coupe coup

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(four tyres and a spare)
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FREE TO GO
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catching butterflies, line drives, watching tv
i had seven good years till i noticed they were looking at me
i didn’t like what they’d see
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trapped in the back seat, stay on your side
my hand out the window feeling the wind rush by, while my parents fight
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where did you go? did i make you leave?
another thing i didn’t know, nobody ever believes,
they just leave, they just leave
and they see you in their own sweet time
they just leave
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i didn’t leave my room till i learned how to drive
i was sweet seventeen, fighting in the back of my mind
till the wheel was all mine
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free to go, but still too young to leave
old enough to think i know
that nobody ever believes, they just leave, they just leave
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my plane landed, i’m alive
i’m not fighting with the things
i never thought i’d do to survive
i finally arrived
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now i know, more than i’ve ever believed
you could never let me know
you were just as young as me
you had to leave, you had to leave
you were just as young as me
you had to leave, you had to leave
you were just as young as me
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by the folk implosion
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FAST CAR
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you got a fast car
i want a ticket to anywhere
maybe we make a deal
maybe together we can get somewhere
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anyplace is better
starting from zero got nothing to lose
maybe we'll make something
me myself i got nothing to prove
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you got a fast car
i got a plan to get us out of here
i been working at the convenience store
managed to save just a little bit of money
we won't have to drive too far
just 'cross the border and into the city
you and i can both get jobs
and finally see what it means to be living
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you see my old man's got a problem
he live with the bottle that's the way it is
he says his body's too old for working
i say his body's too young to look like his
my mama went off and left him
she wanted more from life than he could give
i said somebody's got to take care of him
so i quit school and that's what i did
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you got a fast car
but is it fast enough so we can fly away
we gotta make a decision
we leave tonight or live and die this way
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i remember we were driving driving in your car
the speed so fast i felt like i was drunk
city lights lay out before us
and your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
and i had a feeling that i belonged
and i had a feeling i could be someone, be someone, be someone
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you got a fast car
and we go cruising to entertain ourselves
you still ain't got a job
and i work in a market as a checkout girl
i know things will get better
you'll find work and i'll get promoted
we'll move out of the shelter
buy a big house and live in the suburbs
you got a fast car
and i got a job that pays all our bills
you stay out drinking late at the bar
see more of your friends than you do of your kids
i'd always hoped for better
thought maybe together you and me would find it
i got no plans i ain't going nowhere
so take your fast car and keep on driving
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you got a fast car
but is it fast enough so you can fly away
you gotta make a decision
you leave tonight or live and die this way
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by tracy chapman
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ONE HEADLIGHT
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so long ago, i don't remember when
that's when they say i lost my only friend
well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
as i listened through the cemetery trees
i seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
the long broken arm of human law
now it always seemed such a waste
she always had a pretty face
i wonder why she hung around this place
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hey, come on try a little
nothing is forever
there's got to be something better than
in the middle
me & cinderella
we put it all together
we can drive it home
with one headlight
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she said "it's cold - it feels like independence day
and i can't break away from this parade
but there's got to be an opening
somewhere here in front of me
through this maze of ugliness and greed"
i seen the sign up ahead at the county line bridge
sayin' all is good and nothingness is dead
we'll run until she's out of breath
she ran until there's nothin' left
she hit the end, it's just her window ledge
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hey, come on try a little
nothing is forever
there's got to be something better than
in the middle
but me & cinderella
we put it all together
we can drive it home
with one headlight
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well this place is old
it feels just like a beat up truck
i turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn
well it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes
this place is always such a mess
sometimes i think i'd like to watch it burn
i'm so alone, and i feel just like somebody else
man, i ain't changed, but i know i ain't the same
but somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams
i think her death it must be killin' me
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hey, come on try a little
nothing is forever
there's got to be something better than
in the middle
but me & cinderella
we put it all together
we can drive it home
with one headlight
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by the wallflowers
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LITTLE RED CORVETTE
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i guess i shoulda known
by the way u parked your car sideways
that it wouldn’t last
see, you’re the kinda person
that believes in makin’ out once
love ’em and leave ’em fast
i guess i must be dumb
’cuz u had a pocket full of horses
trojan and some of them used
but it was saturday night
i guess that makes it all right
and u say what have i got 2 lose?
and honey I say
little red corvette
baby you’re much 2 fast
little red corvette
u need a love that’s gonna last
i guess i shoulda closed my eyes
when u drove me 2 the place
where your horses run free

’cuz i felt a little ill
when i saw all the pictures
of the jockeys that were there before me
believe it or not
i started to worry
i wondered if i had enough class
but it was saturday night
i guess that makes it all right
and u say, baby, have u got enough gas? (oh yeah)
little red corvette
baby you’re much 2 fast, yes u r
little red corvette
u need 2 find a love that’s gonna last
a body like yours (a body like yours)
oughta be in jail (oughta be in jail)
’cuz it’s on the verge of bein’ obscene
move over baby (move over baby)
gimme the keys (gimme the keys)
i’m gonna try 2 tame your little red love machine
little red corvette
baby you’re much 2 fast
little red corvette
u need 2 find a love that’s gonna last
little red corvette
honey u got 2 slow down (got 2 slow down)
little red corvette
’cuz if u don’t u gonna run your
little red corvette right in the ground
right down 2 the ground (honey u got 2 slow down)
u, u, u got 2 slow down (little red corvette)
you’re movin’ much 2 fast (2 fast)
u need 2 find a love that’s gonna last
u got an ass like i never seen
and the ride...
i say the ride is so smooth
u must be a limousine
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by prince
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ΚΟΚΚΙΝΟ
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χωρίς φωτιά δεν ζει κανείς
μη με ρωτάς μην απορείς
η φύση μου το άλλοθί μου
είναι ανήσυχη η ψυχή μου
για να σε βλέπω καθαρά
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έχω σκορπίσει τόσες φορές
μα έχω ακόμα εφτά ζωές
από αγάπες που φύγαν μακριά
γεννιέμαι ξανά και ξανά
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τώρα πια βλέπω καθαρά
φτάνει η ζωή αληθινά
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κόκκινο αμάξι σφαίρα
ένα κορίτσι στον αέρα θηλυκό
κατακτάει τον ουρανό
πως να κρατήσεις έτσι απλά
ένα κορίτσι που κρύβει
μια γυναίκα στην καρδιά
κόκκινο
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