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Opener (My Story)
01:08
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Please, sir
Will you buy a match?
Can you spare a dime?
A little time,
To help a poor girl out?
Please, sir
I am all alone
and I can't go home
I'm lost and out of time
My story is familiar
yet never heard before
The story of a girl
who's in love with a boy
but she never even knew
til her heart had broke in two
and she was gone...
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Mia Princessa
00:59
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Souls and Stars
01:42
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Wish upon a shooting soul
Send it straight to heaven
Where only God can hear the sorrows hidden in your dreams
Stars my light the darkest nights
when tears fill up the lanterns
But wish upon a shooting soul and what you wish will be
Stars are trailed by lonely tears
Twinkling in the heavens
Drops from eyes that miss the one who brought their spirit light
Tears will lift their souls to God
and carry them forever
Catching wishes in their tails and slipping out of sight
So Wish upon a shooting soul
Send it straight to heaven
Where only God can hear the sorrows hidden in your dreams
Stars my light the darkest nights
when tears fill up the lanterns
But wish upon a shooting soul and what you wish will be
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Paper Silhouettes
02:19
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Dancers in perfect form
spin across the ballroom floor
in dresses made of silk
and shoes made of glass
Exchanging their pleasantries
over trite melodies
but never revealing
removing the mask, saying
Pleased to meet you monsiour
pleasure to meet you, monsiour,
and shake hands,
do the dance, enchanté
how long will you stay, monsiour?
Say the weather looks fine
play the part, say the line
til the day fades away and you're nothing more
than a paper silhouette on a stage
they tell you to be polite
hoping that someone might
fall for a girl with her pages unturned
in every bachelor batch
finding her perfect match
but a girl made of paper is easily burned
but I'm
Pleased to meet you monsiour
pleasure to meet you, monsiour,
and shake hands,
do the dance, enchanté
how long will you stay, monsiour?
Say the weather looks fine
play the part, say the line
til the day fades away and you're nothing more
than a paper silhouette on a stage
They tell me I'm beautiful, but what do they know?
They're just puppeteers dancing with paper silhouettes
They smile with their teeth and they put on a show
but it's not worth romancing a man you'll forget anyway
in a day
so you say
Pleased to meet you monsiour
pleasure to meet you, monsiour,
and shake hands,
do the dance, enchanté
how long will you stay, monsiour?
Say the weather looks fine
play the part, say the line
til the day fades away and you're nothing more
than a paper silhouette on a stage
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Death of an Angel
06:51
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Jane:
I am here
Will you listen for me
Hear my plea
Hear my story
Time goes on
What are seconds worth?
What is heaven
If there is no earth?
But the dawn slips over the mountains
And the sky grows light
As I approach the night
Hush, my dear
I am never gone
I will pass
You will go on...
Kai:
Wait for me my darling
I can't let you go
You are all I live for
Your love is all I know
Do you know my darling
Just what I would give?
I would give the heavens
Just to see you live
But the dawn creeps over the mountains
And the sky grows blue
As my heart breaks in two
Please don't leave me here, love
Not without your smile
Don't leave me alone, dear
Without you, I would die
Last verse:
Jane: Kai:
Hush, my love Hush now, stop your crying
Dry your tears Dry up all your tears
I'll be with you You were once here with me
Through all your years Here through all the years.
Kai:
But if you’re gone...
I can’t go on...
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