Harsh Light of Day

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Harsh Light of Day

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Harsh Light of Day

It's been ten years maybe more
I'm trying to get back on solid ground again
my baby left me with almost nothing
it's hard not to hold a grudge
I know better, i know better, i know better
but she sure looks good
how can i forgive her?
she put all my best gear in hock

she took all my credit cards
drained all my bank accounts
not gonna fall for that again

the night is warm and perfect
maybe we can work it out some way
everything is cool in the shadows
I don't trust myself until the harsh light of day

I was ruined
I had to go back to my parents place
i had to set up shop in the basement
to rebuild my fortune

she took all my credit cards
drained all my bank accounts
not gonna fall for that again

I said warms the night and she looks perfect
maybe we can work it out some way
everything is cool in the shadows
I don't trust myself until I see the harsh light

the night is warm and perfect
maybe we can work it out some way
everything is cool in the shadows
I don't trust myself 'til the harsh light of day
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Re: Harsh Light of Day

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(in the light of day)
(like a prison today)
(in the light of day)

Buildings are vacant in desolate town
Gray clouds surround me and no one's around
Images fading as tears fill my eyes
The cold wind is howling, a desperate cry

And it all looks like a prison today
Even though I know it didn't begin this way
Time has not been kind – we hope for better days

(I know that we can see it in the harsh light of day)

In the morning it all looks the same
The light makes it clearer now, but doesn't ease the pain
Ten years of “progress;” no evidence of it
Only more of this decay that makes me feel like shit
This generation accepts this as their fate
Where is the outrage? Where is the hate?
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Harsh Light of Day

Sitting in a dive bar on a sunny afternoon
I’m here once again trying to forget about you
So send another whiskey down my way
Cause I don’t want to go home now and face the harsh light of day

I trace my fingers around the rim of my drink
I scratch my head , but I don’t really want to think
And if she’s ever coming back, maybe I shouldn't even care
Now there’s a truth, that’s more than I can bear (like the)

Harsh light of day
In the harsh light of day
In the harsh light of day
No, nothing ever feels the same

I close my eyes and I can still see her face
When we had each other, were young and unafraid
And we thought life was such a silly game
We didn’t know we’d have make our way (through the)

Harsh light of day
through the harsh light of day
through the harsh light of day

You know I can't change or rearrange the way I feel.
I’d still do anything for her,
I’d gladly walk through snow and sleet and pouring rain
But it always, you know it’s always

Nothing feels the same
Nothing feels the same
Nothing feels the same
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Re: Harsh Light of Day

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Harsh Light of Day by Jan Krüger

You're so unremarkable, it's a work of art
Everybody likes you, nobody remembers you
In any situation you play the perfect part
Saying nothing of importance, no soul that's shining through

Until the harsh light of day fades away
The harsh light of day fades away

Later you discovered how to be an everyman
Universal wants and cares and nobody suspects
Who is living in the darkness, they don't know your plan
What they see is average Joe who nobody rejects

And then the harsh light of day fades away
The harsh light of day fades away
And it takes with it everything you couldn't say

The big achievements on your list that nobody must know
If they knew they'd laugh at you, but you can't let it go
So you stay up late at night, protected by the lack of light
And you build things only you can see and you won't stop until you drop

Hiding from the harsh light of the day
That's your time to work and pave your way
It's a little sad, I think, that you don't want to show
The things you make no one will ever know
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Harsh Light of Day
By Kevin Mellows

Stumble through the dark
Searching for the light
Time just barrels on
In an endless night

I’ll never get back
All those wasted days
Just give me one more chance
I swear I’ll change my ways

But every time I try I’m burned by

Harsh light of day
Harsh light of day
Can I still be saved
From the wreck I've made
Of my life

No more alcohol
Whatever it takes
It burns me to be this wrong
I swear to learn from my mistakes

But every time I try I’m burned by

Harsh light of day
Harsh light of day
Can I still be saved
From the wreck I’ve made
Of my life

This time I won’t give up
I’ll make my ways change for all the debt I’ll repay

Just give me one more chance
And I swear I’ll change my ways

Every time I try I’m burned by

Harsh light of day
Harsh light of day
Can I still be saved
From the wreck I've made
Harsh light of day
Harsh light of day
Can I still be saved
Oh I swear my debt will be repaid
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Harsh Light of Day by Johnny Cashpoint

Many thanks to Andy Balham for the rockin' solo ... tonal similarities to the Stranglers' 'Thrown Away' entirely intentional. From the concept album "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' - Song #9 - by tweet.

You always called me your throwaway
Though we’d been dating for years
Couldn’t have love getting in the way of
The glittering prize of your career.
So in denial, oh the games you played
Pretending what we had wasn’t true
Like I was some kind of stowaway
Below decks aboard Good Ship “You”

You weren’t looking for love, so
It comes as no surprise
That it found you, profoundly, and
Left you terrified
In the harsh light of day, you saw the
Light, and ran away

Said I was only your throwaway
As if that was somehow bad thing
You tweeted me #justgoaway
with picture of a smashed up wedding ring
But just as my new life gets underway
I hear from a mutual friend
That you’ve been in utter disarray
Since you brought things to an end

No, I’m not looking for love, so
It comes as no surprise, that
Once more you now find me, an
Object of desire . ..
In the harsh light of day, I saw real
You and ran away, hey hey!

(SOLO)

In the harsh light of day, I
Realise you’re cray cray so
I’ll be on my way, In-
To harsh light of day - hooray!
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Harsh Light of Day by The Magnetic Letters

I was high on Vicodin and grapefruit, thumbing my way back to San Diego
Cursing last week and my losing streak
Nursing this old broken heart

It was dark; let me make that much clear
There wasn't a star in the Tijuana sky
On the horizon a big rig grew bigger
And pulled up along by my side

In the harsh light of day there is no way I'd have gotten inside
But I'd taken synthetic smack, so I got in the back, and went for a ride

It was even darker in the back of the truck, but I could hear the shuffling of feet
A truckload of Mexicans down on their luck, till one shuffled up next to me

She said she worked on Avenida Revolucion
I said "A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do"
She laughed just as the driver put the brakes on
And I tumbled right onto her

Our lips met, the angels wept
As I ran my hands through her hair

In the harsh light of day, it's easy to say which side you're from
I don't give an F. U. C. K. any more, anyway; it was dark and she was warm

I held and told her how I adored her, till my passion was spent and I collapsed in a heap
The truck must have driven across the border, till I was awoken from my sleep

The doors were thrown wide, I shielded my eyes
From the gruesome sight they beheld

In the harsh light of day, to my dismay my girl had a tail
And four legs not two, soon she'd be glue, cause she's too old and frail
A Tijuana zebra, even one with sexy ways
Is still a Tijuana zebra, and that just ain't right in the harsh light of day
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Harsh Light of Day
by Berkeley Social Scene

So easy to see the change
Once you've spent a day
Worried sick over consequences
So hard to be the change

You want to be there when it rains
Capture the moment in a photograph

Keep the darkness at bay
Keep the demons away

In the harsh light of day
You'll see all of your mistakes
Relive the life you made
Revisit the ghosts of your memory

So whatever dreams survive
Darkening bliss of nighttime
You'll see the truth before long
So many chances you'll take

Striving to have and eat your cake
Better hope you'll survive to enjoy it

Keep the darkness at bay
Keep the demons away

In the harsh light of day
You'll see all of your mistakes
Relive the life that you made
Revisit the ghosts of your memory

Counting the stars until you fall asleep
Trying to hold what you just can't keep
Maybe tomorrow you'll feel better
Maybe tomorrow you'll feel better

In the harsh light of day
You'll see all of your mistakes
Relive the life that you made
Revisit the ghosts of your memory

In the harsh light of day
You'll see all of your mistakes
Relive the life that you made
Revisit the ghosts of your memory

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