Badly Drawn Boy

Tickets To What You Need

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I'm turning the lights down low
Ready to make my move
Get you tickets to what you need
I'm treading the borderlines
And ruining people's lives by giving them what they need
You're quite right to ask what's wrong with me
You want to take a look at my head
Even I've been thinking what's wrong with me
I watch the news instead
I'm turning Madonna down
I'm calling it my best move
I'll get her tickets to what she needs
I'm hugging my eiderdown
Employing a microscope
To find you the things you need
Now I'm ready to tell you what's wrong with me
I'm feeling the emptiness rise
And I'd trade the whole thing quite gladly
For something of similar size
Shape, colour, weight, change your shirt, don't be late.
I'm turning the lights down low
Ready to make my move
Get you tickets to what you need
What's wrong with me, What's wrong with me?
What's wrong with me, What's wrong with me?

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shadee01 On Apr 13, 2004

The Shining

Once Around The Block

Something to Talk About

A Minor Incident

Silent Sigh

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2004-04-13 01:19:15

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by PirateQueen

20y ago

This song is great. It's about a guy who does everything for everyone else, but at the same time, he's going slowly insane.

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by duffall

19y ago

Has no one heard the live version on Conan from a while ago? It's alot different then the original and contains my favorite lines in music history: And I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died and the night Jeff Buckley died and the night kurt Cobain died and the night John Lennon died I remember I stayed up to watch the news with everyone and that was alot of nights and that was alot of lives who lost the tickets to what they need I was busy finding answers whil you just got on with real life always hoped you'd be my wife but i never found the time for the question to arise I just disguised it in a song And songs, are never quite the answer just a soundtrack to a life that is over all too soon Helps to turn the days to nights while I was wrong and you were right

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by lujk

18y ago

duffall that is a different song.that's "you were right."

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