For what it’s worth
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Music & lyrics Annette Campagne
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For what it’s worth I’m never really spot on
There are days when it seems that everything goes wrong
But I leave it, it’s so hard to leave it
Tomorrow will bring what it may
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For what it’s worth, I don’t always give up the fight
to have things go my way and to always be right
But I leave it, it’s so hard to leave it
to throw it in the air and catch what falls
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I want the fame
I want the fire
I want to be the only one that you desire
But the only thing that I know will get me by
is my eternal flame
to write my name up in the sky
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For what it’s worth, I’m still falling through the cracks
Think I can get away with sneaking in through the back
But I leave it, it’s so hard to leave it
I believe I’m falling hard for you
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I want the fame, I want the fire
I want to be the only one that you desire
But the only thing that I know will get me by
is my eternal flame
to write my name up in the sky
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I want the fame, I want the fire
I want to be the only one that you desire
I want the fame, I want the glory
I want to be the only page in your story
I want the fame, I want the fire
I want to be your only gun for hire
But the only thing that will get me by
is my eternal flame to write my name up in the sky
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Let you go
Music & lyrics: Annette Campagne
I’ve been wishing on all the falling stars
Been looking out for life on Mars
I’ve been trying to escape earth’s gravity
I’ve been smoking too many cigarettes
Been giving air time to my regrets
Been thinking about you and me
I’ve been wearing this carpet thin
Been wearing your shirt against my skin
Thinking about how it used to be
Tell me how can I change
having everything to lose
into everything to gain
I think I know
I guess I have to let you go
You were the sky and I was the soil
You were water and I was oil
living proof that opposites attract
But we were never homeward bound
This love never left the ground
I guess that doesn’t change the fact
Tell me how can I change
having everything to lose
into everything to gain
Oh, does it show
that it still hurts to love you so
Even though I know that I’m to blame
Oh, since you’ve been gone
Oh, I carry on
Tell me how can I change
having everything to lose
into everything to gain
Oh, does it show
that it still hurts to love you so
Even though I know that I am to blame
I think I know,
I guess I have to let you go
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This life with you!
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Annette Campagne!
Driving on automatic in the morning traffic !
I slow down to a halt at fourth and main!
Feeling a bit deflated and unappreciated !
and for what, I cannot explain!
Today I can’t remember why we are together!
They say that it’s for better or for worse!
Well maybe we’re just jaded, maybe love’s too complicated!
Until now we used to quench each other’s thirst !
Can anyone tell me what we do it for !
and if everything will be alright? !
I’m hungry for something more!
I seem to have lost my appetite !
for this life with you !
We started clean and urgent with bleach and detergent !
We made up for what the other lacked !
But now the honeymoon is over, the drunkard must get sober !
It’s time to take our own projections back!
Can anyone tell me what we do it for!
and if everything will be alright?!
I’m hungry for something more!
I seem to have lost my appetite !
I think we owe it to ourselves to go for something real!
Are you ready baby for the new frontier? !
Can anyone tell me what we do it for !
Well we do it for love alright!
I’m hungry for something more!
Can you help me find my appetite !
for this life with you
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Let temptation be!
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Music & lyrics Annette Campagne!
Come on now, little girl, life is a game !
Sweet things come to those that like to play!
Come on now, sweet thing, it would be such a shame!
It’s so much fun to be led astray!
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Which side are you on, where are you in the food chain,!
are you the predator or prey?!
You’re in the system now fingerprints and all!
so you might as well let me have my way!
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We all look to the sun!
Obey the laws of gravity!
I’ll be damned if I’m the one!
to satisfy your vanity!
I’m gonna let temptation be!
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I made my bed long ago and I sleep just fine!
Offered up my heart to the one above!
And everyday is a sacred mystery!
when I rely on the strength of love!
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We all look to the sun!
Obey the laws of gravity!
I’ll be damned if I’m the one!
To satisfy your vanity!
I’m gonna let temptation be!
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I know the way come have some fun!
cause that’s the way, my dear, the world is run!
I know the way, I know my soul!
I don’t need anyone to make me whole!
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FREUDIAN SLIP
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Music & lyrics
Annette Campagne
I get up
I say good morning to the ghost in the hall
Drink my coffee and bounce off the wall
Burn my toast and scrape off all the black
I bite my nails on my way to work
Don’t make much money, my boss is a jerk
I swear he just wants to get me in the sack
Oh, sometimes I’d like to leave the world behind
Oh, at least until I get you out of my mind
Then I remember that you’re not coming back
and that I’m losing my grip
I’ll take my chances so give me a coin to flip
so you can become
just another Freudian slip
I get up
I pay my bills like a good girl should
Swear on the bible and I knock on wood
I wear a halo, but I know it doesn’t fit
I ask the ghost who lives in the hall
Why do we bother with life at all?
He walks right through me, doesn’t care one bit
Oh, well I know I’m just killing time
Oh, at least until I get you out of my mind
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Well you saw right through me, you laid it on so thick
If I was the window baby, then I guess you were the brick,
The prick, the Freudian slip
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Sentimental journey home
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She said to me “I’ll be okay,
I know your heart’s sinking like a stone
But there isn’t any other way
This is something I must do alone”
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Music & lyrics
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She said to me “I’ll be just fine,
I know how to get along
I was always just one step behind
Now I’m the one who must be strong”
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So don’t be afraid for me
I’m not particularly worried
Going to set myself free
to unearth what long ago I buried
but would you stay with me
to see me off on this sentimental journey home
She said to me “I was so good
at letting everything just slide
But for once I stood my ground
and the earth and sun did not collide”
So don’t be afraid for me
I’m not particularly worried
Going to set myself free
to unearth what long ago I buried
but would you stay with me
to see me off on this sentimental journey home
I’m so glad to break the mould
I was so tired of the lies
Never will my love be undersold
I know how you hate long goodbyes
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Stay with me
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I had a boyfriend, my favourite ex
With a dimple on his chin
A dimple so exciting, so warm and inviting
I loved to dive right in
He would paint my toenails red
bring me breakfast in bed
I fell heels over head
That’s when he fled
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Music & lyrics: Annette Campagne
Life is much too short to worry
To take so seriously
Where you going in such a hurry
Why don’t you stay with me
I had a buddy, my favourite tortured soul
We would party the night away
We were more than just misunderstood
and we both liked it that way
But my heart was full of dread
too much smoke in my head
“I’ve got to quit”, I said
That’s when he fled
Life is much too short to worry
To take so seriously
Where you going in such a hurry
Why don’t you stay with me
I had a guru, my favourite human being
He said he was from up above
He said “Do not be frightened, for I am enlightened
I will show you the ways of love”
When I questioned where he led
where angels fear to tread
he turned on me instead
That’s when I fled
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Life is much too short to worry
To take so seriously
Where you going in such a hurry
Why don’t you stay with me
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Life has no meaning
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Music & lyrics: Annette Campagne
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She’s no ordinary woman
but she leads a simple life
Sings happy birthday to herself each year
She holds her tongue
but if you ask her for advice
she’ll never tell you what you want to hear
She’s no ordinary woman
but she knows her place,
the black and white and all the shades of grey
For every line etched in her palm
a story can be told
Yeah but I can almost hear her say
She says life has no meaning
except for the one you give it
Life has no meaning
It’s more the way you live it
She’s no ordinary woman
but she still has her doubts,
her existential journeys to the core
She knows that there are questions
she won’t have the answers to
so she won’t ask them anymore
She says life has no meaning
except for the one you give it
Life has no meaning
It’s more the way you live it
And me, I roll around in my drama
Like a dog rolls in the dirt
And she, she smiles and asks
why I hold on to all that hurt, all that hurt
You gotta laugh !
There’s a tear in the fabric of your sky!
So your illusions come crashing down!
No, this is good, I swear, let it go !
I know you’ll come around!
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So things didn’t turn out the way you planned!
Even though you had thought them through!
You tell yourself there’s something better!
Then you ask, “So now what do I do?”!
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You gotta laugh !
It’s just too good!
And trust that things happen !
just as they should!
You gotta smile!
For the tables will turn!
We get what we give !
So can we give !
Without knowing what we’ll get in return!
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There’s a smile beneath all that rage!
So you pick yourself up off the floor!
Shake the dust off of your senses !
“What do I do it for?”!
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Maybe we do it cause inside of our doubts!
are born the embers of our faith!
The fire that keeps us going is fed!
by what we dare to create
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Music & lyrics Annette Campagne!