The Simplest Thing

The rain starts off and it wakes you up
 You can't sleep with that racket on the roof
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 You get up slow but you can't get going
 It seems this morning the lowness has won
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 Did you stop to see? Mediocrity and your self pity,
 They were stealing a kiss, look at their lips, still shiny
 Did you notice that happiness
 Happens less the more often you stop to find where it's been hiding
 You say, "It's not my fault that I get so low
 There's a weight on my soul that just keeps pulling me down,
 It's pulling me down, I swear it"
 So come on by my house and unleash me your monsters
 With you at the healm we'll go crashing around together
 Don't mistake some initial hate for something more that cautionary
 Cause baby this is love, I'll come down to hell to keep you company
 Of all the days we've got we should be screaming out...
 Of all the days we've got we should be singing...
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 What's to be done? One hundred and one
 In a tent for twelve with fingers and elbows
 In innocent ribs, we're minding our business
 We're just minding our business instead of minding our minds
 In times when the storms will ravage your clothes,
 The sound and the colour could render you blind
 And the throes of a nightmare can sing you to sleep
 Then some foreign machine wakes you up at a mean hour
 But heaven is there, under your hair,
 It hides in the noon noise way up in the air
 Like a bird on the breeze
 Waiting for you and maybe me too
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 Whats there to do? One hundred and two
 Are out on the doorstep and they're pushing the bolts back
 They're wanting in, they're humming our hymn
 Everybodys singing like beautiful birds...
 In the trees, listen to it, it's easy man, you can do it too
 Sing: I know what I want
 I know what I need
 Cause it's the simplest thing
 Of all the nights we've got we should be stepping out...
 Of all the nights we touch we should be swinging around from house to house
 If I could cheer you up it would mean so much,
 Clowns in love and laughing it off, laughing it off, laughing it off
 You say, "its not my fault that I get so low
 But to drown you too, that's a sick way to love, it's a sick way to love,
 It's a fucking sick way to love"