1. Hills Like White Elephants - Paper Tigers[lyrics]
Summer's come and gone, now we are but ghosts among the fairyplots
No childhood glory left, just loaded questions - lies working side by side
These things that hold together 'us'
When a rogue spark burns love down
And the night lights up your fears
As the drive home breaks your will
You reach the threshold, walk on through the doorway
and all these things you thought you'd put away collar you
I saw you when we were not yet back on speaking terms on the street
and thought of
how we say I love you, let me in your heart, let me in your bed, give me what I want
so I can get on
These things that hold together 'us'
When a rogue spark burns love down
And the night lights up your fears
As the drive home breaks your will
I see you are falling back on your old vices
I see you are coming out in true colors now.
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2. Desiderata - Frtiz Called It Magnum[lyrics]
These subjective lies coursing through our minds
and contemplating lives
She spoke out tonight with everlasting light of
frightening height
Bleed and goodbye (waste my awful days)
Have a good look (hope you see her) Kill the
martyr (reward emptiness)
I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE MET BEFORE
This is how the west was won under hot
convicting suns with scrutinized self
You recuperate the shame of everlasting fame
when there's nothing left to gain
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3. Portraits - Just By The Lies[lyrics]
I don't want to hear
I want to feel
So I can understand
Why the king
He wants to be prince
And why I haven't loved since
Why no one means what
they say anymore
Why if you listen with your
heart you can't be sure
Where there's pain
there's rain
Where there's hurt
there's a heart
Be safe, be strong,
be smart
You'll see the sun
will rise sweetheart
So don't sit there all alone
Your sneakers worn your
pants are torn
You've covered your
hair and your eyes
If he ain't there
Just by the lies
Bibles on sale
in the bible store
Where there's money
there's war
Seven shrines and they
still want more
Where there's God there's war
I don't want to hear
I want to feel
So I can understand
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4. Eamon McGrath - Badlands[lyrics]
When I came back from Vancouver
There was a whole right through my heart
So I grabbed a bottle and my gun and I shot blind in the
dark
But it was while I was in Winnipeg on portage and main
Under the bridge by the red river a man took all my pain
Traveling across Nebraska, greasing up my hair
I looked over at caril ann and put my arm into the air
My cigarette was hanging from my lips and I was ready to go
But they caught me down in Wyoming and they sent me down
below
They spoke to me of winter and they spoke to me of kings
They spoke to me of Richard I and what a revolution brings
So I got up off my horse and I went down for a ride
But they took me to a tall tower and they walked me up
inside
I met a girl in a diner against what my mother said
She was drinking coffee with a spoon in her glass and her eyes were looking red
We were known across the states down in Memphis, Tennessee
I grabbed a knife and my period blood cut the baby out of me
There's a picture on my ceiling now
And it's staring me down
Now I know how the dirt and snow can be mistaken for the
ground
But if you never get yourself wet then you never really
drown
Now I know how the dirt and snow can be mistaken for the
ground
6. Red Hot Daggers - III (live)[lyrics]
everything's on fire, can we just let it happen? this is everything, we are it. i know i'm apprehensive, tell me, am i insecure? i don't think we really understand what's happening. every breath is such a risk. i've never been so scared as i am right now. this happens now, before i dissolve. i can't stand leaving incomplete. i don't know the things you know, but i'll say everything i ever can. how could we leave it the same way again? tonight we are brand new, and tonight you speak the truth. i know there's no turning back now, but could i ever dare?
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7. Desiderata - People say you're obstuse, but I think you're acute (live)[lyrics]
No false pretenses or patroned eyes
She has looks to kill so give it up
The thought remains so break the seal
She falls asleep so just give it up
I don't wanna go live this life on my own
I would rather shelter these pieces of my heart
I don't wanna go live this life on my own
Red lights assume her eyes are short of right
She cut the strings so just shut your mouth
She cut the chord, just give it up
She knows your lies, she falls in deep
No thought ever gets out just give it up
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8. Hills Like White Elephants - Heart Like An Airport (live) [lyrics]
I've dreamt from the mud to the stars of all time's collapsing plots
tried to rally my routed guts
with dreams of our faces drawn together
to stand as giants, silhouettes on the plain
but the holders of this heart alwaysw moved west
did what I could to bind our paths together wished every line you never wrote
did what I could to see this through
coiling cross and bleak you were the greatest of my defeats
yet we still live and linger in the mind's eye in a place with anchors that hold
I said my god I've got to go this isn't what I prepared for
all faces down all hearts retract as white as birch I'll flee this scene
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9. Eamon McGrath - Songs To Sing When You're Dead (live)[lyrics]
there's a tombstone on my front lawn and it's my own
but i'm inside writing songs and talking on the phone
four days have been spent inside my garden cleaning
or lying on my bed dying and dreaming
maybe i'll be leaving in the morning
maybe i'll be at the gates of hell
maybe i'll be in your arms tomorrow mourning
or at the bottom of the well
seven years have passed since my crimes
changed every law and laid down lives
but the drums inside my head will keep on beating
and the wives in all my dreams will keep on cheating
2007 CHAMPION CITY RECORDS SAMPLER
Release Date: N/A
Release Format: CD
Studio: Wash 'N Dry
Mixed & Compiled by: Eric Cheng
