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Lyrics featured below : "I got you", "Six Months in a leaky boat", "History never repeats", "I See Red"

I Got You

 I got you - that's all I want
 I won't forget - that's a whole lot
 I don't go out - not now that you're in
 Sometimes we shout - but that's no problem

 I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
 You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lyin'

 Look at you - you're a pageant
 You're everything - that I've imagined
 Somethings wrong - I feel uneasy
 You show me - tell me you're not teasin'

 I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
 You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lyin'
 I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
 You can see my eyes, can you tell me you're not lyin'
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 There's no doubt - not when I'm with you
 When I'm without - I stay in my room
 Where do you go - I get no answer
 You're always out - it gets on my nerves

 I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
 You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
 (But) I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
 You can see my eyes, can you tell me you're not lyin'
 I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
 You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying



Six Months in a Leaky Boat

When I was a young boy
 I wanted to sail around the world
 That's the life for me, living on the sea
 Spirit of a sailor, circumnavigates the globe
 The lust of a pioneer, will acknowledge
 no frontier
 I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
 Lightning flash, tempers flare,
 `round the horn if you dare
 I just spent six months in a leaky boat
 Lucky just to keep afloat

 Aotearoa, rugged individual
 glisten like a pearl
 At the bottom of the world
 The tyranny of distance
 didn't stop the cavalier
 So why should it stop me
 I'll conquer and stay free
 Ah c'mon all you lads
 lets forget and forgive
 There's a world to explore
 tales to tell back on shore
 I just spent six months in a leaky boat
 Six months in a leaky boat

 Ship-wrecked love can be cruel
 Don't be fooled by her kind
 There's a wind in my sails
 Will protect and prevail
 I just spent six months in a leaky boat
 Nothing to it leaky boat.



History Never Repeats

 [chorus:]
History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
Don't say the words you might regret
I've lost before you know I can't forget

There was a girl I used to know
She dealt my love a savage blow
I was so young, too blind to see
But anyway that's history

I say [chorus]

You say I always played the fool
Well I can't go on, if that's the rule
Better to jump than hesitate
I need a change and I can't wait

[chorus2:]
History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
And there's a light shining in the dark
Leading me on towards a change of heart (ah-ar)

History never repeats, history never repeats

Deep in the night it's all so clear
I lie awake with great ideas
Lurking about in no-man's land
I think at last I understand

[chorus2]
Never repeats!...
Hey.... Hey....
Never repeats!

And I say, that's all
Remember til the next time

[all?:] thank you!

won't you stay, stay a while with my own one
one more day, one more day with my own ones
this old world, is so cold, don't care nothing for your soul
you share with your own ones...

Haul away, haul away, heave away, haul away, haul away, heave away




I See Red

 [chorus:]
When my baby's walking down the street
I see red, I see red, I see red.
How could someone wicked walk around free
I see red, I see red, I see red.
I see red, I see red (red!), I see red.

I respect your wishes
You gave me such precious hours
What to do without you.
Squeezed me out of your life
Down the drain like molten toothpaste
I feel used and spat out.
Poor old me

[chorus]

I'm fed up with crying
My despair is dying,
Turning into rage, day by day
Green before you met me
In the pink when you let me love you
I was blue when you let me down
Black and Blue

[chorus]
Go!

I see red, I see red, I see red...