It Used to Be Me — B-side to The 13th CD single #1

All he needs is everyone I’ve been
And all she needs is everywhere I’ve seen
All they need
Anything I’ve touched
And all you need is everything I’ve loved
Everything I’ve heard everything I’ve learned
Everything I’ve tried everything I’ve held
Everything I’ve felt everything I’ve lost
Everything I’ve cried
Until my whole head shrieks with grinding my teeth
Struggling to find a single word I can keep
Any kind of truth
Any kind of hope
Oh, just any kind of word that doesn’t make me choke

But I keep saying I will, and I won’t
I keep saying I do, and I don’t
I keep saying I feel
But there is nothing to feel
Just a strange kind of nothing where it used to be me…
It used to be me

All he needs from me is everyone I’ve ever missed
And all she needs from me
Everyone I’ve ever kissed
All they need from me
Anything I’ve ever sung
Yeah and all you need from me is everything I’ve ever said
Everything I’ve ever done everything I’ve ever made
Everything I’ve ever prayed everything I’ve ever believed
Everything I’ve ever touched everything I’ve ever loved
Everything I’ve ever thought everything I’ve ever dreamed
Until my whole head screams with grinding my teeth
Desperate to find a single word I can keep
Any kind of faith
Any kind of fix
Oh, just any kind of word that doesn’t make me sick
And I keep saying I will, but I won’t
I keep saying I do but I don’t
And I keep saying I feel
But there is nothing to feel
Just this strange kind of nothing where it used to be me…

Anything and everything
All that you need
Get it for free
Anything and everything
All that you need
Get it from me
Get it from me
Get it from me
Get it from me

Adonais — B-side to The 13th CD single #2

He breaks the spell still young
Awakes from out this dream of life
And leaves us sleeping
Storm racked blind consumed
By phantom pale displays of grief
He slips from out this shadow land of pain
Where heads grow sorrow grey
And age destroys all hope
And spirits crushed
Lament and hide away

But wordless watch the soft sky smile
And breathless hear the low wind sigh
“What death may join no more let life divide”
“Dream yourself awake” he calls
“Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me
Be with me… ”

He breaks the chains still young
Dispels the hateful shades of treacherous time
And leaves us sleeping
Tortured mute
Devoured by ghostly shapes of life
He slips from ties of dust
To be the world we dream he lives
A part of everything we feel
The young and beautiful
And brave of heart

But wordless watch the soft sky smile
And breathless hear the low wind sigh
“What death may join no more let life divide”

“Dream yourself awake” he calls
“Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me
Be with me… ”
“Dream yourself awake” he calls
“Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me
Forever… ”

Ocean — B-side to The 13th CD single #2

I don’t think I’m any closer now
Then I was at fifteen
I still don’t know what I really want
Or how I really feel
Sometimes I think I’ve seen too much
Sometimes nothing at all
And sometimes I think I just forgot
What I was looking for

But I still need to believe in you
I still need to know you’ll never
Never give up
I believe in you…

So how can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
How can you ever stop
Telling me you care?

But I still need to believe in you
I still need to know you’ll never
Never give up
I believe in you…

So how can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
Tell me you believe it too
Tell me that you care
How can you ever let
My hope turn to despair?
How can you ever stop
Pretending?

Home — B-side to Mint Car CD single #1

Every time I try to tell you how I feel inside
I always make the same mistakes
Tie myself in knots
Sometimes even make you cry
When all I ever want to say

Is nobody else in the whole wide world
Makes me feel this way
Nobody else in the whole wide world
Takes my breath away
Makes me feel so strange inside
Dazed confused and starry-eyed
I couldn’t love you more
Makes me feel the wrong way round
Inside out and upside down
I couldn’t love you more

And every time I try to tell you what I really mean
Nothing seems to come out right
End up murmuring foolishly
It makes me want to scream
How I get so stupefied

There’s nobody else in the whole wide world
Makes me feel this way
There’s nobody else in the whole wide world
Takes my breath away
Makes me feel so strange inside
Open mouthed and mystified
I couldn’t love you more
Makes me feel so upside down
Muddle-headed round and round
I couldn’t love you more
Makes me feel so strange inside
Dazed confused and starry-eyed
I couldn’t love you more
Makes me feel the wrong way round
Inside out and upside down
I couldn’t love you more

A Pink Dream — B-side to Mint Car CD single #2

Rio sunrise sucking on a straw
I rub my head and stagger out the door
And head into the bright new beautiful day
And the way she pulls me in
Sucks my breath away

I asked her for some time
And she just made me it
I asked her maybe why?
And she just gave me it
Never smile
Never stare
She doesn’t seem to care at all
Never cry
Never scream
She doesn’t really seem to need me at all…

Fourteen weeks I stay away from home
A hundred days a part of me unknown
Apart in pink and perfect moments play
And as a wonder of the world
She sucks my breath away

I asked her for some time
And she just made me it
I asked her maybe why?
And she just gave me it
So, I asked her could be heaven?
And she just prayed me it…

She didn’t want to know my name
She didn’t want to know how long we had together
Spending time as if tomorrow never comes
I didn’t want to know the end
I didn’t want to go but slowly found me home again
And slow again tomorrow comes
But it was all so far away
And so long ago
I hardly ever think about her anymore
Except sometimes when the summer twilight breeze
Carries me the scent of faraway rain
I remember…
And she still sucks my breath away

Waiting… — B-side to Mint Car CD single #2

Tonight, I’ll dream a girl called home
And wake up in tears
All on my own
With the sun coming up
And my head against stone
Balcony dressed and drawn

Tonight, I’ll dream a room so far away
Frost pale blue
The colour of a perfect day
And then screw up my face
In the mirror
As I wait for the others to call

But if I don’t believe in magic
And I don’t believe in blood
And I don’t believe in miracles
And I don’t believe in love
Then how come I believe so soon
In a cherry tree girl
And a dust blue room?

Tonight, I’ll dream an hour so long
Shadow soft smiles
And everyone loves me
To open my eyes
In a drag myself face undone
Hard back into the world

Tonight, I’ll dream a dream I dream
Without even trying I’m flying I scream
As I practice the move
I spit at my pillow stained face
And the others all come

But if I don’t believe in magic
And I don’t believe in blood?
And I don’t believe in miracles
And I don’t believe in love
Then how come I believe it seems
In a girl called home
And a world called dreams?

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