Originally written by Brendan Benson and Jack White

(C) "Many Shades Of Black" by The Raconteurs (rough iPhone demo)

"Scare Easy" by Mudcrutch (rough iPhone demo)

rubbing my eyes,
I see what keeps me up at night.
If your presence I'm denied,
then I'm too restless to comply
with these simple rules,
"Leave here be now, don't be rude."
Because somewhere, she's alive.
Crazy's the place to which I drive.

What science asks of me is easy to believe.
Mathematics are my best finalities.
But when you go, you take my thoughts before you leave.
Come on back, my pretty ace within my sleeve. 

It ain't no use.
Where I turn, I just see you.
You're my waiter at the bar,
you're the guy washing my car.
When I blink, you're gone,
they take their rightful form
to the ones they were before
but you're the one who I want more.

So, just ignore me, my irrationality
was in the way so clearer things I couldn't see.
I'm just impatient cause I like your company.
Come on back, my pretty ace within my sleeve.

What science asks of me is easy to believe.
Mathematics are my best finalities.
But when you go, you take my thoughts before you leave.
Come on back, my pretty ace within my sleeve.

My Ace Within My Sleeve (iPhone Demo)

If it's simple, I'm a gun. 
Feel this pressure,
know where it's coming from.

I have listened and
I have agreed.
Through this passage, oh, I know that I'll be freed. 

Lock these windows and 
knock down the halls.
Felt like a home before but cancer's in the walls. 

Once was sour, this
documented dream.
But in this chair I'm rocking, I know what every second means. 

There's this photograph I'm keeping. 
There's this weight that isn't mine. 
There's this heart that's kept on beating.
There's this hardened, timid mind. 

There's a reason I'm believing.
There's this fate I claim as mine. 
There's this face in which I'm screaming:
it's the real thing this time.

Starting Over

A Heart That's Kept On Beating

Lyrics:
Let me stand on my soapbox for maybe a minute,
it's not what it seems.
My 20-something heart doesn't know about limits
or lackluster things. 

I've prayed oh so cleverly for things I don't want,
but now, for you. 
So I'll stand in this place and hope nothing's replaced
like the look on your face when I come to this place.
My heartache's gone home to the place where you live. 

I don't speak all too fluently, except when I write,
and that's still for you.
I've stood up to those vampires around day and night,
I know things to do.

I'd fight oh so brutally for those that I know
are here for you.
So I'll pick up my sword and keep begging the lord
to give strength to these men, walk till our metal bends. 
My heartache's gone home to the place where you live.

I've prayed oh so cleverly for things I don't want,
but now, for you. 
So I'll stand in this place and hope nothing's replaced
like the look on your face when I come to this place.
Oh,
So, I'll fight oh so brutally for those that I know are here for you.
And I'll pick up my sword 
I'll keep begging the lord
to give strength to these men
walk till our metal bends. 
My heartache's gone home 
My heartache's gone home 
Cause my heartache's gone home 
Cause my heartache's gone home 

My heartache's gone home 
to the place where you live.

The Place Where You Live

Lyrics:
The look upon your face says that you haven't guessed
that I'd figure out, but I saw how you dressed
that happy night I thought I met you.

Adding 2 & 2 is harder than before,
but it's even harder when you just can't stand it's 4. 
You're the problem, since I met you.

Got to find a way back in, but you just can't find, you,
just can't find a way
without me saying I'm not sorry.

A chilly winter when I needed June.
A solid empress when I needed you. 
A happy year dug in this graveyard.

That's a big reaction from the one who knew
that I'm more perceptive than the other guys you screwed.
Don't pretend I'm less than I gave you.

Girl, I find myself a braver soul,
but I'm afraid of how you make me whole. 
If this is how you are,
I'll be in pieces. 

Got to find a way back in, but you just can't find, you,
just can't find a way
without me saying I'm not sorry.
Got to find a way back in, but you just can't find, you,
just cannot find a way
without me saying I'm not sorry.
I'm not sorry.
I'm not sorry.

Originals

In Pieces

Lyrics:
My Sparrow says she loves me, but she doesn't call me "friend."
This dead end smell again
gets rancid as it smolders, 
in this pit, I'm getting thin.
Don't touch, I'm getting older.

This lobotomy is part of me.
My neck it stretches longer as I swim.
Ophthalmology, I see, 
is something better than what we agreed.

And when I finally called you Sparrow,
I was the wall you said I'd be and now I'm doomed to wait and see
if you'll wound me straight and narrow
Oh, my death they can't believe, it was you:
my lovely Sparrow. 

Mom, she says she loves me like I'm stuck inside her tree.
She don't look nothing like me or the things she said I'd be.

And when she lied, she was The Sparrow.
Just as flighty as can be,
no trust or comfort, just the means
to an end I hate to swallow.
Oh, my death they can't believe, it was you:
my lovely Sparrow. 


And when she lied, she was The Sparrow.
Just as flighty as can be,
no trust or comfort, just the means
to an end I hate to swallow.
Oh, my death they can't believe, it was you:
my lovely Sparrow.

Hummingbolt

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