Make the First Move

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Make the First Move

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Make the First Move
By The Economy Biscuits


We know you noticed us when we came in

The door was open
We're just having a drink

We'll be out,
Soon enough

We all know this your town

You always make the first move
Even when we don't

But we'll be gone soon enough
And you can have your town back

We know you like things clean and orderly
You want that over there and this over here

Now we might have something in the back
And you don't like that
It's gotta be up front where you can see it

Now things might get dirty
And I'd probably like to say I'm sorry
But you and I both know
That wouldn't be true

But like I said before
We'll have our drink

And you can have your town back
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Make the First Move
by
Skadaddle

some things seem quite ridiculous
when i think of this
life's a big ole piece of hit or miss
with occasional stars and bars
emphasis on the place where i double fist
barely brand name booze in aluminum cans
made for the no-longer-working-man
drowning sorrows no tomorrows
wants to fight like he did in the sand

it starts all right
your hair cut high and tight
a soldier's life
enjoy the underside

a long long journey
a long long journey
all used up
not enough

think back to a time
pinewood derby, friends o' mine
everybody stand in a line
scout uniform traded in
for something worth bleeding in
now an air of smoke comes seeping
truck down man down or something
they both cost money
it's all so taxing
you'd laugh if it weren't so funny

car with a magnet american flag
internet radio barely lags
news of triumphs, news of hope, nope
hey check out these mags
once in a while you hear reports
lotto picks between the sports
it's such a bore
it's not my war
tell me when the movie hits stores

with a whole lotta luck in a hundred years
there'll be a fine statue for my peers
kids will visit and the kids will learn
some will fight when it comes their turn
it's fun and games and the games are fun
yes that's how the world was won
make your move or someone will
and we'll sit back and take our pills
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Make the 1st Move
by glennny

Verse 1
We're so different I can't take it no more
we're so different, let's have a war

Chorus 1
I'm waiting for you to go and make the 1st move
I'll use your energy against you
I'll take you down with my Kung Fu
in the 1st round

Verse 2
I really like the way you fight
I'll give you some respect
maybe we should have a drink
to figure out what to do next

Chorus 2
I'm waiting for you to go and make the 1st move
I'll use this synergy to friend you
we'll go downtown and get some craft brew
I'll buy the 1st round

I'm waiting for you to make the 1st move

Verse 3
You're so perfect for me in every way
I'm afraid to tell you for fear of what you'll say

I'm waiting for you to make the 1st move.

Chorus 3
I'm waiting for you to go and make the 1st move
and take me home into your bedroom
and I'll take you down with my Kung Fu
in the 1st round

Chorus 4
I'm waiting for you to go and make the 1st move
I should have known you'd have a plot to
take me down into the heartbreak
of losing you
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Make The First Move
- JoAnn Abbott
(music by Caravan Ray)


Do you feel lucky? Well do you?
Make the first move
I’ve heard all your talk
Act or talk a walk
Make the first move
Now that we are here, face to face,
Make the first move
We both have opinions
Time to take a stand
Time for you to prove
Prove that you can take me in this fight
So get started- please don’t take all night
I’m giving you your chance
Let’s begin this dance
Make the first move
It isn’t quite as easy as it was when I was clueless
It’s harder to attack when you don’t have a back
Unprotected, unaware
Fool me once- shame on you
Fool me twice- shame on me
This time I know what I should do
So make the first move
Just make the first move
Why are you waiting? I’m ready, let’s get going
Or is it your fear that is showing
Not even a touch?
Yeah I thought as much.
This time I made the first move.
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Make the First Move
by Nobody, et al.

Heading back to your corner
When there's nothing to lose
Don't just wait for your orders
You got to make the first move

You think they'll ever come crawling?
You think they know your first name?
But if you never do the talking
It's always gonna be this way

(Chorus)
It should be
Self-explanatory
Why can't you see
The world is laid out for you
All you have to do
Is make the first move

You gotta hit the man harder
You gotta make him think twice
You ain't gotta break his nose now
But you ain't gotta play nice

Well, you better start digging
If you want to strike gold.
I know you want to seek your fortune
But fortune favors the bold.

(Chorus)
“We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.”
― William James
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heine's 15th Songfight!


maybe yes or maybe no
should I flee or simply go
maybe black or maybe white
but all I see is grey at night

maybe high or maybe low
but lying in between is just not so...
maybe left or maybe right
but first I got to know where I am, which side

you and me - that could be
just complicate your life and take me!

if you want it, too - if you want it, too - if you want it, too
you've got to make the first move

maybe fast or maybe slow
there's something in my heart that grows
maybe day or maybe night
there's still a place here by my side

maybe friend or maybe foe
feeling buried alive like E.A. Poe
maybe no or maybe yes
but maybe just ... maybe perhaps

but you and me - that could be
just complicate your life and take me!

if you want it, too - if you want it, too - if you want it, too
you've got to make the first move

standing here clueless, don't know what to do
all that I hope is that you'll make a move
standing here helpless, got no balls inside my pants
and I'm hoping, hoping, hoping that this situation ... comes to an end

but you and me - that could be
just complicate your life and take me!

if you want it, too - if you want it, too - if you want it, too
you've got to make the first move
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Who said I would not believe you
I know it's ridiculous when you sigh
I can not decide what I like
I don't know, but would you blame me
If I made the first move

Do you stay
Do you stay inside your station
I would wait
I would wait right here real patient
I can figure out what you like
I know that I wouldn't blame you
If you make the first move

I can not decide what I like
If I called you out, would you mind
I can figure out what you like
I don't know, but would you blame me
If I made the first move
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Bootlegged Waters - "Make the First Move"
Lyrics by Michael Joseph

"Well go ahead," he said,
My hand around his waist,
"We've been at this for days!"

I try to lean in closer, realize
I am just an inch away from
Everything that I have ever dreamed
But I can't!

Something in my gut
Is telling me to run and hide
You know my
Heart is putting up a damn good fight

All my dreams have come to this,
So why am I feeling so sick?
A perfect storm still has its thunder and lightning

I wish I didn't have to
Make the first move

[Totes radical instrumental break]

He says that it's been days,
But in my mind it has been weeks
And months and years

Oh how I wish I didn't have to make the first move

Make the first move
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BILLY AND THE PSYCHOTICS

CH
It's never easy, it slides out of view
You can't wait to chase this,
you're making the first move

I bet you wish you were waiting for it...
I bet you wish it were coming faster...
You wonder if I would ask you, don't you
want to ask for absolution, well...

CH

You think you'd like to believe it
'cuz seeing says that you get to do that
But baby it's so easy you've got to
commit to what you think you need, and...

and it's a fine line / a very fine line
it's a fine line / you must decide
...between wrong and right

I've got an angel on my shoulder, got a devil on the other,
I know right from wrong, but they're so close together
(a very fine line / between wrong and right)
If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take
(a very fine line / between wrong and right)

CH

I bet you're wondering 'why, why, why'
I'm asking all of the questions
I bet you're sick of it all the time:
living from wishes to guesses

CHx2
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DJ RANGER DEN

it's so blue a thing to feel you make the first move
when I watch you walk away like religion's disappearing

like the last breath of a life fades from a room
a love you'll never see again
so you grab every piece you can

it's too true it's too sad it's too soon
if I'm singing the same tune
why does the pain feel like new

if there was nothing permanent
regarding our forever
how I was supposed to know that?
was I expected to remember? ...
after you took hold
after you moved in
you wore me like clothing
and I memorized your skin,
until I was broken...

I should know better, but I ignored the warnings
I indulged my surrender, now I can't sleep ...for this longing

now I ride my life on a knife edge
this life of the flesh leaves me messy, restless, defenseless...

if there was nothing permanent regarding our forever
how I was supposed to know that?
was I expected to remember? ...
after you took hold
after you moved in
i wore you like clothing
and you memorized my skin
until I was broken...broken
...broken

it's so blue a thing to feel youmake the first move
when I watch you walk away like religion's disappearing
like the last breath of a life fades from a room
a love you never see again, so you grab every piece you can.
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Billy's Little Trip
"Make The First Move"

verse
I think the same way
About the same things, every fucking day
I need a mind change
I need to broaden my range, just to stay in the game
One in the chamber
Give it a spin
I need to remember how it feels to fear,
myself again

chorus
You made the first move
When you left me standing alone in the rain
I've got nothing to lose
because I'm self destructive, just living day to day

verse
I've got nothing,
To make happy or sad in that special way
I need something, anything
To wake me up inside and make me feel okay
hieroglyphics of my life,
in ink under my skin
So I can remember who I was,
I need to end, before I begin

chorus X2
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Re: Make the First Move

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Minor Profit
"Make the First Move"

I lost a lot of friends
I gained a lot of time
But that's just a reason
Without a rhyme

To self-sacrifice
To sell bad advice

I lost a lot of time
I gained a lot of friends
But that's just a means
Without an end

To fabricate this device
To blink with haughty eyes

If I had to make the call
If I had to move at all
If I had to make the first move

I may hear the lies of false deficiency
I may touch the lips of self-sufficiency
I may gain the way of true efficiency
Oh please, don't let me learn complacency
Don't let me learn complacency
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