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Disaster!
04:07
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Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oooh disaster / What a sinkhole made / from a collapsing cave
Oooh disaster / What a never-ending / earthquake
Crashing waves / buildings crumble
The old tree still falling / in the empty forest
Nobody’s around / but can you hear the sound
My love my love my love /is an endless oil spill
My love my love my love/from an offshore oil drill
Oooh disaster / All the little words / we pretend we haven’t heard
Oooh disaster / All the same mistakes / we half wish we didn’t make
Crashing waves / buildings crumble
The old tree still falling / in the empty forest
Nobody’s around / but can you hear the sound
My love my love my love / is an endless oil spill
My love my love my love/ from an offshore oil drill
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2. |
Dark Cloud
03:57
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Up and down the staircase
Pacing in the basement
Locking up the doors and all the windows where the draft comes through
Into the living room
The air is chilling up the blood that was boiling just an hour ago
Finding this amusing
Finding it’s best day of my life I never knew the worst could be the best way out
I’m being honest now I’m a real artist now
So bring it on, bring it on, bring it on
Oh I have a dark cloud that follows me around
You’re the dark cloud follows me around
Oh I have a black thought that swallows up my heart
You’re the black thought that swallows up my heart
You’re the dark cloud / you’re the dark cloud / you’re the dark cloud
No I cannot hear your heart beneath the floorboard
All i hear is ticking and the tocking of the clock strikes 12
Don’t recognize myself- I don’t remember what I’m doing
Am I ruined? Is it ruined?
No, I’m finding this amusing
Finding it’s the best day of my life I never knew
The worst could be the best way out
I’m being honest now I’m a real artist now
Oh I have a dark cloud that follows me around
You’re the dark cloud follows me around
Oh I have a black thought that swallows up my heart
You’re the black thought that swallows up my heart
You’re the dark cloud / you’re the dark cloud / you’re the dark cloud
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3. |
Can't Help Myself
04:50
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I can feel your arms, I wish
I could feel your arms through this
But I break another vow steal another kiss
Cannot see the trees for the forest
I know what you’re offering to me
But I only want what I don’t need
Told you another lie, was out for a bit
Cannot see the end, and I cannot quit
Oh, and I can’t help myself, I can’t help myself
Can’t help myself, can’t help myself
Show me how to be alone
Tell me why you didn’t come home
You play another song, take another trip
But I know who you are and what you did
Oh, and you can’t help yourself, you can’t help yoursel
Oh and you can’t help myself, you can’t help myself
And we need each other, oh we need each other
We’ll curl up in our feathers
Oh we need each other
Oh, 'cause I can’t help myself, I can’t help myself
Oh, 'cause you can’t help yourself, you can't help yourself
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4. |
Devil
05:17
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At any given moment I find it hard to believe that you’re not the devil
I want the things you got and I want the things I’m not
But don’t want any trouble
You say you’ll give me paradise
You don’t have to ask me twice/ I know, I know
You offer me a lot- tropic island and a yacht!
You know what I want
The gang on 42nd Street is overcome with jealousy
Cause I’m on your arm
And this this must be paradise
You don’t have to tell me twice
I’ll sign the dotted line
CHORUS
It don’t get much better than this/it don’t get any better than this x2
It don’t get much better for me it won’t get much better for you
It don’t get much, it don’t get much, it don’t get much get much
It don’t get much, it don’t get much, it don’t get much get much
(Elegant Party)
The limousines and private balconies and grand parties
And millions of fans
The lovers and the lawyers and the diamonds and the voyeurs
This is what I am
And yes I’ve found my paradise
And you don’t have to ask me twice
On with the show!
CHORUS
It wouldn’t be so disarming if you weren’t a little charming
And i knew what you were doing
All my loves requited and all my deep desires/ Turned to wreck and ruin
Oh what became of paradise? / All my virtue turned to vice
Oh no oh no
I think I just sold my soul
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Same Lesson
03:29
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I learn the same lesson over and over again
Until the same lesson is an old friend
Remember morning on the mountain top?
Old-fashioned sunrise making my heart stop
Put our toes up to the edge and I jump off!
When I go you never follow me, it’s tough
I learn the same lesson over and over again
Until the same lesson is an old friend
Remember summer in the big city?
The crowds are bustling we move quickly
My feet are moving fast and yours fickly
I lost you in the crowd what a pity
I learn the same lesson over and over again
Until the same lesson is an old friend
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And I found myself in a city
And I happened upon a street
Where the cobblestones started shifting
Beneath my feet
And the stones started crumbling
And the earth fell from under me
Oh this shouldn’t be happening
But I cannot do anything but fall
And I found myself by a river
And I drank from the river Lethe
Saw the prettiest little monster
Turn to ripples in a stream
When I leaned in to kiss her
Oh I fell in and missed her
This shouldn’t be happening
But I cannot do anything but fall
And I found myself in the ocean
And I found myself at your feet
Tucked so neatly in the bottle
Where your fingers folded me
Oh I hoped you would find me there
Cause you showed me the way back here
I’m the message you waited for
I said
Do, don’t do anything. Cause this is happening
No don’t- don’t dare do anything cause this is happening
This is hap- happy happy happening
And you don’t have to do anything
Don’t, oh don’t… I know you won’t
Cause you listened to me when I said
Don’t do anything. Don’t do anything. Don’t do anything.
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Ellen Warkentine Los Angeles, California
Ellen Warkentine is a theatrical multi-instrumentalist composer and performing artist based in New York/Los
Angeles.
Her melodic work references avant-pop, early jazz, and vaudeville; her influences include Kurt Weill, Bjork, and Stephin Merritt.
She is a long-time collaborator with the award-winning Four Larks Theatre, and co-creator of the absurd “fauxpera” LOLPERA.
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