Twist in my sobriety

   
Text und Musik: Tanita Tikaram

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          
All God's child ren need tra vel ling shoes, drive your prob lems from here.

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All good peo ple read good books,

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now your con sciene is clear. I hear you talk girl,

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now your con science is clear. In the mor ning when I

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wipe my brow, wipe the miles a way

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I like to think I can be so willed, and ne ver do what you say.

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I'll nev er hear you and nev er do what you say.

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Look, my eyes are just ho lo grams, look, your love

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my

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has drawn red from my hands. From hands you know you'll nev er be

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more than twist in my so bri e ty, more than twist

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in my so bri e ty.

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             
We just poked a lit tle emp ty pie,

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for the fun that peo ple had at night. Late at night don't need hos

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ti li ty, ti mid smile and pause to free.

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I don't care a bout their dif ferent thoughts, dif ferent thoughts are

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good for me. Up in arms and chaste and whole,

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            
all God's child ren took their toll. Look, my

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eyes are just ho lo grams. Look, your love has drawn red from my hands.

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        
From my hands you know you'll nev er be more than twist

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                 
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          
           

    
   
                      
in my so bri e ty, more than twist in my so bri e ty.

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                
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     
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        
Cup of tea, take

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   
      
       
     
time to think, yeah. Time to risk a life, a life, a life.

 
  
 
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          
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                      

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Sweet andhand some, soft and por ky. You pig out 'til you've seen the light.

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Pig out 'til you've seen the light. Look, my

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eyes are just ho lo grams. Look, your love has drawn red from my hands.

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From my hands you know you'll nev er be more than twist

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    

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     
in my so bri e ty, more than twist in my so bri e ty.

   
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                
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