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Minus the Bear – Fooled By The Night Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:



I’m not going to leave you,
not for good
You are the real one
and I am your fool

Fooled by the night
and drinking the poison
Enough to get right,
then to freeze frame vision

Freeze frame vision
Freeze frame vision
I only see in

Gone for days in the country
and I am alone
This old wood stove
cooks my food and keeps me warm

A dog in the night
is singing his song
and I’m drinking the poison
until my visions gone

Freeze frame vision
Freeze frame vision
I only see in

Her heels click on the sidewalk
adding tempo to the sound
of the city living hard
this ain’t no one bar town
Holding a new hand
she don’t know his last name
she doesn’t need the anguish or the pain

He had a place that was just up the street
if she was down for the walk
He had a view that couldn’t be beat
and the looks and the talk

He put the right music on
that music led her astray
Touching her just like he should
but she was heading that way

Moving through her tangent
Couldn’t breath couldn’t talk
Falling in lust with an accident
when sometimes time seems to stop

Freeze frame vision
Freeze frame vision
I only see in

The morning’s barely breathing
when I awake
I need something
to kill this dull ache
Have you been sleeping
or is it still your town?
Are you drinking the poison
and phasing me out?

Freeze frame vision
Freeze frame vision
I only see in

She’s getting close
and he doesn’t know

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Minus the Bear – Dayglow Vista Rd. Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:

Walking down Dayglow Vista Road
taking a break to read the stones
Sunken graves that seem to say
“We’re not here anymore,”
and it’s like they never been here before

Everybody’s got a shine on
walking down Dayglow Vista Road
Everybody’s got a high on
down by the old path ghosts

You look so sweet
with the sunlight filtered down on you
I’m under your thumb
Don’t want to get stuck
when the storm comes

Everybody’s got a shine on
walking down Dayglow Vista Road
Everybody’s got a high on
down by the old path ghosts

What’s a little bit of rain?

As we walk on it comes on night
and the pathway fades away
Lost in a forest graveyard
and we’re tripping the night away

Everybody’s got a shine on
walking down Dayglow Vista Road
Everybody’s got a high on
walking down Dayglow Vista Road
Everybody’s got a shine on

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Minus the Bear – Animal Backwards Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:

(in the reflection)

I don’t know you that well, but I like your energy

She is a wolf looking through my window

And though I’m safe, my love, I want to roam
behind this pane, behind this wall of stone
Caught in the pull of your green eyed glow
I want to feel my skin in the snow

She is a wolf looking through my window

Caught in the pull of your green eyed glow
I want to feel my skin in the snow
And though I’m safe, my love, I want to roam
behind this pane, behind this wall of stone

She is a wolf looking through my window

My new love howling in the night outside
My new love howling in the moonlight
I don’t know you that well, but I like your energy

(in the reflection)

Caught in the pull of your green eyed glow
(She is a wolf looking in my window)
She’s a wolf looking through my window

I want to feel my skin in the snow
(and I am a ghost from a million years ago)
She’s a wolf looking through my window

And though I’m safe, my wolf, I want to roam
(She is a wolf looking in my window)
She’s a wolf looking through my window

Behind this pane behind this wall of stone
(and I am a ghost from a million years ago)
She’s a wolf looking through my window

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Minus the Bear – The Thief Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:


You’ve got a rich dad
who hates every boy like me
I’ve got no money
and daddy don’t like my ease

I wanna steal you like a pearl
I wanna display you like a diamond

Let me take you
to a beach in Alicanté
Sleep on the strand
to the breath of España’s sea
until you stray

Should I find you’re not around
I would surely chase you down
lure you in with a lonely sound
and then I’ll have you

I’m gonna steal you like a pearl
I’m gonna display you like a diamond

Do I awake alone?
a five dollar bill
in yesterday’s clothes
on the floor of a room off Calle Mayor
that a better man paid for

Should I find you’re not around
I would surely chase you down
lure you in with a lonely sound
and then I’ll have you

I’m gonna steal you like a pearl
I’m gonna display you like a diamond

You got a real shine
set in fool’s gold
I am the fool
Your pearls are plastic
and diamonds glass
Now I’m alone

Should I find you’re not around
I would surely chase you down
lure you in with a lonely sound
and then I’ll have you

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Minus the Bear – Excuses Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:

Coins I could drop shake in my pocket,
they shake like you do
Steps that you take bend and they break,
they break like I do

Running out of excuses
When we know what the truth is
I’m into you
When you hear this song,
you’ll say you knew all along,
you’re into me too

The vibe you send sets me at my end,
do you get my vibe too?
You’ve held me on for so long
with what’s a lie and what is true

Running out of excuses
When we know what the truth is
I’m into you
When you hear this song,
you’ll say you knew all along,
you’re into me too

That black and white dress
puts me into a trance
as I memorize you
If this game of chance
ends in a loss
I just lose it to you

Running out of excuses
When we know what the truth is
I’m into you
When you hear this song,
you’ll say you knew all along,
you’re into me too

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Minus the Bear – Hold Me Down Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:

And I’m in the wind
I am going to let it take me where it may
Maybe it lifts
me to New Orleans or the dark streets of L.A.
I’m in the wind
I am in the wind
and if I fall to where you’re standing
will you tend to me?
I’m in the wind
I am in the wind
and if I end up in your arms will you help me stay?

I want your comfort for the evening
I need to pause and get my head
Hold me down, baby
or the wind will catch me out again

I’m in the wind
and I don’t know how long the breeze will let me stay
Maybe your kiss
will calm the weather down and let me wait

I want your comfort for the evening
I need to pause and get my head
Hold me down, baby
or the wind will catch me out again

I’m giving you up, I’m giving you up
I’m giving you up, I’m giving you up
I’m giving you up, I’m giving you up, again.

I want your comfort for the evening
I need to pause and get my head
Hold me down, baby
or the wind will catch me out again
Hold me down
Hold me down
Hold me down, just keep me for another night

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Minus the Bear – Secret Country Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:

Soft rain falls around us
and the moon says it’s getting late
Arm in arm, steps in time,
we come to the edge of the lake
We forget where we are
and you’re so loud
and the water around our feet
can’t find no way out

Take me back to this world
You take me to the line
Take me out of this world
Drown with me tonight

There is water on the concrete,
rivulets on the face
You release me from your kiss
and do a dance for me and the rain
Falling down and splashing up
I’m clapping for a second cut
your rain soaked pirouette
spins me around again

Take me back to this world
You take me to the line
Take me out of this world
Drown with me tonight

We forget where we are

Now I’m reading into your intention
and I’m falling through your depth
You pull me to the water’s edge
and vanish in the black
You’re on my mind
swim through my time
As I float out to you
I dream of your caress

Take me out of this world
You take me to the line
Take me out of this world
Drown with me tonight

We forget where we are

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Minus the Bear – Summer Angel Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:

When we made it to the garden
it was well past nine
Our hands came to agreement
as we walked in time
A jealous rose stole a thread
from her skirted thigh
I clipped it quick with a flick
of this switchblade knife

That rose was so fine in her hair
Her shadow in the moon light
The hot summer night’s right
My summer angel keeps me on the run

Poppies swayed while she spun
on how she fell in love
“When in Rome, or c’est la vie,
when over seas,
however you want”
Leaning close in she finally
threw me the life raft
She pulled me in and kept me right
until the night left

That rose was so fine in her hair
Her shadow in the moon light
The hot summer night’s right
My summer angel keeps me on the run

and when her kisses came,
they rained down
and when my body moved,
she made sound
and when she moved down
she made my back arc
as I lay there in the moon light dark
She sang …

That rose was so fine in her hair
Her shadow in the moon light
The hot summer night’s right
My summer angel keeps me on the run

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Minus the Bear – My Time Lyrics 15 years ago
Official lyrics from MTB's website:

Turn off the lights,
touch me in the dark,
fade into the feeling,
whisper in my ear
What you want, what you need.
Tell me my name,
tell me my name again
Just yell out my name, baby.

I got your nights, I got your days
I got you on my time

You taste like sweet wine
and we are magnified
The sweat rolls down your thigh,
making moves so blind
It’s what you want, it’s what you need—
I’m just the same, baby

I got your nights, I got your days
I got you on my time

And you’re holding on to me like an old love
that you know every inch of.
when I feel you start to go
I’ll take it slow
until your body’s saying more

I got your nights, I got your days
I got you on my time
You’re gonna be on my time

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Minus the Bear – Hold Me Down Lyrics 15 years ago
Please update them!

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Minus the Bear – Hold Me Down Lyrics 15 years ago
Ummm, why would they write a whole song about quitting smoking? I completely disagree.

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Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics 15 years ago
This is quite possibly my favorite song of all time. No, let me rephrase that: it is my favorite song of all time.

I think this is a rare case of a Talking Heads song being exactly what it is, no hidden messages or meaning. It's about love. Real, amazing, fun-loving, friendship-based love. Love that makes your house your home. It's different because it's a love song coming from the perspective of someone who isn't typically a romantic. But that doesn't mean there's a hidden subversive quality to it.

To me, it's the song of a guy who never thinks he'll fall in love, never thinks he'll find another person that makes him feel the things that other love songs are made of, never really even cares whether he will. And then he does. He's going along through life and suddenly: BAM! Love shows up.

First verse = falling in love. Feeling of spinning, feeling of floating ("pick me up and turn me round"). I always picture two people lying in the grass, looking at the clouds, laughing, playing, twirling each other around in bare feet. As it turns out, love got him even though he wasn't looking for it ("born with a weak heart"), but it's okay even though he doesn't know how to act in a relationship. They'll just make it up as they go along, being friends and dating and having fun along the way. There's no need to talk about it (the relationship) because it just is what it is. The other person feels the same, falling in love with him ("you've got light in your eyes"), and they start to adjust to actually being/living together, maybe they're even getting married ("you're standing here beside me... passing of time... cover up and say goodnight"). It's the whole transition of everything from meeting someone to dating to making a life together.

Second verse = realizing you're in love, in a real meaningful way. Realizing that home is actually the other person, realizing that you can no longer remember who you are as an individual or what life was like before this person came around, because you identify so strongly as part of this couple ("I can't tell one from another. Did I find you, or you find me?"). He's saying, I know that there was life before you, and before us, but I can't quite remember and it feels like our love is unique, but I know that of all the other people in the world, we're not the only ones to feel this way ("There was a time before we were born..."). But then I've given into love and this is where I see myself, with you, for the rest of my future ("this is where I'll be").

I think the real genius of this song is it means so many different things to different people. Because the lyrics are vague but yet meaningful, the emotional connection to them varies from perso to person. To me, this will always be a joyous song.

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Talking Heads – This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics 15 years ago
I always thought the "out of the passing of time" lyrics was "I note the passing of time"?

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