your hand and whispered, "Wake up it’s time to go."
You kept your secrets from me, I should have asked you more.
I was afraid you’d pull away, like you’d done before.
You didn’t call, I couldn’t know things were at their worst.
Now too late a mother cries, "I love you till it hurts."
In the moonlight the wheels are turning.
I lie awake with fever burning.
Visions on the sidewalk fading in the rain.
Will I find the truth or someone to blame?
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Unknown – What happened on that night?
Unnamed – What did you try to hide?
Unspoken – I called your friends, your wife.
Unresolved, Unsolved, Unsolved, Unsolved.
Were you in pain? Did you have a fight?
I search for clues in the dark of night.
Hiding my pain by playing the sleuth.
Is much easier than facing the truth.
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As time goes by it means less and less.
But still late at night, I can’t help but guess.
I waited too long for you to reach out.
But this brother’s love was never in doubt.
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I couldn’t tell you the hell I knew then: No fun.
But now all the pieces are back in their box, save one.
So what can I do to honor your life, but run?
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Of one thing I’m sure, you have to keep going.
Someone cares for you, it’s time to start showing.
You’re loved and adored by someone like me.
Who wants you to live deliberately.
It started out small, to help heal our pain, we run.
We needed to speak. Was it your daughter? Your son?
We raised up some money. Your stories we told. He’s gone.
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Our message of hope: Your life has only begun.
In times of despair you will find us here. We’re one.
If taking your life seems the best way out just run.
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The last word of tonight, alone with my thoughts.
If a kind word could be said right now, it would really mean a lot.
How to sum up your life? What would you say?
Would you still be here with me, on this perfect day?
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We never found the time.
Your song was never heard.
Your story’s too big to be caged by a word.
The last word of tonight.
Words they fail me now as I remember your voice.
The last words of that night, my dear were not yours by choice.
If you could relive that moment of doubt and pain.
What did you need to hear from me, to figure out life again?
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The last word on your life is not ours to give.
We want to make sense of that night; it’s something elusive.
If my hopes and dreams were something I could give.
You’d pick up that that phone and say those words.
And live and live and live.
If my hopes and dreams were something I could give.
You’d pick up that that phone and say those words.
And live and live and live.