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Givin'It Up (BOTY Edit)
04:12
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I'm taking what I can while it lasts
I'm not the kind to live in the past
You know that I can never be pure, but you want to be sure
Are you gonna lose me?
It's in my bones and my veins
This bitter mix of pleasure and pain
I've never really lived on my own
but this ain't no home
so if you'll excuse me
CHORUS:
Girl, givin'it up now, ooh ooh ooh (Repeat) S&G
Who could say just who is to blame
your twisted dreams of money and fame
or maybe me an my cruel games
but ain't it the same now since you're gonna lose me
It's a combination of reality and a little lying
so if you step a little closer
you'll be hearing me whisper
how you're gonna lose me
CHORUS
BRIDGE:
So if you're still wondering why it is I'm givin'it up
Taking what I can while it lasts (ad lib)
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Just One Ping
04:34
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Just One Ping (Vim Cortez/Vim Cortez)
I never knew if you’re a wasp or a bee
can’t tell if you’re my tooth fairy or a banshee
I spend my nights and my days in your grasp
and I’m stuck for good now in your fly trap
I’m hungry baby come on now don’t stint
gimme me no milk just gimme whisky and mint
and just a drop you’re da cream of the crop
the kind of luxury you can’t find in a duty free shop
And, I'd like to know, well well, I'd like to know
CHORUS:
Just with one ping with one ping
I’d like to know
the way you move is it for real or is it just for show
Just with one ping with one ping
I’d like to know
the way you’re frowning do you mean I’m not your Romeo?
I only fear the day you’ll leave me behind
don’t want to sound like you’ re a bitch or like you’re unkind
but it’s the ways of the world, it’s the ways of a girl
who’s gotten used to gold diamonds and pearls
I’m hungry baby come on now don’t stint
gimme me no milk just gimme whisky and mint
and just a drop you’re da cream of the crop
the kind of luxury you can’t find in a duty free shop
And, I'd like to know, well well, I'd like to know (+whoooo)
CHORUS
I can’t help seeing you as a treat
I won’t stop til I’m feeling replete
with you and the tingle-a-ling-a-ling
tingle-a-lingering feeling that you’re more than a pretty she-earthling
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4. |
Monica Darling
03:30
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Monica Darling (Vim Cortez/Vim Cortez)
CHORUS:
Monica Darling
there’s nothing I can do
Monica Darling
To bend the truth for you
Monica Darling
there’s nothing I can do
Monica Darling
And you don’t have a clue - how it feels
Getting sick of what you thought you needed
smaller hopes, more of the formatted
that’s the bad dream they like to call the future
it’s the same for you
Bigger words shining in the gutter
bigger crooks, exquisite manners
be a good girl it's all for the better
and they'll make it true
CHORUS
Stuck in the life you have always hated
fewer friends, bitter and defeated
this is the hand that first strokes and then
will beat you black and blue
All the signs we have never heeded
paradise getting overheated
mother of storms is angry and it's coming for me and you
CHORUS
Getting sick of what you thought you needed
smaller hopes, more of the formatted
be a bad girl and break out from cover
while you still can get through
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Riding on Shooting Starz
03:39
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I just freakin' love it
the way you up and move it
I wish you would be dancing with me
the night is sweet and warm
come spend a good time in my arms
baby I wish you would be rockin' here with me
would you not agree
girl, break my walls down / Break my walls down
I'm riding on shooting stars
I'm just barely breathing
when I feel you writhing
and I can't dry that sweat off from me
The time will soon be gone
seconds and hours will jump and run
Won't you come now and drink the philter with me?
Show me how you burn it
i'll show you how to swing it
Won't you come a little closer to me?
I'm trying to stay calm
tryin to resist your screaming charms
Girl I'm a going to get you dancing with me, darling can't you see?
CHORUS
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The LFFunk
04:04
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D'Ya Realize?
03:51
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The day I met you was the list of Spring
I couldn't care less what tomorrow would bring
ooh ooh
I had a plan but it was not to be
I should have seen I had it coming to me
Ooh ooh
I took you out for champagne and candles
but you're to smart to be dazzled by brambles
ooh ooh
said baby take me where the horses run free
you had that voice girl I could only agree
ooh ooh
but when I got up you were already gone
my head was buzzing but my heart weighed a ton
ooh ooh
And when you're rocking do you think of what you've done
In your game of pleasure I was only a pawn
Ooh ooh
D'ya realize just what you do to me?
D'ya realize just what you do to me Girl?
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