Milow Album

Listen up and take a minute I need to tell you why
I do the things the way I do and weeks are flying by
I'm trying to fill a void in my life these days
By filling it with work and work
And accomplishments and praise
Anything that keeps me busy, anything that keeps me up
Cause if I start to let it out
I think I'm never gonna stop
Afraid I'm never gonna stop

Listen up and take a minute wherever you are
I've been mourning you with the bottle and with my guitar
For this song I sat myself down to put in words
What's underneath and what's unsaid
How much this whole thing hurts
How much this whole thing hurts

Listen up just take a minute, I need to tell you why
I do the things the way I do so months are flying by
Since you're gone it isn't always easy, all I do is run
But the hardest part, the hardest part
Was growing up your son,
Was growing up your son

She's too blue-eyed possibly
Then again she couldn't be
One two she knows kung-fu
Three four kicked in my door
Five six I can't believe it
What a mess I'm in

She might she might
She might shake up everything I am
She might she might
She might make me do the best I can
Oh what has she done
Oh she might be her
She might be the one

I'm in too deep probably
Then again how could I be
One two she just cut through
Three four what an uproar
Five six she pulls me out
And throws me to the wind

She might she might
She might shake up everything I am
She might she might
She might make me do the best I can
Oh what has she done
Oh she might be her
She might be the one

Her eyes are shining like a midnight sun
Oh the countdown has begun
Five four three two one

She might she might
She might shake up everything I am
She might she might
She might make me do the best I can
Oh what has she done
She might, she might, she might be her
She might be the one

I wish you smelled a little funny
Not just funny really bad
We could roam the streets forever
Just Ilke cats but we'd never stray
I sometimes wish you were a mermaid
I could raise you in the tub at home
We could take a swim together
On weekly day trips to the bay

Oh you and me
lt would be only you and me
Oh you and me
lt would be only you and me

I wish you were a little bigger
Not just big but really fat
Doors you would no longer fit through
In my bed you would have to stay
I often wish that you had feathers

Bird keep you in a giant cage
All day long rd sit and watch you
Bird sing for you and that would be okay

People say there are plenty of fish
In the sea, baby, all I do is wish

I wish you were a little slower
Not just slow but paralyzed
Then I could plug you into a socket
So you could never run away
I really wish that you were smaller
Not just small but really really short
So I could put you in my pocket
And carry you around all day

You always wanted to be
Part of a circus company
For the fun and death defying
But in time you forgot life is small in the big top
And your dreams were slowly dying
What you wanted was not a crime
You could've done it

Now you're always just a little
A little in the middle
A little in the middle of where you're bound
Always just a little in the middle
It keeps your head from spinning 'round

Jugglers walk on the wire
Lions leap through hoops of fire
As the acrobats go flying
But what's the show all about
When did your north get turned to south
And the truth turn to lying
What you wanted was not a crime
You could've done it but you needed time

Now you're always just a little
A little in the middle
A little in the middle of where you're bound
Always just a little in the middle
It keeps your head from spinning 'round

It keeps your head from spinning

But it's a hole you're digging
A hole you're digging you're doing it despite
The so much more you're missing
More you're missing to your left and to your right

Now you're always just a little
A little in the middle
A little in the middle of where you're bound
Always just a little in the middle
It keeps your head from spinning 'round
It keeps your head from spinning 'round and 'round and 'round
It keeps your head from spinning 'round and 'round and 'round
It keeps your head from spinning

If I could plant a tree for every time
I used to hear you say
Life runs through your hands like water
Our backyard would be a forest now
Sometimes I feel like I am running out of time
Just like you did everything I do reminds me of you

If I had a cent for every place
We never got to go
Between Africa and our house
Maybe I would be a billionaire
Sometimes I feel like I am running out of time
Just like you did everything I do reminds me of you
Reminds me of you
Reminds me of you

If I had a brick for every word
That we forgot to say
Everything you never told me
Maybe I'd be building bridges now
Sometimes I feel like I am running out of time
Because you did everything I do
Sometimes I feel like everything I do reminds me of you
Everything I do reminds me of you
Reminds me of you

It's in taxis, it's on trains
In airports hopping planes
The silence moving on contains
It's in all the in-betweens
In the day to day routines
In over 15 million dreams

It's in trying to close the door
It's never gonna stop
It's in how you're looking for
A way to make it stop
It's in missing someone more
It's never gonna stop
No, it's never gonna stop

It's like trying to fly trapeze
It's like has-been's, gonna-be's
Ill at ease and hard to please
It's how Paris, how Cologne
How even Zurich feels outgrown
It's in the way you could have known

It's in trying to close the door
It's never gonna stop
It's in how you're looking for
A way to make it stop
It's in missing someone more
It's never gonna stop
No ooh-oh, it's never gonna stop
No ooh-oh, it's never gonna stop

Can you make some room for me
Can you make some room for me
[5x]

It's in trying to close the door it's never gonna stop
I miss you even more and it's never gonna stop
Never gonna stop
No ooh-oh, it's never gonna stop
No ooh-oh, it's never gonna stop
Never gonna stop

When I was little I wanted to be king
I built castles in the air but never found my way in
For a week I was Rambo but couldn't take the pace
Then I thought I'd be a rocket man
But never made it into space
All my life I tried so many things I couldn't do
But I can't think of anything I wouldn't try again
Try again for you

I worked to be a wizard I tried it for a year
I had five white rabbits but not one would disappear
I dreamed of being a fireman but that went up in flames
Said okay I'll be a cowboy
But it turned out I'm no Jesse James
All my life I tried so many things I couldn't do
But I can't think of anything I wouldn't try again
Try again for you

I played guitar in a band and finally got laid
Then we fell apart as soon as bills needed to be paid
Got a job in a restaurant where I burned every dish
Was a sidewalk Santa Claus
But I couldn't grant one single wish

I set off to see the world it finally felt right
But I got lost the second day
So I went home the following night
All my life I tried too many things I couldn't do
But I can't think of anything I wouldn't try again try again
No I can't think of anything I wouldn't try again try again
Again and again and again and again for you

Only when you're in California
You drive along the coast
The towns you pass are often ruthless
They leave you chasing ghosts
Leave you chasing ghosts
I'm dreaming of blue skies
If I, what if I close my eyes

I rush down the freeway
Slowly peeling back my brain
Fighting for patience
While moving to a faster lane
I'm trying to enjoy the California rain

Someone sang that when you're lonely
You end up back and forth
Tonight I'm leaving San Diego
I take the 5 up North
I'm chasing blue skies
I'm starting to blur the lines

I rush down the freeway
Slowly peeling back my brain
Fighting for patience
While moving to a faster lane
I'm trying to enjoy the California rain
California rain

I rush down the freeway
Slowly peeling back my brain
Fighting for patience
While moving to a faster lane
I'm trying to enjoy the California rain
California rain

Here in the city the measure is frozen
Billboards are screaming nothing is real
In every small town there's air you can breathe in
It's not about the money or fast food on wheels

The lights are too bright for my eyes
Inside there's a feeling that rings like a bell
I've had enough and I long for the silence
This place hasn't treated me well

I have decided to leave this city
These buildings and people bring me down
I have decided to leave this city
I think that I'm gonna move to town

Here in the city no one's connected
Careers are controlling everyone's lives
In every small town there's barely possession
Mothers aren't burdens or grandfathers' wives

The lights are too bright for my eyes
Inside there's a feeling that rings like a bell
I've had enough and I long for the silence
This place hasn't treated me well

I have decided to leave this city
These buildings and people bring me down
I have decided to leave this city
I think that I'm gonna move to town

I won't make a sound
I won't follow this merry-go-around
That keeps going round with or without
Me I'm leaving I'm leaving I'm leaving

Tomorrow I'll make my way out of the city
Tomorrow I'll hop on a train or a bus
I'll never stop running away from cities
Where girls don't leave husbands for boys like us

I have decided to leave this city
These buildings and people bring me down
I have decided to leave this city
I think that I'm gonna move to town
I think that I'm gonna move to town

Where I'm from there are no mountains
And time is standing still
Where I'm from there's barely space left
Still they're running up a hill
Where I'm from they don't like changes
Even if alarm bells ring
Where I'm from they have a princess
Where I'm from they have a king

Where I'm from they don't like dreamers
They are told to shut their mouth
Where I'm from they're divided
Between the North and the South
Where I'm from it's like a long night
That never turns to day
Where I'm from the kingdom's trembling
Where I'm from they've lost the way

Sing it loud today
Sing it loud today
I'm singing it loud today
I am the one that got away

Where I'm from they just keep rooted
Heads are always hanging low
Where I'm from the Congo River
Never got nowhere to go
Where I'm from words are repeated
But they never really rhyme
Where I'm from the kingdom's trembling
Where I'm from they're losing time

Sing it loud today
Sing it loud today
I'm singing it loud today
I am the one that got away

Sing it loud today
Sing it loud today
I'm singing it loud today
I am the one that got away

Where I'm from there's a lack of heroes
Both in politics and song
Where I'm from the more they fix it
The faster everything goes wrong
Where I'm from I still remember
So I will sing it every day
That this kingdom is still my kingdom
It's encoded in my DNA

It took a while but now I see
My old man worked for the KGB
The government found out about
His work and had to take him out
It took a while but now I see
Why dad was such a mystery
Sometimes you cheat sometimes you lie
It's part of the job when you're a spy

It took a while but now I see
My old man worked for the KGB
The government found out about
His work and had to take him out
Sitting in the yard I didn't understand
Holding his dead body in my hands
Now it's getting clear to me
My dad he worked for the KGB

On the 4th of March in his backyard
A sniper shot him in the heart
He was only 53
But a hero for the KGB
A hero for the KGB
And a hero to me