Leslie Feist Quotes

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Sweet heart, bitter heart
Now I can't tell you apart
Cozy and cold
Put the horse before the cart Those teenage hopes
Who have tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up
To one little lie.

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Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

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I got a man to stick it out
And make a home from a rented house
And we'll collect the moments one by one
I guess that's how the future's done.

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I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk.

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Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun.

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Oh, oh, oh
You're changing your heart
Oh, oh, oh
You know who you are.

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Helping the kids out of their coats
But wait the babies haven't been born
I'm unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups
But in the meantime I've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard.

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The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake

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It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay.

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Old dirt road (Mushaboom)
Knee deep snow (Mushaboom)
Watching the fire as we grow (Mushaboom)

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I know I'm sane
I don't give a care for the crown or the shield
I will not protect you or happily yield
To the one who makes me come undone

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No one likes to take a test
Sometimes you know more is less.

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Bring all the spaces together
And all the silences ever
Bring all the spaces together Come close again
Be my pause before the end
I miss you, oh, like a fading dream
And I have a feeling you know what I mean

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One Two Three Four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless, long nights
That was what my youth was for Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing
But they want some more.

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The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart
The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start.

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Don't you wish that we could forget that kiss
And see this for what it is
That we're not in love

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One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then.

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I'm a stem now
Pushing the drought aside
Opening up
Fanning my yellow eye
On the ferry
That's making the waves wave
Illumination
This is how my heart behaves.

Leslie Feist
By nature of me being the one singing it and writing it there is always an innate bit of autobiography there... but I think I learned years ago that you don't get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it's too much diary entry.

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