Grace Potter and The Nocturnals Album

You got me down on the floor
So what'd you bring me down here for?
You got me down on the floor
So what'd you bring me down here for?

If I was a man I'd make my move
If I was a blade I'd shave you smooth
If I was a judge I'd break the law
And if I was from Paris
If I was from Paris
I would say
Ooh la la, la la la la la
Ooh la la, la la la la la
Ooh la la, la la la la la
Ooh la la, la la la la la

You got me up on your swing
So when you gonna shake that thing?
You got me up on your swing
So when you gonna shake that thing?

If I was a man I'd make my move
If I was a blade I'd shave you smooth
If I was a judge I'd break the law
And if I was from Paris
If I was from Paris
I would say
Ooh la la, la la la la la
Ooh la la, la la la la la
Ooh la la, la la la la la
Ooh la la, la la la la la

If I was a man I'd make my move
If I was a blade I'd shave you smooth
If I was a judge I'd break the law
And if I was from Paris
If I was from Paris
I would say
Ooh la la, la la la la la

Don't let the sun beat you down
Steal your crown
Hold your head to the ground
Just keep on walking

Don't let your soul lose control
Let you roll down the mountain you climbed

Don't let the sand blind your eyes
Realize they're only lies and
Keep on walking

Let it cover you with grace
Let it take you from this place
And as your heart races
Pack your suitcases
And in the middle of the desert
There's an oasis

Don't let your bones turn to stone
'Cause you're feeling so alone
Just keep on walking

Don't count the miles
That you've climbed
Make you go blind
'Cause baby there's something to find

Don't hide your eyes from the light
Just hold on tight
And soon it'll be alright

Let it cover you with grace
Let it take you from this place
And as your heart races
Pack your suitcases
And in the middle of the desert
There's an oasis

And you know that it's closer than you think
And you know that if you're the first to blink
Then you know you gotta swim before you sink so low

Let it cover you with grace
Let it take you from this place
And as your heart races
Pack your suitcases
And in the middle of the desert
There's an oasis

Policy woman got a hold on my baby
Since she come around, he ain't been the same
She look at him with her dark brown eyes
She tell him things that would make a grown man cry

Policy woman took the love from my lover
He's been in a haze since the day that he saw her
She shook her hips and her long black hair
Now all my baby does is stare at the gypsy woman

You like the way she makes you feel
She got you spinning on her medicine wheel
She's crossing me with magnetic sand
She hypnotize with her mojo hand

She got the medicine that everybody wants
She got the medicine that everybody wants
She got the medicine that everybody wants
She got the medicine that everybody wants

Policy woman came a-rolling into town
She got all the gentlemen to follow her down
She found the diamonds hidden in the drain
She disappeared on the ghost train

You like the that she makes you feel
She got you spinning on her policy wheel
Deep in the night, when no one's around
I've got a plan to take that woman down

She got the medicine that everybody wants
She got the medicine that everybody wants
She got the medicine that everybody wants
She got the medicine that everybody wants

I stole her bag of rattling bones
Her fast-luck oil and her magic stones
I swept up her magnetic sand
I took her love potion and her mojo hand
Now I

I got the medicine that everybody wants
I got the medicine that everybody wants
I got the medicine that everybody wants
I got the medicine that everybody wants

I got the medicine
I got the medicine
I got the medicine
I got the medicine

I got the medicine that everybody wants

I lost a piece of my mind
And you can see it on my face
And my heart is burning this time
But there ain't no fire escape

Oh, that little part of me
That used to be so strong
Is tumbling over
Now that I know you're moving on

And you were never gonna wait for me
Babe, I really hate to say it
But I'm gonna say it anyway
You, you know you're not the only one
Who'd rather just cut and run
And shut the blind on yesterday
So let's just call this what it is
And give me one more goodbye kiss

I thought that you were the only one
Who could keep my feet on the ground
I came home to an empty room
And a note that you're leaving town

Oh, that little part of me
That's gone for good
That was the only thing
Making me do the things I should

And you were never gonna wait for me
Babe, I really hate to say it
But I'm gonna say it anyway
You, you know you're not the only one
Who'd rather just cut and run
And shut the blind on yesterday
So let's just call this what it is
And give me one more goodbye kiss

Oh, you really really made it hard on me
Oh, you really really let me make believe
Oh, you really really were a mystery
And now I've solved it and I'm sad to say I see that

You were never gonna wait for me
Babe, I really hate to say it
But I'm gonna say it anyway
You, you know you're not the only one
Who'd rather just cut and run
And shut the blind on yesterday
So let's just call this what it is
And give me one more goodbye kiss

What will come of us today
What we need we cannot say
It's been a long, long time since I've been so afraid
And as we all fall down it's hard to see a brighter day

But I see a tiny light
Like a flashbulb sparkle in the night
I see a tiny light
Telling everyone to hold on tight

What will come of all our pride
This house of stone has crumbled from the inside
It's been a long, long war, now the battle is drawing near
Closer and closer 'til it whispers in my ear, woah oh

I see a tiny light
Like a flashbulb sparkle in the night
I see a tiny light
Telling everyone to hold on tight

Bring me back the streets of gold
Give me something warm to hold
Give me love and only love and you will see it shining from above

I see a tiny light
Like a flashbulb sparkle in the night
I see a tiny light
Telling everyone to hold on tight

I see a tiny light
Like a flashbulb sparkle in the night
I see a tiny light
Telling everyone to hold on tight

I see a tiny light
But it's not gonna shine without a fight

You don't have to ask me why
Because I know you understand
All the treasures of my life
Are right here in my hand
Suspended in a moment
No more breath to catch
If you hold onto your end
Maybe we can make this last

This is the greatest time of day
When all the clocks are spinning backwards
And all the ropes that bind begin to fray
And all the black and white turns into colors

I don't want to build a wall
Or draw a line across the sand
Because there's room for one and all
And this land is our land
Oh, I hope this can go on and on and on
Before the skipping stone hits the surface of the pond
Oh, I know that life is never very long
One second, then one minute, and then it's gone

This is the greatest time of day
When all the clocks are spinning backwards
And all the ropes that bind begin to fray
And all the black and white turns into colors

You want to sink into the colors on the wall
But all the while you are the brightest of them all

This is the greatest time of day
When all the clocks are spinning backwards
And all the ropes that bind begin to fray
And all the black and white turns

This is the greatest time of day
When there's no you and there's no others
And all the rules grow wings and fly away
And all the black and white turns into colors

I wake up with my hair on fire
I need something to water me down
I can't keep walking on this wire
I gotta move, I gotta come around

It ain't gonna kill me
If I can stop this before it starts
'Cause what don't kill you makes you stronger
It's only my soul, it's only my heart
And it's only love, it's only love, it's only love
And I can give you up, baby

I wake up with my mind unwinding
I got a strange tingle in my toes
I fall asleep and I dream of finding
Somebody who really knows

It ain't gonna kill me
If I can stop this before it starts
What don't kill you makes you stronger
It's only my soul, it's only my heart
And it's only love, it's only love, it's only love
And I can give you up, yes I can

I need to loosen my grip just a little bit
I feel this love like a stranglehold
But there's something stopping me from losing it
There's nothing harder than letting go
But it's only love, it's only love, it's only love
And I can give you up, yes I can

Because it's only love, it's only love, it's only love
And I can give you up, yes I can

Because it's only love, it's only love, it's only love
And I can give you up, baby

I'm not the worrying kind
But you, you lose every time
You lose every nickel, dime, quarter, dollar, five, ten, twenty
It's a crime that you don't have any money

I don't need much
Just a place I can lay my head and a warm touch
I save every nickel, dime, quarter, dollar, five, ten, twenty
But I still can't seem to save any money

Once stepped away from the street
Barely got enough to eat
They're closing down the old seven eleven
Everybody's crying for pennies from heaven

Nickel, dime, quarter, dollar, five, ten, twenty
It's a crime that we don't have any
Oh, it's a crime that we don't have any money

No we don't, no we don't have any money, baby, no no
No we don't, no we don't, no I don't need any money

One short night with a stranger
One full moon over my head
Once false move and it's over
So I always think of what we said, my baby

Strange how heavy my heart is
Strange how dark it is tonight
Strange the way this all started
I guess I'm losing track of wrong and right

And as the lights go dim
I lie down with him
And as I'm lying there
I only smell your hair

It's like you're across the hall
With your ear glued to the wall
And as I move to let him in
I can feel you crawl under my skin

And I can feel you from the inside
Prowling like a devil that I'm trying to hide
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

Caught up in a moment
I thought I'd feel no shame
Because I didn't have to tell you lies
When the daylight came
But now down goes that silver tear
Down goes my golden year
Down we go in a water slide
That's made up of the tears I've cried

And I can feel you from the inside
Prowling like a devil that I'm trying to hide
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

I can feel you, you're touching me
I look at him but it's you I see, baby
I can feel your heart beating
Closer than the poison of my pride

One short night
One short night

I lost everything
I fell out of a daydream
At the door of a long lost friend
And I cried aloud
Without an inch of pride
I knew that I had reached the end

An old and lonely man
Saw me sitting on the curb
He reached out and he took my hand
He said I know your song
And I know your name
And there was a time that I felt the same

But it's a low, low road
You gotta roll down
Before you find your way, my friend
And it's a high, high hill
You've gotta climb up
Before you get to the top again

I held on so dearly
To the wrong things in my life
But now I see so clearly
I was walking into my own knife
You got to get up off that street
Stop looking at your feet
And take a hold of something real
And this old man took my hand
He looked at me and said, little girl, I understand

That it's a low, low road
You gotta roll down
Before you find your way, my friend
And it's a high, high hill
You've gotta climb up
Before you get to the top again

And there was a time that I thought that I knew it all
And there was a place that I thought I could call my own
But it all came crashing down and I looked around
And I knew that things would never be the same

Low, low road
You gotta roll down
Before you find your way, my friend
And it's a high, high hill
You've gotta climb up
Before you get to the top again

It's a low, low road
You gotta roll down
Before you find your way, my friend
And it's a high, high hill
You've gotta climb up
Before you get to the top again

'Cause it's a low, low road
You gotta roll down
It's a low, low road

You're gonna want me
The minute that you leave me
You're gonna wish you'd stayed in my bed

You're gonna long for
The sound of me opening the door
But I'm just gonna listen to you knock instead

I hear the phone ringing down a long, long hall
You can keep it up, baby
I ain't taking your call

I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't picking up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone

You're gonna wanna call me
You're gonna wanna crawl back home
You'll try to smooth out the situation

You're gonna try to phone me
Whenever you feel lonely
But it's gonna be a one-way conversation, baby

I hear the phone ringing down a long, long hall
You can keep it up, baby
I ain't taking your call

I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't picking up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone

You'll feel the cold, cold air underneath your clothes
Creeping in from the door I left open, baby
And you can try with all your might to change my mind
But you're just gonna have to keep on hoping

I'm just gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't picking up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone

I'm gonna lay there
I'm gonna stay there
I ain't picking up that phone
You've been moving so long
In the wrong direction
It's time for you to be alone
So I ain't picking up that phone

The mercury's rising
And there ain't no disguising
What you do do do do to me

It won't stop raining
And there ain't no explaining
Why I feel feel feel a warm summer breeze

Oh babe, you make me feel like it's a
Hot summer night
Even though it's the middle of the winter
And it's really bad weather
It's a hot summer night
When I'm next to you, baby

The weather is frightful
But if you stay for the night
It'll be like a long long long day at the beach

Don't let it go to waste
'Cause baby, just a taste
Would be sweeter sweeter sweeter than a Georgia peach

Oh babe, you make me feel like it's a
Hot summer night
Even though it's the middle of the winter
And it's really bad weather
It's a hot summer night
When I'm next to you, baby

Oh it's a hot summer night
Even though it's the middle of the winter
And it's really bad weather
It's a hot summer night
When I'm next to you, baby

I took my temperature and told my brain to rearrange
'Cause the thermometer was saying something very strange
Outside my window it was looking like a winterland
But here inside we were loving in the sand

On a hot summer night
Even though it's the middle of the winter
And it's really bad weather
It's a hot summer night
When I'm next to you, baby, baby

It's a hot summer night
Even though it's the middle of the winter
And it's really bad weather
It's a hot summer night
When I'm next to you

It's a hot summer night
(Hot summer night)
Baby, it's a hot summer night
(Hot summer night)
It's a hot summer night
(Hot summer night)

It's a hot summer night
Even though it's the middle of the winter
And it's really bad weather
It's a hot summer night
When I'm next to you

It's a hot summer
Hot summer
Hot summer night
It's a hot summer
Hot summer
Hot summer night

Take a long hard look at my face
Take away the things I can't replace
Take my heart, go on, take it away
I've got nothing to say

Take away this sense of regret
Take the things I need to forget
Take the mistakes I haven't made yet
They're all I have left

I don't want to be the one who lets you down
All I did was run myself around
I wish I could have seen through your eyes
Maybe then I would have realized
I'm the only one who's bleeding
For the things I never needed
The things I never needed

Take a good long look at yourself
Take the weight off everyone else
Take the hardest blow that was dealt
It's all on your shoulders

I don't want to be the one who lets you down
All I did was run myself around
I wish I could have seen through your eyes
Maybe then I would have realized
I'm the only one who's bleeding
For the things I never needed
The things I never needed

I don't want to be the one who lets you down
All I did was run myself around
I wish I could have seen through your eyes
Maybe then I would have realized
I'm the only one who's bleeding
For the things I never needed
The things I never needed

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